tygorius

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by tygorius 10y ago
I disagree. The fact is that Trump convinced a lot of people in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania to vote for him in what Democrats thought was their "firewall". Firewall appears to be political jargon for "we can take th
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by tygorius 10y ago
The Federalist Papers (and the Anti-Federalist Papers for that matter) were public attempts to persuade people it's true. At the time they were aimed at the people of New York on the issue of ratifying the Constitution -- arguably a mo
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by tygorius 10y ago
The electoral college isn't a bug, it's a design feature. Cf The Federalist Papers. A fundamental problem for democracy is how to keep it from degenerating into mob rule. The EC is one of those "checks and balances" mech
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by tygorius 10y ago
It's funny, we expect "undo" features in our applications these days, why shouldn't the OS and indeed the entire machine's state be treated the same way? I used to think that virtualized Windows guests would elimina
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by tygorius 10y ago
I too stopped using 'jj' because of the short delay. FWIW I've found ';l' to work well as a replacement. (For a trial period I had them both mapped to <esc> in my vimrc file.) ';l' seems a natural, b
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by tygorius 10y ago
As I mentioned in another reply here, I'd suggest you ignore the siren call of "most recent" and just pretend it's five years ago. Use the Squeak by Example book with it's associated version of Squeak to get a basic
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by tygorius 10y ago
Some of the cool kids at Smalltalk High forked Squeak to create Pharo back in 2008 and that's where a lot of the recent developer energy has gone. But rapid development has its costs: Pharo 5.0 has just come out while the site offers t
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by tygorius 10y ago
Well, it's restricted to educational uses, so I don't anticipate a lot of pressure from Indian textbook authors on this one. The specific case seems to stem from professors suggesting students read various sections of different te
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by tygorius 10y ago
One point worth noting on this new release: there's finally an up-to-date official Windows package.
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by tygorius 11y ago
No other text editor has as many developers working on plugins than VIM. Virtually anything that exists in another text editor which isn’t mouse driven has some very popular, very supported, very documented plugin you can use
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by tygorius 11y ago
This is one of those historic artifacts, like the Mother of All Demos, that really brings home the sense of possibilities that people had for computers a couple of generations back. Back in 1995 MIT had a symposium with computing luminaries
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by tygorius 11y ago
In chess below the master level tactics will dominate. How do you get really good at tactics? Not just by playing lots of chess, but by consistently devoting effort to studying tactics via printed collections of positions and/or tactic
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by tygorius 11y ago
Harvey is really a force for good when it comes to making programming and computer science topics accessible to more people. In addition to SICP and SNAP work, he was also a force behind UCB Logo and wound up writing a three volume introduc
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by tygorius 12y ago
Well, by that logic the record studios were proxies for musicians. Sorry, not buying that argument. If I were Stross I'd certainly be peeved at the loss of access to customers and, by extension, income. Especially if I were obligated b
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by tygorius 12y ago
I was nodding in agreement right up until the point he showed charts of 17 "first-world" nations and started torturing data: In terms of pretty much any metric you'd care to name — I'm showing you homicide and infant mo
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by tygorius 12y ago
The "purpose" of the opening is to get yourself into the sort of middlegame position you like to play. (Some players love having white against a French Defense, for example, while other are quite comfortable with black's side
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by tygorius 12y ago
1) Android is a Linux, it's just not marketed as such: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28operating_system%29#... 2) If you're someone like me who drops in to distrowatch.com occasionally, you might th
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by tygorius 13y ago
As has been pointed out, you've got the sequence reversed. Raskin was on the original Macintosh team first. His ideas for the project included keeping the cost down. Things like using an 8-bit CPU (the 6809?) rather than the still-pric
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by tygorius 13y ago
>> Dave's writing was all about him. > So what? > ... not everybody saw what he wrote as particularly negative towards Marissa, and many (most) of us got that the real point he was making was contained at the very end of t
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by tygorius 13y ago
The adverse effects of frictionless computing are all around us. Email is the first example that comes to mind. It is simply too easy to send email messages, so we all send too many (I am famously guilty of this) and receive too many. It i
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by tygorius 14y ago
I can't speak to salt, but the classic explanation for sugar and high fructose corn syrup is Robert Lustig's UCSF presentation[0]. Midway through he discusses the differences between HFCS and sugar in how they metabolized, including the bra
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by tygorius 14y ago
Tiny Core Linuxis still going strong ( http://www.tinycorelinux.net/ ). They're now up to three images, all built on the idea of running out of RAM with a 3.0-era kernel. The Core image is CLI-only and weighs in 8 MB; TinyCore adds a GUI/WM
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by tygorius 14y ago
I've always thought it was a nifty chip, but one I couldn't think of an application for. Things like the 18-bit word size can throw some developers off -- the last time I looked at the chip some audio application guys were kvetching that th
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by tygorius 14y ago
First off, beef is indeed awesome and it has given me the incredible intelligence and physical beauty that I so casually display today. Second, more seriously, your response is political rather than scientific. There may indeed be flaws in
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by tygorius 14y ago
"emotional response is illogical" To compound the problem, emotional responses are faster , with rational arguments developed after the fact. The neocortex likes to think it's hot shit, but the lizard and mammal brains still control us to
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by tygorius 14y ago
Well, it depends a bit on what pre-internet era you're talking about. When I think back to the 1960s and 1970s in the US, the first difference that strikes me is that we were resource-bound. * Hardware was expensive, so back in the age of m
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by tygorius 14y ago
I'm using the same setup except xmonad instead of dwm. Aside from installing GHC as a dependency, I've have no need to mess with Haskell to use xmonad. And unless you're doing something crazy/brilliant with dwm, I'd doubt you'd need to hit
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by tygorius 14y ago
The author's agenda in the article leads to some dubious claims. For example, I am not sure how Sufis bringing coffee from Ethiopa to the rest of the world justifies saying they "invented" it. Also, the ancient Athenians would seem to have
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by tygorius 14y ago
Actually, that's one of Heinlein's characters commenting on writing. Occasionally Heinlein would have to remind people that his characters spoke for themselves, not for him. I can't remember a case where he spoke or wrote about writing in a
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by tygorius 14y ago
Others have commented on the lack of proof for the "cramped attic" theory of memory. Additionally, if you're trying to remember information that you'll use regularly, in my experience the more absurd imagery merely serves as the means of ge

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