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by verandacoffee 5y ago
Probably irrelevant. There would anyway be some number N of operating systems, and a number K of computers, and the number K will always be very much larger than N. So there would be a huge possible 'market' for these criminals, e
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by verandacoffee 6y ago
ctrl-C Has worked in message boxes for years.
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by verandacoffee 6y ago
sbcl (and other Common Lisps) uses what you want it to use: read-default-float-format (setf read-default-float-format 'single-float) (+ 0.1 0.2) => 0.3 (setf read-default-float-format 'double-float) (+ 0.1 0.2) => 0.30
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
Isn't this the same as the pq-formula? https://www.matteboken.se/lektioner/matte-2/andragradsekvati... (Link in Swedish).
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
> ... you should bear in mind that the Church Turing thesis is valid only for functions N->N This is not correct. The concept of algorithm has nothing intrinsic to do with natural numbers. You could use any data structure, e.g. finite
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
Relevant: https://www.norwegianamerican.com/norsk/the-coining-of-quisl... Unfortunately the caption is omitted, but is at least retold just below the middle of the article: 'It depicts Quisling arriving to audienc
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
Algol (60) had if-expressions, as did Simula 67 (based on Algol): x := if (y = 0) then 0 else 4 / y
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
> ...I value your opinion... And I value your work on this book. I apologize for having said at the beginning that "This makes the book untrustworthy, whatever good features it might have." It was unwarranted, and not substanti
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
Following your link: "3. It causes the symbol to become a constant variable." and following the link to constant variable: "constant variable n. a variable, the value of which can never change; that is, a keyword[1] or a name
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
I'm not sure pointing out undefined behaviour is nitpicking. It could in some cases be crucial. At the very least, it ties your code to only some Common Lisp implementations. I know you can assign to keywords in LispWorks (using a rest
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
In the first installment of this series, the author use := for assignment, instead of setf. This is at least using undefined behaviour, as keywords are meant to be constant symbols, not themselves assignable to. Sbcl allows assignment to th
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by verandacoffee 7y ago
I get 10:26pm until NaN:NaNpm Probably because I am in Northern Norway (Midnight Sun).