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by tgvaughan 5y ago
Really cool, but these heatmaps seem to be compiled from source code. I wonder how much the _actual_ distribution of keys pressed would differ. (I use paredit to write scheme code, and I'm assuming IDEs would skew the distribution in
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by tgvaughan 5y ago
Why are you assuming this is their profession?
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by tgvaughan 5y ago
I remember encountering this approach in A. K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column of the April 1986 issue of Scientific American: "A program for rotating hypercubes induces four-dimensional dementia". It included enough p
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by tgvaughan 5y ago
I love collective nouns and am happy to add "a crash of rhinos" to my collection!
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by tgvaughan 5y ago
Are you sure? I have a Mac too, and earlier this year all of my non Apple-approved software stopped working because some random Apple server went down.
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by tgvaughan 5y ago
It's not as trendy, but I use LyX regularly in zoom sessions for precisely this. It works really well.
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by tgvaughan 5y ago
First skimmed, then read through the article carefully, but it seems the text doesn't actually explain "why" printers do this. What am I missing?
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by tgvaughan 5y ago
In case you'd like to and currently don't, both accept donations.
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by tgvaughan 5y ago
(2012)
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
> I'm not aware of anyone with the position that Mars is currently as nice as Earth. Ann Clayborne?
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Australia to introduce Google, Facebook legislation to parliament next week(reuters.com)
160 points by tgvaughan 6y ago|269 comments
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
That's fine if only companies are renting domain names. But some of us are individuals running hobby webpages or trying to take control of our email domains.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
A fastmail subscription and a domain.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Wow. Somehow this feels like an even more extreme version of Carl Hewitt's actor model in which individual actors themselves involve asynchronous components.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
It provides a curses-based TUI, while generally git just provides a CLI.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Basically, yes. Not unique css mind you, but a single nicely readable (for me) set of styles for everything. This stoves a bunch of accessibility problems too. Why is this weird?
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Whenever I see something like this I always wonder how we came to allow website authors to dictate how their content is displayed on other people's computers. I know I can use greasemonkey or whatever to hack something together (or sti
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Whenever I see something like this I always wonder how we came to allow website authors to dictate how their content is displayed on other people's computers. I know I can use greasemonkey or whatever to hack something together (or sti
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Aside: I think about this kind of thing a lot, and the answer is always "because humans have 10 digits on their hands". The world is strange.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
In some sense it's also the correct solution to the problem. PDFs are programs that generate screen/print output. Trying to find the text in the program will always fail sometimes. The only general solution is to process the ou
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
I don't understand why most of the things discussed in the article continue to be the responsibility of web page authors. For print media of course it makes sense for publishers to hire typesetters to agonise over font size. But for o
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
It's kinda funny that this isn't widely appreciated. It used to be that research programs were most programs. Use of computers for other things was a kind of spin-off technology. (Now it's the other way around, of course.)
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
This was precisely the basis of the energy storage systems in Paolo Bacigalupi's novel, The Windup Girl.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Permission City is grand. It made me realise just how silly the standard "are we living in a simulated reality?" questions are. Max Tegmark took these ideas further, and iirc cites Egan as partial inspiration for his type 4 multi
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Just an aside: exploring the implications of relativity in a Euclidean space is the basis of Greg Egan's "Orthogonal" book series.
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Me too. Although it's worth noting that just buying a Kobo and using the associated store doesn't save you from this kind of thing in principle. While the books are formatted using epub, they're encrypted using Adobe's D
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
It's an easy mistake to make when the page for acquiring the license presents you with a picture of a book and requires you click a button labeled "add to cart".
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User's Kindle eBook collection revoked by Amazon (2012)(bekkelund.net)
91 points by tgvaughan 6y ago|65 comments
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
I write M-H samplers for a living. While I agree that being able to rerun a chain using the same seed as before is crucial for debugging, and while I'm very strongly in favour of publishing the code used for a production analysis, I&
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by tgvaughan 6y ago
Apologies for running slightly off topic, but there's another way to look at this. The fact that Apple services like FaceTime and iMessage are restricted to Apple hardware means that those of us who haven't bought into this ecosy

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