amanwithnoplan

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by amanwithnoplan 8mo ago
https://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/ For the onlookers, this bunch of microbenchmarks suggests Racket is faster than Guile, but the fastest is Chez (which Racket uses as a substrate).
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by amanwithnoplan 1y ago
The candle that burned twice as bright was really adequacy.org, which sourced their trolls from Kuro5hin. (Archive here: https://www.inadequacy.org/ )
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by amanwithnoplan 1y ago
Another interesting implementation of literate programming with _bidirectional sync_ between documentation and source code is Entangled ( https://entangled.github.io/ ). This allows you to use all your normal tooling on the n
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by amanwithnoplan 2y ago
If you don't like Angus Reid (from last week), here are Ipsos from January and Leger from December. https://www.ipsos.com/en-ca/43-percent-canadians-would-vote-... https://leger360.com/canada-51st-
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by amanwithnoplan 2y ago
https://angusreid.org/trump-carney-51st-state-canada-usa/ ~10% support overall. However, that's 21% of Conservative voters and 1-3% everyone else. So it's beyond fringe for everyone else, but maybe not as muc
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by amanwithnoplan 2y ago
> So there must be an equal number of them. (Pretending to dig out my imaginary high school/freshman hat.) If you said between every two reals there's one rational (and between every two rational there's one real), I'
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by amanwithnoplan 2y ago
Please kindly write one for a jj-specific issue: "my build vomitted out a bunch of files and I used any jj command before editing my .gitignore" I've found myself using git to fix the mess in this particular instance.
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by amanwithnoplan 2y ago
I have no idea what "a military conflict between what would become Western Canada and what used to be Upper Canada" refers to unless you meant the northwest and Red River rebellions, in which case it really stretches my (anglo) mi
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by amanwithnoplan 3y ago
Chinese characters being unsuitable for QWERTY typewriters and early computers' limitations didn't "almost kill character-based Chinese", it just meant Chinese computing lagged behind. Inputing Chinese characters with a
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by amanwithnoplan 3y ago
I think "countably infinite" makes no sense to you because you have a different idea of countable than a mathematician (disclaimer: not a mathematician). A mathematician compares the size of two sets of stuff by pairing off items
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by amanwithnoplan 4y ago
What's wrong with just wrapping UTF-8 text in lang spans? Browsers and Electron will just do the right thing, no?
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by amanwithnoplan 4y ago
> if I have a good match where I did better than expected, the system responds to that by putting me in a much harder game, where I'm expected to lose No, the system puts you in an easier/harder game, where you're expected
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by amanwithnoplan 4y ago
But why (+ 1 2 3) and not +(1 2 3) since the head is special? Or (1 2 3 +) so nested trees are built bottom up?
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by amanwithnoplan 4y ago
>someone outside of politics [...] holds the final red line about whether or not an election must be called This seems like only a theoretical red line. If/when the GG does anything against the advice of the PM it's a crisis mo
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by amanwithnoplan 4y ago
Not only is it nonsense, you can look at GNOME's own wiki and various blog posts for its (publicly stated) design history: https://wiki.gnome.org/ThreePointZero/DesignHistory The TLDR is that nothing was ever said
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by amanwithnoplan 4y ago
VSCode already does that as of some versions ago. https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/11/08/custom-notebo... https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-noteb...
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by amanwithnoplan 4y ago
I'm not aware of any schools teaching multiplication tables in kindergarten, but I did memorize the 9x9 table when I was in kindergarten because my older siblings' Big Kids Notebooks all had the times table on the back and it form
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by amanwithnoplan 4y ago
As a long time non-contributing Debian/Ubuntu user (I hop between the two whenever one of them annoys me too much), I've had a lot of issues locating and using non-free firmware when required. For the longest time (since fixed), t
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by amanwithnoplan 5y ago
As someone that eats (maybe I should turn that into "used to eat") a lot of cereal, knowing that they're pretty unhealthy for me, I did an experiment just now: I poured a large but not exceptional (for me) amount of cereal in