KC8ZKF

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   by KC8ZKF 17y ago

   Then I think he meant " any human language", which makes more sense than "any human language."
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   by KC8ZKF 17y ago

   I suspect "human language" has a very specific meaning among linguists.
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   Dulce et Decorum Est(warpoetry.co.uk)

   20 points by KC8ZKF 17y ago|14 comments
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   by KC8ZKF 17y ago

   At this stage, if you are dependent on Google Wave, you aren't angry, you're mad.
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   by KC8ZKF 17y ago

   "Sticky Fingers", though, was not a "hits" album. (It was also two years after this letter, but I think that is a reasonable amount of time.)
6. 576.▲
   by KC8ZKF 17y ago

   What album was this?
7. 577.▲
   by KC8ZKF 17y ago

   So you ask the people who are most likely to give you the answer you want to hear.
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   by KC8ZKF 17y ago

   I first read it years ago, 1979 or 1980. It was the first time I ever thought about how math related to music, art and nature. I had never heard of recursion or self-reference, never programmed a machine to do anything, never thought abo
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   by KC8ZKF 17y ago

   _Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid_ --Douglas Hofstadter _Moby-Dick_ --Herman Melville
10. 580.▲
    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    According to Master Lock, they have quit putting the serial number on the lock body. http://www.masterlock.com/faq/lostcombo.shtml
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    How are strong opinions outside of Brian Eno's domain?
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    'ps ax | grep [m]ysqld' (The regex '[f]oo' will match 'foo' but not itself.)
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    Old Intel Mac Mini. PPC Macs won't work.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    Those certain adjustments are "paying the devil." The "devil" being the gap between the main deck and the hull; "paying" being filling with pitch. When you are doing that, you are hanging over the side, "between the devil and the deep
15. 585.▲
    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    I understand the pun. It still breaks the analogy.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    It breaks the analogy, though. When you have the devil to pay, adjusting your sails won't do any good. Pirates or not.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    Command Line or GUI is a false dichotomy. For example, both of you cite Emacs as a command line tool, but I haven't used Emacs in a terminal for years . The Emacs I use today is a Cocoa application with pull down menus, drag and drop, et
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    "Metaklett can support maximum weight when pulled on in the plane of the strips, and a square metre can hold a perpendicular load of 7 tonnes, says Mair." So you only need a 7.1 tonne weight.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    The book is mentioned outright in paragraph seven. The news to me is that Dr. Grove is teaching at Stanford Business School, and his views on the government bailout of the automobile industry.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    Marine batteries are deep-cycle batteries, and are good batteries for this use.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    A Bun drip coffee maker takes three minutes to brew a pot of coffee. Pour this pot into a thermal carafe, and you are set for the morning.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    What do you mean by "any good?" I know a lot of twenty five year-olds who would be thrilled to achieve a 2000 FIDE rating.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    This is the idea of correspondence chess. In many tournaments, computer aid is allowed for this reason. See the ICCF, which runs many sanctioned web-based chess tournamnets where computer aid is allowed. http://www.iccf-webchess.com/
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    Apple has made an easy to use Unix, in part by making the important decision not to use X .
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    So Linus wants to dump libcrypt in git by rolling his own to speed up the test suite by a "couple of seconds?" Good for Linus-- I guess.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    To any of you who are parents, how fined grained are the parental controls on iPhone? If I want my child to have Project Gutenberg and a dictionary in his pocket, do I then allow him to install any NC-17 application?
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    HHOS, as we used to say. http://catb.org/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    I disagree that Michael Collins is forgotten.
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    by KC8ZKF 17y ago

    Don't all computer games give an illusion of accomplishment? Isn't it just a matter of degree?
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    Amazon deletes purchased copies of 1984 from Kindle(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)

    320 points by KC8ZKF 17y ago|141 comments