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by omaranto 6y ago
> Slightly tangential, but my feeling is that most people don't know where the "the good, the bad, the ugly" expression comes from. I hope you're wrong about most people not knowing about the movie.
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by omaranto 6y ago
I use that function on walks and while washing dishes.
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by omaranto 6y ago
And a second update made the fonts crisp again. Madness!
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by omaranto 6y ago
Perfect timing. Chrome OS just had an update that makes bold fonts look very fuzzy. As far as I can tell that update contains no other changes, just severely fuzzy bold fonts.
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Sequential Consequences(stuartsierra.com)
32 points by omaranto 6y ago|10 comments
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by omaranto 6y ago
Usually with Vim the manual is better written and more accurate than any external source of information, so I recommed using the command ":help quickfix". It explains usage of the quickfix list, the :make and :grep commands and ho
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by omaranto 6y ago
In Vim I don't recommend running the compiler in the terminal, instead set makeprg and errorformat appropriately, and use the :make command and the quickfix list.
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by omaranto 6y ago
> I've found for Nim and Crystal I have to run the compiler in the terminal, look where the errors were, and then find those lines in my editor. Definitely setup your editor to run the compiler for you, and give you a list of errors
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by omaranto 6y ago
As a rule scientists are pretty smart and thorough and journalists, even if they understand the science, have to assume most people would be bored by too many details.
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by omaranto 6y ago
Well, nowadays there is a very convenient way of getting scientific papers: Sci-Hub. I guess everyone should decide for themselves if they want to use something like that or not.
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by omaranto 6y ago
You do understand that this is a popular science article and that is reporting on this paper, right? https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6498/1490 Did you conclude "we still don't know exactl
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Exactly-Once Initialization in Asynchronous Python(nullprogram.com)
2 points by omaranto 6y ago|0 comments
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by omaranto 6y ago
I thought that was what he or she meant by "there are several times I've attempted to read through a textbook only to be stopped by notation". I wouldn't have said what I said otherwise.
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by omaranto 6y ago
Wait, are you complaining about how mathematicians currently tend to write informal descriptions of concepts or about the informal descriptions in the intros to Wikipedia articles? I think those things are pretty different.
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by omaranto 6y ago
Nope, that's completely wrong. A new proof of a known theorem has to pretty damn cool to be publishable. It is much easier to publish theorems that were not previously known and the result is that most research papers are about new the
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by omaranto 6y ago
If informal descriptions confuse you, skip them and read actual definitions instead. I actually like informal definitions a lot. I think they serve two different purposes: 1. For beginners they usually soften the blow of a fully rigorous de
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by omaranto 6y ago
You are making the huge mistake of assuming that if you hadn't given up when facing difficulty with the notation, the rest would have been easy, that you would have no trouble understanding the concepts! Don't worry: you are not a
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by omaranto 6y ago
Could you comment specifically on this part of the comment you replied to? > Kakoune actively makes it harder to do the normal thing people do in a text editor: jump around a file and make specific edits to individual lines. Instead, a b
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by omaranto 6y ago
Doesn't the question mark at the end make up for the arrogance of the rest of the title?
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by omaranto 6y ago
Interesting! I thought the battery itself wasn't the problem mainly because the battery life hadn't gone down (I was still getting the same number of hours between charges if you added up the time my phone was on), but I also didn
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by omaranto 6y ago
I agree about Emacs Lisp. A language without dynamically scoped variables or without macros would be a big step backwards.
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by omaranto 6y ago
> If someone wrote an open source clone of Emacs that adopted some sane defaults, modern UI conventions, and dropped all the political BS it could be so much better. Emacs does have sane defaults. Did you mean instead you want defaults t
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by omaranto 6y ago
No, my phone's battery indicator reported a much lower number than what I knew to be true. Say I fully charged the battery and turned on the phone. The indicator would start at 100% and go slowly down as I expected. Then at some point,
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by omaranto 6y ago
I have funny story of being helped in a Microsoft store. I once bought a BLU Windows Phone in a Microsoft store. I really liked having a Windows Phone mostly because no one I ever met had seen one before and both Apple and Android users wer
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by omaranto 6y ago
If a thing has size x it has smallness 1/x (so the bigger the thing, the less smallness it has). When you say one thing is 5x smaller than another, it means the smallness of the first is 5 times the smallness of the second. :P
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by omaranto 6y ago
Oh, do people call Vim and Emacs command-line editors? I thought command-line programs were ones that either were used exclusively from the shell's command-line (like sed) or that when run presented you with their own command-line (lik
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by omaranto 6y ago
> most people’s command-line text editor setups are generally more advanced than it Is there any command-line text editor that people actually use to write in? My impression is that the only moderately popular ones are ed and sed and th
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by omaranto 6y ago
Minor point: org-store-link comes with no keybinding, C-c l is something you chose in your config (I use C-c s). I also wonder hat "dynamic" means in dynamic link.
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by omaranto 6y ago
Oh, good point! Good thing I never need to read HTML email, then.
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by omaranto 6y ago
> The die-hards who still, in 2020, complain about HTML email are just wrong and absurd. I understand not liking HTML email, but I agree that complaining about it is unnecessary. For one thing, in my experience practically no message of

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