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by gnull 4y ago
> sucky husbands It's become the standard in some companies to bitch about men and presume they're suckers and abusers is any situation that involves both sexes. Let's keep in mind that it's not science saying this, b
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by gnull 4y ago
Good to see OSX people thought about this. On Linux, one needs to enable Compose key (keyboard layout settings). After that, you get default sequences like --. and --- for en- and em-dashes.
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by gnull 4y ago
Em-dashes add a bit of a pause. And having them longer and taking a bit more of horizontal space makes it more intuitive. They also break a sentence into parts. Having them easily distinguishable helps navigate text and reduces overhead. Ju
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by gnull 4y ago
Reminds me of this guy I met at a CTF. He decided that punctuation generally is unnecessary. What's the use of having so many different symbols if the only thing they denote is pauses between words. so when he wrote something . he used
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by gnull 4y ago
Update: the tool didn't help. It complains about being unable to run some SUID executable that Chromium calls. I'll have to keep removing the Downloads by hand then after each use of Chromium.
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by gnull 4y ago
I'm not using default settings, I changed XDG downloads setting in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs.
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by gnull 4y ago
I did. It still creates an empty ~/Downloads on each startup.
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by gnull 4y ago
Chromium doesn't respect XDG config, it always creates ~/Downloads directory on startup. It was so annoying, I hope this tool helps me fix it.
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by gnull 4y ago
Yes, human equivalent is the key. Even if 60W is 60W, how much is that in the feeling I get on my skin?
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by gnull 4y ago
A lightbulb's energy consumption and heat emission don't seem intuitive to me at all.
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by gnull 4y ago
I heard that in some cold snowy places it's recommended to keep a few thick candles in your car in case you get stuck in a blizzard. Those can burn for a long time, light helping someone find you (say, at night), and they can warm you
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by gnull 4y ago
The current syntax also makes it hard to characterize the class of predicates that can be expressed with CSS. Kind of hurts my sense of perfectionism, but I guess it wasn't their goal. I assume CSS was made very restrictive on purpose
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by gnull 4y ago
Good to see that it starts with Computability and Complexity.
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by gnull 4y ago
Sorry I feel like a dick now. I haven't used Newsraft (ran it once), but I had Newsboat segfault on me a few times so I extrapolated the frequency of Newsraft crashes from there (considering how much smaller Newsraft's userbase mu
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by gnull 4y ago
Computer Scientists aren't particularly good with computers either.
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by gnull 4y ago
You're right. But the drawbacks I was talking about are the same, so no difference.
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by gnull 4y ago
Agreed. People may not be determined enough and that's fine because not every cause is worth determination. I say this each time someone wants to rename something for social justice reasons. Renaming is a lot of hussle, and if you deci
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Ask HN: What's your favorite illustration in computer science?
461 points by gnull 4y ago|312 comments
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by gnull 4y ago
\DeclarePairedDelimiter\abs{\lvert}{\rvert} Isn't this better than newcommand? This makes both \abs{x} and \abs*{x} valid.
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by gnull 4y ago
One bit I would add: don't use xspace package. If you defined a macro with 0 argumemts like \newcommand\kek[0]{kak} You must always put {} after it's invocation like "\kek{}". If you do "\kek", that may
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by gnull 4y ago
Let me rephrase it: they were not given a choice of committing something or not, so we don't know what they would choose if they were. I'm not saying they would (I see now that my comment can be read as if I did), I'm just sa
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by gnull 4y ago
Ok, maybe I was wrong, I don't know. I'd really like someone who knows about both to comment on what I wrote.
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by gnull 4y ago
They aren't committing atrocities because they don't have the resources for that, not because they are ethical and chose not to. Weakness is not a virtue, we shouldn't give them credit for it.
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by gnull 4y ago
That still fits my idea of "few". And also doesn't Christianity give some good excuses to question or review these? Especially, considering that New Testament builds up on top of the Old Testament. I'm asking about the s
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by gnull 4y ago
You're right, I shouldn't be generalising. > Lots of Muslims do not believe that Shariah law should be applied. I feel that one big difference of Islam is that it makes the rules very explicit, from how the government should be
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by gnull 4y ago
Is Islam at all compatible with secular values in the same country? In the end, you will have one of the two encompass the other. Either you have a secular country living by democratic, progressive law which allows people to be Muslims modu
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by gnull 4y ago
If C/C++ works for you so well, good for you :) Maybe you don't need Rust.
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by gnull 4y ago
No, I never tested it with cabal. You build it with "stack build" and install with "stack install". Let me know what you think about it (on the mailing list or in a direct email) once you try! https://docs.has
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by gnull 4y ago
> Any big names (long term kernel development) backing it? Linus Torvalds is one of them. And he is a hardcore C programmer, he was strongly against C++ in the Kernel when people were suggesting that. > Sure, but there are a few simpl
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by gnull 4y ago
https://sr.ht/~ph14nix/kalina/ As replied in another comment, here it is. Enjoy!

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