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by cannam 6y ago
> You haven't heard of error checking? Is this an earnest question? No, I didn't understand, when I was reading the article, what an error checking framework was for. What sort of errors? Errors in what? Of course I've sin
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by cannam 6y ago
Exactly - with inertia, or maybe oblivious. I think it's just a little discombobulating to read about a program I spend so much time using myself being used in ways quite far away from what I know about. That's a good thing I&#x27
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by cannam 6y ago
Very impressed by the proportion of people who primarily use daemon/emacsclient. (I don't, but I always sort of think I should) Surprised, and if I'm honest a little distressed, to see about a third of respondents use vi keyb
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by cannam 6y ago
I may be misunderstanding, but I believe that the proposal was made much longer ago than 2017 and its original duration was closer to 20 years than 4. It became limited to 2017-2020 because the proposal was only accepted (by Pinker) in 2017
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by cannam 6y ago
Ah, thank you! And so, what happened in Texas that "made an income tax unconstitutional"?
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by cannam 6y ago
An ignorant question for American readers. This article quotes a tweet from somebody who presumably has something to do with promoting Texas. He writes: > Texas is the best state for business. Texas has no state income tax, while Califor
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by cannam 6y ago
I agree with every item in principle, and disagree with every one in practice. Here's to a better world!
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by cannam 6y ago
Wouldn't it just be "in brackets"? I used to hear that quite often - not so much in recent years, if I think about it, but that may be by chance. I think it is what I would say.
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by cannam 6y ago
> From the rest of the thread, everyone uses time selection, power selection, and stop I never use power selection myself. (I imagine it's mostly for defrosting?) Our microwave, an excellent almost-20-year-old Daewoo, has a rotary t
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by cannam 6y ago
Of curiosity, what is the GDPR position on this? IP addresses are personal information under the GDPR, I think?
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by cannam 6y ago
And the Music app appears to be a "Catalyst" one, i.e. a port from the iPad. (This is a potential thread hijack, but if there is anyone here who can point me to the difference in drag-and-drop protocols between Catalyst apps, e.g.
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by cannam 6y ago
> Interesting enough to do on a boring weekend, perhaps? A weekend, or a PhD! The Machine Listening group at QMUL covers bird audio - see Dan Stowell's work for example: http://c4dm.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/people/dans.h
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by cannam 6y ago
They're not blocked, they're blocking themselves.
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by cannam 6y ago
> > it’s possible that […] your work makes the world a worse place > > Always great to hear that… Painful, but it is true. Free Software development is awkward in this respect. Both developers and users feel as if they are doin
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by cannam 6y ago
I absolutely love ML for the Working Programmer, but I think you have to see it as a philosophical text as much as a tutorial. To these points, I'd say 1. I find Emacs sml-mode is just about up to it. I do have complaints - I wish it w
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by cannam 6y ago
My favourite thing about SML is that it's a relatively idiot-proof language. It has something of Python's "one obvious way to do it" - a good chance of being able to understand someone else's code. This is partly be
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by cannam 6y ago
My biggest problem at first was that the Unix server (a Gould NP-1) didn't have enough memory to run an Emacs instance for every terminal in the class, so it was painfully, agonisingly slow. The joke about "Eight Megs And Continua
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by cannam 6y ago
Oh yes, I see there's a theme entry down in the Customize Emacs submenu at the bottom of the Options menu. Logical though that may be, I had no idea. It's not as if I even have a complicated custom theme in my .emacs - I have a co
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by cannam 6y ago
I filled this in for fun - it's short enough and impersonal enough that I didn't feel I cared what happens to the data. As an Emacs user for some decades who never really uses any other editor, I found a few questions I didn'
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by cannam 6y ago
I like Kristin Hersh's description of studio recording: "What we did was, we took the song apart, played each piece separately, then stuck the pieces back together. In my opinion, it didn't work. We'd torn the song'
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by cannam 6y ago
I didn't know the word at all - quite a surprise, appearing in the heading of an article in my native language on a not very obscure subject. My (British) dictionary has it asterisked as American and says it derives from Spanish. The d
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by cannam 6y ago
> It's more than the PM's official salary I remember going to a party in west London at the time of the MPs' expenses scandal ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_parliamentary_e... - remembe
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Yeti, an ML-family functional language for the JVM, reaches v1.0(mth.github.io)
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by cannam 6y ago
Just checked the code examples in a current Standard ML compiler, and they work without modification and behave as described. That's why you should choose Standard ML for your next project. Great example though. When looking at Idris I
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by cannam 6y ago
Similarly, I used to find I interviewed better when I had a hangover. (I'm older now, have hangovers less often, and find them much more tiring, so this might not apply any more)
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by cannam 6y ago
Microsoft have released at least two separate generations of ARM devices running desktop Windows (Surface with Windows RT back in 2012, and Surface Pro X more recently), so they're definitely up for it, even if the market hasn't b
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by cannam 6y ago
I have an XZ1 Compact. It's great, works really well, appealing design, every feature I need - decent screen, headphone jack, camera button, fingerprint reader, feels fast, battery lasts for ages. It's an almost perfect phone. Jus
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by cannam 6y ago
Hm, some interesting design decisions with the Jelly 2 there. In particular, if that comparison table is right, it's more than 16mm thick - I daresay none of us have seen anything like that since the flip-phone days. And the payoff is
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by cannam 6y ago
The photo is credited to someone else - I imagine it was chosen for beauty rather than truth. Earlier in the article there's a link to an actual bike, and it is a road bike: https://surlybikes.com/bikes/legacy&#x2F
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by cannam 6y ago
What Olympus brought was in-body image stabilisation. Panasonics never had it (maybe they do now? I haven't been paying attention lately) and it makes all the difference if your thing is photography with just any lens that will fit.

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