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by b215826 5y ago
Because it has been vetted by trustworthy FBI agents who don't make any mistakes.
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by b215826 5y ago
Because Gruber is such an Apple fanboy, it's near impossible for him to accept that Apple just gave him the finger.
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by b215826 5y ago
With all due respect to Guido, why do people write technical posts (or for that matter, posts of any kind) on Medium? Medium has so much bloat and it is near impossible to read articles on Medium with JavaScript disabled. Even basic scrol
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by b215826 5y ago
Please avoid GIFs and memes in your article. It adds nothing to the actual information in the article, but takes the seriousness away and makes it less readable.
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by b215826 5y ago
The PDF doesn't have embedded fonts. Try this: https://files.catbox.moe/px77ns.pdf
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by b215826 5y ago
The Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan [1], published in 2016, was typeset using groff [2]. [1] http://www.gopl.io/ch1.pdf [2] http://rkrishnan.org/posts/2016-03-07-how-is-gop
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by b215826 5y ago
I don't think you're unprofessional. In fact, your sentiment is a belief that was strongly held by early UNIX programmers. Two quotes I particularly like: "The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code.&q
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by b215826 5y ago
> will have nothing to do with the FSF or Richard Stallman Torvalds has always been indifferent to the FSF's views, and I don't think that will change even if RMS isn't a part of the FSF. RMS didn't get cancelled fo
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by b215826 5y ago
But who gets to decide what counts as "dickish" behavior?
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by b215826 5y ago
The main issue I have with TeXmacs (and similar software like LyX) is that it's hard to collaborate with others who don't use it. TeXmacs and LyX both support exporting to LaTeX, but YMMV with the readability of the LaTeX source
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by b215826 5y ago
Of course, for Reddit that's definitely better. But there are cases where the inurl + site solution is the only possible one -- I'm a physicist and I often want to find papers from a specific journal, e.g., the Physical Review Le
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That aren't personalized or track you.
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The inurl: keyword is extremely useful when combined with the site: keyword, e.g., https://www.google.com/search?q=site:reddit.com+inurl:progra... This would pull up results for "Vim tutorial" from the /r&#x2
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by b215826 5y ago
Cigarette use was very common among people before it was shown that nicotine is a carcinogen. Since then, people have cut down cigarette usage drastically and most countries now require manufacturers to have warning labels on cigarette pac
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by b215826 5y ago
The FSF ran just fine under him before the Selam G. shitstorm. Sure, he irked a lot of people with his rigid stances. But considering how those stances are exactly what made him found the FSF in the first place, I don't see it as a b
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by b215826 5y ago
> Is there anything competent he has done post-2000 or so? While you may not care about it, GPLv3.
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by b215826 5y ago
It may have come across as being insensitive, but what he wrote in that email wasn't technically wrong.
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by b215826 5y ago
What part of "Renowned MIT Scientist Defends Epstein" (the title of the Daily Beast article) do you have trouble understanding?
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by b215826 5y ago
Yes, "Famed <rival publication> writes ableist insensitive articles with fabricated lies about an aspie."
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by b215826 5y ago
Indeed. RMS has discussed the Epstein case in his notes muliple times before Selam G.'s fabricated hit piece, e.g., from April 2019 [1] > I think the right term for a person such as Epstein is "serial rapist". [1]: htt
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by b215826 5y ago
Now, would the journalists who wrote articles with titles that are a variation of "RMS defended Epstein" [1,2] apologize or at least correct their articles? Also, now that RMS has explicitly clarified his position on these issues
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by b215826 6y ago
Pandoc and a makefile.
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by b215826 6y ago
> Like mathematicians, theorists in Computer Science take the greatest pride in knowing and using the most sophisticated mathematics to solve problems. For example, theorists will light up when telling you that they have discovered how
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by b215826 6y ago
Exactly, if you've listened to RMS's speeches, you'll realize that he's a very good communicator. He is usually well prepared and gets his points across well. But most people find his opinions (even his nonpolitical te
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by b215826 6y ago
> Not sure 100% adherence to an individual's particular political positions is the way to measure the worth and value of an organization. No one is asking the EFF to agree with everything RMS says. However it's quite ironica
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by b215826 6y ago
In this spirit, I really like this disclaimer from the conclusion of a preprint on the arXiv [1]: > This paper is not intended for journal publication. Therefore, it lacks the delusional claims typically found in published papers about
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by b215826 6y ago
While condensed matter is a very important and interesting research field, people in condensed matter are gravitating towards low-effort high-reward problems as grant committees don't seem to care about the quality of the research bein
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by b215826 6y ago
> RMS is somewhere in the pig, bore, masher triad You might want to cut down on the adjectives if you want your argument to be taken seriously. > With no one left to protect him he got run out on a rail. RMS wasn't "prot
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by b215826 6y ago
Indeed, it's a real disgrace that EFF is joining the dogpile since they have Internet free speech as one of their stated goals: https://www.eff.org/issues/free-speech
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by b215826 6y ago
It's a travesty that the EFF is linking Selam G.'s blog post as evidence of RMS's poor behavior. That article grossly mischaracterizes RMS's statements and makes it sound like he defended Epstein, which he didn't. T

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