mjcohen

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by mjcohen 2y ago
Regarding sound, if you are on a Mac you can use Audio Hijack to made the sound do anything you want.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
I use Brave everywhere and just ignore the ads stuff. Just use it as a browser.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Musk has been following his hero Trump in not paying those he owes money to. So now X stands for shmuck.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
There seems to be quite a business with small businesses being sued for violating the ADA. They can pay about $10,000 to make the lawsuit go away.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Ah, yes. A Google search came up with it being the answer to problem 51 in his "The Canterbury Puzzles" on page 202. The link is https://books.google.com/books?id=ce5LDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA202&lpg=...
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by mjcohen 2y ago
I think I saw it used as part of an answer for a H. E. Dudeney puzzle.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
The same thing seems to apply for Zoom background videos.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
10% of $40,000 is quite significant (at least to me).
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by mjcohen 2y ago
The way I heard this is, at a military site, "No change in azimuth. No change in elevation. Let's get the hell out of here!"
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by mjcohen 2y ago
I think that's a poor example because bridges wear out and need to be maintained. There are a number of Youtubers devoted to disasters (One is "Plainly Difficult") and bridge failures are a large component of their examples.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Thanks. Low Tech Magazine is fascinating.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
It might help her to take improv classes. You are almost forced to consider what your scene partner is feeling/thinking.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
What if n is not a multiple of 4? There is a trick I can't recall at the moment for handling this with a case statement on n mod 4 at the end to wrap this up.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
About 20 years ago, I was programming for the Hughes radar signal processor, a highly parallel pipelined machine which accounted for much of Hughes success in radar processing. Anyway, I needed to compute e^x for 0 < x < 1. The proces
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by mjcohen 2y ago
Years ago, I was programming in Ada and ran across a case where the value of a constant in a program differed from the same constant being converted at runtime. Took a while to track that one down.
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by mjcohen 2y ago
I still have my small and large straight and circular slide rules. In junior high, I was an enthusiastic member of the slide rule club (late 50's).
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by mjcohen 2y ago
We have a good friend who lives in a trailer park where they own the trailers but not the land. The park was sold and the new owner is raising the rent incredibly quickly and there's nothing the residents can do about it. People want t
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by mjcohen 2y ago
IIRC, it was a 53-pass compiler.
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by mjcohen 3y ago
I did a lot of stuff on that machine. One was an interactive processor so users could write their own simple programs to do whatever they wanted. It had numeric and string accumulators and numeric and string operators. One program I wrote f
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by mjcohen 3y ago
I once worked on adding a feature to a radar processor. After a number of months and getting it working, it was cancelled. At least the checks didn't bounce.
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by mjcohen 3y ago
This may be naive, but it seems to me that a failed compile should generate an error worth worrying about.
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by mjcohen 3y ago
Made me think of Star Maker by Olaf Stapledon.
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by mjcohen 3y ago
One thing that I believe democracies have to beware of is Muslim immigrants forming isolated, self-contained communities that avoid connection with outsiders. If that makes me an Islamaphobe, then so be it.
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by mjcohen 3y ago
No. In n dimensions a cross product of n-1 n-vectors is the determinant with the top row being the basis elements (e_1, e_2, ..., e_n) and the next n-1 rows being the n-1 vectors. The result is a n-vector orthogonal to the n-1 vectors. In 2
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by mjcohen 3y ago
IIRC, Hamming's book "Digital Filters" (1989) has a section on FFTs with only the sign of the coefficient being used. It performed surprisingly well.
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by mjcohen 3y ago
based or biased?
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by mjcohen 3y ago
A number of years back I was programming in ADA, a language I generally liked, and had a case where the compiled version of a floating point constant differed from the value generated when the same string was entered at run time. Evidently,
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by mjcohen 3y ago
In the 70's in CS grad school at USC, I wrote an adaptive least squares cubic spline fit routine. Kept subdividing intervals and fitting a least squares cubic spline in each interval until a criteria was met. Fun times. Don't have
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by mjcohen 3y ago
A google search for "keyboard with roller" brings up a lot of options.
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by mjcohen 3y ago
And you can use the system sort or gawk's internal sort to get them in order.

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