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by bradrn 2y ago
I made my own cross-platform keyboard layout for this: https://github.com/bradrn/Conkey . The compose key is nice, but especially on Windows, I find that an actual keyboard layout gives a better experience.
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by bradrn 2y ago
I’ve also noticed this with vinnyvichy and 082349872349872 (who mostly seem to respond to each other). Probably it should be reported to dang if it hasn’t been already. (The first time I saw it, I wondered if I was going insane, because the
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by bradrn 2y ago
You’re welcome!
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by bradrn 2y ago
> “A stray bullet killed a child during police encounter” To be pedantic, this isn’t passive voice at all. See Pullum on this particular misconception: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.html
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by bradrn 2y ago
> Simply CMD+D (fonts) and enable anything you want. Like I said, you can do it. That’s why I said ‘by default’: the defaults clearly show how LaTeX is optimised for high-quality typesetting to a greater extent than Word is. > My po
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by bradrn 2y ago
I don’t think anyone disputes that it is possible to typeset documents like this in Microsoft Word, given sufficient effort. But in LaTeX, I can create documents which look far better than this with far less work. It’s not simply a matter
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by bradrn 2y ago
> Total tangent there's this thing in Japanese where a word ends up meaning one thing and also its opposite, due to being used ironically This is quite common outside Japanese: e.g. in English, ‘wicked’ can be positive or negative.
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by bradrn 2y ago
You’re missing the point of the article. The primary aim is to explain how Chinese characters work, using English as a reference point.
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by bradrn 2y ago
This is completely valid. Like I said, acceleration isn’t right for everyone! I also started out by reading more advanced maths textbooks, and it’s a great thing to do for students where acceleration isn’t a good option.
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by bradrn 2y ago
> The best school system I ever attended rigorously divided classes between social and academic This is such a great idea! And it sounds like it works well in practise, too. I’ve often pondered the idea of separating classes by ability r
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by bradrn 2y ago
> I ended up becoming very good at taking responsibility for making my own life interesting. Oh yes… I also spent considerable time teaching myself interesting topics. It’s a good skill to have. But I was still bored a lot of the time, a
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by bradrn 2y ago
A counterpoint: I was accelerated by three year levels, and it was the best thing that could have happened to me. Otherwise I would have been intensely bored in high school for six years straight, with all the problems that would inevitably
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by bradrn 2y ago
It’s more complicated than that. The taboo in this case is hlonipha [0] amongst Bantu peoples, in which you cannot say the name of certain relatives, or any word which sounds like their name. By this stage, clicks had already entered Bant
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by bradrn 2y ago
This is quite similar to the Common Lisp conditions system… which I actually don’t know much about, but I do know that it lets you inject behaviour at runtime like this does.
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by bradrn 2y ago
Based on the following paragraph alone, I feel quite tempted to file this under ‘utter rubbish’: > Another hypothesized mechanism [for personality changes] involves alterations in the electromagnetic field of the recipient. Pearsall high
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by bradrn 2y ago
Indeed, this is what I was trying to say!
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by bradrn 2y ago
In most languages, doing what this article describes is quite straightforward: you would just define a new type (/ struct / class) called ‘Hash’, which functions can take or return. The language automatically treats this as a comp
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by bradrn 2y ago
Paper link: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47221-8
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by bradrn 2y ago
Klim Type Foundry [1] may also be worth a contact — they’ve been inspired by woodcut type before (e.g. [2] [3]), so I wonder if they might be interested in knowing about this. [1] https://klim.co.nz/ [2] https://
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by bradrn 2y ago
It’s a Chinese character and a Latin letter. The idea, presumably, being that of ‘multiple languages’.
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by bradrn 2y ago
To nitpick, the article doesn’t actually use passive voice there. See Pullum on this particular misconception: http://www.lel.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/passive_loathing.html
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by bradrn 2y ago
I already mentioned this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40197566
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by bradrn 2y ago
This is really just a matter of how much syntax sugar you want to implement. Idris already has precisely this syntax, and there’s a proposal to add it to Haskell too [0]. But none of this changes the core properties of the system which make
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by bradrn 2y ago
I find it amusing that the system described in this article is simply what Haskell calls the ‘IO monad’. That is to say, it describes an IO system with the following ingredients: 1. Each IO operation returns a special value which denotes an
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by bradrn 2y ago
> the effect go writing system on language is not covered a lot in Linguistics, whose focus is the spoken language I’d frame this a little differently: the vast majority of languages in the world are not regularly written, so linguists
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by bradrn 2y ago
> My favourite for "local area" usage was the old New Zealand Map Grid .. not a polyconic projection, rather a custom complex polynomial optimised to reduce grid error in toto (by multiple metrics) for the North and South Islan
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by bradrn 2y ago
The actual algorithm is somewhat different, and documented here: https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue59/3/full-text.html What you have described feels like a variant of Eller’s algorithm: https://we
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by bradrn 2y ago
Slight correction to the title: the fractal is not a single molecule, but composed of many copies of a molecule which self-assemble to form a fractal. (Though the difference is very minor, and arguably irrelevant for many purposes.)
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by bradrn 2y ago
Looking at the figure caption, it appears to be relative to the simulated temperature without doubled carbon dioxide concentration and AMOC breakdown.
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by bradrn 2y ago
> If the Atlantic currents do collapse, Europe will likely be covered by a glacier. I think you misread the article here. Looking at Figure 15 (temperature change caused by a total AMOC collapse), it appears that Britain, Iceland, Scandi

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