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by skosch 8y ago
Having used Minizinc for a few years now, it's a great tool. Minizinc makes it easy to spell out a problem, try different ways to formulate the same constraint, and run the same model on some external data through lots of different sol
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by skosch 8y ago
Hmmm, interesting perspective. However, forget about the denialist fringe for a moment. The majority of people do understand that climate change is bad, and most feel paralyzed into inaction by all the doom-and-gloom messaging – welp, look
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by skosch 8y ago
What is the "right way" to convince these people? I'm genuinely curious about your research/experiential findings on this, because I'm at a loss.
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by skosch 8y ago
On a polyphonic instrument like the harmonium, "playing by ear" really refers to three separate but related skills. One is the ability to hear and predict, Markov-chain style, the chord progressions in a song. This actually isn&#x
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by skosch 8y ago
You're talking past each other: contributing to the App Store isn't the same as working for Apple.
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by skosch 8y ago
Süchtig is an adjective, yes, and 'seeky' is actually a sensible literal translation. But just like the word addicted , it carries the connotation of a destructive obsession, not just a tendency-to-seek-out, and it is just as obl
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by skosch 8y ago
Stephenson is great, but just for the record, the claim that Germans understand "süchtig" as "seeking" goes too far. Süchtig is the adjective to Sucht (addiction), not to Suche (search), and although the etymological
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by skosch 8y ago
I suppose they're referencing a popular video game mechanic, in which skill-building works by collecting skills in a limited number of "slots". The claim is that while humans may be able to master a large number of different
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by skosch 8y ago
Fortunately, the political will for carbon pricing is growing. The one obstacle is that conservative politicians are scared of using the word "tax" – so the current strategy is to push for a bill that would return all of the money
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by skosch 8y ago
All of those things are true! Overall, it's a solid alternative to Spacemacs that not enough people know about. Spacemacs markets itself much better and I tried it first, but found it to be bloated to be point that it noticeably impact
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by skosch 8y ago
Those were my favourite neovim plugins as well. Oni is still a bit rough around the edges, and rendering is a little bit slow at times, at least on my machine. I now use doom-emacs [1] and haven't looked back. [1] https://gi
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by skosch 8y ago
You're not wrong, but home diversion isn't entirely pointless. The best tax-funded downstream sorting system is no match for the moldy lasagna covering the scrap paper in your OmniToss Multi-Bin™.
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by skosch 8y ago
If that's true – and I don't know if it is, even though panpsychism resonates with me personally – can you explain how panpsychism would conflict with the idea that consciousness is an illusion? It seems like it'd be the next
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by skosch 8y ago
Before anyone takes this seriously: this claim is total and utter nonsense. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/anthony-bourdain-killed-by...
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by skosch 8y ago
I've been using Elixir for the last two years, for pretty standard web app stuff, and have never had to write my own libraries (although I contributed code to some in their earlier days).
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by skosch 8y ago
I can specifically recommend doom-emacs.
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by skosch 8y ago
That's like saying that not eating for a month will kill you, in response to an article about the obesity epidemic.
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by skosch 8y ago
Thank you for spreading the word about Drawdown and CCL! They are probably the two easiest ways regular folks can learn about and get involved in climate policy (and I mean real impacts, not just clicktivism). Please get involved – it takes
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by skosch 8y ago
I don't know where (or if) |. is documented, I think I saw someone use it in a Github thread somewhere. I use it all the time – for instance someList |. Belt.List.map(i => i + 1) ... because most Belt.List functions tak
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by skosch 8y ago
That picture doesn't really fit with what I've read; or the stories I hear from everyone around me (I live in downtown TO). But in that case I hope I'm wrong – the story of your hometown is heartening!
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by skosch 8y ago
No, you're absolutely correct. Coming from two years of React-ing myself, I went down the exact same thought path as you. The documentation is outdated, and the {oldSelf, newSelf} doesn't exist anymore. You had to use the `withRet
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by skosch 8y ago
You're not wrong; it's stateless components I'm talking about. I should have been clearer: it'd be okay if `true` were simply the default, but the crux of the issue is that you can't even implement your own `shouldU
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by skosch 8y ago
Those are both helpful suggestions, thanks guys. I've looked at some of those blog posts and github threads before but haven't tried it out. In the end, however, it's more bolted-on pieces that should be part of the language
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by skosch 8y ago
I don't know. Take a weekend and try out both, you'll learn what you like best. Both are great and frustrating at the same time, it depends on what you consider the bigger pain point. If you don't mind slow compile times, dif
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by skosch 8y ago
Well, you can (it's called `shouldUpdate` in ReasonML) but it doesn't work. You have to make it a reducerComponent, manually keep track of the previous props as if they were mutable state, and then do the comparison explicitly. Th
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by skosch 8y ago
True! I suppose I'm comparing to Elm mainly.
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by skosch 8y ago
Currently using Reason. Here's what they don't tell you: Pros: * Compile speed is mindblowing. As in, a big project compiles within a few seconds, and incremental compiles are instantaneous. The productivity gains of this cannot b
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by skosch 8y ago
True. Rural areas though? Try suburbs. People are moving just far enough away from the downtown core so they can afford a modest house. Let's not give anyone the impression that Canadians are abandoning the cities to reconnect with mot
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by skosch 8y ago
KM is Texan actually, making the current headlines extra infurating.
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by skosch 8y ago
That's a curious charge, since Circular was Airbnb's CI font until today.

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