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So awesome. I've been watching the Data Haskell initiatives with a lot of interest, ever since it started. Haskell is such a great language that it deserves to have a good data sci…

If you want to make a keyboard more efficient, QWERTY is a very poor choice. QWERTY was designed in the nineteenth century, for mechanical typewriters. It was designed to be ineffi…

As with the "Zen of Python" or countless other "Zen of X" treatises, the connection to Zen or to Buddhism is tenuous if it exists at all. As far as I can tell, this author believes…

I'm upset that there are 700+ courses across 70+ languages, but none is my language, Esperanto, the most successful international auxiliary language of all time, with an estimated …

It's incredible what knowledge we'd have, if it weren't for Christianity and the Dark Ages it engendered. There are tons of palimpsests like this, like the Archimedes Palimpsest, i…

Without deep OS support for this kind of thing, I can't imagine it will feel anything like a native experience. There are already much better touch screen experiences with years of…

It strikes me as a little unimaginative to want to improve on smartphone software keyboards but (1) stick with QWERTY, a layout designed to be inefficient , and (2) require multipl…

I've used dozens of notetaking tools over the years. Some cloud-based, some markdown-based, some flashy apps, some plain-text, some open-source, and some closed-source. My takeaway…

> ... many current and former professional educators have taken it upon themselves to do their own research. Some then wrote books collecting their findings. These books tend to be…

> Falk and Wade suggest the scribe incorrectly transcribed two key words A typo is a typographic error. This is a scribe incorrectly transcribing from one manuscript to another.

Those of us that use Nix don't have the problems you complain about. Just write (or vibe-code) a flake.nix for each project, and you can have arbitrary versions of whatever languag…

It might not be a new area of inquiry, but the insight seems reasonably novel. If you read the article, it's about how Symbolic Show of Strength (SSS) beliefs are predictors for be…

That's not a flying car, it's just a small airplane. For it to be a car it would need to be able to drive on roads. With, you know, wheels and stuff.

While folks were building improved ls, cat, and so on, and jq for manipulating JSON data, Nushell has been happily doing all this in a consistent way and making it easier, to boot.…

Nushell.

I saw that this was on GitHub and I totally thought this was going to lead to a repo of some sort which solves this problem. But no. It was just complaining.

> I keep punctuating like it's the 20th Century. I keep punctuating like it's the 18th Century, myself;—compound points are my favorites:—like the colon-dash compound, AKA the "dog…

> it's absolutely undeniably that the Buddhist cannon is full of batshit insane stuff, just like any other religion Buddhism is not like Christianity, where the source of truth is …

So let me get this straight: HTML was originally built to have markup and style both in the same containers, and it was clunky and hard to maintain, so CSS was invented, to abstrac…

Even more ironic that the text of the Project Gutenberg license—for a public domain work!—is several times as long as Wordsworth's text.

It's not great design. It's a dirty hack that might work for some people, but is a non-standard practice that abuses JavaScript to achieve a certain effect. Overriding scrolling be…

This blog post, and the one it references, on the jhanas[1], belong to this weird genre which is basically in the vein of Buddhist writing, but without more than a passing referenc…

That's a really weird headline. Looking for new software? Buy new hardware! Meanwhile, you can install Linux on your existing laptop for free.

As a student of Zen Buddhism, I'm always a little bothered to see yet another thing called "Zen" that has virtually nothing to do with Zen, or Buddhism. The authors seem to think t…

> Most versions of Zen are made-up export products designed to flatter Westerners. Kind of like the samurai movie honor bushido stuff. I don't think so. If you go to a zenkai or a …