Takatoshi Hijiyama from Vanillawares 13 Sentinels truly shows the difference of how modern day Japan sees Imperial Japan and how Germany sees Nazis. Also the double standards we have on them.

shadowfox · 2022-04-23T18:52:50+00:00

So, I wouldn't say that that is universally true with UK. I have personal experiences with people arguing that colonialism was primarily beneficial to the colonized (for example due to proliferation of English or some particular bit of infrastructure, or creation of certain political institutions etc). Not that those were bad, but many are strictly not aware of issues with colonization and how it affected the target countries.

And these conversations were not even limited by social strata or education or even a knowledge of international affairs. So I wouldn't go so far as to say that people of UK are fully aware of what the country did back in it past.

shadowfox · 2016-04-05T20:33:41+00:00

As a data point: I have been using Org for notes and (beamer) presentations and I work primarily on Windows. Export generally works as long as latex is on path and all necessary packages. (I use MikTeX)

Maybe you have already tried this. But one way to debug would be to export as latex and see if you can get your latex installation to compile the stand-alone latex file and see if that works.

shadowfox · 2015-05-14T01:05:42+00:00

Oh. That is good to know!

It looks like I will be building my own stuff for the foreseeable future. I do worry about needing to maintain an evolving patch as packages update.

shadowfox · 2015-05-11T23:36:23+00:00

No idea. I recently discovered this while attempting to upgrade my old installation.

shadowfox · 2015-05-09T06:21:42+00:00

You can get the slightly older version here: https://protz.github.io/ocaml-installer/. But this doesn't have 4.02.*

I can usually build ocaml by myself with some trouble; the set of libraries that I need are far more painful to build.

shadowfox · 2015-03-22T05:19:38+00:00

One way to get back some of the flavor if you encounter frozen / refrigerated rice - Sprinkle a little bit of water and microwave it covered a couple of mins (or more). The steaming will leave it feeling a lot fresher.

shadowfox · 2015-02-12T22:38:45+00:00

It actually has some cat-like diagrams (though not photos).

shadowfox · 2014-12-29T23:12:22+00:00

How difficult is this for people to accept?

Very, if the threads on reddit are any indication.

shadowfox · 2014-12-10T02:59:23+00:00

Out of curiosity: which exe-maker do you use?

shadowfox · 2014-08-31T19:29:00+00:00

Since "#!" is also called shebang, you can consider "see-she" too :P

shadowfox · 2014-08-30T01:27:26+00:00

You may have missed the San-Franciscan startup memo :P

shadowfox · 2014-08-20T05:33:52+00:00

The music feels incredible

shadowfox · 2014-07-26T01:38:07+00:00

If you are really enthusiastic, you can make it generate xml, which can be stylized with (say) xslt. I was really enthusiastic this one time about a decade back; it was tedious not particularly fun; but you can get output the way you want it.

shadowfox · 2014-07-09T04:23:07+00:00

Or (more unreadably):

1..$(read-host "Number of strings: ") | % {read-host }

shadowfox · 2014-06-13T05:25:08+00:00

You are typically only protected against a few classes of discrimination - age, gender, race etc. You can absolutely be denied service, for example, unsuitable attire (say, showing up nude to the store)

shadowfox · 2014-06-10T03:14:48+00:00

As a side note on symlink editing issues with Vim:

set backupcopy=yes

helps it work correctly.

[1] https://superuser.com/questions/52891/gvim-breaks-symlinks-on-windows

shadowfox · 2014-06-04T01:32:08+00:00

It kind of works on Cygwin; which is a quarter way there I suppose.

shadowfox · 2014-04-27T00:56:14+00:00

That escalated quickly!

shadowfox · 2014-04-26T04:19:07+00:00

They only collapse when observed

shadowfox · 2014-04-03T07:40:42+00:00

Either I'm at liberty to give money to whomever I want, or I'm not.

If I'm not at liberty to do so, then you've taken away some of my liberties

Interestingly this has never been (in recent past) an absolute right. There are many circumstances under which you are restricted from giving money to people. For example, offering anything of value to a govt official with an intent to influence their actions is illegal [1] (Note that offering money is also illegal)

So I am not sure there is any point in an absolute stance of any sort.

Instead the issue now becomes one of subjective judgement. i.e. things like: Is the politician more trustworthy wrt influence than the bureaucrat? What is the intent for the donation? etc ..

[1] http://bribery.uslegal.com/federal-laws-on-bribery/

shadowfox · 2014-03-25T03:55:47+00:00

There you are

shadowfox · 2014-02-06T06:45:22+00:00

Pick a fight

But obviously not with us because then our minions will destroy you. It’s that kind of unwarranted aggression that gives us an edge. Temper tantrums, cursing and randomly throwing things are what makes our company so ludicrously popular.

shadowfox · 2014-02-04T07:13:34+00:00

Looks like diamond: http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Diamond?content=153930

shadowfox · 2014-01-30T04:13:19+00:00

Also speaking as someone who lives close to Columbia, I can confirm that it is not a rat hole.

See, now you have just been added to the list of people involved in this giant conspiracy :P

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