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by mbivert 2y ago
> I want JS projects that don't break 6 months after the last build. The way you get that is by not adding more dependencies and not chasing the latest craze. I've settled on ``document.createElement()``: it's a bit rough
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I've used Perl extensively for a few years professionally. For prototyping, say text-processing stuff, I reach out for awk/sh, which are usually sufficient. If I need more than a prototype, I reach out for Go. I have two major com
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My pleasure; no, I'm not Chinese at all: I'm actually French
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> However, from a religious perspective, I'd think that the student has more chance of being wrong than the combined total of the majority of scholars in the tradition Knowledge is a double edged sword: once you know about something
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> I don’t think this common, glib aphorism has to be true. > or that Chinese has some greater expressive quality than other languages, which is arrogant bullshit and not true. Well, as stated a few moments ago in a previous comment:
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> Something is lost or at least becomes ambiguous without an interpreter or a teacher or at the least, a detailed commentary The problem with teachers or detailed commentaries, is that they may not agree with each others, or could be too
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> It isn't just Chinese -> English that loses information. The other direction does too Yes, definitely. People who think studying "dead" languages is a loss of time are foolish. There's even a somewhat "gain&
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> Now how do we translate this into ten or more English words? I think it's fair to say that written Chinese simply allows to encode more information than English. So it's "physically impossible": translation from Chi
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by mbivert 2y ago
I'll always remember from when I was a teenager, the visual symmetry of the first two sentences of the Tao Te Ching, echoing the "yin-yang symbol" 道可道，非常道。名可名，非常名。 Here's a translation: The Dao that
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You mean, directly? I remember seeing a few download links for some images, but many of them aren't directly available (random example: [0]) But otherwise yes, it's one of the best online archive. Wikimedia & some museums&#x27
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There's a handy tool to download images from there: https://dezoomify.ophir.dev/
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Logically inconsistent? I would expect a BBC title to be designed to appeal to emotion way more than to carry any sensible truth though.
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Worse: both are theoretically equivalent. But this doesn't change the fact that humans seem to intuitively perceive iteration as more natural. Like, "space" and "time" can't be understood as two distinct noti
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I think the contemporary visual "fine" art scene is responsible for quite some damage in how people conceptualize art; "snobbery" is not an unfair description. It's difficult from the outset to distinguish smoke and
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> I often wonder what role snobbery plays in the acceptance or formation of these kinds of rules. Perhaps it's snobbery for some people, but there's definitely practical value in those rules, at least as far as painting is conc
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by mbivert 2y ago
I think recursion is just another tool in the toolbox: sometimes, some solutions are easier to think of recursively, and so it makes sense to use it, at least for the first prototype. But yeah, using it systematically (in a non-functional l
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by mbivert 2y ago
> How do you measure beauty? You can't: "beauty" is subjective Let me try: in classical dance, martial arts, or even skateboarding, advanced skills manifest as effortlessness: the movements comes naturally, they're no
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Iteration is more natural for most people than recursion. There are a few aliens for whom recursion is more natural, but iteration matches more closely daily life.
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The grass is always greener; we have a Bengali friend whose innocence regarding how things work in the West makes us smile.
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If it can help appreciate impastos better: First, most paintings are created to be looked at from a distance , and not from up-close. In particular to this effect, painters regularly step back when working. Second, regarding impastos, the
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by mbivert 2y ago
Enjoyed the tutorial very much, thanks. As a suggestion, I would dearly enjoy a follow-up rigorously connecting those visual, intuitive ideas to actual mathematics.
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Yeah it's probable that I'm idealizing. My direct experience is very limited, but I've heard a few decent things from people better involved than I am. I suppose "the military" is a wide thing, there must be consequ
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The military in general seem to be more rationally grounded than civilians, as far as work is concerned. Promiscuity with death must encourage a different "work culture".
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> unnatural hand position Is it really unnatural? Interestingly, as a right-handed, the two middle fingers of my right hand tend to effortlessly group together; this feels noticeably less true on my left hand, but still observable if I
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by mbivert 2y ago
Many thanks, it's more than enough for me to dig around. > while the authors of mathematics texts have preferred to present systems of axioms like they would have been the result of random choices This is a frustrating situation, an
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Thanks, very informative. > The "real" numbers, "complex" numbers and quaternions are all obtained as the results of some division operations applied to certain kinds of vector pairs. Affine spaces (i.e. spaces of poi
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> No, I mean only sound, not semantic. But that's my point regarding the paper mentioned above: I have the impression that this viewpoint doesn't match with the way old beards used the language: > In other words in each of t
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> I've always learned that there are sound components and meaning components The Shuowen indeed already mentions sounds. But the fact that there are sound components isn't contradictory with them being also semantic. > I don
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Ah, I perhaps should have read all the comments before posting here, because it seems that you're answering my question, and confirm this idea that phonetic interpretation of written Chinese is a "recent" development. This id
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> Instead we'll use it only for king, which will be the phonetic for this set, and add little signs called radicals to distinguish the rest This is something I would dearly enjoy to have a genuine expert opinion on. I've looked

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