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by bakul 4y ago
FWIW, my view is that even the best programmers don't always have perfect non-programming skills and it is better to give them specific objective feedback via bug reports/technical comments etc and not focus on how they are not do
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by bakul 4y ago
I tried c2v on some very simple commands in freebsd /usr/src/bin/ such as ls and pwd and it failed. Still, very good to see this progress! May be you can add some FreeBSD commands to your test cases?
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by bakul 4y ago
It was a mild joke as planetary alignment does play a part in Vedic Astrology. Astrology indeed had a high place in ancient India and significantly influenced the development of mathematics and astronomy. 5th/6th century mathematician
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by bakul 4y ago
Not today as 5 planets are moving into a rare alignment this week :-)
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by bakul 4y ago
Gold is even used in medicine since ancient times. Look up Swarna Bhasma, used in Ayurveda for several ailments. A more general article on bhasma: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3960793/
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by bakul 4y ago
I think we naturally want to share what we find beautiful as it is an expression of our joy as well as it enhances it. What we usually don't want to share is what we think will be profitable .
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by bakul 4y ago
May be combine this idea with Knuth’s Literate Programming? Then when you get around actually working on the task it already tells you what you’re supposed to do!
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by bakul 4y ago
There is also the idea of “Morning Pages” by Julia Cameron: https://juliacameronlive.com/basic-tools/morning-pages/ Just still your inner critic and write 3 pages about anything and everything! Every day. In long
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by bakul 4y ago
I have tried something similar to this but its self tests still don't pass. Will give this a try. Thanks!
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by bakul 4y ago
Translating a K expression into something much more readable won't likely help you as the language is extremely compact. So for example, translating "ab",/:\:"cd" to ((each-left (each-right concatenate)) "
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by bakul 4y ago
Arthur Whitney created a compiler called b that “compiles a language that is isomorphic to c” (his words) and compiles 1000 times faster than gcc etc. The b language code looked very much like k but was essentially exactly equivalent to a s
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by bakul 4y ago
> So f[;x][y] is f[x;y]. f[y;x]
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by bakul 4y ago
Both Indians and Pakistanis realize just how much they have in common once they leave their respective countries. Just don't let religions or politics divide people! Not a fan of this song but there are other Coke Studio songs that I l
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by bakul 4y ago
Looks pretty good! Some suggestions: it should support tcpdump's command line arguments and start with them as defaults. It would be neat if packets from different interfaces can be shown in different windows.
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by bakul 4y ago
I’ve used this for years: errno () { grep \\\<$*\\\> /usr/include/sys/errno.h } There will be a false positive now & then but this is good enough.
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by bakul 5y ago
> What I would like to see is a "array scheme." Me too! I even started on this a few years ago but then got distracted!
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by bakul 5y ago
For most Indian languages you can use IAST & can use an IAST keyboard, as it transliterates sanskrit based letters precisely. Though I don’t know why people don’t just use the original scripts as they are much more beautiful and you can
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by bakul 5y ago
libthread is available as part of plan9port on Unix systems.
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by bakul 5y ago
Probably this one: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Tef717f57ede82d4f-M5...
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by bakul 5y ago
Scheme adapted lexical scoping and block structure from Algol 60. Lexical scoping was a major departure from LISP in 1970s. Call/CC was not in the original Scheme. Probably added in R4RS. Macros came later too. My point was that callin
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by bakul 5y ago
Actually Scheme is Algol in LISP clothing. I don’t know what that makes JavaScript.
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by bakul 5y ago
Seems more like the users abandoned it! I used it about 8-10 years ago but only briefly.
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by bakul 5y ago
Thanks for the correction. Should've read the paper when less tired!
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by bakul 5y ago
That is a different point than "basically abandoned" :-) I do use X11 programs on Unix and MacOS (so far XQuartz works well enough). And probably Microsoft Windows though I don't use it.
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by bakul 5y ago
See this: https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/maths-whiz-so... Where one of the authors says "So in this sense, our work is expected to be the end of the road for this problem, although we don&#x27
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by bakul 5y ago
The Schönhage–Strassen algorithm is O(n*log(n)*log(log(n))) time algorithm. Fürer's algorithm is better (& impractical) but still worse than O(n*log(n)). Harvey and van der Hoeven's algorithm is conjectured to be O(n*log(n))
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by bakul 5y ago
This is just an additional tool. Use it if it works for you. For years I used to dump my interesting product/research ideas in individual files - now I moved them in obsidian. Even before then I used to put them in a computation notebo
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by bakul 5y ago
Back in those days you could write to Xerox PARC to request their Tech Reports and a few days later they’d show up in your (physical) mail box! I got quite a few reports that way, learned a bunch, and even did toy implementations of some th
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by bakul 5y ago
it’s there in the graphviz github repo.
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by bakul 5y ago
I have a different suggestion. Start with a single line. define an api for move, insert and delete. figure out how to display this line, associate the cursor with the current position and how to map keystrokes to these simple functions. Add

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