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by jordigh 8y ago
I was thinking of writing this blog post too. Maybe I still will, because I want to emphasise something different about this topic. Mailing list workflows also make people write a different sort of commit, where the diffs are short and read
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by jordigh 8y ago
Well, you used to be able to do that with macOS, but I think they stopped that from happening in the last few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)#Open... Gitlab may one day also decide that t
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by jordigh 8y ago
"Open core" is just plain ol' proprietary software. Mac OS X is "open core" in the very literal sense that kernel and core are synonyms. It's really no big innovation to be selling secret sauce on top of free s
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by jordigh 8y ago
A lot of the sponsors of the Linux Foundation have tried very hard to make sure that Linux's copyleft is not enforced. VMWare is one recent example. They exerted their influence by defunding the Software Freedon Conservancy. I consider
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by jordigh 8y ago
It reminds me of x-splines. The only implementation I've seen of them is in Xfig. Each control node has a slider that lets you smoothly change between approximating the node, exactly smoothly interpolating through the node, or sharply
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Building Krita on Linux for cats(davidrevoy.com)
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by jordigh 8y ago
It's very distinguishable. We have a long history of transgender people, their medical support, and their role in society. We do not have a long history of artificial life claiming sentience. The two things are not the same, there is n
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by jordigh 8y ago
You are not a victim, you will not be made a victim, you should not consider yourself a potential victim, and if the other thing that you are afraid to say is that being transgender is by itself a mental illness, the current medical consens
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by jordigh 8y ago
Is this like Capgras delusion or something? I have met people with Capgras delusion, and it's a very strange experience to interact with them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capgras_delusion But please, don't
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by jordigh 8y ago
This is really silly, but I'm looking forward to being able to label my Chocobot as a bot. Not that there ever was any doubt, but... https://botsin.space/@Chocobot He was really easy to write in D: http://in
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by jordigh 8y ago
In all seriousness, what does that person mean by saying "I'm a robot and I'm a person"? Is this some kind of movement? Are cybernetic implants getting that good? Is AI finally that advanced? Or is there some sort of del
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by jordigh 8y ago
Yes, this is more or less what rms wants to happen: that GNU gets the benefits of macOS. Then when both OSes can use those colourful emojis, he will accept the code into Emacs.
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by jordigh 8y ago
If anyone else is confused, "sth" is an abbreviation for "something" that was popularised in some countries by dictionaries for non-native English speakers. It's common in continental Europe and the Middle East but
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by jordigh 8y ago
Correcting mistakes on a pen is labourious, same with a typewriter. I find Notepad severely limiting too when it comes editing text (how do I set a mark? how do I kill the current line? or what about just the current word? how do I access t
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by jordigh 8y ago
I've used two Thinkpads. I'm currently on an X1 5th gen running Debian stable and it's the most blissful computer experience I've ever had. Everything works, the damn thing is fast, 12 hours of battery life and it's
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by jordigh 8y ago
> The defaults are pretty hostile, in my opinion. They're mostly old. So I guess they might be hostile to the young. I actually dislike some of the newer things like transient-mark-mode. I don't want all of that highlighting ju
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by jordigh 8y ago
That Emacs should not give an advantage to non-free operating systems. Now, because Emacs is free software, this doesn't prevent anyone such as Yamamoto to go and modify Emacs. Rms doesn't want his officially-sanctioned version
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by jordigh 8y ago
We spent a whole hour. Okay, more seriously, it took me about a month to stop hating Emacs in 2002. I only started because I thought I had no choice. I was a math undergrad, I wanted to write math, and they plopped me in front of Emacs and
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by jordigh 8y ago
> At that time I had a certain impression of suffragettes that many people did. I don't know about the impression anyone else had, but the impression I had came from Disney and Mary Poppins: suffragettes were frivolous society wom
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Debugging behind the iron curtain (2010)(jakepoz.com)
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It's totally reasonable to chalk it up to cosmic rays (2007)(lwn.net)
14 points by jordigh 8y ago|2 comments
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by jordigh 8y ago
On the topic of cosmic rays... it's more likely than most people think, at least for 2007 hardware. https://lwn.net/Articles/219983/
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Ocado's Warehouse where thousands of robots zoom around a grid to pack groceries(businessinsider.com)
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Is the square a secure polygon?(math3ma.com)
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by jordigh 8y ago
I understand this was private communication from Rob and Russ.
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by jordigh 8y ago
Linus wasn't the only one with git; all Linux devs were in a hurry. This is also why Mercurial happened.
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And they like neither. They really want a versioned filesystem.
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There's a certain cultural thing in mathematics that is kind of hard to convey unless you've been around other mathematicians about what is a definition and what constitutes proof. And these things definitely change culturally wit
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by jordigh 8y ago
Sorry, I was hoping the reference to Baby Rudin would be ok. I had forgotten that the theorem had a name. A jump discontinuity is a discontinuity where intermediate values are not attained, such as in the heaviside or signum functions. If a
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by jordigh 8y ago
I don't find failing to be differentiable all that strange, even if the failure is on a perfect nowhere dense set. What I find weird is that the derivative, if it exists, cannot have a jump discontinuity. That means that the only other

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