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by DerekL 2y ago
The title is misspelled, should be “AM”, not “Am”.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Title is misspelled, it's “no one” in the article.
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by DerekL 2y ago
And the TRS-80 before that.
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by DerekL 2y ago
> their wives called them too often for annoying requests, like stopping to get milk on the way home. Wouldn't it be more annoying to get home, and then have to go out again to get the milk? What they probably meant was that they di
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by DerekL 2y ago
In the 1970's and '80's, Pascal actually was commonly used for real work.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Actual title of the article is “Ship that caused bridge collapse had apparent electrical issues while still docked, AP source says”.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Mostly, NPR isn't publicly funded. It gets about 1% of its funding from the federal government. Public radio stations that carry NPR shows get more, but it's only about 17% from federal, state, and local governments. Some of them
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by DerekL 2y ago
Many computers in the late 1980's came with hard disks, but the cheapest ones did not.
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by DerekL 2y ago
Yes, but where are they going to get more blank disks? No one makes them anymore, they'll have to search for new old stock.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Showing the hair in an identification photo isn't that useful anyway, because one's hairstyle can be easily changed.
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by DerekL 3y ago
You don't even have to repeat the diagonal argument. There's a one-to-one correspondence between subsets of the natural numbers and sequences of elements from {0,1}. The i-th element is 1 if i is in the set, otherwise it's ze
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by DerekL 3y ago
This is sometimes required to break dependency cycles. Also, you can use this to rearrange declarations in the same file.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Title is misspelled, should be “doesn't”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
I'm in the US. Since 2000, I've only had my card used in an imprinter once. (And I'm not sure if it ever happened in the 1990's either.) I remember who did it, it was the Days Inn on the north side of Disneyland.
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by DerekL 3y ago
> This post originally appeared in 2011. Title needs (2011).
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by DerekL 3y ago
No, you shouldn't run most things on the main thread. Don't access files, and don't do lengthy calculations.
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by DerekL 3y ago
No, it's one field per 1/60 seconds, giving 30 frames per second.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Many, many restaurants have had lunch specials for a long time.
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by DerekL 3y ago
*Monty Hall
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by DerekL 3y ago
Yes, the actual show was mentioned in the article. Also, Let's Make a Deal has been revived and canceled many times, and has been on the air since 2009.
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by DerekL 3y ago
For properties, not for methods.
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by DerekL 3y ago
No, their stock symbol is just “T”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
It looks like the article also sometimes misspells it.
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by DerekL 3y ago
The title is misspelled. The company's name is “AT&T”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
From the sheriff department's report: > Deputy Hernandez said he had two combat rotations to Afghanistan, but noted as an officer, he was not in direct combat. Though maybe something else happened to him in the service.
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by DerekL 3y ago
That's similar to a plot point in the movie Cloud Atlas , where some in the oil industry try to sabotage a nuclear plant.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Title is misspelled, should be “moderation”.
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by DerekL 3y ago
This is false. VHS had the advantage of larger cartridges, which allows longer recording time, which is especially important for time shifting TV shows (and not at all important for porn). Also, JVC licensed VHS to other recorder manufactur
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by DerekL 3y ago
Apple switched to PowerPC a few years before the NeXT acquisition and Steve Jobs' return.
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by DerekL 3y ago
Yes, if Commodore wanted to compete, the Amiga chips needed to keep up with Moore's Law. Every 18 to 24 months, the processing and display power should double or more. In 1988, the Amiga 500 and 2000 should have had something like AGA.

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