mjhoy

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by mjhoy 10y ago
You can, but strictly speaking you have to say, "big theta of the average case"!
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by mjhoy 10y ago
With big theta you strictly have to talk about best and worst cases, because for e.g. insertion sort, what's true of worst case is not true of best case (and vice versa). For big-O, what's true of worst case is also true of best c
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by mjhoy 10y ago
> its way too hard to create new packages Perhaps it is hard to discover how to, but I was about to post here and say one of the best things about nix is how easy it is to hack and add packages. It does require a bit of learning about ho
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by mjhoy 10y ago
An argument for this approach is that it keeps the ecosystem healthy. Instead of a lot upper version bounds to keep track of and conflicting dependencies, broken dependents are fixed upstream if they don't build. As I understand it nix
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by mjhoy 10y ago
Simple HTML emails look fine, more complex ones don't. I think now you can use Webkit to render them, but I haven't set that up yet. It isn't much of an issue for me, though. I use it with both fastmail and gmail accounts.
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by mjhoy 10y ago
That's true. Beyond links to email, I also include links to a specific line in a file, links to a commit, links to a remote file (e.g., an apache config file), maybe some snippets of code, links to other TODOs, all in one TODO. So it&#
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by mjhoy 10y ago
The emacs ecosystem has really changed how I work. I manage all of my email now in `mu4e`. I manage all of my notes, writing, TODOs, time tracking, invoicing in `org-mode`. For interacting with git, `magit` is simply amazing. The most impor
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by mjhoy 10y ago
I do something very, very simple with my .emacs.d: https://github.com/mjhoy/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs.d/lisp/i... A bunch of (mjhoy/require-package 'package-name) are run on init, an
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by mjhoy 10y ago
Indeed. This is one of my favorite Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis
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by mjhoy 10y ago
The fun stuff is buried in footnote [4]: > The actual suitability of this kind of planet to support water and Earth-like life is a matter of intense but mostly theoretical debate. Major concerns that count against the presence of life ar
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by mjhoy 10y ago
I agree with you. And yes, in my travels I have met, for instance, racist cops who are quite nice to me. (I am white.) Still. I see that the people who are the most afraid, the most angry, the most surprised that I would trust strangers not
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by mjhoy 10y ago
I've found, for myself, traveling a good portion of the US by bicycle tempers my pessimism about the world. Bad things happen, to be sure, and it is good (I think) to stay informed of the news, but it is also good to see how kind, gene
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by mjhoy 10y ago
It's a crazy building in the middle of nowhere, central Maine, about file miles away from where I grew up. I bike by it when visiting home and it's wonderfully strange. There have been pests, though: http://www.pressher
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by mjhoy 10y ago
It always surprises me how easy people take it at the gym, on bikes or the elliptical or the treadmill. Many read the newspaper or a book, hardly break a sweat, and seem to go for around an hour. I push myself pretty hard on the treadmill (
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by mjhoy 11y ago
The subreddit is pretty quiet. Did you try asking on #nixos? People are pretty helpful there.
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by mjhoy 11y ago
window.is_prime = function () { return "prime"; }
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by mjhoy 11y ago
Emacs + mu4e: http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html
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by mjhoy 11y ago
This is a great video that introduces the concept: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SuTGoFYjZs
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by mjhoy 11y ago
I still am not convinced it is a leaky abstraction because of this. Perhaps it is a surprising one, it certainly took me a while to learn about it, I don't think I really appreciated universal file I/O until I worked through a bit
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by mjhoy 11y ago
Where does Linux promise that files are bits on a disk? As a user I certainly don't expect that. Perhaps you have a problem with the name "file" but the abstraction itself still seems useful. (And yet I do find it quite odd w
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by mjhoy 11y ago
If you track 'unstable' you generally don't need to build from source as that branch (or channel as Nix calls it) is updated only after everything has been successfully built on Hydra. There are sets of packages excluded from
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by mjhoy 11y ago
It's worth playing with to see if it could fit into your work; for instance, the Haskell ecosystem is very well supported, while Ruby seems to have issues. I am now using it for work on some of my projects. Generally you won't h
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by mjhoy 11y ago
I was also surprised about the cropping! For my own photographs I never crop, I don't really see the point. But perhaps he is publishing photos, in which case I understand it.
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by mjhoy 11y ago
Craig Mod's reviews convinced me to get the GF1 many years ago, and I am still very happy with that camera. Though it has interchangeable lenses I often use it with a prime 20mm (film equivalent of 40mm) which, I discovered, are simply
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by mjhoy 11y ago
I was a heavy Vim user for about 4 years, and also did not understand Emacs though I tried it from time to time. The thing that changed my mind was using Org mode, and sticking with it for about two weeks. Once I felt comfortable in elisp a
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by mjhoy 11y ago
I believe that is specific to how rocket engines work. I once thought it applied to bicycles, but that must be some other phenomenon...
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by mjhoy 11y ago
My reading slowed to a crawl this year. Here were a few: - Chronicles Vol 1 , Bob Dylan. Inspiring, I felt very open to the world after. I loved his descriptions of Dave Van Ronk: "No puppet strings on him ever. He was big, sky high,
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by mjhoy 11y ago
If look for John on Youtube you'll find some great demonstrations of Emacs that he did along with Sacha Chua. I find his enthusiasm infectious. Excited to see what directions Emacs takes in the next few years.
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by mjhoy 11y ago
I am thoroughly addicted to watching John Bartholomew's lichess bullet tournaments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIdP7iIsGOU&list=PLl9uuRYQ-6...
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by mjhoy 11y ago
The oral arguments are worth a listen, from back in April. http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2014/2014_14_556 Mary Bonauto argued it perfectly, I thought.

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