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by b215826 6y ago
> A graffiti on his door at MIT This was a joke that someone played on him [1] and he removed it as soon as he found it. [1] https://whoisylvia.medium.com/richard-stallman-has-been-vili...
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> We need less opinion in our news diet not more. There still are such news sources -- The Economist , Reuters, AP, etc., rarely editorialize their articles. Most other mainstream news sources like NYT , WSJ , etc., are just as cli
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I GNU the day would come!
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She read about it in People .
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by b215826 6y ago
She spends a considerable fraction of her day turning non-issues (such as the term "domain driven design" [1]) into major issues. I really empathize with her coworkers; it must be really difficult to work with a person like this.
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by b215826 6y ago
Did you just compare yourself with Terry Tao? Or are you comparing Glenn Greenwald—a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and one who helped Snowden tell his story—with crackpots who send Tao their papers?
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Careful about what specifically? You say that Greenwald has gone off the rails. But would you have written this comment if this article of Greenwald criticized conservative media outlets instead of liberal ones?
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The article you linked is almost 6 months old and says absolutely nothing about recent events related to Substack and the calls for censoring certain writers. And where does it call Greenwald's "bullshit"?
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by b215826 6y ago
> Turn off the news. Related: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
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sudo sh -c 'echo 127.0.0.1 oscp.apple.com >> /etc/hosts'
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by b215826 6y ago
Have you tried DeaDBeeF? It's a very minimalistic player with a ton of features (ReplayGain support, gapless playback, etc.).
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Also the most boring ones.
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That article you linked is garbage. The article title says "RMS resigns... after defending Jeffrey Epstein behavior", which is an outright lie since RMS never -- not even once -- defended Epstein. You're free to dislike the
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by b215826 6y ago
I mostly get my news through RSS feeds (I have a small Python script that makes use of readability-lxml to convert partial RSS feeds -- the kind that most news websites provide -- into full feeds).
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by b215826 6y ago
I don't mind paying for news, but almost all news websites would keep track of what I read if I do that, and it's easy to figure out a person's political biases from their reading habits.
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by b215826 6y ago
Might I suggest distributing your app as an AppImage? snaps require the snap package manager (snapd) to be installed on your system. AppImages, on the other hand, run out of the box after a chmod +x.
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by b215826 7y ago
I use plain text files for notes that don't require major formatting and figures (e.g., notes on programming, sysadmin, food recipes, etc.). To find something later, I simply grep -iR <word> inside the notes directory. I also ma
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by b215826 7y ago
Your privacy policy is troubling, especially with wording like "We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site". Does this mean that the letters I write belong to you?
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Snapshots of Modern Mathematics(imaginary.org)
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> is there something I am missing out by not using vim? Being able to use vi is a very handy skill if you're a sysadmin or SSH into other computers/clusters very frequently. Since vi is part of the POSIX specification, all U
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by b215826 7y ago
> I wonder if introducing newbies to makefiles and vim is super empowering, or ends up gatekeeping by making it look "as complicated as you feared it would be." This tutorial introduces Vim only after introducing shell and pi
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The Missing Semester of Your CS Education [1] is a set of tutorials from MIT that gets you to speed with using the CLI, using a text editor (Vim), version controlling (using Git), basic debugging, etc. Some tutorials aren't perfect
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No one considers a microwave or toaster to be a general computing device. The iPad is at least marketed as one.
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> Anyone here uses Mathematica besides Physics or pure mathematics? My adviser (a physicist) uses Mathematica for all non-physics computations as well. It's a clunky language for general purpose computation and doesn't play
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by b215826 7y ago
As someone who started using Mathematica only very recently, I found The Wolfram Language: Fast Introduction for Programmers [1] very helpful. It's the quickest way to get started with the Wolfram language if you've seen a bit
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> The book was Tipler / Llewellyn by the way. Ah, you're talking about lower-level-answers-at-the-back undergraduate books in physics. Yes, most of them are shit, and it would be a futile task to learn any real physics from
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> Other books like Introduction to Space Dynamics are very hand-wavey... Coordinate systems should not dictate the physics; it should be the other way around. It seems like you've not tried reading actual physics books written by
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> Considering you've spent all this time arguing that it's not straightforward (it is), I really suggest you take a look. I just downloaded a copy of the book from LibGen. I change my original assessment that it might be a g
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> I find this very doubtful. I'm sorry to say this, but I don't think you understand the meaning of coordinate invariance. Coordinate invariance in physics means that if you go from one set of coordinates, say (q1, q2, ...,
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by b215826 7y ago
> This is definitely not an introductory level book I disagree. I used Kleppner and Kolenkow as a freshman, and it has pretty much the same content as this book, and I would consider Kleppner and Kolenkow to be an introductory book.

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