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Be part of the solution, not part of the problem. You can use some other forge and keep an up-to-date github repository as a read-only front.
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> control characters which are visually indistinguishable from other characters This is a text editor configuration issue, not a character choice issue.
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> I wish they had fixed it to accept both tabs and spaces a long time ago. I have good news for you: this is already the case! In all modern versions of make you can use semicolons instead of tabs. You just write target : dependen
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Why do you speak in the past tense? Man pages are alive and well, and we use them every day.
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> When sample size grows, frequentist and bayesian [...] estimates seem to converge to each other anyway Yes. And so? Bayesians would argue (and I quote) that "the interesting limit in statistics is when the number of samples tend
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> Not imperialistic. Would you say the same of the English language too? Yes, of course? When I think of imperialism the first thing that comes to my mind is precisely "the bri'ish empi'ah and its commonwealth"! If
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> from Mexico to Patagonia, and from The Canaries up to the Pyrenees. Sounds a bit imperialistic? Notwithstanding the tens of millions of native speakers of autochtone non-spanish languages in these territories: Mapuche (260K), Quechua (
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It's an invasion of privacy. Imagine that a post appears under your name with a date/time where you are supposed to be working. If you are paid by somebody else, this may get you into trouble, or even fired.
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> You really do want a native image, so why not get one that you can also right-click and "save as...". This sounds great! At least, nowadays you can take a screenshot of the terminal and crop it as you want. Not sure what wou
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> we limit ourselves by having our CLI interfaces be tied to a thing that emulates a terminal from the 80s > why should that preclude us from being able to quickly show a PNG or graph a function? I'm confused by this comment. Th
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Ah, that is a very good reason indeed! At least for projecting from 2D to 1D the gaussian is the only distribution with this property. The functional equation g(x)g(y)=g(√(x^2+y^2))g(0) determines the gaussian up to a constant.
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> > Why is a gaussian used specifically? > The Gaussian aspect is important because Gaussians are differentiable. Sure, but why Gaussians and not any of the many other well-known smooth functions? Is it because of lack of imaginat
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Looks good to me. Assuming that the spaces are unicode nbsp.
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> paths may contain spaces what kind of savage puts spaces on their paths? Failing in such cases is a neat feature it would seem. I never understood why common filesystems allow this foolishness. There are already other semantically me
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For me, the most amazing feature of hare is its commitment to long-term stability [0]. Backwards compatibility is universally acknowledged to be a good thing, but hare proposes a much more revolutionary idea: forward compatibility. "A
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Your message intriguing... Can you point to some specific examples of frustration? I've never used Photoshop, but as an occasional user of gimp it seems quite natural and intuitive to me. I'd like to see what could be greatly i
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Those were the gpus of the day. At some point, everything got integrated into the cpu. Will we see a similar reintegration any soon?
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We Pragmaticists (some would say "abject pragmaticists") advocate for a compromise solution between Zeroastrians and Unitarians by taking h=½ as the fundamental constant. It satisfies several interesting identities involving othe
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> What are the bosses above your boss are doing if resources are allocated on useless projects You're very clever, young man, very clever. But it's bosses all the way up!
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Together with the JPL coding standards [0], and the linux kernel coding style [1], this determines a pleasant, safe and sane subset of C. (Note: this does not mean that these rules should be followed blindly in all cases; but one should be
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Take a look at qntm [0], who writes very disturbing short stories. He is also a coder, notably of the famous hatetris game. [0] http://qntm.org
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> It actually is very hard to design a responsive UX that can handle anything from the smallest smartphone up to ultrawide monitors. A motherfucking website made with plain html, no css and no javascript is responsive and works everywh
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Heh. No sarcasm at all in my comment! (but I like to write in an over the top way...) Terse notation has nothing to do with manual handwriting. Modern math books and articles are still written by computer using a very terse symbolic notat
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> Tangent: Looking at those code samples, I wonder whether coming up with the shortest possible, most cryptic variable names is somewhat of a sport amongst C developers. I definitely make a point of using only single-letter variables i
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> Do you have any ressources to share ? Godbolt [0] is an invaluable resource. But simply setting up tasks to yourself and completing them may be the best course of action. Then you'll find whatever resource you need for a concret
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> spending a decade working with a low level programming language before you jump into high level programming language is simply not an option. Nobody said that. But spending a week is definitely an option to all programmers, and many w
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> in quarto - it's just markdown: > ![Caption](path/to/image.png) > And here is how you do it in TeX: > \begin{figure}[t] > \includegraphics{path/to/image} > \cen
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> The design of Wayland starts with the premise that every application connecting to your display might not be completely trusted, What a strange premise... Do the wayland people have keylocks on all the rooms, drawers and cupboards on t
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by enriquto 3y ago
I'd rather say: "Please don't theme your apps" ! The visual aspect of apps is a choice of the users, not of the developers. Please, let us users decide what colors, fonts and margins we see on our screens.
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The hammer was also sent to the museum, as is british custom. https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1994-0408-...

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