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by dunham 4y ago
Yeah, chopsticks are like using your fingers without getting them dirty. I've started using surplus takeout chopsticks for cooking. (I have nice chopsticks, but they give me them anyway). I have a jar of chopsticks[ ] on the counter a
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by dunham 4y ago
By played through, do you mean you got to the top corner of the universes? Did you get also all of the artifacts or complete all of the universes? (I’m not sure what counts as played through.) I did maybe a dozen universes and got a handful
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by dunham 4y ago
A year or so ago I stumbled across the A-normalization code discussed here: https://matt.might.net/articles/a-normalization/ I've got a fairly good grasp on recursion, but it took some effort to get a mental
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by dunham 4y ago
I recall that on one of my play-throughs as a kid, I got everything done except my characters needed to be level 8. So I un-virtuously tweaked the save file. (I think that was Ultima IV, but it's been a while.) I also tweaked a later
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by dunham 4y ago
It doesn't look like it. There are separate controls on the mouse and trackpad screen, but they're tied to the same value. I would think that would be separate - the keyboard re-mappings are different for each keyboard that you pl
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by dunham 4y ago
There was a paper I read in a sociolinguistics class back in college, which observed (for English speakers) that women typically would use “uh-huh” etc to indicate that they were listening and men were using it only to indicate agreement wi
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by dunham 4y ago
For lucene / sqlite, I used the docs on the web site. SQLite got me a little experience with b-trees (as did couch), and I got to write a little query planner. Lucene was interesting because it was compact, had some skip lists for fast
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by dunham 4y ago
I should write this stuff up, but I haven't. I do have some brief notes on the "Notes.app" format here: https://github.com/dunhamsteve/notesutils/blob/master/notes.... But I didn't di
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by dunham 4y ago
Lately I've been playing around with learning type theory and writing parsers and langauges. But I seem to gravitate towards writing code to decode various file formats. Over the years I've reverse engineered Apple Notes database
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by dunham 4y ago
I occasionally use it for sites that uMatrix is a bit too aggressive with. On Mobile Safari I use private browsing for my kid's youtube, so my recommendations aren't full of minecraft videos. But now that I think of it, it might b
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by dunham 4y ago
Back when I was in college, an online algorithm was one where you had to make scheduling decisions as the jobs came in. There would be an optimal schedule (say differing size jobs coming in with n cpus) if you knew the future, and you prov
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by dunham 4y ago
Maybe it was B team? There was an issue that slipped into the iOS backup a while back, where some engineer had added a bare sha1 hash of your password (it's been a while, but I think they were trying to add encryption of the metadata i
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by dunham 4y ago
Internally, the Idris2 compiler uses deBruijn numbering for its terms, which is tricky to get right once you start trying to manipulate terms. To help with this, it keeps a list of the names corresponding to the deBruijn indices at the type
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by dunham 4y ago
But there are regulations restricting the use of the word chocolate, so they say "chocolatey": https://consumerist.com/2016/02/10/why-do-new-starbucks-drin... (This is in the US, but I wouldn't
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by dunham 4y ago
Perhaps it's "more chocolatey" because they replaced the "chocolate" (which I believe has some regulations around actually containing cocoa butter) with "chocolatey" (which, by not claiming to be chocolate
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by dunham 4y ago
Decades ago, I disabled blink by loading my netscape binary into emacs and changing the tag name. Surprisingly marquee is still there, you can even go into the DOM and rename your top level elements "marquee" and the entire page s
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by dunham 4y ago
Ben Lynn's "Award winning compiler" is one of my favorites, and he keeps adding to that page.
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by dunham 4y ago
Also beer brewed with brettanomyces.
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by dunham 4y ago
I remember hearing in college (a couple decades ago) that Chemical Engineering students needed to know a lot about solving differential equations. In the math department, I was told by professors that a lot of other departments were requiri
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by dunham 4y ago
Many years ago, I wrote a some code that made pack files with out of order copy commands. (Just messing around in Go trying to learn how pack files worked.) I was too lazy to implement the diffing algorithm, so I used the suffixarray from t
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by dunham 4y ago
Yeah, I always assumed it was an American thing trying to sound French. Probably because of the cheesy commercials when I was a kid.
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by dunham 4y ago
There still is a bit of a runtime system that you'd write in something like C - you'll see it in the "c" directory of the linked chez repository. Chez is reportedly very fast, it's much easier to use that than writ
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by dunham 4y ago
Another tangentially related tool that I recently learned about is "BNFC": Given a Labelled BNF grammar the tool produces: - an abstract syntax implementation in the target language, - a case skeleton for the abstr
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by dunham 4y ago
For what it's worth, the typescript playground takes the exact same approach as you, placing a compressed (lz-string) copy of the text after the #code/ in a sharing url.
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by dunham 4y ago
According to one of the developers of Java, Java was also inspired by Objective-C: https://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html
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by dunham 4y ago
Yeah I could see that. A lot of people are not going to understand "data" as something concrete and "string" is going send them way off the path.
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by dunham 4y ago
The elevators at Legoland Hotel play typical boring elevator music when then doors are open and switch to something upbeat, like disco when the doors close.
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by dunham 4y ago
At the gas pumps around here (Seattle) someone is labelling the unmarked mute button with a marker (right side second button from the top).
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by dunham 4y ago
The "old" machine I played around with in high school (an H11) had an LSI-11 processor and 8" floppy drives. I think my dad still has it in his attic. He also reacquired my first computer, which was an obscure 8080A machine
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by dunham 4y ago
Yeah, I switched completely to nix after being frustrated with homebrew constantly breaking things (any time I installed something. (Usually involving libicu being replaced with a different version.) And then had to pick up homebrew again f

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