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by nik61 7y ago
Trying to open this document for download I'm firmly (unusually firmly) warned off by my ISP. It really was a 'go ahead if you want to be scammed' sort of thing. Anybody have an opinion about this?
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by nik61 7y ago
Many people, mathematicians and aspirants, would find "Mathematics made Difficult" by Carl E Linderholm (pub. 1972) entertaining and possibly instructive. PDFs are available to those without scruples.
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by nik61 7y ago
A notorious philanderer, it is said, though I guess you may have to be nice to be one of those.
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by nik61 7y ago
I'm no climate change denier, but there is a complexity to the effects which NASA has identified (and recently updated) https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer... In particular the S
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by nik61 7y ago
This was a Time Team Special in 2005 [Series 18, Episode 138], unfortunately named the "King of Bling". The location was given as Prittlewell, Essex [on the outskirts of Southend]. For non-Brits, Time Team has been a very long-
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by nik61 7y ago
Smartphones of both flavours can load cheap or free apps that are quite effective enough to read barcodes and identify books. Librarything and its various catalogue tools can help with the metadata too. That said, the advice to get speci
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by nik61 8y ago
As DK puts it himself: "The main idea is to treat a program as a piece of literature, addressed to human beings rather than to a computer." I think code navigation would naturally fall out from this approach.
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by nik61 8y ago
I haven't got time to read all this dissertation on an interesting topic at the moment, but I was surprised to find that the relevant work of the other great "Donald" (Knuth) is not mentioned. He called it 'literate pro
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by nik61 8y ago
I guess she means he left communism. A belief in history, almost as a god, is inherent in communism as I understand it. The changes they believe in are pre-ordained, they need only to join the stream.
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by nik61 8y ago
In the Dark Universe novel by Daniel F Galouye, a section of humanity has hidden themselves for generations in lightless caverns below a poisoned Earth. They have become functionally blind, and find their way about by knocking stones toget
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by nik61 8y ago
I'm with Buckminster on this: t-ewe-pl. I think it may be UK English 'dialect'.
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by nik61 8y ago
Have to have a valid Gitbook account to access these works, which is a bit of a mission. I keep getting 401 despite careful, and seemingly error-free, sign-up process.
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by nik61 8y ago
Uniquely, AFAIK, the Dynalist team make their Trello kanban available for us all to see. We can also subscribe to and vote for our wished-for developments.
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by nik61 9y ago
As a writer of English I find a font without the letter Q to be distinctly lacking...
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by nik61 9y ago
I remember reading that, even in the English countryside in the past, goitre was frequent among those who 'drank pond water' and thus missed out on any soluble naturally-occurring additives. And the cause was a mystery to everyon
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by nik61 9y ago
Beware also that Aspirin allergy is a thing and often accompanies a general allergy to NSAIDs such as Ibuprofen. In my own case the allergy results in a moving facial swelling (angioedema) which my family dubbed 'Quasimodo Face'
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by nik61 9y ago
Perhaps it was everywhere: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/bindoon-...
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by nik61 9y ago
The text makes it clear that capacity of the drum was 16384 12 bit "words", 196608 bits in total. The use of core memory was a big advance at that time. Previously the drums had been the main memory for that generation of machi
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by nik61 10y ago
http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/humor/Ms_fnd_in_a_Lbry.html
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by nik61 10y ago
PC Outline (PCO) was very good in its day. I was using it under DOS in 1985 and some people are still using it today in a Windows DOS box. It gave me the opportunity to move over from a long-form prose approach to 'writing things down
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by nik61 10y ago
along the same lines is how Stalin's executioners billed the family of those they had shot for the ammunition used. Often this was the only way they found out their loved-one had been killed.
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by nik61 11y ago
Undoubtedly the attention lavished on this Extension by HN has caused its server to stop? Seems to be nothing happening here, I will pass on.
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by nik61 11y ago
For truly 'extensive bombing' the Germans would have required heavy bombers, which they did not possess. The Luftwaffe had been largely conceived of as a support to ground troops with no strategic role or capability. Also they w
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by nik61 11y ago
Ah yes, 'falling short' on places such as the New Cross Woolworths, leading to deaths of 168 persons, and laying waste areas such as Peckham where the fall of ten or more V1s and V2s were packed into a few streets - the area is st
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by nik61 11y ago
I think you'll find that the behaviour of the East German Authorities has more in common with the beliefs of Mr Trump than those of Mr Sanders, but either way that's a cheap shot not worthy of democratic debate and stretches the p
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by nik61 11y ago
As a visitor here from one of the supercivilizations in question (and enjoying the sex, red wine and rock music, I must say) I feel I have to point out a couple of things that may have been missed. One is that many of you are spending a lo
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by nik61 11y ago
This comment is being downvoted for no good reason? It is a pessimistic but valid slant on this discussion I'd say.
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by nik61 11y ago
Downvote karma is also arbitrary. I've been on negative karma for some time following my negative comments about the HN-described behaviour of someone's beloved mentor - who forced his classes to buy his book. I think this was a
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by nik61 15y ago
I think he deserves to come back as an ant, so that would figure. Bad Karma should carry him a few steps down the food chain at least. The world is divided between those who see this kind of behaviour as lovable eccentricity and others who
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by nik61 15y ago
I refer those interested in this topic to the INTERCAL character naming conventions, now hallowed by tradition and skirting the edge of madness. As a taster . is one-spot : is two-spot , is tail and ; is hybrid. # is mesh. <- is known

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