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by exergy 8y ago
I'm curious about this flurry of freshly created accounts that seem to be responding to me...?
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by exergy 8y ago
You say "well duh", but PG makes no effort to eliminate any "type" of large organization. He claims with no equivocation that working for all large organizations sucks. Surely you must admit that there must be smart pe
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by exergy 8y ago
Otherwise known in the industry as 'weaseling'. He doesn't explicitly exclude publicly funded institutions. He says working for big organizations will always suck. I quoted him verbatim. And this highlights my problem wit
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by exergy 8y ago
Yep. Then why the overreach? Why this idiotic claim that ALL humans are like caged lions just desparate to be let free and roam the wild? This article is awful, and awfully myopic in the extreme.
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by exergy 8y ago
This article again. sigh What grates me about Paul's writing is the sheer pomposity of it all, coupled with a tone that deals only in absolutes. There is no space for doubt, for hesitancy, for understatement. It is grandiosity dialed
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by exergy 8y ago
Not to bellitle your achievements (honestly!), but I do not think your last paragraph can be a commonly encountered scenario. Either way, I'll back out a bit and ask a more elementary question. Is a workflow possible wherein one writes
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by exergy 8y ago
I am a Mechanical Engineering PhD student, with a whole lot of equation writing to do myself. And as someone who has very briefly dabbled with latex, I have found MathType to be the better solution for myself. I just cannot get myself to ty
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by exergy 8y ago
A few points. First, he is an academic in the humanities. According to his article, most people around him talking up latex tell him the main reason for picking up latex is so you don't have to worry about design. There are not much
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by exergy 8y ago
Indeed. I felt he presented a very limited argument, without much of an overreach. He doesn't say "Never use Latex!". His opinion is that those who are picking it up under the false illusion that latex gets out of there way b
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by exergy 8y ago
I would say your comment is more embarrassing than the author. Your comment smacks of "I know latex, so I'm chomping at the bit to drown out any voices against it!" It seems to me that you didn't fully read what the auth
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by exergy 8y ago
Your workflow is very in-line with the author's recommendations though. His idea is to use something like pandoc to convert word-processor or markdown writing into latex, and then letting latex do what it's actually good at: Types
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by exergy 8y ago
He _does_ mention Markdown, and specifically how it was designed to be human readable. But he lumps Latex with XML and HTML in that they are rubbish to write in. He mentions also how he hates himself for writing in even his simplified versi
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by exergy 8y ago
You misunderstand me. I LOVE touchscreens. I will never buy a laptop without one. But I think a full OS is so much more useful than JUST a gimped mobile OS. Hence my preference for the Surface over the iPad.
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by exergy 8y ago
I think calling a sonography station a 'personal computer' is a bit of a reach. The discussion here, at least from my end, is firmly whether the iPad is enough of a computer to justify owning it to the exclusion of other computers
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by exergy 8y ago
Excellent comparison, and no arguments from me. My central interest, however, is in owning the least number of things that need to be charged. In that context, I cannot justify having an iPad over my Surface.
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by exergy 8y ago
Of course! Why would you think it wouldn't? Installing Linux on the Surface Pro is a different matter, and then Suspend just does not work. But with Windows it works pretty well.
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by exergy 8y ago
> Well, Ford's customers couldn't conceive of a future where the eventual upshot wouldn't be ...faster horses either. I don't agree that these are valid comparisons. An iPad is a computer. It has a CPU, and a screen,
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by exergy 8y ago
Ah, sorry, did you mean a Macbook with touch capabilities? In which case Linus has shouted himself hoarse begging for MacOS to adopt touchscreens. And I agree with him. I own a Surface. Having a touchscreen is one of those things that, for
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by exergy 8y ago
All the iPad reviews on youtube, Marques, Dave2D, the Verge...they were all crying out for a chance to fully exploit the blindingly fast A12 chip with software to match. Specifically multiple displays and mouse support.
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by exergy 8y ago
I cannot conceive of any future where the eventual upshot of all of this isn't...a Surface Pro. The thing is, there is nowhere left for Apple to go. What else can they do with iOS? They will be forced to make iOS more powerful and th
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by exergy 8y ago
The question isn't so much whether life will move on. I agree with you that it will. The point is that it will be a top 5 problem. All the stuff that you say will almost undoubtedly be a massive impediment in the face of the kind of &q
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by exergy 8y ago
That's exactly the thing though. My field is niche enough, and it's applied science anyway, meaning that even the seminal papers are missing from scihub, let alone more modern and less-cited research papers. And no way for me to u
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by exergy 8y ago
You guys must exist in some alternative universe. In mechanical engineering, no access to journals is definitely a top 5 problem, not top 50. How do you guys do goose chase research if only one out of five paper titles that catch your inter
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by exergy 8y ago
Of course it's a fallacy. One has to draw a line at some point. To me that line would be a way, way cheaper expense than a big, polluting truck. But it seems that to you, if I can't own a truck, I must go all the way to living i
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by exergy 8y ago
You'd miss out on a heck of a lot of promising candidates that way. Had a mechanical engineering friend who did FSAE as if it was his religion. He could run circles around the high GPA types. But if you asked him why he had a low GPA,
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by exergy 8y ago
Reductio ad absurdum
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by exergy 8y ago
> You can always live in a smaller dwelling, wear worse clothes, eat cheaper food, avoid all paid entertainment, etc. Indeed. And the more of these you can check, the happier and more satisfying your life is likely to get. Why maintain a
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by exergy 8y ago
And totally orthogonal to his point. It was pretty obvious his point was about using it on mobile, whereas your post came across as pedantic and flippant. Specially when you say things like "the behaviour on mobile isn't really re
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by exergy 8y ago
uMatrix is a life changer. No one can understand the sheer scope of how much one gets tracked until you log into a random article on the internet where bloody Pinterest or LinkedIn scripts and cookies are present. It's maddening, an
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by exergy 8y ago
Precisely. What everyone forgets is that one of the biggest debacles with adtech was their inability to even guarantee that no malware was being fed with the ads. That's how bad it had gotten. It will take a long, long time before

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