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patjenk
·5 лет назад·discuss
I use sublime.txt everyday. The main purpose is reading, editing, searching a “scratch.txt” file I have been prepending to for the last 11 years. Sublime loads, saves, and searches it better than any other text editor. I have found it’s a helpful way to save random lists, notes, links, and common chunks of code.

It’s also my go to for wrangling weird txt.
patjenk
·6 лет назад·discuss
Hmm, interesting. I have always thought of it as a kettle lake. But you're right! There is a strong argument for endorheic basic.
patjenk
·6 лет назад·discuss
Is it necessary to name the problem if we know a driver of it?
patjenk
·6 лет назад·discuss
Let me abuse pythonic values:

IMHO, minimum sentencing requirements and a rigid adherence to stare decisis is harmful.[1]

On the other hand, it is helpful to have a reasonable expectation for how things are going to turn out.[2]

I don't have the time to compare and contrast "casuistry" with legal realism, but my hunch is it would end up with the same result: judges figure out how they want to rule and then pick and choose what law to use to get there.

[1] PEP 8 (Quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson), "A Foolish Consistency is the Hobgoblin of Little Minds".

[2] PEP 20, "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
patjenk
·6 лет назад·discuss
Sorry to be dense, but where in the article does it claim that GDP will grow forever?

An as an aside, GDP is only a proxy for how prolific an economy/country is. The country's output can continue to grow without generating more dollars.