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by peatmoss 8y ago
Not to mention the use of bokken (wooden sword), which I believe is still issued to LAPD mounted units for crowd control. Or jo, which I reckon would be pretty hard for your average UFC to defend against. I mean, I get a nice whooshing soun
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Absolutely. I think that any martial art claiming to offer reliable protection from weapons is comical. The only good way to survive a knife fight is to not get in a knife fight. Want my wallet? With my complements! Cell phone? I'll
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by peatmoss 8y ago
This depends a lot on the lineage. Most dojos won’t remotely throw a new person until they are sure the new person can take good ukemi. I came to my current aikido dojo from a background in judo and jujitsu. I already had pretty solid ukemi
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Have done judo, and it’s just as fictitious. It just operates by a different contrived set of rules. And yes, of course aikido is choreographed. That choreography is hard as hell. On the other hand I’m pretty fearless about getting thrown.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
All martial arts are fantasy. Is BJJ not fantasy? Give me my aikido-whackin’-sticks and I’ll reckon I could bludgeon most any BJJ practitioner within an inch of his / her life. Is judo not fantasy? What good is your throw when someone
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Jake and company are doing nice work here. By comparison to the R community, I feel that the Python community sometimes swashbuckles toward new libraries without always doing a good review of prior art. Not so in this case. Vega / Vega
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Oh my yes. Of course. PM me, and let’s figure out the right vehicle to get started.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
> The world is full of bastards, the number increasing rapidly the further one gets from Missoula, Montana. Norman Maclean may not be right, but Missoula is indeed a very special place in the universe. Exciting to see my home town fieldi
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by peatmoss 8y ago
I've thought about starting a "build an ecosystem for Racket" project where I document gaps in the extended ecosystem and review best-of-breed solutions from other languages as a kind of literature review / review of pri
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by peatmoss 8y ago
The R community has a really nice answer for this: https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/flexdashboard/
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by peatmoss 8y ago
You could! The only reason not to is if you wanted to close the account for some reason.
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by peatmoss 8y ago
Let’s say I want Anaconda. Is pipenv the right way to go? Do they play nicely?
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Yes, I’d forward emails until you can get everyone trained over to using your new email address. I’ve done that in the past with mostly inactive emails that I got through professional or academic associations. Presumably Gmail still makes a
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by peatmoss 9y ago
You might also consider registering a vanity domain to go with your Fastmail (or other) subscription. It’ll allow you to keep your email address even if Fastmail gets evil / bad in the future. When I bought my domain, it was before Gma
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by peatmoss 9y ago
There are some methods that I don’t see used outside of the machine learning community, but there appears to be a fair degree of overlap in actual methods used between classical stats and machine learning. Now, the biggest difference that I
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Gods, maybe I should stop telling people that I don’t have much in the way of a machine learning background.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Hey, congrats! How'd you find the experience of writing a new app in GNUStep? I feel like in some better metaverse, the GNUStep project would have ridden Apple's rise in popularity to be a solid contender / alternative to the
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I do still have the account with Google due to having used Google SSO with a few 3rd party services. I've thought about murdering those / changing my sign-in so I could get rid of that account, however.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
This is the grand problem with email. At least two standards exist: PGP & SMIME But... those aren’t particularly friendly and thus aren’t widely used. The main usability issue is a fundamental one, namely that management of crypto keys
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by peatmoss 9y ago
A keen appreciation for satire and a strong BS meter means occasionally assuming that crazy positions are satire rather than evidence of craziness. On the other hand, this kind of bias can also be called charitable, so it’s not a bad way to
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Oh my, yes, that’s a huge downside / nonstarter for me. Thank you.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Having used and switched between a bunch of free-or-isp-or-university email addresses back in the 90s and even a little bit beyond, I have never been so glad as to have my own vanity domain. As it is, my email address has now survived three
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I recently moved my stuff to / paid a year of Fastmail. I gather Protonmail puts security features a bit more front-and-center. How about the UX? Can anyone comment on how they like the over all experience of Protonmail as compared to
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I prefer the Android experience, but switched back to iOS / iPhone a couple years back precisely because I did ask myself how much Apple’s better-but-not-robustly-verifiable privacy posture was. I decided that, over the life of a phone
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I’m saying that laissez-faire is what Somalia actually is. The author says he advocates laissez-faire, but I’d guess he wouldn’t be happy if he got it. Instead, the author is a hypocrite who just wants rich people left alone, but others ver
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by peatmoss 9y ago
A failed state is as laissez-faire as one can get! The state got so small it drowned in the bathtub, isn’t that the dream?
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Oh right, the author in the article isn’t advocating laissez-faire at all. He’s advocating that the underclasses pay the taxes for the state services (such as police) that would keep the state from descending into anarchy. He wants socialis
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by peatmoss 9y ago
I applaud this evidently self-made man. I only wish I could tell him that there is a place in the world where his exceptionalism can soar and he can live his laissez-faire dream: Somalia. Let’s help this man emigrate.
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by peatmoss 9y ago
My middle ground compromise on the decentralized Internt was to move my vanity domain to Fastmail. It’s not the vision of everyone running their own email system, but it isn’t the Google monolith. Plus, their spam filtering has been pretty
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by peatmoss 9y ago
Absolutely. Science is the best mechanism we have for differentiating truth from falsehood when considering what is . But science tells us nothing about what should be . That’s the realm of morals, ethics, and its applied (mis)application

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