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by xelxebar 9y ago
The main issue with that stance is that a lot of human suffering happens because others claim it is "out of their control" to do anything. Dividing things into the two buckets "in my control" and "out if my control&
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Thanks. The discussion just says "torus" leaving everyone to infer what category we are working in. It seems like people are inferring different things, and that's what confused me. I'm not super familiar with homotopy t
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I'm really confused. Sperical wraparound can be viewed as a disk with it's perimeter identified to a point. Maybe I'm just missing something obvious in the discussion here? Also, how is Teichmüller Theory relevant? Is there s
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by xelxebar 9y ago
FWIW, it's readable for me with JavaScript disabled.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Yeah! The whole history of vim is sort of what kicked off my interest in Unix history! For those not familiar with the story of how Ken Thompson came to write ed, there's a short fun read here: https://www.bell-labs.com&#x2F
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Is it possible even in principle to calculate things like CPI-U from publicly available raw data? It would be really cool to have access to time series prices for broad swathes of goods amd from various locations across the country/wor
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I'm of a similar mind. However, somewhat recently I came across this article which helped provide a framework to think about all these things. Turns it that it's not just a flat space of competing tools: https://jvns.ca
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I know this is a joke, but in the past I've tried using ed just for kicks. Is actually quite illuminating. That was right around the same time that I realized that sed and grep are packaged ed functions. If you're interested at al
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Wait. Is this true? If so, that's cool. I know your comment was sarcastic, but as a grad student in math I've futzed with category theory enough that those words mean more to me than the raw Kleisli triple definition.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Sociologically it's perhaps interesting. One might want to "follow the rules" in order to minimize friction with an intended audience. Also, I'm sure we've all encountered cases where punctuation changes how we inte
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Not at all. All else being equal, if I can write code that is understandable to more people with less effort, that seems like an obvious win. I couldn't care less about sizing up your programming saltiness.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
FWIW, it's somewhat readable for my work JavaScript disabled.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Completely off topic, but this site along with a few others like StackOverflow seem to hijack my browser history and break the back button. In order to back out of their domain, I have to quickly bang the back key twice. I have no idea what
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I take a philosophy that "executable comments" are better than "static comments". So instead of writing a comment to explain some gnarly bit of logic, I'll try to do the reverse of inlining and break pieces into lit
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I've definitely run into this on bash and zsh (iirc). I'm curious if this glob expansion behaviour is set in posix somewhere.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Off-topic, but this site is pretty.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
One way around that issue is to prefix commands you intend to share with backslash: $ \gstatus gstatus: command not found vs $ gstatus git status stuff The backslash just disables alias expansion. This works on all
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Mathematical idempotency depends heavily on the function's domain. It's not too challenging to construct a non-idempotent function that has an idempotent restriction. So depending on what your domain of interest some operations ma
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by xelxebar 9y ago
My physics brain is now imagining some conserved quantity like the fitness density of a bacteria population. Lol
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Kaku mostly tells stories with cosmology and futuristic buzzwords these days. If you want to excite the imagination of a child and foster interest in science, I find his stuff potentially useful. However, the actual educational content is p
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Or to try making more sense of some libc implementation. The syscall stuff in glibc and musl both have a good bit of preprocessor voodoo to make syscalls feel more like function calls.
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by xelxebar 9y ago
You seem to be misunderstanding how diceware works. You randomly generate numbers by throwing dice. Every five rolls indexes exactly one "diceware" word. So even if an attacker knew we were using diceware, each word contains
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I'm just a lowly grad student, but for my Master's thesis, I decided to sit down and learn TeX which just means reading through the TeXBook for a start. Know thy tools, and all that. In fact, I ended up writing my thesis in plain
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by xelxebar 9y ago
> You can't, that's just the issue... Do you judge me as a conscious being? If so, then you came to that conclusion by making some empirical observations. What are those observations? I'm not trying to explain consciousn
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I didn't really read the article as positing any causal connection, but the warning about confirmation bias is reasnoable. It would be interesting to see more data on things like age, experience, demographics, etc. Despite the "
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by xelxebar 9y ago
I don't so much disagree as am confused by what people (including myself) mean with the word "consciousness". It also doen't seem like this is a discussion of pure qualia on the level of "Is the red you see the same
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by xelxebar 9y ago
This article, like most discussions on "consciousness" I encounter reads like little more than word games to me. We could similarly write articles about all the qualities and properties of phlogiston, and we'd have learned ju
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by xelxebar 9y ago
This is definitely how I felt as well. The discussion is kind of circular, "You need a clock because doing things without a clock doesn't fit well into a clocked paradigm." It's not an argument against clockless design,
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A bit of topic, but I'd like to see how practical continued fractions could be used in day to day calculations. It's mainly a matter of having decent arithmetic algorithms. Continued fractions have a lot of cool properties that po
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by xelxebar 9y ago
This is a beautiful, romantic view, though I don't see how it can me made all that physically rigorous interpretation. Here are some thoughts on the philosophy of what you say. > Life is inevitable On one level, this is a tautology:

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