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541.
by sevensor 2y ago
Would be a fun way to implement a modal text editor. Full press for normal mode, light press for insert mode. Could be unintentionally hilarious though.
542.
by sevensor 2y ago
I strongly recommend learning to mouse with your nondominant hand, at least for tasks that don’t require a ton of precision. Saved me a ton of shoulder pain.
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by sevensor 2y ago
This is wonderful! I’d somehow missed the classical enumeration of Pythagorean triples. I learned them as magic numbers. That structure alone is worth the price of admission.
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by sevensor 2y ago
There’s a hotel I stay in sometimes that has a large decorative spur gear in the lobby. With straight sided teeth. Bugs me beyond all reason. I may have to find different lodging next time I’m in that city.
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by sevensor 2y ago
The press comes in for a lot of hate from just about everybody. They must be doing something right.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Yeah, speaking as someone who inherited a stamp collection, the one thing to avoid is thinking you’re in it for the resale value when you really just want an excuse to buy the object of your desire.
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by sevensor 2y ago
True, but collecting is generally a terrible investment from a pecuniary perspective, unless you’re the mercenary type of collector who sells to people making terrible investments.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Although I have my frustrations with Python’s bolted-on type checking, particularly how clunky the type annotations can be at runtime (this type is just the string “Foo | Bar | int”, good luck!), I think the pragmatic approach is working ou
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by sevensor 2y ago
https://tug.org/docs/latex/cweb-latex/cweb-user.pdf
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by sevensor 2y ago
Having seen a lot of work come to grief because of the decision to use pandas, anything that’s not pandas has my vote. Pandas: if you’re not using it interactively, don’t use it at all. This advice goes double if your use case is “read a c
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by sevensor 2y ago
Oh yeah, for sure. And if you like a good time, compare the Taylor series at x=0 for sin(x) to that for exp(jx).
552.
by sevensor 2y ago
sin x = x Half the problems in EE become trivial once you learn this. Sometimes the universe does a bad job of complying with the approximation though.
553.
by sevensor 2y ago
The way I think about recorded music is, the instrument being played is ultimately a set of speakers. That’s a musical experience to be encountered on its own terms. Live music is a wonderful thing, and presenting an illusion of live perfor
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Complaint from engineering software company prompts two retractions(retractionwatch.com)
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by sevensor 2y ago
Differential evolution definitely comes in second as far as I’ve seen. In fact, what I’ve seen is that evolutionary search operators are effective inversely proportional to how faithfully they model actual biological processes.
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by sevensor 2y ago
Where I work, edge is the new IE, and there has never been an interregnum. I think people forget that institutions have their own logic.
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by sevensor 2y ago
This works great with property based tests especially. You can identify the parts of the domain where things blow up.
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by sevensor 2y ago
I always say church organs are the original heavy metal. Who needs amplification? Just open up the big pipes! The debut of the Rite of Spring is also an excellent choice.
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by sevensor 2y ago
From the evolutionary algorithms perspective, the work presented in the article is tremendously ordinary, even formulaic. There’s always somebody publishing a new evolutionary search operator with a flavor of the month biological analogy. T
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by sevensor 2y ago
I think the allergy analogy people are deploying in these comments is misleading. It’s more like you’re asking for a car without seatbelts because you’ve never been in an accident. These visual patterns are dangerous even for people with no
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by sevensor 2y ago
For me it’s equally about resilience as it is about trust. The more independent paths exist to a functioning software ecosystem, the better positioned we are to recover from disasters of all kinds that might fragment our software world: leg
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by sevensor 2y ago
I was in your shoes. Stepped into management because the alternative was being managed by someone I knew couldn’t handle it, and I was given the choice. It didn’t take long for me to wind up doing three jobs, two of them management. I switc
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by sevensor 2y ago
If you like cursing in Latin, Catullus has you covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
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by sevensor 2y ago
PFAS has made me terribly suspicious of lubricants and waterproofing agents, and things that have been lubricated/waterproofed. “Compostable” paper food containers especially. Can it really be ok to eat bread that doesn’t spoil on a pa
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by sevensor 2y ago
> anything with an arbitrarily complicated grammar But that’s the thing about F#: the grammar isn’t arbitrarily complicated. It’s really quite simple, which is why mentally inserting lispy parentheses helps me reason about it.
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by sevensor 2y ago
You know how seasoned lisp programmers say the parentheses eventually disappear? I felt like F# was the opposite. There were invisible parentheses everywhere and once I figured out where they were, the language made a lot more sense.
567.
by sevensor 2y ago
> I feel like C# is quite underrated That’s fair, I consistently underrate it myself. Last time I worked with C# was a big messy codebase written by mostly junior developers who didn’t understand what entity framework was doing behind th
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by sevensor 2y ago
> There is also a new compile-time error for classes with over 65,520 methods in generated IL. Such classes aren't loadable by the CLR and result in a run-time error. (You won't author that many methods, but there have been cas
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by sevensor 2y ago
It’s true, I have the luxury of using Linux on older laptops with mature hardware support. I’m sure it’s frustrating to discover that a $600 gpu has poor support. I have the absolute privilege of not needing to run the kind of software that
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by sevensor 2y ago
> Less guis, less random traffic, I don’t become less ascetic by wearing fewer hair shirts.

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