jejones3141

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by jejones3141 7y ago
Two things: They must fully specify how they categorize content as misleading. Deceit predates computers. Lies of omission and half-truths, misleading presentation of statistics (e.g. the ubiquitous pie chart of US federal spending that on
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by jejones3141 7y ago
I first came across the notion of orthogonality for programming languages in Algol 68. Perhaps it's easiest to give examples of what it's not. At first in C you could only assign scalars; to assign a struct or union you had to cal
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by jejones3141 7y ago
ghci is my friend. :i and :t go a long way as a backup for my memory. If Perl (or APL, another language criticized for having a vast array, you should pardon the expression, of unfamiliar operators) has something similar, I've not hear
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by jejones3141 7y ago
Is it anything like the way their compiler detected SSEn in a way that guaranteed it wouldn't use those instructions on AMD processors even if they supported them?
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by jejones3141 7y ago
Perhaps "You deserve jump pay for time spent in training last year"?
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by jejones3141 7y ago
It's not just mathematicians who see it. Edna St. Vincent Millay saw it. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148566/euclid-alone-h...
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by jejones3141 7y ago
>> Cities with lots of steps or staircases are only accessible for pedestrians, but no one else. > And that's good! Even for people with difficulty walking or in wheelchairs?
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by jejones3141 7y ago
That's one reason I hope autonomous vehicles are functional and available soon.
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by jejones3141 7y ago
Thanks--there have been enough April Fools videos of supposed Raspberry Pi 4s that when I saw one this morning, I was suspicious.
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by jejones3141 7y ago
It certainly tested the physical limits of my aging eyes. The version on the poorly-calibrated display was a good bit easier to read than that on the well-calibrated display.
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by jejones3141 7y ago
Is the next step forbidding dangerous hobbies like mountain climbing? Maybe taking more than one job to support a large family or accumulate college funds for one's children--"you're not getting enough sleep, which increases
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by jejones3141 8y ago
Interesting. I wish they'd discussed why they went for base 16 floating point.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
I fear C++ has outdegree zero.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
I think that '()))((' will be judged balanced by the above code.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
I've never had to understand the internals of a web browser or text editor in order to use it; drivers ed courses don't start with a discussion of thermodynamics. Why should it be necessary for git?
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by jejones3141 8y ago
Reminds me of surgery banjo player Eddie Adcock underwent to deal with a tremor that interfered with his playing. It was quite successful.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
Aha... thanks!
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by jejones3141 8y ago
Oops... they either let Kumo II slip in or intended it to be there as an example of Mistral, the other font from the designer of Choc, and forgot to point that out.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
Neat. Has anyone tried visualizing code before and after refactoring or other transformations? Maybe code smells cause visible differences.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
Yes! 60 Hz is pretty darned close to Bb.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
Me too; I guess it's nice not to be alone. I thought I was shifting into Baroque A=415 mode. Alas even this mutant absolute pitch is still troublesome in one way: sometimes some folks I played and sang with said "OK, the music is
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by jejones3141 8y ago
"And even if it was weaponized, wouldn't that be the fault of the maintainers judging the situation?" Not necessarily--not pulling the trigger will be argued to be shirking the responsibility to enforce the CoC.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
By all means, get Lafferty's collection _Nine Hundred Grandmothers_, and if you read nothing else, read the stories about the Camiroi.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
Don't forget the Directrix in the Lensman series, where as the space battle approaches, the crew rush to hand out huge binders of pre-calculated possible maneuvers... done by hand with some help from slide rules.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
As others have said, go ahead and implement it; you'll have a better idea of what you might want to change or generalize after you have that version to experiment with. (One case you might want to consider: with that way to create poly
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by jejones3141 8y ago
I'm disappointed. From the title it sounded like someone had created a language specifically for dynamic programming ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_programming ).
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by jejones3141 8y ago
As I read what the author wrote about playing in both directions at once, I couldn't help thinking of Machaut's "Ma Fin est Mon Commencement". Time to go listen to it and then to Coltrane.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
If the TOS effectively forbids disagreement, what's the difference?
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by jejones3141 8y ago
U+203D is interrobang.
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by jejones3141 8y ago
"Interestingly, Iowa, which people on the coasts would probably lump together with Oklahoma as low cost of living flyover states, has very high state taxes. 8.98% on earnings above $70,785." True, though so far, at least, I think

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