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by emme 3mo ago
I've bought a X3 and I loved it (with crosspoint). However, the screen broke after just a week, even if I used the official cover all the time. It's a cute gadget but it's too fragile for the intended use: its strength is the
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by emme 3mo ago
Yes, great work, thank you. I tried it a bit, and the experience is much more pleasant than using jbmc directly.
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by emme 3mo ago
It seems very interesting, thank you. What's the relationship with the original jbmc project?
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by emme 1y ago
I started programming with Modula-2 and I really believe it was case sensitive. In fact I remember the book I used to learn it (Ogilvie) mentioning the case sensitiveness as a peculiarity of the language: "if case matters in natural la
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by emme 3y ago
A proper example is probably "an apple is red" and "red is an apple".
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by emme 3y ago
Yes, I agree, I feel the term "code" potentially misleading. But even "programming" can look as a triviality when presented in schools with no context and simplistic exercises. https://dl.acm.org/doi&#x2F
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by emme 3y ago
Yes, I have similar concerns. These models regurgitate previously seen strings, previous benchmarks included. When you try to evaluate their sheer ability to reason on the text, however, they perform poorly. (Our experiments with GPT-3 are
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by emme 3y ago
This ITiCSE working group tried to clarify why we should be interested in programming (not coding) in education: What We Talk About When We Talk About Programs https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3571785.3574125 (open
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Programs(dl.acm.org)
1 points by emme 4y ago|1 comments
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by emme 4y ago
The current focus on "coding skills" in schools poses the risk of giving students an overly simplistic and impoverished idea of what programming means and involves. Let's try to change it!
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by emme 4y ago
I would add foot to the list: https://github.com/DanteAlighierin/foot
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Ask HN: What we talk about when we talk about programs
3 points by emme 4y ago|0 comments
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Smalltalk Squeak 6.0(raw.githubusercontent.com)
119 points by emme 4y ago|72 comments
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Matrix Notes(anarc.at)
48 points by emme 4y ago|2 comments
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“Code” 2nd Edition(charlespetzold.com)
1036 points by emme 4y ago|171 comments
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A comic story about Maryam Mirzakhani(umi.dm.unibo.it)
1 points by emme 4y ago|0 comments
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Web Emulator for the Kenbak-1 Computer (If You’ve Heard of It)(hackaday.com)
2 points by emme 4y ago|0 comments
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Mental illness, attention deficit disorder, and suffering(blog.plover.com)
284 points by emme 4y ago|347 comments
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Was the Great Scientist E. O. Wilson a Racist? No(michaelshermer.substack.com)
3 points by emme 4y ago|0 comments
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The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
303 points by emme 4y ago|115 comments
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by emme 4y ago
And you can use it with a standard OTP generator: https://github.com/andry08/ArubaOTP-seed-extractor
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by emme 5y ago
Two years ago I used MENACE to introduce students to machine learning approaches: it was the final example in course of programming for lawyers. https://pypi.org/project/lex-game/ The code uses excel files instead
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Creativity as Divergent Thinking(datcreativity.com)
2 points by emme 5y ago|0 comments
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Emacs and the Unix Philosophy(protesilaos.com)
4 points by emme 5y ago|0 comments
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Hitler’s Girlfriend Visited Iceland and the British Invaded(hakaimagazine.com)
1 points by emme 5y ago|0 comments
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Bertrand Meyer's contributions to software engineering(bertrandmeyer.com)
2 points by emme 6y ago|0 comments
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by emme 6y ago
By Alan Perlis
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by emme 6y ago
I'm happy with mine, but it gains ~1s each day w.r.t. the national radio clock signal. I normally adjust it every couple of days.
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Jobson transforms command-line applications into a web-ready job service(github.com)
1 points by emme 6y ago|0 comments
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Tag Files on Gnome(manpages.ubuntu.com)
1 points by emme 6y ago|0 comments

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