gnubison

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by gnubison 2mo ago
GP’s “Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud” means “elevator for the gallows.” I think they are familiar with the composition, you might be missing the point of their comment.
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by gnubison 2mo ago
Big Egg
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by gnubison 3mo ago
I think everyone says “couldn’t care less”. But Wiktionary does say “could care less” is “American, nonstandard, proscribed”, so I guess only Americans have that (defective) alternative phrase.
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by gnubison 3mo ago
What is ISE?
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by gnubison 3mo ago
The behavior is agnostic of the endianness of the target platform.
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by gnubison 3mo ago
cond1 ? res1 : cond2 ? res2 : cond3 ? res3 : or_else_res If they are truly nested, then that is confusing. But if you have an if-else chain, then it can be quite readable.
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by gnubison 3mo ago
As programmers in programming culture, we have a distinction between hacker and, potentially, cracker that no ordinary person has. ESR’s prescriptivism is pretty much worthless in this respect: words mean what people think they mean and wha
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by gnubison 4mo ago
Where did you leave to?
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by gnubison 5mo ago
If you want ‘git diff | pager’ to work like that, you’re out of luck. There is no way for the pager to communicate with git or the shell to rerun the command; the pager doesn’t even know what program is on the writing side of its stdin pipe
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by gnubison 6mo ago
Pronounced octópodes, /ɒkˈtɒpədiːz/, with the -es rhyming with Heracles etc.
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by gnubison 7mo ago
Maybe the Briggs-Rauscher reaction?
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by gnubison 9mo ago
To clarify, these aren’t the normal Feynman lectures. He lectured at a different institution and the author of this webpage transcribed those lectures to produce this set of notes. The content covered is different from the famous set of lec
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Feynman's Hughes Lectures: 950 pages of notes(thehugheslectures.info)
213 points by gnubison 9mo ago|45 comments
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by gnubison 10mo ago
iOS repeated “learns” new words that I use that are misspellings of real words (because I mistype things in a predictable way). It becomes so convinced that it will autocorrect the real word into the typo. And knowing how the keyboard works
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by gnubison 11mo ago
Strang does include that. I just checked the fourth edition, like you say you did. Scrolling down two pages to get to the first page of the table of contents, I see the heading “cosines and projections onto lines”. I navigate to that sectio
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by gnubison 1y ago
It would be like a speaker who can’t distinguish the uh sound in “but” with the ih sound in “bit”. Is it really the native English speaker’s fault if he can’t understand that personal dialect? France’s vowel inventory is bigger than (or jus
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by gnubison 1y ago
> the solution of any one of which would change not only the career of the person who solved the problem, but possibly life on Earth. Many have stood like mountains in the distance, rising above the clouds, for generations. Whether or no
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by gnubison 1y ago
I think ed is what you’re looking for (possibly with -s).
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by gnubison 1y ago
The article specifically points out WaniKani as an example of a very bad implementation of spaced repetition (see the "FSRS in practice" heading, under the paragraph "for Japanese language learning specifically...").
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by gnubison 1y ago
Click the time (next to the author) to go to a page for the comment, where you will be able to favorite it.
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Fixing Telnet Fixes (2019)(flak.tedunangst.com)
5 points by gnubison 1y ago|0 comments
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by gnubison 1y ago
Uiua?
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by gnubison 1y ago
As a senior in high school, I devoured this game in elementary school and got way better at math than my peers. Now taking differential equations and multivariable calculus through our college in the high school (CHS) program. When I looked
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by gnubison 1y ago
It is much more complicated than Perl. Every feature you could ever want, in multiple ways, it seems like. Perl isn’t too complicated or large of a language.
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by gnubison 1y ago
You add multiple next variables. buffer.next, buffer.next_displayed, etc
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by gnubison 2y ago
Or, a stupid way: “#*” Or, also stupid: “*``”
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by gnubison 2y ago
What do these acronyms mean?—IE, FEA, DOE?
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by gnubison 2y ago
*raw Cooked is when the kernel handles it (cooking it before it gets to your program)
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Book Review: The Iliad(reasonableapproximation.net)
1 points by gnubison 2y ago|0 comments
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by gnubison 2y ago
The remote ssh bug? It was caused by some Linux distributions patching sshd to link to libsystemd which required liblzma which had the backdoor. It didn’t affect OpenBSD or involve upstream OpenSSH.

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