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by antt 8y ago
I'm pretty close to being completely free of proprietary software at home. I have to use the proprietary bootloader for my newer machines and the wifi firmware the machines I haven't gotten around to replacing the wifi cards for y
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by antt 8y ago
Then why kick a hornets nests? As others have noted Linux for home and Linux for work are two completely different things. At work I use RHEL 7, packages 5 years out of date, don't have access to build tools to incorporate patches myse
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by antt 8y ago
Most companies don't survive on selling software anymore either. Look at Adobe. You can't buy their products, you just rent them.
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by antt 8y ago
>You could have made a parallel argument, before Youtube, about how people wanted only professional content, why a service for user created content would never work etc, because that's all that had worked, up to that point. I rememb
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by antt 8y ago
> Both have reasonable use cases. Building is a reasonable use case for cars while protecting yourself from polar bears is a reasonable use case for guns [0]. I don't understand why you, and a large number of other people, are
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by antt 8y ago
Tractors, trucks, ambulances and motor bikes are not cars. > we already live in that America. Perhaps you should visit the old town centres in Europe, or the country villages. You can see what a society built around not using cars looks
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by antt 8y ago
One thing I have always found odd is how no one talks about treating cars like guns. Both have reasonable use cases. Both are fun to tinker with. Both are the main ways people kill other people. And you shouldn't need to use either dai
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by antt 8y ago
I have mostly a hate relationship with them, because the people who use them do not write python. They write c# or java in python. And you shouldn't need an IDE with a scripting language. That one of the main selling points for type hi
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by antt 8y ago
The type (class really) of an object tells you nothing about how it will behave. What you need to do is check the methods attached to the object, not class, at runtime: 1) Exist. 2) Behave how you want them to behave. I've written plen
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by antt 8y ago
1). C++/Arduino for micro controllers ends up using more memory than micropython. I've managed to get the binary sizes to 1/4 by doing cross compiles and linking things my self. 2). Types hints are a terrible non-pythonic klu
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by antt 8y ago
Even IoT sensors are easier to program with micropython. What I find worrying is the the language is changing to suit those people, e.g. type hints, rather than teaching them learning to use the language. You don't complain you can&#x2
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by antt 8y ago
It's easier to use human to raise other humans than to hope an AI gets it right.
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by antt 8y ago
Sure: https://github.com/ant-t/LiterateHelloWorld I've gotten interest in running a workshop on org mode for literate programming so expect for that to be filled in the next week or two.
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by antt 8y ago
A seed universal constructor would be worth transporting. If that is a machine or a ship with cryogenically frozen human of all ages is a topic for another day.
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by antt 8y ago
>Maximising profit is not a neutral decision even if it has neutral intentions. Complaining that for profit companies maximize profit makes about as much sense as complaining great white sharks eat meat. Both do what they were evolved fo
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by antt 8y ago
> investment banker As someone who was a software engineer in a brokerage and had to deal with clients excel sheets: open/libre office not letting you do that is a feature. We would be given excel sheet that would depend on a specif
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by antt 8y ago
Select the passage of interest: $ xsel | espeak-ng --stdin Don't over engineer things.
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by antt 8y ago
A voice to speech system such that you don't actually have to sit down and read a book if you aren't sure you like it. I suggest espeak-ng since it is the only t2s program that can manage 1,000 wpm without artifacts, can output wa
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by antt 8y ago
That seems like an artificial distinction made up for economics. In physics there are plenty of theory papers that make very clear and concise predictions. If these papers hold then they are very much both. E.g. the original special relativ
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by antt 8y ago
I forget which book this was from, but when I was learning python back in 2003 a major selling point was 'you can't make assignments in control structures'. Happy days to a physics undergrad who had seen more if(a=3) in C cod
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by antt 8y ago
I have been playing around with org-babel's ability to do literate programming. It allows you control which file the code is tangled to, along with a comments which deliminate where in the literate source code a block of text came from
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by antt 8y ago
>Japan was winning that war until US dropped the atomic bombs and killed a lot of innocent people. That's some odd definition of winning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_1rzp2YVxQ
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by antt 8y ago
I've been using org and emacs for 5 years now and I never thought of using it to actually comment what my .emacs file was doing. This is a brilliant idea I feel very stupid for not having thought of myself.
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by antt 8y ago
With the latest versions of pandoc and org-mode I find I write nearly exclusively org-files which are then converted to other file types without any pain. I don't think I've even had to write raw documents LaTeX in the last year,
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by antt 8y ago
>On the writing side, the main issue is that literate programming tends to tie your writing into the tools that support your literate programming. This can make collaboration on a document difficult if the people you’re collaborating wit
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by antt 8y ago
>Put another way, how can you beat thoughtful variable or function names and judicious comments? Writing why and how you did something. The setup for org lets you write the equivalent of jupyter notebooks for every language, which means