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by eequah9L 7y ago
Wow, thank you!
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by eequah9L 7y ago
Bash is apparently capable of showing the completions with explanations, however there doesn't seem to be a de facto standard way of doing it. Or did I miss something? Are there like libraries to help out with this, so that the help te
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by eequah9L 7y ago
I wish LibreOffice, GIMP etc. had an M-x way of finding the commands, and a describe-function to ask what exactly a given command is doing. Or C-h b way of sifting through keyboard shortcuts, in just another buffer with search and everythin
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by eequah9L 7y ago
I was doing this for several months. I remember the biggest drawback was that cold water does not dissolve soap and shampoo as well as warm does, so it takes more effort to wash yourself well. I stopped because I got sick, and never got the
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by eequah9L 7y ago
We are and we have been for a while now :) I'm not a fan, but there is one interesting upside--Twitter makes it simple to react to any one of those paragraphs, and spin off another discussion. The emergent graph of reactions is much mo
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by eequah9L 7y ago
From the article: > As I’ve mentioned before, all of the logic so far is > pretty lightweight, occupying a mere 7% of on-chip > logic resources The author is well aware the board is overkill. He also mentions els
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by eequah9L 7y ago
It's even worse. That slide compares number of computer elements vs. number of cells in human brain. The graph starts at 1x the amount (CPU == brain), and ends 10^60x the amount.
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by eequah9L 7y ago
Denying remote work is a common policy even in cases when nobody wants to manipulate you anywhere. It's really not hard to imagine that a gentlemant's agreement is not upheld when said gentleman is not around to push your agenda a
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by eequah9L 7y ago
Halting problem is fundamental and applies to Turing complete languages as well. You cannot solve halting problem in, say, Python, but nobody would argue that as a language ideal (disregarding physical limitations of the machine that it is
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by eequah9L 7y ago
If you check out the rest of his page (main page, CV), it seems he's an Israeli.
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by eequah9L 7y ago
In Czech, some "y" vs. "i" can't be deduced. Schoolchildren need to drill the words that use "y". Similarly to what "ѣ" had with бѣдный блѣдный бѣлый бѣсъ, except our thing doesn't even rhym
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by eequah9L 7y ago
... and my experience is that even fairly similar languages are really hard to understand. I have no problem talking in Russian, I understand Slovak and Czech is my mother tongue, but Ukrainian is still fairly opaque to me. I suspect any sp
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by eequah9L 7y ago
In Czechia, English is definitely the most reasonable L2 to learn, by far. Even for L3 I wouldn't be sure Russian is a better choice than German, which is just super useful around here. I learned Russian basically for irrational reason
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by eequah9L 7y ago
> .. which falls over as soon as you have a file with a space in the name. Yeah, spaces are nasty. find has -print0 and xargs has -0 to handle this gracefully, but one needs to know to use it.
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by eequah9L 7y ago
Anki is superb for this sort of stuff. It implements a spaced repetition algorithm to keep the added content in your memory while minimizing the number of times that you need to refresh it. While used mostly for studying natural languages,
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by eequah9L 7y ago
I am not familiar with Perl at all, though I am with list comprehensions, and FWIW I find the code very readable. (Though the lambda syntax was not obvious at first.) What I would worry about is performance. But we are talking about top ten
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by eequah9L 7y ago
> I see a lot of people who come to Emacs from Vim expecting Evil Mode to be the panacea for Emacs. It's not. At the end of the day, it's still Emacs Yes. I've been Emacs guy for close to two decades now, and switched to E
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by eequah9L 7y ago
Still is, the Nvidia acquisition is still not over, and the recent stock price drop might hint at some nervousness whether it will go through at all.
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by eequah9L 7y ago
I suspect that asking about "experiencing negative aftereffects of remote work" just means that people who think that their work life sucks and happen to be remotees are going to say "yes". I want to see the numbers for
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by eequah9L 7y ago
Prague Per [0] (2001; in Czech), average distance between subway stations is 1038m, tram stops 500m and bus stops 698m. A related metric is walking distance from home to public transportation stop. Per [1] (2011; in Czech), most of people
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by eequah9L 7y ago
From wikipedia article on Robert Groden: > One motivation for the city bringing the suits is a city > planning effort to prevent anyone from encouraging visitors > to recognize the site of the assassination as a tourist
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by eequah9L 7y ago
The whole sentence makes even less sense: "Though similar to role-playing fantasy games such as Dungeons and Dragons, it has significantly more cards and more complex rules than other card games." As if similarity to D&D said
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by eequah9L 7y ago
> I’ll ask a stranger for money in English, but I’ll be damned if I ask a stranger to pass the cream in French. I had this with English. Then with Russian. Now I have it with German. It goes away with practice. Languages are hard. Keep i
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by eequah9L 8y ago
It does and it is. But the fact is that it's just much much easier to convert ideas to code than code to ideas. It's also much easier to convert ideas to English than English to ideas, so better documentation probably helps, but i
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by eequah9L 8y ago
For every new project idea, I open a file and start writing everything that comes to mind. A design document if you will. Writing stuff down like this makes things obvious and tangible, easy to juxtapose, as you say, easy to manipulate. I c
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by eequah9L 8y ago
A child really does not do much in the "first weeks". Most of the burden is figuring out all the APIs, but if the child and the mother are healthy, it does not really take much time and attention. This gets worse as the child grow
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by eequah9L 8y ago
Online code review puts pressure on the reviewer to find the problems quickly so as not to take the other engineer's time. Usually I want to take my sweet time, look at the surrounding code, figure out things for myself. Sometimes I ju
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by eequah9L 8y ago
Firefox and a Windows VM are the major reasons for me to reach for my mouse. There's also nm-applet, and obviously gimp and inkscape, but I rarely use those. Oh, and cut'n'paste tends to be easier with the mouse, though xsel
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by eequah9L 8y ago
I get that. So the Python 3 interpreter has to assume that when I say "print (1, 2)", I actually mean, print these two individual arguments. If I say "print 'foo'" though, it recommends "print ('foo&#
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by eequah9L 8y ago
That usage doesn't get the weirdly specific error message though. It's only the Python2-ish statement that gets one.

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