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by dri_ft 10y ago
Which bits of Urbit do you see as designed to further reprehensible ideology? I'm well aware of Moldbug's political views, which you're free to call reprehensible if you want, but if there's a clear link from Urbit to th
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by dri_ft 10y ago
But there are also obvious evolutionary pressures towards self-interest, even when it means breaking promises/trustworthiness. (Remember, selection happens at the level of individuals, not of whole groups and societies!) The balance be
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I don't know about trustworthiness in particular, but lots and lots of personality traits turn out to have a heritability of about 50% (or more), so much so that it's a decent rule of thumb to guess that a trait is about 50% herit
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by dri_ft 10y ago
> To people like her, technicians are a necessary annoyance. She'd be quite happy to ignore them all, joke about them behind their backs and snigger at them to their faces, but she knows that when she can't display her PowerPoi
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by dri_ft 10y ago
One thing that's worth noting about the classic bow shoelace knot is that no-one seems to know how to do them. The right way to do it is with the bow knot reflected relative to the base knot below it, like a reef knot, rather than orie
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I found it weird that the article claims that the lack of the definite article is the only sign that makes the machine-translated version of the Hemingway worse. OK, that's the only clinching evidence, but it's easy to spot how
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Agreed; it was more than twice as long as it ought to be.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Looks like an excellent model. I'll probably stick with vim, at least for the time being, but I'm always glad to see new work being done on modal text editors. I agree that vim's model has certain shortcomings, and it's
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Excellent. Depressed me.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Weird. I read the New York Review of Books articles about Eugene Onegin last week, because I'm reading it (in a different translation) at the moment. Douglas Hofstadter spends a chapter in Le Ton Beau De Marot, his book about translati
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I accidentally put a friend of mine off Wikipedia a few years ago by using Ctrl+F on it in front of her. She assumed it was a feature of the website, not of the browser, and thought it looked too complicated.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
"Most often" might just be hedging.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I think they have traits that set off the cuteness triggers we have for (human) babies - big eyes (relative to head), big head (relative to body), etc.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I don't think it's vacuous but I agree it would be clearer with examples.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I slightly prefer the 'worse' solution for the second problem, at least in terms of substance, not necessarily style. The trick the 'improved' version does with uniq seems a little hacky to me, somehow. The first problem
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Didn't Pentadactyl stop working a while ago? For a while I was trying to keep it working, making the necessary changes on every firefox update, but eventually it got too much for me and I switched over to VimFX. At first I didn't
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I guess that's why Fender have an interest in getting people beyond the beginner stage.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I don't think whether or not it happens (or has already happened) depends solely on whether the other languages are better. Isn't it a lot of it a co-ordination problems? People want to write in the languages that are widely used
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I thought I knew a thing or two about linux, but I had no idea about /proc. Neat!
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Then again, continuing to add backward-compatible changes to Perl 5 would have made it an even bigger pile of mud than it already is. Its refusal to make backward-incompatible changes is both the reason why Perl 5 was so ubiquitous and why
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by dri_ft 10y ago
"Servant". I prefer "slave".
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by dri_ft 10y ago
No mention for my favourite - Ranger, a terminal-based, keyboard-oriented file manager that I prefer to Midnight Commander.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I don't know whether Orwell would have voted to leave the European Union, but I'm sure that the article's last sentence - "I think there is no doubt" that he would - is wildly overconfident.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Silent Garfield was invented first, on a forum called Truth and Beauty Bombs, which was the fan forum of a webcomic called Dinosaur Comics, though the discussion thereon tended to be only tangentially connected to Dinosaur Comics. The threa
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Often it is. It's a perfectly good answer to, for example, "why do we drive on the side of the road that we do?"
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Because it's not really periodic enough. I don't think any natural sound source short of a musical instrument (and even for them, it's doubtful) is so perfectly periodic that an out of phase version would stay in opposition (
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Me too. I binged a lot of the C2 wiki last year and waded through a lot of his spew.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
Things were different in the eighties. I think the precedent-setting anti-sampling lawsuits came about in the early nineties. The Beastie Boys album Paul's Boutique was famously built from hundreds of unlicensed samples, and was one of
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by dri_ft 10y ago
My mental image of a year is a vertically-reflected version of yours.
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by dri_ft 10y ago
I haven't used it much, but I recently learnt that emacs allows it. There's a minor mode called ‘variable-pitch-mode’.

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