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by unhammer 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29212447 previously
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by unhammer 5y ago
https://github.com/haskell/error-messages
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by unhammer 5y ago
There's always cua-mode … That gives you the regular control+z/x/c/v bindings. In org-mode, C-c (control-c) is quite overloaded, but it seems to work: If nothing is selected, it has the org meaning, while if something is
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by unhammer 5y ago
> Let’s say I wanted to introduce Jordan at work, as part of a drive for a Haskell web service. I’d have to explain to everybody what the hell Rank-N types are If so, that's a problem of jordan's documentation. If it's doc
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by unhammer 5y ago
Haha, nice catch :) I don't know anything about the situation there, but it might still make sense to group it if it's in the same "linguistic area" (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprachbund ).
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by unhammer 5y ago
> we group languages into 14 language groups based on linguistic classification, geography, and cultural similarities. We did this because people living in countries with languages of the same family tend to communicate more often and wo
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by unhammer 5y ago
Yeah, I think I'd recommend https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/main/sotu.md over this, since it also says something about maturity/usability of each category.
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by unhammer 5y ago
That's a good list. I've found some stuff I was looking for at Bloomsbury. Tor is probably good if you're into sci-fi/fantasy. But if you're looking for a specific book in English it's typically very hard to fi
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by unhammer 5y ago
I switched from offlineimap to mbsync. I can't remember the details, but I remember having lots of various issues with offlineimap but I can't remember any issues with mbsync other than once I think I had to change something in my
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by unhammer 5y ago
I'm guessing by that Hyperreality video you mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs – it's not nearly mentioned enough!
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by unhammer 5y ago
… diacritic symbols such as acute accent for high tone and grave accent for low tone … All too often, tone orthographies are established by fiat and defended by anecdote. Whether or not tone is marked, the most fre
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by unhammer 5y ago
On a Thinkpad X270, 14m8s from I typed `stack build` in a fresh clone. I had the GHC version, but almost no libraries from that snapshot, so it had to compile a bunch of dependencies. I then tried a fresh clone and `stack build` again and t
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by unhammer 5y ago
If you have access to your spouse's account you may need to enter that into the FBAR form https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_Secrecy_Act#FBAR Regarding the difficulty of investing/borrowing outside the US: No
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by unhammer 5y ago
Don't forget Ĉ, Ċ, Ḉ (a dialect of Ć with influences from Ç), Ꞓ (mostly used in Europe) and my favourite programming language ©
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by unhammer 5y ago
When would this be more useful/readable/simple than just mylist = [show (OffensivePlayer …), show (DefensivePlayer …)] ?
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Researchers Identify Weakness in Microsoft WPBT(eclypsium.com)
35 points by unhammer 5y ago|14 comments
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by unhammer 5y ago
Googe's Rule #2: > First, design and implement metrics. > Before formalizing what your machine learning system will do, track as much as possible in your current system. Do this for the following reasons: > * It is easier to g
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by unhammer 5y ago
I feel like I should wash my hands after clicking that URL, might want to consider a new domain name?
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by unhammer 5y ago
Even without your init file (`emacs -Q`)? Or try profiling (M-x profiler-start, pick cpu, do stuff, then M-x profiler-report) to see if any third party package is involved or not
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by unhammer 5y ago
Related: Norwegian pig farmers have had some really bad press lately https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https... (also, I note Google translates "the meat-bosses" into "the butche
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by unhammer 5y ago
It's sad that 3 is considered a stretch. In Norway, you actually have 5 years of "reklamasjonsrett" (right to get it repaired or replaced if there's some fault the producer should have known about). And Samsung gives sec
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by unhammer 5y ago
Did you try (temporarily) off iCloud in photos? On one iphone, 85G was Other (<3G remaining free) until we turned off the iCloud stuff in Settings→Photos. Seems like some bug, since the iCloud account was capped at 50G and the feature wa
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by unhammer 5y ago
That phenomenon has a name and a Wikipedia page (probably called "X's Law") but I forget what it's called. But the point is: the longer something has been around, the longer you can expect it to be around (given that you
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by unhammer 5y ago
This must be the world's most energy-inefficient way of searching Stack Overflow and slightly mangling the copy-pastes.
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by unhammer 5y ago
>cut doesn't work with fields separated by arbitrary whitespace. It's often better to use awk I use `cut` precisely when I want this behaviour. If something actually is tab-separated, I don't want `cut -f3` to give me th
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by unhammer 5y ago
thus the hedge "trained" ;)
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by unhammer 5y ago
DOOM over Avian Carrier (since obvs trained pidgeons can implement a turing machine, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers ). DOOM in Game of Life. DOOM as a Boltzmann brain (might take a while
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by unhammer 5y ago
I was immediately reminded of the fable of the Fox and the Cat (in which the Cat wins because following its one heuristic takes no time while the Fox has to deliberate to find the best of its many smart solutions – and the dogs are coming f
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by unhammer 5y ago
There's kind of a race-to-the-bottom[0] wrt. decentralisation. It'd be better for the internet as a whole if we don't always pick the most popular (so when your email's CDN goes down you can still communicate on chat, wh
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by unhammer 5y ago
Happens to me all the time. I'm either not automating enough things, or automating too many things. Btw, is there a simple way to backup all of ones own answers from across all stackexchange, in case the new owners mess everything up?

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