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by dbaupp 15y ago
If one was to be a smartass, one could say that all code is code that writes assembler. (Possibly with many levels of indirection.)
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by dbaupp 15y ago
> Linux, for instance, is based around a core—called a kernel—that was originally designed for use in servers and only later modified for desktop systems As far as I understand the history of Linux, this is just plain not true: Linux wa
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by dbaupp 15y ago
Some of the books seem to have had (some of) their notation modernised, e.g. in Hardy's A Course in Pure Mathematics, epsilon & delta are the "right" way around in the definition of limits.
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by dbaupp 15y ago
If one is going to deface one's Python by minifying it, it should at least be done properly: I can count at least 8 places where 2 lines can be compressed into 1, like if not t%5: gv-=1;f[9-gv]=[1]*10;f[10+gv]=[1]*10;t=1 and
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by dbaupp 15y ago
They would work, just not using the obvious heuristic/distance of physical distance. One could use travel time (smaller roads are slower) or some more complicated weighting which could take into account the size of the road, speed limit, an
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by dbaupp 15y ago
If you are using Firefox, RequestPolicy[1] is really nice: allows you to block all those useless requests (and selectively activate ones that are required). [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy...
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by dbaupp 15y ago
Having a gender-neutral pronoun is really good (I've experimented with a few in English, but most people don't understand them or care when it is explained), but some aspects are possibly going to far: I don't see any reference to the actua
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by dbaupp 15y ago
Rationality =/= objectivism. (At least, not in the context of LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/31/what_do_we_mean_by_rationality/ )
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by dbaupp 15y ago
Cool, I didn't realise that Greek was a phonetic alphabet! I think there is a difference between an alphabet that one uses from birth, and one that you try to teach to adults. In the former case, you're starting from scratch. In the latter
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by dbaupp 15y ago
There is problem with phonetic alphabets: people have different accents, and so something that is obvious for an Englishman is confusing for an Australian, or an American. When I was (briefly) doing some linguistics, there were several time
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by dbaupp 15y ago
There is a very reasonable wikibook: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX
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by dbaupp 15y ago
The same name? The original is "Svbtle".
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by dbaupp 15y ago
> int, float Immutable? Could you explain this a bit more? (As far as I know, "x += 1" will modify the block of memory that x points to)
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by dbaupp 15y ago
Gwern has a summary article[1] on Modafinil which (among other things) goes through the literature on the effects and side-effects. [1]: http://www.gwern.net/Modafinil
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by dbaupp 15y ago
None of those laws are at all related to censoring the Internet, which is a global network, so non-US citizens using US websites (like Facebook, Youtube, etc) are still affected.