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Re: Shikkaku Mon no Saikyou Kenja Chapter 26

Jedai — Wed, 20 Sep 2017 05:13:21 -0000

We can just assume we're reading a "translation" from the language of their world to ours so when it say Pythagorean Theorem Mathi may have been thinking of the SomeoneElsian theorem but that's been translated for our convenience ! ;)

Re: Dominating Sword Immortal_Chapter 198 - Beast Tide - Xianxiaworld

Jedai — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 16:22:07 -0000

At this point Google Translate is actually giving a better translation... Just don't post it and admit the novel is abandoned.

Re: Dominating Sword Immortal_Chapter 139 - Thunder Freer，Scorching Ancient Desert - Xianxiaworld

Jedai — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 05:32:55 -0000

Thank you for the numerous chapters ! :-D

Re: Stand Still. Stay Silent - webcomic, page 412

Jedai — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 16:04:45 -0000

This is gorgeous !!!

Re: Not Invented Here by Bill Barnes and Jeff Zugale

Jedai — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:27:18 -0000

containers ? Yes, I know that, they're those metal boxes you put on ships, aren't they ? ;)

Re: strip for September / 28 / 2015 - Your Distant Homeland (9/12)

Jedai — Sun, 04 Oct 2015 07:34:19 -0000

Did this fool learn nothing from the last war the Veetan were involved in ? That was only a dozen year prior !

Re: Facebook’s New Spam-Killer Hints at the Future of Coding

Jedai — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 05:46:50 -0000

Note that this comic is tongue in cheek : xkcd use Haskell pretty frequently, several "specials" were written in it.

Re: HTML Parsing - School of Haskell | FP Complete

Jedai — Tue, 12 May 2015 01:07:37 -0000

(&/) was enough with the XML you gave, I suppose in your original XML price was not a direct child of book.

But did you have other prices in this xml ? After all if bookstore was the root element, it seems likely that the only prices were of books. In this case "element "price" >=> child" would have been enough and avoid any of the problem you had...

Re: HTML Parsing - School of Haskell | FP Complete

Jedai — Mon, 11 May 2015 15:53:46 -0000

The problem is that $// search among all the descendent of the root element... which in you case is "bookstore", which has no "bookstore" descendents... So if you just remove "element "bookstore" &/" from my code, it will work. Basically the root element of your xml document is special and should not be included in your findNodes.

Re: HTML Parsing - School of Haskell | FP Complete

Jedai — Sun, 10 May 2015 15:43:51 -0000

This is how I did it (note that I didn't use your NodeElement, far too unwieldy... If you at least gave me some XML...) :


   {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

    import qualified Data.Text as T
    import qualified Data.Text.IO as T
    import Text.HTML.DOM (parseLBS)
    import Text.XML.Cursor (Cursor, content, element, fromDocument, child,
                            (&/), ($//), (&|), (>=>))

    -- The data we're going to search for
    findNodes :: Cursor -> [Cursor]
    findNodes = element "bookstore" &/ element "book" &/ element "price" >=> child
    
    -- Extract the data from each node in turn
    extractData = T.concat . content
    
    -- Process the list of data elements
    processData =  mapM_ T.putStrLn
    
    -- test
    main = do
         let cursor = fromDocument $ parseLBS "<xml><bookstore><book><price>29.99</price></book><book><price>31.99</price></book></bookstore></xml>"
         processData $ cursor $// findNodes &| extractData

Re: HTML Parsing - School of Haskell | FP Complete

Jedai — Sun, 19 Apr 2015 09:34:50 -0000

NoScript is a Firefox extension, I was just wondering if it might be the reason the Haskell on this page doesn't work for you (it does for me, with the modification Franklin showed).

XPath is indispensable to understand how this work and once you do know XPath, the way to write your own findNodes is made clear by this tutorial. Clearly if you've never heard of XPath, you should inform yourself before trying to use html or xml-conduit, I disagree with the tutorial there : those expressions are only pretty straightforward if you're already kinda experienced in this field... See here for example for a XPath tutorial.

I also highly doubt content "doesn't work", though without access to your code and/or xml I can hardly diagnostic the problem. It might be that this price is not a textual content, or that you're not applying content the right way.

Re: HTML Parsing - School of Haskell | FP Complete

Jedai — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 16:08:15 -0000

This works for me. Are you using NoScript or other such extension ?

I quite like the tutorial, but that depends on what you're reading it for. For someone who already know XPath and Haskell, this is a practical tutorial, quite clear and to the point. Of course it doesn't explain how findNodes works but this is not the objective, you don't need to know that to use it (though maybe a note to the effect that this is a streaming library and thus won't have a problem with big documents would be welcome).

Re: 6 Gun Mage -

Jedai — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:00:55 -0000

"Coup de grâce" please. Except if you really want to give them some fat for some reason...

Re: 52

Jedai — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 17:22:28 -0000

It is amazing the amount of condescension you can show while spouting the most imbecilic propaganda... First I cited my source : NASA maintains good data and graphs on global temperature see http://data.giss.nasa.gov/g... for example since you appear unable to type "NASA global temperature graph" in Google... I fail to see the recent "cooling" trend.

Your "shift" from global cooling to global warming never happened : there was a brief period where the nascent climate science was wondering if there was a cooling (due to aerosols) or warming (due to CO2) trend to the world and some articles were written that took the stance that we were heading towards global cooling (generally with very long timetable...) but from the beginning more articles supported the hypothesis of global warming and very soon the abundance of data brought an understanding that we were headed for global warming and scientists started trying to quantify how much and why. See this study of the scientific publications of the time : http://journals.ametsoc.org... , it shows clearly that global cooling was never (very very far from it) a scientific consensus like global warming is.
"Climate change" was a late attempt to be less threatening and more all-compassing (warming is not all that's happening to our climate, but just a part) but clearly it has done little to diminish the zeal of the true believers in a global conspiracy (everyone know that the skeptics are poor martyrs without means and that the rational thing for a greedy scientist is to refuse any support from the oil industry and rely on grants...).

Note : The sun _is_ the primary driver of climate changes on our beautiful planet, it just so happens that the variation in his activity in the last two centuries are not enough to explain or even coherent with the global warming trend which despite your affirmation to the contrary is still happening so there must be another explanation, and all studies (a lot of them were made initially in the hope to disprove it) point the greenhouse gases as the primary culprit (and of course our emissions thereof as the major cause).

Re: 52

Jedai — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:45:06 -0000

Columbus wasn't at all in opposition to the scientists of his time, in fact the geographical thoughts of the time were completely in line with the possibility (though difficult) of his proposition, it is highly improbable that he would have received the support he had otherwise after all !

Note that those scientists were in fact profoundly mistaken since they believed the earth to have a circumference of around 30000 rather than 40000 (bad translation of a computation by an Arab who used a mile of ~2000m rather than the European ~1500m) and the lands from Spain to China to cover almost twice the distance they really did... It was happy coincidence that America was there to save Columbus expedition !

To come back to the subject, it is really ironic that we have here a comic on NASA which provides some of the best data on global temperature we have and then a moron like Jones that swallow anything without checking like the "oh how do you explain why the climate is now cooling ?" which is utterly discredited (the climate isn't cooling) and which even the "skeptics" have abandoned in favor of a last-dish defense of "yeah well there's global warming but it is as God will it/the sun fault/my favorite nutcase theory, we men are much too tiny to influence the climate globally".

Re: 51

Jedai — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:07:26 -0000

Seems your education neglected to speak about the personal power of a dictator and nation/race glorifying that are part and parcel of what is called Fascism (in any dictionary) or maybe you think that those are natural consequences of mandatory vaccination... The link is clear !

You also seems to think that the Nazi had real scientific justification and a global scientific consensus behind them like vaccination has ? Or maybe you're slightly exaggerating the role that scientific support had in Hitler rise to power ? No ?

What you're calling Fascism is usually called government interventionism in public health matters and is practiced in many democratic nations in the world (I can't wait to listen to you rant about the fact that they're not real democracies as if those existed in the current world). You seem to think *any* interventionism is bad so I can only suppose you're a die-hard anarchist who don't believe there may be some balance between anarchy and fascism ?

As to your claim that Fascism has killed far more than some missed vaccinations, it is clearly true as of yet, but the potential of massive pandemics is frightening : the Spanish flu killed 50 to 100 millions, as many as world war 2... Let's not even speak of the black death which in relative terms was much worse. It may be true that the current situation is not that grim yet but we're seeing resurgence of old killers we had managed to finally bury after they took their tolls on uncounted generations... this is a matter of worries and we know that anti-vaccination is one of the problem source (there's geographical correlation between anti-vaccination success and strength of the resurgence).

Re: 51

Jedai — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:23:30 -0000

Fascism... Yep, let's use big words immediately because we lack some rational arguments.
Sorry but fascism isn't having a mandatory vaccination process to help maintain a high level of health in the population thus saving lives or at the very least improving their quality and sparing money for other causes (treating the sickness is much costlier than vaccination). Vaccination doesn't cause harm to its recipient statistically, it's exactly the reverse, and not getting vaccinated may cause harm to other peoples, so it's not a purely individual decision. If you think a vaccination program is fascism I suggest you study history and other countries a bit because you lack perspective...

Facts are facts, and rational decisions are rational decisions, here logic and morals (to protect others) should both be dictating you get vaccinated so I really don't get what you find reprehensible in my reiterating why that is so.

I you're anti-vaccination and you find I'm impinging on your individual liberties well sorry buddy but maybe you should reconsider why you're anti-vaccination and bring your best solid arguments in favor of this position because "I'm free to do as I want" just isn't cutting it when you're putting others in danger as well as yourself (and/or your children ?).

Also another thing... What exactly do you suggest beside science to take decision ? The word of religious authority (which exactly) ? The ignorance of TV stars ? Apparently "Science" is a bad word to you, why is that so ?

Re: 51

Jedai — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 15:00:20 -0000

There's "opinion" and then there's "fact".
Facts like :
1. Vaccination works, it's the only way to explain the quasi-defeat of once common sicknesses, some fatal, some crippling, some embarrassing.
2. All links between Autism and Vaccinations have been disproved, new studies have shown there's no statistically significant link and the very few studies that told otherwise were debunked, generally being no more than outright frauds.
3. For vaccination to work optimally it is necessary for it to reach a majority of the concerned population to create herd immunity
4. Anti-vaccination propaganda is mostly if not only (I'm sure you could find some counter-exemple) spread by people who have no clue what they're speaking about : they have no statistical formation, they have no medical formation, they are not biologists...

So see what's your conclusion after this synthesis. You can check each of my claims pretty easily.

If you still think that anti-vaccination is "just an opinion" and that pointing out its dangers is "just expressing another opinion" and using it to offense someone, I can't do much more for you...

Re: 51

Jedai — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:34:36 -0000

Except is not a "new security thing", vaccinations are the bedrock over which we built a healthier population today (that, potable water and basic hygiene). It is a *regression* to refuse today the vaccinations that have been so wildly successful in the past.

Re: 51

Jedai — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:30:14 -0000

Well I would agree on the first point except generally the parents are the ones to decide whether their children will get the vaccinations (which they often had themselves)... So it's not the dumb one that are punished, it's the one they were responsible for.

Re: 51

Jedai — Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:23:51 -0000

Look up Herd Immunity and the resurgence of sicknesses that had been vaccinated away and stop being a dangerous egomaniac that believe that choosing whether to have the standard vaccinations should be up to the parents....

Re: apfelmus - GUI - Release of the threepenny-gui library, version 0.5.0.0

Jedai — Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:52:37 -0000

Well, it works for me now but since I didn't check back recently... At least we can be sure it works in the latest Firefox Dev Edition ! :-)

Re: Ark: Volume 4 Chapter 3

Jedai — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 12:34:55 -0000

Dark Brother is a really strange name for an organization, Dark Brotherhood would be far better (you can find such an organization in several RPG).

Anyway thanks for the translation, Ark is pretty fun so far !

Re: apfelmus - GUI - Release of the threepenny-gui library, version 0.5.0.0

Jedai — Sat, 11 Oct 2014 06:45:30 -0000

Very weird, the problem seems to lie with my browser (Firefox Aurora) since others show the images correctly...

Re: apfelmus - GUI - Release of the threepenny-gui library, version 0.5.0.0

Jedai — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 14:28:56 -0000

Maybe, I don't know what's going on : when I go directly to show the images they work, they just appear broken on this page.