SeanLuke

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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I own a Nokia N800, the immediate predecessor (and extremely similar to) the N900. And I can tell you exactly why it failed. Because the interface was really terrible. It was so bad I even made an article about it here: https:/&#x
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
This is a bizarre argument. Are you seriously saying that by not forcing universities to pay a for-profit European publishing conglomerate, the US is disincentivizing research? Countries don't fund research because of what shows up
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
This is from 2014.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Hmmm, I seem to recall the //e being released much later in 1983. But yeah, maybe they were co-released.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Actually, the Mac's keys are derived from the Lisa , whose release well predates the Apple IIe (the first II with the apple keys). Except for the numeric keypad, the Lisa keyboard differed from the Mac only in that the Lisa used an A
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> They add a key to the keyboard, an Alt or Meta equivalent called "Command". OK, awesome. Apple added three keys on the original Mac keyboard. The Command key, the Option key (which is used, more or less, as a second Shift
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Why are we making DST permanent rather than making the standard time permanent?
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I'll bet you also say that to your parents, Ayn Rand and God. The serial comma is meant to remove ambiguity. This passage is not just ambiguous, it's most obvious parse is completely wrong. I think it's a great example of
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
A little bit. But it's hard to explain just how advanced Improv was (and still is).
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> Excel, and more importantly, the spreadsheet is the best way to build intuition for a dataset, hands down. Excel is a low-dimensional, untyped, flat database. I couldn't think of something worse. It has been successful only beca
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
I've found editing, not writing, to have gone right down the drain in modern newspapers. It's clear many stories are poorly edited if at all. I don't want to be That Guy, but I've also noted a huge increase in terribl
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"You need to enable JavaScript to view this site." Very bad.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
In 1996-1997 I ran Java 1.0 or 1.1 on Solaris, MacOS 9, and Windows. I developed for, and on, all three. It was available on a number of other Unix implementations, including Linux and DEC. In addition to HotJava, Java applets ran on Net
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
Do you have any evidence for this? As an early university adopter, I sure would have liked to know how to get in on that sweet Java bribe money.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
The fundamental is harmonic #1. This is the case for essentially all additive synthesizers for example. Overtones are any partials other than the fundamental. While overtones CAN be non-harmonic (notably in bells), I think it's fair
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
All sound waves can be defined as the sum of a (possibly infinite) set of different sine waves. Each such sine wave naturally has a frequency (a pitch), an amplitude, and a phase. If you break a wave into its constituent sine waves like t
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> Show me a better multi-purpose input device that I can use to rotate objects on a screen. Or zoom into a specific object without affecting other objects on a screen. I agree with you in general, but a trackpad is in fact really, truly
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Because Dulles had already been built prior to the need to redesign to provide the single point security design. I think there was no realistic way to add it after the fact and still retain the lounges attaching directly to the massive i
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
This article mentions Dulles Airport's "mobile lounges", but doesn't explain their extraordinary history, which has absolutely nothing to do with the issues discussed in the article itself. [Dulles has no train connectio
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Bagless is also an excellent way to shorten the life of the motor and fan subsystem.
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Miele. They last forever and are much cleaner, lighter, and more powerful than equivalent Dysons.
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Miele. Every Miele I've found is superior, hands down, to its Dyson equivalent.
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
The nonsensical Dyson canister vacuums are the ones that amaze me. Dyson competes based on premium coolness, so just consider at its primary coolness competitor: Miele. Across the board, Miele canisters are lighter, more powerful, cleaner
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by SeanLuke 6y ago
> "Associate Prof. X" is not a title I should clarify that: by "title" here I mean "a thing people are called", as in "hey, Associate Prof. X, what's up?". As opposed to an "official&quo
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> I wonder if over time, Golang will pick up more type features like Java and other languages have. I hope it doesn't pick them up like Java did. When Java was considering generics, there were two major proposals out there. Sun
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My experience is entirely different from yours. "Associate Prof. X" is not a title. It'd be "Prof. X". In every context outside the university where a full professor would be called "Prof. Johnson", so
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> It's possible some students might call them professors, but it's not the proper term. Some students? All students. The usage of "professor" in the US is much like the usage of "lisp" in programming. Ther
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I'd be interested in the history of how people in the medical profession came to misappropriate the term Doctor (which IIRC referred only to a PhD).
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In Europe, yes. Not in the United States. There are many professors who do not have a PhD or even necessarily a terminal degree.
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This is nonsense. Google cannot simply provide a fake or broken button and get away with it. If Google is required to provide a mechanism for reporting DMCA violations in a timely manner, and they do not, they're going to found liabl

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