mjcohen

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by mjcohen 6y ago
Doesn't work on 2014 Mac Mini running High sierra. Does nothing and goes away.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
About as good as the Amiga.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I had similar problems years ago and switched to a trackball. No problems since. I use a Logitech with thumb moving the ball. I keep it and keyboard at waist level with monitor at eye level.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
So what happened?
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Right now, they are not.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Why a duck?
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Quadruple rot13 for enhanced security.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I had a mild stroke in 2001. CT did not find it, MRI did.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Many years ago I implemented a set of multiple precision integer routines in fortran. For division, I slavishly copied Knuth's routine, using all the sample divisions in his book to test, and it worked fine.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Gonna need terabytes.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
To go with that, you need ln(1+x). HP calculators had both.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Back in the 90's I was working on some Ada code with some problems that were traced to conversion of strings to floating point at run time differing from conversion at compile time.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Begin recursion in 3 2 1 go
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I like that - "sufficiently ethical government" - funny without being vulgar.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
When I keyed "sketch" into Brave on a mac, the first entry was momentarily "Sketch — The digital design toolkit". Then that was preceded by "SKECHERS® Official Site - Shoes, Boots & Clothing".
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I agree. That pink is very hard to read. Might as well use yellow on white.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Tried it on my iPod Touch. Would not let me use my email address. No response when I try to touch the small text at the bottom of the screen.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Don't know, but there do seem to be philosophers that have trouble dining.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Took me quite a while, but I finally got my order in. It'll come, eventually, I hope.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Seems like a descendant of PIC - "A Graphics Language for Typesetting" http://doc.cat-v.org/unix/v10/10thEdMan/pic.pdf
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by mjcohen 6y ago
You might enjoy Naked Capitalism: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Look at EpocCam. Works for me.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
gawk has been my go-to text processing program for many years. I have written a number of multi-thousand line programs in it. I always use the lint option. Catches many of my errors. One of these had to read a 300,000,000 byte file into a s
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Of course this is a n^2 sort. Combinatorial Algorithms by Nijenhuis and Wilf, 1975, has a 23 lines Fortran implementation of Heapsort, a n log n sort. It is available on the web and easily found, so I am going to list it here. I am not goin
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by mjcohen 6y ago
https://eshop.macsales.com/
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I wrote many thousands of lines of VMS fortran. I had a lot of fun. Maybe I can do it again.
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Microsoft removing 27 languages from iOS Outlook(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by mjcohen 6y ago|3 comments
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by mjcohen 6y ago
There are a lot of comments. Here are the languages: Afrikaans Amharic Azerbaijani (Latin) Bosnian Latin Basque Persian Filipino Irish Galician Gujarati Icelandic Kazakh Khmer Lao Lithuanian Latvian Macedonian Malayalam Marathi Norwegian (N
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Makes me think of the time, many, many, many years go, when I was learning IBM 7090 assembly language (my introduction to computers). The macro assembler was powerful enough that I could check for primality at assembly time.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I read co-designed instead of code-signed. Took me a bit to make sense of it.

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