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Very interesting. whats the use case of this?
If it's proven then we can add a new pointless compiler optimization (some of them are already allowed to assume some things never terminate, even)
https://twitter.com/badamczewski01/status/142826257042792857...
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This is if you have emacs-based keybindings (which is the default). M-f/M-b (Meta, often the alt key or option key) will move forward/backward a full word. C-f/C-b moves forward/backward a character. C-w kills the previous word (if you're in the middle of a word it leaves everything from the cursor to the end intact). C-r will search backward in your history allowing you to type partial matches (like, "I know I compi…
Aren't all terminal bindings emacs-based, since they inherit from libreadline?
There are no aliens[1] or alien technologies at Area 51. 1. Other than a gag mannequin or few.
People have always and will always think that the time they are living in is the most important time ever. This is a self evident fallacy or a universal truth. These times we are living in are not the most important. Or, of they are, then everyone everywhere is at everytime living at the same importance. Now, there is something called the hinge of history that some mathematicians have looked into the chance of "well…
I've described this on HN before; forgive me if you've already seen it. I have chronic migraine. It sounds worse than it is; I rarely suffer attacks anymore, and when I do, they're usually mostly harmless, as in the case I'll describe below. Contrary to popular belief, migraine is not a headache. It's something a little more like an epileptic seizure. Intense headaches are one common symptom, but there are a lot of o…
Most rape victims in the United States are men: https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/report.html Caution: that’s hard, explicit, distressing reading.
I assume it applies uniquely to the United States, given the high percentage of incarcerated people?
Here's mine, the Pareto principle or the 80/20 rule. You will find that it applies in MANY ascpects of life and knowing it may give you an `edge'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
In theory, there's no difference between the theory and the practice.
In practice, there is.
In the 1800s, scholars who knew a lot of languages (including, often, several modern and ancient European languages, and increasingly also Sanskrit) started to notice some amazing patterns about similarities in words among all of these languages, including languages from very far apart and that had no visible connection at all from the point of view of their present-day speakers. As these patterns were explored, they…
The book "The Unfolding of Language: the evolution of mankind's greatest invention" by Guy Deutscher explains this very well and has numerous examples. As a language noob, I found it fascinating!
I watched a piano/music teaching video from the 60s yesterday that made it all "click" [1] Most modern music chords patterns are easy to find out on piano. Start on any of the white keys, and play 7 white keys left to right. That is called a mode: a series of notes separated by certain intervals to compose a song. Different modes have different vibes. Atmosphere of the song ( sad or happy) is directly correlated by h…
> correlated by how "willing" the notes are to resolve to the mode root (the first key of 7 you hit). I've heard this explanation many times before, and I still don't understand how notes can be "willing" to do anything, or how a note can "resolve" to the root. Can someone ELI5?
Note 'resolution' is basically going from dissonance to consonance, providing a pleasing sense of stability.
What is considered consonant and dissonant can change with time and culture, so it's not a completely solid relationship, but overall a general pattern (like the notion of 'Major' being happy and 'minor' being sad is not a universal association).