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by 505 10y ago
The title made me think of Eric S Raymond. Don't miss the mention in the article.
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by 505 10y ago
Not sure whether you're asking whether DSP is still relevant (I think it is) or a textbook published in the 80s would be relevant. I imagine such a book might talk a lot about the hardware and software available at the time.
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by 505 10y ago
At some point before 1985, an algorithm was found that could solve it in 21 "twists". (Just checked in my old copy of Hofstadter's Metamagical Themas. )
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The geometry of a perfect parallel park(twitter.com)
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CSIRO covered up sexual harassment and bullying at astronomy dept – top scientists(abc.net.au)
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Science Fiction Monthly, 1974-1976(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 505 10y ago
I sometimes think we should find a way to apply Asimov's three laws to business entities. Then, when some company's property achieves 'dangerous' AI, everything might come out in the wash. Most companies are controlled
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by 505 10y ago
I don't know anything about UptimeTrack. Can they be trusted with information about my servers? I know it is a small amount of information, but it is non-zero.
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by 505 10y ago
An article well worth revisiting, but should we have (1993) on the title?
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by 505 10y ago
Probably just a typing error in your otherwise fine post, but the Morris worm was 1988.
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by 505 10y ago
And 'driving it around' is not as simple as it might sound, due to the time taken for commands to travel 4 light-minutes (minimum, and almost always a lot more). Feedback similarly.
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by 505 10y ago
Can't perceptions of prestige help actors make market choices?
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by 505 10y ago
Are the docks compatible with Soyuz?
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State loses power as massive storm hits(abc.net.au)
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The Last Deadloss Visions (1987?)(web.archive.org)
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by 505 10y ago
Maybe I'm an idiot, but I'm struggling to understand "ImpBridge". An impedance bridge of some kind? Contract bridge scoring? I think Taleb's article could have benefited from some better editing. I haven't r
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by 505 10y ago
"caring about their products has nothing to with money. It just shows that they really care." I almost completely agree. But IMHO "really care" includes Apple organising its business so that really caring ends up making
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by 505 10y ago
I am open to new opportunities. If I get a request from someone with a lot of connections, my heuristic is I don't add the someone to my network. I don't think a single person with lots of connections is actually helpful to the
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by 505 10y ago
Worked on my machine with 10.11.6.
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by 505 10y ago
Perhaps Incandescence, though it's less about mathematics and more about a society working out the physics of its environment. His website has more maths on it than I recall being in the novels.
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by 505 10y ago
Perhaps he's saying vi users should be using ed, and emacsers TECO. Or maybe just magnetised needles.
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by 505 10y ago
Perhaps classic McIlroy: calling Emacs and vi "baroque efflorescences totally out of harmony with the spirit of Unix"
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by 505 10y ago
Since philosophy was your favourite, you might enjoy the novels of Greg Egan. As far as I can tell, he puts good mathematics in his stories.
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Infosphere Macserve
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by 505 10y ago
I first encountered this word reading Frank Herbert's Dune, so it was a bit odd when I encountered it in other literature. Later I realised one of the great things about Herbert's SF - he uses many real-world cultures as sources
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G5 Clock(applebits.net)
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by 505 11y ago
Yes. I might suggest you give one of the tutorials a try. He as several, depending on which tools you're more comfortable with. Creating a small project seemed to be quite a bit of work, and I think Peter realised this and put effort
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by 505 11y ago
My child has an instance on another computer, and reports getting a plant.
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by 505 11y ago
I waited, and seemed to get a bird bath (in silhouette).
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by 505 11y ago
The pen-portrait of the nested computers was fine. I looked around a bit for a photo or a movie, but to no avail. I guess that's not the kind of news that the NYT likes to report. But I'm not a paying subscriber, so I guess I c

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