nealabq

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by nealabq 1mo ago
My wife once did the same in VisualBasic. The cells were buttons. Small but fun.
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by nealabq 4mo ago
My 50-year-old HP-21 with red LED display still works. I'm very fond of it. RPN forever!
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by nealabq 5mo ago
Were this fiction, I would expect a denouement where images of the two memorial stones, black and white, when placed side by side (as Swift intended), reveal a subtle joke.
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by nealabq 5mo ago
I find myself wondering if this essay is meant as a gentle satire. Bemused not savage, not Swiftian. I am reminded of Lord Peter Wimsey.
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by nealabq 5mo ago
I think he meant it can fall onto his toddler, causing injury.
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by nealabq 6mo ago
You're right of course. I was thinking specifically of printing log/debug statements in the assert(..), but that usually only happens if the assert(..) fails and exits, and in that case the "no side effects" rule no long
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by nealabq 6mo ago
I don't mean to be that guy, but for "functional" programmers a print statement has "side effects". But your meaning is clear. In an assert expression, don't call functions that might change the program/da
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by nealabq 6mo ago
In C++ you should probably #include <cstdio> instead of <stdio.h> unless you have a good reason. And especially avoid #including both. <cstdio> provides the function std::getc(..) while <stdio.h> usually provides get
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by nealabq 6mo ago
Chompsky, in his early days, wrote of deep grammar or deep structure as opposed to surface structure. He theorized that there was a universal set of semantic concepts represented in human brains -- like "verbs" or "noun phras
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by nealabq 9mo ago
Third-derivative pun. Riposte: I knew you'd say that! Snap!
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by nealabq 1y ago
Since Iceland is so isolated, it may be a good place to see if a gene drive can actually eradicate.
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by nealabq 1y ago
The Blackfly song has it right then? Thank you National Film Board of Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f389hIxZAOc
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by nealabq 1y ago
Is being a monster a good or a bad thing?
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by nealabq 2y ago
Could you do this with dry corn starch? Shake it up in the bottle and light it before the dust settles.
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by nealabq 2y ago
No recursion means no Erlang. Which means no RabbitMQ?
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by nealabq 2y ago
This is a bit of a stretch, but it's a little like distillation, where you are extracting from the vast knowledge of the LLM and inserting those patterns into your brain. Where you have an incomplete or uncertain mental model and you a
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by nealabq 2y ago
I'll be interested to see how circumspect the FAA is, given the political situation.
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by nealabq 2y ago
Personally, I'd include the Relational Calculus, or even the Paxos algorithm. But I'd also include Neural Nets knowing what I know now. But I wouldn't include Quantum Computing yet -- not until it's proved to work.
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by nealabq 2y ago
Is there a line between research/discovery and engineering? Binary numbers and Boolean algebra is discovery, while IEEE floating-point numbers are engineering. Choosing digital over analog is engineering, while inventing the transistor
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by nealabq 2y ago
When the grippers close they probably close the loops of a coil that wraps around the wire. So it's harvesting the ever changing magnetic field that arises from AC current, independent of voltage. You can still get some power from coil
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by nealabq 3y ago
You hear of people occasionally eating frog-legs, alligator, rattlesnake. But maybe these also taste "bad". And since frogs are insect eaters, maybe bioaccumulation isn't as much an issue.
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by nealabq 3y ago
In the mid 80s I had a sofa and wing-back chair made by a little factory called Bader and Fox(?) in Portland OR. I went to the factory (the two owners were the only ones there) and picked out fabric/style/etc with some special ins
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by nealabq 3y ago
A typical fission nuclear power plant produces about a gigawatt of power. About 8.76 terawatt hours (TWh) every year. According to https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364 humanity used about 27400 TWh in
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by nealabq 3y ago
ASML recently delivered their first high-NA lithography system to Intel. While TSMC is being more cautious, hesitating to commit to this very expensive machine. Intel's making a big bet, and it may (or may not) pay off. We'll prob
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by nealabq 3y ago
Note that reaction wheels do not make use of gyroscopic torque (which balances these monorails). They are different control mechanisms. Altho both use spinning wheels. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_mo
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by nealabq 3y ago
Turner syndrome happens when one of the X chromosomes is missing. The result in humans is a short female who may have some heart issues and may be sterile. At least according to the woman I know who has it. As in men, the single X-chromosom
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by nealabq 3y ago
Gemini is not distinct and memorable. It feels like a muddled compromise. I'd name it GooGaa or Googa. Like "Google" and "goo-goo-gaa-gaa" (baby's first babbling). It's flowing, friendly & familiar.
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by nealabq 3y ago
Smalltalk doesn't have operator precedence rules. They just apply left-to-right. The infix operators aren't part of the language - they're messages (aka methods), and precedence would be inconsistent with the language's
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by nealabq 3y ago
A century is about 3 billion seconds, and Earth's surface area is about half-a-billion square kilometres, so one of these hits Earth about every 6+ seconds.
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by nealabq 3y ago
you're suggesting a periodic table of all periodic tables that do not contain themselves. sounds doable.

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