SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> I've never been to Naples, but I have been to Rome, and to my tastebuds, even US-cooked Neapolitan pizza is better than Roman pizza. I think Dar Poeta is excellent, though it's halfway between Roman and Neapolitan. And Roman
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> "When the Big Bang Was Just a Theory" Pretty sure the Big Bang is still "just a theory". I think the headline should have said "When the Big Bang Was Just a Hypothesis". Bad NYT.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Didn't work that way. See: http://www.shawcomputing.net/resources/next/software/bundled...
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
No, gray rendered as gray.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Nope, can't find any color screenshots earlier than 1993. But WorldWideWeb.app would have run just fine on the NextStation Color, and NeXT machines elegantly provided a path to color from the very beginning, even when in monochrome.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
In 1990 NeXT released the NeXTstation Color. There are screenshots online of WorldWideWeb.app running on the NextStation Color, and the hyperlinks are all blue. It's true that Tim Berners-Lee wrote WorldWideWeb.app on monochrome NeX
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
What an oddly biased list for something purporting to be "the best pizzerias in the world". :-( A zillion NY pizzerias, but only a handful from Naples and not a *single* non-Naples Italian place, much less anything in Europe exc
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Stockholm has over four times the density of Phoenix.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
The Github terms do not indicate that the license is transferable. Github can display the code, but even if someone downloads from Github, they still can't use it.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Pompeii's public area is riddled with thermopoli ("fast food joints"), some of which are in quite good condition. The difference is that this one is in fantastic condition, which is wonderful: but it's far from unique.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I can literally -- and I mean that word in the proper usage -- think of nothing in the N900 (or earlier models) that changed the world in any way. And I still own, and occasionally use, my N800. Prior to the iPhone the acme of portable t
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
I still remember from the late 1970s eating sopaipillas as a kid and then going around to the little grottos where you could get little toys from people in costume (like witches etc). It's burned in my memory. Amazingly, I've ne
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Did you read somewhere that Facebook didn't have the right to do this? There's a difference between legality and ethics.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Actually the first use of the term "killer application" (not even "killer app" yet) in print was 1988, in PC Week. See Wikipedia. NeXT's first computers were 1987. "App" however dates from at least 1981.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> Notice the .app extension? Did you ever wonder why programs are called apps now? Programs were called apps long before NeXTSTEP existed.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
By the same author.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Computer Modern is largely a copy of Monotype Modern, which dates from 1896. Monotype Modern was, I assure you, not designed by a mathematician nor was designed for use in printing math books. However many math books had lately been print
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Or countermeasure going haywire. At any rate, not cicadas.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Now the "cicadas" and neurological damage are occurring near the White House. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/us-investigating-peculiar-at... https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/29
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
\usepackage{mathpazo} is pretty nice. Palatino plus good math fonts. The problems with CM are twofold. First, it's an inconsistent and amateur remake of Modern, especially italics. The bowls and straight lines are different angles a
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
> The default LaTeX font is stunningly beautiful! You may be alone in that. I think the general consensus is that Computer Modern is pretty horrible.
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I figured it did.
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First question: > 1. Masha was seven kopecks short to buy a first reading book, and Misha lacked one kopeck. They combined their money to buy one book to share, but even then they did not have enough. How much did the book cost? My goodn
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
>> We badly need legislation to force the IRS to send every taxpayer a bill which they can pay. > The truth is the IRS bill would be wrong and the IRS would have countless challenges and no practical ability to review any in-house
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
* Anything that is copyrightable cannot be patentable. That should be obvious. "inventors" must be forced to choose one protection That's the case today. Algorithms can be patented. Computer code can be copyrighted. These
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
Pretty sure the Jeeps are named after the Rubicon Trail in California. Why it's called that, I have no idea.
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
If I might insert an almost entirely unrelated tidbit. In 49 BC Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, trespassing the legal limit on his ruling territory, and marking in some sense the start of his conquest of the known world. Hence the term
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by SeanLuke 5y ago
It appears that Wikidata semantic network statements are untyped and binary rather than n-ary. Ugh. Amazingly, the above URL has a picture which shows exactly why this is such a stupid approach. The location of San Francisco(Q62) is
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Just because everyone's seeing the same pattern in random data doesn't mean there's a pattern at all. For very good evolutionary reasons, humans are extraordinarily good pattern-recognition machines: we see ghosts in data wh
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> It’s a US thing I believe It is a great many countries.

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