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by guygurari 10y ago
I used to hold this opinion, but my experience with academic research changed my mind. Much of the scientific knowledge we have is passed from generation to generation by mentoring. The amount of knowledge is so vast, and our means of searc
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by guygurari 10y ago
I use the same sloppy methods. What matters to me is speed and staying in the zone while editing. Trying to get the positions precisely right forces me to think consciously and takes me out of the zone. About the 'O' problem, try
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by guygurari 11y ago
Keep it. The text flows nicely now -- that was my biggest problem with the previous mobile UI.
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by guygurari 11y ago
I recently wrote a simulation that involved some heavy numerical calculations. Without optimization it was dog slow and would have taken probably years to produce the results I needed. With compiler optimization it took a few days, which wa
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by guygurari 11y ago
This belief is unfortunately misguided; there is much suffering involved in industrial milk production [1]. It begins with the cow being separated from its calf, usually when it is just newly born. The cow generally responds by searching fr
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by guygurari 12y ago
> I have yet to find a case where my pwd manager fails to do this (lastpass). I've also never (with the default settings) had a site reject a password generated by it. A few minutes ago I registered to T-mobile, and 1Password though
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by guygurari 12y ago
Password managers, combined with randomly-generated passwords, solve the most serious problems afflicting user-selected passwords. Adding two-factor authentication solves yet more problems. And yet both password managers and 2FA are not wid
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by guygurari 12y ago
These universal constants (vacuum permittivity and permeability) are themselves dimensionful quantities, so the same comment applies to them. They can only be measured by comparing to a reference, and there is no natural sense in which they
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by guygurari 12y ago
The speed of light is a dimensionful quantity -- it has dimensions of length over time. Dimensionful quantities cannot be measured, only dimensionless ones can be measured: we can only measure pure numbers. When we say we measure the speed
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by guygurari 12y ago
> Suffering and hardship are not bad things. Would you also deny others pain-relieving medication? See, your philosophical stance is admirable. In my mind, thinking of pain as a positive thing is a healthy approach to life. What I find d
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by guygurari 12y ago
Suppose I create appointment A on my phone's calendar, and appointment B on my laptop's calendar. After syncing, B shows up on my phone, and A shows up on my laptop (as I would expect). Who is the source and who is the target in t
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by guygurari 12y ago
You assume that proof by contradiction always works, but is that necessarily the case?
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by guygurari 12y ago
Great, I think I now understand your biases, and I think you understand mine, and currently I do not spot any disagreement between us. So please allow me to refocus the discussion to the context of the original article. The article said: &g
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by guygurari 12y ago
Interesting. Let me stick to physics because that is the field I am most familiar with. If the idea of falsifiability was not well understood before the 60s, then how did physics manage to progress after Newton? I mean well before the 60s p
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by guygurari 12y ago
> clearly philosophical detour No. I am a string theorist. String theory was created by physicists to solve concrete theoretical challenges -- first the description the strong force (this did not work as intended), and later quantum grav
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by guygurari 12y ago
It used to be that philosophers/scientists/mathematicians etc. had a lot of overlap. That is why I constrained my question to the last 100 years. I agree with you that philosophy had useful input for scientific research in the dis
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by guygurari 12y ago
I found the article vague and unconvincing. If philosophy is useful for physics research, where is the evidence? What new thing did philosophy contribute to physics in the last 100 years? I am a physicist who cares deeply about the foundati
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by guygurari 12y ago
I use BibDesk [1], which is open source and comes bundled with MacTeX. It is useful and very fast by itself, and it has a full AppleScript API which makes it extendible without having to dig into the code. I wrote a couple of 'plugins&
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by guygurari 13y ago
Fair enough. But then he says: > Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call. Let's go over your list for an ordinary phone call. Here the 'client app' is your phone terminal, and the 'server' is the phone operator. >
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by guygurari 13y ago
Your first point is an argument that you say "conclusively answers the question". I claim this is correct but not interesting. Your second point is: > But the other thing to point out is that this question presumes an old idea
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by guygurari 13y ago
> In the answers I do not see any mention of the Second Time Around Problem, which conclusively answers the question with "there is no way to know". This argument is not interesting, because "there is no way to know"
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by guygurari 13y ago
I tried Airmail for a few days, then went back to Mail. The biggest problem was that I could not figure out how to use operators such as "from:" and "to:" when searching. The other problems included strange behavior in t
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by guygurari 13y ago
> If you use your thumb to unlock it, the way Apple designed it, then you are looking for the finger which is least likely to leave a decent print on the iPhone. This is my main takeaway. I suspect the vast majority of iPhone users eithe
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by guygurari 13y ago
> Until then I reserve the right to consider the current Haskell/FP craze the biggest amount of bullshit since the Java/OOP craze. You make it sound as if the consensus following the 'Java/OOP craze' was that the
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by guygurari 13y ago
AgileBits is a Canadian company, not a US company. This is also stated in the article.
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by guygurari 13y ago
Here is another version of 'marks' for Mac OS that aligns the arrows. It also works when 'ls' is aliased. function marks { \ls -l $MARKPATH | tail -n +2 | sed 's/ / /g' | cut -d&#x
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by guygurari 13y ago
I applaud your efforts! I did not see mobile mentioned. Will there be a mobile-friendly version of the web client? Will there be IMAP access from (e.g.) mobile devices? (Under 'Current Features' you mention IMAP, but I did not und
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by guygurari 13y ago
For me, it is not just that web apps feel slow. It is that they feel clunky . I can often see the UI elements being drawn one by one, the animations are rarely smooth, and the gestures (if I'm on mobile) never register as well as they
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by guygurari 14y ago
I fail to see how sprint speed, or indeed any other sports-based metric, is related to health. A strictly vegetarian diet is more healthy in the sense that it dramatically reduces the chances of getting various diseases. These include some
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by guygurari 14y ago
See my reply to mlent.

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