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by fernly 7y ago
thanks
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by fernly 7y ago
would be nice to have a link to the paper. Anyone?
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by fernly 7y ago
I remember having a brief conversation with Felsenstein at some trade show. I asked, "what kind of bus does the Osborne use?" to which he replied only: "Analog!"
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by fernly 7y ago
Programming the ENIAC was done that way, but that was from ~1947 through the very early 1950s. Ask her if this looks familiar. https://media.phillyvoice.com/media/images/02102016_ENIAC_pr...
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by fernly 7y ago
Does this suggest a serious danger to any hypothetical interstellar ship? If the density of such kilometer-scale objects is such that disk of our solar system intercepts them by the dozen, there is one fuck of a lot more solid matter drifti
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by fernly 7y ago
Huh. Not denying you, but after seven minutes I see no data, just the base map.
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by fernly 7y ago
n.b. as of 1600 hrs 27 Oct 2019, the fire should be visible as a large area between Geyserville and Middletown, with a much larger evacuation area from there West to the coast at Bodega Bay.
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by fernly 7y ago
Umm... it shows no fires at all. (Edit: tried in both Chrome and Firefox.) In fact the Kincade fire is actively burning and only a few percent contained while 180,000 residents of Sonoma County have been ordered to evacuate. https:/&#
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by fernly 7y ago
I've got Luminar 3 on a 27in Retina iMac and it performs adequately. Some of its "AI" filters are quite impressive. The Sky filter, for example, really finds the sky, and only the sky, in a picture and changes it. To get the
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by fernly 7y ago
> The construction and inspection firms working on the bridge were aware of the cracks and reported the cracks to the design firm, asking for guidance. The engineer of record at the design firm repeatedly indicated that the cracks were
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by fernly 7y ago
45 pages in before I saw the first comment. whoever wrote section 8, "what may be a simulation or game for billiards or pool", put actual one-line descriptions before each section. Later on he gets real chatty, e.g. fsin: 02
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by fernly 7y ago
Yeah, no. I've handled parts of Whirlwind[1], a vacuum tube machine from just post-WWII, and the gap from that to a C-64 or any other circa-1980 machine is just too great. They were using discrete wiring, resistors and wires soldered t
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by fernly 7y ago
One of the earliest advocates in this game was Mr. Money Moustache[1] who spelled out the arithmetic of "save half what you earn until you can live on your savings" back in 2011 or so. Very entertaining writer in the contrarian ve
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by fernly 7y ago
Some of the speeches of Robert G. Ingersoll. Great oratory from an age when oratory was prized. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_G._Ingersoll http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/2662 T
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by fernly 7y ago
What actually can one do now that one couldn't before? For "one" read either, "a technology company" or, "an advanced amateur".
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by fernly 7y ago
Graphically it should suggest the experience of wandering the stacks of a large library. Have you been in the stacks of a big University or city library? Narrow, ill-lit aisles, books shelved on both sides, from the floor to well above your
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by fernly 7y ago
College baseball has that character. While the student-athletes are good, maybe AAA-league good, they are not as perfect as the pros. You never know when a pitcher will suddenly lose the zone, or a routine double-play will turn into a two-b
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by fernly 7y ago
OK, moderately well-read in software engineering but not in math; experienced programmer; start reading the intro, sounds promising; but early on I find some presentation problems which I think are going to impede you reaching the audience
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by fernly 7y ago
That's very typical of programs using a GUI platform. One way or another you have to kick off an event handler, whether it's TKinter or Qt or in this case, GTK. The event handler runs independent of your code and has to be told wh
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by fernly 7y ago
Robert Heinlein, "The Menace From Earth" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Menace_from_Earth sorry, should have refreshed the page oftener...
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by fernly 7y ago
One reason that springs to mind is the shortage of large lakes near the equator. Solar "lily pads" would be much less efficient on the Great Lakes or Lake Baikal, and have seasonal swings of output.
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by fernly 7y ago
I have a favorite in Wells' unknown back-catalog, the rom/com Wheels of Chance[1,2]. Wells really felt the pleasures of bicycling, but also understood (and took mischievous enjoyment in) the revolution it was creating in his socie
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by fernly 7y ago
Sorry, but this thing, head on, is pure FSM.
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by fernly 7y ago
This is remarkably similar to the Lox language and the book Crafting Interpreters[1] by Bob Nystrom, which I only just read about on HN like two days ago. (Edit: one major difference is, Nystrom's book is free.) [1] http://w
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by fernly 7y ago
Expressing gratitude to another, or mindfully thinking about things you are grateful for in the moment, is a recognized technique that has been shown in studies to increase people's self-reported level of contentment. I'm surprise
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by fernly 7y ago
Strawberries would be a worst-case for this design. The plants are low and spreading, and weeds tend to start under them and then pop up through -- so it's the tall plant that's bad and the short one that's not only wanted, b
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by fernly 7y ago
Per the wikipedia entry[1] IBM secured the patent, quote, > The Floppy Disk Drive Patent #3,678,481[11] was issued July 18, 1972 with named inventors Warren L. Dalziel, Jay. B. Nilson, and Donald L. Wartner. [1] https://en.wik
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by fernly 7y ago
Oh! That's the IBM Journal article! Hah, suck on that, IEEE. Also, note, the formal description is claimed to be executable code (by an APL interpreter).
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by fernly 7y ago
It would be interesting to compare this to "A Formal Description of System/360" by Falkoff and Iverson[1], using APL as the notation language, from 1964. Sadly it is pay-walled by the IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.
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by fernly 7y ago
Ironically about the only acronym he does NOT try to explain is FFI, the reason for the project. > A foreign function interface (FFI) is a mechanism by which a program written in one programming language can call routines or make use of

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