SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 4y ago
It seems that the author doesn't realize that the number of preference panes varies.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
In fact, I think I had alt.2600 and alt.hackers mixed up.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This is a strangely rose-tinted view of Usenet. Usenet was a mess well before Eternal September. You can't talk about Usenet without talking about alt.* After alt.* was inagurated, the very first group was (IIRC) alt.swedish.chef.bor
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This isn't correct. GoodRx makes money by partnering with Pharmacy Benefits Managers. It's taking advantage of a loophole in the US's extraordinarily convoluted drug pricing system.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
The FAQ question I was hoping to see, but did not, was "How is this different from GoodRX?"
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This is all true. Paywalls are a reasonable method to pay content makers and there is nothing wrong with them per se. What I find offensive is paywalls which lower themselves selectively in order to SEO Google and Bing. That is, they&#x27
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=http://washingtonpost.com Fails. :-(
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Well, to be fair had a 32-bit instruction set and registers, but 24- and 16-bit internal buses. I'd call it 32-bit though.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> Back in the 1980's, Commodore released the famous Commodore 64 (8 bit computer), and then followed it up with the Commodore 128, and Amiga (16 bit computers). ??? Pretty sure the 128 was an 8-bit computer.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
If I may: Dave Smith did not popularize the polyphonic analog synthesizer. That was Tom Oberheim, with his 4-voice and 8-voice SEM module systems (and there were earlier examples than that using voice division). What Dave Smith did with
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
An excellent suggestion, particularly a Round Nixie Watch from Cathode Corner, which has famous adherents including Woz. Also, how about a One Wheel?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Of course it is a bad thing. Framework is not a nonprofit. They spent blood and tears developing the designs, and needs to at least recoup the cost spent, if not make a profit.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Fun fact. In addition to being the chief proponent behind genetic programming, John had the patent on lottery scratch-off tickets.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Thank you. Wait, which one?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Around 1998 I built an open source application on the Newton called Hemlock which loaded, parsed, and used Sherlock search templates to grab data from internet sites just like Sherlock did. Sherlock can either search from the internet or c
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I built a lot of fun stuff for the Newton. I built a Sherlock clone for the Newton (which 15 years later landed me in the middle of the Apple vs. Samsung patent lawsuit). I also wrote the Java virtual machine available for the Newton. It
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Wait, he made 84 startup sounds? Are the others available?
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Which is...
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Hint: when Graham and Morris developed Viaweb, there were no such things as templates and plugins . This isn't to say your site isn't cool; and an all-in-one approach is maybe a good idea in 2022. But claiming it's a "
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
> No. We follow a fresh approach; no plugins and no template install are needed. All you require are pre-integrated in Selldone, such as Stripe for Payment, Shippo for Shipping, and many more features exclusively by Selldone. We have pro
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
That is not the problem. Just because an agency is funded by fees does not mean that it has perverse incentives nor corruption (though it can be the case). After all, the FDA has to assess all of Pfizer's drug applications -- do you
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Yes.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
In what universe would getting vaccinated be getting conned? It's the smartest thing you could have done. AFAIK covid vaccines are not connected with heart issues beyond rather rare and generally mild cases of myocarditis, but getti
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Lisp uses the first definition. And it's as dynamic as they come. Java also uses the first definition. I suspect a more proper description would be: #1 is the correct definition, formally used for 80 years now. #2 is incorrect , a
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I don't want to be that guy, but why in the world are f-strings (formatted string literals) called literals ? They are clearly dynamically calculated expressions.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
True story. I live in the US. A [famous] colleague of mine was invited to give a lecture at a major German university in front of a professor's class. At the end of his lecture, the professor picked a random student out of the class
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
I think we're talking past each other. Clearly in Clojure nil and false are different as NULL and false are different in Java. But in Clojure, they're both falsey, a really stupid design decision: but in Java they are NOT bot
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
Clojure sits on the JVM. Why can't false be false and nil be NULL? I know of no other JVM-based lisp system which makes this "tradeoff". Indeed Kawa, which is rather faster than Clojure in my experience, does not.
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
This is a baloney C-biased question. The real question is why nil is falsey (ALONG with false ) in Clojure. To my mind this is an incredibly boneheaded mistake in a modern language. Common Lisp can be excused as it is old and has an e
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by SeanLuke 4y ago
What does "worst CPU" mean? I think that it means, regardless of market success, the CPU that most hindered, indeed retarded, progress in CPU engineering history. In this regard, #1 and #2 are clearly the 8088 and 80286 respecti

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