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by girzel 9y ago
I think where we're likely to agree is that, if popular dissatisfaction does lead to fundamental change, it's not likely to be the dissatisfaction of middle class folks demanding Western-style freedoms. It's much more likely
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by girzel 9y ago
That's a strange claim, given that you are not allowed to ask the Chinese people, en masse, if they like their government or not, and they are not allowed to tell you. Until they are allowed to speak on the subject, we will not know. B
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by girzel 9y ago
South Korea and Taiwan did do it with authoritarians. They were absolutely authoritarian governments, and they each had their own mini-revolution once their societies reached a certain level of affluence. The difference is that China&#x27
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by girzel 9y ago
I found this article's explanation of the basic state of physics to be one of the best I've read. I know squat about the field, and so can't say if it was accurate or not, but the layman's explanation of the core problem
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by girzel 9y ago
Interesting. I suppose we've learned from the past election that pride is pretty damn important. Still, I have to think that, in the long run, the "everyone in the family has steady good-paying jobs" type of pride will be mor
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by girzel 9y ago
Don't be sad, just learn how the news works.
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by girzel 9y ago
I've got the most recent generation, and in addition to killer battery life, the battery charge times are incredible. I basically don't have to think about it -- plugging it in while I'm in the shower gives it enough charge t
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by girzel 9y ago
Actually take that as a challenge -- I would be interested to be proven wrong.
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by girzel 9y ago
Any reply which is brief and generic enough for an AI to write it for me can be written in a short enough time that finding the mouse and clicking the appropriate button won't save me any appreciable effort.
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by girzel 9y ago
Announce it someplace if you do!
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by girzel 9y ago
Interesting, I hadn't thought of using forms-mode to do that. It doesn't seem to support it out of the box – are you writing other functions to dump the results of a postgres query into a file, and then using forms-mode to edit th
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by girzel 9y ago
Cue a full month of regular busloads of archlinux package updates...
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by girzel 9y ago
I clicked this link expecting to read something about small burgers, I have to admit.
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by girzel 9y ago
That's a bummer. I have a Das Keyboard, and love it, but at some point my keyboard obsession will return, and I can't really justify getting a keyboard that isn't split/configurable. It would be great to be able to try o
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by girzel 9y ago
It's kind of thrilling to see the narrative historical detail still available to us at a 500-year remove. There's so much we don't know about Europe in these ages, but we do know that at 3pm on March 11, 1550, the laborer Joh
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by girzel 9y ago
Org in Emacs, synced to my phone's calendar with Radicale.
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by girzel 9y ago
> it would remain an assertion. Yes it would.
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by girzel 9y ago
A minuscule proportion of the population knows about him. My WeChat feed is utterly unrepresentative of Chinese society at large.
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by girzel 9y ago
It's true, hardly anyone inside China is even aware of his existence. That said, I've seen direct references to him (and even photos of him) from activist friends in my WeChat feed, which surprises me a bit. I would have thought t
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by girzel 9y ago
Ah right! Part of it was that they suspected it was only used for Asian countries (Vietnamese, Japanese, etc), which is why I went straight for Portuguese. This is useful, thanks.
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by girzel 9y ago
Interesting! I've had Chinese people ask me why they're called "Chinese" in English, with a strong suspicion that it's some kind of racist diminutive. I was able to come up with the analogous "Portuguese"
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by girzel 9y ago
I wonder why there aren't more good IDEs for Lisp. Is it just because Emacs is already there? It seems like it would actually be easier to create an IDE for Lisp than for other languages. Parenthesis editing should be very simple, as s
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by girzel 9y ago
As far as tooling goes, it's also much less of a pain to set up than it used to be. Quicklisp and Roswell[0] make installing and maintaining systems much easier -- together they're kind of like pyenv/pip for Python, or Opam f
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by girzel 9y ago
The framework of control has been in place for a long time, it's just that they've been tightening down the (already-in-place) screws over the past couple of years. The basic mechanism is control of ISBNs: the supply of these numb
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by girzel 9y ago
I work in Chinese publishing, and the same thing is absolutely happening there. Books are being pulled off the shelves, publishers are being warned away from anything potentially controversial. The basic attitude is, "Don't risk i
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by girzel 9y ago
Crescendo/decrescendo is nice. I love prefixed notation, except I do find greater/less than a bit confusing. I expect your suggestion will help.
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by girzel 9y ago
Contrast to the Common Lisp Quick Reference: http://clqr.boundp.org/
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by girzel 10y ago
I got one of the newer ones a few months ago, running Arch. It's got great battery life, very light, pretty powerful. It wasn't the cheapest (I think around $1,300, can't remember), but I suspect it will last. Only "linu
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by girzel 10y ago
Emacs and Auctex and you're done! (Provided you already use Emacs...)
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by girzel 10y ago
Me too. I'm now much more proficient in emacs-lisp than in Python, my second-best language. I don't write bash scripts often enough to remember all the gotchas. It's a little embarrassing how much I do through emacs: manipula

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