jasperry

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by jasperry 6d ago
Very similar to my story. Sometimes I feel sad that I'll never know who was the enlightened administrator in my humble district who somehow got my elementary school an Apple computer lab with Logo in 1983, and that they'll never k
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by jasperry 15d ago
In praise of "obsolete" technology: I got my C64 for Christmas 1987, when there were already much more powerful machines available, but the C64 was the only one my parents could afford. Unexpectedly to me, they stretched their bud
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by jasperry 19d ago
Apart from caring that much about docks, this is an inspiring example of how searching for the right language+libraries for a passion project can finally lead to a "just right" solution. It's also very gratifying to see how G
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by jasperry 23d ago
That's funny, because our professor didn't tell us that and I remember doing my projects with four terminal windows logged into the server and three of them running separate instances of emacs :D. I wonder how much I bogged down t
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by jasperry 25d ago
It's true that the space between sentences should be larger than the space between words, as it is in properly typeset text, though not twice as large. Using two spaces is a way to approximate that when you only have monospaced fonts
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by jasperry 29d ago
If your ambition is to have lots of free time and not too much responsibility...that's also difficult to balance with having kids.
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by jasperry 1mo ago
I guess they meant "blurry" in the sense of "jagged", from using fonts that are 6 pixels wide at a reasonable point size on a 27-inch monitor.
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by jasperry 1mo ago
I also was looking for 24-inch 1440p's and was surprised they didn't exist. The closest is probably the 24-inch 1920x1200, which I do like for the 16:10 aspect ratio. Does anybody else feel that 27-inch monitors are uncomfortably
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by jasperry 1mo ago
The analogies to prior technologies aren't insightful. The advent of LLMs has some similarities to the appearance of the internet, and very significant differences. Calling it a "tool" is also far too reductive. What kind of
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by jasperry 3mo ago
By the traditional translation of if/then sentences to classical logic, it is. If you want to go further down the rabbit hole, several things are debatable here: When people use if/then sentences, do they really mean material impl
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by jasperry 3mo ago
The proper backlash should be not about its capability level but how it's being used. AI is being adopted to deploy mass surveillance on an unprecedented scale, and to make decisions that affect people's lives without being evalua
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by jasperry 3mo ago
Retinal detachment is one thing that can cause vision loss as we age. My optometrist says that people like me with a strong nearsighted prescription are especially susceptible to it. Another is high pressure inside the eye, which can lead t
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by jasperry 4mo ago
Oh, it's a hybrid Sienna minivian! Now I'm bitter, because I was looking at those for the family a couple years back, but stock was low and they were priced $15k higher than a 3-row gas-guzzling SUV. Actually, another thing was th
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by jasperry 4mo ago
That's good to know. Can you point to an example?
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by jasperry 4mo ago
Excited to see another project targeting the QBE back end, from what I can tell it's a great lightweight alternative to LLVM.
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by jasperry 5mo ago
This is super useful, thanks. So if I were implementing a programming language, and wanted to have symbols to specify NaN in source code, I'd really only need quiet NaN, right? Because signaling NaN is supposed to always to raise an ex
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by jasperry 5mo ago
Looking at the Wikipedia article, it seems naproxen is a NSAID like ibuprofen and can cause all the same gastrointestinal issues.
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by jasperry 5mo ago
This is some of the most useful information I've received in a while. Like the author, the low overdose threshold of acetaminophen made me avoid it, even though I always take low doses anyway and ibuprofen gives me acid reflux almost e
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by jasperry 5mo ago
Does anybody know whether Fortran is older or younger than Algol? From Wikipedia, it looks like they were both developed around 1957. Was there any overlap in the design?
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by jasperry 5mo ago
I don't know of any algorithm to cull non-winnable Klondike games. Playing deal-1 instead of deal-3, and with unlimited flipping of the stock, the win chance is probably close to 50%, but that still makes 2000 in a row statistically im
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by jasperry 6mo ago
Even though I hadn't thought about xv in decades, as soon as I read the headline, the image of those 3d buttons with the crisp outlines resurfaced from my memory.
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by jasperry 6mo ago
Those are functional languages that generally don't use statements, so it makes sense to leave them out of a discussion about statement separators. If you think more people should use functional languages and so avoid the semicolon pro
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by jasperry 6mo ago
Indeed it does, by showing how many different and confusing types of parsing rules are used in languages that don't have statement terminators. Needing a parser clever enough to interpret essentially a 2-d code format seems like unnece
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by jasperry 7mo ago
It turns out Palpatine returned!
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by jasperry 7mo ago
I've looked into TextAdept a few times. It appeals to me because it's got a standard Qt UI, is fast and lightweight and highly customizable with Lua. But I could never commit the time to fully customize it for daily use. Anyway, I
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by jasperry 7mo ago
I was satisfied with Tuareg + Merlin for OCaml development in Emacs, it just worked for me and didn't break when I upgraded packages, but yes, this being from bbatsov is a strong incentive to try it out. My only concern is that it uses
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by jasperry 7mo ago
You're right that being a scientist is unlikely to result in personal wealth and so that's not the primary drive for those who seek faculty or research positions. However, it's not just curiosity, prestige and vanity either,
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by jasperry 7mo ago
If you rotate it so the board looks like the traditional solitaire layout, the direction of free tiles is horizontal as it's supposed to be. But then the images on the tiles are rotated 90 degrees. Either way you look at it, something
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by jasperry 7mo ago
The author is definitely claiming that it's not just about naming conventions: "These different perspectives ultimately amount, I argue, to mathematically inequivalent structural conceptions of the complex numbers". So you wo
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by jasperry 8mo ago
I agree in principle, but does anyone else feel super awkward saying "mebibyte" and "gibibyte"?

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