nemoniac

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by nemoniac 15y ago
Sure, but to take an extreme example, suppose you have a division operator that fails to check for division-by-zero. Then your operator works in 100 * (1 - 2^63)% of all cases. That gives you 18 nines and sounds pretty convincing but it's h
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by nemoniac 15y ago
"Grisu3 works on 99.49% of random IEEE doubles." What a curious benchmark! It makes you wonder all kinds of things like how many IEEE doubles there are; how you sample from them randomly; what kind of coverage of the reals you get; and how
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Fantastic idea!!! I would be all over it in a heartbeat... BUT, what kind of javascript are you running on it? For me it crashed Chrome, Firefox and Opera. That's quite a feat! So, from where I'm sitting, it's basically unusable. Whi
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Hey, a new idea! Toilet paper with QR codes on it :-)
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Grammar are hard.
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by nemoniac 15y ago
Hear hear! Utter bull. Undermines the entire infographic.
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by nemoniac 16y ago
You've got your squint test backwards. What you should do is leave the letters stand and replace all parentheses and punctuation characters by blanks. What remains is pretty much the semantics-carrying part of the code. This is what I do
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by nemoniac 16y ago
There are quite a few names for it depending on the "tone of conversation": http://xkcd.com/243/
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by nemoniac 16y ago
gnus FTW
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by nemoniac 16y ago
On emacs, the immediately obvious approach takes 11 keystrokes: C-x ( C-f <return> C-x ) C-u 2 5 C-x e
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by nemoniac 16y ago
I stopped reading where it says that lists are "O(n) (although they can average n/2.)"
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by nemoniac 16y ago
Look up "Latent Semantic Indexing". That should lead you to an explanation that'll ease your paranoia.
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by nemoniac 17y ago
Don't use arrow keys or pgup/pgdown. They're totally unthematic with the emacs way. Anything that requires you to stretch your hands from the standard rest position is bad. Unfortunately some emacs modes, most notably orgmode, use keychor
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by nemoniac 17y ago
What a travesty of an article. Beaudouin-Lafon is nothing more than a shill for ACM and the entire scientific publishing industry.
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by nemoniac 17y ago
Does nobody remember Usenet any more?
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by nemoniac 18y ago
> I think the reason the dictionaries are wrong is that the meaning of the word has shifted. No one writing a dictionary from scratch today would say that hapless meant unlucky. But a couple hundred years ago they might have. See... ht