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by devnonymous 4y ago
Not directly related, but for a long time now, I've been using per project specific $HISTFILE (set automatically when I start using, ie: cd into, the project dir) and that simple change, by itself, has greatly improved the quality of t
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2 points by devnonymous 4y ago|0 comments
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by devnonymous 4y ago
> an infamous troll on comp.lang.lisp And on the python mailing lists. The last I recall seeing that name was in context of crowd funding after going through some tough times. It was quite sad. Hope things are better now.
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by devnonymous 4y ago
I thought the same until I realized that the example picture is attempting to demonstrate the effect using the direction of the flow of the puddle of water in the foreground (the caption reads : Water appearing to run uphill at Magnetic Hil
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by devnonymous 4y ago
Well, to be fair, they do recommend that you "keep this under your pillow" [1] [1] https://docs.python.org/3/
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> Reading code can be a complementary activity that can bring insights but it's not a way to level up. Counter-point: As a professional developer one might spend far more time reading code than writing code. In my experience, all th
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by devnonymous 4y ago
So you haven't actually read the post?
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by devnonymous 4y ago
Isn't skipping the preceding statement: > Unless you get inside the activity and identify with it, you are not going to be good at it. ..taking the statement you quoted out of context ? I don't quite agree it is a terrible gene
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by devnonymous 4y ago
So I take it you didn't read the post you commented on, else you'd know that the post describes the distinction between mathematical thinking and doing mathematics.
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> I don't see how your answer relates to my criticism at all. What I'm pointing out is that the author touches on a variety of topics where he clearly exceeds his field of expertise. I'm not saying that he is incompetent a
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by devnonymous 4y ago
Yes, A blog post from someone authoritative about the content certainly warrants higher consideration before being dismissed as blogspam by a random passing comment by someone who isn't, imho.
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I'm not sure you either read the entire post or if you did, you grasped the point of the post. Prof. Delvin [1], the author, has been pushing to make math literacy and mathematical thinking more accessible for a long time now. This pos
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by devnonymous 4y ago
Ehe ...you do realise you're speaking about this guy here right? http://profkeithdevlin.com/
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by devnonymous 4y ago
I wouldn't cast 'I don't want to do this because I need to be careful' as laziness, it's just being smart/pragmatic. Take that statement in the context of home grown cryptography instead of pointes and it'
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> I would like to share his hopeful outlook (hopeful in the sense that he seems to think there ought to be a counterfactual world where everyone behaves decently towards each other and the planet) You'd see the point if you think of
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by devnonymous 5y ago
Interesting article. FWIW, although unrelated, this is by John Ousterhout, the author of "A philosophy of software design" [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=a+philosophy+of+software+design
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by devnonymous 5y ago
Where exactly did I attempt to tear down family traditions? This entire thread of conversation began with my highlighting the parallels of how the Varana system, supposedly of divine origins, accepted and prevalent, even today in Silicon Va
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by devnonymous 5y ago
Ah ok, so if the daughter of the person you mentioned doesn't get into Yale on a scholarship where as the boy who has Yale alumni parents and didn't need scholarship did get in, then it is perhaps because the girl didn't thin
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by devnonymous 5y ago
> It still matters who your parents are, but in a significantly different (and I think more fair) way. It amazes me when people think the current socioeconomic structures are fair. You do realise that most people here, including perhaps
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by devnonymous 5y ago
> It’s sad that some bloodlines don’t make it out of poverty easily, but that’s just how the world works. Right, right, my mistake, this is nothing like the Varana system.
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by devnonymous 5y ago
> the lawyer's kid could go do technology and my kid could grow up to be a lawyer-- it's just a somewhat less likely outcome. And what would be the likelyhood of the child of a single mom working 2 unskilled jobs to be either o
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by devnonymous 5y ago
> People are permitted to pursue alternatives and aren’t forbidden. Systematic barriers are seldom built consciously, yet they exist and without conscious effort to break down continue to be perpetuated. From the point of view of opportu
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by devnonymous 5y ago
An underrated comment this. For those who don't know, the Varna system, also known as the caste system has long been justified as the 'natural order' of a scholar's child being a scholar, a warrior's child being a w
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by devnonymous 5y ago
I always find it strange that people recommend a different letter for the register when recommending macros. Why not just use `qq` and `@q` (with the added advantage that clearing the register is `qqq`) ?
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Alternate blog-post style link from the last tweet: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/27/bruno-argento/#static-con...
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by devnonymous 5y ago
Ah alright, I finally understand you. What you meant to say is the reason why Western classical music is built on the 12 note chromatic scale is because the musicians used the math! It has nothing to do with history. Sound about right?
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by devnonymous 5y ago
Hmm, I guess someone should tell those people, like Like Tolgahan Çoğulu who are writing music in microtonal scales with 19, 24 or 31 notes in a scale, that their notes spacing is random. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by devnonymous 5y ago
The idea of a semitone in Western classical music is historical not (just) tonal.

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