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by bradrn 4y ago
I agree with this. The corollary, of course, is that it becomes much more meaningful when the speaker does know what they’re talking about. One of my university lecturers works closely with Aboriginal people; you can clearly tell that she
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by bradrn 4y ago
> I've always wondered why accents are generally added before the letter in most systems. As with many of these things, it’s a holdover from typewriters. ‘Dead keys’ in typewriters were literally keys which did not move the carriage
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by bradrn 4y ago
For a ~50-year-old program, Emacs’s support for multilingual input — and really, it’s all-round flexibility — continually amazes me! For myself I prefer my own custom keyboard layout [0], because it works outside Emacs too, but I’d happily
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by bradrn 4y ago
This isn’t really true — in fact, it’s exactly the same fallacy as in Swift’s article. Certainly at a glance Greek and Latin look a lot more complicated than English does, and certainly this is true with respect to their morphology (how w
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by bradrn 4y ago
Oh, this sort of thing goes way back… here’s Swift from 1712, for instance: > I do here … complain to your Lordship … that our Language is extremely imperfect; that its daily Improvements are by no means in proportion to its daily Corr
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by bradrn 4y ago
> … it completely reframed my views on simplicity, maintenance and planning, for all areas of life. If you’re willing to share, I’d be interested in knowing more about how you view these areas now.
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by bradrn 4y ago
It actually has nothing to do with the mirror. It’s because when you rotate the image to align its ‘front’ direction to your body’s, you naturally perform this rotation about the vertical axis. It is this rotation which has the effect of sw
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by bradrn 4y ago
The other problem with this idea is that natural languages contain quite a bit of redundancy, which is why speech and writing can be decoded even over very noisy channels. It’s hard to make language more compact without removing some redund
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by bradrn 4y ago
This doesn’t seem to detail the simulation of polyacetylene molecules, though.
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by bradrn 4y ago
I can say very little about the books referenced, but one comment struck me as perhaps having wider applicability: > Hyde, who published [ The Gift ] in 1983, helped me understand that gift exchanges were much more important than economi
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by bradrn 4y ago
I’m no particle physicist, but this doesn’t look like anything too fundamental — no new elementary particles, just some new and interesting combinations of existing elementary particles (in this case, quarks). It might have lots of furthe
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by bradrn 4y ago
- doesn’t tell you which day it is
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by bradrn 4y ago
> there are many more people who do not use they as singular compared to those who do I do accept your point here, but I think even this is debatable. Certainly, there is a population which vociferously denies the validity of singular ‘t
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by bradrn 4y ago
Thank you! I appreciate the correction. Unfortunately, I cannot agree with this either: > "They" is not commonly recognized as singlular. Personally, I’d say that ‘they’ can act as both a third person animate singular and a thi
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by bradrn 4y ago
> Firstly, "they" is not commonly recognized as plural. While "they" has been used in certain instances as plural for at least 700 years, those cases are generally isolated and are considered poor uses of the language
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by bradrn 4y ago
I recall thinking that was an excellent blog post too… until I actually mentioned it to someone who knew something about the Aztecs, at which point we realised that both it and Clendinnen badly misremresented Aztec society as compared to Eu
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by bradrn 4y ago
> It’d be interesting to see what a tool dedicated only to the editing phase could look like (so, you can alter existing text but cannot use it to produce novel material). Scribus [ https://www.scribus.net/ ] specifically
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by bradrn 4y ago
In case anyone else is as unfamiliar as I was with the commands here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dig_(command)
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by bradrn 4y ago
In Haskell, https://reanimate.github.io/ is very good.
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by bradrn 4y ago
Today’s word is actually really hard… it’s one of those words which is close to a whole lot of other ones, so it’s hard to understand the similarity scores from a human perspective. But I’ve played this game before, and the scores are usual
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by bradrn 4y ago
> In fact, a fun meta-puzzle is to find a three-dimensional analog to this two-dimensional puzzle. I believe this puzzle is equivalent to a Ehovxf phor ba n gbehf (rot13).
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by bradrn 4y ago
It doesn’t look quite that simple. The paper describes the procedure as follows: > In a typical fabrication, LiCl powder (0.32–0.82 g) is added into 10 mL HPC solution (0–2.0 wt%) forming solution A. The pH of solution A can be tuned by
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by bradrn 4y ago
Despite the name, I’ll note that this says far more about category theory than it does about FP. In fact, I’d argue that it’s not particularly closely related to FP at all — this should have been titled ‘The Dao of Type Systems’, or somethi
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by bradrn 4y ago
> We have been working for years now on a smalltalk like IDE and a language I’d be curious to know more about this!
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by bradrn 4y ago
A lower resolution but easier-to-construct variant: http://scheeline.scs.illinois.edu/~asweb/CPS/
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by bradrn 4y ago
Article from 2021, duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27191364
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by bradrn 4y ago
This is pretty much exactly the same idea: the paper referenced by the article mentions basalt specifically, which has olivine as a major constituent.
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by bradrn 4y ago
> Is there any reason to think breakthroughs like this and similar could one day lead to quantum computers being applied to general computation? None whatsoever. After learning a bit about them, I think of quantum computers as being a bi
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Solving Tetris in C (2011)(qntm.org)
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by bradrn 4y ago
Interesting, thanks! I hadn’t heard of that one.

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