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by sn41 8y ago
Is the chorded keyboard commercially available? I've always thought that it might be a very handy gadget.
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by sn41 8y ago
Great article, I am interested in random number generation in general. The discussion on why 3D blue noise is difficult to generate is interesting. By the way, using irrational rotations to generate a random sequence is a cool application
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by sn41 8y ago
This is basically the argument made in "Reflections on Trusting Trust", the Turing Award Lecture of Ken Thompson.
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by sn41 8y ago
Thanks! I did not know about async-shell-command!
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by sn41 8y ago
This is a reason why we must fight against too much of our data being put online, by accident or by design. My parents complain of getting these calls where the callers give details which are often quite accurate, and then fish for really c
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Tim Gowers: My favourite pedagogical principle: examples first (2007)(gowers.wordpress.com)
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by sn41 8y ago
Even in pure mathematics, a good rule is to give examples (if simple) right after the definitions. Examples always help. Here's a post by the Fields medallist Tim Gowers: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2007/10/1
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by sn41 8y ago
I am not sure that migrating will help. If I read the bill right, it implies that every person providing any service used (or "likely to be used") in Australia is under legal obligation to insert these backdoors. I don't thin
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by sn41 8y ago
Oh well. Please petition your local representative to outlaw irrational numbers. We don't want these hysterical numbers breaking rational Australian laws.
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by sn41 8y ago
Yep. very mysterious. I don't know if it is deliberate, but what's the front page policy?
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by sn41 8y ago
I think many surveillance measures in NZ are too strict. In 2015, I remember being shocked at the fact that public buses in Wellington have audio recordings on, in addition to video surveillance. I get the feeling that NZ is one of the firs
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by sn41 8y ago
Okay - a quick question: how does bitbucket deal with this, since Atlassian is an Australian company? Am I making an error here?
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by sn41 8y ago
You could look at how India fixed such a loophole in its constitution based on the common law: This is of interest to any person interested in law, or mathematical logic. The rub of the whole thing is: define something called "the basi
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by sn41 8y ago
I kind of think OTA updates are a double-edged sword. It could also introduce partially tested software, or malicious code.
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by sn41 8y ago
The author just sounds ignorant, and seems to have jumped up at Cixin Liu. Western fans have always welcomed authors like the Strugarsky brothers and Stanislaw Lem, and Japanese scifi. He also seems to be forgetting pioneers like Ursula Le
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by sn41 8y ago
It need not be unlikely. Once you become an acknowledged expert, other people may collaborate with you in parallel. You contribute some of the main ideas, and your co-authors will flesh out and write the paper. I do not see anything wrong i
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by sn41 8y ago
So, mix-and-match existing papers? As a referee, I often do check whether the authors have published similar content before. The only way to beat this simple vetting is if someone pushes the same paper to multiple venues, and they all get a
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by sn41 8y ago
Another subtle but important use of emacs : it is a good playground for (a flavor of) Lisp. Together with the source code galore in site-lisp/, it is a really good environment to learn how a full-blown system can be put together in Lis
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by sn41 8y ago
You can consider these points: - Tabs are not present in Emacs, but C-x C-b will list all open buffers + Fuzzy file search : you can take a look at the popular Ido-mode + eshell is pretty powerful, if you think about it, you have all the em
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by sn41 8y ago
There is a strange editing mode that I stumbled on by myself, which I can do in Emacs. Suppose I am editing a huge file, and need to make change in some other part without necessarily forgetting where I am. I just open a new buffer for the
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by sn41 8y ago
I am somewhat sad at this. I use Seamonkey, but when it comes to opening and annotating pdfs, djvu and epub files, edge does all this on my laptop with minimal fuss. I felt that Edge is one of the things that Microsoft is doing right.
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by sn41 8y ago
Is Quora legally liable for compromised data? Making companies legally liable for compromised data might be one way for them to be scrupulous about minimal data retention.
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by sn41 8y ago
> The C standard specifies that values “cannot” be accessed through pointers that do not match the effective type of the value I think this is used in "type punning" in union structures. This is a related comment by Linus Torva
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by sn41 8y ago
For a reasonable code base, say the linux kernel source code, how large is the trigram index? Is it necessary that the index be kept in memory?
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by sn41 8y ago
I agree - descriptive studies also matter. I think in the last century, we have overdone statistics. It is time to counterbalance with a more descriptive approach as well.
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by sn41 8y ago
I think this is a very cynical view of history. Good things do happen, with sufficient resistance. Civil Rights being a prime example.
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by sn41 8y ago
I couldn't agree more. Amen.
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by sn41 8y ago
ASMR is also mentioned in the article. I find it pretty effective at evoking sensations.
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by sn41 8y ago
I'm Indian - I plan to visit this time around. The traffic jams to get to Allahabad are horrendous. But the atmosphere at the Sangam (the confluence) itself is unbelievable. About 100 million pilgrims converge in about 50 days. Last ti
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by sn41 8y ago
Is this really the case? I know that Milton Friedman promoted this idea, but can pursuing some welfare at the cost of short-term profits be an offence?

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