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by jmmcd 14y ago
X11 has little to with screen sharing. They always describe it as the networked window server, but in reality on OSX, it is the software that allows Inkscape and similar programs to run on your own machine.
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by jmmcd 14y ago
To imagine a 2d surface closing in on itself, you imagine it in 3d. To imagine a 3d object closing in on itself, you unfortunately have to try to imagine it in 4d.
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by jmmcd 14y ago
Progressive means the scientists advocate reform or "new, liberal ideas". All of which is fine in their private capacity, but if these scientists are influenced in their scientific output by being progressive then they're not doing their
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by jmmcd 14y ago
more progressive scientists I don't really like to hear scientists described as progressive or non-progressive. I would prefer to hear that they are more or less sceptical.
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by jmmcd 14y ago
> without any programing experience? Are you sure you're on the right website?
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by jmmcd 14y ago
No-one is ready to say "we're stopping here and bug fixing" You didn't notice the moratorium on language changes which was in effect for the last couple of years?
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by jmmcd 14y ago
If you've been working for some time, why are you asking questions about whether it should be online or not? Surely you've figured out the basics of how it'll work and how it'll be different from every other note-taking medium long ago.
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by jmmcd 14y ago
Hmmm... From man 3 printf: "These functions return the number of characters printed (not including the trailing `\0' used to end output to strings) or a negative value if an output error occurs". So the 17 makes sense, but where did the out
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by jmmcd 14y ago
Yeah, and the weird thing is that reddit long ago became so large and diverse and infiltrated by trolls and shills and liars that no-one on there ought to trust anything like this anymore. Kudos to their faith in humanity, I suppose.
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by jmmcd 14y ago
As mentioned by others in these comments, it's when you "like" something that the owner of that page can see who you are. If you click an ad they can't. I think.
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by jmmcd 14y ago
Effect is for three cups per day or more. I find more than 1.5 cups in a day... distasteful.
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by jmmcd 14y ago
Thanks, this is the best answer to all the "don't learn to program" arguments.
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by jmmcd 14y ago
The application of these artistic principles to startups is such a stretch. If it was just about coding, fine: restraint is good, technical ability is good, cooperation is good. But why should a startup be worried about whether it's flaun
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by jmmcd 14y ago
> I've created a imaginary CEO assistant e-mail account named Alex What's Alex's email address? If it's "Alex Q Alex, CEO <alex@your_company.com>" people will think the email is more important than if it's "alex2009@yahoo.com".
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by jmmcd 14y ago
Problems like classification come from a very tiny corner of the "all possible objective functions", so NFL doesn't really apply.
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by jmmcd 15y ago
I haven’t tried recently, but maybe if I tried to open an Elsevier article from the computer in my departmental office I would have no trouble. But all that would say is that Elsevier didn’t have a completely stupid system for opening arti
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by jmmcd 15y ago
That doesn't work too well when writing for a conference or journal with a predefined template and style file. The obvious solution -- do all your writing in Markdown and then integrate at the very end of the workflow -- doesn't work too we
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by jmmcd 15y ago
The big thing that is missing from most "here's how easy it is to do Latex" articles is integrating with pre-existing styles and templates. When learning Latex I was able to write my own documents with no problems. When I had to deal with (
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by jmmcd 15y ago
Even for non-technical documents, I would still choose Latex for its advantages in areas like references and index, amenability to line-oriented version control, and the quality of the typesetting. I agree that non-technical users might mak
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by jmmcd 15y ago
> In fact, the truth is simple: The farther from the cradle of civilization [1] you get, the worse the alcoholism. Although it's easy to find some correlation here, it's also easy to give counter-examples. Is this a mainstream theory? A
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by jmmcd 15y ago
> The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle. Plants do so much better with more CO2 that greenhouse oper
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by jmmcd 15y ago
Anthropogenic Reasonable doubt I agree that seeing it as a conservative versus liberal issue is unhelpful.
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by jmmcd 15y ago
The article was disappointingly flag-waving and uncritical.
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by jmmcd 15y ago
Maybe it's the fault of the game-history widgets on the page. They use left and right arrow keys for game navigation, so it's possible they steal up and down arrows also.
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by jmmcd 15y ago
Right, but many good presentations are mostly pictures. The Yoda picture in this demo turns out to encoded in the html in an ugly way. There definitely needs to be a tool that lets the writer work at a higher level than that.
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by jmmcd 15y ago
One of the important causes of doubt, even after we are sure that laughable plagiarism has occurred, is whether we've identified the right person. It seems that the moron thief posted this essay under his own name somewhere, which is quite
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by jmmcd 15y ago
See also rsync.
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by jmmcd 15y ago
It stands for "Signor A*", in order to show it proper respect. I'm glad to see that in this crude age, our astronomers still have class.
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by jmmcd 15y ago
> Irish and UK citizens can vote in one another's national parliaments That's not true in general. People in Northern Ireland are entitled to one or both citizenships which makes it true in that limited case.
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by jmmcd 15y ago
Your examples could just as easily be read the other way -- that "jerk", "lazy" and "asshole" are directed at the person whereas "shrill" or "emotional" are towards behaviour. I don't see what criteria you're using to put these examples in

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