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by enriquto 4y ago
What do you mean? The university will be happy to have you around for such a cheap price as long as you want.
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by enriquto 4y ago
> a "scum of the earth" post doc for 1/5th the salary and double the hours required as a junior python developer role Where do you get these numbers from? This is not at all like that in Europe. A postdoc gets (say, in
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by enriquto 4y ago
That's a pretty big deal, actually... imagine (assuming that you are an English monolingual) that suddenly the geopolitics around your city change, and you can not live your daily life using English anymore. You need to learn another,
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by enriquto 4y ago
> there is a certain tension between wanting to be an independent country, and then also wanting to join the EU Not necessarily. For example, regarding official languages, there's no way that Gaelic would be an official EU language
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by enriquto 4y ago
> As a Brit that didn’t want Scotland to be independent last time around: good luck to them. As a Catalan that wants his country to be independent: I'd cry tears of joy if our western neighbors were half as nice as you the English a
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by enriquto 4y ago
> barely moving eye-popping-graffiti-painted squeaky wheelchair with no bearings mounted with duck tape inside a rusty sea container, that is chained to a heavy truck with broken exhaust and flat tires If you add a solid rocket booster t
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by enriquto 4y ago
So that you are not betrayed by a software that you just purchased but that you cannot change? In what way allowing this betrayal is better for anyone but the people who benefit from it (e.g. by selling your private data, or whatever their
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by enriquto 4y ago
I love this analogy! (Being a fan of C and of bikes). How does it continue? Assembly=walking, fixie=C, regular bike=fortran, electrically assisted bike=C++, electric wheelchair=python, ...
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by enriquto 4y ago
Fighting this oppression is the whole point of the GPL (and the AGPL). But abject pragmaticists and industry bootlickers are pushing hard against software that protects the freedom of the users.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Basically, a rich person's guide to a happier life. Everything here is obvious but not of much use if you don't have the money to do all this stuff
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by enriquto 4y ago
> I often wish that there was a law that says (...) Do you live in a democratic country? It's up to you and your neighbors then!
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by enriquto 4y ago
> It really emphasizes the unix philosophy (...) Hmmmm... The real unix philosophy-consistent mail client would be a filesystem that you mount. To send a mail you copy a file to the folder mail/send, to view your mail you ls mail&#
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by enriquto 4y ago
Of course, of course; but here they are talking about HTML (i.e., about HTML5), not about XML.
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by enriquto 4y ago
why, I was just citing some common free software. Anyhow, about half of my random list seems to be copyleft: GPL : R, gfortran, octave, fftw3, git LGPL : gmp (dual-licensed with gpl2) AGPL : overleaf BSD-like: python, numpy, torch, jupyter
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by enriquto 4y ago
It doesn't seem that they "won"; at least not yet. In my case, the bullying of RMS moved me to join the FSF, to stop all use of non-free software in my life, and to become an even more vocal activist for free software. Looki
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by enriquto 4y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about.
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by enriquto 4y ago
The given example seems harder to write than the correspondig html. What's the point, then? All these opening and closing quotes are pointless. Why don't write a single string with the verbatim html inside?
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by enriquto 4y ago
The first word in this document is "Imagine", how can it be clearer than that?
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by enriquto 4y ago
Everything is still there, what do you mean? I still write html by hand and everything works as expected.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Since everybody talks about the format for figures, I feel the need to mention the .fig format [0] that was made exactly for that use case (human-editable textual description of simple line figures). It is also the native file format of
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by enriquto 4y ago
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by enriquto 4y ago
What does it add to plain mupdf (on which it seems to be based)? I love the clean, elegant interface of mupdf, and I can't imagine how could you ever improve on that.
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by enriquto 4y ago
Sounds like a sweet reason for laptop vendors to provide the best linux hardware support once schools mandate free software!
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by enriquto 4y ago
> Those non-features are also a hallmark of a site that hasn't been updated in 25 years Spivak's calculus hasn't been updated either since way longer than that, and it's as fresh today as it was in 1967. What is your
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by enriquto 4y ago
Paragraph spacing in the default browser style is alright. The example on this website is doctored to look uglier than it actually is.
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by enriquto 4y ago
I sort of find the "unstyled" html the best. All other examples seem slightly worse. But then, I may have a strong bias for this style in web-based text. Coming from an academic background, hand-written sites with no css nor j
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by enriquto 4y ago
> You always feel like you are trying to trick the system into doing something it was not designed for. This is one of the hallmarks of human civilization. Your hands were designed for throwing a stone at the eye of a mammoth. But you c
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by enriquto 4y ago
Sounds like well spent hours. Why would you even consider working with engineers that cannot even fix the simple tools they break?
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by enriquto 4y ago
In 40 years people will read your code and find it just as legendary as that of the original lisp hackers. From time to time, I reread ape.S and it always brings tears to my eyes. (Too bad that github botches the art, it has to be experie
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by enriquto 4y ago
Yep. All these anti-google complaints sound so useless. What did they expect? These issues are always an entirely self-inflicted problem. Google's terms of service are public, clear, and completely unacceptable. Why people keep us

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