Treblemaker

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by Treblemaker 7mo ago
The objections to tcl I see most often seem to reflect an outdated or incomplete understanding of the language and its capabilities. As with many interpreted languages, maybe it's just too easy to iterate interactively with code until
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by Treblemaker 7mo ago
> When "everything is a string" then you have no choice but to literally treat everything as a string. As someone who has been developing tcl almost daily for more than 30 years, both object oriented and imperative code, I have
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by Treblemaker 7mo ago
Similar amount of experience with tcl here (since dc_shell-t was released). I love working in tcl. It can be expressive, redable, sufficiently performant, and makes it easy and fast to develop and test new features and functions in even
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by Treblemaker 1y ago
Search upthread for "Klines" and "80s"
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by Treblemaker 1y ago
100's of Klines of code in continuous development over the last 10 years, still currently maintained and continually adapted for new use cases in Electronic Design Automation (EDA) for logical and physical chip design and verification.
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by Treblemaker 1y ago
Many of the big EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools continue to use tcl for the command line interface. Some users have created quite complex, customizable design flows spanning multiple tools and even development infrastructure (mu
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by Treblemaker 1y ago
> It fakes having numbers, which works, but has to be slow. This hasn't been the case for 25 years, since the 8.0 release. Tcl will store data internally in whatever format it was last used, and only convert if needed. Good codin
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by Treblemaker 2y ago
I came here to say this. But also, for those who don't know. this is referring to "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir, author of "The Martian". (Caution, many spoilers in the Wikipedia article) https://en.wi
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by Treblemaker 3y ago
De Havilland Dash 8, for example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3voCL_CK18&t=14s
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by Treblemaker 3y ago
I am not aware of any reports of aircraft struck by meteors. However,there are planes which have been damaged or destroyed by debris on the runway [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_object_damage#Runway_d...
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by Treblemaker 3y ago
The perception that ADHD is nothing more than the inability to "sit still and pay attention" is very wrong and very out of date. Before you comment further I would strongly recommend you watch a series presented by one of the le
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by Treblemaker 4y ago
Yes, according to the documentation, braces in comments should be ignored. However, the parser is confused by unbalanced braces in comments. Here's a classic case that turns up occasionally during development: proc asdf { args
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by Treblemaker 4y ago
TIL of Bartosz Ciechanowski. What an incredibly gifted communicator. Thank you!
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by Treblemaker 4y ago
Or this? Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucker_(film)
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by Treblemaker 4y ago
Nothing is "perfectly safe". Many things are egregiously, unnecessarily unsafe.
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by Treblemaker 4y ago
Update on the prediction: (Feb. 26, 2022) "“We have finalized our forecast of SC25’s amplitude,” says McIntosh. “It will be just above the historical average with a monthly smoothed sunspot number of 190 ± 20.” "“Above average” ma
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by Treblemaker 4y ago
(December 19, 2020) "The consensus view of an international panel of 12 scientists calls for the new cycle, Solar Cycle 25, to be small to average, much like its predecessor, Solar Cycle 24. But a prominent astrophysicist at the Nation
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by Treblemaker 4y ago
Topic always reminds me of this story: http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/downandout.html
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by Treblemaker 4y ago
We do. Example from Oregon: ORS 811.275 (1) A person commits the offense of failure to yield the right of way at an uncontrolled intersection if the person is operating a motor vehicle that is approaching an uncontrolled highway intersecti
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“Lena” isn't about uploading(qntm.org)
1 points by Treblemaker 5y ago|1 comments
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
If you're not familiar with it, recommend to read the story first [0]. Previous HN discussion on the story here [1]. [0] https://qntm.org/mmacevedo [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26224835
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
(off topic) I read that at first glance as > Probably not the last, either, those joints ain’t gonna roll themselves. and thought, hm, I need to remember this debugging technique next time I'm stumped.
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
Joe is the expert on feature X. When we have a problem in X we ask Joe for help and he invariably provides the insight needed to solve the problem. When Joe has a problem with X, he should go ask for help, even though he's the one be
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
How many times do I need to go down this path: ... - ask for help - try to explain how it's supposed to work - try to explain how it's not working - Listen to them come up with all the ideas that I've already rule
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
> Is it because the combustion takes place in a chambers somewhere inside the engine Yes, it is. Compare with "External Combustion Engine" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_combustion_engine
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Is Home Depot using webcams to track website visitors?
3 points by Treblemaker 5y ago|3 comments
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‘Blue Angels for geeks’: The Navy’s plan to ‘hack’ its own unmanned strategy(breakingdefense.com)
2 points by Treblemaker 5y ago|0 comments
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
I never knew that was Clinton's code name (and I voted in 1988). My first thought was the Apollo 11 landing site got cratered!
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
Every layoff I've been subject to (four of them) involved a large number of people, and were related to declining business or transfer of business activity to another division. And my last layoff resulted in a significant severance
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by Treblemaker 5y ago
I'm curious to see where you see the odd angles. When I zoom in sufficiently all the shapes seem to resolve to segments of 90 and 45 degree angles.

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