tom-thistime

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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   Offhand, recently I've used NumPy, telnetlib, openpyxl, TkInter. I haven't used Lisp for a very long time, because of my (perhaps faulty) perception that some of these things (and the next one I will need) might not be there, or
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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   Thanks for the links! I'll check them out. I like the "higher level" of Python libraries better than C or even Java, because I tend to write what most people would call prototype code. Small user base, small applications, and
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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   Yeah, I read it. Can you explain how "red herrings" differ from "myths"? Is the distinction really that important? My point was that it is not just myths (or red herrings either) that are holding Lisp back. There are som
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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   Thanks! Nothing would be more awesome than Lisp (or Scheme, I don't care) with easy transparent access to modern libraries.
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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   This doesn't scratch my itch at all. I love Lisp but boring old Python has the libraries I need. EDIT: Based on a comment and downvote I suppose I didn't make my point clear above. I am saying that myths are not the only thing ho
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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   Key part: Usenet was effectively a public space. Nobody had their hand on the OFF switch. Much less important part: Usenet was full of horrible behavior for many years before people started complaining about "Endless September." I
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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   "the system can be fixed while remaining capitalistic" If that's what people are talking about, great. I'm not frightened of whatever Scandinavia is doing. I'm not frightened of the New Deal.
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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   Parts of this are commonplace: "Fifty-seven percent of respondents worry about losing the respect and dignity they once enjoyed in their country." Sure. Decisions are made top-down, expertise is discounted, etc. The culture has d
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   by tom-thistime 7y ago

   Where does 'community' fit into the business picture? There is a corporate owner, and (eventually) there are some kind of advertisers or other customers. The volunteers who provide the content are not part of the business picture.
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    Good point. I work on laser amplifiers, and I struggle to get clear on what Planck said in 1899. I'm definitely not caught up with where physics was in 1920. Hearing casual observers talking about quarks or dark matter just makes me ru
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    The headline is misleading, but they immediately follow up with a qualification that makes the headline technically not wrong. They're saying just market value of the equity. That can be very different from market value of the enterpri
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    The author of this essay died in 1934.
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    Can we try this out? Here's a proposed 'fact': "If you don't eat with us at mealtimes, your whole caloric intake will be sugar and oil. That's probably unhealthy in the long run." Is that a 'first or
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    I guess this is a nitpick, but I think by 1901 Planck had published his fix for the UV catastrophe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultraviolet_catastrophe#Soluti... (Oddly, it looks like the term "ultraviolet cata
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    (I'm not a fluid flow person and this is probably not a very good comment.) Yeah, that seems likely. But sometimes it's difficult to draw the line between issues that are "purely theoretical" and issues that make a pract
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    Perhaps people are skeptical about the claim of originality for a straightforward algebraic manipulation that can be carried out and understood by middle school students. (As far as I can see, that is what the article claims.) Bright people
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    She's not buying junk. She's selling . If that's not walking the walk, I don't know what is.
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    Who knows, but it's possible that this invention was originally meant kind of tongue-in-cheek. I think any mechanical designer who could understand how differential gears produce this result would also be aware that small errors (skidd
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    Normal matrix notation has the same problem. I can write AB even if A is 5x5 and B is 3x3.
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    by tom-thistime 7y ago

    Maybe. But I was already bored, lonely, angry and stupid before devices and social media were even invented.