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by todd8 6y ago
To me, moving the Macs to ARM or perhaps just the laptop models to ARM could be a win for Apple. Thinner, lighter, lower-power and better software integration with the iPhone/iPad could result in happier consumers and more reluctance o
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by todd8 6y ago
My first full time professional job (1976) involved writing assembly language for the TI 960, a process control minicomputer with a 64K data address space and a different 64K instruction space. At first, I just thought it was odd to make th
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by todd8 6y ago
Me too. Not to hard to find, and the dots are better for my notes and diagrams than lines or grids. I really like a number of the Japanese spiral bound notebooks too. The paper is great for my (mostly Japanese) fountain pens and inks. Howev
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Coronavirus may have been a 'cell-culture experiment' gone wrong(skynews.com.au)
7 points by todd8 6y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 6y ago
One of IBM’s most important patents was filed around 1987–I don’t remember the date exactly-it covered the cookie. Even back then IBM was subject to patent trolls patenting things like using the ctrl key, etc. and then going after IBM. They
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by todd8 6y ago
I’ve let my New Yorker subscription lapse. The writing is great and sometimes, perhaps on a long leisurely train ride across Canada, it might be nice to read these “long form” articles. I was finally just subscribing for the cartoons.
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Googly-Eyed Fishes(evolution.berkeley.edu)
2 points by todd8 6y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 6y ago
Programming in high school is quite different than the work you will be doing in a CS program. CS is a hard, but not impossible, major. Depending upon the school it will be perhaps easier than a Physics degree and maybe a bit more work but
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by todd8 6y ago
I hate the touchbar. I am a professional programmer and need all the keys I can get. The touchbar removed a number of keys that I used with Emacs, and in return I get little tiny picture that I have to look at before using. Right now the To
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by todd8 6y ago
I've got three TWSBI demonstrators, I really like them with a bright ink like red or purple (demonstrators are clear and show the mechanism and ink [1]). They have been very solid pens for me and are a fantastic value. I feel like thes
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by todd8 6y ago
My Lamy 2000 is one of my favorite pens. The Lamy 2000 was designed over 50 years ago, but it still has a very contemporary, almost space-age look. Mine works very well and is a very comfortable pen to use. The Lamy Wikipedia entry [1] has
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by todd8 6y ago
No worries, I probably wasn't very clear. I wish that someone like John Wiegley would give us his thoughts on Haskell/Lisp/C++. I have a lot of respect for him; he's made big contributions to Emacs and wrote a Common Lis
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by todd8 6y ago
Wow, 2000 pounds of battery. About twice the weight of a Tesla battery. This suggests that a it could take perhaps an hour to recharge the battery for each 30 minute flight. This is just a guess extrapolating from the non-technical article.
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by todd8 6y ago
I wonder if the taste of detergent was present on the surface due to some differential process occurring during freezing that concentrated the detergent in the outer layer of frozen water? Hmm... probably not, but see [1] for how zone refin
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by todd8 6y ago
Sacrebleu, how can this be? The Haskell one-liner compiles so it must be the genuine sieve of Eratosthenes.
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by todd8 6y ago
I'm confused. Do you know that he wrote ledger in C++?
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by todd8 6y ago
Malaria isn't the only disease carried by mosquitos but it's the most significant one. Malaria kills 400,000 per year, but that's not all it makes 2,000,000 each year very sick and weak, unable to care for themselves or their
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by todd8 6y ago
Things looked very different in the early 1970s; that's when I took my first AI class. Now, naturally, I worry about technology that can such deep and broad impacts on humans. Back then most of my programming was on punch cards submitt
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by todd8 6y ago
> if there are literally billions of dollars in industry riding on writing efficient and correct software, and Haskell is such an obvious productivity win, why does it have a market share that rounds to zero? Well, one reason we might ge
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by todd8 6y ago
CS programs for undergraduate majors have a real dilemma. What programming language should they teach their students. My own kids are studying CS in college so I've seen the curriculums for a number of universities, and I've spoke
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by todd8 6y ago
I have a large library of technical books (accumulated over 50 years). Every 10 years or so I feel like I'm running out of space (5000 books or so) and I round up my oldest most out-of-date CS books, like books on pascal programming or
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by todd8 6y ago
Eight drives! That's bad. I always order my Dell machines with the minimum cost single drive option so that I can buy my own drives.
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by todd8 6y ago
About 50 years ago I was fascinated to see a program that could do symbolic integration. Now, programs like Mathematica can do much harder, more complex integrals. Professor Patrick Winston pointed out that most of the AI programs we were g
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by todd8 6y ago
I am always impressed by the serviceability of Dell computers, including this laptop. Servers, for example, can be opened and services without tools. Blue plastic levers and knobs are for parts that can be removed with the power off; red pl
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by todd8 6y ago
Around 1977-1978 I tutored a friend that was a fellow engineer. I could not get him to write structured programs. He insisted on creating large flowcharts with lines going in all directions. He had been introduced to this "visual"
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by todd8 6y ago
My reading of the linked references indicate that the system is not using Prolog or even Horn clauses. They are using a logic inference engine, but it isn't a Prolog system.
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by todd8 6y ago
I agree, I was a math major and remember how high school calculus using infinitesimals ended up confusing my friends in college.
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by todd8 6y ago
While working at IBM years ago, I participated in some of the suggestion programs that the company provided. Safety related suggestions that were adopted were rewarded with some fixed amount, perhaps it was $500 (I don't remember the e
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by todd8 6y ago
I always learn something new when I listen to Dr. Patrick. This YouTube video includes discussion of the COVID-19 virus (i.e. SARS-CoV-2), immune system, vitamin D, etc.
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Joe Rohan – Dr. Rhonda Patrick(youtu.be)
1 points by todd8 6y ago|1 comments

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