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by seanc 5y ago
Before commenting, do NOT miss the disclaimer at the top: "[Epistemic status: Extremely confused! Low confidence in all of this]" This is Scott having a conversation with his readership, not asserting a Bold New Idea.
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by seanc 5y ago
Ah, for me it doesn't invade the command line at all, perhaps because I don't have emacs set as $EDITOR? I use emacs as my daily driver also, however if bash wants an editor it's usually a small task, so I'm just as happ
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by seanc 5y ago
Stay with it! I would suggest you launch emacs with a file in the repo, ($ emacs <filename>) and then run magit, "C-x g". Then you're in the magit window with menus and prompts and so forth.
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by seanc 5y ago
I tell people that even if you're not an emacs user, it's worth installing emacs just for magit.
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by seanc 5y ago
Hello, long time user first time commenter. ;) Just came here to say that because of this post I went and sponsored XMonad. I want it to survive for decades to come.
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by seanc 5y ago
I find Haskell to be absolutely impenetrable, but I run XMonad and work with my config file just fine. So users will probably be able to hack together what they want, but they may struggle to grow a large developer community. But that can
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by seanc 5y ago
Also, I would be willing to wager that the spread of housing prices has increased over time. That prices in the cities have grown much much faster. So nowadays there are many people who want to live in a city but can't afford to, and
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by seanc 5y ago
I was in my 20's in the 90's. It's tough to say. On the one hand I feel like I was the last generation to take a mid-level software salary and pay off a degree and a "short commute" detached house before I was 40.
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by seanc 5y ago
I'm a US expat living in Canada, and a parent of Canadian children. They are eligible for US citizenship, but don't become US citizens unless I go through a procedure to register them as such.
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by seanc 5y ago
Unless the road span in question is a 10m intersection. Now if you went through at 30km/hour it took you 1.2s, but lose that second and now you went through at 180 km/hr. Go through at 60km/hour and you left the intersection
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by seanc 5y ago
Well, the thesis is that with exponential growth and a modest amount of time there _aren't_ plenty of stars out there.
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by seanc 5y ago
Octagons don't fit together on their own; they need squares in between them. Like a soccer ball. Hexagons let you cover area with the same shape over and over again.
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by seanc 5y ago
No, not at all! The goal of the comb isn't just about fencing off area, it's about having functional chambers that can be used for things. The chamber size is fit to purpose; smaller cells for incubating worker bee larvae, larger
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by seanc 5y ago
I forget where I heard it, but someone once said "The mind is like a boomerang. If you throw it, there is a very good chance it won't come back."
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by seanc 5y ago
Yes, exactly. Or maybe you want a guarantee of being able to stay in one place for a long period of time, say to send your children to a particular school, or be close to neighbors or family.
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by seanc 5y ago
And, as always, the "next maintainer" is most likely your future self. So conversely, it's really nice to give your future self the gift of clarity and con-conversely look back and say "Thanks past me!"
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by seanc 5y ago
Like John Aaron, the steely eyed missile man!
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by seanc 5y ago
I work in telecommunications, back in the 90's fibre optic transport for plain old telephone service. Think back to how reliable your phone was before VOIP. Then we hired a guy from an Aerospace company and he thought we were a bunch
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by seanc 5y ago
IQ! It's a romantic comedy, but it's very sweet and features great performances from Walter Matthau as Einstein, Lou Jacobi as Godel and the rest of the IAS crew. Boris Podolsky: James! How's the rat business? James Moreland:
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by seanc 5y ago
For a more direct presentation of these ideas, see Elements of Style by Strunk and White: http://www.jlakes.org/ch/web/The-elements-of-style.pdf
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by seanc 6y ago
Absolutely true, but FTR there are now lab grown diamonds which change the calculus a bit.
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by seanc 6y ago
Indeed. Came here to say that over several decades the risk of losing a diamond is non-trivial. It's not even a matter of losing the ring; sometimes the ring setting can fail and the stone simply falls out.
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by seanc 6y ago
Those 13 years of doing things the old way will come in really handy when the abstraction leaks and you're the one who actually knows how to troubleshoot firewalld
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by seanc 6y ago
IMO the most fascinating skew along those lines is how advances in emergency medicine are actually the primary cause of a drop in murder rates. Police take all the credit, but it's actually paramedics rolling up to the scene with a fu
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by seanc 6y ago
There's not a single "deadline", each short seller has their own contract with their own terms and conditions. So since it's a rotating cast of characters, it is entirely possible that the very early short position holde
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by seanc 6y ago
- Everyone discussing this law should really read the text The difficulty in doing so is a big part of the problem. As per AOC's comments on twitter yesterday, at 2PM Members of Congress got 5000 pages of bill dropped on their desk w
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by seanc 6y ago
The trouble is that it is rare that trig identities are used for simplifying computations. Most often they are used for simplifying expressions . For that purpose it's not a matter of deducing what they are, but recognizing them in t
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by seanc 6y ago
Isn't that more or less why Perelman turned down the Fields medal? He had no interest in the competitive part of professional math study?
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by seanc 6y ago
I heard somewhere that in Holland every bicycle + lock weighs 5kg. If you have a cheap 5kg bike no one wants it and you don't have to lock it. If you have an expensive 1.5kg bike you need a lock that weighs 3.5kg to protect it.
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by seanc 6y ago
During an extended power outage you can add quite a bit of time by wrapping the freezer in more insulation. Anything will do; fibreglass insulation, quilts, blankets. You'll be shocked at how cold the inside of the blanket gets.

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