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by xelxebar 9y ago
I know make can seem a little baroque, but this is just wrong. 1. Multiple targets for a single recipe: file.a file.b file.c: dep.foo dep.bar ... This says that the recipe makes all of file.a, file.b and file.c in one go. 2
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by xelxebar 9y ago
My setup us very similar! I used to do the inotify dance as well, but I now find it a lot easier to just use a vim autocmd on BufPostWrite. This is only reasonable if your document compiles relatively quickly, but one clear advantage is the
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Exactly! I've been drooling over this kind of language in my dreams for quite a while now. Though I'd also like to see fully dependent types in there as well. Really excited about this project!
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by xelxebar 9y ago
Wait. Why is zero restrictions on passwords a bad thing?
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by xelxebar 9y ago
"Finally" seems a bit optimistic. This kind of wolf-crying and security theatre has been the norm for a while in the states.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
I have found spamming Google for LaTeX solutions to be really unsatisfactory and recently decided that I'd rather just learn my tools properly. This very very quickly led me away from LaTeX and over to plain TeX. I have read through ab
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by xelxebar 10y ago
This just gets me thinking. Optimizing for originality seems the wrong criteria as an interviewee if you are genuinely trying to feel out the company and what working there might be like. As an interviewer don't you think it's mor
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by xelxebar 10y ago
The em unit is traditionally the width of the letter M, but these days you see it used as the unit height of a font. IIRC, CSS is like this.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
OP's comment is the straw man, not yours. If you go out and talk to these actual Democrats and Republicans, the bipartisan distinction seems more and more like a fraud. Seriously, have you ever met a person who's "core drivin
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Prescriptivism is dumb. I think everyone here gets that. However, I like tools in my arsenal that enable me to express myself precisely. Prescriptivist rants often open my eyes to subtle shades of possible meaning that I otherwise would not
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Adding to what discussion, exactly? To my eyes most comments so far seem to be little more than "I agree with the author" or "I disagree". OP's comment on the other hand at least told me something about the person b
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by xelxebar 10y ago
I feel in love with his novel Diaspora before I knew anything about Egan the mathematician. Then in my grad school work, I randomly ran across his name and have subsequently read most of his books. Diaspora, however, remains my all time fav
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Well, you really do need the full Kleisli triple and commutation laws, otherwise bind becomes just a functor.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Pick up and typical math text and you can find an index of notation in the frontmatter or appendices. All these complaints about mathematical notation seem really uninspired to me. It's like if I went around complaining that programmin
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by xelxebar 10y ago
While there indeed is some ugly notation out there, I usually find that most of it is pretty straightforward once you understand the underlying concepts. It usually only seems like bad notation if I am misunderstanding things.
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by xelxebar 10y ago
That would severely complicate implementations, not to mention encourage bad programming practices, all for dubious convenience. Somewhat surprisingly, human readable dates are an absolute mess of historical convention and complicated geoph
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Just a heads up, reek v. To give off a foul odor wreak v. To inflict or execute
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Though a perhaps interesting reworking of the question could be "If the universe were a simluation, what can we say about the computational machine doing the simulation?" I'm guessing that Complexity Theory has some stuff to
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Wideness of niche. That's a good one. Once we become trans-planetary, I guess that will also be quite a distinguishing trait. Also, note my optimism :P Akin to the brain-to-body-mass ratio that you mention, I wonder if this wideness of
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by xelxebar 10y ago
I'm not so confused about the legality here as much as I don't understand why they need the files at all if they have irrefutable evidence that he has them. If I have sales receipts and camera footage showing you purchased 100 Led
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Thanks for the lucid explanation. What befuddles my non-lawyer mind is that why such evidence is needed in the first place. If it's established firmly that someone has piles of illegal files, then for the sake of their incrimination, w
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by xelxebar 10y ago
> Since the study demonstrates that psychology is unreliable, I think it's something other than abuse. Your comment is exactly my point though. I suspect that you see the number 30% and equate that with "bad". However, if
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by xelxebar 10y ago
People have commented to me several times about the various FF extensions that give vim like control. I've tried them all. My main complaint is that I just want a thin client over some rendering engine that I can easily script with bas
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by xelxebar 10y ago
The honest answer is that I keep tmux around because I'm used to it, though I do make good use of its persistent sessions and remote login interaction. Oh also, it's the one thing that gives me terminal emulator (st) buffer histor
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Yeah, but I doubt that any non-anthropocentric measure of biological success puts humans anywhere special: Biomass: krill dominate Individual count: bacteria probably soon by a massive landslide Evolutionary stability: the Goblin shark had
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by xelxebar 10y ago
I had the same reaction when reading that, but I think the author was mainly trying to make the point that there is no reason a priori to attribute direct psychological properties to lacrimal secretions. There's a while lot more to cry
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by xelxebar 10y ago
My setup is remarkably similar: Xmonad and tmux. I only reluctantly leave the command line and feel like I only have X so I can have a reasonable browser. And I kind of loathe all the popular browsers because I feel crippled without my cli
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Just to play the Negative Nelly role a bit, while the main thesis is on point, the example sentences I find to be somewhat unrealistic and misleading. I have ideas for how to improve things and wouldn't mind brainstorming things togeth
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Oh cool. I'm in Koenji. If you would like more of this kind of thing, I highly recommend Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar. It's a lot like OP's article, but much more thorough, organized by topic, and provides auxilla
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by xelxebar 10y ago
Kind of feel that replication study gets abused as a kind of "psychology is unreliable" argument. Instead, I think it makes a lot more sense to view it as an upper bound on the average reliability of our own personal beliefs about

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