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ELisp Cheatsheet(github.com)
1 points by todd8 7y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 7y ago
My observation is that TeX/LaTeX are designed for use by humans but unlike other programming, the literal content of the document occupies more of the source being generated by the author than the elements used to control the layout (m
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by todd8 7y ago
I was happy to see this because of my interest in the subject, but I can understand that the title is a bit off-putting. A bit off topic anecdote: a few years ago, while floor trading was still important on the Chicago Board of Trade, I was
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by todd8 7y ago
Yes, :)
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by todd8 7y ago
One of the benefits of Lisp based languages is that they usually come with powerful macro based meta-programming facilities. I've use macro systems quite often in more or less complicated ways: as a professional assembly language progr
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by todd8 7y ago
Where do the other 50% of our genes come from?
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by todd8 7y ago
I don’t use Dvorak, but I’ve been intrigued by alternative layouts for years. I taught my daughter QWERTY years ago. My reasoning was that the speed difference between QWERTY and other layouts isn’t great, technology may change input method
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Context Free Art(contextfreeart.org)
1 points by todd8 7y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 7y ago
Reminds me a bit of the photo manipulation on Nat Geo cover photo of Egyptian pyramids.[1] [1] https://medium.com/engl462/visual-deceptions-national-geogra...
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The Maker of Gore-Tex Is Experimenting With an Artificial Cornea(bloomberg.com)
91 points by todd8 7y ago|55 comments
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by todd8 7y ago
My wife’s company has fitness competitions, and she uses her Apple Watch to count her steps. At a point where every step counted, we attended a formal gathering and she didn’t want to leave the watch behind so, all dressed up, she strapped
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by todd8 7y ago
I think we should try something simpler first, get rid of daylight savings time.
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by todd8 7y ago
On the iPhone, my favorite version of FreeCell solitaire is Solitaire City on the App Store. It supports the standard rules, many optional forms/games, lets you play head to head with friends, accepts the standard game number initializ
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by todd8 7y ago
Here’s a YouTube Top Gear review of the three wheeled Renault Robin, https://youtu.be/QQh56geU0X8 . It’s quite funny.
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by todd8 8y ago
Or perhaps light skin was an evolutionary development as humans moved to higher latitudes in order to obtain high enough levels of vitamin D. See [1]: The evolutionary significance of vitamin D, skin pigment, and ultraviolet light. 1. http
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by todd8 8y ago
I was a math major there. Each math professor had his own style for the smaller classes. There wasn't really a consistent teaching style for my classes except that they were challenging. Every student had to take a year of Calculus and
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by todd8 8y ago
I can't even imagine. I remember reading an article by someones experience on a lawsuit jury and they described the deliberations as "wheel of fortune". (It was an edition of Medical Economics, not my profession by interestin
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by todd8 8y ago
After being on a jury once deciding a DWI case, I wouldn't be surprised with any outcome involving an understanding of scientific evidence. What's terrifying is realizing that there are only two of you on the jury that really unde
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by todd8 8y ago
It's not that I think the Mac's are too expensive, I paid more that $3.5k for my current gen Mac Book Pro laptop. I wish it had a good keyboard and I wish it was as easy to handle as one of my ThinkPads. My current development mac
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by todd8 8y ago
It's just frustrating, I switched the household over to Apple devices when OSX came out, and now there really aren't any systems from Apple that look interesting to me. I've been programming since before the (Unix) dawn of ti
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by todd8 8y ago
You’ve moved the goal posts. It’s not that the construction of some thing, anything, that can be used to write with is difficult. As you point out a piece of charcoal isn’t hard to make. Milton Friedman’s point is that even something as sim
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Massive, Nightmare Bee Was Once Thought Extinct(livescience.com)
1 points by todd8 8y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 8y ago
I really like Meson, so I was surprised to stumble across this blog post. The author has a point about too many build tools and I really have never given used CMake because of the lack of clear documentation, but is better documentation all
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Do Not Use Meson(rojtberg.net)
2 points by todd8 8y ago|1 comments
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by todd8 8y ago
I had a shocking experience with "expert" testimony in the case of a large lawsuit I witnessed. This expert, paid by the litigant, had written a few papers for low-quality journals and taught at a class at a west-coast medical sch
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by todd8 8y ago
I’d taught a programming class using Pascal one semester while in grad school so I felt well prepared to teach a workshop on the language to software developers from across my company the following year. I was wrong. The students had differ
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Arq Cloud Backup Backs up all your files automatically. Installs in 1 minute(arqbackup.com)
1 points by todd8 8y ago|0 comments
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Biotech Company's Pig Vaccine Leads to New Alzheimer's Approach(bloombergquint.com)
54 points by todd8 8y ago|28 comments
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Uber to introduce clean air fee to all London rides(theguardian.com)
1 points by todd8 8y ago|0 comments
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Genetically modified food opponents know less than they think(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by todd8 8y ago|1 comments

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