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by timonoko 1y ago
Wasnt there somebody who did it with his finger? Results were so amazing that almost wanted to do the same. Except then you have to be very careful around powerful magnets.
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by timonoko 1y ago
You can surgically insert tiny piece of magnet in your big toe. It is crazy good metal detector.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Or rather "what constitutes a metal detector"? I could have such double-resonating circuitry in my shoe connected to earplug via bluetooth. "Officer, this equipment is for detecting needles in the Geneva playground".
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by timonoko 1y ago
I totally forgot: I was not bicycling, I was roller-skating (& camping) in East Germany: https://youtu.be/EJISUjbk46E?si=8rFkUf9FdaY60O8c
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by timonoko 1y ago
Liberated East was really nice, because there was no urban sprawl. People lived in multistory houses in middle of nowhere. I bicycled around and camped wherever. Place is probably much worse nowadays with too many cars and parking lots.
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by timonoko 1y ago
What? You could write several commands on one line in CP/M assembler: LHLD 0 ! XCHG ; zero DE I dont remember MSDOS Masm having such feature?
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by timonoko 1y ago
Xubuntu. It is Ubuntu with XFCE. Windowing systems are often surprisingly crappy in multi-screen situation. XFCE may not be most refined, but what it does is robust and without surprises.
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by timonoko 1y ago
What I really wanted was a "pascal-type" tokenizer and second stack for commands. "(" means push next and ")" means pop and execute. In this kind of system (if (< a 1) (setq a (+ a 2))) is totally valid wit
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by timonoko 1y ago
This was kinda joke. I have done it in real life, but that was in 1976. And the mechanism was totally different, more Lisp-like, but could not make Grok to do it, so I suggested simple pre-parser.
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by timonoko 1y ago
For example: I scan a ball into STL-file. I can include it into my OpenSCAD design, but it is not a OpenSCAD-sphere, just a sphere-shaped surface with billions of facets.
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by timonoko 1y ago
You can insert scanned object into OpenSCAD, but it is just a surface map and very easily the model becomes too large. Is this problem now solved?
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by timonoko 1y ago
Bloody Grok does not seem tobe able to make generic parser, so that Forth whitespace requirements can be ignored. When said I want "Pascal-type" tokenizer, it started to print Pascal-language compiler, which was amazingly complex
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by timonoko 1y ago
Problem with Forth and Lisp is that you can freely start to improve language, so it sort of destroys the usefulness in a company of full of Salarymen and Office Droids. Here is Grok's scheme to make Forth more readable: Below is a
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by timonoko 1y ago
Hey Grok: Does commonlisp have some mechanism to prevent malformed macro to do things globally, so that eval works differently than compile? Grok: Yes. < 5 pages of semi-incomprehensible explanations omitted >
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by timonoko 1y ago
Bad memories. Some malformed macro may evaluate differently than compile and the problem is impossible to find.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Hey Grok: Write commonlisp macro "test", which is usually an addition, but when two parameters are already numbers, it is the sum of those numbers. (defmacro test (a b) (if (and (numberp a) (numberp b)) (+ a b)
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by timonoko 1y ago
If you have to ask about macros, you REALLY dont need macros. Macros are really only instructions for the compiler, how to compile things faster. The syntax improvement aspect is minuscule, because Lisp has no actual syntax perse.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Excellent. I remember we learned to read and write in one month in Finnish school. If this did not happen, one was officially classified as retarded (in 1950s). How long it takes average american to achieve errorfree skills? Grok:... In USA
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by timonoko 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41277741
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by timonoko 1y ago
Look for [flagged] and [dead], that is where the discussion is. Rest is just NPCs repeating same pointless platitudes. You need to change the settings for this.
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by timonoko 1y ago
I was not in that project, but I heard it just suddenly choked up, just when the model was becoming useful. There was no mention in the box that there was a limit. It was the fancy version with EMS-support, so it was not a hardware problem.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Remember seeing such plant in 1980 in Nevada. Train conductor pointed it out and joked about cooked birds too. Very strange they built a new one, just when 10 watt panel was reduced from $100 to $10.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Bad memories of Smalltalk. Current implementation did not scale up.
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by timonoko 1y ago
There was no internet, so unless you were connected to educational organization and their curriculum, there was no way to get information of various topics in somewhat palatable way. BYTE changed all that, and suddenly everybody could learn
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by timonoko 1y ago
Blood tests twice a year. Well no thank you. I started taking Vitamin D, because youtube-doctor Joe Rogan suggested it instead of covid vaccination. Worked very well because no Covid. But then I thought I had it in 2024, but it was just D o
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by timonoko 1y ago
2000IU aka 50 micrograms is too much. Vitamin D poisoning was not fun. -- But yes it may have shaved 3 years of my life.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Crowds are Markow process and tend to make groups. Casual Korean strollers are too evenly distributed.
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by timonoko 1y ago
Recent visit by Russian aviation blogger is much more interesting: https://youtu.be/uKEsg6dxi2k?si=kC1JWsBxE8hKhGcP It is quite obvious that happy citizens walking back and forth on PjongJang streets are part of massive P
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by timonoko 1y ago
If you had to be weird you added RECURSIVE-word into the function definition. Then it failed somewhat gracefully. Otherwise your self-referencing program destroyed the machine. In large organization you could not be sure on what machine the
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by timonoko 1y ago
Sorry Son, but those were introduced very late in B and C languages. Algol, Simula etc used Begin-End. Curly Brackets were horrible choice, because in civilized countries they were already used as ÄÖÅÜ - characters.

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