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   by unhammer 8y ago

   > mutation (especially if localized and doesn't leak outside of a function) can really help functional code become a lot faster There's this magical thing in Haskell called the "ST Monad", where you can have a pure fu
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   by unhammer 8y ago

   https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download does "Drag and drop images to Emacs org-mode". I suppose you could use https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsImageManipulation =P There's also
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   by unhammer 8y ago

   My fiancée has been using zimwiki over syncthing for years now, been really simple and stable. (I use org-mode, but that requires some investment …)
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   by unhammer 8y ago

   It is important that people realize sleep cycles do exist, but this seems a bit strawman-ish. If someone says "you need about 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep" I would rather take that as meaning things like "don't get up
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   by unhammer 8y ago

   Is this related to https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/7cmppn/a_great_thr... or https://www.tweag.io/posts/2018-09-12-asterius-ffi.html ?
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   by unhammer 8y ago

   I highly recommend the interview with "sleep diplomat" Matt Walker at http://podcasts.joerogan.net/podcasts/matthew-walker – I was scared into going to bed early at least :-)
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   Braess’s paradox(en.wikipedia.org)

   134 points by unhammer 8y ago|37 comments
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   by unhammer 8y ago

   Or mbsync[1] – I've found it faster and more stable than OfflineIMAP. [1] http://isync.sourceforge.net/mbsync.html
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   by unhammer 8y ago

   I know of https://code.world/ and https://www.codewars.com/?language=haskell and https://liquid.kosmikus.org/01-intro.html but I've never actually tried them. (I don't have the st
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    Buying into the Emacs Platform(two-wrongs.com)

    2 points by unhammer 8y ago|0 comments
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    My 5-year-old loves painting with Mypaint, if you want something kid-friendly (but also powerful enough to be used by pros): http://mypaint.org/about/
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    Apropos, here's a "Time series shootout: ARIMA vs. LSTM" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9QWefYBfJg&list=PL51yKFtVfM...
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    There you go: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ :) I've read that twice now. Just as interesting, funny and depressing both times.
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    http://zim-wiki.org/ is a simple but featureful and stable one. Put the files in a syncthing or dropbox folder for sync :)
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    If you find this interesting, there are a lot of resources for the Turkic languages in the Apertium platform: http://wiki.apertium.org/wiki/Turkic_languages These include monolingual lexicons and bilingual dictionari
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    Emacs Lisp JIT Compiler(lists.gnu.org)

    172 points by unhammer 8y ago|95 comments
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    Though unfortunately if you want to dual-boot, you have to manually set up the encryption :/ As in https://askubuntu.com/a/293029/25639 – I do wish the installer could do that instead of asking dual-booters t
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    Crowdfunding for extension management in GIMP (and other improvements)(girinstud.io)

    1 points by unhammer 8y ago|0 comments
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    > The entire OpenNMT system (with pre-processing, the authors note) has around 4,000 lines of code. The Moses SMT framework comes in at over 100,000 lines of code, according to the paper’s authors. Although it probably is more compact&
20. 440.▲
    by unhammer 8y ago

    Unlike the https://xefer.com/2008/03/interrocolon which actually would be useful
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    On a related note, I recently learnt that if you're on the same local network, there's a much faster way to transfer than the old tar|nc trick[0]: udpcast. You do $ udp-sender --min-receivers 1 --full-duplex --pipe 'tar
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    There is also https://postmarketos.org/ for the adventurous :)
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    From GitHub to git-ssb – A guide to hacking together on the distributed web(git-ssb.celehner.com)

    1 points by unhammer 8y ago|0 comments
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    "The last four letters of the alphabet are ecks, why, zee and 'and' as-one/by itself"
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    Slightly related: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit https://mat.boum.org/ (which seems to be in need of contributors)
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    Try the command in https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/74hetz/emacs_everywh... in your regular terminal vs eshell – piping is really slow in eshell. I guess it somehow reimplements `|` in elisp, po
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    by unhammer 8y ago

    All these workarounds sound like a reason to use start using tramp more (apropos, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dljNabciEGg / http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.htm...
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    by unhammer 9y ago

    I like that the test started with Unicode support, but there is a lot more that could be tested. See http://www.madore.org/~david/misc/unitest/ for some more challenges, in particular http://www.ma
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    by unhammer 9y ago

    In Emacs this feature is called multiple-cursors: http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html – Emacs got it after Sublime. But I find I typically get things done faster with keyboard macros, or maybe I'm just too stuck in my ways
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    by unhammer 9y ago

    Then you may find the discussion of NULL vs DEFAULT and Maybe's in https://ren.zone/articles/opaleye-sot interesting.