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Maybe someone else has been there before and told them "Go to page ten".
Maybe you know that there are 20 pages, and are looking to find the median, or are just informally playing around, looking at the distribution.
Same as you'd do with an interesting page of a book. I don't think I'd stop using page numbers in dead tree books if they somehow came with filters.
Ṭhānissaro Bhikkhu's translations of the pāli Canon are usually sensible: https://www.dhammatalks.org/suttas/SN/SN56_11.html
or Bhikkhu Bodhi: https://www.budsas.org/ebud/ebsut001.htm
There are also translations around that come via the Chinese cannon instead.
The suttas are probably very hard to understand without background knowledge or commentary (or, really, actual practice), but of course I don't know which of the commentaries GP refers to. The dhammacakkappavattana sutta, being one of the important/famous ones, has truly voluminous commentary from truly voluminous sources.
GP refers to "continuous effort to face the uncomfortable". I'm not sure that I'd use that sentence to summarise the Buddhas teaching to be honest. But I suppose that it could be a reference to the 6th limb of the noble eightfold path (right-effort), or the 7th (right-mindfulness), or to the 1st noble truth (the truth of unsatisfactoriness/ suffering).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path
First sermon aside, his last words also, as given in the maha-parinibbana sutta, were to be "heedful" or to "strive diligently".
it takes a while to learn how to use your text editor well, and everyone is probably good at a different one. but they all pretty well have the ability to produce the same result, so why bother forcing one?
it's better to (have a tool that can) specify what the end result should look like and let people work the way that they are good at.
int main() return 0;I haven't looked at the link but based on your quote your comment about page 14 doesn't look right. The different notation doesn't change the number of times you need to write the operator.
Your new equation is just writing the same thing on each side, but using a different notation. It's like a=a. Whereas their equation is apparently giving an identity.
But when collaborating on a curry, I don't want to use the same knife as the guy who cut the tomatoes wants to use. That knife looks blunt and rusty to me.
I think that it was merged into FreeBSD a while back though: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=224638