shstalwart

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by shstalwart 7y ago
Interesting. Pretty sure __I__ would crash with that many tabs open.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
I run firefox on linux on two computers. Works great, no tweaking/building required.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
There will always be a trinket to keep you on the plantation.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
And then there are all of us, so enamored by tech, that we promote the destruction of serendipity in the stacks every step of the way because serendipity isn't searchable. Or something.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
For me, it's only partially a technical problem. If I need to really study something, I always print it out or buy the book. Honestly, I don't really understand why, but I'd guess that my comprehension and patience are at lea
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by shstalwart 7y ago
This happened to my grandmother a few years ago, with somebody claiming to be me. Purportedly, I had broken my arm in Spain, and needed money for surgery. Fortunately, she had the good sense to call my parents and find out if I was actually
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Going on two years with fastmail, I get zero spam. I'd say its good enough.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Agreed. Writing with AUCTex plus helm-bibtex is like a dream. I like org-mode but I find it a too limiting for actually writing papers in.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
An alternative point of says they are platform which is censored.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
> I believe you cannot simply run Linux any laptop. You have to buy a laptop specifically for Linux. No you don't. Ive had debian on a lenovo laptop for five years with none of the issues you speak of. Printing and scanning work gre
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by shstalwart 7y ago
It's really not that hard. I'd used gmail since early 2000s and it took me one long afternoon a couple years ago to switch basically everything to fastmail. Probably helped that everything I cared about was already a record in kee
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by shstalwart 7y ago
I really like Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right. It's all conceptual (i.e., proofs), and doesn't focus on computation at all.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Not really. Normal people have basically no interest Himalayan salt.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Not everybody believes ethics is a set of rules set forth by some committee.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Not really. It's pretty evident at this point that most publications are basically worthless.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
> ...and monitor choices, you... So... more telemetry. This user says no thanks.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
I don't really understand why people think cars are so expensive. Sure, they can be, but that's true of anything. In 20 years, I've never owned a car worth more $4000. Hardly seems like a huge investment. I have friends wit
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by shstalwart 7y ago
The bug is that plugins can't be manually enable. Nobody is working to fix that.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Completely agree. Using firefox feels more and more like using an iThing.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
True. But they also increasingly stand for things I completely disagree with. Namely, deciding which software is approved for me to run on my computer. The way I see it, extensions shouldn't need to be "approved" anyway. Luck
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Yes.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
People like to say that "modern" science has moved past Popper. In my opinion, this is because it allows them to attach the gravitas of Science [0] to whatever their pet topic is, even when that topic does not admit falsification.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I too have coded up a lot algorithms from academic papers. In my mind, yk = C * xk + D * uk is a lot clearer than position_at_time_k = output_matrix * state_at_time_k + feedthrough_matrix *
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Interesting. I've come to basically the opposite conclusion and find case insensitivity to be counter intuitive. "Foo" and "foo" are not the same set of ascii characters; why should they map to the same thing?
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by shstalwart 7y ago
"The code produced by people in academia" is about as specific a target as asking about the diet of people in Portland. It ranges from a strict regimen of Taco Bell to pesca-pescatarian.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
In mathematical code, single letter variables are often the clearest. "Descriptive" names only obfuscate the meaning further, because the meaning is in the math.
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Is whataboutism the modern incarnation of ad hominem? Personally, I would classify these objections about Balsillie's arguments as ad hominem attacks. If the point he makes is logically coherent, what does his personal motivation it ma
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by shstalwart 7y ago
> If a tool is misused, it's generally because it's hard to use correctly. Citation needed. Tools get misused all the time. If I use a flat bladed screw driver as a pry bar/chisel/whatever, that doesn't mean the
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by shstalwart 7y ago
Personally, I vastly prefer autotools, both as a user and developer. When I got to the point I needed some kind of build system, I found autotools much easier to learn than cmake. As user, I find the experience with autotools to be much nic
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by shstalwart 8y ago
If I'm going to do more than scan the introduction, I always print a paper. My comprehensive is significantly higher than reading on a screen.

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