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by spindle 5y ago
Substack expects me to agree to a long EULA before they will permit me to give them money. Seems crazy to me.
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by spindle 5y ago
TeX -> PDF ... but I'm looking forward to trying this next time: https://tools.suckless.org/sent/
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by spindle 5y ago
I agree. Currently not many people use open source on their phones, but that could change, and things like F-Droid are ready to be used.
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by spindle 5y ago
IANAA, but I believe we already had a very rough estimate, from our models of solar system formation, and it's huge - at least tens of billions and very likely much more.
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by spindle 5y ago
FWIW, I once backed off publishing on Arxiv because their requirements for the exact format of my PDF were too restrictive. At the time I didn't feel stronly about it one way or the other, and if I was in the same situation maybe I&#x
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by spindle 5y ago
+1 for gandi as a mail host.
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by spindle 5y ago
I'm not the right person to answer but I happen to know that the answer is yes!
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by spindle 5y ago
Wow! This is so awesome! Would you please write a page like this for every Hacker News post?
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by spindle 5y ago
I suggest you post your two paragraphs separately so we can have fun upvoting the first one!
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by spindle 5y ago
> work computers are tools for work while school should be about learning I really like this point. I think it's true but not obvious.
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by spindle 5y ago
This. I can easily believe that systemd is an improvement in many ways for people who have time to understand it (especially in NixOS, as noted by another commenter). But I'm not happy that so many parts of Linux now have such a stee
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by spindle 5y ago
Does being born count as early in my career?
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by spindle 5y ago
ZFS on root is super easy in NixOS. (And I agree with your licensing point.)
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by spindle 5y ago
Strongly agree. That is my favourite short introduction to philosophy (and I'm a philosophy professor).
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by spindle 5y ago
I upvoted this because I agree that the UK and Australia have more than two important parties, but I believe that the Australian voting system is MUCH better than the US and UK systems (which also supports your main point in a way).
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by spindle 5y ago
NixOS
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by spindle 5y ago
It's true that physics can't explain galaxy rotation (speaking as someone who recently taught elementary cosmology at a good university). I don't know whether that has much to do with the big bang though. I expect the downv
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by spindle 5y ago
> Strong focus on freedom and not packaging proprietary software. Yes, and I like that BUT Guix, unlike NixOS, does not have an easy to install and well-tested ZFS implementation, even though ZFS IS free (and non-proprietary, and copyl
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by spindle 5y ago
IMO, Greg Egan is one of the greatest geniuses I've ever come across, and I strongly recommend his novels and stories ... but I think it's worth noting that he's said that he doesn't believe that the theory of consciousn
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by spindle 5y ago
THIS. I believe the Guardian is good on some topics, but after their treatment of Assange stories I find it very hard to read anything they publish.
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by spindle 5y ago
I have trouble getting students to concentrate on difficult material for anywhere near a whole class even if it's their only class of the day (and I'm considered a good and entertaining professor, honest). No WAY I could get anyo
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by spindle 6y ago
Excellent!
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by spindle 6y ago
I've thought of a real question now: wouldn't it be easier to implement this in Factor than in Haskell? I'm asking out of interest rather than because I think you should re-implement it. BTW, if you happen to use Nix, could
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by spindle 6y ago
If I say thank you for working on such a great idea, does that count as a question?
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by spindle 6y ago
Exactly, and almost all of the relevant government people are organised by state rather than federally.
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by spindle 6y ago
Thank you. Luckily, the embed code I pasted shows the URL nice and clearly :-)
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by spindle 6y ago
Just like Austin Powers: https://www.youtube.com/embed/IGiQOCX9UbM
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by spindle 6y ago
IMO (and I am a professional philosopher), you're right, it doesn't make very good philosophy ... except that (unlike most fields) it's not at all clear what counts as philosophy and what doesn't. I think Derrida makes
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by spindle 6y ago
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by spindle 6y ago
Many objects in the sky are brightly coloured. Astrophotograpers often add artificial colours on top of (or instead of) the actual colours. Plus, much of what you see from astronomers (although not from this case) is taken in non-optical pa

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