GregBuchholz

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   by GregBuchholz 9y ago

   "At that time Jesus came from Nazareth in Galilee and was baptized by John in the Jordan. Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove. And a voice came from
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   by GregBuchholz 9y ago

   I suppose one could see it as a devotion of sorts: "While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and
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   by GregBuchholz 9y ago

   Who pays for all the infrastructure like mechanic shops, and oil changing facilities?
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   by GregBuchholz 9y ago

   If you like "if guards", and want a non-whitespace delimited, strict, dynamically typed language, check out the Pure language: gcd a b = gcd (a-b) b if a>b; = gcd a (b-a) if a<b; = a o
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   by GregBuchholz 9y ago

   Lighter than air, or near lighter than air vehicles? (Maybe only when lower than 1000' or something?) http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/i-didnt-know-that/...
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   by GregBuchholz 9y ago

   > That means having experts go over every inch of your flying car regularly, and that means a lot of money. Automated car inspections with robotic X-ray scans every 3000 miles of flight? A JiffyInspect on every street corner?
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   by GregBuchholz 10y ago

   >Chaitin's constant -- <snip> -- which is so ornery a number that we cannot (even in THEORY) figure out a single digit of it (other than its being between 0 and 1). You might be interested in: https://www.cs.aucklan
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   by GregBuchholz 10y ago

   "SciPy – the embarrassing way to code" http://www.vetta.org/2008/05/scipy-the-embarrassing-way-to-c...
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   by GregBuchholz 10y ago

   Here's another different take on small-scale hydrokinetic power generation that I found interesting: http://leadingedge.engin.brown.edu/wordpress/ ...no turbines to get clogged/wrapped with debris, and potent
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    ...And I was thinking of something like: "How to draw a straight line" https://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/mechanicaldesign101/Kempe-Str... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_line_mechanis
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Like a mind map? https://www.freeplane.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Would have been more interesting if we were looking at a liquid helium fluidyne engine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidyne_engine
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Now if only we can get people to stop antique computer languages from 1972. (yeah, yeah, I know, special cases. In fact I'm current working on a project using C on three different microcontrollers).
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    http://www.nature.com/news/physicists-doubt-bold-report-of-m...
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Does anyone know of other groups that are trying to replicate the results? For something as seemingly exciting as this, I would hope it would attract a lot of attention. How much specialized equipment does it take to achieve these pressur
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Here's another HN thread going on at the same time on the same subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13494358 ...it currently has more comments, but a worse title.
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    The title for this is horrible, the thing that really needs to be emphasized is the metallic hydrogen. The other story on HN about this... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13495007 ...mentions they are going to release
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Do people find it worth the time to read books on productivity like Getting Things Done, Eat that Frog, etc.? And learning more about things like Org mode? Or are those essentially procrastination enablers? Is see that most people are wo
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    The suit is b... Err, does anyone know how old the "malls are dying" meme is? I seem to recall hearing this for about the last 20 years or so.
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    >I wouldn't write embedded OCaml But you can run OCaml on a microcontroller: http://www.algo-prog.info/ocapic/web/index.php?id=ocapic
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Is Newtonian physics nondeterministic? http://personal.lse.ac.uk/robert49/teaching/methodologies/pd...
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Time to break out the HDL then... http://www.braketlogic.com/
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    So Long, Prog21(prog21.dadgum.com)

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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Anyone know what the source language for Turbo Pascal was? Assembly? Bootstrapped Pascal? Turbo C?
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Can't pass up the opportunity to post a link to: "Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than" http://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Right, it was just a fun little "Well Actually" moment. http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    >in Haskell, by default you can't compare an Optional with the value it wraps: `5 == Just 5` fails. -- Probably nothing like in Swift instance (Num a , Integral a) => Num (Maybe a) where fromInteger x = Just (fr
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    I think it would be a pretty tenuous thread that links low-interest capital to "Python in a Nutshell" exceeding 700 pages, but I'd like to see it expounded upon. https://www.amazon.com/Python-Nutshell-Second-A
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    Have you looked in the STEPS program by Alan Kay? Trying to recreate modern computing setup from the OS up in 20k lines of code... http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf "If computing is important -- for dai
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    by GregBuchholz 10y ago

    I think you might enjoy E.T. Jaynes http://bayes.wustl.edu/ https://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-E-T-Jaynes/dp/0521...