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by jxy 8y ago
I do progressive filtering a lot. It's convenient to have all the intermediate results somewhere temporarily. What I do is typing the command in one acme window with the working directory, and middle mouse swipe it. Acme shows the re
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by jxy 8y ago
I'm never that nervous when doing `rm -fr` on my Plan9 or FreeBSD or macOS systems, which all have frequent snapshots turned on. We could all just work with WORM drives instead.
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by jxy 8y ago
I can't help but feel that this is something that Apple should do with their AirPort Time Capsule. Give user the choice of hosting their own iCloud instance on the AirPort Time Capsule. It feels like a great way of selling more hardwa
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by jxy 8y ago
If you always need to tweak letter spacing for a font family to look right, ditch it. Don't ever use a badly designed font family.
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by jxy 8y ago
When you have Lisp, why do you still need a so called filesystem? The idea of flat text files sounds odd, when you can have structured S-exp's.
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by jxy 8y ago
One trick I have learned when I started writing articles on a computer, and I am still using it, is that always change to an unfamiliar font face when proofreading. I will try to use this font for proofreading and see how it compares to my
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by jxy 8y ago
If they are so confident on the efficacy of their font, why don't they use the font for all the text on their website?
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by jxy 8y ago
Honestly, putting a pair of parentheses in all of these plain text format, you get back lisp. Greenspun's tenth rule rules!
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by jxy 8y ago
Just looked at all the submissions to HN from semiaccurate. No surprise there. I guess I really need a filter on HN.
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by jxy 8y ago
Is it simply a piece of AMD commercials? Or the author just hates Intel? It feels like fake new stamped all over the article. Or is it just another onion that excels at bashing Intel?
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by jxy 8y ago
That's why more and more talks are simply bullshit.
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by jxy 8y ago
Are we actually talking about tech talk? I can understand marketing talks where all you need is you and your words, accompanied with some useless images. It would be an utter waste of time if a tech talk turned up like that.
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by jxy 8y ago
There's really nothing wrong to read your slides. The trick is coming up with more explanations.
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by jxy 8y ago
If my own anecdotal experience says anything, I can easily slash two to three hours of sleep, when I run four to five miles in the morning. During snowy winter weeks I am mostly sedentary, I need eight to nine hours to feel refreshed, and I
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by jxy 8y ago
> I'm not a fan of 'multiparadigm'. As another comment on this branch says, the Zen of Python covers this quite well: >> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it Unfortunately this was tru
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by jxy 8y ago
There are 18 qubits stored in 6 photons, where each photon effectively have 3 qubits from its 3 different degrees of freedom. Reading the arxiv document prepared by Microsoft Word is so painful. Can't Microsoft learn something from Te
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by jxy 8y ago
It's amazing how much a few KB of memory could achieve then. APL may perform extremely well on phones and watches nowadays. I can't believe no one is doing it. I have J on my phone, and it works well as an advanced programmable
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by jxy 8y ago
You can actually use http://ix.io for blogging too.
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by jxy 8y ago
I believe they used to charge a hefty license fee for it. It would be really interesting to compare the real world performance of Jd versus kdb+.
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Jd (Jdatabase) now free for non-commercial use(jsoftware.com)
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by jxy 8y ago
I was wondering why no one finds it scary in terms of security and integrity of the system.
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by jxy 8y ago
It's not anybody's fault. Everything is working exactly as it is supposed to do. Except for the leaky abstraction of a "pty". I wish there would be a better world than people constantly fighting for their terminal, TER
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by jxy 9y ago
I second this. With cloud computing, we are essentially going back to the era of time-shared mainframes with remote access.
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by jxy 9y ago
I have an Automator workflow script, which uses emacsclient to edit any text, in my `~/Library/Services`. The service receives selected text in any application and output replaces the selected text. It consists of two parts: Run
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by jxy 9y ago
You are using vi? And complaining? And you are using more? Be a proper lad/lass, and use ed!
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by jxy 9y ago
Actually, once you have the iCloud accounts, you can bypass the Secure Enclave chips.
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by jxy 9y ago
A correct title would be: Apple sold out all China iCloud accounts I guess I understand. It is either the market or the privacy and security of their Chinese user. They chose the market so all of our retirement funds still hold t
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Want faster data and a cleaner planet? Start mining asteroids(aeon.co)
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by jxy 9y ago
It uses Xvfb, ffmpeg, hiptext (with fixes from the author), and a custom interfacer written in go, which employs xzoom in C and termbox-go (with fixes from the author). The interfacer alone looks fun, seems like I can control a remote X ses
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by jxy 9y ago
The basic result from Turing/Godel is that you don't need any self-referential. As long as it is an enough powerful formal system, it is always incomplete from day one. There will always be some mythical things you cannot comput

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