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by jxy 10y ago
It may as well that life is an extremely improbable event.
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by jxy 10y ago
That s right but it s not new Old Chinese texts never used punctuation marks and Chinese people read them just fine Why putting a useless dot when you can just start a new sentence with an upper case letter We don t need question mark in
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by jxy 10y ago
It's about 2500 years of refinement that brings this art to the extreme. The texts on the bamboo shows some extreme ideas, and apparently those pointy edges got smoothed out over the years of imperial ruling. History, and the culture,
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by jxy 10y ago
The charm of pen and paper is simplicity and restriction. It is simple to implement this /bullet journal/ in a plain text file, but then... you want to add a timestamp; you want to add more markups; you want to add links; you wan
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by jxy 10y ago
I second org-mode, being using it for years. I had to write a couple of scripts to update my notes to newer versions, but it went mostly painless. I however found myself using more and more plain text recently without much markups. There is
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by jxy 10y ago
I guess different people speak different languages and have different tools of thought.
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by jxy 10y ago
Those are exactly two things I don't agree. > Executables must start with #!/bin/bash Either they never use *BSD, or they put their bash there. Unbelievable choice. > If you find you need to use arrays for anything mor
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by jxy 10y ago
Thanks for all the replies. I guess it's just not my thing.
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by jxy 10y ago
I'm a long time Terminal.app user, and I don't understand why you need a different one. Can somebody help me understand what is the main feature of this iTerm2 that you can't live without? FWIW, I use urxvt under X11, and I
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by jxy 10y ago
If you use gnuplot, which I do exclusively, you may like this repository: https://github.com/Gnuplotting/gnuplot-palettes
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by jxy 10y ago
This reminds me of one of the good things APL has. You can interactively change anything in your workspace, and all the things (array, function, operators) can be serialized, programmatically within the language.
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by jxy 10y ago
For a real "deeper" blog they could have given us some benchmarks comparing good implementations on FUSE and kernel space. They instead gave a meaningless diagram to argue about performance. Toward closed source binary kernel bl
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by jxy 10y ago
This is one thing I don't understand. Why do you want them to speak fluent English? If all your family, everyone you interact with, and all the media speak your native tongue, is speaking a fluent second language that important? How
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by jxy 10y ago
I'm disappointed that there is no Cr-48 on the list. I'm still using it as a browser/terminal. It sucks on high-res video now, so I have to force low-res on youtube/HBO/…. I really wished I could run some less de
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by jxy 10y ago
It's wonderful that the article mentions the Duff's device. I still remember the mind-boggling effect when I first met it. It taught me many things. Once you understand it you will never make mistakes with switch/case in C
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by jxy 11y ago
This statement is false. With only Command Line Tools installed, macports complains, but everything works.
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by jxy 11y ago
"I think the real question is whether this Tesla's daily driver will be Vim or Emacs…" Apparently we have long passed the era when making coffee was something novel for Emacs. Now is the time for M-x drive
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Neil deGrasse Tyson says it’s ‘very likely’ the universe is a simulation(extremetech.com)
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by jxy 11y ago
I feel for you. I'm typing on my 13" Macbook Air from 2011. Apple wants to banish 5-year-old PCs, so I'm all in to banish my trusted Air. But what's my next option? Pro is too hefty for me and '' is underwh
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by jxy 11y ago
Exactly so. What's the point of moving dot files / configuration files away from $HOME, but only end up having a complex directory structure that stores what you can already do with dot files? It may be subjective. I don't
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by jxy 11y ago
The first two in your list are quite good. The rest is really just eccentric and unusable.
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by jxy 11y ago
I used emacs for decades, but always yearned vi keys/modes (VIPER was alright, but vim has more appeals). I tried spacemacs for a couple of months last year and realized it was just painful to set it up the way I liked it. I also did
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by jxy 11y ago
Their marketing decision is really odd. I guess the engineer that came up with kg numbers decided to round it in 1000kg, which is reasonable to me. Whoever got the number don't like kg, and converted to lb. Someone else adding the n
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by jxy 11y ago
It's fun to play with code and try out new ideas in such a rich interactive environment. When you want to get the work done in production scenario, the shortcomings of unable to use version control and the overhead of interactive envi
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by jxy 11y ago
Is it live? I checked both of my up-to-date macbook air and iphone, and there is no mention of this new "Two-factor authentication" in the settings. In fact, there is the "two-step verification" turned on already in th
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by jxy 11y ago
This is the most bizarre thing in the article. On the other hand, what is the purpose of comparing the default installed packages on the distribution image? I thought there would be some useful performance comparisons, but there's non
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by jxy 11y ago
Large amount of texts written 2500 years ago is quite impressive, considering they were written on bamboo strips. It proves that most of the old texts we see today were actually written down instead of passing down orally. I can't imag
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by jxy 11y ago
Is it possible to programmatically transliterate APL code to J? It would be great in either interactive or scripting to try out the J interpreter, so my code 1+2-3×4÷5 could be converted to 1+2-3*4%5 automatically. I gue
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by jxy 11y ago
The problem is that the complexity is O(n²n!)
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by jxy 11y ago
I was wrong. The two one-liners for J and APL are different. The original paper [0] gives the original APL implementation of the above J one-liner. I'm not going to delve deep into the algorithm, but the following quote from the pape

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