DougMerritt

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by DougMerritt 5mo ago
Although its core is low level, PostScript is a pretty good language by some metrics; it's often been claimed to be a (supposedly accidental) dialect of Forth with some powerful features bolted on. What makes Zmachine.ps so bad? Certai
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by DougMerritt 5mo ago
Years ago, somewhere I read that children have a genetically-based urge to avoid bitter flavors, since they may signal natural poisons, whereas adults can judge better, so the urge is lessened. (And even if that source were true, that would
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by DougMerritt 5mo ago
> we shouldn't judge coffee based on months-old pre-ground grocery store roasts. Next you'll be claiming that we shouldn't judge sushi based on months-old grocery store sushi.
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by DougMerritt 5mo ago
> I am now just going to go through the (single file) of code and just fix it myself. That's front page news, in this era.
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by DougMerritt 6mo ago
It's a humorous reference to a (in-)famous serious post by Stallman, see https://www.gnu.org/gnu/incorrect-quotation.en.html
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by DougMerritt 6mo ago
1. It says it is $8/month, which is not mentioned on the github page, so I had been thinking it was free in addition to being AGPL-3.0; it links to https://snapify.it/ which is where I see the fee. 2. It says "for
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by DougMerritt 6mo ago
This appears to be mercifully shorter and less intimidating than the must-have bible, "Curtis Roads. The Computer Music Tutorial. MIT Press, Cambs, MA, 1996". It says it was originally published by Wiley in 2009, and the rights re
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by DougMerritt 6mo ago
I think he should fix that, but meanwhile see: https://almightylisp.com/book/essentials
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by DougMerritt 7mo ago
It's not uncommon to have a regression test for compilers that are written in their own language (e.g. some C compilers): compile each new version with itself, then use that to compile itself again, then use the result on unit tests or
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by DougMerritt 7mo ago
That's an excellent question, but the answer would depend on goals and the evaluation system used. It seems to me that CEOs have a different opinion than anyone who cares instead about actual people.
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by DougMerritt 8mo ago
SO is the website Stack Overflow.
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by DougMerritt 9mo ago
Life mimics art.
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by DougMerritt 11mo ago
Yep; this has frustrated me for two decades.
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by DougMerritt 11mo ago
For the languages that we westerners regard as having very exotic grammars -- not like Chinese, which is comparatively straightforward, but like the aboriginal languages of Australia -- AFAIK there's no experience on such subjects yet.
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by DougMerritt 11mo ago
And it's not even a full moon.
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
You're arguing with people talking about how things are currently by talking about how things could be or should be and how people should change how things are. That can be a great topic on its own, but it's not the same top
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
Why aren't they satisfied with merely pondering strats made in US vs Mexico vs Japan vs Indonesia? Careful reviews of quality versus price (which of course varied over time) always showed more correlation with sometimes-unwarranted rep
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
Since the topic arose, FWIW, here in the U.S. it's common to have one power socket in a room (e.g. living room, bedroom) controlled by wall switch, and multiple other power outlets lacking such a switch. I'm not in the industry, b
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
> It's a wild twist of fate that programming languages were intended to make programming friendly to humans, and now humans don't want to read them at all. Those are two different groups of humans, as you implied yourself.
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
...which needs more to explain it, such as (if true): "the diversity originating in Africa did not migrate out of Africa, and the gene lines that did leave Africa did not develop as much diversity as had existed in the ancestral gene
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
Very true, but of course you're talking about a different era much further up the tree.
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
What lead to this?
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
"Let rich kids party and hook up for 4 years, and then hand them a well-paying career." It's been done, of course (by their parents in those cases).
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
Sometimes, sometimes just optical, but in any case, there's even a guy, Ken Sherriff, who has been doing this as a hobby for ages. It's not like this is merely theoretical. https://www.righto.com/search/label&
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
It's not that you're utterly wrong; some transformations are irreversible, or close to. Multiplying each pixel's value by 0, assuming the result is exactly 0, is a particularly clear example. But others are reversible because
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by DougMerritt 1y ago
TSMC has not committed to a US plant that applies their most advanced technology. Currently, they are going to produce chips with larger slower features, some generations behind their state of the art -- that's commercially very useful
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
But 3.8 billion A.D. is far in the future.
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
> Impedance is analogous to index of refraction That's not just an analogy; impedance is index of refraction, with the same body of modern theory, except that "impedance" derives from the history of analysis of low frequ
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
Specifically, physics papers concerning research based on particle accelerator experiments always have hundreds or even more. It doesn't minimize the research; that sort of thing just requires a lot of participants. But it does imply
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by DougMerritt 2y ago
¿Por Qué No Los Dos?

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