peatfreak

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by peatfreak 11y ago
> I find it reasonable to spend between a couple of days to a week researching the suitability of something that I'll use throughout the day, every single day for next three-to-ten years. Perhaps my opinion is atypical. Aargh, this
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by peatfreak 11y ago
> I mostly just assumed Einstein’s whole mathematical setup of Special and General Relativity—and got on with my work in quantum field theory, cosmology, etc. on that basis. I like the way he nonchalantly throws that "etc" in t
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by peatfreak 11y ago
I stopped reading at '"real" Emacs is typically installed via Homebrew at /usr/local/bin/emacs'.
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by peatfreak 12y ago
What is the point of this blog post? Matrix multiplication is shown like this, and in many other similar ways, in many introductory linear algebra textbooks.
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by peatfreak 12y ago
The author of this article only comes as really butthurt. Also, the article starts off so prescriptively as stating that two spaces after a sentence is just WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. Then later in the article goes on to admit that &#x2
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by peatfreak 12y ago
I would go further and say that none of these reasons is particularly compelling, especially without further qualification.
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by peatfreak 13y ago
The irony of calling somebody out on a false statement with a false statement of your own... Vim is more or less a superset of vi. Even still, there are some subtle behaviors in real vi that do not work the same in Vim, even in Vim's "compa
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by peatfreak 13y ago
I don't understand what this is. From looking at the webpage it seems to be an interface to a remote file store, but we've had such things for years, such as sshfs and FUSE. What am I misunderstanding?
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by peatfreak 14y ago
> a small set of simple, standardized and very sharp tools This may have been true(r) twenty or thirty years ago, but in a contemporary Unix installation, it is not true at all. The set of tools is often NOT small (there are thousands o
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by peatfreak 15y ago
Of course! Thanks.
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by peatfreak 15y ago
This looks very nice, but unfortunately I cannot use it because each gh-page corresponds to a specific repo, whereas my project is comprised of several repos and I want one website to document all of these repos at once. Would anybody have