bradrn

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   by bradrn 5y ago

   Sure there are: [s͎˩˧˥˧˨˦˥˧˥˧˨˦] and so on. But really I see no reason why musical notation wouldn’t be sufficient. (I should note that’s not [s]; it’s [s͎] with an arrow below it. It’s hard to tell the difference with the font on my screen
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   by bradrn 5y ago

   Alas, I live in Sydney and have never even seen one in the wild. Hopefully someday I’ll get the opportunity to go where they live.
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   by bradrn 5y ago

   Australian here; I’ve never heard anyone say ‘platypi’. It’s always ‘platypuses’. On the other hand, the plural of ‘octopus’ can be either ‘octopuses’ or ‘octopi’.
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   by bradrn 5y ago

   Ah, thanks!
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   by bradrn 5y ago

   I haven’t heard of this before. Do you happen to have any more details? EDIT: Found it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/power-query/ . But it doesn’t look particularly F#-like — Power Query seems more focused arou
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   by bradrn 5y ago

   I’m not sure I see any similarities. Could you elaborate on why you think this is similar to the aether theory?
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   by bradrn 5y ago

   A Haskell equivalent: https://reanimate.github.io/ . Haven’t used it myself, but the examples are incredibly impressive.
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   We Have No Bananas (2011)(newyorker.com)

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   by bradrn 5y ago

   Also discussed by Scott Alexander in some detail, near the end of a mostly unrelated post: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/06/14/living-by-the-sword/
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    OK, perhaps I should have added a qualifier to my previous statement: when making offline documents , I use LaTeX whenever possible. Generally speaking, PDFs in a web browser aren’t particularly nice to read, so LaTeX doesn’t work so well
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Yes, that’s me. Why do you ask?
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    For a musical Lisp, personally I prefer extempore: https://github.com/digego/extempore
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Again, thanks! I’ll read through these when I get some time.
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Huh, interesting — thanks for the pointer! I’ve been wondering about this for a while. Do you happen to have any more resources? (I enjoy linguistics, but haven’t really read much about syntax; my favourite topic is morphosyntactic alignmen
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    > English doesn't have pro drop Depends on the situation! For me it’s grammatical in most informal texts, e.g. emails. (Also, the first sentence of this paragraph.) > Second, there's more than just the subject missing in &
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Completely agreed. Except for the very very few cases where Word is better (e.g. printing out lots of pictures), I make a point of using LaTeX whenever possible. It’s just so much less painful than anything else.
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Furthermore, I’d describe GP’s comment as encouraging ‘pro-drop’ rather than any ‘voice’. (Though I suspect the technical details of syntactic terminology are somewhat irrelevant for résumé-writing.)
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    > The tool I have where I feel like I have an insane amount of power that isn't widely known is Wolfram Mathematica I’m pretty sure I’ve heard that the Wolfram Language is in fact considered a Lisp, albeit one using M-expressions
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    I’m mildly colourblind: I find it difficult to distinguish red/green, but can still do it under the right conditions. On the whole, I agree that colourblindness doesn’t really affect my life, in that for the most part it doesn’t cause
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    cf. the Wireworld computer, which also has a construction set consisting of only MOV: https://www.quinapalus.com/wi-index.html
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Dasher is actually pretty easy to use. I installed it on my computer awhile ago but never really got around to using it. It's certainly a lot slower touch typing though. This comment entirely written with Dasher.
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    When porting my own multilingual keyboard layout [0] to Linux, I used M17N. It’s actually really convenient and flexible: the keyboard itself is specified as an sexp, which makes it easy to both write it manually and generate it from anothe
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    The approach I took for my keyboard layout [0] was a compromise: I kept the base layout the same as US, but added a bunch of dead keys on the AltGr layer. So e.g. ⟨ď⟩ is ‘G-% d’; ⟨ɐ⟩ is ‘G-f a’. [0] https://github.com/bradrn
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    I agree! This is exactly what I ended up doing: https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Well, if you really want to go this route, you can beat them at their own game and accuse them of Arguing From Fallacy. (A nice illustration: https://theupturnedmicroscope.com/comic/logical-fallacies-ar... ) That being
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Well, you can’t get fossils from rocks which have melted or metamorphised. If you try you might get lucky and find some relatively unscathed sediments, but I don’t know enough geology to say for sure how much of the plate would have escap
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    Prefatory note: this is about the Haskell library ‘mtl’ [ https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl ], i.e. ‘monad transformer library’.
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    At the most basic level: if people don’t leave, they can’t come back with the virus. Also, we’ve instituted mandatory hotel quarantine for anyone coming to Australia. But hotel quarantine only has a certain number of places; if less people
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    > tens of thousands of people marching on the streets of Sydney and Melbourne to protest covid lockdowns and defend their right to free assembly As an Aussie I must say that I see these protests rather differently. For better or worse, A
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    by bradrn 5y ago

    I think the point is that there was extensive discrimination against Jews, but now it’s stopped, and the data show this.