bingerman

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by bingerman 7y ago
As I'm going to spend many hours every day on a computer, I sure want an aesthetic and ergonomic setup. I don't really consider buying tools I like a fashion statement.
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by bingerman 7y ago
Ordering an expensive watch straight from a known master is one option, they usually don't spend a lot of money on managers, dealers or even advertising. For 20k you've got plenty options. The only downside is that selling your ge
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by bingerman 7y ago
SICP has been (and still is) studied outside of MIT.
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by bingerman 7y ago
This. IMO Knuth's writing is also a pleasure to read. Some concepts are hard and sometimes I just have to skip some math derivations but overall it's certainly not a dry technical reference (even though it can be used as one).
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by bingerman 7y ago
Indeed, Sandy Bridge i7-2600 is still more than enough for me (no gaming but crunching numbers frequently).
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by bingerman 7y ago
Wikipedia states that the extinction happened only 13000 years ago. Fascinating stuff. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthera_spelaea
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by bingerman 7y ago
You probably don't hate Latex typesetting. It's just that the kind of default styles that people, especially beginners, tend to use that often look archaic. Latex doesn't make creating your own unique styles too easy though,
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by bingerman 7y ago
Context would be a convenient tool for the job. You can create pdf, xml, and epub from the same source. You get the power of Tex but producing modern looking stuff is IMO much easier than with Latex. I personally usually use Latex for short
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by bingerman 7y ago
As the author continues, it becomes mildly weird only when you realize that you can write b[a] and it just works (tm). I've seen students saying the compiler somehow checks that the "a" is arrayish so the swapped version does
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by bingerman 7y ago
Many countries in Europe, for example, have already destroyed majority of their forests. Not saying that destroying forests is good, quite the opposite, but unfortunately that's how it seems to go if you can't monetize the forests
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by bingerman 7y ago
I'm curious which language/approach did you take. I recently picked Idris with the book Type-driven development in Idris and so far I'm enjoying the ride (I have some experience in functional programming but not in Haskell).
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by bingerman 7y ago
This. Academics who have already "proved themselves" should seriously consider dropping Elsevier et al. If your career depends on publishing in certain journals there is less freedom to do the "right" thing.
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by bingerman 7y ago
The first chapter of SICP also has a similar (but not identical) O(log(n)) algorithm in the excercises. Fun stuff.
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by bingerman 7y ago
Dactyl https://github.com/adereth/dactyl-keyboard is split and curved. Been thinking about building one, though I'd probably use wood as casing material and I know it will be a lot of work, so it may or may not ma
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by bingerman 7y ago
Well, those are things to consider, but the details depend on the country and the particular neighbourhood. Fortunately there are also people who prefer meadows to "perfect" green deserts. I kinda enjoy both and I've found th
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by bingerman 7y ago
Not OP, but for me it helped to understand what is actually happening. Definitely recommended. Nowadays I use mostly Context (mainly because fonts and creating your own layout is made easy), and never plain Tex, but still I think reading t
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by bingerman 7y ago
Homeschooling is great, with or without vaccinations. Personally I prefer spreading actual knowledge about vaccines and their advantages (and possible side-effects, too) to calling skeptical people dumb and trying to make them hate "th
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by bingerman 7y ago
Mapping Capslock simultaneously to both ESC and Control solved this problem for me. It might not be your piece of cake but it definitely improved my vim experience greatly. See for example (I'm not the author) https://www.da
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by bingerman 7y ago
Some of us even prefer mapping Capslock to both ESC and Control, as explained for example here (I'm not the author): https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/remap-caps-lock-to-escape-and-...
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by bingerman 7y ago
Decent managing of oil resources defnitely played a role there. Also, Norway is a small and still pretty homogenous country. They probably feel at least in some level that they are in the same boat together, something that is hard to achiev
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by bingerman 8y ago
As a person who was put through the Finnish schoolsystem, I can say that homework definitely exists in Finland. However, it greatly depends on the specific school and teachers. Some give little homework while others give substantial amounts
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by bingerman 8y ago
I wish I had read the texbook or something similar sooner to gain knowledge like this. Used latex for years without knowing the basics and I regret that a lot. Also, (v)phantom and smash are something I really should have learned before all
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by bingerman 8y ago
I personally solved this by switching to antergos (which is based on arch, but fully usable out of the box). Been running the same installation without any problems for about 5 years now, completely updated irregularly. Using "stable&q