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by fish45 5y ago
Plugging, my own site, https://calcula.tech . It's not meant to compete with something like Atlas but I like to think it's great for napkin math, even though it's still quite early in development.
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by fish45 5y ago
I've started learning Elixir over the week and I can't see myself using Python for scripting again. They're very different languages but th experience feels similar, except I vastly prefer Elixir
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by fish45 5y ago
I find that for most of these use cases I'd rather just make a Vim macro. I already know Vim, so I don't have to learn and remember a new language. For cases where it needs to be automated, Awk is probably the best tool. I don&#x2
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by fish45 5y ago
The subject is about why the stack overflow most loved programming languages tend to be recent. The article argues that because developers don't like legacy code, their impressions of languages used in legacy codebases are tainted. The
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by fish45 5y ago
I mean, if I've never had to maintain legacy code then my opinions on any given language are completely uninfluenced by the "honeymoon period" factor that the article is about, yeah?
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by fish45 5y ago
I've never had to maintain legacy code before, and I would prefer any language on the green list to any language on the brown list (right tool for the job aside), aside from Python and maybe C#. I know there are plenty of students and
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by fish45 5y ago
I don't think it insinuates a causal relationship. I interpret "30% more likely" as the same as "associated with a 30% increase," which is what the article claims.
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by fish45 5y ago
More accurately, middle aged people who get less than 6 hours of sleep a night are 30% more likely to get dementia. I'd expect that people who get less than 6 hours of sleep are also more stressed and less health concious though.
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by fish45 5y ago
Honestly, in terms of features, not much. The biggest issue personally is that screen sharing on Linux with multiple monitors doesn't work well, but AFAIK that's a chromium thing. Another thing I'd really like is for twitch s
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by fish45 5y ago
Speaking as an 18 y.o. doing my first year college online, I wouldn't have made it through quarantine without Discord. I've a server with my high school friends and since Discord lowers the barrier to join a voice call so much it&
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by fish45 6y ago
> Are there other languages than rust that supports it? Const generics are essentially a really small subset of fully dependent types, which are implemented in Idris 2 and other research languages.
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by fish45 6y ago
Anecdotally, my sister and I are both ADHDers with significant hypermobility. My mom has a double jointed thumb but no ADHD, and my dad has (undiagnosed but likely) ADHD but no double joints.
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by fish45 6y ago
ADHD gets referenced here frequently as a result of too much screentime/social media etc. However, the hypermobility and ADHD association is pretty well documented. While it's true that people may start to show ADHD like symptoms
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Benign Joint Hypermobility Syndrome in Patients with ADHD(archivesofrheumatology.org)
1 points by fish45 6y ago|1 comments
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by fish45 6y ago
I've had to implement unit math recently for CalcuLaTeX [0] and it's given me a lot of appreciation for how difficult it actually is. I've got it almost completely working with SI units but I haven't thought through frac
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by fish45 6y ago
I tutor middle/high school kids in math and CS. I make $35 an hour which is pretty good considering I'm a freshman in college and some of the students are pretty close to my age so it can be fun.
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by fish45 6y ago
I never had actual diagnosable RSI, but I was on my way there I think. I really highly recommend split ergonomic keyboards though. They run quite expensive but are worth it IMO. At entry level there's the Kinesis Freestyle (~$100) but
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by fish45 6y ago
Hey, that's me. I think Numi's more oriented towards a general calculator, whereas CalcuLaTeX is more for longer form problems or documents, although I know that at least a few people use it like a scratchpad. I'll definitely
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by fish45 6y ago
I'm on book 5 of Wheel of Time right now. Honestly I haven't liked it as much as anything Cosmere so far but I'm hoping that will change.
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by fish45 6y ago
I agree that e-ink ereaders are amazing. I had a Kindle for 4 years or so but surprisingly it broke. Nowadays I've got a Kobo which is much nicer though.
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by fish45 6y ago
I might try to take that approach in the future. Usually when I get bored of whatever book I'm reading I just queue up a video game though. Oathbringer is really great.
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by fish45 6y ago
> I get my technical content during the day from the internet so don't really feel the need to read technical books, though I'll make the odd exception. This is definitely where I'm at. The only two technical books I can s
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Ask HN: Do you read books regularly? Fiction or nonfiction?
30 points by fish45 6y ago|88 comments
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by fish45 6y ago
This is exactly what I was looking for. I set it up on a site in hardly a minute.
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by fish45 6y ago
Blockpad looks quite nice but personally I prefer a text based interface. I'm sure most university students would disagree though.
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by fish45 6y ago
> 100m/s = 0km/s yeah that's not supposed to happen. I'm not completely sure what's up there but thanks for the report km/h doesn't work but km/hour does. I haven't added h as an alias for hou
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by fish45 6y ago
Yeah that's not intended, although it's a pretty low priority bug since it's still correct. Thanks for letting me know!
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by fish45 6y ago
That's pretty cool. I did search for a unit calculation library before starting this but since WASM is a priority I wanted to use a Rust one.
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by fish45 6y ago
The main export of the Rust/WASM library is just a function which outputs LaTeX; it should be pretty doable to add a button to the website which does what you're asking. I think I'll just add a checkbox to set whether it actu
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by fish45 6y ago
Weird units are cool. I was pretty mindblown when I realized that radians are basically meters/meters and steradians are meters^2/meters^2

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