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by nealabq 4y ago
Because it's a beautiful piece of engineering, publicly accessible and appreciated and thus maintained.
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by nealabq 4y ago
This (funny) YT video by exurb1a agrees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLRLYPiaAoA
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Word play?: "Road Transportation" and "Driver"
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by nealabq 4y ago
I'm only slightly younger than you, and, like you, have worked in many languages. And my very favorite were the LISPs (zeta, common, scheme). But the dev env, projects, and my time in life were all part of that positive experience. I w
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by nealabq 4y ago
The simple model of the market -- that supply and demand will balance and establish a price -- is a first-order approximation. It's often very efficient. But externalities and market-failures are always lurking, and sometimes they&#x27
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by nealabq 4y ago
Asserts play different roles: 1. Invariant assurance when entering/exiting an operation. 2. Argument checking. Enforcing requirements as to how an API is to be used. 3. Documenting the state of an operation as it proceeds. This is a ki
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by nealabq 4y ago
EESS: Eternal "Eternal September" September? Or, to enable infix-nesting, (Eternal (Eternal September) September). On HN, self-referential irony abides. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31781040
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by nealabq 4y ago
Another source: https://www.dailyexpertnews.com/science-space/one-location-9... The releases are from a coal mine in Russia. Detected in January. The coal there is known to be mixed with pockets of methane, which they
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by nealabq 4y ago
It's not just electricity. A sustained decrease in Bitcoin mining should also lead to a drop in demand for GPUs. But Bitcoin prices are volatile and we won't know until we know.
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This probably works for most people. But I've used 2-diopter weak glasses for the last 40 years, whenever I'm indoors. I think it helped slow the worsening of progression of my nearsightedness, but didn't stop it and certainl
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by nealabq 4y ago
In my nearsighted family (parents, 2 kids) we've concluded that reading printed-pages makes you get nearsighted faster than reading words on a computer screen. This seems to work for us. Don't know about anyone else. I'm very
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by nealabq 4y ago
At 64%/day, that's the third worst in this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Ten_most_severe... Also in the list: - Zimbabwe reached 98%/day in 2008. - Hungary reached 207%/da
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by nealabq 4y ago
The diagram can also be a view into the thoughts and motivations behind the implementation. Which can help the next programmer know the design and why certain design decisions were made. But not everyone thinks about designs as 2-D pictures
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by nealabq 4y ago
To me, "Apoploe vesrreaitais" looks like "Apodiformes varieties". And vesrreaitais looks like "western red tail".
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by nealabq 4y ago
My kid loved his Cuisenaire rods. Let me add: - Schoolhouse Rock (songs and video): ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSRRAHvSQBo ). Related to skip-counting (counting by 2s, 3s etc), which some kids really like and you can
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by nealabq 4y ago
I think it's helpful to consider these points, and try not to be put off by the bitter tone. As an employee you have to consider the workplace culture, and your manager's attitude towards his/her "resources" (employ
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by nealabq 4y ago
My Mom was part of the crowd that walked over the Golden Gate bridge when it opened in 1937, and she attended the '39 World's Fair on Treasure Island ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_International_E
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by nealabq 5y ago
Do we know it's visual? If you drop a cat in darkness (onto a pillow of course), will it right itself? What if you put it in an elevator that accelerated downwards at 1G so the cat fell to the ceiling? How does it know which way is dow
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by nealabq 5y ago
For humans, hierarchies are easier to think about and easier to format. But you're right: sometimes you really want to express your structure in a more general graph. And format it more graphically. For me the most obvious examples are
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by nealabq 5y ago
You're interesting when talking about Excel's deficiencies. But you ruin your comment with talk about "killing humanity" and "giant tech monopolies". HN is not a place to get swept away by emotion.
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by nealabq 5y ago
And it is a good way to deal with lots of numbers, adding and averaging them, looking for patterns and presenting TL;DRs.
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by nealabq 5y ago
Spreadsheet grids are marvelous for presenting many kinds of data relevant to business. Specifically, tabular numerical data (rows of tuples with well-characterized columns). Spreadsheets are great for condensing and summarizing the minute
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by nealabq 5y ago
I have another problem with ==. I have some code that needs to know if two (nested) tuples of Any are equivalent. I'd like to test (tupleA == tupleB), but that doesn't work if NaN appears anywhere in tuples because (NaN != NaN). T
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by nealabq 5y ago
A low-profile guy whose work benefits us all. https://www.engadget.com/ethernet-co-inventor-david-boggs-di... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Boggs
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Written laws - Hammurabi
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The light-bulb - Thomas Edison
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by nealabq 5y ago
I used @property a lot when I started with Python. I thought it was idiomatic and 'Pythonic', and I liked the idea of read-only properties, and I name private attrs with a leading underscore, but sometimes I wanted to expose the a
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by nealabq 5y ago
For the orthoplices, the kissing sphere in the middle pokes through the facets in dimension 12. I don't know when that happens with the simplices. I assume the middle sphere pokes thru before it does with the hypercubes, since the simp
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by nealabq 5y ago
You can argue by symmetry that if the central sphere touches one of the corner spheres, it must touch them all. And it must touch one because otherwise you would increase it's radius until it did.
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by nealabq 5y ago
The pumpkin flowers have 5 petals, and the female flowers have 5 stigma, but the seeds inside grow in 6 columns. Which I find puzzling. Google brings up https://threesixty360.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/the-myste

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