> Languages for scientific computing like FORTRAN provided multiple floating point types such as REAL and DOUBLE PRECISION as well as INTEGER, often also in multiple sizes. This was to allow programmers to reduce…
I would say less overuse of final, more underuse of interfaces. If everything takes/returns/stores values by interfaces (excluding data containers with no behavior) then you don't need to "jailbreak" any class to mock…
No such luck :( Both the bt1.archive.org and b2.archive.org trackers appear to be down.…
I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker. If you're lucky there's other seeds around,…
They only have Windows binaries, but it's just Python 3 with Tkinter. Should work anywhere if you have a GUI-enabled Python (eg python3-tkinter).
> and the nucleus of an atom or neutron star has a density on the order of 4x10^17...if you can build the entire ship out of pure neutrons, you're still coming up short by a factor of ~100 Would you be getting into…
Have MS managed to figure out window snapping for WSLg yet? From what I've heard (maybe this is dated) there are a bunch of limitations that come from them using a primitive compositor for their Wayland setup. Xpra (or…
Huh, my other pages don't have the same issue. I guess the search indexer must've died - I'll restart it in an hour or two. FWIW, the snapshot of c2 that this runs off of is somewhat dated…
You might find Chess960 interesting then. The starting position is randomized, with enough variations that memorizing an opening book no longer really helps. You have to start evaluating the board from move 1 in the…
> I think I’ve had more trouble with data loss from Evernote than those index cards, ironically… Plain text file and a text editor app, assuming rich content isn't a requirement. There are a million of them -…
I looked into the equivalent setup for WSL a while ago. The thing I could never solve was: how to manage the hosts windows via the virtual environment's WM? Without the integration that setup is just extra config for no…
In case anyone wants more detail on the internals: The initramfs is the first root filesystem a Linux system has but it resides entirely in RAM. It's initialized using an archive stored on disk, but after that point can…
It has to do with how long you expect a given dollar to live. Below a certain point a dollar doesn't persist very long since you're mostly living paycheck to paycheck. If you're spending most of what you earn, then what…
> No way to get around it. Well...none of them are particularly easy, compared to punching holes in your local firewall. CGNAT takes you one step closer to digital serfdom (all hail our managed lords!) That said, I'd…
Not PS/Office (more of a dev workflow - VS, Intellij, DB admin tools), but I've personally found that straight KVM with the default virtual hardware is good enough. The last big adjustment I made was getting a dedicated…
I guess that's where the What If blog went, it hasn't been updated for a while now. No timestamps on the last post but wiki says he started writing this column for NYT late 2019, which feels about right.…
I guess I'll be the one to make the obligatory "magit is awesome and if you use Emacs you should definitely check it out" comment. Other that being horribly slow on Windows I can't think of any downsides. Aside from the…
> That's madness - I can't imagine why they'd do that. I think your confusion is in assuming that this is something you do rather than it being the status quo that receives no attention. Up until recently I had about…
Agreed. I find it easier to interact with people in service situations if they're responsible for the whole experience. The point of going to a restaurant or a barbershop or getting take-out is that you're leaving the…
> Even on a mostly non-algorithmic feed like Reddit, the highest upvoted comments on popular subs always feature an extremely predictable response, like a dad joke, followed by similarly predictable sub-comments written…
A sibling comment mentioned Sway, and I've also used this on both Fluxbox and i3. I would be surprised if Awesome didn't have it as well. The only problem is that (at least in Fluxbox's case) it suffers from poor…
I'm not sure fad is the right descriptor here. Unix WMs have had virtual desktops since the 90s (80s?), MacOS got them around 2006 and Windows in 2015. Use by the non-initiated may not be that high, but that shouldn't…
The Advent of Computing [1] podcast recently put out their episode 47 which I think provides a sort-of explanation of this line of thinking. The short answer is that the context in which Emacs was originally developed…
> But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here. Only in written correspondence I assume? Macs are the only system that would let you do that in actual use AFAIK (and if you want to…
> but I do think it reflects poorly on our societies that we seem to be fine with young kids shoot each other in the face with realistic weapons in CS:GO and Call of Duty but if you show one women's nipple it's…
> Languages for scientific computing like FORTRAN provided multiple floating point types such as REAL and DOUBLE PRECISION as well as INTEGER, often also in multiple sizes. This was to allow programmers to reduce…
I would say less overuse of final, more underuse of interfaces. If everything takes/returns/stores values by interfaces (excluding data containers with no behavior) then you don't need to "jailbreak" any class to mock…
No such luck :( Both the bt1.archive.org and b2.archive.org trackers appear to be down.…
I seed a torrent of the SICP lectures that originally came from IA, I'll have to see if that's still up and if there's some way of getting the other torrents from the tracker. If you're lucky there's other seeds around,…
They only have Windows binaries, but it's just Python 3 with Tkinter. Should work anywhere if you have a GUI-enabled Python (eg python3-tkinter).
> and the nucleus of an atom or neutron star has a density on the order of 4x10^17...if you can build the entire ship out of pure neutrons, you're still coming up short by a factor of ~100 Would you be getting into…
Have MS managed to figure out window snapping for WSLg yet? From what I've heard (maybe this is dated) there are a bunch of limitations that come from them using a primitive compositor for their Wayland setup. Xpra (or…
Huh, my other pages don't have the same issue. I guess the search indexer must've died - I'll restart it in an hour or two. FWIW, the snapshot of c2 that this runs off of is somewhat dated…
You might find Chess960 interesting then. The starting position is randomized, with enough variations that memorizing an opening book no longer really helps. You have to start evaluating the board from move 1 in the…
> I think I’ve had more trouble with data loss from Evernote than those index cards, ironically… Plain text file and a text editor app, assuming rich content isn't a requirement. There are a million of them -…
I looked into the equivalent setup for WSL a while ago. The thing I could never solve was: how to manage the hosts windows via the virtual environment's WM? Without the integration that setup is just extra config for no…
In case anyone wants more detail on the internals: The initramfs is the first root filesystem a Linux system has but it resides entirely in RAM. It's initialized using an archive stored on disk, but after that point can…
It has to do with how long you expect a given dollar to live. Below a certain point a dollar doesn't persist very long since you're mostly living paycheck to paycheck. If you're spending most of what you earn, then what…
> No way to get around it. Well...none of them are particularly easy, compared to punching holes in your local firewall. CGNAT takes you one step closer to digital serfdom (all hail our managed lords!) That said, I'd…
Not PS/Office (more of a dev workflow - VS, Intellij, DB admin tools), but I've personally found that straight KVM with the default virtual hardware is good enough. The last big adjustment I made was getting a dedicated…
I guess that's where the What If blog went, it hasn't been updated for a while now. No timestamps on the last post but wiki says he started writing this column for NYT late 2019, which feels about right.…
I guess I'll be the one to make the obligatory "magit is awesome and if you use Emacs you should definitely check it out" comment. Other that being horribly slow on Windows I can't think of any downsides. Aside from the…
> That's madness - I can't imagine why they'd do that. I think your confusion is in assuming that this is something you do rather than it being the status quo that receives no attention. Up until recently I had about…
Agreed. I find it easier to interact with people in service situations if they're responsible for the whole experience. The point of going to a restaurant or a barbershop or getting take-out is that you're leaving the…
> Even on a mostly non-algorithmic feed like Reddit, the highest upvoted comments on popular subs always feature an extremely predictable response, like a dad joke, followed by similarly predictable sub-comments written…
A sibling comment mentioned Sway, and I've also used this on both Fluxbox and i3. I would be surprised if Awesome didn't have it as well. The only problem is that (at least in Fluxbox's case) it suffers from poor…
I'm not sure fad is the right descriptor here. Unix WMs have had virtual desktops since the 90s (80s?), MacOS got them around 2006 and Windows in 2015. Use by the non-initiated may not be that high, but that shouldn't…
The Advent of Computing [1] podcast recently put out their episode 47 which I think provides a sort-of explanation of this line of thinking. The short answer is that the context in which Emacs was originally developed…
> But I also capitalize command names like Ls so I'm probably out on my own here. Only in written correspondence I assume? Macs are the only system that would let you do that in actual use AFAIK (and if you want to…
> but I do think it reflects poorly on our societies that we seem to be fine with young kids shoot each other in the face with realistic weapons in CS:GO and Call of Duty but if you show one women's nipple it's…