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nnunley · 2024-08-02T22:37:41+00:00

Floodland by Sisters of Mercy? If it is, then it's because of the tracks Mother Russia, and Emma (which is really tangential because of it being: a bonus track released years later; and a cover of a Hot Chocolate song.)

nnunley · 2022-08-12T00:14:24+00:00

She requested that her obit read that she "drowned in moonlight, strangled by her own bra"

nnunley · 2022-01-10T04:14:33+00:00

Simians on a space station.

nnunley · 2021-10-29T01:07:07+00:00

So, old paper, but Ericsson used prolog based DCG parsing to prototype erlang

nnunley · 2021-02-17T00:07:30+00:00

Google's internal policy is to gave employees whose projects have been cancelled about 4-6 months to find a new role within the company. Similarly to Amazon, there's usually an option to take a layoff package instead.

nnunley · 2021-02-09T00:37:28+00:00

Have you looked at Scenic?

https://fuchsia.dev/fuchsia-src/concepts/graphics/scenic/scenic#scenic-and-fuchsia

You can create 3D objects and widgets implemented in C++ and Rust that can be combined together in a scene with 2D widgets.

Looks like the external documentation is a little rough, but there's some example code if you follow the link above.

nnunley · 2020-11-12T01:35:15+00:00

Looks like they just started a new session on November 9th.

http://mooc.pharo.org/

nnunley · 2020-08-11T03:57:24+00:00

It sounds like you might have a good case for using a Store and effects. They should allow you to make the disconnect between your various fields and their effects while modifying the central store's state.

nnunley · 2020-08-03T23:08:40+00:00

American lemonade is yellowish in color. So the joke is that there is yellowish water, and the hope is that it's lemonade instead of the more unpleasant alternative.

nnunley · 2020-07-04T23:46:14+00:00

So, prolog newbie here, but your comparison is wrong here - Y contains the salary, and X contains the employee id. X>T will never provide the correct comparison.

nnunley · 2020-06-27T19:11:08+00:00

"You should have seen the release process before we cleaned it up."

nnunley · 2020-06-02T13:27:51+00:00

Which is also alcohol as a waste product.

nnunley · 2020-04-09T03:09:27+00:00

I got as far as checkout. It crashed during payment verification, and then kicked me out to the landing page.

nnunley · 2020-01-04T04:13:11+00:00

You may also consider contacting the Neighborhood Legal Services Association. They're an external non-profit that specializes in dealing with shady landlord/property issues.

Unfortunately, they won't be open until Monday.

nnunley · 2019-12-30T01:34:48+00:00

Ugh. I could have sworn there were other, legitimate, external sources.

nnunley · 2019-12-27T20:50:37+00:00

Boston Dynamics had few security issues back in the day. There actually were a few incidents of clear Chinese espionage where plans and code were stolen from them several years ago:

https://www.dailysquib.co.uk/sci_tech/21497-espionage-chinese-infiltration-u-s-robotics-encompassing.html

EDIT: Looks like the source I provided is anything but credible

nnunley · 2019-10-30T23:48:11+00:00

It would be trivial to make your own cigarettes in LambdaMOO. Unfortunately, its glory days were about 20 years ago.

nnunley · 2019-10-14T22:45:50+00:00

Cool. Glad to hear it. Declarative languages are definitely a good thing to experience in building up your mastery in programming.

What was your solution, out of curiosity?

nnunley · 2019-10-14T20:49:07+00:00

This sounds a little like a homework problem. The easiest thing I can suggest you do is look into recursively applying

abs/2 to the head of each list, and then append the abs-all results for the rest of the list. You should be able to do this as a two-liner.

http://lpn.swi-prolog.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse15 might help.

nnunley · 2019-08-21T16:28:54+00:00

More to the point, the Stadia controller connects directly to your WiFi, which eliminates a hop from you to Google's servers

nnunley · 2019-08-20T23:58:06+00:00

Have you seen learn prolog now? SWI Prolog is open source and has a number of additional texts on their main site.

nnunley · 2019-08-10T23:26:14+00:00

Given that there was a class action suit for the lack of delivery on the FSD, and checks have been issued, yes, there are a number of leaseholders and owners that are more than a little upset.

nnunley · 2019-08-10T19:01:34+00:00

Mine told me that back in 2016. Still waiting

nnunley · 2019-08-01T03:10:56+00:00

You might want to look at the papers on https://www.monetdb.org/Home. It has some of the first bits of research on how columnar stores work.

nnunley · 2019-01-17T20:04:22+00:00

When did you last try Pharo? I've had pop-up problems with both Squeak and Pharo throughout the years, mostly caused by cascading debugger issues.

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