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by bradrn 4y ago
I’ve definitely seen some speculation about PIE having been ergative at one point (or at least split intransitive), but I don’t know enough about it myself to have a strong opinion either way. I believe it isn’t widely-accepted though.
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by bradrn 4y ago
A nitpick, but this is known as ‘neutral’ alignment, rather than ergative alignment. Ergativity is specifically when the transitive subject (‘ergative’ argument) is treated differently to the transitive object/intransitive subject, whi
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by bradrn 4y ago
Well, it has several parts. There’s a little Firefox extension which collects the text from each page as it’s opened; that sends it off to a webserver running on localhost, which stores the text in an SQLite database. I then made a minimal
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by bradrn 4y ago
My custom keyboard layout Conkey [0] is surely my most prominent one — I use it constantly (including for typing this very comment). I hate the way the base US layout tends to get distorted in other keyboard layouts with good support for no
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by bradrn 4y ago
Gruvbox [ https://github.com/morhetz/gruvbox ] has always seemed quite similar to me, particularly in its light modes.
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by bradrn 4y ago
> Spectrograms are analytical tools, they don't convey the nature of sound: whether it's consonant or dissonant, cool or warm, pleasing or annoying. But they do! It’s entirely possible for even inexperienced phoneticians to rec
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by bradrn 4y ago
These are certainly very pretty, but I can’t help but feel that the usual visualisations are much more information-dense and helpful [0] [1]. Spectrograms and vowel diagrams let me instantly see the formants of a vowel, allowing me to compa
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by bradrn 4y ago
evil, org-mode, auctex, avy, try… although thinking about it some more, I probably should have included use-package too, and possibly projectile and magit as well.
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by bradrn 4y ago
I think ‘worst’ is very subjective here. It certainly does aim to be an all-encompassing ‘framework’ — but this is hardly unusual amongst web libraries (not just for Haskell!), and I feel Yesod gets the job done pretty well. Of course, Hask
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by bradrn 4y ago
I tend to disagree with this. In my experience most common constructs are supported pretty well, especially for maths. The complex stuff comes when you want to do slightly less common stuff — like, for instance, turning the character ‘λ’
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by bradrn 4y ago
> There are very few bits of software that are more arcane and broken by default than this absolute crapstraction of a platform. And that is exactly why a more programmable platform would be good! These issues arise in the first place la
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by bradrn 4y ago
> At the section where he flashes an image of a re-imagined periodic table, he immediately exclaimed "look how beautiful it is!" and I was immediately instead confused … As it happens, this particular version of the periodic ta
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by bradrn 4y ago
Looks very useful! I especially like the ‘grid mode’ — I would never have thought of that idea myself. It’s just a pity it isn’t available on Windows, though I’ve previously had good experiences with Mousable [ https://github.com&
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by bradrn 4y ago
Looks interesting. Especially in terms of its customisability, this reminds me a bit of Textadept, another Lua-based editor: https://orbitalquark.github.io/textadept/
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by bradrn 4y ago
> I think it comes down to whether the complexity of TeX/LaTeX is essential or accidental. I tend to agree with this, but I do think quite a bit of the complexity in LaTeX is accidental. For instance, the existence of numerous packa
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by bradrn 4y ago
As does MiKTeX, which I use. (And it’s all available online in any case.) The problem, as I see it, is more with the documentation of LaTeX and TeX itself: there are a few non-official tutorials and guides, but very little material providin
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by bradrn 4y ago
> How is that difficult? Most text editors support word wrapping and syntax highlighting. To add to this, I personally prefer using semantic linefeeds — adding a newline after each sentence or clause (as in e.g. [0] [1]). I find this wor
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by bradrn 4y ago
And: * Support for maths Which is as far as I can see the single most unique feature of LaTeX… there exist various tools which cover many of your points, but LaTeX is the only one I know of with high-quality mathematical typesetting. (Actua
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by bradrn 4y ago
> What would be the advantage of the replacement compared to TeX/LaTeX? In my experience, LaTeX is pretty clunky, unintegrated and poorly documented. To do any kind of useful typesetting I have to depend on at least five or six thir
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by bradrn 4y ago
In fact, it appears the article has a different title: ‘Focus writing with (despite) LaTeX’, which I think summarises it much better. (Perhaps the author changed the title in the past few minutes?)
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by bradrn 4y ago
As an antidote to this, I recommend Mark Rosenfelder’s Hou tu pranownse Inglish [ http://www.zompist.com/spell.html ], which gives a set of rules to correctly predict the pronunciation of English words from their spelling ‘
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by bradrn 4y ago
> A typeclass indeed is very similar to an interface in object oriented languages Agreed — as I mentioned in the post, typeclasses and interfaces are pretty similar. However, typeclasses and classes (i.e. the things used to make objects)
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by bradrn 4y ago
Some context, for those with no Haskell experience: a ‘typeclass’ (no relation to OOP ‘classes’) is a way of abstracting over a function which can be implemented for numerous different types, very much like ‘interfaces’ in Java or C#. For i
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I have no clue. It looks totally redundant to me too.
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> I wonder if there are type systems that are intentionally Turing-complete rather than accidentally. I’d consider most dependent type systems to be in this category.
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by bradrn 4y ago
Oh, thank you! Not sure how I missed that… (I suspect it’s a recent addition, though; I don’t recall that panel being there last time.)
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There was indeed such a filter at one point. But alas, they seem to have removed it in their recent redesign…
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MikTeX also does this: https://docs.miktex.org/manual/autoinstall.html . As far as I’m aware, TeX Live is unique in forcing the user to install all packages at once. [EDIT: And in fact, if a cousin comment is to be beli
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This is a problem with press coverage much more so than linguistics. As usual when they cover things they’re not familiar with, journalists often wildly exaggerate these claims to make them sound more interesting. By contrast, from what I’v
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> Maybe some of those variations are due to running the same Excel on different versions of Windows, and it conforming to what it thinks native looks like on each. It's hard to tell. This isn’t quite fair — as far as I can see, most

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