peatmoss

61 ms·

601.
by peatmoss 8y ago
I never used Dylan myself, but I’ve heard it said that Julia bears more than a passing resemblance.
602.
by peatmoss 8y ago
For those missing the reference, this is a play on a quote attributed to Guy Steele: > "We were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp."
603.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Long term? Probably a reduction in cancer rates among humans, and likely an increase in crow cancers.
604.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Yeah, I’ve seen that too. I’m more curious if anyone has done or is doing more principled research into the effect more bikes has had.
605.
by peatmoss 8y ago
I’m pretty sure this has been the case in many places. I can’t help but feel that this is a positive externality. I sure hope someone doing research with homeless populations has begun to look into questions of whether or not the flood of b
606.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Wow, I hadn’t seen this before. The history of this feud goes back before C. Thank you for a fascinating read!
607.
by peatmoss 8y ago
> 1-based indexing now seems like a poor choice since Julia has become something more than the original mission of a better MATLAB or Octave. It’s a, admittedly, minor tragedy of Julia’s success. I’m curious as to why this is a problem o
608.
by peatmoss 8y ago
For a numerics-oriented language this is a good choice. It’s more consistent with mathematical conventions for matrices. 0-based indexes are commonplace in programming circles because of the C language, however 1-based indexes are the earli
609.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Thank you for the write up and for the tool. I’ll be checking this out. I can’t remember anyone mentioning ox-hugo to me before, but that may be more an indictment of my memory :-)
610.
by peatmoss 8y ago
I noticed some weird and out of date stuff with Racket too.
611.
by peatmoss 8y ago
> My idea was to put all articles (posts) in a single org file Unfortunately, this is exactly what I'd like to do. Does anyone have cool examples of this alternate workflow?
612.
by peatmoss 8y ago
I prefer many things about RStudio over Jupyter! I have two main issues with Jupyter (Notebooks). First, Jupyter Notebooks don't facilitate working with revision control very well. Each time a notebook is saved, a new mess of JSON is b
613.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Not really. I mean, there's a whole lot of libraries that exist for Python and R that you just won't find outside Python and R. Certainly you can do many data processing tasks in Racket, but you just won't find Hasselblat-Her
614.
by peatmoss 8y ago
In the past when I’ve poked around with Julia, I used Emacs Speaks Statistics. If you’re familiar with using R in this context, you’ll probably find developing and interacting with Julia to be quite easy. If the Julia community could manage
615.
by peatmoss 8y ago
I feel exactly the same way. Word processors are a muddle of a middle ground, where you are forced to manage styles and layouts with substandard comtrols, and get none of the dependable benefits of structured text. I think word processors a
616.
by peatmoss 8y ago
I really like the Thinkpad’s trackpoint if I must use a portable. If I can use a full,ergonomic desktop, the Logitech Marble Mouse is fantastic and cheap.
617.
by peatmoss 8y ago
> it finally starts listening to potential users and making things better, but because everyone else just stops making desktops. Of course those of us on this site are members of the Hacker Class. Putting our own house in order might inv
618.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Yes, this is what I mean. I recognize that one major argument against hackintosh is that some view it as stealing. I don’t really care one way or the other about the stealing question, because this other argument against hackintoshes is mor
619.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Correct. That was my intent.
620.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Most people invoking a moral imperative to not make hackintoshes are coming from the angle that it’s stealing from Apple. I look at it another way. Apple, as a company is failing to meet the needs of some of its users: - You can’t get an up
621.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Definitely, however my issue is more one of UX than capability. If I read something 13 pages ago that I didn’t have the foresight to bookmark, paging back in a book is far quicker. And I can do so intuitively, without needing to shift my me
622.
by peatmoss 8y ago
For a novel that I read in a mostly linear fashion? Love e-readers. For technical books where I’m using four fingers of my left hand to bookmark four different pages to flip back and forth to? Hate e-readers. They are simply far slower than
623.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Damnit. This was one technology that just kills me never acheived any market success. I had bought an OLPC through the buy/give program and sent the OLPC to my neice (after I poked around at the device—I was VERY curious about the devi
624.
by peatmoss 8y ago
At one point I was considering jailbreaking and writing a couple apps for the current PW, but after digging around the “Kindle Developer’s Corner” all I found were hacks to install, not really any comprehensible resources about how to devel
625.
by peatmoss 8y ago
I hate the ergonomics of portable computers in general. I always marvel at people who hunch over a little laptop when they don’t need to. I know some people truly need to do portable computing, but I view a desktop as the ultimate luxury. I
626.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Eh, that’s pretty darned far from an i3 or Xmonad experience. It’s roughly as wrong as saying that the Gnome frameworks are just as good as Cocoa :-)
627.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Seconding this. When I game, I game at 1080p because I employ an analog antialiasing technique known as sitting several feet from the TV. That said, I did recently upgrade to a 1060 so that I could run basically everything at ultra quality
628.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Strip it with a wire cone brush on a power drill (wear full face shield!). Then start with ~60 grit (EDIT: sandpaper). Once sanded smooth move to 80 then 100 grit. Once you’re done, give it a rinse, wipe dry thoroughly, and then season imme
629.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Good question! I did a final buff with the steel cone brush and a drill, so I’m hoping any sandpaper cancer glue was stripped away.
630.
by peatmoss 8y ago
Coyotes, crows, and raccoons are cited as three species that have done better as urban animals than their country brethren. I’m not thrilled about the quasi-domestication of coyotes, however I’m thoroughly intrigued by raccoons and crows. R

More ›