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by ajarmst 6y ago
The width of the display used in the screenshot appears to be less than 150 characters. Why would you add the clutter and distraction of transparent windows with frame decorations in such a limited environment? 30% of the real estate is c
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Why not both? :-) https://www.workwhilewalking.com/do-treadmill-desks-actually...
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Nice article with an interesting approach. Assuming the poster is the author, the word ‘irradiate’ in the caption in the B17 photo confused me, although it did lead to some interesting speculation. Did you mean ‘eradicate’ and your spellche
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by ajarmst 6y ago
And thanks for the link to the loop monad. I didn’t know it or forgot. I don’t know whether to be delighted or appalled.
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I’m not convinced that chain application and composition are meaningly distinct in anything but a syntactic sense if the language in question offers first-class functions and deterministic evaluation (eg no side effects). In mathematics, c
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by ajarmst 6y ago
This seems to imply that extensive use of composition in Haskell is a notable stylistic decision rather than an entailed effect of the fundamental design choices (first-class functions, lazy evaluation, type classes) that explicitly encoura
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Any fallout from this will be interesting. It can be easily argued that this is a case of the US President (not the US Government) using arbitrary emergency powers-—or the threat of their use—-to interfere with a business deal on behalf of
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I liked his introduction to Category Theory enough to buy the extremely well-done hardcover edition: https://www.blurb.com/b/9621951-category-theory-for-programm... The only introductory treatment of Category Theory fo
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by ajarmst 6y ago
I don't particularly disagree with any of this, but as a society, we have a bad habit of assuming that people with an impressive record of innovation and expertise in one field should be treated as authoritative in others. At the very
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by ajarmst 6y ago
Yeah. That strikes me as more of a "hey, are you OK? Do you have someone you can talk to?" situation than an interesting flamewar.
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by ajarmst 7y ago
I found the Editorial Expression of Concern on the last page of the post more interesting than the paper itself (the results might have been surprising in 2014, but in 2020 it reflects the mainstream view).
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by ajarmst 7y ago
People who find this interesting will likely find the work of Mikey Peterson ( https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/how-to-write-a-book-i... ) and that of Frank Jonen ( https://github.com/frankjonen&#x2F
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by ajarmst 7y ago
I thought we learned our lesson about "paradigm-changing" scientific results released to the media simultaneous with initial publication a while back. The paper was published today, and only available behind a pay wall. Yes, this
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by ajarmst 7y ago
Whenever a manager proposes a metric, they should be required to preface it with an explanation of Campbell's Law and why they believe it wouldn't apply in this case.
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by ajarmst 7y ago
I think there's an unacknowledged premise here that is fundamentally misguided: that the point of teaching math is to minimize the complexity of the formulas and recipes the students have to memorize, or that skill in finding the roots
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Judging by the sheer amount of XKCD content in this report, Randall Munroe should get a co-author credit.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Useful graph : https://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/brain.html
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by ajarmst 9y ago
The world's largest animal study on cell tower radiation is more likely one of several cohort studies on humans (often with more than a million subjects) which indicate that if there is a non-ionizing radiation link to brain cancer, it
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by ajarmst 9y ago
PS: When I do need to type notes (often when working with others and want to record decisions), I usually use org-mode, which is pretty much de riguer because I spend most of my time in emacs.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
(OT: Suggestion to not use software...) I'm aware that this is answering only the implied question, but many recent studies have indicated that handwriting is still the best tool for learning. I use a good-quality bound journal in qua
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Clearly the best current candidate for a 'Theory of Everything' is Poe's Law.
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*For some values of 'stronger'.
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Many Emacs users don't use a mouse much or at all, and the tab interface is primarily for people who do most navigation using their mouse. For those of us who find having to take a hand off the keyboard slow and irritating, tabs are a
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by ajarmst 9y ago
I had similar feelings, but I've actually been using (an admittedly, somwhat tweaked version of) Batsov's Prelude for a couple of years now. It pulls in a lot of exceptional packages with sensible defaults (without trying to make
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by ajarmst 9y ago
In case it wasn't obvious, that was at least partly aimed at The Intercept: http://heavy.com/news/2017/06/the-intercept-reality-winner-s...
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Lantz, "Soft errors induced by Alpha Particles", 1996. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/510798/?reload=true
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Because we generally only accept mathematical proofs from highly-trained experts, and no one would hire the kid next door, who taught himself math and seems to spend a lot of time fooling around with calculators to do professional work in m
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by ajarmst 9y ago
This has been a generally known technique for identifying leaks for at least three decades (and certainly much longer---Tom Clancy described it in a novel in 1987). The use of non-printing characters is an obvious extension of the idea. An
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by ajarmst 9y ago
Alpha particle emissions are common causes of single-bit errors, especially from ceramic enclosure materials in integrated circuits. Mitigating soft errors from circuit packaging is an active area of research in materials science. Parity b
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by ajarmst 9y ago
ssh, tmux and emacs --daemon

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