nils-m-holm

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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
I know a few people with very high IQs (3-sigma and above) who have been poor and miserable most of their lives, and they are among the most compassionate and sympathetic people I know. If anything, their ethics and compassion have improved
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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
Did think about it! :) I spend a lot of time with all kinds of friends, so I don't think my perception is skewed. What I do observe is this: when my smarter friends are miserable, they are mostly sad or anxious, while the others are mo
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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
Among the people around me, I see a high correlation between IQ on the one side and emotional engagement, empathy and ethics on the other. What I also see is an anticorrelation between giftedness and happiness, which makes me really sad.
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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
I use TROFF and friends for layout and Ghostscript for generating PDF. No screwing around with a stupid GUI. :) Once you have a collection of macros set up, it's a natural process and allows you to focus on writing entirely. YMMV, of c
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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
I agree, except for the last point. Unless you are writing an optimizing compiler, you just have to understand the target language well enough to write snippets that resemble the operations of your source or intermediate language, which can
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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
Let me provide a different perspective: In my early years I did not miss a single fight. I argued hard, enjoyed it a lot, and usually won. At 40, I started to hate what that habit had turned me into. Fast forward: these days I try to resolv
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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
The "depending on your goals in life" part is important I'd say! I, personally, find "the rock" types pretty creepy, because life is about emotional connection to me, and that's the one think I'll never ge
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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
I've been walking about 10kms per day for decades now without wearing any shoes at all. No detrimental effects so far. But then I'm a featherweight, which might help. Anyway: walking is absolutely essential to me. I do most of my
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by nils-m-holm 10y ago
The German company "auticon" is employing autistic consultants exclusively (medical diagnosis required). Recently, I happened to talk to one of their in-house coaches, and from what I've heard, they seem to make quite an effo
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
You might enjoy (for some degrees of joy): http://nmh.sdf.org/aboutyouriq.cgi
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
> O(q^(1/24)) ... While still exponential complexity, I call April's fools!
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
Troff is not that bad, really! I started typesetting my books in Troff (even with my own macro package), then tried TeX and Lout, and I think I'll actually return to Troff, if I should decide to write another book. Simplicity is good
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
It does show you how to approach building a back-end in the first place, which I would consider to be quite instructive for someone who has never done it before. And it does separate the phases and still remains compact. Of course, once you
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
Doesn't help. When the zoom factor is big enough, you have to scroll sideways while reading. Anyway, I have tried a lot of things over the years and nothing even comes close to using a text interface. To name a few nuisances: control
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
Set your minimum font size to 32 points and browse the web for a while! Let me know how it feels!
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
http://t3x.org/subc/ is tiny and simple. But I'm supposed to say that!
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
> The TTY must die!!!! Being sight-impaired, I have to disagree strongly! The TTY is the only thing that lets me adjust the font size of all programs running in it without going through lots of trouble. (BTW: didn't downvote your co
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
That's great to hear! I'll definitely give it a try! What C states does it currently support? My FreeBSD box spends most of its time in C8.
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
I'd love to run OpenBSD on my laptop computers, but last time I tried (5.7), the fan on my Dell Latitude 6410 was permanently on, while on FreeBSD with performance_cx_lowest="Cmax" the fan barely runs at all. As much as I lov
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
Feel free to borrow whatever you need! Note though, that Klong is based on the S9core toolkit[1] (included in the package), which might take some getting used to. [1] http://www.t3x.org/s9fes/index.html
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
One thing that really helped me in the beginning was to pronounce K programs properly, i.e. know what the operators are called and read programs to myself. Incidentally that also was the way I approached math in the beginning. For example,
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Klong – a simple array language(t3x.org)
64 points by nils-m-holm 11y ago|21 comments
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
Good to hear! Thanks!
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
Shameless plug, but here we go: http://t3x.org/s9book
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by nils-m-holm 11y ago
S9fES ( http://t3x.org/s9fes/ ) uses decimal-based real numbers and does multiplication, division and exponent equalization by shifting. It's not hard, since one digit equals one byte.
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Scheme 9 interpreter ported to Plan 9 (again)(t3x.org)
80 points by nils-m-holm 11y ago|32 comments
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by nils-m-holm 14y ago
The Scheme 9 from Empty Space core has been stable for a very long time, and I do not plan any major changes. See http://t3x.org/s9fes/