heintje_ghulam

4 ms·

1.
by heintje_ghulam 10mo ago
I use offlineimap3 ( https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap3 ) to download email that I then read with mu4e. To make it work with my email provider I need to place a cert_fingerprint value in the .offlineimaprc confi
2.
by heintje_ghulam 3y ago
Good point, thanks for the "reality check." :-) I'm glad to hear the CA HSR is happening.
3.
by heintje_ghulam 3y ago
Thank you so much for that overview and explanation! The single public transit region sounds exciting; I had no idea there was such a project. I hope they can get it to completion and that it's functional (I'm so unimpressed with
4.
by heintje_ghulam 3y ago
Really interesting article. I don't live in the Bay Area but I would seriously consider moving there if I knew, for example, that the transit plan mentioned in the article were being adopted: https://www.seamlessbayarea.org&
5.
by heintje_ghulam 3y ago
Probably the best thing I have ever seen on the stage is a production of a slightly abridged version of Henry VI. A review of that production is here: https://leonrubin.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/henryvi_paper....
6.
by heintje_ghulam 4y ago
He made major contributions to statistics. The Wald test in statistics is named after him ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wald_test ). I think he was also a forerunner of decision theory and invented an early form of the
7.
by heintje_ghulam 4y ago
Hi! Happy to see someone interested in using Emacs for Julia work. I recommend the following packages for your setup: julia-vterm ( https://melpa.org/#/julia-vterm ) ( https://github.com/shg/julia-vte
8.
by heintje_ghulam 4y ago
Thank you for that explanation!
9.
by heintje_ghulam 4y ago
Thank you for the book recommendation. I have gained a lot from reading your math study recommendations over the past few years. I wish I had more time/motivation to fully follow-through with them.
10.
by heintje_ghulam 6y ago
By the way, STAR is not really a twist on RCV, it's a twist on Score Voting.
11.
by heintje_ghulam 6y ago
The point I was trying to make is that the system doesn't fully reflect peoples' full set of preferences, it chooses some voters' and takes their second choices into account while ignoring others.
12.
by heintje_ghulam 6y ago
You're assuming the scores were chosen from e.g. 1,2,3, and people gave their first preference 1, second preference 2, and third preference 3. So yes, if you force everyone to rank the candidates like in Ranked Choice Voting, in this c
13.
by heintje_ghulam 6y ago
See my post in this thread for an example of why RCV is bad, and see the links I provided to learn more about STAR.
14.
by heintje_ghulam 6y ago
It doesn't eliminate the spoiler effect. Here's a simple example of what can happen under RCV: Pretend Bernie Sanders in 2016 ran under the Green Party after dropping out of the Democratic Primary. RCV claims to eliminate the spoi
15.
by heintje_ghulam 6y ago
I think the difference is that Emacs isn't a company, and it doesn't need to beat others in a competition, it just needs enough contributors to keep moving forward. Not everyone needs to use Emacs for Emacs to succeed in its goals
16.
by heintje_ghulam 6y ago
The problem with your point of view is that if it came to pass, then anyone who wanted to work on Emacs packages would have to learn multiple programming languages when before they only needed one, Elisp. Having packages in multiple languag
17.
by heintje_ghulam 6y ago
It might be the case that being able to use Emacs Lisp outside of the Emacs editor in a (potentially) more robust environment designed for general purpose programming could potentially give Emacs Lisp more legitimacy as a programming langua