jesserosenthal

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by jesserosenthal 3y ago
I admit to bristling a bit at your suggestion that I "do some reading" on the Jewish experience in America. I like to think that I'm fairly well read on the topic. But if it wasn't clear from the previous post, I am also
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by jesserosenthal 3y ago
You ask why it is hard to believe that "everyone who is Jewish constantly fears for their life and lives with daily radical antisemitism." I can't speak for the poster you're responding to, but I can speak from multiplic
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by jesserosenthal 3y ago
I might have missed one but it looks like there is only one city (Miami) with an NFL team and a Republican Mayor. Las Vegas has an independent, former Dem. That list of team cities is: Arizona (Phoenix), Atlanta, Baltimore, Buffalo, Carolin
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by jesserosenthal 7y ago
It's the project behind Plover ( https://github.com/openstenoproject/plover/wiki/Beginner's-G... ), a cross-platform free steno program that works with normal (NKRO) keyboards and steno machines. Ther
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by jesserosenthal 10y ago
I use notmuch instead of mu4e, and have been quite happy with it for the last 7 years or so. The org integration is good, though I don't actually use it all that much. What is indispensable for me, though, is being able to start a long
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by jesserosenthal 10y ago
I wrote an open-source reader for docx, including for math equations, in a week or two of part-time hobby work. The spec isn't always sensible (though I'm sure there are historical reasons for most of the decisions) but it's
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by jesserosenthal 10y ago
A couple of cool things about pandoc: 1. It's a tool built in large part by folks involved in the humanities. John, of course, is a professor of philosophy. (We could stop there, since his contributions so outnumber all the others, but
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Happy 10th birthday pandoc!(groups.google.com)
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by jesserosenthal 10y ago
This looks great! My only complaint is that sometimes I do want to work on a quick script outside of a stack environment, and this seems like an all-or-nothing proposition. (I use haskell for pandoc filters quite a bit, for example, and set
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by jesserosenthal 10y ago
I just wish there were some way for it to deal with paywalls -- since most of the pdfs I need are behind JSTOR or Muse. I realize this would be a technical and/or legal hassle (things from behind a paywall would have to be private by d
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by jesserosenthal 11y ago
English teacher cosign. Though I do usually advise students to be aware of their audience, and avoid the singular "they" if it will distract pedantic readers. (Essentially, and unfortunately, you have to advance to the point in li
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by jesserosenthal 13y ago
The threads in response to you are fascinating and mystifying. I'm not sure whom to respond to, since everyone seems to be saying some variation of the same thing: that Facebook is simply a necessity of modern life. I think I'm a
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by jesserosenthal 13y ago
Pleasingly ambiguous phrasing. The first two times I read it, I got that this was the smartest anyone had ever looked (no one has ever looked smarter). Apologies for going off-topic, but I hadn't come across this particular cramp in th
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by jesserosenthal 14y ago
I disagree with your claim that "[the set of integers] is bigger than [the set of even numbers]." They have the same cardinality, and I'm not sure how else you can reasonably define "bigger" or "size" for infinite sets. If you prefer to tre
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by jesserosenthal 14y ago
The definition of losing in gambling is running out of resources. If you stipulate infinite resources, you're stipulating that you can't lose. In which case, clearly, you have a much better chance of winning.