nils-m-holm

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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Thanks, but I'm using X11, so there is no "accessibility".
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
When your vision is not very good, the terminal has one big advantage: the same font size and same contrast for everything (I use VT100 mode, so no colors). I have recently upgraded to a 150-dpi monitor, and now pretty much all graphical pr
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
> the ground floor is E (presumably for German Eingang = entrance) That would be "Erdgeschoss", which exactly means "ground floor".
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
http://t3x.org LISP, compilers, array programming, science fiction models, statistics, meditation, programming languages, etc...
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
I have been using FreeBSD as my primary OS since version 1.1.5, and I am currently running 12.4 on a Lenovo T480. This is what works flawlessly on my configuration (SSD, 8G bytes of RAM): gigabit ethernet, second monitor via HDMI, USB mouse
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
You could do this with the Turbo Debugger when you had a Hercules board attached to a second monitor.
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
I am in Europe and publish my books with Lulu Press. Works smoothly and royalties are fair. Not affiliated, just a happy customer. Some of my books are also available as ebooks, but I specifically avoid Amazon, because I dislike their DRM a
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
I appreciate SectorLISP, but it is in a completely different ballpark. Last time I checked (and this is a while ago), it was dynamically scoped and not tail-recursive, i.e. programs will overflow the stack when running long enough. See this
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
As I wrote before, if you want to get rid of them, there are ways to do so (and keep them away) without killing them. But to answer your question more directly: We have happily surrendered part of our terrace to wasps. Their right to live t
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
If you mean directly in front of the entrance, yes, there will always be a bunch of wasps waiting for their turn to get in. And, yes, do not get too close to that spot unless you know what you are doing. In particular: know their flight p
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Larger wasps prey on smaller wasps, but they can still coexist in close proximity. They do not spend the entire day with hunting.
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
I am talking about vespa crabro, the European hornet. All social wasps use pheromones to mark intruders. If you are being stung while close to a nest, yes, do walk away. That being said, I have been stung once (own mistake) while standing 2
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Yes, wasps are territorial, but this just means that they will defend their nests at all cost. As long as you do not rock their nest (or otherwise cause strong vibration) or stand directly in their flight path, you are safe. Different nests
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Wasps have such a bad reputation. We have had nests of yellow jackets (vespula germanica), paper wasps (polistes dominula), and hornets (vespa crabro) directly on our terrace, and I have been stung once in ten years and that was my fault. T
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
> Has there been any consideration for a pivot towards an overarching strategy of radical honesty and openness? Unfortunately this would work only if we also abandon competition. Otherwise those who are not honest would have a huge advan
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
I have lot of books here that say otherwise.
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
> One of the ways to inhibit mTOR for free to simply stop consuming nutrients for extended periods of time. What is an extended period of time in this context? I happen to consume all my meals within seven hours every day and only drink
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Being mode sounds pretty much what Yoga or Buddhist practice is about, and I cannot recommend enough to explore it. Here is a starting point: http://t3x.org/rajayoga/
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
You will have to dive a little bit deeper. The S9fES described in the book is a tree-walking interpreter with decimal real-number arithmetic and a few other interesting (in an almost brutalist sense) design decisions. "Dry and academic
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
If you are into quirky books, take a look at http://t3x.org For example: Scheme 9 from Empty Space ( http://t3x.org/s9book/ ), LISP from Nothing ( http://t3x.org/lfn/ ), but also Write You
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
When I designed the Klong language ( http://t3x.org/klong/ ), the first version was a concatenative language. It still is internally! You can see the translated program when starting the interpreter with the debug (-d) o
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
> the fact that females are worse at handling acute stress Or, maybe, they just know better that enduring acute stress is a bad career choice.
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Practical Compiler Construction(t3x.org)
4 points by nils-m-holm 4y ago|0 comments
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
If you like books that are light on theory, I might add: Practical Compiler Construction ( http://t3x.org/reload/index.html ) Write your own Compiler ( http://t3x.org/t3x/book.html ) Both written by m
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
I is indeed very interesting that (at least) two readers conflate "honest" with "rude" even when I noted that this is not what I meant. FWIW, I am a very silent and very careful and empathetic person. The reason I do not
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Well, thanks for your advice, but I am afraid that you have completely misunderstood my posting. I stressed that I meant "honest in a non-rude way". Most people experience me as a very agreeable person with excellent social skills
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Try to live a different life? Yes, and I found out that my values are utterly incompatible with society's. I have often put honesty (not in a rude way, but in an intellectual way) and the well-being of other people before my own needs,
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Not arguing about that! Parent described a mechanism, I provided a counterpoint (and clearly marked it as anecdotal).
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by nils-m-holm 4y ago
Anecdatum: I cannot complain about my IQ, have never had any success in our society, have been poor most time of my life, never had many options, have very few friends, and still choose a healthy lifestyle.
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Practical Compiler Construction(t3x.org)
6 points by nils-m-holm 4y ago|0 comments

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