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by knutae 3y ago
And the old(er) building right next to it is named after Kristen Nygaard. Simula was used as the first programming language for informatics students at the University of Bergen until the mid 1990s, when they switched to Java. I was among th
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by knutae 7y ago
Aristid Lindenmayer used it originally as a model to study the growth of algae, so it has some scientific applications. While computer graphics is the most common use case, L-systems have also been used for generating music. http:/&#x
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by knutae 7y ago
I wrote an L-systems implementation in Common Lisp as part of a thesis around 2002. The software, thesis and some raytraced images are still available at my old university home page: http://www.ii.uib.no/~knute/lsystems
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by knutae 9y ago
Agree with these, and would like to add one more: $(subcommand) as an alternative to (subcommand) PS: I have been using fish as my primary shell for about a year now, very happy with it. :)
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by knutae 9y ago
For comparison, integers in clisp: [1]> (eq (expt 2 47) (expt 2 47)) T [2]> (eq (expt 2 48) (expt 2 48)) NIL Explanation here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/clm/node17
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by knutae 10y ago
Humpback whales apparently have to defend their juveniles against hunting orcas. It is surprising that they would defend other species in the same way, but it seems likely to be the same instinct that causes them to protect their own, rathe
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by knutae 12y ago
Interesting, indeed. I didn't get that, but it is probably similar to the effect caused by videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVgOLWVYytM
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by knutae 14y ago
After using Delphi professionally for some years, I pretty much hated it. Some of my least favorite features are automatic and locale-dependent string/WideString conversions, and that there are multiple memory models: interfaces (IUnknown)
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by knutae 15y ago
Running a hash function directly on a hash makes little sense. You probably meant: md5(md5(password) + user_salt)
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by knutae 15y ago
I don't know... why should I worry about Dropbox security in this context? The risk that someone could steal my Dropbox data is of course there, but that they then would be able to decrypt the password database (or bother to spend resource
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by knutae 15y ago
I use KeePass and synchronize the database file through Dropbox. I can recommend this combination, it works well both on my computers and (Android) phone. The downside is that I sometimes have to enter the master password on my phone's on-
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by knutae 16y ago
I find the CIE Standard Observer graph enlightening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931_color_space#Color_matc... As far as I understand this, the red function, which corresponds to the red receptors in a typical human eye, reacts most