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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Sorry to break it to you, but most mathematicians don't give a s*t. Even worse, a large percentage of mathematicians (not sure if "most", but I'm afraid yes) do not usually have "interesting and nuanced ideas"
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
The amount of "cheating" (as in, notation/language abuse) in functional analysis is much worse than that. People routinely call points in L^2[0,1] "functions"... OTOH, I don't think it leads to serious proble
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Came here for this.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> I need my code editor and my note editor to have the same controls, otherwise my brain gets confused. I fully agree – but why use two separate editors, then? (Full disclosure – I'm a long-time Emacs user, making most of my notes
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I am sincerely wondering if this must be the case or is it a shortcoming of the existent solutions, but something that can be overcome. (Disclaimer: I am a programmer who never seriously used any low code product apart from a spreadsheet
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Thanks! I can see that it's 7pm, but what timezone exactly?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Hi, I'd like to come, too (virtually ofc). A few months ago I started a (very minimalist) blog [0], using a very simple blogging engine I wrote myself [1] in under 400 lines of Emacs Lisp. [0] https://crimsonelevendelightpe
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Agreed – I don't claim it's simple. What I mean is roughly this: greed is bad, but it's even worse when combined with dishonesty.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> Of course the reality is that Emacs just copies good ideas from other people. A pretty normal Emacs setup uses Vim keybindings, LSP and now tree-sitter to get a good experience programming. Too bad other people don't copy good ide
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Not the OP, but why the downvotes? I understand this was a bit off-topic, but I found it a witty reply.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
If I understand correctly, it wouldn't be so bad if greed were kept in check by honesty.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well, there are more problems like that. You'd think diffing is a solved problem, and yet we still struggle with syntax-aware diffs (I use difftastic, which is great, but doesn't always work well, and is under constant developm
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well, I bet most syntactically valid programs are not interested in comp-sci people!
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Nothing, but I'd prefer to buy a new one as a gift. Also, the second-hand market is probably way smaller here in Poland, and shipping from the US is pretty expensive.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Honest question from a videogame noob who considers buying a console for someone as a Christmas gift: does that mean that there is a chance of getting a Switch 1 (new, not used) cheaper soon?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Well, I only comment on HN from time to time, so I can't (yet?) downvote, but I'll surely go get some popcorn now.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
I am not sure how to respond to this. I have a family (wife + 2 kids, so admittedly a rather small one), a job, and a few side projects (not all of them even coding-related), and I still do find time to read books. But this requires plann
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> I found it interesting and informative, even though most of the rules in it I reckon are better followed via acquired intuition (i.e. reading a lot) than studying them. This. OTOH, reading about them may make you more aware of them wh
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
How about non-coding-related hobbies, not to mention a family...?
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Sort of related: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/performance-matters/ . Well, not really - that one is about saving lives with performant software, but more literally .
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Same here: https://gitlab.com/mbork_mbork_pl/org-clive . A very minimalistic, but more-or-less feature complete (though not yet stable) blogging engine in under 400 lines of Elisp. Obviously, it supports RSS.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Right! I also used a Norton Commander clone written with Turbo Vision. You could mark several files (with Insert), then press F4 and voilà - you got multiple windows open! AFAIR, you could even do a "global search and replace"
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Same here, but kitty is inferior in some respects. I still don't know how to this [0] in kitty... [0] https://mbork.pl/2022-01-10_Simple_tmux_scripting_revisited
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
You mean, like C and its derivatives became obsolete once successors to PDP machines were built? ;-)
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Without even reading TFA, it is obvious that choosing a Lisp for a DSL is probably at least a good enough choice.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
We use BitBucket at work, so I won't try it out in real-life conditions, but I agree that there seems to be a niche there. The default code review experience is very poor!
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
> I'm a religious person myself, and my argument would be to not trust AI all that much. It is a creation by fallible human beings trained on fallible human data. Good point. How is A.I. different (in this respect, and possibly in
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Looks like the article is behind a paywall, so I only read the abstract, but it looks that there is a significant flaw in this study. There are really many really various religions out there, and the results _might_ depend heavily on the c
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
Even though I'm a JS programmer myself and I do use similar constructs once in a while, I have to admit that this gets dangerously close to the Greenspun's tenth rule... In times like this I miss proper Lisp macros.
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by mbork_pl 3y ago
On the contrary, the concept of "manliness" and "being strong" (which does not necessarily mean "better", btw) needs to be promoted more - but also understood correctly, as the ability to conquer your own weakn

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