bear8642

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by bear8642 6y ago
Less focused but enjoyed Eddie Woo's and 3blue1brown's more recent videos on Youtube Also challenged by Tom Duff's trigonometry page - http://www.iq0.com/notes/trig.html Enjoy learning how to derive iden
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by bear8642 6y ago
as is Plan 9's Sam - jumping beyond the Command Line ;)
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by bear8642 6y ago
Pat Cadigan's book Fools has some truly bending sections
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by bear8642 6y ago
Feel Pat Cadigan's work might be a candidate, but agree
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by bear8642 6y ago
>important predecessors Don't know enough about it but feel missing Simula from your list
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by bear8642 6y ago
Glad this got traction - had Dave Whiteland as lecturer last year. He's really into Tapirs!
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by bear8642 6y ago
Cool - thought had operator confused
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by bear8642 6y ago
>*(c ? &x : &y) = v; Do you know why need to use pointer magic here? Tried (c ? x : y) = v; and wondering why that doesn't work.
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by bear8642 6y ago
That's Bitwise Xor not exponentiation. 2^3 => 1 5^2 => 7
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by bear8642 6y ago
Clever! Though feel having "No" relate to x = 0 is slightly clearer
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by bear8642 6y ago
>return (char *[]){"No", "Yes"}[!!x]; Is !!x equivalent to x here?
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by bear8642 7y ago
Good point - didn't think that through enough before recommending. Just thought of as nice tiling editor.
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by bear8642 7y ago
Rob Pike's Acme editor is another powerful tiling editor you can check out.
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by bear8642 7y ago
Nice tool! By DNF and KNF do you mean disjunctive and conjuctive normal form?
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by bear8642 7y ago
why not just click on the link? - seems more work to run this Also appears quote missing in second code block
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by bear8642 7y ago
looking here https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/language/bit_field seems quite a bit. My main thought was how field's laid out in memory. Know would be big change with endianness but thought a standard chec
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by bear8642 7y ago
>clean up the spec Would this involve further specification of bitfields? Feel implementation defined nature of bitfields limits potential
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by bear8642 7y ago
Also known as a Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
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by bear8642 7y ago
Could you elaborate why Racket? Not an implementation I've used.
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by bear8642 7y ago
>The facts of which bits do what -- which are embodied in that code -- are not protected (or protectable!), and can be reused freely. Though given Oracle's current legal proceedings that might change...
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by bear8642 7y ago
None taken - agree Forth's slightly older language.
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by bear8642 7y ago
Hopcroft Ullman's Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages and Computation has good section on state machines and their connection to Regular Expressions
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by bear8642 7y ago
Forth is still alive and kicking!
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by bear8642 7y ago
For those not in the know SICP = Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs PAIP = Paradigms of AI Programming
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by bear8642 7y ago
Dickens' novels were most definitely compiled from newspapers - that's part of the reason for some unnecessarily verbose sentences
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by bear8642 7y ago
>I just wonder if one day we'll be using systems with 4tb of ram that would be snappier if upgraded to 8tb or 16tb. Can't find but feel there's a quote like "Programs will grow to fill memory"
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by bear8642 7y ago
Thank you - very succinct explanation. Hadn't come across register files before and research confused me.
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by bear8642 7y ago
Could you explain the register file section please? - Don't understand that. Thanks
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by bear8642 7y ago
Could you explain why that's true? - get that it works but don't understand why
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by bear8642 7y ago
> Octal is where it's really at Why octal, not hex?

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