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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Unix on DEC hardware originally predates even the Intel 4004, so of course they used the DEC standard. Also, GNU as assembler has switches to allow Intel syntax if that's what is desired.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Not exactly Python bindings but there is a package called Xlwings that provides a Python<->Excel interface. Somewhat clunky and slow but it does work.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
The online article's title is a bit less click bait than the transcription here on HN, but it's still misleading. "I followed my dreams, left management, and love being a coder again" might be more on target. Demotion ha
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Don't leave me out - Benjamin Franklin
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Or switch to Firefox, which haS an address bar and a separate search-only box.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
First they take your money, more like.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
California just as bad. 1.4 million (same number of people) cut off on January 1 because needed to prove their identity. California agency backing off on this, probably because of intense human cost of that many. In other places these thing
608.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Down to 185 in after hours trading (6:16 EST). From a 225 close at end of US trading hours.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Big difference between race tracks, which are entertainment, and farming, which is where our food comes from.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
This is true, but in the nature of farming areas today. Moving there and it's what you will face.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
In Bay Area, every time approaches to our three busy airports are changed there is a lot of bellyaching, mostly from rich areas like Saratoga and Woodside. Usually summarized by "Why don't you fly over those places were poor peop
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Common in farming areas near cities in USA. People move to be close to nature but the farmers are out spreading manure at 5:30 AM and trucks are going up and down the "quiet country lane" all day.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Remember, if you pay median, 1/2 the engineers are making more at other companies.
614.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
More in the scientific world, more in Britain than in the USA.
615.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Hey, you get free string cheese, what more do you want?
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
2020 - 1968 = 52 years (counterculture in full speed by then) 1968 - 52 = 1916 (who knows what was going on then, except WWI but a lot different than 1968) So stuck is an understatement
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Not quite remembering last day, but I usually write out a list of what to do the next day. The effect is similar. An old writer's trick: stop in the middle of a paragraph, or even a sentence. That way, there is something to do at t
618.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Nothing magic there. It's a full programming language. Especially if output is in a text based image format like PPM. Since I don't know COBOL at all, I'm not the one to do that.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
+1 on Patio11
620.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
The Internet has helped a lot by reducing the cost of reaching the public. I think it was Patio11 who said "Now you can download your steam engine for free and rent a factory for $10/month".
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Watch two or three e.g. flying saucer videos, then it's saucers recommended for the next three months.
622.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Per the article they didn't even sign away, the .nu domain was just given to somebody.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
Along the same lines, for a time the Cameroonian TLD ".cm" was used where any mistyping of the TLD, like "ycombinator.cm" would go to a link farm. Somebody paid some money to the local domain authority for that to happen
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
And the British base is essentially a wrapper around a US Air Force Base. Main island and site of the USAF base is Diego Garcia, sometimes used to refer to the BIOT as a whole.
625.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Dice - for not too many bits, and a low data rate. Hardware or /dev/urandom (or Windows equivalent) and downstream library calls - many bits, high data rate
626.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
Multi-colored so your own biases don't affect the order you read the dice in. E.g., and I'm just guessing, some people might notice the higher numbers first and read those out.
627.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
> prudent USPS has a pension funding burden that no other entity in the USA operates under. Without that they would be doing just fine.
628.
by JJMcJ 6y ago
How many are really leaving? A few thousand departures can result in a flood of rentals on the market, depressing prices. Many articles on many subjects began with the writer observing a few people doing something and turn it into trend sp
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
It wasn't. There is more to life than currency speculation. Basically everything doubled in price in 1973/1974, and again in 1979/1980.
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by JJMcJ 6y ago
> oil crisis If the basic stuff that runs the world (energy and chemical feed stock) doubles in price two separate times in the space of 7 years, you just might expect tough times. Interest rates lower than inflation, gold and silver not

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