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by bloaf 7y ago
I personally feel process control is a significantly under-appreciated discipline. I've been at an academic lecture where a process control engineer used the example of air conditioning to explain that when your system is controlled, y
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by bloaf 7y ago
Even disciplines which typically do cover process control in undergrad often treat process control with a bit of a "there be dragons" mentality. Not for nothing are PhDs mentioned in the title; if some industry employs process co
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by bloaf 7y ago
I think the reason Mathematica hasn't "caught on" is that it doesn't look like fortran/matlab type programming that scientists/engineers are more traditionally exposed to. I find that if I'm trying to wri
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by bloaf 7y ago
3. You can't search for "older than" results. For example, if you want news reports about Ukrainian corruption, but only from before 2015, you're out of luck on ddg, have fun reading about Trump.
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by bloaf 7y ago
So literally all of these complaints are about their particular implementations of notebooks, not the concept of computational notebooks in general, or are all computational notebooks destined to have unstable kernels? In my mind, notebooks
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by bloaf 7y ago
I learned to like them in Mathematica, in many ways Jupyter is just a pale imitation of the excellent system built at Wolfram.
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by bloaf 7y ago
>Not even to enrich a document, such as syntax-highlight the code snippets. This one may seem too stringent, but I think it’s better to err on the safe side, and it’s very easy to enforce. If the enrichment rules are known ahead of time,
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by bloaf 7y ago
They released Edge before it was ready too. They never did give it any kind of sane bookmark management.
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by bloaf 7y ago
Visit any infinite scrolling site and click on the link associated with an item in the list. Hit the back button. Q: Where are you in the list now? A: It is impossible to know because no two sites behave the same way. You will not be anyw
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by bloaf 7y ago
I realized, while making a Christmas list this year that I don't know how to shop for things on the internet anymore. I am not a web developer, but I have grown up as the internet did and I've seen more of it than most people. Ama
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by bloaf 7y ago
I'm surprised "free" colleges don't dominate the short term ROI. https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-co...
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by bloaf 7y ago
You mean Sing#? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sing_sharp
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by bloaf 7y ago
>Sure, but then you're liable for everything your spoofer says I've actually wondered about the potential for this as performance art. Spoof some peoples voices, and have a bunch of Alexas read the script to some kind of play
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by bloaf 7y ago
I am seriously interested in a device which will spam garbage to the smart devices in my house so that the companies monitoring my data will not be able to extract anything useful. E.g. some kind of speech synthesizer which mimics my voice
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by bloaf 7y ago
>Almost all Tcl ‘‘programs’’ will be short, many only one line long. I weep silently over the 50kloc tcl codebase I help maintain.
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by bloaf 7y ago
I have an old engineering program that uses tcl as its scripting language... stuck on a version that predates dictionaries. Without dictionaries complex data structures are quite difficult, and people will abuse the heck out of the language
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by bloaf 7y ago
I don't understand the weight assigned to factory closures. If I could make all the product in one robot-factory vs 3 people-factories, I would expect 2 factory closures. I think it must be coupled with the assertion that productivit
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by bloaf 7y ago
Here is another statement which you can characterize as "people who don't agree with me are part of a vast conspiracy." > Republicans have been making concerted efforts to stack US courts with conservative judges. Accusing
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by bloaf 7y ago
One of the easiest ways for companies to claim huge carbon emission reductions is for them to buy old coal plants and shut them down.
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by bloaf 7y ago
There has been a significant uptick in everything online over the last 25 years because in that time the internet population has grown from 0.5% of the worlds population to over 55%. Literature says that the internet does facilitate extre
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by bloaf 7y ago
I don't know if their javascript is to blame, but I got this when I tried to use the back button: https://imgur.com/a/YcRtDFj
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by bloaf 7y ago
Do you have an example of a site which does it well?
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by bloaf 7y ago
Haha, small world! Johnny Noodle King is indeed amazing, I have some distant relatives who built the countertops for the restaurant. Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynfVGyMrvz8
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by bloaf 7y ago
Probably the closest they got was Autocad's AutoLisp
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by bloaf 7y ago
But what I am saying is that Valve could have kept the game effectively the same price and avoided the criticism by changing how they charged the player.
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by bloaf 7y ago
I think this is the key thing. The problem isn't that Valve charged too much. The problem is that people thought Valve was charging too much. Why did they think that? It is because the pricing was too "in your face" and
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by bloaf 7y ago
I think the sentiment in this comic applies here. http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=346 That is, even if your videos are in-the-clear currently, there is no reason Youtube couldn't decide to interpret its rules more
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by bloaf 7y ago
Obviously the spirit of the law is for youtube to have a way to remove "how 2 script kiddie" videos. But the letter of the law matters, and right now the letters say they can ban just about any video discussing the details of vul
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by bloaf 7y ago
Microsoft is slowly wandering in that direction. They've got the math input panel: https://www.digitalcitizen.life/do-math-easy-way-math-input-... And they're starting to use LaTeX in office equations: https:&#x
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by bloaf 7y ago
Are politicians literally shooting each other again, like Aaron Burr & Hamilton? In all seriousness, if anything is new in our political discourse, it is sensitivity to violent language.

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