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What? Me Worry About Language Learning?(languageimpact.com)
2 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
"I seriously doubt that many of those actually do anything reasonable with audio." Actually, serious audio work on Linux is done with JACK. PulseAudio is completely inadequate for serious audio work.
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by gnosis 14y ago
You're missing out on using the normal meaning of ; which is really useful. I prefer to map the space bar to : instead. The space bar is not usually mapped to anything, so you wouldn't be masking any other function by mapping it. Also, for
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by gnosis 14y ago
Also see PreciseJump, which was the first vim plugin to do this.
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited, for a short stay, without knowing why. For me it is enough to wonder at the secrets." -- Albert Einstein
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Study the masters, and not the pupils." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neils_Abel
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by gnosis 14y ago
"The hope to change the world is a childish illusion. You have to change yourself." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_Von_Franz
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Success is a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired -- you quit when the gorilla is tired." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schwarz_Strauss
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by gnosis 14y ago
I don't know about there being no life at all, but we could start by having less kids, or at least having a deep second or third thought about it instead of it being the default direction a relationship should take. Significantly fewer peop
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by gnosis 14y ago
"They can't ask to be born because they are not born yet." That's the point. They don't have a choice in the matter. The choice is entirely the parents' (assuming it's not an accident or rape).
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by gnosis 14y ago
Having children is usually a selfish and/or conformist choice. Many people have kids because that's what's expected of them, and because that's what all their friends and family are doing. They also usually hope to be less lonely with kids
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Jevons paradox(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
"legal work is more likely to be boring, so you have to pay people more to do it" Sweeping floors and cleaning toilets is also pretty boring, but I don't see anyone paying janitors more because of it.
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by gnosis 14y ago
* Outsourcing hasn't hit the legal profession like it has software development. * You can't just read a legal book over the weekend and call yourself an attorney. * Open source and Free software. While lawyers do do some pro-bono work, the
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by gnosis 14y ago
I've known network consultants who charged banks and other Wall St firms $2600/hr for troubleshooting. A network outage could easily cost some of these firms millions of dollars per hour, so paying $2600/hr to fix such an outage is petty c
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My experience with Vim(blog.idyllic-software.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
"any such seemingly trivial detail will be good for countless hours of scuba-diving around the ancient shipwreck of a language that is LaTeX" Or you could just ask how to do it on #latex on freenode. For something really obscure, you mig
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The Ten Bulls(expressionsofspirit.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
I think a lot of the paranoia and other negative effects from pot use are symptoms of overdose, and are the result of either smoking too much or too frequently. Taking fewer hits, smoking weaker weed, and/or smoking less often can help.
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by gnosis 14y ago
Unfortunately, way too many people who use psychedelics are both unprepared for the experience and don't know how to use them constructively. Many, if not most people go through their lives mostly unconsciously, with very little introspecti
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by gnosis 14y ago
On the contrary. The more stable and integrated your life and psyche are, the greater the chances of having a good experience. Psychedelics often bring a lot of subconscious, repressed content to consciousness, and it is mentally stable, h
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by gnosis 14y ago
Like a relationship with a person, a relationship with a substance might also not work out. This might indicate that: 1. This is the wrong person/substance for you. 2. You're not ready. Perhaps if you worked on yourself (through meditation
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The Psychedelic Experience FAQ(erowid.org)
127 points by gnosis 14y ago|67 comments
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To Scheme, or Not to Scheme (2009)(dekudekuplex.wordpress.com)
28 points by gnosis 14y ago|3 comments
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Alice's Adventures in Programming Language Theory Wonderland(dekudekuplex.wordpress.com)
1 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
My experience with modern statically typed languages have been primarily with ML and OCaml. While they have a lot of advantages over neanderthal languages like C, and it's great that once you've gotten your program to compile, whole classes
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by gnosis 14y ago
"Would you want your fate to be determined by some people who read things on the Internet or even in the New York Times or on the nightly network news? When you say "evidence" are you privy to something that has been specifically vetted an
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Common Lisp on .NET?(jorgetavares.com)
3 points by gnosis 14y ago|0 comments
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by gnosis 14y ago
The best way to learn the hjkl movement keys is to play a game like nethack.[1] [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nethack
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by gnosis 14y ago
First, by talking to him, MIT would have revealed that they knew who he was. That alone might have dissuaded him, as he was clearly acting under the assumption that he had successfully hidden his identity (or otherwise he would not have bo

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