Eh, I agree with the OP. Suicide is the only rational choice for the dyed in the wool environmentalist.
Interesting. Pretty sure __I__ would crash with that many tabs open.
I run firefox on linux on two computers. Works great, no tweaking/building required.
There will always be a trinket to keep you on the plantation.
And then there are all of us, so enamored by tech, that we promote the destruction of serendipity in the stacks every step of the way because serendipity isn't searchable. Or something.
For me, it's only partially a technical problem. If I need to really study something, I always print it out or buy the book. Honestly, I don't really understand why, but I'd guess that my comprehension and patience are…
This happened to my grandmother a few years ago, with somebody claiming to be me. Purportedly, I had broken my arm in Spain, and needed money for surgery. Fortunately, she had the good sense to call my parents and find…
Agreed. Writing with AUCTex plus helm-bibtex is like a dream. I like org-mode but I find it a too limiting for actually writing papers in.
> I believe you cannot simply run Linux any laptop. You have to buy a laptop specifically for Linux. No you don't. Ive had debian on a lenovo laptop for five years with none of the issues you speak of. Printing and…
I really like Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right. It's all conceptual (i.e., proofs), and doesn't focus on computation at all.
Not really. Normal people have basically no interest Himalayan salt.
Not everybody believes ethics is a set of rules set forth by some committee.
Not really. It's pretty evident at this point that most publications are basically worthless.
> ...and monitor choices, you... So... more telemetry. This user says no thanks.
I don't really understand why people think cars are so expensive. Sure, they can be, but that's true of anything. In 20 years, I've never owned a car worth more $4000. Hardly seems like a huge investment. I have friends…
The bug is that plugins can't be manually enable. Nobody is working to fix that.
Completely agree. Using firefox feels more and more like using an iThing.
True. But they also increasingly stand for things I completely disagree with. Namely, deciding which software is approved for me to run on my computer. The way I see it, extensions shouldn't need to be "approved"…
Yes.
People like to say that "modern" science has moved past Popper. In my opinion, this is because it allows them to attach the gravitas of Science [0] to whatever their pet topic is, even when that topic does not admit…
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I too have coded up a lot algorithms from academic papers. In my mind, yk = C * xk + D * uk is a lot clearer than position_at_time_k = output_matrix * state_at_time_k +…
Interesting. I've come to basically the opposite conclusion and find case insensitivity to be counter intuitive. "Foo" and "foo" are not the same set of ascii characters; why should they map to the same thing?
"The code produced by people in academia" is about as specific a target as asking about the diet of people in Portland. It ranges from a strict regimen of Taco Bell to pesca-pescatarian.
In mathematical code, single letter variables are often the clearest. "Descriptive" names only obfuscate the meaning further, because the meaning is in the math.
Is whataboutism the modern incarnation of ad hominem? Personally, I would classify these objections about Balsillie's arguments as ad hominem attacks. If the point he makes is logically coherent, what does his personal…
Eh, I agree with the OP. Suicide is the only rational choice for the dyed in the wool environmentalist.
Interesting. Pretty sure __I__ would crash with that many tabs open.
I run firefox on linux on two computers. Works great, no tweaking/building required.
There will always be a trinket to keep you on the plantation.
And then there are all of us, so enamored by tech, that we promote the destruction of serendipity in the stacks every step of the way because serendipity isn't searchable. Or something.
For me, it's only partially a technical problem. If I need to really study something, I always print it out or buy the book. Honestly, I don't really understand why, but I'd guess that my comprehension and patience are…
This happened to my grandmother a few years ago, with somebody claiming to be me. Purportedly, I had broken my arm in Spain, and needed money for surgery. Fortunately, she had the good sense to call my parents and find…
Agreed. Writing with AUCTex plus helm-bibtex is like a dream. I like org-mode but I find it a too limiting for actually writing papers in.
> I believe you cannot simply run Linux any laptop. You have to buy a laptop specifically for Linux. No you don't. Ive had debian on a lenovo laptop for five years with none of the issues you speak of. Printing and…
I really like Axler's Linear Algebra Done Right. It's all conceptual (i.e., proofs), and doesn't focus on computation at all.
Not really. Normal people have basically no interest Himalayan salt.
Not everybody believes ethics is a set of rules set forth by some committee.
Not really. It's pretty evident at this point that most publications are basically worthless.
> ...and monitor choices, you... So... more telemetry. This user says no thanks.
I don't really understand why people think cars are so expensive. Sure, they can be, but that's true of anything. In 20 years, I've never owned a car worth more $4000. Hardly seems like a huge investment. I have friends…
The bug is that plugins can't be manually enable. Nobody is working to fix that.
Completely agree. Using firefox feels more and more like using an iThing.
True. But they also increasingly stand for things I completely disagree with. Namely, deciding which software is approved for me to run on my computer. The way I see it, extensions shouldn't need to be "approved"…
Yes.
People like to say that "modern" science has moved past Popper. In my opinion, this is because it allows them to attach the gravitas of Science [0] to whatever their pet topic is, even when that topic does not admit…
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree then. I too have coded up a lot algorithms from academic papers. In my mind, yk = C * xk + D * uk is a lot clearer than position_at_time_k = output_matrix * state_at_time_k +…
Interesting. I've come to basically the opposite conclusion and find case insensitivity to be counter intuitive. "Foo" and "foo" are not the same set of ascii characters; why should they map to the same thing?
"The code produced by people in academia" is about as specific a target as asking about the diet of people in Portland. It ranges from a strict regimen of Taco Bell to pesca-pescatarian.
In mathematical code, single letter variables are often the clearest. "Descriptive" names only obfuscate the meaning further, because the meaning is in the math.
Is whataboutism the modern incarnation of ad hominem? Personally, I would classify these objections about Balsillie's arguments as ad hominem attacks. If the point he makes is logically coherent, what does his personal…