groovy2shoes

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by groovy2shoes 3mo ago
Leslie Lamport is also the original creator of LaTeX.
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by groovy2shoes 5mo ago
i had a salesman say he noticed i had a lot of spiders around outside. he asked who i currently use for pest control. i said, "the spiders." he excused himself and left. maybe they don't make great decorations, but the spi
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by groovy2shoes 6mo ago
awesome, thank you! i'm not surprised there are more of these. i may be a little surprised i don't see them more often ;)
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by groovy2shoes 6mo ago
i came across a manuscript once that had a bunch of inky paw prints across a page. the scribe clearly tried to blot one of them, merely smudging it, then decided to let the rest be. it was in a very beautiful hand, and the full page must&
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by groovy2shoes 7mo ago
"deck" is the fairly normal word throughout the EDA industry. i reckon it's because such things used to be literal decks of punchcards, but i know less about EDA history than programming history.
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by groovy2shoes 7mo ago
"Good prices, no rats! That's the Fairsley Difference™!"
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by groovy2shoes 8mo ago
i liked this a lot. real Gene Wolfe vibes.
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by groovy2shoes 8mo ago
as a writer, i have found AI editing tools to be woefully unhelpful. they tend to focus on specific usage guidelines (think Strunk & White) and have little to offer for other, far more important aspects of writing. i wrote a 5 page ess
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by groovy2shoes 9mo ago
the anxiety that i might fry my monitor by setting the wrong scan rate haunts me to this day
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by groovy2shoes 10mo ago
cf. yak shaving :)
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by groovy2shoes 11mo ago
i'm very sorry to hear that. if you care to elaborate, i am curious. if you don't care to elaborate, that's fine too.
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by groovy2shoes 11mo ago
persistence of symptoms after discontinuation is the big one. after hormone levels return to baseline, there's no more pharmaceutical effect. thus the cause of those symptoms is unlikely to be pharmaceutical. it's worth noting t
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by groovy2shoes 11mo ago
The Lua-C API is also really consistent and straightforward. Bindings can be generated mechanically, of course, but it's really easy to embed by hand, and the documentation is superb.
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by groovy2shoes 11mo ago
Lua has lambdas. They too suffer from verbosity, of course, but they're there. function(x) return x; end
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by groovy2shoes 1y ago
i've had people mistake "ð" for an "o" with a diacritic, but presumably that's a typeface problem. whatever we choose, i insist that we drop the names and call them "eþþ" and "ðee", by anal
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by groovy2shoes 1y ago
the two drugs are complimentary and often prescribed together. finasteride is overwhelmingly well-tolerated, and i suspect that many reports of serious and lasting adverse reactions involve misattribution.
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by groovy2shoes 1y ago
indeed, finasteride raised my T levels slightly, from 18 ng/dL to 30 ng/dL. the same enzyme that converts T to DHT (5α reductase) can also to convert progesterone to DHT via the backdoor pathway, but i reckon that would have a ve
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by groovy2shoes 1y ago
i am inclined to agree on all points, and while the second parenthetical would be useful in Contemporary English, i cannot help but note that "þ" and "ð" in Old English both represented the same phoneme (unlike in, say,
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by groovy2shoes 1y ago
> the rather chaotic and unprofessional (and potentially insecure) nature of the way Cargo project dependencies explode into a hard-to-reason-about mess. this is one of my biggest gripes, too. that alone has been enough to cause me to a
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by groovy2shoes 2y ago
> Maybe the whole DEI thing is a blessing in disguise because it points all the arbitrary rage on an abstract concept rather than specific groups of people. They're still raging against specific groups of people, too. Immigrants an
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by groovy2shoes 2y ago
Poe's Law strikes again.
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by groovy2shoes 2y ago
Not true. Scheme has `do`. See R7RS section 4.2.4 "Iteration".
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by groovy2shoes 2y ago
Erasing someone's dysphoria would also fundamentally change their identity and personality. If I were to suffer a head injury today that so altered my personality, the result would be very unpredictable. I could become a better perso
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by groovy2shoes 2y ago
What do you mean? It says it right there on the FAQ: > 高德纳 is my Chinese name, given to me in 1977 by Frances Yao. A quick search indicates that Frances Yao is a colleague of Knuth's: > Frances Foong Chu Yao (Chinese: 儲楓; pinyin
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by groovy2shoes 2y ago
rip cormac mccarthy
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by groovy2shoes 2y ago
Cats, of course, speak Catalan.
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by groovy2shoes 3y ago
You're really going to hate Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, then.
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by groovy2shoes 3y ago
It depends on time period. Indulgences weren't things that were for sale before the High Middle Ages, and then their sale was controversial. It was part of the motivation of the Protestant movement, and much curtailed during the Cath
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by groovy2shoes 3y ago
I think it's a form of Joseph, with a Slavic diminutive suffix. Josef + -ka ("little Joseph", or "Joey"). If that's the case, then the reason Iosevka and Iosefka would be variations of the same name is that, i
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by groovy2shoes 3y ago
Just enough spaces to reach the next tab stop.

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