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by blacksqr 5y ago
Tcl is open-source, distributed under a permissive MIT-style license.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Don't bogart it!
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by blacksqr 5y ago
I'm not advocating any particular policy. I'm still trying to perceive any chain of logic that leads to the conclusion that hedge funds blowing up is good for pension plans. The point I was trying to make above is that better risk
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Parsing Excel XLSX Using Tcl Parser Tools (2011)(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
50 points by blacksqr 5y ago|3 comments
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by blacksqr 5y ago
If you're suggesting that the system is too complex to derive causation feasibly in the field of leveraging risk, then it's simply insane for pension funds to invest in hedge funds, and the fact that they occasionally blow up does
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by blacksqr 5y ago
The unstated assumption in the above paragraph is that net returns from hedge funds, accounting for losses from blowups, are still high enough to warrant pension funds investing in them. But experience shows that's not the case, e.g.:
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by blacksqr 5y ago
I read that. When a hedge fund blows up, the pension funds that invested in it lose all their money. That's all there is to it. The linked article presents a straw man that the only two hedge fund investing options are "risk-fre
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Linked article says nothing about how hedge funds blowing up helps pay for pensions.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
> The thing you are firing in the oven (limestone) releases CO2. I'm aware of that. There are two main sources of CO2 in cement manufacture: the calcium carbonate raw material, and the fossil fuel required to cook the raw materials
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by blacksqr 5y ago
According to their web site, one of their premises is that renewable electricity is now cheap and plentiful. If that's so, I'm led to wonder if there is a more direct way to reduce CO2 emissions in cement manufacture, namely, use
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Sounds similar to seacrete. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorock
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by blacksqr 5y ago
According to stories I heard from people who were in the room, the W3C was on the verge of adopting Tcl as the preferred browser scripting language, when Java suddenly and unexpectedly got popular and Netscape decided they could use it as a
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by blacksqr 5y ago
"A bot-written garbage chess book gets mostly good reviews from bots on Amazon" Fixed it.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
They were, as far as I know, the first band to combine blues rock guitar with a funk rhythm section. An innovative and intoxicating mix. Old enough to remember them blaring out of every car's 8-track player at the beach.
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by blacksqr 5y ago
The testing tool DejaGNU is Tcl-based. It's used for e.g. gcc and llvm.
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THC: Tight Home Control, automation framework in Tcl(github.com)
75 points by blacksqr 5y ago|28 comments
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by blacksqr 5y ago
We are all literally at this moment beneficiaries of one of the greatest scientific achievements of all time, potentially saving millions of lives. Maybe the problem here isn't with science.
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Tclas: a runtime assembler written in Tcl (2009)(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
4 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Their wikipedia page says 25 tons of water are required for every ton of carbon dioxide. First, they'll have to expend energy to pump all that seawater to wherever they want to inject it. Will CO2 be created to generate that energy?
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Solving climate change by exacerbating water shortage.
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A physical catalyst for the electrosynthesis of nitrogen to ammonia (2018)(advances.sciencemag.org)
2 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 5y ago
> in Toronto, children as young as 12 have been offered free ice cream for vaccines and do not need parental consent. "CLAIM: Video shows parents in Toronto being blocked by police as children were given the COVID-19 vaccine in exch
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by blacksqr 5y ago
If coercion is bad, but so is persuasion, just how is a democracy supposed to operate?
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Tkwintrack: Inspection tool for developers of Tk GUI's(sourceforge.net)
1 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
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Inline C for Tcl (2015)(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
2 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 5y ago
Brainfuck interpreter written in Tcl: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Brainfuck Brainfuck-to-Tcl transpiler: https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Brainfuck-to-Tcl+transpiler
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An indentation syntax for Tcl (2015)(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
2 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 5y ago
It's a scary top-line number, but it should be kept in mind that inflation last June was 0.6% [0], exceptionally low, as a side effect of the pandemic and quarantine. So I think a lot of this supposed inflation is a transient effect of
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Modeling Planetary Distances Using Titius-Bode Law and Tcl(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
1 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments
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The Kimono Page for Men(oldjapan.org)
2 points by blacksqr 5y ago|0 comments

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