earleybird

Of course they are, just ask Charlie[0]

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/music/2021/08/2...

The lambda calculus is useful without modification. It can also be used to model other simpler languages or logics which are power and elegant in their own right.

So, yes, since I've used the lc in these ways I believe the same claim can be made regarding the lambda calculus.

I have an older central forced air heat pump which in the south vancouver island environment runs around a CoP of 3.5 in the shoulder seasons and around a CoP of 2 which is still half what I'd pay for electrical resistive heat (or natural gas).

From todays numbers (with temps around 0 to 4 C, 32 to 40 F) the heat pump is cycling on every half hour or so. When it gets colder (eg. -10 C) it cycles every 20 minutes or so. The thermostat is set at 22 C (~ 72 F) and stays within a degree (C) or so.

Over the past 25 yrs it has certainly paid for itself in reduced electrical costs.

Missing is NewtonScript - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewtonScript

A modest proposal: Display the credit card name alongside the twitter handle in each tweet. /s for silly :-)

Or perhaps a dna encoded bootloader.

If I remember correctly they claim something like 40% of a conventional turbine, so it doesn't beat a conventional turbine in a classic setting however it may work well enough in a residential/light commercial setting.

It really seems like a reverse Dyson bladeless fan.

Can't vs won't.

Absent from his bio (and the wikipedia article) is his role in the construction of the Vegreville Pysanka(egg)[0]

"Robert McDermott and Jim Blinn are jointly responsible for the precise mathematics and computer programming which implemented the geometric concept Accomplishment of the highly sophisticated and complex mathematics brought to a close the long-sought-after geometric definition of the faceted Egg." [1]

Came across this little tidbit of information reading the information plaque when my dad was showing us around town. Imagine my surprise coming across the name of probably my first computer graphics books from university.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegreville_egg

[1] http://www.ronresch.org/ronresch/the-egg/easter-egg-booklet/...

. . . and ducting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9gO01pyv24

"connortumbleson.com refused to connect" - HN HoD?

"It's not as simple as simply doing a heel lift or raising your legs when you're sitting or shaking your leg or fidgeting. It's a very specific movement that's designed where we use some technologies that aren't necessarily available to the public unless you're a scientist and you know how to use it."

This has a bit of a 'smell' that I can't quite put my finger on.

Re Sauron

My belief is that we're still in a time when Sauron can assume a fair form - after all, Numenor is still around.

Now you've got me wondering - what is the difference between buoyancy and low gravity (with respect to organism development/evolution)? Would there be any meaningful differences structurally?

It may happen some time, more likely when the problems being solved are less interesting than the hobby programming. But I'll be programming either way. :-)

Been programming for 49 years - 44 as paid work; still going, retirement will happen when I find something I enjoy more than problem solving/programming.

Started with Focal (PDP-8/I), Dartmouth Basic, Fortran (using my dad's account at the local uni) - in that order. Subsequently learnt Cobol (for work) & Lisp (out of interest) at about the same time. Shortly after going through the LispKit lisp implementation I realized I could implement lisp in pretty much any language I had at hand (often not well but still functional). At various times work has been more design & architecture but there's always a programming part to it.

I believe it's its own plural :-)

"As Marc Andreessen remarks, in every case, the culprit is regulation." - a particularly enjoyable quote.

Well, there it is. I now feel fully justified to claim my pronoun is 10xdev. Obviously there are folks who are pretty sure I'm not a 10x dev but that doesn't matter, it's what I believe. :-)

See also B3 (niacin aka nocotinic acid) in the Krebs cycle.

Oleg's tarpit is awesome. Some of my best value in learning has come from going down rabbit holes there.

You're quite right. There's a huge difference between coddling and teaching valuable life skills (like critical thought).

"Roy Brouwer, the executive director of the Water Institute and a professor of economics at University of Waterloo, said that the report was a call to action. He added that he does not work with the economic model that GHD used in their methodology and was unfamiliar with it."

The best possible interpretation of this is that Professor Brouwer was asked for an opinion as a person on the street who had the good sense to include a disclaimer: "not my area of expertise as an economics professor".

Did this about a year back along with Ansible for a little 4 node Pi K3s cluster using another pi running nfs. That nfs service also provides persistent volumes for another docker swarm cluster (but I digress).

I setup the boot order something like (sorry can't remember exactly) 1 - PXE, 2 - sd card, 3 - USB. That way I could link in the nfs boot directory and reboot each pi and have it come up on the netboot filesystem, dd a new image to usb or sd and reboot into a fresh new image.

I highly recommend the experience of trying out pxe boot along with your choice of automation.

Carried over from "No eating, drinking or smoking in the computer room". Went by the wayside at some point. Now I just make sure most of the crumbs get cleared away every now and then. :-)

Perhaps courtesan is the word you're looking for.

And then there's the folks that use Slack/Rocketchat for support - zero ability to curate any useful info.

However topology may be restricted.

"Connection oriented service is available in some cities, usually based upon a central hub topology."[0]

[0] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149

I believe that's the typical scenario.

taxes = mill-rate * property-value

If you're paying more in taxes it's either because the taxing authority decided to raise more money or your property has increased relative to your neighbours.

It all comes down to the mill rate.

I am very torn by these developments. A dozen plus years ago someone close to me had ALS, a horribly vile disease that to this day is a death sentence upon diagnosis. Think of a judge saying to you "you will serve two years of daily punishment each day worse than the previous after which you will die". Medical care is capable of sustaining life well beyond the capabilities of the body by itself.

On the other hand, this should not be available to someone who has "hearing loss" and is possibly not in a position to make good decisions.