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by jblazevic 5y ago
--------- ---- -- ---- ----- --- ---- ----- COPYRIGHT 1975 BY BILL GATES AND PAUL ALLEN --------- ---- -- ---- ----- --- ---- ----- ORIGINALLY WRITTEN ON THE PDP-10 FROM FEBRUARY 9 TO APRIL 9 1975 BILL GATES WROTE A LO
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by jblazevic 5y ago
Unless you set them correctly to actual CPU frequencies, in which case they correlated perfectly.
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by jblazevic 6y ago
What I find very interesting here is the QuickJS engine used in this. Developed by none other than Fabrice Bellard!
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Croatia is introducing a digital nomad visa (Google translate)(translate.googleusercontent.com)
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by jblazevic 6y ago
It is mathematically the most "economical" integer base in terms of space, when considering complexity of digit representation along with word length [1]. [1] Hayes, B. (2001). Third base. American Scientist 89: 490-494 ( http:&#x
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by jblazevic 7y ago
A team I was a part of at the uni made a fuzzy logic-based robot for a soft computing course, almost 20 years ago it seems. I rember that we were able to accomplish seemingly complex behavior (light tracking with obstacle avoidance) with on
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by jblazevic 8y ago
Or the girl killed by her “mother” this week [1]. Humans mostly follow their instinct, and it is absurd/dangerous not to zoomorphise their behavior. [1] https://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-accused-killing-14-year-dau.
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by jblazevic 8y ago
They went for a short visit to Room 101, Ministry of love
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by jblazevic 8y ago
I’m just reading it now and I must say it’s a rarely honest book and has actionable models and tactics for the sales non-“naturals”. It has opened my eyes.
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by jblazevic 8y ago
How is this practice of inflating prices while exploiting urgency and lack of choice not clearly fradulent and illegal?
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by jblazevic 8y ago
I was there just 5 days ago on an aircraft tour which flew directly above the fissures. We landed in Kona normally. The lava fountains are awe-inspiring. Here's what I was able to record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
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by jblazevic 9y ago
Seconded. I used it for Java/web development for a year after switching from Linux and was delighted with the ergonomics of use. The multi-desktop swiping easily compensates for multiple monitors. The light weight and huge battery life
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by jblazevic 9y ago
It's a figure of speech meant to convey irony.
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by jblazevic 10y ago
I think a great example of this is the Photomath app (photomath.net). These guys are really a mobile vision/OCR API startup and they released Photomath as a free showcase app, which went on to achieve global media coverage and topped t
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by jblazevic 11y ago
Great stuff! One minor suggestion, completely beside the point so please forgive me: a safer and perhaps more idiomatic way to implement the multiply_safe function would be with a functional-style one-liner: fn multiply_safe(a : Vec&l
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by jblazevic 12y ago
This was thoroughly entertaining, recognizing each word's meaning is like solving a small puzzle. Like recognizing English words written in katakana. Some words were taken directly from German, like waterstuff (== Wasserstoff), sourstu
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by jblazevic 13y ago
This happened to me during my commute. I was visualizing stacks of cars smashing together and disappearing in front of me. Very unsettling.
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by jblazevic 13y ago
I highly recommend Dragon's Egg, a hard sci fi novel by Robert L. Forward, as well as its sequel, Starquake, for anyone wanting to expand their mind with a fascinating portrayal of neutron star physics, dealing with the hypothetical po