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by bradrn 4mo ago
Or, as Terry Pratchett so eloquently put it in The Fifth Elephant : > “Not natural, in my view, sah. Not in favor of unnatural things.” > Vetinari looked perplexed. “You mean, you eat your meat raw and sleep in a tree?”
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by bradrn 4mo ago
Typotheque’s Dash has a very similar variable axis, though they call it ‘Speed’: https://www.typotheque.com/fonts/dash-casual . (For some reason you need to click on the ‘Variable’ box in order to see the full variable
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by bradrn 4mo ago
Odd, I’ve had the opposite experience… back home in Australia the boxes came with metal edges, but here in the UK (Scotland) they all seem to be plain cardboard. If the metal ones are sold somewhere I’d be very interested to know where I co
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by bradrn 4mo ago
It looks like that never occurs for Helvetica (A316600) due to the absence of kerning. However, with Arial (A316599) the description notes: > a(29368) = 111111 is a first notable anomaly, because its bounding box width of 2675 lies betwe
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by bradrn 5mo ago
I am immediately reminded of my favourite quote from the Jewish book Pirkei Avot (‘Ethics of the Fathers’): > It is not your duty to finish the work [of perfecting the world], but neither are you at liberty to neglect it. [ https:&#x
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by bradrn 5mo ago
Or, for that matter, what if you happened to be in a spot which had been occupied by a person at the time at which it resets?
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by bradrn 5mo ago
I found this comment pretty convincing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247413
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by bradrn 5mo ago
Also known as ‘boolean blindness‘: e.g. https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2016-07-24-overcoming-boolean-blindn...
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by bradrn 5mo ago
> Part of me feels like direct numeric array indexing is one of the last holdouts of a low-level operation screaming for some standardized higher-level abstraction. This paragraph reminds me a bit of Dex: https://arxiv.org&#x2
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by bradrn 5mo ago
Persian mersi is actually a direct borrowing from the French [1]. Not sure about the other one, but I guess it’s just a coincidence, as happens so often in language [2]. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1
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by bradrn 5mo ago
The linked paper has some pictures: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0193087
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by bradrn 7mo ago
In Haskell this technique has been called ‘reinversion of control’: http://blog.sigfpe.com/2011/10/quick-and-dirty-reinversion-o...
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by bradrn 7mo ago
> What background do you come to J from? Another programming language? Yes, I’m very fond of trying out different languages. My main language for personal projects is Haskell. > How do you like it? I haven’t used J for a while, actual
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by bradrn 7mo ago
It’s not my language, to be clear! In fact I’ve never even tried it… my array programming experience so far has mostly been with J.
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by bradrn 7mo ago
Also Uiua: https://www.uiua.org/tour#audio https://www.uiua.org/tutorial/audio
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by bradrn 8mo ago
Emacs has this too, with ‘undo-tree-mode’. (Incidentally, the documentation is wonderful: ‘The only downside to this more advanced yet simpler undo system is that it was inspired by Vim. But, after all, most successful religions steal the b
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by bradrn 8mo ago
Neither can I. Luckily tweaking the colours can make it somewhat readable. (Sometimes…)
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by bradrn 9mo ago
> A thing I enjoy about other cultures is seeing what is unusually different about them. This is a very strong theme throughout Ursula Le Guin’s books and short stories; perhaps you might find those interesting.
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by bradrn 10mo ago
> extremely cold temperatures (267 °C) Sorry? (I have a feeling someone meant Kelvin, though 267 K is hardly ‘extremely cold’ either…)
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by bradrn 11mo ago
> But my point is that those marginal notes are an artifact of the 16th century print edition. It's not anything inherent in the Talmud text. OK, fair enough, if ‘the Talmud text’ is taken to be only the Mishna and the Gemara. (Tho
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by bradrn 11mo ago
> The analogy of the Talmud to a hypertext isn't especially apt, IMO. Isn’t it? Every page of the Talmud includes marginal notes (Masoret HaShas, Ein Mishpat, Torah Or) giving cross-references to relevant parts of the Torah, Talmud
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Firefox 147 Will Support the XDG Base Directory Specification(phoronix.com)
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by bradrn 11mo ago
The actual paper seems to have more information: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt9039
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by bradrn 11mo ago
The Common Lisp Object System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Lisp_Object_System
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by bradrn 1y ago
Don’t give them ideas!!
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by bradrn 1y ago
I’m pretty sure this case is solvable too. Click the white block, then click all the blocks which turned white after that. This flips each block twice (bringing them back to their original state), except for the original white block which w
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by bradrn 1y ago
I’ve been using such tools already (in particular https://www.udeuschle.de/panoramas/makepanoramas_en.htm ). But for smaller or more distant features, I’ve found it can be difficult to correlate their physical appearanc
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by bradrn 1y ago
This looks amazing! I recently moved to an apartment with a good view out the window, so I was excited to try this to identify some of the more distant hills I can see. Alas, it seems to have developed some bugs in the 4 years since the las
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by bradrn 1y ago
> "this is text translated to a phonetic version" goes to "ðɪs ɪz tɛkst trænzˈleɪtɪd tuː ə fəʊˈnɛtɪk ˈvɜːʒᵊn" in British pronunciation and "ðɪs ɪz tɛkst trænˈsleɪtɪd tu ə fəˈnɛtɪk ˈvɜrʒən" in American. These
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by bradrn 1y ago
> And then there's the clicks in Southern African languages. Which are usually written as a Q not followed by a u. e.g. in the place name Gqeberha or the Mbaqanga music style. <q> is only one of the clicks in Bantu languages!

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