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by yiyus 7y ago
I guess they would look totally different because both topics are totally different.
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Well, not in geological terms, but I would say that 30 years for a piece of software is a quite long time.
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No, not that one.
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One of the differences with a fascist state is that Spain is subjected to international law. They have the right to appeal to the European Court for Human Rights, and if they are being jailed for organizing peaceful protests they will win.
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Peacefully breaking the law is still breaking the law. Disobeying direct orders from court can get you in jail, mishandling public funds can get you in jail, and making official declarations that go against the constitution can get you in j
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by yiyus 7y ago
ImageMagick is great, I use it all the time. Photoshop is superb for interactive image editing, but if you need to crop a thousand images, change brightness, add some text on top, and merge them one next to the other, for example, and you n
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PostScript, as a concatenative programming language, can be used to write very efficient code. By efficient I mean terse: doing much with very few code. However, it's usually autogenerated, so most ps code is long and ugly (but, obviou
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awk '/Recovery time:/{print $2}' output.log | boxplot
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BRL-CAD predates Google, and even the internet. Nevertheless, it is the first the result when googling for BRL-CAD, so not hard at all.
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The graph in the article includes results for other engines too, not only V8.
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Complex exponentiation is not defined arbitrarily to make Euler identity true. The Euler identity is a consequence. I love the Euler identity in its typical form, but I think it is more surprising when you replace e and pi by their (approxi
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But if it gets more than 430, it will have 430 at some point.
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> Why would you like such an answer? If proven wrong, then it's wrong -- why continue studying it? Because things are not black or white. It is never clear what we get from the advancement in physics theories, but many times we get
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The theory has its problems, some of them are serious problems. I attended a talk by Verlinde and he is well aware of them, but I liked his answer. He basically said that even if this theory was not a valid alternative to dark matter and wa
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I do not know too much about it, but cat is a statically typed functional stack-based programming language: https://github.com/cdiggins/cat-language
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Great to see an article related to Joy! If you do not know Joy and want to check it out, you will notice that the link in this page is broken. A mirror is available here: http://www.kevinalbrecht.com/code/joy-mirror&#x2
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> Not sure how much is lost We lose manipulability. I can perfectly read an expression like this: (a add b) multiply (a add neg b) Even I can easily rewrite (with just a few keystrokes, if I have the right editor), into this equ
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ColorForth has a color-blind mode, but I do not remember the details. The main idea is to change visual representation instead of using delimiters. Different fonts or text sizes sizes or cursive/inverse/underline are also valid wa
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by yiyus 7y ago
I want to like J, but I find that most of my programs get too cluttered with @: all over the place. I see the k-means example shown here has a similar problem (7 usages of @: in only 4 lines of J). I find implicit programming a more elegant
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Force is a strong word. But if your model can be verified by independent experiments and make useful predictions, it is more likely that it will be considered a valid model by other people.
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Joy is in my TODO list. I have only heard good things about it. I never got into it years ago when I was more interested in concatenative languages (neither I learnt cat, which I think is quite similar). Much more recently, I stumbled upon
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by yiyus 7y ago
I totally agree with what you said, but I'm having problems to put it into practice. I spent years learning Forth (wrote some toy programs, collaborated with some projects, even wrote my own interpreter) and for the last couple of year
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Yes. http://www.inventio.co.uk/LegacyIndex.htm
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This one has recently been updated and can boot from usb or be used from bochs: http://www.inventio.co.uk/LegacyIndex.htm
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The APL family of languages makes very limited use of delimiters. They are a bit more common in k and q, but in Dyalog APL and J, the use of adverbs makes almost always possible to write expressions without using any parens or with a very l
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I've recently been using it and I am very disappointed. Some tasks that should be totally trivial are incredibly hard to get right and require platform specific solutions. Nothing unsolvable, but I was expecting a much more straightfor
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Life depends on dimensions up to some point too. The most typical example is that, in a 2D world, there cannot be organisms that consume food, because the digestive tube would split the organism in two.
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You could use the exterior product. Maxwell did not use a cross product in his original publications. In fact, the development of the cross product was a response to the longer (quaternion based) formulation of electromagnetism equations at
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Most cathedrals took generations to build and diverged from the initial plans during their construction. It is not uncommon that even architectonic styles changed, and the final result was a mixture of romanic and gothic, for example. Sagra
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> I am writing a forth in q now. For some practical reason or just as an exercise?

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