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by xelxebar 8y ago
True, though native speakers do distiguish a good swath of "homophones" by differing pitch accent---e.g. in the standard dialect あめ means "rain" if the pitch drops on め or "candy" if it stays level. To a native
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by xelxebar 8y ago
In practice, native Spanish speakers leave off accents in text messages and the like without causing much confusion.
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Men crossing their legs is a thing, and here in Tokyo it's not super common for guys to go all spreadeagle, regardless of muscle mass. I suspect that biological "explanations" are little more than folklore, and manspresding i
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Freenode has a service that lets you search channel names: /msg alis help for details. I used this to find all sorts of gems: * ##binutils for linker/loader stuff, * ##math usually has meaty content and knowlegdeable user
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by xelxebar 8y ago
> Writing complex commands, needless to say scripts in bash is such a headache... For shell scripting, I cannot recommend the linter, shellcheck, enough. With editor integration it's abolutely glorious. Shellcheck will point out all
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Retro-Terminal Emulator(github.com)
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Funnily enough, I have a copy of 無門関 sitting right in front of me. Pretty sure it's case 15. I'd add that a lot of the stories are challenges in the sense of asking "What kind of mind must the characters have to give these ki
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Since we're using `-o` already, we might like the equivalent "longoptions" form: ``` set -o errexit -o nounset -o noclobber -o pipefail ``` But `pipefail` isn't part of POSIX and will fail in dash, tcsh, and friends, so
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by xelxebar 8y ago
If you like that, then you might like surfraw[0]. The main problem is that these don't really obviate the need for a browser, they just make it easier to open said browser tab from the command line. [0]: https://gitlab.com&#x
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by xelxebar 8y ago
The "a better Dropbox" comment was quite tongue in cheek. You can think of git-annex as a way of managing files in git without managing the contents, which is exactly what we want for binary blobs like PDFs, word documents, whatev
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Cli-junkie brofist! I only drop out of the command line for occasional one-off browser stuff. Depending on your current familiarity with things, I can't recommend enough simply combing through the tools in coreutils , util-linux , f
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Oh! It's nice to see the monster group come prowling into my day unexpectedly. I clicked hoping to read something enlightening by a group theorist, but five hours in and no comments yet. The sporadic simple groups are these things I&#x
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by xelxebar 8y ago
IIRC, libgen.io has a collection dedicated to specifications, a la sci-hub. I recall seeing a lot of IEEE stuff there.
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by xelxebar 8y ago
What happens for you at the 30 minute mark? Do your thoughts start wandering? Does your ability to critically reason drop? Do you get feelings of boredom? In my experience, focus can definitely be trained like a muscle. These days I easily
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by xelxebar 8y ago
I suspect so, since this kind of thing becomes more frequent as you go back in time. I think that's the same story for why some two-character words seem to have backwards word-ording, e.g. 日本に滞在する vs 在日する, or 米国へ渡る vs 渡米する. I've
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by xelxebar 8y ago
We can explicitly construct such numbers using 2x2 matrices. These are called "dual numbers"[0], and the matrix representation is essentially an analoge of the same for complex numbers. So if you accept the complex unit, i, as a r
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by xelxebar 8y ago
It's also interesting how の can be inserted as needed, a la 山手線 or 井上さん. Old Japanese works quite a bit differrently than the modern, productive sort.
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by xelxebar 8y ago
> Could you go into a bit more detail? I'm not super lucid on it yet. Just recently encountered the experience and still getting a feel for what it is, but I'll try to share what I can. > What does CartesianSelfAssertion fee
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Would you mind elaborating a bit? This is something I've recently been trying to get more intimately familiar with and new metaphors are a really helpful rubric.
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I think it depends on how we delineate physical vs non-physical. In this case, I'm taking a simple definition of "physical" to mean "anything amenable to scientific inquiry" or "any phenomenon that is, in prin
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Oh wow! I just recently stumbled on this in my personal meditation practice. I noticed that it's almost like there's a game loop that periodically hits the CartesianSelfAssertion function. Or something. Everyone I've tried to
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Because elan vital and phlogiston turned out to be terrible ideas? Human cognition affects human action which has physical effects. So at the least, intelligence is causally linked with known phycial processes. I'd say that's su
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by xelxebar 8y ago
> ... is the way it is is that that way is ... Not at all on topic, but this is the first time I've seen double repetition like that in the wild. Makes me wonder about examples of non-contrived buffalo sentences.
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Algebraic scripting?
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You might like this: http://www.haskellforall.com/2014/09/morte-intermediate-lang... Basically, it's a calculus of constructions that guarantees equivalent funtions get compiled to the same thing. It's r
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Also, in Hamilton's time they didn't have the view of mathematics as axiom systems that could be played with. Math was a way of finding Truth, so the idea of making up multiplication rules at your convenience probably seemed like
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by xelxebar 8y ago
By "extends" here we formally mean "normed division algebra". Basically, we want any 2D slice of our space to be equivalent to the complex numbers. This is analogous to how the reals embed into the complex plane or how s
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by xelxebar 8y ago
A little more exotic, but if you look here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_trick you can read about some simple rotating systems that, in some sense, end up reversed after a 360 degree rotation amd require anothe
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Is it really all that intuitive, though? I mean, where does (dx)^2 = 0 come from?? Usually people say that, well, since dx is already small, then (dx)^2 is really really small, so for magical reasons it's okay to pretend that it&#x27
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by xelxebar 8y ago
Cool website! You might already be aware, but when toggling some of the tag filters, mixed in with the normal square images, I get several empty squares that don't link to anything. Anyway, happy folding!

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