monkey

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by monkey 7y ago
Frink is a full-fledged programming language, so you can read data from files, write functions, access web-based data, repeat calculations, process text, create data structures, etc. In short, it is a Turing-complete system. Soulver isn&#x
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by monkey 11y ago
Hehe. This is probably why the author of the document summarized the discussion of the Hz to say: 'Use of "Hz" will cause communication problems, errors, and make one party or another look insane in the eyes of the other.&#x
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by monkey 11y ago
Other EE annoyances: capacitors are often marked with their capacitance as, say, "100 MFD". No, it's not megafarad, it's not millifarad; it actually means microfarad! That's annoying in several ways, including re
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by monkey 16y ago
Thanks for the report, but this shouldn't be considered a bug. That unit is defined so that you can write "1 gram energy" or the like to find the energy content in that particular amount of mass. It's actually shorter (on a reasonable key
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by monkey 16y ago
The author's talk on Finch was indeed awesome. He was very funny and modest and self-deprecating, but it was obvious to everyone that he was really smart. And his talk had some of the most quotable bits in the whole conference. "I'm writi
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by monkey 16y ago
If a glaven is a new type of unit not related to any of the ordinary metric units, you can add it thusly: glaven =!= awesomeness Which makes it the fundamental unit of awesomeness. Then you can write things like 100 kiloglaven / second to
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by monkey 16y ago
You can look up units or functions in Frink by just typing part of the name preceded by a question mark, or 2 question marks for more verbose output. For example, ?saturn or ??saturn will list the units that contain that substring. (The
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by monkey 16y ago
Yeah, Frink is a Turing-complete programming language. That's a provably huge difference. You can have loops, maintain state, store results in variables and use them later, and define your own functions, so your calculations are repeatabl