utxaa

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by utxaa 7y ago
has anyone found that doing math, geometric puzzles or problems helps a lot? i found this out by accident, and it works most of the time. as soon as i realize i'm spiraling down i start doing problems. usually i try to do one or two a
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by utxaa 7y ago
you never really deal with irrationals ... do you mean floating point?
93.
by utxaa 7y ago
but how come the linux and BSD kernels, emacs (since RMS), the java language, even python (python3 was not a rewrite), git, hg, django, etc ... have never been rewritten from scratch? what is the lesson here?
94.
by utxaa 7y ago
i thought this was an article about not rewriting a legacy system.
95.
by utxaa 7y ago
i am really glad to read this. it is great that freeBSD continues to improve this way. we all win.
96.
by utxaa 7y ago
to me this is not any more complicated than not getting a MBP
97.
by utxaa 7y ago
wow, you are one eloquent writer. i just like reading your comments for the structure of the prose. write something!
98.
by utxaa 7y ago
> But you don't need all b"" everywhere. as a mercurial user i never understood this decision. for instance look at this recent commit: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/b4c82b704180
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by utxaa 7y ago
this is like the self driving car myth. i just don't think computation extends this far. ie, a computer cannot do math in the sense of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem
100.
by utxaa 7y ago
mostly i don't like autocomplete. but MVS implementation is superb. the closest i've seen to something usable (for me).
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by utxaa 7y ago
:D
102.
by utxaa 7y ago
this is so interesting. i kid you not, as soon as fish starts doing its thing my brain shuts down. i cannot use it not even for a minute. i've tried. i had to try because the assholes where i work forced it on me. so i threatened to qu
103.
by utxaa 7y ago
funny. we actually have an sdie macro ;)
104.
by utxaa 7y ago
swiper?
105.
by utxaa 7y ago
i threatened to quit a job because they forced fish on us. it is so distracting that i can't think when using it. they allowed a bunch of us to go back to bash.
106.
by utxaa 7y ago
google how linux kernel developers work.
107.
by utxaa 7y ago
agreed. i have too also noticed people who don't like IDE's tend to have more wide-spread knowledge (ever since a sys|network admin use an IDE?) they also move around more.
108.
by utxaa 7y ago
yeah. maybe that's why i get this feeling of being out of touch with software that was written with an IDE. you can see the difference come debugging time. C/Emacs you just know where everything is, just reading the logs (sans st
109.
by utxaa 7y ago
Avast! the river was angry at us arr ...
110.
by utxaa 12y ago
same here. try this: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/the-primal-blueprint-21-day-c... also work in 30 minutes periods (set a timer) and walk around for 5 (see pomodoro).
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by utxaa 12y ago
yeah. same. but for me it doesn't matter. if it's a puzzle (from number theory to computational geometry and everything in btwn) if i start, game over. it's a problem.
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by utxaa 12y ago
i am the exact opposite. ha ha ha ... once i get going on a problem, you could fire a cannon next to my ear and i may notice. as a matter of fact, i prefer noise around me when i'm working. i'm not being sarcastic. i'm
113.
by utxaa 12y ago
thanks! i have an X1 carbon en route - will try this as soon as i open the box.
114.
by utxaa 12y ago
but what if you're a windows user? is the backup image on the drive adware free?
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by utxaa 12y ago
of course, this happens, but when it happens just end the interview. would you like to work in such a place?
116.
by utxaa 12y ago
encrypting helps no? maybe not all bets are off in that case.
117.
by utxaa 12y ago
this is nothing new. why go through all the trouble? just take the disk out and mount it elsewhere. that's why one has to encrypt drives.
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by utxaa 13y ago
it is true that rigour is eventually needed, but the principia, laplace's celestial mechanics and countless other works (heard of euler?) were all published before cauchy and weirstrass. all of the wonderful work in elliptic functions