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by arnsholt 8y ago
> My former accountant had one too, he always took it on trips to France for holidays every year. Oh, that's funny. The owners of the hostel we stayed at in the Netherlands used to do that, too. Apparently it was one of the V12 Jags
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by arnsholt 8y ago
Yeah, that sounds more or less like what the XK veterans told me: You can certainly try, but you probably don't want to.
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by arnsholt 8y ago
Out of curiosity, is it possible to manually start it? The reason I ask is that I've inherited a 1950 Jaguar, which also has a hole for crank starting the engine, but it's only these very early models that have the hole in the rad
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by arnsholt 8y ago
Also, I think this most likely produces Penicillin G, which has to be given intravenously because it's broken down by stomach acid...
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How to Spot Fake Cuneiform Tablets(asor.org)
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by arnsholt 8y ago
I'd just go with Pharo. Pharo by Example is a good intro book, and it's still under development. Also, I would strongly suggest that you go with something like Pharo where you run the image on your desktop. Part of the reason I
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by arnsholt 8y ago
The code is obviously stored somewhere, but that's not a user-facing place. Thus, if you define a function in the Smalltalk REPL equivalent (a workspace), when you open that function in the code editor later, you'll see the defini
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by arnsholt 8y ago
Smalltalk has live update of the running program, arguably in a much better way than (modern) Lisps. In Smalltalk you edit code directly in the running image, there's no possibility of defining a function in the REPL and having a diffe
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by arnsholt 9y ago
I had a similar issue when I had to work in Emacs too. Evil is, on the whole a good emulation, but I kept tripping over ^W not doing what I expected. And then if I messed up the undoing, I got to screw around with Emacs' redo functiona
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by arnsholt 9y ago
That Hinduism is older than Islam is an absolute no-brainer. Islam dates to the 8th century, whereas the oldest layers of the Vedas are likely 3000 to 4000 years old. The question is the origins of the Vedic religion and its adherents. For
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by arnsholt 9y ago
I ran into a bug in that area a while back. Our development environment has a binding to Winsock32.dll for socket stuff, and as it turns out the bindings were written so long ago that many of the return values are specced to be 16-bit ints
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by arnsholt 9y ago
So? It's not that uncommon for highly dynamic languages to do this. Lisp macros for example depend on being able to run arbitrary code at compile-time.
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by arnsholt 9y ago
Oh, neat! I guess I shouldn't be surprised that advanced Lisp systems from that era did this kind thing as well. The Lisp and Smalltalk systems of that era really are something, even compared to modern development environments. Which i
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by arnsholt 9y ago
Working with Smalltalk is pretty cool. I sometimes say that the image-based part of Smalltalk is like Lisp, but done right, because the state of the code in your image and the state of the code in your source files can't ever get out o
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by arnsholt 9y ago
Oh, that's an interesting idea! Ideally, I'd prefer to float them to the right margin (suggesting the Lisp style of line comments starting at column 78 or thereabouts, I guess), but this is an acceptable compromise. At first blush
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by arnsholt 9y ago
I don't remember whose research it is (it's a bit removed from my field of expertise =), but the gist of it is that they tried to highlight different parts of speech in running text in different colours, and showed that it actuall
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by arnsholt 9y ago
The Il1 problem is primarily a problem with sans-serif fonts. In my work SmallTalk text is set in Arial in the default image, but I've set up my development image to use Cambria instead which is really quite nice. The inability to do v
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by arnsholt 9y ago
After programming in SmallTalk for a while, I'm starting to come round to a similar point of view. I haven't quite made the leap in my day-to-day work yet, but I really am considering it. Another thing I'm considering to adop
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by arnsholt 9y ago
I usually quip that Common Lisp and Perl are basically the same language, bit with different syntax. Not quite correct, obviously, but both languages give me that same pragmatic feel where having several approaches to the same problem is co
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by arnsholt 9y ago
> Judging by the increase in accuracy from 16K images to 60K images there is something of a diminishing rate of return here. This is a well-known thing in machine learning. As far as I know all ML algorithms have this property, where the
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by arnsholt 9y ago
Thai is an abuguida, descended from Brahmi just like most of the rest of the South and South-East Asian scripts. It's probably the one with the most additional stuff to consider, but fundamentally it's the same kind of script.
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by arnsholt 9y ago
AFAIK, it does prefer underfull boxes to overfull ones,but sometimes the penalties work out such that it has to put in an overfull anyways (IME really long words that it doesn't know how to hyphenate correctly are usually the culprit,
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by arnsholt 9y ago
The huge spacing is actually an underfull hbox (i.e. TeX couldn't fill it enough, so had to stretch the spaces). An overfull box is a box where the contained text overflows the box; usually it's a line where the end juts into th
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by arnsholt 10y ago
IIRC, the legal limit in Norway us basically the measurement error of the BAC tests; basically you should fail if you've had anything at all to drink.
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by arnsholt 10y ago
> However I do not think this theory would fly in England even if the logic is sound due to nationalistic pride. Also, most linguists who are experts in the history of English (Faarlund is an expert on Norse, not English) tend to border
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by arnsholt 10y ago
I've used it for all the plots in my thesis. AFAIK, it's the only plotting library that does what gnuplot's epslatex terminal does: graphical elements are placed in an EPS file, while textual elements are placed as TeX, letti
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by arnsholt 10y ago
Since all the NNs have the same architecture, the breeding is done by taking some parameters from one parent NN and some parameters from the other to populate the weights of the child NN (in this case, indices that are 1 mod 2 are taken fro
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by arnsholt 10y ago
Yeah, that's true. Nonetheless, Smalltalk really feels like an improved version of working with Lisp.
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by arnsholt 10y ago
I had a similar realisation recently. I had to learn Smalltalk recently (for my new job, believe it or not!), and Smalltalk really does strike me as image-based programming find right. My previous exposure was Common Lisp, but the image and
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by arnsholt 10y ago
I've been having similar thoughts recently, and decided that the best option is probably too use Sphinx. It's reStructuredText rather than Markdown, but that that turns out to be an advantage as RST has a much cleaner extension st

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