bradrn

30 ms·

361.
by bradrn 3y ago
Yes, I had the same thought.
362.
by bradrn 3y ago
Reminds me of god-mode: https://github.com/emacsorphanage/god-mode . Although I use Evil, it still comes in handy on occasion when I need to type something without an Evil keybind. Alas, it’s been abandoned, though it s
363.
by bradrn 3y ago
> For instance, Rust has a pretty solid type system (not quite Haskell, but more intricate than Java) and lets you do things like generate serialization and deserialization code for arbitrary structs at compile time, which most languages
364.
by bradrn 3y ago
Do you have any more details?
365.
by bradrn 3y ago
See also, the Quite OK Image format: https://qoiformat.org/qoi-specification.pdf (discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34035024 ).
366.
by bradrn 3y ago
> Another aspect / problem: humans vocalize (well, adults, usually, using their "inner voice") anything they read. Not necessarily, e.g.: > Hurlburt … estimates that inner monologue is a frequent thing for 30 to 50 per
367.
by bradrn 3y ago
So can XMonad, to some extent, though it’s not in the default configuration.
368.
by bradrn 3y ago
It’s inaccurate, but honestly not too inaccurate. The revised chart he ends up with is pretty similar to the traditional one. The important thing is to think of it as a simplified graph in formant space, rather than as directly showing to
369.
by bradrn 3y ago
I’m guessing they got it backwards accidentally: I’d say the distinction between [y ʉ] is strictly phonetic , not phonemic.
370.
by bradrn 3y ago
No experience with Rust, but for a couple of personal projects I’ve written the logic in Haskell and the GUI in C++ (e.g. https://github.com/bradrn/brassica/blob/master/ARCHITECTURE.... ). It works pretty
371.
by bradrn 4y ago
See also http://www.codersnotes.com/notes/a-constructive-look-at-temp... . What impresses me most is how integrated the whole system is, e.g.: > TempleOS has its own programming language, HolyC. The whole operating s
372.
by bradrn 4y ago
What’s happening here is that /tɕ/ is a single sound — I’d transcribe it /t͡ɕ/, with a little tiebar to make that clear. This sound is an ‘affricate’, meaning that it’s pronounced by starting with a /t/ and r
373.
by bradrn 4y ago
ML-family languages are similar: ‘myfunction a b c’. It definitely is nice.
374.
by bradrn 4y ago
From the ‘See Also’ section in that Wikipedia article, it looks like for software this is called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth%27s_law .
375.
by bradrn 4y ago
Indeed, Yaghan is highly agglutinative: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahgan_language#Verbs . Most of the languages in that region are. (In fact, most languages in the whole of the Americas are, with the notable ex
376.
by bradrn 4y ago
Hmm, good point, I didn’t notice they made it clear that this is a fallacy. But often people don’t!
377.
by bradrn 4y ago
This always irritates me somewhat. Let me link [0], as I do every time this comes up: > Whenever the subject [of English spelling] comes up, someone is sure to bring up … George Bernard Shaw's ghoti -- a word which illustrates onl
378.
by bradrn 4y ago
If this were the only argument, I would agree with you. However, there’s other arguments, many of which are quite general in nature.
379.
by bradrn 4y ago
An interesting example of this I came across recently is Pico: > Pico is a tiny but expressive programming language that was especially designed to teach advance computer science concepts to students in other sciences than computer scien
380.
by bradrn 4y ago
This is interesting, from that section: Nor does IA’s promise not to lend simultaneously its lawfully acquired print copies and its unauthorized reproductions help its case. As an initial matter, IA has not kept its promise.
381.
by bradrn 4y ago
The images aren’t necessarily generated with LaTeX! That being said, Ti k Z [ https://pgf-tikz.github.io/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf ] is really nice for making pictures — just look at the front page of their manual!
382.
by bradrn 4y ago
Bad headline-writing, rather.
383.
by bradrn 4y ago
I really wanted to do GSoC last year. However, I am in the Southern Hemisphere, and in contrast to the long Northern Hemisphere summer holiday, during this time we have a short winter holiday of only a few weeks. This year I still want to d
384.
by bradrn 4y ago
Because (a) some people might find it interesting; (b) some people might misunderstand what they were referring to; and (c) I like languages.
385.
by bradrn 4y ago
> It's active voice, no? Yes, it is — at least in the first sentence. > How is it different than we fired, except that firing sounds more tied employee performance, no longer needed more seems like employer fault. I think this i
386.
by bradrn 4y ago
> I hate this passive voice. To be pedantically clear, the first sentence here is not passive! Both clauses there have an explicit subject (‘this’ and ‘we’ respectively) and neither verb (‘means’ and ‘need’) is passivised. I like Geoffre
387.
by bradrn 4y ago
IIRC, this has been the case for a while. I seem to recall getting a Raspberry Pi ~5 years ago which had Mathematica on it. Admittedly it was quite slow, but as far as I can recall it did work.
388.
by bradrn 4y ago
‘Keyword’ is the operative word in grandparent. That is how France is perceived , regardless of whether that fits reality or not.
389.
by bradrn 4y ago
And central Sydney: https://data.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/datasets/15c4713a688a48... https://trees.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/map/ https://cityofsydney.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instan
390.
by bradrn 4y ago
> I find reading the text back in a different font often helps, particularly switching from mono-spaced to variable or vice-versa, though I'm not sure why. A related technique I use with LaTeX documents is to proofread the output PD

More ›