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by dghf 8y ago
> Case sensitivity is a mistake in every platform that embraces it. > I've used systems that are case sensitive and systems that are case insensitive, and the latter are responsible for an order of magnitude number of bugs more t
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by dghf 8y ago
"TFA" = "the <expletive deleted> article". wenderen is indicating that the question you raise is addressed on the nnn Github page itself: https://github.com/jarun/nnn#performance
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by dghf 8y ago
> There is no 'link tax'. You can paste a target URL anywhere you like along with descriptive words. What there is: a restriction on quoting from the article. Well, that depends on what is meant by "quoting from the articl
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by dghf 8y ago
There's jq, which doesn't support SQL but does allow you to apply filters and reductions to data in JSON files: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/
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by dghf 8y ago
In a terminal, Record Separator is CTRL-^, Unit Separator is CTRL-_. Vi[m] will accept the former literally, and will accept the latter if escaped with a CTRL-V.
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by dghf 8y ago
> HSLuv is just like LCH To be clear, HSLuv, is based on CIELCHuv, the cylindrical transformation of CIELUV [0]; the LCH in David Johnstone's colour picker is CIELCHab, the cylindrical transformation of CIELAB [1]. Of course, that d
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by dghf 8y ago
> It is easy to forget nowadays how much fear of nuclear war there used to be always lurking in the background. Not as good as your story, but I was walking home from school when the air-raid siren went off, sounding exactly as it does a
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by dghf 8y ago
> Hasn’t quantum mechanics demolished the hope that science will make reality intelligible? > Not in the least. As Bell said, study Bohm’s pilot wave theory and you see that everything can be explained perfectly well, with no funny bu
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by dghf 8y ago
> The problem is that Google is without question a monopoly Is it? I mean, sure, far more people use Google than, say, Bing or DuckDuckGo. But there's nothing actually stopping them from using those alternatives, other than the fact
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by dghf 8y ago
> Repeat will only fix this particular case. If you did "dtf" and wanted "dff", repetition won't help. My point wasn't that repetition is a panacea, but that the example in the article isn't a good one.
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by dghf 8y ago
> Because of the verb followed by object grammar, vi changes are made in the dark, we dont see their effect until the whole editing sentence is finished. dtf will delete to next f, if you then realize that was one f before the one you ta
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by dghf 8y ago
> `:x` is a shortcut for `:wq` I've been using vim for years, and I'm still learning new things about it. Thank you.
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by dghf 8y ago
Quibble: the article refers several times to the theory of general relativity. I always thought it was the general theory of relativity: i.e., it was the theory itself that was general, handling everything the special theory (limited to ine
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by dghf 8y ago
The form "Merlin" first appears (as Merlinus ) in Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain , c. 1136. One suggested reason why Geoffrey didn't latinise the Welsh name more directly as Merdinus is the un
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by dghf 8y ago
Bit disappointed that Britain shows Vortigern and Ambrosius Aurelianus in the 5th century, but not Magnus Maximus (Macsen Wledig), who's historically much better attested, in the 4th.
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by dghf 8y ago
> For someone with practice, the difference (and ability to describe the difference) between a Sauvingon Blanc and Chardonnay isn't difficult. For someone with practice (and not a lot of practice), the difference between different w
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by dghf 8y ago
I was going to raise an eyebrow at the use of the word "runes" in that context, but that really does show similarities to futhark.
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by dghf 8y ago
> But why would the Vanatu people know what a blender is, but instead of saying blender make up a simple word "mixmaster"? It's a brand name. Like "hoover" for "vacuum cleaner". > Why would they know
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Basic Probability Help for First Year Teacher(math.stackexchange.com)
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by dghf 8y ago
Yes, but when I read that I imagine your eyes rolling.
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by dghf 8y ago
The sentence you quote from Wikipedia starts like this: > The bonobo (/bə.ˈnoʊ.boʊ/ or /ˈbɒ.nə.boʊ/; Pan paniscus ), formerly called the pygmy chimpanzee and less often, the dwarf or gracile chimpanzee Also see htt
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by dghf 8y ago
IIRC, Moby Dick has an entire chapter where the narrator debates whether or not whales are fish, coming down on the "yes they're fish" side for largely the same reasons as this article's Solomon.
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by dghf 9y ago
There were actually laws, in many different times and places, know generally as "sumptuary laws". Wikipedia has what looks like a good overview: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumptuary_law It doesn't s
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by dghf 9y ago
In the extremes (0% and 100% overlap), don't these cease to be Venn diagrams? I thought a Venn diagram had to show every possible intersection and non-intersection, even if some of these were empty.
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by dghf 9y ago
> Communists considered Soviet Union just a bridgehead for the World Revolution. Communists in general may have, but did the Soviets? I thought Stalin's stance was socialism in one country, leading (at least in part) to the breach w
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by dghf 9y ago
> I also have a another plastic brush to clean my shotguns of all things (I do a lot of clay pigeon shooting) -- the construction is identical to a toothbrush, just perhaps a tad bigger. Is it, though? Are the bristles made of the same m
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by dghf 9y ago
Likewise, Chromium on Linux. Search box appears when I try to scroll with the down-arrow key.
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by dghf 9y ago
> Cabal, who was the dog of the soldier Arthur Possibly interesting tidbit for fans of Arthuriana: as this quote indicates, the Historia Brittonum , like other early sources, does not refer to Arthur as a king. Elsewhere in the document
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by dghf 9y ago
> a judge ... can't go "well, there is no evidence, but I feel like you're guilty, so off to prison with you!" - a jury of peers can absolutely do that The defence can ask a judge to throw out a case on the grounds th
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by dghf 9y ago
Dennett does a pretty good job (to my mind) of undermining it in Consciousness Explained : you can read part of the relevant section on Google Books [0]. Or this SMBC [1] summarises the argument pretty well, if somewhat sarcastically. [0]

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