Tloewald

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by Tloewald 12y ago
At what point did the French navy isolate Britain? Britain blockaded French ports from 1803 onwards and the French were demolished in 1805. As for being outnumbered, the British paid lots of other people to fight Napoleon, and they outnumbe
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by Tloewald 12y ago
15MHz is not from the 70s ;-) (at least outside of labs). The IBM PC shipped with a 4.77MHz CPU in the early 80s, the 386 came out in 1986 at 12 MHz, the Mac II was 16MHz in 1987. I got hooked on programming by the HP65, an early and very e
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Well in abstract there are plenty of possible spaces where a set can be bounded but its boundary does not exist within the set (e.g. consider the transcendentals between 0 and 1) so talking about the "hull" as a boundary is comple
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I don't think the writer is really doing anything much wrong. In the Wikipedia article on the topic "convex hull" is defined as you suggest for sets in abstract, but for a finite set of points , as being the polygon (and not
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I use Finder constantly. That said, I use an extension called Default Folder (which I've been using since long before Mac OS X) which not only works around many of its shortcomings, but is almost impossible to live without. E.g. if y
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Here's a different comparison for what it's worth http://www.jessesquires.com/apples-to-apples-part-two/
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by Tloewald 12y ago
"Ease of testing" is positively hilarious.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I don't think learning XSLT made me a better programmer, but it is an amazingly useful tool for dealing with large amounts of XML (which is what it was designed for). That said, the way XPATH works is -- to put it mildly -- counter-i
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Quantitative easing doesn't actually cost money. The fed buys securities with it and probably breaks even or makes a profit.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
This isn't fear mongering, it's simply a question of due diligence. AI is a big unknown (unlike viruses, comets, nuclear weapons, incidentally, all of which we have at least some grasp of -- ever seen an AI?)
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by Tloewald 12y ago
AI seems more feasible than interstellar travel. I think the singularity or whatever is far further off than people guess because the stuff we don't know is a lot harder than we can know , but interstellar travel either requires massiv
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I suspect that the problem is not just the subtle problem of pitch but the way waves phase in and out of sync with each other (especially on sustained notes) rather than remaining in consistent relation, so it should be possible for almost
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by Tloewald 12y ago
It seems to me that the real problem with XML is CDATA sections which have been used to cover a multitude of sins. CDATA should have been implemented as (say) normal XML with a reference (offset and length) to binary data at the end of the
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Or a native backend?
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Um, yes. Is it worth fine-graining libraries to the point where you're doubling the code required for almost every call?
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Indeed, 101 is broken up into an almost ridiculous number of tiny pieces -- the implementation of the and function is about as big as the necessary require statement. I think or() and and() (for instance) could be in the same file.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
You just hope that the son doesn't make an especially brilliant move and cause a car accident.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ma... emacs has plenty of modes, although actually that's not really my big problem with emacs (or vim) when I think more about it. It&
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by Tloewald 12y ago
BBEdit's multi-file search and replace (and it's compare) alone are worth it. I keep coming back to BBEdit for search and replace, even if I prefer other editors for other things. I use a lot of different editors too, rotating amo
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Comparing it with Apple is totally unfair of course. Even Apple does pre-announcements (e.g. for the iPhone and WATCH) when it makes sense. That said, given that they have patents on some of this stuff, you'd think they'd at least
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Did you see the video of the Unity 2014 presentation? That's a PR push aimed at developers where they have literally nothing concrete to show.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I think it's odd that they're doing this kind of PR push when their product is so tenuous. If you look at Carmack's keynote and the low level detail of how Occulus is struggling with latency and precision in head tracking, th
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by Tloewald 12y ago
I don't see how that explains the axes aligning along the filaments. It might explain the axes being aligned.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
They were wrong about the amount of dust, not the presence of dust -- as was the case with the moon landing. There's plenty of dust on the moon, too, just not oceans of it.
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Who's to know why they were wrong — it's just amusing to see the same error come up again. I prefer the theory that they look around their offices and extrapolate ;-)
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by Tloewald 12y ago
in the initial race to the moon it was widely speculated that the moon was covered in a deep layer of ultrafine dust, and any spacecraft landing on it would be liable to sink. Arthur C. Clarke's novel "A Fall of Moondust" was
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by Tloewald 12y ago
If you could elimiate the outermost braces and have a line continuation character you might get something even less intimidating. In other words anything between two auccessive non escaped line endings is treated as being parenthesized. Su
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Nice interview. He's a terrific guy (a bunch of us spent an evening with him in Sydney after a "writer's workshop" he gave at the Powerhouse Museum). Another great book of his is Worlds . One thing I observed about his
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by Tloewald 12y ago
If you're shooting with post-processing in mind, then that's another thing entirely. > I've been able to pull the shop name off of a reflection of a guy's eye Most needs , not occasional attempts to prove a point ;-)
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by Tloewald 12y ago
Nothing not to love -- a whole bunch of syntax sugar that makes code cleaner without messing around with core concepts that breaks code conceptually. It's also great to see how quickly good ideas permeate the language landscape today v

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