robert_tweed

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by robert_tweed 8y ago
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. I don't know Haskell, but I had a look for the parser you mentioned and it does appear at first glance to use a fairly imperative-looking style, with loops and pointers into mutable da
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
Better link: https://gql.foundation/
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
This was discussed 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17621823 Posted link doesn't add anything new.
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
You may be interested to know that both of those are illegal in the EU. Shipping costs are a special case unless the price is clearly disproportionate. But under the CCR in the UK (I forget the EU directive it's based on) if things are
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
Often the operator name is a bitmap logo, but they probably have a text version now as well. That looks like a unicode encoding error to me, might require a firmware update on your phone. I have’t looked at any of this for years so I can’
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
Depends on the phone. I don’t think any modern phones support this, but you could try. The prefix for the logo is //SCKL1581 and IIRC all you need is an unencoded bitmap in hex. I.e., “0” is 4 black pixels and “f” is 4 white (or v
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by robert_tweed 8y ago
Back around 2000, shortly after The Matrix came out and everyone was buying "those" Nokia phones, I was tasked with writing a couple of applets for a certain UK mobile phone operator. One applet was to design operator logos. The o
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
> Interesting how often folks overestimate the caffeine in a shot of espresso. A single shot is like 60mg. Nope. Anything from 25-214mg per shot with a mean of 106mg: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article&#x2
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
As does Clojure with doc. However, neither of these include examples as standard. Idiomatic docstrings tend to be a short string; one sentence or paragraph.
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
The Mandelbrot set is already 4-dimensional, sort of. It's called a Julibrot or Juliabrot fractal. In the definition of Mandelbrot and Julia sets (which use the same formula), Mandelbrot maps C to the output axes and Z starts at zero.
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
Presumably this is getting flagged because of the title, which is a reference to a scene in the show "silicon valley". The article documents a real-world example of what is essentially, a mild form of corporate espionage. It'
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
Everywhere other than the US, it's far more commonly known as paracetamol. In much the same way that nobody calls aspirin "acetylsalicylic acid", paracetamol is the generic name, except in the US for some reason.
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
I think they are aiming for exactly the right target, not teaching HTML or somesuch: "children should learn how to break tasks down into step-by-step instructions, test those instructions and correct them." Not all will go on to b
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
If you want a very interesting Russian watch from a historic and engineering perspective, your first port of call should be the Vostok Amphibia. There's far too much to write about these, but this article covers most of it: https:&#x2
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
I agree 100%. I wouldn't recommend trying to teach yourself programming from Knuth either, hence the comparison :) On the political side, you might want to keep a close eye on Anthony Cousins' ongoing lawsuit against the Swatch gr
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
> Roger Smith still gets mainsprings, balances, sapphire crystals, and screws from outside sources. I wasn't 100% sure about that and knew someone would point out if I was in error. I also want to be clear that my comment should not
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
I see he has a copy of "Watchmaking" by George Daniels. That is the "Knuth" of watchmaking. Here in Britain, we have Roger W Smith, the only watchmaker in the world who makes everything by hand. He was the principal di
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
I'm curious about Forth, as it's probably the most important language I've never learned. I've done a fair bit of low-level, micro-optimised coding in C and assembly, but don't get much time for that kind of thing t
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
It was down for me for about 15 minutes. Was just about to post a dump from wget, and it's back up now. While it was down, I was able to ping it, but I got a connection refused error from google.co.uk, google.com and youtube.com. Every
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
To answer this from the taijiquan perspective, the stability comes from being properly balanced on one leg. The second leg is a spare for when something happens unexpectedly like a gust of wind. By forcing people to keep one leg off the gro
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
It's always interesting to see a technique evolve independently in multiple domains. I practise taijiquan (tai chi) which is very heavily predicated on this principle. A huge part of it boils down to practising being stable on one leg
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
I've seen two prevalent definitions of devops: 1. It's a culture where dev and ops work together (as per TFA); 2. It is the application of software engineering practises (such as version control and test automation) to ops. I pref
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
I wish HN would implent tags so we could just filter out stuff like this. I mean, it seems a bit disrespectful to flag it, but it is clearly off-topic. Sadly, so is much of the content on HN these days, especially at weekends. I've upv
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
FYI, you can have tree-threaded conversations in email too. Thunderbird has pretty good support for it, which is why I use it for mailing lists. The only reason more people don't know about this is that support for it has always been p
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
Well, there's always survivor bias. Anyone willing to go the extra mile must really want that product.
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
I have a gmail account that is just for Google Groups. Sign in, join group, sign out. Works like any normal mailing list after that, but with better search. Read messages in Thunderbird. Keeps my list subscriptions out of my main email acco
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
If the labels are random they don't correspond to anything, so any "features" are essentially noise. The classifier is, in effect, memorising every element in the training set. It's training a compression algorithm for s
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
My theory: they aren't looking for paper, they are trying to rule it out as something else. My understanding of these scanners is that they colour-code "organic" and "inorganic" material differently. Explosives gene
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
In addition to the other replies, IMO, VR film-making isn't even a thing yet. 360 videos are not VR. Right now, VR exists as a medium in the form of games and other sims using real-time rendering. Film-making will require light-field c
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by robert_tweed 9y ago
People were prototyping ambilight type stuff back in the DK1 days. Trouble is, it doesn't improve immersion because objects disappearing out of view is still jarring. At least with a black edge you can imagine you're wearing a div

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