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by jrapdx3 12y ago
As a past owner (many years ago) of a Wankel-engine powered car I was entertained at the mention of "Wankel". Emissions were the least of its problems, reliability being far less than desirable, as in barely able to keep going at
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
It's probably not exactly true that CL has "more features" than Scheme. That is to say, the Scheme "core" language (well, as of R5RS) describes the essential functionality that qualifies as Scheme, but the major im
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
The fundamental syntax is also the same in Scheme which I've used quite a lot. The stumbling block for beginners is of course the prefix, parenthesized, "everything is a list" notation. It does take patience to "get use
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
It seems logical that keeping the people who did well at the task and dismissing those who didn't would be the way to find people with forecasting talent in a specific domain. It's the same principle as evolutionary selection. If
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
You can add Scheme to the list of languages that do this. CHICKEN in particular works by compiling highly expressive Scheme to C, which can be inspected, modified, etc. Also the CHICKEN compiler has a few dozen switches to tweak output, b
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Whatever the list lacks, it is a very long list, let's admire its amazingly broad and deeply substantial veins for us to mine and keep on learning about for a long time. For those of us who have not yet reached the glory heights climb
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
You could well be correct, but in that case it's an opportunity to take a hard look at how adequately the "system" used by that agency is actually working, and possibly make revisions where indicated or necessary. Trust me, I
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Tk is the reason I first used Tcl. Back in the 90's Tk was certainly the easiest, quickest way to create a GUI app, and probably it still is. I mentioned my old Tcl/DB program--the server side. I didn't go into details of t
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
You'd have to consult an attorney for a thorough answer, but my understanding is that US federal law requires public school districts (K-12) to provide an education for every eligible child. The ADA applies to children with disabiliti
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I'm not familiar with this particular app (I guess, set of apps), but I have used Tcl (with and without the Tk GUI) for a very long time. I've always been impressed with the productivity the language allows, as well as the care i
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
All of that sounds very familiar. Astronomical sunrise/sunset times aren't an accurate guide to actual perceieved day length. Topological obstructions, like nearby hills, and in our climate, overcast skies block or decrease sunl
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I was referring to an outdoor greenhouse, set up on a plot of land where a large garden was mentioned. Oriented in a north-south direction natural light is still plentiful even in winter, and supplementing with artificial light can be effe
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
By "non-growing season" I'm assuming you mean winter. If you don't live in the Arctic Circle, or have temperatures to match, it's quite possible (I've seen it done anyway) to grow some vegetables under glass e
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Having had experience with hydroponic horticulture, I believe you are correct. Successful hydroponic farming is much harder than it seems it would be. The amount of light energy required to grow plants properly is very large and hard to su
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I'm wondering how the proposed security model differs from current practices. What you've quoted doesn't seem different. After all, on the web today, data producers send a certificate which the client "verifies".
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Maybe it's just my nature to be guarded about grand visions, but does this idea really have a good chance of succeeding? Will it displace TCP/IP given the extent of IP deployment around the world? No doubt there are people here w
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
In this case, it's not the medical community that is impeding experimentation and progress, but rather the timidity of the FDA. The on/off signals emitted by the agency confuse and hinder the development of a simple and effective
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I don't remember what happened back then, but I do know that here in Oregon, Intel has received tax breaks from the state and Washington County where the Intel R&D fab is located. OTOH while Intel has fabs in many places, their inv
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Here in Oregon, notable tax breaks have been granted to Nike, Intel and others. The issue comes up periodically, especially in election years. Concerns about companies paying a "fair share" of taxes is very common, but doesn&#x2
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Stand, of course, but manufacturers produce a number of seats or stools designed to make it easy to transition from standing to seated to standing. Makes sense. For some tasks standing all day at one spot would be too tiring. This furnitu
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I've tried out just about every chair/stool made for the purpose and none satisfactorily fit my body's construction. I keep thinking I might have to invent something that works for me. Meanwhile I make do with an adjustable
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Certainly depends on the source. But I believe you are about right. I wrongly trusted memory for the stat. The figure I used applies to a subset, green perception impaired males, which is around 5-6%, depending on level of impairment cons
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Doing both things allows the maximum number of users to benefit. I'm pretty sure that's what you were getting at. The diff convention of marking inserted and deleted lines by + and - provides a "channel" of info showing
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Maybe it's just my eyeballs, but it looks like the <1 photon/pixel result was kind of fuzzy vs. the higher photon count image (cf. wasp wing). If the idea is getting targeted bits of information about an object, as in whether a
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Though in this particular case, just reloading the page restarted the animations just fine. Even so, I'll try C-F5 to see if that's better.
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
"Cool" is the word to describe it, especially in the middle of all that snow. There's an example of that kind of rail-clearing engine in Skagway, Alaska. I saw it there just over a month ago. That snow machine isn't us
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Indeed, there are many who can't distinguish these colors easily, especially males (~5%). Better off using reddish-purple and bluish-green, and also different fonts to indicate changes. That would be a kindness. See http://
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I'm thinking about the findings in skin neurons from a slightly different angle, well maybe two angles. For one, study of brain increasingly points to widely distributed circuitry as the way functionality is implemented. But the brain
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
Hmm. I don't think so, but anything's possible. The problem in Parkinson's is degeneration of midbrain dopamine neurons which project to other brain regions that regulate and coordinate body movements. It's hard to ima
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by jrapdx3 12y ago
I'm quite familiar with Scheme and can do useful things with it. Not so sure how comfortable it would be to have Scheme on the command line. Maybe it's just a matter of getting used to s-expr in that context, but after a few deca

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