rprospero

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by rprospero 4y ago
I would completely disagree. One scientific fact can lead to many more with proper scientific thinking. Start with the Schrödinger equation and you get Newtonian mechanics, the uncertainty principle, Fermi's Golden rule, etc. On the
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by rprospero 4y ago
I’d love to hear more about that debacle, but everything I’m finding is just another Jobs-Pixar hagiography. Any pointers on how to learn more?
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by rprospero 4y ago
> As a doctor, you’re probably going to become cynical after a while. As my go to story on these sorts of issues, my partner had an ER doctor tell them that they hadn't been stabbed. The fact that there was an open wound oozing blo
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by rprospero 4y ago
I was once angrily told off by a professor from the other side of the ocean for referring to “less data” instead of “fewer data”. He absolutely would have marked off an applicant for making that comment on their resume. I still defend that
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by rprospero 4y ago
While I appreciate the comments on Eglot vs LSP, the number one package that hangs my system is Gnus. It's still my favourite e-mail client, but I'm cut off from coding for twenty seconds every time I check my e-mail. Are we real
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by rprospero 4y ago
The biggest advantage that I can give is that everything is together in a unified language. To give a trivial, but extreme example, my workstation's colour scheme is controlled via my Nix setup. This includes terminal colours, GTK th
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by rprospero 4y ago
> there was a significant amount of buzz around ... desktop GUI applications As someone who is still supporting multiple desktop GUI applications in python, what did they pick instead? I'd love move off Python, but nothing else see
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by rprospero 4y ago
I briefly worked on a game like this in space. It was a 4X game where the primary mechanic was the hard speed of light. Not only did it take years for your message to reach a colony, your knowledge of the state of the colony was equally o
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by rprospero 5y ago
> A lot of customers are served, and presumably got something they wanted. The question is how often you run into the broken window fallacy there. An arsonist makes money burning down houses. A real estate developer makes money since th
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by rprospero 5y ago
It’s not necessarily that they don’t understand, but rather that they have very different incentives. I remember talking to one university purchasing agent whose senior manager kept a detailed account of how many of their vendors went bank
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by rprospero 5y ago
Honestly, the "lead the by the nose" situation is a large improvement from many of the doctors I've met, who will actively ignore any evidence that doesn't fit their favourite diagnosis. Classic example: my partner was
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by rprospero 5y ago
I'm not quite sure what you mean by disentangling it from GTK. I can tell you that a major selling point of the 29 release is that the GUI is more entangled with GTK. Specifically, by removing all X11 code and using only GTK, Wayla
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by rprospero 5y ago
As someone who did all of those things (except I didn't have a house to sell), I feel you've left out one of the biggest barriers: Immigration laws. Imagine if, to switch from AT&T to Verizon, you had to shell out ten grand to
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by rprospero 5y ago
I personally prefer the EU setup, but I can explain what the GP is talking about. Back when I was in the US, I could have bought a wetvac from a major chain store, shampoo my carpets, then returned it for a full refund. It would have been
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by rprospero 5y ago
I'll second this as someone who NEVER learned Morse code. We did lessons on it time and again during scouts, but, not only was there a near fetishistic emphasis on the dots and dashes, there was also an angry rejection of the idea tha
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by rprospero 5y ago
> I don't think it matters if teenagers are ignoring the platforms as long as they age into them During my elementary school days, we had a small course to teach us about economics and corporate values. The examine two old companie
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by rprospero 5y ago
I actually picked up the spinach, Stilton, and potato habit in the American Midwest, but I can completely see how it would come off as Californian. Also, if you’re ever in the French Alps, I highly recommend getting the raviolis on you pizz
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by rprospero 5y ago
I’m forty, been eating pizza my whole life, and I think I’ve only seen people order the preset pizza half the time. When I’m at a decent pizza place, it’s spinach, Stilton, bacon, and red potato. Possibly with broccoli or a vodka base, if I
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by rprospero 5y ago
I'm curious about your response here, as I'm certain that I'm missing something. I have cerebral palsy, which comes with issues using my hands. I've also had noticeable degradation with age of my eye-sight over the pas
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by rprospero 5y ago
That is really interesting. To be fair, I should have prefaced that I have cerebral palsy, so my typing patterns are likely different from most of the population.
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by rprospero 5y ago
> ... don't have random keybindings triggering stuff. As a long time Emacs user, I feel that this is slightly unfair. When I first started out, I found that my documents from Emacs were far more common than in other editors. It to
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by rprospero 5y ago
It's interesting that you mentioned not needing to know about filesystems. About five years ago, I did a year of iPhone development and had to work on a Mac laptop. As part of this, I needed to get some files off an external hard dri
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by rprospero 5y ago
Would you have a little time to describe how you made that switch? I've worried multiple times that I'm too deeply immersed in the emacs ecosystem and have wanted to try branching out into a different editor to see what I might b
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by rprospero 5y ago
> The first part of that sounds like the natural tech-illiteracy of a business leader; the second part says they don't believe their own schtick. You're right that what I wrote did sound that way, but that's because my wor
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by rprospero 5y ago
Most experienced managers that I've met can work around that sort of comment: "We need this by January" "Let's discuss the hiring process for the new team members we're going to need to accomplish that." &
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by rprospero 8y ago
I interpreted your post as implying that the introduction of a package manager as the turning point where you lost interest. Did I get that wrong or are there arguments against package managers that I've missed out on? I understand t
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by rprospero 8y ago
I think that's the first time I've ever seen someone use INTERCAL code to try and explain a concept.
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by rprospero 9y ago
I've been a bit surprised that array based languages like APL and J haven't taken off with GPU programming. It feels like it would be a natural fit for the domain, but I'm probably missing something.
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by rprospero 9y ago
Not exactly on the deep learning side, but I am a scientist who does some computatinoal work on the GPU. You're right that we don't use our computer card for our graphics and, as many people pointed out, the computation will wind
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by rprospero 9y ago
It's true that devs provide massive value to an organization. However, organizations spend less on things that provide more value. For instance, Amazon spends a lot on devs. Imagine that they had to go a year without any devs in any

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