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by hanslub42 5y ago
What advantages would a blwrap have over rlwrap? As I understand it, bestline's advantages over readline (fewer dependencies, license) only apply when you are using it as a library. rlwrap is a separate program that weighs in at around
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by hanslub42 5y ago
On the other hand: regulation is what made reliable and uninterrupted radio communication possible. Radio is not the internet: if I transmit with 100kW on 1234kHz I make that frequency unusable for anyone else in a wide neighbourhood. Bandw
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by hanslub42 5y ago
"Invented" is a bit of a strong word here: there were "M" and "m3" macro processors before m4. Christopher Stratcheys GPM (General Purpose Macroprocessor, https://academic.oup.com/comjnl/ar
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by hanslub42 5y ago
Yes, and no. The less unharmonic bass strings make a noticeable difference for the middle and high register too, when the dampers are lifted by the sustain pedal and the bass strings resonate with the higher ones. This "roominess"
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by hanslub42 6y ago
I wonder how big the influence of Yiddish has been on German itself. Given the closeness of Yiddish and German, it would be the words of Hebrew origin that would stand out. Dutch has quite a number of Yiddish loan-words, many of them in (ve
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by hanslub42 6y ago
I agree 100%. But see: https://wiki.haskell.org/Do_notation_considered_harmful
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by hanslub42 6y ago
I always assumed that do-notation had been introduced in Haskell as soon as monads became a thing, but no: this paper dates from 1995, while do-notation appeared with the Haskell 1.3 report in 1996. So here all the monadic actions are thre
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by hanslub42 6y ago
The problem mentioned in the article (a mathematical apparatus that is completely alien to us moderns) is the opposite of that of contemporary translators. Around 1750, Émilie, marquise du Châtelet, made the first translation into French (
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by hanslub42 6y ago
Worse receiver, but better antenna: From the linked article: "... With their system [...] they were able to estimate that the minimum dish aperture required to observe the Vela pulsar would be 6m, noting that the Vela pulsar is probabl
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by hanslub42 6y ago
For Plato mathematics was real, but not only that, the stuff we see around us was not. In the Republic he therefore complains about mathematicians "... always talking in a narrow and ridiculous manner, of "squaring" and &quot
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by hanslub42 6y ago
Einstein was influenced by more than only philosophy, of course. A 1846 SciFi story ("Die Gestirne und die Weltgeschichte") about someone travelling faster than light (and thus being able to observe the past) fascinated him (he ev
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by hanslub42 6y ago
I totally agree that thinner is not always better on a laptop where key travel and full-sized ports are important. But a Yoga is also meant to be used as a tablet . As a programmer I want my key travel and ports. As a musician I want to
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by hanslub42 6y ago
Another example (which I think is older, and thus might have inspired the Haskell one): https://www.smart-jokes.org/programmer-evolution.html
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by hanslub42 6y ago
I thoroughly enjoyed this story, and Wolfram's thorough detective work For those interested, Schönfinkels article ( über die Bausteine der mathematischen Logik ) is available online [1]. A good writeup about its significance can be fou
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by hanslub42 6y ago
> [...] the function of Vitamin C is not "preventing scurvy" Ironically, its scientific name, "ascorbic acid" means precisely that: no-scurvy (a-scorbic) acid
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by hanslub42 6y ago
This kind of computer might be just what we need for a Venus rover https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=6933