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by xhevahir 2y ago
"Plant arithmetic" is another interesting phenomenon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_arithmetic?wprov=sfla1
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Edifice: Declarative GUI Framework for Python and Qt(github.com)
6 points by xhevahir 2y ago|2 comments
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by xhevahir 2y ago
There's always the option, taken by millions of Americans every election, of not voting for anyone. A unity ticket of two unpopular centrist candidates is not a recipe for success.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
When it gives me a complicated list expression or regex or something I like to ask ChatGPT to find a simpler way of doing the same thing, and it usually gives me something simpler that still works. Of course, you do have to ask, rather than
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by xhevahir 2y ago
Here's hoping they put some of that money into coming up with some less-ugly designs.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
Surprising that the author doesn't mention Arlie Russell Hochschild's idea of "emotional labor," which Hochschild first wrote about over 40(!) years ago.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
"Risk-dependent" would be a much better name for this methodology. (Why are programmers so fond of this "[X]-driven" phrase?)
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by xhevahir 2y ago
While I greatly appreciate the coinage "laundry sauce" I think the great majority of people know how to do this stuff and it's not hard to find out how.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
> I guess the only ones destined to read it are the AI training algorithms. I'm imagining a lone genius toiling away at a novel and dying in obscurity, with his work gaining recognition only after his death, à la Herman Melville, ex
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by xhevahir 2y ago
> At least as measured by suicide rates in the US your grandmothers likely generation new quite well what depression was even if the word didn’t matter. They knew what suffering was, and arguably did more of it. But very few of them thou
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by xhevahir 2y ago
"Yi-1.5 is an upgraded version of Yi" is not a very informative beginning.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
I don't agree with this point of view, but people with hearing shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it. Deaf people raise it every time medicine makes an advance in restoring hearing. Oliver Sacks has written interesting things on thi
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by xhevahir 2y ago
"Peculiar cultural memes" is an odd way of describing a piece of advice that one encounters so frequently in cultures the world over.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
I'm about to reread Nixon Agonistes. It's always relevant, but in a year that has come eerily to resemble 1968, it's especially so. More about the book here: https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/11&#x
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by xhevahir 2y ago
Yeah, no kidding. Iran hasn't been " the place for Zoroastrianism" in a very long time.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
This looks pretty incomplete. I searched for "Da Vinci's Inquest," an old CBC program, and it didn't turn up any streams even though PlutoTV say they offer it. Bukow und König, a German show that's available on MhZ
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by xhevahir 2y ago
>One can already do scalable notation in the browser with other tools (Check out Adrian Holovaty's Soundslice or Sibelius Cloud Publishing). Can either of those be incorporated in one's own software, without paying somebody? (I
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by xhevahir 2y ago
This looks really nice. I'd like to see if this could replace the janky notation functionality in Impro-Visor ( https://github.com/Impro-Visor/Impro-Visor ).
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by xhevahir 2y ago
Everybody's suggesting changing to Apple or Chrome products, which sounds like a good idea to me. With my parents, who are 80 and having an increasingly hard time using technology, I have the added complication that my dad (who is the
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by xhevahir 3y ago
Google Desktop was the first thing I thought of when I saw the link. One difference with Desktop though is that nowadays people are doing stuff on more than one device. Synching the data somehow or other would presumably involve the sort of
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by xhevahir 3y ago
There was a nice extension called DivaScheme that used unchorded keystrokes like vi and allowed structural editing but it stopped working when PLT Scheme reached version 5. (Which I think was when they changed the name to Racket.) https:&#
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by xhevahir 3y ago
That's probably not the kind of political post OP is talking about. They probably mean ones like "Mayor Quimby continues his war on the unhoused," or "City council are determined to drive out small business."
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by xhevahir 3y ago
I think "moral panic" (to paraphrase Terry Eagleton on ideology) is like halitosis in that it's what the other person has and not oneself. Arguments that invoke it seem always to break down into finger-pointing and one-upmans
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by xhevahir 3y ago
In my experience it's the vocabulary. Sometimes it feels like for every word like "Hand" that's easy to recognize there's a dozen like "Ausbildung" that aren't. (For comparison, the French word for Au
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by xhevahir 3y ago
German has complicated morphology and an unfamiliar word order, and, unlike in Romance languages, abstract nouns usually do not have cognates. Genealogically closer languages are not always easier to learn. I don't think anyone would
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De Chirico and Alice in Wonderland Syndrome: When Neurology Creates Art(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by xhevahir 3y ago|0 comments
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by xhevahir 3y ago
That sounds more like philosophical pessimism and antinatalism. "Humane" doesn't cut any ice with a nihilist.
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by xhevahir 3y ago
> If I wanted to select viable candidates from that list, I would probably pick between Rust, Go, or Java/Kotlin...I arrive there with a simple heuristic, as all of these languages are statically typed and considered mainstream, alm
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by xhevahir 3y ago
What do you mean by "political stuff?" (Political economy is Varoufakis' field, as far as I can tell.)
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by xhevahir 3y ago
I don't think the author is talking about large-scale control of water (like in the theory of hydraulic civilization). He mentions "communal management" and "communities."

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