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by JdeBP 3y ago
The irony is that you would have found the original proposition of the hypothesis, by Theodore Andrea Cook in 1903, to be exactly the same thing . Cook presented zero evidence, clearly was originating the hypothesis, and made it up from w
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by JdeBP 3y ago
How much evidence do you have that "storming the castles" was how sieges ended at all ? Errol Flynn movies are not reality. To quote James Wright, who is an archaeologist: > we know a fair bit about how sieges were ended, and
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by JdeBP 3y ago
A few points. Theodore Andrea Cook wasn't a historian. Xe was a writer for the Daily Telegraph, amongst other things, who wrote about sports such as fencing and rowing; and who was also an art critic. Theodore Andrea Cook wasn't
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Theodore Andrea Cook did, writing _Spirals in Nature and Art_ in 1903 and _The Curves of Life_ in 1914. Unfortunately, we are here fighting the fallout 120 years later, as xe is the source of this very myth.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
It's amusing that the Hacker News reaction so far is to advance alternative hypotheses as to why helical staircases have a predominant chirality, without first establishing, as one should do if one were rigorous, that there is a need f
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by JdeBP 3y ago
You are erroneously assuming that the update was for reasons visible to end users like you. I am sure that Hacker News commenters are a vast mine of "Well, one day we were updating to the new machine to finally get rid of the one with
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Jamie Zawinski is another; whose WWW site, if redirected from Hacker News, returned an obscene image at one point.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
As I have pointed out elsewhere, that's a question comment , not an answer. And this very discussion here exemplifies the problem with people wrongly using comments for answers. Most of the objections raised here to that question co
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by JdeBP 3y ago
In part that's because it's not an answer. Answers have an obvious "Share" hyperlink below them. That, there, in contrast is a question comment .
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by JdeBP 3y ago
I think that seven different answers there and at least that many, also all different, posted here indicates that there isn't in fact a demonstrably correct answer explaining why the global market did what it did. Of course, any econom
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by JdeBP 3y ago
An argument regularly put forward by Ashley Neale (YouTuber and driving instructor, and erstwhile soccer player) in the U.K.. Not being found at fault isn't the only factor.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Wall Street Journal SF Chronicle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37748405 Wall Street Journal again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37755851 SF Chronicle again: https://news.ycombinat
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Ironically, much of the things that people are learning and experiencing with the FediVerse have straightforward precursors from FidoNet, such as: the idea of supporting one's local sysop; or the idea that not everyone uses the same of
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Some very lengthy pages on the subject of keyboards, no mention of ISO/IEC 9995-1 anywhere, nor any mention of "104-key", "105-key", "109-key" et al. in favour of some very confusing and idiosyncratic &quo
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by JdeBP 3y ago
I find this amusingly coincidental the same week that I have been fighting with Microsoft Windows Defender suddenly flagging all installers made by Caphyon's Advanced Installer as trojans.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
That is probably because it is a Newsquest Media publication, rather than a Reach PLC publication. Reach PLC journalism is sometimes laughably bad, sometimes lamentably. Some Newsquest Media titles are running the rather longer piece from
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by JdeBP 3y ago
From a shop? From a parent? Or from an employer? When it comes to employers, City and Guilds NPTC and Lantra chainsaw courses are only offered to people at the Minimum School Leaving Age and above. Since employers are not permitted under
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Carving your name in a protected tree is an act of vandalism too, note.
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Lighthouses of the United Kingdom(fosstodon.org)
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by JdeBP 3y ago
The lighthouses on the lochs and rivers are fairly self-explanatory. But if you want to know what that 1 lighthouse is doing in the North-East of Worcestershire some 120km from the nearest coastline, the answer is in the thread (q.v.). (-
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by JdeBP 3y ago
I'm fairly confident that MaraDNS, first written in 2001 and still around today, counts as well established. It's a decade older than Knot DNS.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
It's eduction's choice of metric, not mine, and by that "multithreaded, preemptive multitasking OS" metric, OS/2 1.0 qualifies. eduction didn't say anything about graphics. Presentation Manager was available
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by JdeBP 3y ago
This article is just begging for footnotes. > To aid in internationalization, Unicode was used top to bottom, greatly enhancing internationalization. And we all know the story of how Unicode then went from 16-bit to 32-bit, rather spoili
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Actually, it isn't. I've implemented an IRQ level like system on Intel Architecture, and the operating system concept really doesn't match the processor's and interrupt controller's architectures very well at all u
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Only if one forgets XENIX. And yes, this is pride, not necessarily success.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
It's a good starting point, but deep it is not, certainly compared to other books such as (for three examples) Nagar's book on the filesystem architecture, or the Baker and Oney books on device drivers.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
Fifteen, if that's your metric. OS/2 1.0, which was preëmptively multitasking and multithreaded and had the Family API, came out in 1987. And XENIX was even earlier, although it wasn't multithreaded.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
There are actually 2 Arch doases, note, one in the AUR and one in core. One is OpenDOAS, the other Smith doas.
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by JdeBP 3y ago
OpenDOAS has actually had the OpenBSD-specific code removed ( https://github.com/Duncaen/OpenDoas/commit/74449f015ff7a7230... ), and replaces some of the doas mechanisms that rely upon OpenBSD to work with sudo
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by JdeBP 3y ago
This story is mixing up the situations of 1987 with OS/2 1.x and of 1995 with DOS+Windows 95. By the time of the latter, OS/2 1.x was long past. 32-bit OS/2 used v8086 to run multiple Virtual DOS Machines and had DPMI suppo

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