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by eddieh 27d ago
A link to a YouTube video without context e.g. summary of findings, primary author/creators, and primary citations, methodology, and so on is a next to useless for making a point. For all we know you’re linking to a crackpot or an indu
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by eddieh 4mo ago
Customizing chapter styles, page styles, and headings was my sole reason for using the memoir class. I'm probably in the minority, that's true.
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by eddieh 4mo ago
That Wikipedia article needs a better screenshot. Otherwise, very interesting. And DESQview/X was X Window System on DOS with pre-emptive multitasking, wow.
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by eddieh 4mo ago
For me the memoir class made LaTeX worse. The titlesec package is more customizable, easier to use, and reduced the size of the preamble significantly.
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by eddieh 5mo ago
Indeed those are pretty great, but none of those grow _on_ you.
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by eddieh 6mo ago
Not really, if you're entering Iranian airspace from the Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, or Europe, you're flying over either the Zagros Mountains or the Alborz Mountains. Unless you crash/eject in a city, you're almost
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by eddieh 6mo ago
Iran isn't just central Tehran. Look up the Zagros Mountains and the Alborz Mountains. Or just look at a picture of the northern Tehran skyline, it is at the foot of the Alborz, a huge mountain range. There's plenty of woodlands a
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by eddieh 8mo ago
error: invalid digit '9' in octal constant
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by eddieh 1y ago
Percival Lowell misunderstanding the Italian word “canali”[1] should rank pretty high in terms of similar phenomena and is probably the most impactful example. 1. https://lowell.edu/percival-lowells-search-for-life-on-mars&#
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by eddieh 1y ago
From the Microsoft LTSC info: > If you fail to activate this evaluation after installation, or if your evaluation period expires, the desktop background will turn black, you will see a persistent desktop notification indicating that the
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by eddieh 1y ago
Touché.
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by eddieh 1y ago
Looks cool, but produce GIFs? Asciinema is text based IIRC. The name is the downside of Asciinema IMO. Can’t help but read it as ASCII enema, which is funny, but not what I want think about. Just call it tty-player or something…
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by eddieh 1y ago
Basically, writing a CS paper in LaTeX using the "alg*" packages (algorithm2e, algorithmicx, algorithms, algpseudocode, algxpar, algpseudocodex, etc.) is living in the ALGO 60 / ALGO 68 world. For the most part, nobody uses a
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by eddieh 1y ago
The Cray machines looked more like an airport seating area. Or with later models, obstacles in a laser tag arena. While the Thinking Machines with the moving LEDs looked alive, almost like it was designed to be a character in a movie, which
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by eddieh 1y ago
Yet the Jurassic Park franchise is just as strong as ever. Thinking Machines CM-5 in Jurassic Park (1993): https://www.starringthecomputer.com/appearance.html?f=11&c=1... Jurassic World Rebirth passes $500 M in revenue:
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by eddieh 1y ago
The iPhone 8 was peak iPhone. I’m on my second iPhone 8 and am posting from it now. I did also like the original iPhone SE mostly because of the size, but the haptics make the the iPhone 8, along with having a bezel, square screen, and home
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by eddieh 1y ago
You can be a great X and be completely unknown Where X is any vocation, skill, talent, etc…
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by eddieh 1y ago
I’m confused, is this operating on Emacs’ frames or windows. ** For those here that are not Emacs users these terms mean the opposite of what you’re likely used to.
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by eddieh 2y ago
Actually, you don’t have that right. Most cities ban public nuisance noises such as blasting air horns. You’re mostly free to do things that do not harm others. If you don’t like my speaking you can and should just move along. Blasting an a
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by eddieh 2y ago
There’s no argument for the change in the general case. There’s rationalizations, sure. But no euphemisms like “public”, “free software”, “copyleft”, make the change anything less than taking away a freedom and calling it “free as in speech
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by eddieh 2y ago
WARNING: The Post Millennial is an extremist website. I can’t believe that getting “news” about an extremist group from another extremist organization is a productive way to make sense of the world. Honestly, read whatever you want but just
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by eddieh 2y ago
Basically the same odds of dying in a car crash over your lifetime. So unless you give up on driving or being a passenger of a car—this is a meaningless risk, and besides that, it is even less likely to hit land, let alone a populated area.
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by eddieh 2y ago
HN link is not the paper’s title. Also doesn’t seem to be peer reviewed and isn’t even uploaded to a pre-print server like arXiv—literally hosted on GitHub.
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by eddieh 2y ago
Yes. Negatively. Not sure analysis is needed. Algorithmic feeds are fucked and impact you negatively. All of them! You have no real control over what you see, they're ephemeral, nobody has a shared experience, and that's _only a f
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by eddieh 2y ago
Too bad the first program in the article leaks its file descriptor. Memory is but one resource you need to manage. File descriptors are the first oft overlooked resource in a long list of neglected finite resources.
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by eddieh 2y ago
It was much easier and healthier for me to just leave Twitter (never gonna call it the other name). In fact, I’ve left nearly all of social media. It would be nice to get away from all algorithmic content feeds. Maybe someday.
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by eddieh 2y ago
Exactly this! And you have to expect that as the diameter approaches zero your pasta becomes indistinguishable from a gelatinous lump of gluten aka paste.
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by eddieh 2y ago
When I saw “should be in rust” my instinct was to flame like nobody’s business, glad I kept reading. Lmao. Good slow burn. Though, not to put too fine a point on it, I know it was in jest, but the core implementation language is the least o
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by eddieh 2y ago
I used to define functions as `funcname (arglist)` And always call the function as `funcname(args)` So definitions have a space between the name and arg parentheses, while calls do not. Seemed to work well, even in languages with extraneous
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by eddieh 3y ago
Lightworks hands down has the absolute best workflow for cutting and assembling video. Nothing else comes close. But like you said, they want you to pay for for anything above 720p. The downside is that it is really slow on my Core i9 Mac w

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