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by Perenti 7mo ago
I've been playing with my own Smalltalk implementation. I guess it qualifies as a tiny _language_, but the class library is huge! Yes, I know that all who do not understand Smalltalk are doomed to re-implement it, poorly. I'm ju
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by Perenti 8mo ago
I first saw an Apple I at a Maths Camp in late 1976. It was from the first batch to arrive in Australia. We were all enthralled. We were slightly less enthralled waiting for the floating point libraries to load from cassette tape. Earlie
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by Perenti 8mo ago
Microsoft's problem is probably the same as the author of the article. Look at the last sentence. Either it was proof-read by an AI, or the author was so sure of his perfection he never proof-read it.
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by Perenti 11mo ago
Not all of this is as straightforward as the author seems to suggest. In particular, I believe the massive increase in mass shootings is only in one country. Part of it is, I believe, the fear-mongering our glorious leaders and the media
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by Perenti 1y ago
How is this different from a CA with dynamic neighbourhoods? Other than the visualisation of course. It appears at first read to be isomorphic to what's shown, unless I'm overlooking something (quite possible I am). CA with neigh
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by Perenti 1y ago
It can also prevent competitors from entering a particular space. I was told as an undergraduate that UNIX was irrelevant because the upcoming Windows NT would be POSIX compliant. It took a _very_ long time before that happened (and for a
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by Perenti 1y ago
I use my phone on average 5m per week. This week is bigger, due to lots of medical things. I've spent 3m on it today as of 6pm. No social media. No videos. No Music. I don't click on links in texts except the one that will sh
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by Perenti 1y ago
I've seen bots promoting Replit on Steam forums of indie games. If this is the way they are marketing their product, I don't see it as having a future. What I've seen in the Dwarf Fortress forums alone makes me want to avoid
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by Perenti 1y ago
I had dinner with one of the co-authors Wednesday night. He's doubling down on the "significance" test that has H0 that all possible incoming trajectories are equally likely. He's convinced it's an essentially a lo
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by Perenti 1y ago
I wonder how much extra work is required to make a vertical panel stay up in a 200kmh cyclone (hurricane for the Americans, typhoon for the Asians)? I saw a flying cow once during Cyclone David, and that wasn't a particularly strong s
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by Perenti 1y ago
I have issues with my right hand due to damage to my brachial plexus. I changed to Dvorak about 22 years ago, and have far less fatigue and pain when typing longer documents. The article mentions in passing how Dvorak may help people with
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by Perenti 1y ago
I don't do banking on my phone. I really don't understand why anyone would. If I can't get to my PC or laptop, I'm probably near an ATM. I've already given so much autonomy to Google/Alphabet/Apple, I w
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by Perenti 1y ago
I should point out that one of the authors believes Star Trek to be the epitome of Science Fiction.
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by Perenti 1y ago
Given mass distribution of our galaxy is decidedly anisotropic I would expect the answer to be a resounding "no". The ((5/57)/ (4 Pi)) implicity assumes uniform incoming trajectories - I think. There's an odd mixi
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by Perenti 1y ago
I suggest you read the paper. It's packed with subjective language (Row one of table one, the incoming trajectory is said to be "virtually" in the ecliptic plane), and has so many unstated assumptions behind their so-called
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by Perenti 1y ago
His argument regarding the trajectory into our Solar System is pretty flaky. It completely disregards Hopkin's computation of a "steep entry angle" and supposition that it comes from the "thick disk", instead assum
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by Perenti 1y ago
Yep, keep how to make PCP in a bathtub away from kids. Keep holocaust deniers away from kids. Keep race-hate videos away from kids. Keep Hancock and Joe Rogan away from kids. Keep lies and conspiracy theories away from kids. You seem to t
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by Perenti 1y ago
I believe the simple answer (vs complicated truth) is that the donor cell, a fertilized egg, is in a state accepting a not-quite-formed nucleus. There are no male cells that can get into that state AFAIK, possibly excepting pluripotent ste
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by Perenti 1y ago
I've taken my time to respond to this. Firstly, that's a big statement about someone you only know from TV. Secondly, he was one of the most functional human beings I've ever met. The reason he was so good at herpetology is
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by Perenti 1y ago
I encountered this in 1968. This was at Clarinda State School, in grade 1. The 1A class used ITA, and 1B used proper latin alphabet. My best friend, Steve Irwin (yes, _that_ Steve Irwin. Everyone had to go to school somewhere) was in 1A
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by Perenti 1y ago
I've taken quite a lot of these. I was on 3600mg/day for about 5 years. I was later on lyrica for about 3 years. These drugs _do_ help you to tolerate nerve pain, but do _not_ stop it. I found they led to my otherwise amazing m
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by Perenti 1y ago
In my experience as a medically complicated person, generics generally work, but may have different side effects, both in scale and style. One of the worst was a duloxetine generic that came on so hard and strong that I felt serontoninised
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by Perenti 1y ago
The paragraph on the relation to Brugada Syndrome hits home, as I have that rare disease. What isn't clear is if it's safe for Brugada patients - a hell of a lot of drugs are not advisable for us. As I also have CRPS type II (co
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by Perenti 1y ago
In the third paragraph the authors state: "For example, the Lotka-Volterra model accurately captures predator-prey dynamics using systems of differential equations." This is incorrect. The validation of the L-V predator/prey
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by Perenti 1y ago
We used to steal Iodine crystals from the chem lab at High School, and set "traps" for the unwary. I have no idea how many clothes we ruined by putting NI3 on seats. We also wired cans in || and wired up the boys' urinal so
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by Perenti 1y ago
I think Wolfram may be ignoring what we already know of brains with more neurons than most have. We call them "austistic" and "adhd". More is not always better, indeed it rarely is in my experience.
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by Perenti 1y ago
The debate ran for about 3 months. He refused to acknowledge the validity of style guides and grammar. I tried, but he was resolute that because _he_ likes semicolons, other people could easily read his long and rambling sentences. No ass
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by Perenti 1y ago
This reminds me of a "debate" I had with RMS. Back in '98 I was involved with the Gnu Documentation Project, which was about improving the often very out-of-date Gnu documentation. RMS tends to use semi-colons where others u
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by Perenti 1y ago
It appears to this reader that BGP would be a lot more stable if the various hardware vendors agreed on a standard for handling these types of things. Is the real issue that each vendor wants lock-in, so won't standardise? DISCLAIMER:
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by Perenti 1y ago
Given what the verb "root" means here in Oz, this seems extremely friendly, although possibly unhygenic.

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