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by tincholio 5y ago
This would be great paired with some code convention limiting line length to 80 columns :D
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by tincholio 5y ago
Reminds me of the intro to Idiocracy...
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by tincholio 5y ago
Check out Richard Feynman, for example.
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by tincholio 5y ago
China, partly... A few years back Supercell was the hot new stuff, and they had Tencent funding.
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by tincholio 5y ago
On a thinkpad keyboard, my thumbs fall naturally on the space bar (well, rather between the space bar and the left trackpoint button), so hitting the alt next to it implies an uncomfortable bending motion of my left thumb. Also, the x is ju
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by tincholio 5y ago
> - when you encounter an error you have to enter "X". if you're using latexmk, you have to enter "X" multiple times Seems like you haven't heard of the "-interaction=nonstopmode" flag... If you&#
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by tincholio 5y ago
I've used LaTeX for about as long as I've used Emacs, and really, the thought of editing LaTeX from my browser is rather painful. You can still use Overleaf via git, though admittedly the experience isn't as smooth.
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by tincholio 5y ago
The position next to the spacebar seems more awkward than to the left of "a", especially if you use Emacs or otherwise a lot of Ctrl presses. I currently have the CAPS key mapped so that it's Esc on tap, and Ctrl on hold. Wor
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by tincholio 5y ago
And that's how we get another javascript...
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by tincholio 5y ago
Actually, Slashdot's system was the best, with Flamebait/Troll/Funny/Informative/Insightful options, with only a limited number of votes (they called it "moderation points") available on a given day (this
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by tincholio 5y ago
The distance that needs covering to fly from northern Morocco to Spain is just a few km... probably would be a waste of energy to get it to 2km altitude
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by tincholio 5y ago
I found the book much clearer and engaging than the film, tbh...
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by tincholio 5y ago
The nice thing about org is how seamless it is to do all this. I do think that vim-style modal editing is the best way to go, but Emacs is to me a much better text manipulation platform than Vim is, and you can still get the Vim experience
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by tincholio 5y ago
I spent some 16 years in academia, so I understand your context... It's very easy to fall in the "quick hack" trap, and end up with a terrible mess. On the other hand, much of the code you do while doing research is truly thr
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by tincholio 5y ago
Here in Finland, you can get a sleeping compartment where the toilet transforms into a shower. They're quite practical...
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by tincholio 5y ago
AoC is amazing, but I don't think it's a good fit for what the OP needs. The solutions tend to be algorithmically hard, but for the most part quite short, and don't really require SW Engineering chops (as opposed to "pro
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by tincholio 5y ago
I'd add Crux to this... it's document-oriented, but still generates attribute-level indices, and is also Datalog based. It can be used on top of RocksDB, LMDB, or many other (more scalable) backends (Kafka being the canonical one)
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by tincholio 5y ago
I'm no expert, so it was kinda tough to get everything in, yes :D
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by tincholio 5y ago
In fairness, Brazilians often also struggle to understand Portuguese as spoken in Portugal. I (native Spanish speaker from South America) can understand Brazilian Portuguese pretty well, even if I've never studied it. Portuguese from P
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by tincholio 5y ago
I've recently built a Dactyl Manuform [0], which is still a bit of work in progress (cf. the rubber bands :D ), but it's the most relaxed typing I've had so far. I used Gateron browns for this one, and they're really nic
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by tincholio 5y ago
Same here. I built a Dactyl Manuform, and it was definitely worth the hassle. I do agree with the OP that the stuff you see on the MK subreddit and similar sites is ridiculous, and mostly rip-offs.
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by tincholio 5y ago
To be honest, it seems like the author has never tried Clojure, for example. You get most of Java's ecosystem and JVM benefits (and if performance becomes an issue, you can drop down to Java), while being way more expressive and easier
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by tincholio 6y ago
I'm no longer using Macs for work, but while the option key does enable useful stuff, you can do even better with Karabiner elements and a Compose key there as well :)
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by tincholio 6y ago
I've only used the French one (for about 5 years, while living in France... it was awful)
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by tincholio 6y ago
I mostly write in English (plus Clojure, shell, and C#), but often also in Spanish, French and Finnish. I've found that a standard QWERTY/US layout with a Compose key is the best option. It gives you a decent layout for coding and
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by tincholio 6y ago
> but I find it's easier to write readable Java code than it is to write readable Lisp. I think that depends a bit on the style. Pattern-heavy, "clean" Java is a mess of boilerplate that makes it very hard to find where th
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by tincholio 6y ago
For the Bachelor's, but most people in Europe go for a Master's, which is 5 years.
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by tincholio 6y ago
Well, I think Bob Martin promoting Clojure is a bad thing for Clojure... The Clojure community is really awesome, and so is the language, there's no need to have a self-declared (and under-substantiated) guru promoting it. I don't
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by tincholio 6y ago
You should look up some subjective quality test results for Opus (voice). The MOS curve flattens at about 40kbps, IIRC.
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by tincholio 6y ago
Opus at over 40 or 60Kbps for voice sounds like overkill, nevermind 500kbps. What's the rationale for using such high bitrates?

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