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by xhevahir 5y ago
The idea of typing 500+ words a minute sounds silly to me. If you're writing in a natural language and you can touch type reasonably well, your typing skill is not going to be the bottleneck. Your speed at putting things into words is.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
What sort of bite guard did you use? I clench my teeth like there's no tomorrow and I've discovered over the years that any bite guard that doesn't completely cover every tooth (on either the lower or upper arch) will eventua
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Yeah, some things about this remind me of the pyramid-scheme fiasco that caused so much chaos in Albania back in the nineties.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
A lot of people like the Pop OS desktop, COSMIC; I myself haven't used it or regular GNOME enough to say which one I prefer. (System76 said they're making a new version in Rust that isn't based on GNOME, but that's proba
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by xhevahir 5y ago
There are some societies where men or women have a separate language--actually, "register" may be a better term--for ceremonies that are specific to that gender, like circumcision rituals and so on. Nigel Barley's memoir Cere
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by xhevahir 5y ago
The authors of the linked article seem to think highly of Ten Steps to Complex Learning.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
> tildes are pubnixes in the spirit of tilde.club, which was created in 2014 by paul ford. I don't know what any of that means.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I don't buy Lakoff's idea that meaning is fundamentally metaphorical. For one thing, it fails to account for our ability to judge the aptness of a given metaphor. There's a book, Understanding Figurative Language, that makes
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by xhevahir 5y ago
> We might lose some great works from that tiny proportion of writers who earn well for more commercial choices from those authors. I don't understand this sentence.
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I can't believe that's real art from before the Greek dark ages.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I just got an email about a 20% off sale they're having, and I was tempted. Still expensive, though, seeing as how there's so many new ergonomic designs available from smaller companies.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I just started using VS Code a lot last weekend and I didn't find myself using my trackpad much. The Vim plugin, whatever it's called, allowed me to do the same things I do in Vim itself. I can't speak to the Emacs emulation,
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Can anyone explain why getting similar functionality in zsh is such a PITA? Every time I've tried to get smart-autocomplete history stuff working in it I've given up. Is it because the community is much more fragmented?
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I don't get it. You think people shouldn't read The Republic because they'll inevitably misunderstand it? Studying Plato isn't going to turn everyone into a Peter Thiel, if that's the concern. FWIW, The Republic has
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by xhevahir 5y ago
This person goes to great lengths to catch an episode of Survivor. They worry about how they're going to watch movies during a camping trip. I know it's not the point of the article, but maybe this problem would be less onerous if
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by xhevahir 5y ago
The comment was about mainland Chinese specifically, not ethnic Chinese, who in Singapore form the majority of the population. In countries like Indonesia--where riots like ones you mentioned have taken place--they are a small minority.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
The topic may be complex, but there's no guarantee that any given channel on YouTube will do that topic justice. This channel's fulsome praise for James O'Keefe suggests to me that they will not.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
To give one example, the leaders of the Münster Rebellion of 1534 certainly weren't content with "less inequality."
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by xhevahir 5y ago
FWIW the author of the post apparently uses Go for this: https://github.com/danslimmon/donothing
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I've seen some papers about optimizing piano fingering on arxiv before. They used various kinds of machine learning. Some papers dealing with guitar fingering, too.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
I'd be interested to see a historical comparison. Supposedly the (male)doctor-marries-(female)nurse pattern of several decades ago--or the executive/secretary one, to give another example--has given way to a situation where Americ
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Ancient Ireland, too: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246227-stone-age-rulin...
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by xhevahir 5y ago
Using Python doesn't require you to learn a (big) second language before you can do anything useful, though. F# arguably does. Maybe that is the best F# that F# can be. Which, for a lot of people, is not good enough.
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by xhevahir 5y ago
So we're presented with one design philosophy and one design Gabriel admits is a strawman. This was written before steelmanning was common and he was open about it, so the strawman is forgivable. "Steelmanning" is just a ne
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GLASSTONE: a Python library for modeling nuclear weapons effects(armscontrolwonk.com)
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“Coincidence Detector” the Chrome Extension White Supremacists Use to Track Jews(mic.com)
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A Computer Scientist Tells Mathematicians How to Write Proofs(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by xhevahir 12y ago
I ran into Roberts and her entourage once in Venice. Ridiculous hubbub. I was nearly pushed into the canal.
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by xhevahir 12y ago
Cops are allowed by the Supreme Court to lie. Is AP just now catching on to this?
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by xhevahir 12y ago
OK, but do you think the FBI cares? They're cops.

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