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by jonsen 4y ago
(So looping is contaminated recursion.)
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by jonsen 4y ago
Thanks, will read. My initial thoughts: Writing the 'novel' is the development process. Then rewrite it into a 'car manual' for your audience.
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by jonsen 4y ago
The WP page has a little more info https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming#Critiqu...
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by jonsen 4y ago
I so miss the days of the well structured and comprehensive manual. I used to read them end to end. Even if you didn't remember the details you knew what was possible.
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by jonsen 4y ago
I was reminded of the great video lecture Gerald Sussman Teaches Mechanical Watch Ideas at MIT: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TWQN8Yf1g70
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by jonsen 4y ago
I haven't heard of any incidents since that time. Did they fix all the cars, or what?
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by jonsen 4y ago
https://www.jetpens.com/blog/The-Best-Pens-for-Note-Taking/p...
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by jonsen 4y ago
The captain was asleep. Maybe there were no clear consensus on chain of command in the cockpit.
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by jonsen 4y ago
Yes, but your argument goes circular with this. And someone could argue that .999.../2 = .499... <=> .999... = 2*.499... = .499...+.499... which "surely must" have 8 as the rightmost digit. Moving it further aw
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by jonsen 4y ago
> (1 + .999...)/2 = .5 + .499... = .999.. Why is .999.../2 = .499... ?
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by jonsen 4y ago
> lim x->0 (1-x == 1) How do you define the limit of a sequence of truth values?
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by jonsen 4y ago
> I would love to get my students using slide rules, "Slide Rule Loaner Program": https://sliderulemuseum.com/SR_Loaner.htm
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by jonsen 4y ago
> I like seeing the stack on the screen So do I. Therefore I bought the DM42 from SwissMicros: https://www.swissmicros.com/products
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by jonsen 4y ago
Here they still make circular slide rules: https://www.sliderule.tokyo/products/list.php?category_id=30
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by jonsen 4y ago
> If this is true arctan( 11 / 8.5 )
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by jonsen 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_system
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by jonsen 4y ago
Some of us learned this approach to imperative programming from The Science of Programming by David Gries: https://www.amazon.com/Science-Programming-Monographs-Comput...
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by jonsen 4y ago
Turing Completeness.
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by jonsen 4y ago
In its time they said the RC 2000 was the worlds fastest paper tape reader. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnecentralen#Peripheral_bu...
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by jonsen 5y ago
I Forth like or
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by jonsen 5y ago
Interesting, would it terminate in a butt plug?
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by jonsen 5y ago
What were the advantages of using that number of degrees?
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by jonsen 5y ago
Oh, my bad. Though I'm pretty sure it was free when I got it way back?! Kind of irritating that you can no longer see the the price of an app you have installed.
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by jonsen 5y ago
For offpad I have the DM42 from SwissMicros. It has a 4 line display like the 42s app.
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by jonsen 5y ago
On the Norwegian store it's got 4.3 stars.
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by jonsen 5y ago
I use this free and good RPN calculator app: https://apps.apple.com/no/app/42s-rpn-calculator/id301525577
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by jonsen 5y ago
("Mind maps are similar in structure to concept maps, developed by learning experts in the 1970s, but differ in that mind maps are simplified by focusing around a single central key concept."): https://en.m.wikipedia.or
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by jonsen 5y ago
"(The spelling disk and disc are used interchangeably except where trademarks preclude one usage, e.g. the Compact Disc logo. The choice of a particular form is frequently historical, as in IBM's usage of the disk form beginning i
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Help Brain Overload(aeon.co)
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by jonsen 5y ago
"Dipole rotation is the mechanism normally referred to as dielectric heating, and is most widely observable in the microwave oven where it operates most effectively on liquid water, and also, but much less so, on fats and sugars."

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