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by fjfaase 7y ago
I also remember Austerlitz. Camped there in the woods two or three times. One time in the winter. I also remember that we biked there from our home town, a little more than 20 miles. This was when I was 14-17 years old.
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by fjfaase 7y ago
Yes, I have fond memories of these. These were often seen as the highlight of a week of camping. In my youth we did not have mobile phones, even not everybody had a phone at home. Because the Netherlands is so densely populated, it is very
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by fjfaase 7y ago
I guess that the people considering this controversial, must consider the book "Mama's Last Hug" by Frans de Waal highly controversial.
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by fjfaase 7y ago
For your initial design you could also have chosen to use an additional byte to represent the type of the value. As representing the type would only require 2 or 3 bits, some bits will be unused (probably some more, due to alignment require
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by fjfaase 7y ago
We live in a world were ever PC has at least 2 Gbyte of ram and most CPU's are 64 bits, the section 'Data Representation' begins to explain how 'everything' can be stored in a single 32-bit integer, if we limit inte
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by fjfaase 7y ago
I have noticed that when doing a code review, I ask a lot of why questions. I want to understand why the coder has chosen for the given solution and if any other solutions were taking into consideration. I also want to know if the coder thi
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by fjfaase 7y ago
What about bird intelligence? The modern view is that the parts of the bird brain use to be called the pallium actually are organized in a similar way as the neocortex. Although a bird brain is usually smaller than the mammal brain, it has
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by fjfaase 7y ago
In Urumqi they are using Beijing time, but doing everything two hours later. The official working hours are from 10:00 to 14:00 and 16:00 to 20:00. Even after being there for two weeks, it kept confusing me. Every time I looked at a clock (
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by fjfaase 7y ago
As, with everything, it should be applied wisely. In most cases, I think it is perfectly fine to have early exits on parameter checks at the start of the function/method. Otherwise you end up with deep nested if-then-else or complex co
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by fjfaase 7y ago
I have a similar VIQ/PIQ imbalance. I guess that my verbal IQ is around 100, while my non-verbal (performal) IQ might be as high as 130. I have a lot of trouble with spelling, remembering rot facts, and recalling names of people (even
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by fjfaase 7y ago
I also wrote a program to check the consistency of all HTML files on my website. It checks if all internal links are correct and even does some checking on reverse links. Furthermore, it also has a mechanism for maintaining tags with blog e
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by fjfaase 7y ago
The measurement methods for current and voltage are different. Current is usually measured by inserting a small resitor in the circuit and measure the voltage over the resitor. You would need at least three cables to measure both current a
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by fjfaase 7y ago
I have been doing this for more this for 24 years now. Even developed my own editor (based on the Crystal Edit controls), which has navigation. Pressing F5 on a link, will open the file (when it is local) at the given location (following an
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by fjfaase 7y ago
I personally think it is a little overkill to use Prolog to solve sudokus, as there is a simple mapping of sudokus to exact covers. The resulting exact covers are rather small and can usually be solved within a fraction of a second using Kn
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by fjfaase 7y ago
Actually, most file systems let you randomly read and write to files. Usually, they implement this by reading and writing blocks (of 256 bytes or a multiple). One could create file systems with more advanced operations, but most likely, the
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by fjfaase 7y ago
Why would you want to delete bytes from the beginning of a file? A file should be seen as a low-level data structure with a limited set of operations. If you want to implement a more complex data structure with a wider range of operations,
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by fjfaase 7y ago
Both taking over on the right and not moving to the left (when you can) are traffic offenses and will be fined when observed by (often unmarked) police cars. In the Netherlands, where there are similar rules, driving closely behind another
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by fjfaase 7y ago
I once wrote an interpreter that performed some operation on interpreting a data structure. Because it seems that the interpreter was spending most of its time on interpreting the data structure, I thought it would be a good idea to 'c
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by fjfaase 7y ago
This is not the case in my home town, Enschede, less than 5 miles from the German border in The Netherlands. The lines are terribly slow there compared to other supermarkets. I usually spend more than half of my time waiting in the line. (I
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by fjfaase 7y ago
Indeed, there is a problem with local variables. The example relies on using global variables. If you want multiple threads executing the same function, it is not going to work. Also there is no solution for calling other functions (and hav
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by fjfaase 7y ago
As I understand it, the DNA only contains the sequence of amino-acids from which the protein is built, not their folding instructions. Some proteins are also modified and/or cut in pieces by other proteins before reaching a functional
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by fjfaase 7y ago
No, not something as rigid as Cyc, but more a system where you can trace the truth of a certain fact. Wikipedia requires you to reference sources. But that is just one layer. Some forms of knowledge are based on multiple layers of reference
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by fjfaase 7y ago
Is there anything of traceability in Golden? In the past years, I have been documenting the works, exhibitions, and documents about a Dutch artists. While doing this, I have often come across conflicting information. I have discovered that
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by fjfaase 8y ago
I hope you do not mind, if I make some comments. The first is that you should try to include realistic examples in your documentation and promote good coding styles. For example, I do not see the benefit of a 'sign' function with
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by fjfaase 8y ago
I sometimes have the experience that there is one word in a sentence that I did not get (often prompting me to say 'huh'), and that after some pondering, I suddenly get it and 'hear' the word being replayed in my head, a
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by fjfaase 8y ago
Software engineering is still mostly a craft, not a type of engineering. We should not start another FP versus OOP war. I think it misses the point. We should start thinking about languages where it is possible to precisely define implement
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by fjfaase 8y ago
It is my experience that I often know what a driver before me is going to do even before they have started to do so. Probably because I pick up very small changes in their behavior, as like reducing their speed a little, even before I have
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by fjfaase 8y ago
Lately, I experimented with a 'functional' script language, that uses lazy evaluation for generating C code and does not do any concatenation. It has a build-in debugger, which lets you break at output locations, which proved quit
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by fjfaase 8y ago
I am almost sure that some engineer of Boeing has noticed that there was a major design flaw with the function of the MCAS, but that he was overruled by a less technical (and probably younger) superior.
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by fjfaase 8y ago
It might no longer be true for the cows that have been breed for producing lots of milk. I guess most of them might still be able to survive outside during the winter, but I suspect that their milk production will be strongly affected.

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