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by pitherpather 2y ago
In driver's ed class we were give the assignment to come up with safety-related rhymes. I remember one from a friend named Roger. "Keep your eyes off the foxes, or your car will end up like boxes."
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by pitherpather 2y ago
Given the current style, if the book were published today would it be titled BAREFOOT ?
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by pitherpather 3y ago
We live in a simulation. Dark energy corresponds to a memory leak. A reboot is specified when this proportion reaches 2/3 (66.6%). This is all written in The Runbook.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
It is true in general that the "binding energy" of a nucleus is reflected in the measured mass or atomic weight, exactly as mc^2.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> This shows how easy it is to end up with two opposite conclusions by using Ngram Viewer slightly differently. Hence the commonly-encountered phrase: You believed a naive ngram reference? Oh my sweet summer child.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
I have taken my CD player/decoder made with discretes and turned it end-over-end while slowly backing away from a strong magnet.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Stay tuned. I will let you know. I hope this doesn't turn out like the CD-rewinder I wasted my money on last year.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> (Probably there's some principle of standpoint theory that says that I as a white person am not allowed to judge Mi'kmaq Indians. Fine, far be it from me to challenge standpoint theory. But many of Elizabeth Hoover's ex-
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Also, modulo a successful coin-in-the-middle attack.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Watch out if the AIs start to say: I can help you, but there is one little real-world favor I need to ask for.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> a game Competitive prompting?
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Well-enough written. A good reminder. Miffed that they are numbered 1-10, not 0-9. Something to work on in my next lifetime.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> The automotive industry, with its increasing reliance on advanced electronics for everything from engine control units to driver assistance systems, demands materials that can consistently perform under challenging conditions with defe
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> We will protect the confidentiality and privacy of clients by: Perhaps add h: keeping the therapist's cell phone in a sound-isolated enclosure.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
If the comment history is considered sacrosanct, it could be nice to be able to go back and retroactively change the username for an account, at least.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> naming things is hard Of tangential interest: I recently heard that Faraday, while discovering new electromagnetic phenomenon, then turned to either a linguist or classicist for help in assigning/inventing terms for them. (I canno
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by pitherpather 3y ago
I have seen immediate-mode SVG for GUIs. Is parsing and rendering SVG well-pipelined at this point? Offhand it might be cache-friendly. I have not tried a simple elapsed-time-in-loop test, but to me geometric screen-painting happens instan
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Also, is there any workflow option in current Kicad for importing a component-naming netlist (of the kind so many existing schematic packages can output), without having a live Kicad schematic? One lesson of this thread could be: There is e
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Scrolled all the way through; very impressive. > We have implemented (fully or partially) 48 POSIX Functions from above. ...[however] These 24 POSIX Functions will Halt when TCC WebAssembly calls them… I was just wondering this evening:
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by pitherpather 3y ago
I am aware of some research into operating systems with a database rather than filesystem as a base layer. If SeaweedFS serves a middle-ground between databases and filesystems, could it also suggest a middle-ground in conceiving of researc
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by pitherpather 3y ago
I have not read the ESA document, but in their defense one possibly applicable principle is this: If you get too far from understanding/practicing implementation, soon enough you will not be competent enough to produce a specification.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> like an affine transformation between lisp code and algol family stuff like c I wonder how far one might go introducing common lisp with parallel examples in javascript and python -- something like a Rosetta Stone approach, also likeni
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Hackaday soon: Synchronizing a treadmill to a pdf the size of Germany. Obligatory?: The pdf is not the territory.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
My last sentence there, about a caveat, was silly of me, beyond mere HN affectation.
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Nice. And under $50 for a professional display and case. > Moddable created the XS JavaScript engine specifically for IoT products. It is the only JavaScript engine that supports the modern JavaScript language standard on the embedded mi
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by pitherpather 3y ago
In relation to both the quoted sentence and your addition, I have seen speculation that where once "being in the clergy" was esteemed and attracted predators and psychopaths seeking cover, today that attraction is toward a positio
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by pitherpather 3y ago
Given your pursuit of elegance, I imagine you could ultimately have a --clone or --cloner command-line switch which would allow any executable instance based upon your interpreter to create a new executable instance, but encapsulating newly
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by pitherpather 3y ago
I don't know how clean or simple or portable you wish your build environment to be, but would it be worth embedding at compile-time? Thinking of the general need in these situations to produce a custom-named interpreter/executable
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> In this article I will demonstrate this capability [lisp code directly embedded], explain how it works and the journey to implementing it. Every script bundling tool I've ever seen unpacks the code to some file system location and
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by pitherpather 3y ago
> I wasn't aware that people considered there to be a symmetry between heating and cooling Same here. By analogy, while any chemical reaction is in principle reversible, the kinetics "forward" and "backward" are

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