infradig

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by infradig 5y ago
It's also weird because it took awhile to realise it's about Rome the empire and not Rome the city, despite the title.
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by infradig 5y ago
32 bits for Len & offset doesn't play nicely with mmapped files.
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by infradig 5y ago
John Barleycorn Must Die.
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by infradig 5y ago
You might look at Picat. It's a Prolog twist I really admire.
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by infradig 5y ago
I used to hand write Cobol programs on coding pads, send them off to data-entry to be typed up and saved to tape. Then I would take the tape to ops, they would run an upload and compile when things were quiet. Get the listing back with err
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by infradig 5y ago
Which is basically what Bob Frankston did in the 60s which is where the idea came from to do it interactively. Hence the Visi part of the name.
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by infradig 5y ago
Note: this is the Astronomy definition of metal... There's Hydrogen, Helium and then there's metals.
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by infradig 5y ago
May well be a theme, but since the author is Jewish don't draw a long bow.
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by infradig 5y ago
That's how I would describe my earliest childhood as far as I can remember it.
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by infradig 5y ago
A highly-reflective model of Earth's visible and intangible aspects outlined by David Gelernter (1991) in his book “Mirror Worlds”.
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by infradig 5y ago
It made me so nauseous I had to stagger out of the cinema.
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by infradig 5y ago
Sometimes bread is just bread.
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by infradig 5y ago
There are equivalent functions in C too. The point of the article is about not using them. So how would you implement the above functions in Rust would be more pertinent.
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by infradig 5y ago
Bob Dylan built his career on dropping 'g's, then out of the blue just added one. Some 54 years later and people are still talking about it.
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by infradig 5y ago
It doesn't? Maybe the API of a photograph or other piece of work is how you perceive or appreciate it... the aesthetic of it. In this sense what Warhol has done is transformative.
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by infradig 6y ago
I keep seeing lately this 'MM' unit being bandied about to signify millions. In the old days (that is 2020) just 'M' was sufficient.
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by infradig 6y ago
You mean GNU/Systemd.
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A concept from physics called negentropy could help your life run smoother(theconversation.com)
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by infradig 6y ago
I always thought it was due to majority right handedness, holding with the left arm leaving the right hand free for more complex tasks. That was my experience as a righty. My wife is a lefty and used to do the opposite.
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by infradig 6y ago
I don't know why you are down voted, what you are saying is factually correct and the comment you responded to was wrong about the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages preceded the Medieval Period.
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by infradig 6y ago
Ha, I got booted out of RE class in about 1972 for asking if Jesus had to appear on every planet in which intelligent life appears.
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by infradig 6y ago
It works. It's what I do.
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by infradig 6y ago
Unfinished wine bottle? Just stick it in the freezer until you need it.
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by infradig 6y ago
Here's one from the olden days... Q: How are programmers like card machines? A: With both you have to punch the information in.
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by infradig 6y ago
Hope you're not talking about gimbal/gofast etc, as they are poor examples... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7Fqbsrrm8
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by infradig 6y ago
Then Narabedla Ltd is the book for you then.
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by infradig 6y ago
Not much of a smoking gun... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Le7Fqbsrrm8
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by infradig 6y ago
New to Rust, was excited to see Prolog anonymous variables make an appearance. But one thing struck me is the mismatch between variable and function declarations... let x: i32 = 42; vs fn fair_dice_roll() -> i32 { 4 } It se
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by infradig 6y ago
Adama Maneuver.
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by infradig 6y ago
The LSI-11s I used came in slimline pizza box form. Very compact. I used to do A/D conversion on them for pathology lab equipment.

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