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by tralarpa 8y ago
In most cases, myopia is caused by physical properties of the eye (wrong length, etc.). Relaxing the ciliary muscle actually increases the focal distance, so I don't see how muscle-oriented exercises would help. > in fact, that&#x27
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Check also his other books: Algorithms and Data Structures, Programming in Oberon, Project Oberon, etc. They are all available on the ETH website and his homepage (in various revisions). Basically everything you need to know about imperativ
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> ...muscles...myopia... This combination of words doesn't make any sense.
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Yep. First rule of languages: Languages are not logic. If somebody tells you that their mother tongue is more logical than language X, it's in most cases just bias of the native speaker who is not aware of the difficulties. Second rule
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A bit off-topic, but as somebody living in Europe, I found it interesting to discover from the comments here that lawn mower robots are not popular in the US. Some of the readers don't even seem to know they exist. What is the reason f
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Something like this? https://www.bosch-home.com.au/productlist/cooking-baking/coo...
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> We just put memory to different uses throughout time. I agree. Just look how many site names, youtube channels, game rules, game item stats, memes, pokemon names (is that still a thing?), anime slang, etc. young people can memorize. No
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Option 4: Bloomberg is working on another story and the government is trying to taint their credibility by feeding them false information, so nobody will believe them when the real story comes out. (I just wanted to point out all options)
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by tralarpa 8y ago
If you are familar with Java: Just imagine all integers are objects from class Integer and that int doesn't exist. (Internally, they are actually represented as 31-bit numbers for performance reasons)
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by tralarpa 8y ago
There is a difference between a useful story and a true story. If some distant ancestors sat around making up a story of how women were created from men, then this story was certainly useful to them in some way and reflected their truth (
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Same in a couple of other West European countries I know. Where I lived, middle class apartment blocks explicitly advertised the fact that there is a large room (cellar or attic) to hang clothes (and I am talking about the 1990s and 2000s h
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> bleaching whites This only works on a lawn, doesn't it? The combination of grass, sun and water produces hydrogen peroxide.
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> you'll have a place in which all those functions show up I don't see why. For example, imagine a graphical editor. GUI events will trigger some actions and those actions will trigger some commands being execute (and placed i
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Does it? The class-based solution looks very convenient to me for large projects. Let's say I am new to the project and I don't know what commands exist. I just ask the IDE to show me all sub classes of the command super class. Th
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> a concept my intuition told me was impossible and showed that it's possible in a really simple, elegant way I agree but, to be fair, the key ingredient ("discrete logarithms are hard") is not simple at all.
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by tralarpa 8y ago
That's very cool. I am also surprised about the bugs discovered in disassemblers. You would expect that these kind of mistakes are quickly discovered. Or was the Intel manual wrong? Edit: Ah, they explain it in the last paragraph of th
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> If you want to do something, it's much better to do something positive, e.g. passing subsidies for renewable energy tech. Okay, that makes sense and, even better, also works sometimes. In fact, renwable energy is a good example wh
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> spreading fear and doom, which does not yield any positive outcome at all. That's not true. You are keeping saying that in several of your comments. There are many examples where things have changed because of Spreading fear a
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The online documentation of Racket became too good :)
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Or for coffee.
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From all the things that are going wrong in Germany, this is the most bizarre compilation I have ever seen (except the food situation). Probably an indicator for how good life is in Germany in general :)
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What was hard to write should be also hard to read! /s
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Very nice article and good job on the classification of comment types. For small tools that I have written myself I prefer the guide comments because I usually know the general design of the program but need some help to remember the order
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by tralarpa 8y ago
The numbers you have found are the numbers averaged over all kind of projects (new projects, old projects). It is well known that the average daily LOC output in the industry is not high. Once a project has reached a certain complexity or m
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> {ti'e} "I hear that..." a marker for unverifiable hearsay > {da'i} "supposing..." a marker for counterfactuals Isn't there a language spoken in Africa with a similar concept? I remember vaguely tha
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Oberon (which is a successor of Modula-2)
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Is the spelling of "preëmptive" with a trema correct? I know of course what a trema does, but I have never seen it being used in this word. Sorry for being off-topic. Actually not so off-topic, considering how often the word is us
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Gymnasts, martial artists, ballet dancers and some athlets (e.g. javelin throwers) stretch to increase their range of motion because the latter is beneficial for their activities. The effect is temporary (+) unless you start at a young age
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Pipelines of gunzip, find, grep, xargs, awk etc. on RAID disks... good memories. Analyzed terabytes of data with that. Hard to beat because of the zero setup time.
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> Except in case of disaster of course, and then maybe some kind of metaphysical excuses might come into play! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake

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