another-cuppa

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by another-cuppa 8y ago
Short variable names like `i` are often the most appropriate. It's a thoroughly understood idiom and to use anything else just because you don't like single letters is just stupid. It's fine if you want to use a language that
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
I would call many of these "music formats" rather than audio formats. Those punch cards and MIDI etc. don't actually represent audio at all. Even a deaf person could read and appreciate those.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
> Initially Gmail was the king of performance. When, and compared to what? I'm pretty sure it was never faster than Thunderbird let alone something like Mutt.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
That's great but almost entirely unrelated to Gource.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
No, you could (possibly) solve TSP once by providing an algorithm that scales well just like inventing an industrial process. My point was that it looks very much like some problems are fundamentally difficult and have no scalable solutions
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
> and just assumed that there must be some way to automate and streamline almost everything, as long as the demand is there Scaling a solution to the travelling salesman problem would solve many other problems. The demand is definitely
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
> That was my first-hand lesson that unless you've ever lacked a certain privilege, it is near-impossible to be innately aware of it. Not really true. I had a girlfriend with a "weak" passport. I have a British passport. I
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
The thing doesn't show anything for me on Firefox or Chrome on Linux.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
That shows "referrals" of teenagers. Doesn't really mean anything about what actually happens. All teenagers are weird for a little while. It's great if you stay weird, but most don't.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
Indeed. It's a complete joke and a big reason why "the rich get richer". I, for example, believe that artificial meat will be one of the biggest industries in the world once governments outlaw the cruel and barbaric practice
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
That is probably why people think there is a difference. But it's completely illogical. How do you think someone is going to "abuse" the footage? You say uploading to Youtube but there's all kinds of potentially embarras
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
Look up "Surveillance Camera Man" on Youtube. It's really fascinating to see that (not surprisingly) people hate being filmed by someone with a camera. Yet for some reason they don't care about the hundreds of other came
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
Posted on Medium with a massive pointless image at the top and page loaded asynchronously using JS.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
> Is empathy desensitization a thing? Factory farming wouldn't exist if that wasn't a thing.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
No example of the quasi-quote? I'm not sure how it would look, -"a bit like this"-?
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
There is at least one implementation of parinfer for emacs by now.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
John Wiegly's talk on elisp hacking includes a bit: https://youtu.be/RvPFZL6NJNQ It's unfortunately a low quality recording but if you can stand it it's a treasure trove of tips for doing elisp.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
I've only tried paredit and smartparens. I ended up going back to paredit due to some annoyances with the latter but unfortunately I can't remember what (I should make a note of such things). I'd be interested to hear from so
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
What's stopping you? Is the code incompatible with newer versions of emacs?
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
Emoji is unnecessary and annoying.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
I see what you mean. You can't just tell people to exercise. There needs to be a structure and purpose behind it. What worked for me is building strength using bodyweight resistance training at home. I followed a program and I had goal
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
I've found many errors in Google maps over the years. I'm not convinced any of them are traps, they are just the result of not actually surveying the areas they claim to map.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
A lot of people say they don't like Ryanair, but a lot of those people will use it again when the price is less than a quarter of that of other airlines. It's actually a really interesting piece of psychology. Ryanair's ser
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
I believe the sense of entitlement to come from the fact that most drivers have only ever experienced the road in a car. As a driver and a cyclist, I'm not sure about registration of cyclists, but I am sure that everyone should be requ
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
It's not a terrible name, it's just that we've forgotten the real meaning of "complex" and use it as a synonym for "complicated".
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
The only thing you can really do is use tor. But you have to be very, very careful and know what you're doing. It's not something most people can set up, and not something most people can (easily) access.
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by another-cuppa 8y ago
Yes it does, actually, whether you like it or not. But maybe you'd like to call into question whether such speech should still be protected as free speech. The difficulty is in establishing where you draw the line.