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Two Kohler Novita wash toilets (bidets), with heated seats, auto-open covers, instant unlimited hot water, and more.

Other examples of sociological storytelling y'all might recommend—other than Game of Thrones and The Wire—and not necessarily from TV but in any medium?

Is this trading bot you’re writing available online?

Xamuel, where did your old blog go? The one where you talked about Esperanto as a gateway language to get people over their fear of learning a new language? I try to cite it regula…

Firefox specific. about:config -> javascript.enable -> "false". Refresh. Reset to "true".

Like all good philosophy, this idea has a long history. I encountered it in Taleb's Black Swan as Pyrrhonian skepticism, which flourished in Greece as the Aristotelian Academy. Ver…

Just to make sure, is the demo supposed to forward me to https://postgres.demo.envelope.xyz/v1/app/all/index.html ? I feel sheepish for asking for this but a TodoMVC would be reall…

Professors teaching such courses at the graduate level primarily intend them to benefit students doing active research in the field. There's an extraordinary emphasis on mathematic…

FYI: FFTS [1] in many (most?) cases outperforms FFTW, without runtime calibration. It gets there by using a smarter algorithm algorithm. It doesn't have the bells and whistles of m…

I'm in. In a Previous Age, there were “rumors that there would be interest in opening up the language if there would be enough community response around it”—wonder if they amounted…

Your experience with Q is really a satisfying read! Should I abandon my tepid attempts to get into J and throw myself on Q, despite its hefty pricetag for 64-bit version? Would you…

I too am amused by his opinion of JavaScript. A professor was moved enough to translate most of SICP to JavaScript and writes in its first chapter, "Above beyond these consideratio…

I'm working through the admittedly beautiful and very thorough documentation [1]. It's a very simple idea, really: you write your document and sprinkle racket s-expressions whereve…

It's a matter of ongoing surprise to see many scientist-engineers in my niche, in the USAF-sphere, who are jumping from Matlab to Julia, leapfrogging Python. Kudos to them.

Also reminds me of Pollen, for the inestimable Racket environment, which was created by M. Butterick to typeset "Practical Typography". http://pollenpub.com/

Looks fabulous.

I don't understand the dichotomy between speed and efficiency. What's speed is the author talking about, and whose efficiency?