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by svat 8mo ago
This is what I was able to find with some quick searching: - From Dec 2024 there's https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2915570/state-g... and https://theinvestor.vn/thai-govt-col
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by svat 8mo ago
The whole program is an Easter egg :) “sorry, he wasn’t born yet! try again” vs “no, he is already in heaven, try again”, and that cute goodbye routine.
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Don't miss the program he wrote after teaching himself BASIC from a book at age six (Fig 5 / book page 222 / PDF page 10): > 320 print "(brmmmm-brmmmm-putt-putt-vraow-chatter-chatter bye mr. fibonacci!)"
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by svat 8mo ago
See also Terence Tao's comments at https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/05/10/partially-specifie... which say things even more strongly (I had collected a link to it at https://shreevatsa.wordp
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by svat 8mo ago
The 2014 talk of Knuth that is being discussed (transcription published later in 2021): “Let’s Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science”: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/lets-not-dumb-down-the-history-... HN discussi
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by svat 8mo ago
At the bottom of the article, it says: > From When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy by Beronda L. Montgomery. Copyright © 2026. Available from Henry Holt and Co., an imprint of Macmillan U
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by svat 8mo ago
The philosopher John Perry wrote a funny essay about the topic, called “A Plea for the Horizontally Organized” ( https://structuredprocrastination.com/light/organization_por... / https://www.cs.bilkent.e
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by svat 8mo ago
The blog post includes short videos that illustrate what the fleet response does: • (29 seconds long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0WtBFEfAyo • (59 seconds long) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elpQPbJXp
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Waymo's article from 2024 about these operations (“much like phone-a-friend”): https://waymo.com/blog/2024/05/fleet-response/
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by svat 8mo ago
Same, I already had a reMarkable tablet and got the reMarkable Paper Pro Move as an impulse purchase (ignoring its ridiculously high price) expecting to return it within the 50-day return window, but the fact that it fits in my pocket (or “
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by svat 8mo ago
How do you roll back to an older version?
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by svat 8mo ago
Knuth is not in favour of using kilo/mega/etc with power-of-2 meanings: > I'm a big fan of binary numbers, but I have to admit that this convention flouts the widely accepted international standards for scientific prefixe
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by svat 9mo ago
> We should note – without seeing it as physiologically symbolic of their respective philosophies – that Kant was constipated, while Nietzsche suffered from compulsive vomiting. To the contrary, I'm pretty sure it is more than sym
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by svat 9mo ago
Yes I like that page too, and I guess I was responding to it from memory, more than to your comment :) There's an element of truth to it but also a misunderstanding, so the story can be told in both ways. Maybe I should write this up a
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by svat 9mo ago
Funny, but note that Knuth had already published three volumes of TAOCP and a second edition of Volume 1 (1968–1973), won a Turing Award for them (1974), and had the second edition of Volume 2 in galley proofs, and even then it was only a c
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by svat 9mo ago
Love it. That hijacker one is one of the excerpts in the linked post: https://shreevatsa.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/the-book-of-hero... :)
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by svat 9mo ago
OP here (though I don't claim any special insight, as I said). It would be interesting to consider the differences between the Charlie Brown and Arthur Dent character archetypes. One difference seems to me exactly the undying earnestne
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by svat 9mo ago
• That applies to the Greek word too. Obviously these long “words” are compounds made up of distinct morphemes (similar with German examples like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinderkennzeichnungs-_und_Rind... or for t
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by svat 9mo ago
For comparison, one candidate for the longest word in Sanskrit: https://hellenisteukontos.blogspot.com/2010/03/what-is-longe... > nirantarāndhakāritā-digantara-kandaladamanda-sudhārasa-bindu-sāndratara-ghanāgha
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by svat 9mo ago
Answering the question: the handwritten note is indeed by Chuck Baker (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12569853 ) — matches the handwriting at https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text&
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by svat 9mo ago
I see. I was talking about not the article itself, but this handwritten note on the front page: > This article from Datamation is by someone from ADR - the name might be Moore. (It wasn't meant to be anonymous; that was accidental)
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by svat 9mo ago
Thanks for making this site; I love it and have returned to it many times. (I don't mind the layout with all translations even on mobile; I just rotate my phone or decrease font size.) I read through the whole thing recently. ( https:&
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by svat 9mo ago
“Ignoring” is not the same as “noticing”; the difference is right there in the words! You are right that it is undesirable to be a slave to one's emotions, to keep having emotional outbursts or “expressing” all emotions impulsively. Bu
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by svat 9mo ago
This is quoted (and addressed) near the beginning of the article (paragraphs 3 to 6), for what it's worth.
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by svat 9mo ago
Here are some other translations of that passage (Enchiridion 26): https://enchiridion.tasuki.org/display:Code:e,ec,twh,twr,gl,... - The first part says: if you shrug off someone else's cup being broken as just an acci
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by svat 9mo ago
What does Knuth mean by > I particularly like his definitinon of a bad programmer. (My personal record is about 12 years.) here?
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by svat 9mo ago
It may help to look at this example concretely: The natural-language statement of the problem is (from https://www.erdosproblems.com/728 ): > Let C>0 and ϵ>0 be sufficiently small. Are there infinitely many integers
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by svat 9mo ago
- Minor nit: The documentation mentions "uvx aristotlelib@latest aristotle" but that doesn't work; it should be "uvx --from aristotlelib@latest aristotle" - It took me a minute or two of clicking around to figure ou
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For context, Terence Tao started a wiki page titled “AI contributions to Erdős problems”: https://github.com/teorth/erdosproblems/wiki/AI-contribution... (as mentioned in an earlier post https://m
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The book Concrete Mathematics started as course notes for a class whose textbook initially was the (dense) "Mathematical Preliminaries" chapter of The Art of Computer Programming (Chapter 1 and roughly the first half of Volume

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