doug-moen

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by doug-moen 2y ago
I have had a good experience with Chromite (Chromium based) and Fennec (Firefox based). I installed both from F-Droid.
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by doug-moen 2y ago
Graphene completely removes Google services in the default install. There is an option to install a sandboxed version of the Google play store, with enhanced privacy and security, but you don't need to install this or any other Google
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by doug-moen 2y ago
Note that this record setting flight to 143km did not use an off the shelf motor. They built their own motor, integrated into the airframe for lightness and to reduce the cross section. Ammonium perchlorate propellant.
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by doug-moen 2y ago
I'm cheering them on, but I'm not confident that the technology works, based on the people involved. I don't think the new physics underlying this work are published in a peer-reviewed physics journal. Here's a page abou
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by doug-moen 2y ago
GPUs are Turing complete computers. Why is it necessary to add a GPU programming design pattern like this as an extension to Vulkan? Can I just implement this design pattern in an existing GPU programming language right now, without waiting
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by doug-moen 2y ago
When our distant ancestors first started using fire as a technology, they would have initially been using naturally occurring fire, probably from lightning strikes (unless the tribe lived near an active volcano). The opportunity to harvest
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by doug-moen 2y ago
Since this was posted, the source code was changed, and a makefile was added. The new version requires ARM 64 or Intel 64 with AVX2. It requires clang-13 (clang-14 and later won't work). Gcc doesn't work. With clang-14, I got buil
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by doug-moen 2y ago
FYI: This only implements a subset of K (I'd estimate 1/3). Calling it a 'release' is an overstatement. The docs state that it is a work in progress. It's also quite buggy (it's easy to get a segmentation fault
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by doug-moen 2y ago
My experience is that you send email to someone whose Op Sec is not as good as your own, then your email will be harvested at the point when that person's address book is harvested. I don't know all the details of how these harves
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by doug-moen 3y ago
Crockford has not "unveiled" Misty. He's never formally announced the existence of this language AFAIK. He has a blog, but he hasn't made a blog post about Misty. Misty has been around since 2010. The earliest snapshot &
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by doug-moen 3y ago
There's a distinction between delirium, being in a delusional state, where you can't tell the difference between fantasy and reality, which is pathological, vs the normal everyday action of replaying a sensory memory in your head,
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by doug-moen 3y ago
I can imagine imagery in two different ways. 1. One way is the "behind the eyelids" technique, where the imagery seems to be coming from the retina, or at least I experience it that way. I cannot currently generate the high
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by doug-moen 4y ago
Posits have a variable size mantissa, and the largest mantissa for a given bit size (eg, 32 bit floats) is larger than the mantissa in the corresponding IEEE float. For example, in a 32 bit float, the IEEE mantissa is 23 bits, while the max
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by doug-moen 4y ago
The goals of CLOS were to support object-oriented programming, inspired by Smalltalk, which was the first reflective object system, and which has its own meta-objects and corresponding protocols. CLOS evolved out of earlier LISP object syst
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by doug-moen 4y ago
The PLDB documents "over 4000 programming languages". I suspect this is well short of the true number. "... today... 1,700 special programming languages used to 'communicate' in over 700 application areas." --
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by doug-moen 4y ago
CPL (the direct ancestor of BCPL) also had a form of `//` comments. Quoting from the manual: > A comment is introduced by a double bar and continues up to the end of that line; the whole of this text is ignored. The double bar
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by doug-moen 4y ago
There is an "Errata" section at the bottom of the document. One of the entries: > In Appendix A, the list of boolean functions should be ∧ ∨ ⍲ ⍱ ~ instead of ∨ ⍱ ~
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by doug-moen 6y ago
It's fair to point out that all Tesla employees have stock options, whose value increased 595% last year.
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by doug-moen 6y ago
QED is a powerful, programmable and extensible text editor with a CLI interface. Just as Emacs had multiple from-scratch implementations by different authors, so did QED. The Tilbrook, Pike, Redelmeier QED for Unix was based on the ed sourc