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by xrange 9y ago
FreeCAD
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$700 in Bounties for McCLIM, the Common Lisp Interface Manager(bountysource.com)
2 points by xrange 9y ago|0 comments
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by xrange 9y ago
I wonder how much atmospheric carbon dioxide has been avoided by the use of nuclear power over the last 70 years?
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by xrange 9y ago
If Fukushima is a major event, with no fatalities, what does one consider the Banqiao Dam event, with 170,000 fatalities? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam
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by xrange 9y ago
Not the OP, but 15,000 people died because of the tsunami. No one died from the radiation release at Fukushima and: "A comprehensive assessment by international experts on the health risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
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by xrange 9y ago
Is there a particularly egregious example that we can link to (since the book is on line)? Or maybe someone has an annotated version which has better references to prior work? https://www.wolframscience.com/nks/
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by xrange 9y ago
>I've never heard this work described that way before. One way to summarize the thesis of book would be to say: Historically, we've analyzed natural phenomena and tried to fit equations to the data. But Nature may be doing som
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by xrange 9y ago
>I honestly tend to wonder if the people who are complaining about the book actually bothered to read it in its entirety, and understand the information and ideas being conveyed? I've always wondered if there was a psychological com
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by xrange 9y ago
Re: Fruitfulness. For the general thesis of "computation" vs. "equations" as the "new kind of science", it is not like Stephen is the lone practitioner... https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2014&#x
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by xrange 9y ago
If one were to try to make a judgement on whether to buy a copy of this book based one one or two images in the book, I'd recommend looking at the photos on page 423 and then 424: https://www.wolframscience.com/nks&#x2F
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by xrange 9y ago
>As a "New Kind Of Science" it's atrocious. Investigating nature starting with the premise that the "laws" may be imperative procedures instead of pure functions doesn't seem orthodox (for 2002), so isn&#x27
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by xrange 9y ago
I found it to be a very interesting book. The criticisms basically boil down into three categories: - I don't like Stephen Wolfram and his personal style offends me. - This isn't new material because there were academic papers th
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by xrange 9y ago
"A comprehensive assessment by international experts on the health risks associated with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) disaster in Japan has concluded that, for the general population inside and outside of Japan, the
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by xrange 9y ago
15,000 people died because of the tsunami. No one died from the radiation release at Fukushima. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_an...
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by xrange 9y ago
>K&R C no longer compiles. foo@virt-ubuntu:~/c$ gcc --version gcc (Ubuntu 6.3.0-12ubuntu2) 6.3.0 20170406 Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying cond
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by xrange 9y ago
>I find myself (especially in REPL environments) often doing `list(map(sth, sth))`. This. I wonder if you could have a switch to make ipython print out the list instead of the iterator object at the REPL.
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by xrange 9y ago
Wikipedia says that the first release of FreeCAD was in 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCAD ...Python 3.0 was released in 2008: https://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/ ...I
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by xrange 9y ago
>Python 2 is going to be abandoned in 2020. But Python 2 is Free Software, so as long as people like it, they can keep improving it: https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon
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by xrange 9y ago
Thank you for signing up to help in the porting effort for FreeCAD and Pyspread to Python 3. Free software projects depend on volunteer contributors like you.
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by xrange 9y ago
> After more than half a century of living under a trade embargo, many Cubans have grown accustomed to shortages of basic household goods Are there countries other than the U.S. with an embargo against Cuba? What's stopping them fr
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by xrange 9y ago
> No justification is given for why the results for the Bay Area should be generalizable for America writ large. Hockey. Stick.
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by xrange 10y ago
> (defgeneric xplusone (x) (1+ x)) > The sbcl compiler (called python) even creates the typed methods by itself, so mostly the defgeneric line is enough. Is this some new SBCL extension you are talking about? That `defgeneric` lin
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by xrange 10y ago
Makes the front page of HN, and not a single comment. I guess smalltalk is even less of a spring chicken than forth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13594526
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by xrange 10y ago
I was more thinking that the compatibility layer would maybe suck in a whole python 2 parser, and potentially even the interpreter, operating on potentially common objects in memory. But just how different are the bytecodes for 2 vs. 3? E
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by xrange 10y ago
Interesting. I wonder what most people's thoughts are on the market/target area for Rust. My complete outsider perspective was that Rust was a "replacement" for C, C++, Ada, etc., and that "most" programs wou
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by xrange 10y ago
Can anyone point me in the direction of information of why is would be so hard to have a from __ancient_history__ import print_statement, etc. ...especially now that most of the big projects that are ever going to get converter hav
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Fukushima residents exposed to far less radiation than thought(sciencemag.org)
1 points by xrange 10y ago|0 comments
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by xrange 10y ago
>Some corps may continue to do so https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/why-making-python-2.8/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13144713
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by xrange 10y ago
It looks like all Python 2.8 is missing is a new name: https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/why-making-python-2.8/
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by xrange 10y ago
You might want to check out Python 2.8 https://www.naftaliharris.com/blog/why-making-python-2.8/

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