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A Happy Illustrated Guide to a PhD
Originally posted on Toeholds: Diego posted a link to Matt Might’s article “The Illustrated Guide to a PhD“, which was funny, sad, and many would think is accurate. Since I feel optimistic today, I would like to extend on that with an encouraging note. While we’re all familiar with “perfect” objects, like a circle, triangle,…
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Fumblings about Compassion
“One with compassion is kind even when angry one without compassion will kill as he smiles.” Shabkar – Tibetan poet I’ve re-posted this here now: https://shittyphilosophy.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/fumblings-about-compassion/ I went to Krakow, Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II – Birkenau. It was surprising how un-horrifying it was. Birkenau was certainly bleak but its very hard to picture in…
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What if the trees were the real angels?
I’ve re-posted this here: https://shittyphilosophy.wordpress.com/2022/05/19/what-if-the-trees-were-the-real-angels/ What if the trees were the real angels? This is what I sat to think looking at this war memorial angel statue in Lier. Turns out there is a name for this – Pantheism. But my interpretation is roughly that Nature and God are the same thing. It’s reasonable to…
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Getting started with ReasonML
I write this as a stumbling fumbling guide for how to actually get started, when all you have is a Javascript and React backgroud with no knowledge of OCaml. I’m using a combination of Fedora and Ubuntu. Obviously start here: https://reasonml.github.io/ Installation I even went off the rails at this point because you need globally…
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Using ReasonML with Vim / Neovim
Here’s my attempts to get ReasonML working within Vim and the journey it took me on to understand what language servers are. If you’re using Vim this is essentially step 2 of the ‘quick start’ guide for reason: editor plugins. Warning to all who enter here… this took me 10+ hours to fix. It’s because…
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Installing Haskell ++ Emacs on Windows
Haskell Firstly install the haskell-stack chocolatey package: choco install -y haskell-stack For me that perfectly installed haskell and meant that I could run stack commands and have stack ghci running in a DOS prompt. Emacs Chocolatey has an Emacs package: choco install -y emacs This puts the emacs binaries into the chocolatey bin directory. Then…
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Deploying a WordPress blog in seconds with Docker
Containerization has taken IT automation to a whole new level, and docker is my favourite party pal. The Docker Hub and the huge community are some of its most valuable features. Source: Deploying a WordPress blog in seconds with Docker
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The racists are leaving
A little graph I made. The racists are leaving. Can the last one out please turn off the lights. Source: 2016 EU Ref Lord Ashcroft Polls
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Hoping the Brexit vote was a protest vote, not a racist one
The only positive I hope from this is that the Brexit vote was a protest vote. So I’m hoping the majority of ‘leavers’ aren’t siding with Farage, they don’t care about Boris – they just want to say Fuck You to all politicians and leaders. This is probably the first and only time that the…
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Jupyter on Windows with Chocolatey
Install Python This is a quick post (and will probably be outdated quickly), but it took me a while to get it correct. I wanted to install Jupyter on Windows. The recommeded route is via Anaconda but I like to use Chocolatey the Windows package manager as much as possible. I used Chocolatey to install…
Ian Channing 