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by hsitz 11y ago
"It's incredibly powerful and incredibly unforgiving." Did you really mean to say "unforgiving"? I.e., "unforgiving" is generally a bad thing. Or did you actually mean that it's quite forgiving?
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"> Unfortunately, for the individual victim, paying is usually the best of a set of bad options Is it?" Also, think what would happen if a ransomer failed to give the data back after being paid. The only benefit for the ransom
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by hsitz 11y ago
"The icon doesn't necessarily have to look like anything ... we just have to evolve in a way that gets us to jump out of the way." Well, the icon does have to look like _something_, if we're going to see it. So seems go
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by hsitz 11y ago
If you don't like LOC, then what sort of interpretation are you giving to "100x more productive"? I'm not so sure LOC is way off. But in any case, if a person says he is "100x more productive" in one language
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by hsitz 11y ago
+1. I could have written that exactly. I'm on track for 3,000 miles this year, ran 2,200+ last year. Have been doing 80+ miles/week recently with upcoming marathon. Ran a 50 mile ultra back in July. I've never had any &q
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by hsitz 11y ago
My main computer is a UX305 running Ubuntu, can still dual boot to Windows. Trackpad seems great to me. In fact, I don't like the feel of the trackpads on the Macs I occasionally use. I think a big part of it is what you get used to
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by hsitz 11y ago
"And why do kids text so much at school? Because they are bored to death by mind-numbing subjects and teaching that doesn't actually teach. Texting is the symptom, not the disease." You seem to have missed a main theme of the
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by hsitz 11y ago
It's also not just that the loss of a species is bad. It's that some species are especially important, and it's not necessarily known which these species are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystone_speci
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by hsitz 11y ago
"You have to expand your mind at some point and accept there is mystery." I don't follow. The skeptical viewpoint that Hume takes is one that says we can't know. How does that not increase "mystery"? Having
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by hsitz 11y ago
To clarify, could be said, literate code is ". . . ordered, to benefit readability and not for the needs of the _compiler_ or _interpreter_". Tangling and weaving are concepts by which compilable or runnable source code is create
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by hsitz 11y ago
I think the better response is that our minds aren't capable of answering the question of whether the universe is eternal or had a beginning, is necessary or contingent. We lack the conceptual apparatus for understanding and/or a
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by hsitz 11y ago
Doesn't your Macbook already have a unix command line?
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by hsitz 11y ago
Yes, parent poster said that index funds "seen as this wonderful thing that cannot go wrong." But nobody who knows anything about investing sees them that way. Index funds invest in stocks and bonds, a broad index fund will pret
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by hsitz 11y ago
Because both companies are on the index that the index fund matches, and the whole premise behind index funds is that they're set up to require their managers to purchase stock of all companies in the index (managers not allowed to pic
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by hsitz 11y ago
You do realize that Amazon Prime started back in 2005, right?
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" Next I’m going to move everything to org-mode and work on ways to publish my notes with LaTeX markup on the intranet and to include pictures more easily." Unless you're intending to put pdf's on your intranet, seems li
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by hsitz 11y ago
"However the basic export (to HTML and pdf) is not that good." What are you referring to here? It's easy enough to customize the export formatting to whatever you want it to be, e.g., change LaTeX document class, switch to x
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by hsitz 11y ago
What is this supposed to mean? I don't see it as anything wise or insightful. It just sounds strange. Am I missing something?
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by hsitz 11y ago
It's that "chance of winning" thing when "battling" that's part of the reason it shouldn't be used. Too easy to imply (or for others to infer) that if they don't win it's because they didn'
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by hsitz 11y ago
I agree, but I would be more careful in throwing out that the highest marginal rate has historically been 90% or more. You're likely to scare people, unless you clarify that the income brackets were also much different. Today the hig
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by hsitz 11y ago
"Real software and hardware engineers spend far more time designing and planning than coding. Coding is the end result of a process and, in terms of time, is often dwarfed by design and debugging." This part of your post is correc
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by hsitz 11y ago
In addition, it's far from clear to me that price correlates to quality with textbooks. In much the same way as a good junior professor or even grad assistant may actually be a better teacher than a well-known professor.
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by hsitz 11y ago
I'm not sure their paper establishes it, but I'll given them the point that hard work _alone_ is not enough to reach the highest levels. However, the paper seems to jump directly from that point to the conclusion that "talent
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by hsitz 11y ago
I can freely admit that I never consciously think of myself as "being in a market". However, I am very often consciously and often subconsciously doing cost comparisons on virtually all goods and services I buy, which I think is
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by hsitz 11y ago
Same here. I have no reason to dispute the expert who says Lithium-ion batteries "don't love 100%". Fine, but they don't seem to dislike it too much, either. So far I haven't had any batteries that didn't per
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by hsitz 11y ago
I get the feeling that commenters aren't reading the linked article at all, just latching onto the mention of PASCAL in the title. This article is almost the opposite of Brian Kernighan's "Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Langua
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by hsitz 11y ago
"Niklaus Wirth would be pleased to hear that . . . He intended students to learn on Pascal and then graduate to Modula-2 for serious projects." Well, maybe later on. He designed Pascal in late 1960's and Modula-2 in late 197
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by hsitz 12y ago
I think Manjaro is actually the most popular distro based on Arch. Has versions with XFCE or KDE pre-installed, and has packages for many others (Cinnamon, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Gnome, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, etc). Main difference from Arch i
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by hsitz 12y ago
It's not the case that the race gets made longer each year, or ever. It is, however, rerouted to some extent each year. This is because part of the race is testing orienteering and route-finding skills. If it used same course every
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by hsitz 12y ago
Thanks, I see what you mean. However, I think 'obscure' is the wrong word. Tmux seems to have analogous commands for most of Vim's, mapped to keys for use just like Vim's; they're simply the usual commands many pe

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