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by mkl 2y ago
No. Fortran (1957) uses 1-based indexing by default. Probably because matrix and vector indexing in maths is usually 1-based.
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by mkl 2y ago
Bike gears have had numbers for many decades. The ancient (even then) Raleigh 20 I had as a kid had gear numbers (3), though searching now I see some Raleigh 20s had names instead. Every non-road-bike I've had since has had clearly v
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by mkl 2y ago
I put a trackball (Kensington Expert Mouse) in between the keyboard halves. With tenting it can nestle in quite close.
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by mkl 2y ago
Another typo s/game/gave/: "Another reason John game me".
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by mkl 2y ago
Proving properties and computing values are quite different things, and proofs can absolutely be done on Turing machines, e.g. with proof assistants like Lean.
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by mkl 2y ago
In my experience (maths degrees at two universities with >15000 students, one of which I now teach at) group theory and abstract algebra more generally are much more likely to be part of a maths degree than topology. I've never hea
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by mkl 2y ago
> I can't even read my own handwriting anymore, I would be incredibly impressed if an OCR can. An online OCR system like this has more information than you do as it knows stroke order, direction, and possibly timing. I wouldn'
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by mkl 2y ago
Having the features is not nearly as much use if the whole thing's too slow to use. I frequently get mamba taking multiple minutes to figure out how to install a package. I use and like Anaconda and miniforge, but their speed for pac
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by mkl 2y ago
For those who haven't seen it before, TAM = Total Addressable Market.
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by mkl 2y ago
*English-speaking Part of the UK is English, but none of the rest are.
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by mkl 2y ago
It's really clear that scrolls, as a post is cut off partway.
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by mkl 2y ago
My reason is the combination of a good command line and also easy use of native GUI apps. The main problem is that operations involving lots of little files can be slow (WSL1 is better than WSL2 at this).
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by mkl 2y ago
I thought the same at first, but found Python Cloudflare Workers already run in WASM: https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/languages/python/h...
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by mkl 2y ago
Agreed. My mum learned basic Fortran at university in the early 1970s, before Ada existed. (It was done on punch cards, and they had to wait a day or so to find out if their programs worked!)
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by mkl 2y ago
Sarcasm: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=%2FS It evolved from the fake HTML tag "</sarcasm>" to "</s>" [1] (not referring to the actual <s> strikeout tag), to
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by mkl 2y ago
I'm not suggesting a separate server or a Raspberry Pi (that was just an example of the low resource needs), just having non-dynamic pages to not be hitting the database, so be cached somewhere (hopefully automatically), or using a ser
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by mkl 2y ago
(2023) 101 comments at the time, including from the creator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37973229
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by mkl 2y ago
Problematic design. It's a static page, and should be served as such; a Raspberry Pi could probably handle that, and it's easy to put behind Cloudflare or similar.
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by mkl 2y ago
ZeroTier is great. It just works. Makes it really easy to SSH in or access Samba shares from anywhere.
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by mkl 2y ago
100m of concrete vs tens of thousands of km of unobtainium cable in orbit . The harbour is far easier.
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by mkl 2y ago
You might like this article involving another recursive island: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moose-boulder-debunked , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22674342 (103 comments in 2020, includ
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by mkl 2y ago
Yes, that's in the list.
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by mkl 2y ago
No, that probably describes most of our species' existence.
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by mkl 2y ago
Building a big deep water harbour is a piece of cake compared to building a space elevator, and has been done for centuries, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg_Harbour .
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by mkl 2y ago
There are two other phis with the (non-mathematical) Greek letters earlier, but unfortunately fonts vary in which one they display as \phi or \varphi: φ (U+03CD), ϕ (U+03DC).
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by mkl 2y ago
ℓ is totally fine.
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by mkl 2y ago
A display is much better for this. I recommend Samsung tablets, as the Wacom stylus they use can't awkwardly run out of battery on you in the middle of a class.
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by mkl 2y ago
I always cross my zs in maths to distinguish them from 2s, but in some countries they cross the 2s to distinguish them from zs, so the ambiguities remain.
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by mkl 2y ago
https://archive.ph/QZzLG
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by mkl 2y ago
The article describes both papers.

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