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by jasperry 4y ago
I think it's the compositor doing that. In XFCE, you can control that from the "Window Manager Tweaks" app, in the "compositor" tab.
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by jasperry 4y ago
Are you using WhiskerMenu? It should really have replaced the default application launcher by now. It upgrades the launching experience from Windows 98 to at least Windows 7.
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by jasperry 4y ago
A more recent update that required some work was switching to PipeWire for audio. But it was mainly about knowing which packages to remove and replace, and now audio works without a hitch for me, better than PulseAudio ever did.
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by jasperry 4y ago
Another Arch/AUR-compatible distro with a more automated install process is EndeavourOS. Last time I checked, it was closer to vanilla Arch than Manjaro. But I've mainly used it for spinning up VMs to work remotely. For a long-ter
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by jasperry 4y ago
The trick is to become more and more resentful about how you are being used until that feeling is stronger than the stubbornness that won't let things drop. ;)
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by jasperry 4y ago
I was surprised that even at level 5 it still says "stuff isn't getting dropped." Might I suggest starting to drop stuff well before that level? Yes, on purpose. It can even help you find out what's really important and
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by jasperry 4y ago
I was always confused when I saw nostalgia screenshots of Oregon Trail, because they had fancier graphics than the version I remembered. Then I saw this version, which is even older than the one I played. So I searched and found this site w
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by jasperry 4y ago
As with most things Emacs, there is no real ceiling to what you can do, because elisp. But as you observed, there's a reason that using syntax-table rules to write a highlighter has been called "black magic". The sooner there
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by jasperry 4y ago
Indeed it could be applied to other areas. This gem of a sentence from the article perfectly expresses my feelings about the right approach to scientific research: "It is not a waste of time to go to the simple fundamentals and reason
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by jasperry 4y ago
I think it was from "On the Wisdom of Life: Aphorisms": https://gutenberg.org/files/10731/10731-h/10731-h.htm#link2H... There are a few in there that seem close to what I remember. Maybe this one:
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by jasperry 4y ago
This is interesting, because I was just reading an essay of Schopenhauer where he claims that his own pessimistic temperament is the best way to preserve some happiness amidst the troubles of life, because of its low expectations. Maybe the
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by jasperry 4y ago
For a more substantive analysis of how an excess of positivity is causing problems, I highly recommend Byung-Chul Han's book "The Burnout Society". He argues that Western culture has shifted from a negative "thou shalt n
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by jasperry 4y ago
I love that book! I have happy memories of poring over it until I understood signatures and functors. It's available free online as well: https://caml.inria.fr/pub/docs/oreilly-book/html/index.html
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by jasperry 4y ago
I don't necessarily begrudge the authors for including chapters on advanced topics, it's not like people have to read the whole book. But you raise a valid point. For languages like OCaml that are both large and also veer into PL
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by jasperry 5y ago
As I mentioned in my reply to the sibling comment, a hash function is enough. For example, you could encrypt by feeding a key + block counter to a hash function and XORing the plaintext blocks with the output. The recipient with the same ke
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by jasperry 5y ago
One-way functions are definitely not trap-door functions, they are a weaker assumption. But you can get all symmetric cryptography out of a one-way function; it doesn't have to be reversible. For instance, you can use a hash function t
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by jasperry 5y ago
I think what you're getting at is that novelty is being sought as a (poor) substitute for real substance. Give me a movie made by someone who has really thought about an aspect of the human condition and explores it from their own poin
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by jasperry 5y ago
I can verify that it's that way (without the spaces) in the original. Sometimes you had to do it to fit all the code in two screen lines, because that was the maximum line length. So it probably became a habit for some programmers.
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by jasperry 5y ago
I think so. I am a big emacser but I sometimes feel that trying to do everything in emacs is less elegant than having separate special-purpose tools, and leads to spending more time on configuration to integrate all the packages and manage
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by jasperry 5y ago
I hear you, I'm always thinking about how to get more control over my time. But I also think nobody can be happy without some amount of good vibes from other people, and you can never control that 100%. You just have to put yourself in
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by jasperry 5y ago
"Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them." --Schopenhauer
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by jasperry 5y ago
What is a substance? Does it have a definition in any testable theory? You claim that causation and determination were conflated, but if the distinction between them depends on terms that can't be defined scientifically, then you haven
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by jasperry 5y ago
I'll second you on floating + snaps with the keyboard. I think overlapping and stacking is too natural to dispense with completely.
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by jasperry 5y ago
Openbox on XFCE. I have a custom set of keyboard mappings that I really like for moving and resizing windows. I haven't found another stacking WM that provides a set of actions like Openbox.
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by jasperry 5y ago
Electric Company was still playing in reruns in the early 80s and they would show it to us in school. All the kids would cheer out loud when the Spider-man segment came on.
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by jasperry 5y ago
If you know of a place where there are a lot of books and you can hang out with smart people, please tell me where it is, it sounds wonderful.
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by jasperry 5y ago
Question about a claim in the article: "If classical logic is based on set theory, intuitionistic logic is based on category theory and its related theories." I'm no expert, but as I understood it, category theory can be used
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by jasperry 5y ago
Also 1995 or 96 for me. I had read about Linux on the web and attempted to download a floppy version and install it, but to no avail. Then I saw a book with accompanying Slackware CD in the bookstore. Best investment I ever made. I /de
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by jasperry 5y ago
It looks like Hack doesn't support first-class functions, which would explain why they don't do this. But I agree that it would be a neat short notation for lambdas.
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by jasperry 5y ago
I had never seen Hack's pipeline before, which uses an explicit marker ^ to indicate which argument the piped object goes to. This seems like a really cool idea--you can wire functions together any way you want without having to create

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