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by fernly 9y ago
Reading this my eye was caught by the name Gelernter. Wait, wasn't that the guy who... no, it was his father, Herbert[1], who > implemented, with Nathaniel Rochester, a computer language for list processing within FORTRAN ... the F
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by fernly 9y ago
This is impressive, > associate road test editor Erick Ayapana had penciled me into a 2.0-liter Alfa Romeo Giulia to get here, and it feels like a wet sponge by comparison.
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by fernly 9y ago
Jon Bentley, _Writing Efficient Programs_ and Kernighan & Ritchie's _C Programming Language_.
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by fernly 9y ago
Some things I don't understand about the "mint" concept. Is the mint itself intended to be a guarantor of its members' solvency? > User onboarding for the Mint API is left to the discretion of the mint implementor or
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by fernly 9y ago
I find this perfectly credible because almost exactly the same conclusions were stated by Putnam in the classic _Bowling Alone_ [1]. A couple of pull-quotes from that, > Dozens of painstaking studies... have established beyond reasonabl
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by fernly 9y ago
In a "level 3" system, how does it know the destination? I suppose, you have to put it in as with a normal GPS first? Then, what does it do at the point the GPS would say, "your destination is ahead on the right, the route gu
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by fernly 9y ago
You like http://bookdesigns.github.io/book-git ? I would call it nearly unreadable. Certainly those blocks of sans-serif are fatiguing to my eyes.
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by fernly 9y ago
I took a look at Gitenberg and just don't get it. They appear to have downloaded a shit-ton of books from Gutenberg into Github -- go to https://github.com/GITenberg and note that there appear to be 1659 pages(!) in th
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by fernly 9y ago
CHM is in Mountain View. Come on Wednesday to watch the live demo of an IBM 1401 system or see the RAMAC (first commercial hard disk) running. http://www.computerhistory.org/visit/
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by fernly 9y ago
I'd be interested in snapzu, but when I put in my email to request an invite, it says "already registered", yet when I try to log in, it says "email not in our database".
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by fernly 9y ago
Couple relevant links. "regex"[1] is an upward-compatible "re" replacement with better performance and many added features including fuzzy matching. Second, the tokenizer technique of stacked expressions described in the
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by fernly 9y ago
OK I just put my address into the calculator and I think the thing's bogus. Without asking anything about my house size or my solar exposure, based solely on my address, it gives me a hard figure ($53,100) for the roof cost and a 30-ye
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by fernly 9y ago
For a counterweight let me present this interview[0] with the CEO of "the largest privately held solar contracting company in America", near the end of which he says several disparaging things about Tesla's roof, including, &
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by fernly 9y ago
Soylent does publish their GI info [1]. But if you want a low-carb product with a wide range of flavors, check KetoChow [2]. [1] https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/212769503-Glycemic... [2] https:&#x2
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by fernly 9y ago
The published nutrition panel [1] lists four micros: Vitamin A 0% (zero percent) Vitamin C 2% Calcium 4% Iron 14% Since they list no others, one might infer those are not present. [1] https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files&#x2
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by fernly 9y ago
Re Amplemeal? You should take a close look at the nutrition label and compare to Soylent's, Joylent's or any other meal-replacement. You will find the product provides laughably paltry amounts of micronutrients, less than 5% RDA o
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by fernly 10y ago
Or specifically to his example, from typing import Dict Foo = Dict[int:str] def __init__(self, name:str, balance=0.0): """Construct a Klass.""" self.myfoos = {} # type: Foo I _t
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by fernly 10y ago
I think you shoulda named it "Goby" -- which is a real word for a cute l'il fish. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goby
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by fernly 10y ago
The linked post mentions several related projects and highly recommends one.
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by fernly 10y ago
When it finally comes up I'm surprised to find it's an offshoot of the Computer History Museum, though odd it isn't hosted out of their normally bulletproof site, computerhistory.org.
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by fernly 10y ago
OK so it will eventually load if you bang it enough. This is a collection of papers written Ken Iverson[1], some with his frequent collaborator Aden Falkoff. The most important, longest, and latest (1980) is Iverson's "Notation as
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by fernly 10y ago
Top level came up once, now back to 502 gateway error. (Acts like it's hosted on somebody's personal system out of comcast.)
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by fernly 10y ago
target domain softwarepreservation.org appears to be down with an internal error.
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by fernly 10y ago
I can't tell for sure but it looks as if you are specific to the Atlanta area? I'm on the other side of the continent.
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by fernly 10y ago
I did not know this while I was a blue apron user. Thank you.
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by fernly 10y ago
In my post-election funk last fall I was researching places to get the hell out to, and discovered Uruguay, as a very attractive possibility for a decent place to live -- provided one had good Spanish. But you say wages are low? How much of
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by fernly 10y ago
They could cut some of the packaging by requiring the user to have a wider range of stock items. They could send you an email on Saturday saying, "to prepare your menu selection arriving Tuesday, you will need: Soy Sauce, White Wine Vi
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by fernly 10y ago
I and my wife have given month-long trials to HelloFresh, HomeChef, and Blue Apron. We stayed with HelloFresh longest; its recipes suited us (we added a couple of their dishes to our family repertoire and use them regularly). Blue Apron&#x2
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by fernly 10y ago
Um, "In total, the bank has fired five senior retail bank executives, including Tolstedt, over the scandal and has imposed forfeitures, clawbacks and compensation adjustments on senior leaders totaling more than $180 million, including
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by fernly 10y ago
This article seems to conflate the recent Mac Pro teaser announcement, with the low acceptance of the Mac BOOK Pro. They are two entirely different products with different histories and different problems. Then there's a quote that ma

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