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clircle

2,514 karma · joined May 11, 2016

Professional statistician, amateur computer person.
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clircle··on Making Google Sans Flex
I find the whole “corporate blogging about fonts” subculture really funny
clircle··on Announcing the Beta release of ty
Why the “y” look so wrong in the special font.
clircle··on GitHub no longer uses Toasts
Yeah, probably a good idea to remove it since i use github everyday and have no idea what a toast is .
clircle··on Ask HN: Vim, Emacs and the time spent configuring
Taking away Emacs may just lead you to procrastinate on something different, not work on something productive. So, I'm not sure that this is a tool problem or a personal problem.
clircle··on GitHut – Programming Languages and GitHub (2014)
What statistic are you proposing? Number of repos / avg stars ?
clircle··on Washington Post editorials omit a key disclosure: Bezos' financial ties
Do we really hold editorials to the same standard as the rest of the news? These are opinion pieces, you should expect bias, no?
clircle··on How to Build a Great Terminal Editor That Is Better Than Emacs and Vim
Such a bitchy blog post
clircle··on Why use mailing lists?
News.gmane.io is up. I use it daily to track a few projects.
clircle··on Statistical Physics with R: Ising Model with Monte Carlo
I have a feeling that most data scientists using R have no need to touch any of the object systems, hard to believe that would be a deal breaker.
clircle··on Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy
I just install librewolf.
clircle··on Ergonomic keyboarding with the Svalboard: a half-year retrospective
I’ll just say that I bought a kinesis advantage a few years ago and did not like it due to the learning curve. But after trying a couple other ergonomic keyboards, and then coming back to the low force, kinesis advantage 2 LF, it’s now the only keyboard I want to use.
clircle··on Comparing the Glove80 and Maltron Keyboards
Recommendations for making a keyboard heatmap?
clircle··on Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions
Space is very big and satellites are very small.
clircle··on More than 1 in 5 Show HN posts are now AI-related, get > half the votes/comments
It’s why i read HN through rss. My rss app lets me filter based on keywords in the subject, so i can filter out the nth post about the incremental updates to commonly used models. If i don’t have control over the feed, i cant read this site.
clircle··on The EPA Isn't Killing Diesel–Tuners Are Killing Their Own Credibility
I don't need a think piece to tell me that diesel tuners are jokers.
clircle··on Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles
I was guessing that Donald Trump would be #1, but i was way off.
clircle··on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
Does anyone have tips for how to use space repetition to be a better knowledge worker? I feel like i could use it to have a better memory of business processes, but i dont know how to get started.
clircle··on SMS 2FA is not just insecure, it's also hostile to mountain people
Where does the trend of not capitalizing the first word in a sentence in techie blog posts come from?
clircle··on Mississippi Can't Possibly Have Good Schools
You first have to convince me that it makes sense to (1) do any adjustment in the first place, the adjustments are not reality, and (2) that the chosen adjustment method is the correct one.
clircle··on The True Size Of
You can rotate by clicking on the compass.
clircle··on The Books of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Author used to be an Emacs maintainer, FYI.
clircle··on The Zen of Task Management with Org
Emacs productivity bikeshedding blog posts are my personal catnip.
clircle··on Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have brain tumors
What’s the pvalue ?
clircle··on Windows 11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a Microsoft account
Is this going to apply to corporate and government windows installations?
clircle··on Differential Geometry: A First Course in Curves and Surfaces [pdf]
I took differential geometry during undergrad but had to drop out of the course as i thought i would fail the final. Great professor, but too much for my 20 year old brain. Id like to try it again in retirement.
clircle··on Tell HN: Substack Is Spamming
Stick to the rss feeds
clircle··on Tips for mathematical handwriting (2007)
But i need to signal that i am smart
clircle··on US egg prices increased 22% in 2025 and 202% in 12 months
And them watch them die from the avian flu?
clircle··on Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time
I'll be pirating a copy of LTSC when MS stops security updates to 10 Pro.
clircle··on [dead]
Github is free too
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