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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Archive link https://archive.ph/GDkyg
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
And why was this flagged? It is real news about technology.
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Sounds like the story has confirmation thru several sources.
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Not to be confused with Thinking Machines Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporation "Thinking Machines Corporation was a supercomputer manufacturer and artificial intelligence (AI) co
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Stealing is still illegal
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
The book "Angle of Attack: Harrison Storms and the Race to the Moon" by Mike Gray, was published in 1992 to 1994, so it is available at low cost at AbeBooks. https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?cm_s
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
"Rexx is arguably the first general-purpose scripting language." "Arguably" sounds mean; who wants to argue?!?! I would say there are compelling uses. Being a "first general purpose" one? Large claim that is up
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Plot point for evil person disaster movie: large masses are staged above super long vertical tunnels. The masses are released at the same time and increase the Earth's rotation speed to cause something bad to happen. ;)
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Reminds me of "Eats, shoots, and leaves" Or is it "Eats shoots and leaves"? ;) Book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eat
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
While a home may not be a good monetary investment, it is a good investment for social and family stability=> have a place to go home to, store your stuff, have a family hangout space, all with predictable monthly payments is great to ha
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
"The only catch is the Stargate in Ashland County doesn't exactly work − like the ones on television." lol - the ones on TV actually work ;)
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
The small AWK book "The AWK Programming Language" was a great resource on many things :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_AWK_Programming_Language
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
On Wikipedia "List of stories featuring nuclear pulse propulsion" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stories_featuring_nucl...
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Wooden spaceships has been part of some science fiction stories. https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/250692/disgusting-...
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Beavis and Butt-head high-fiving and snickering for weeks on this headline ;)
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Vending machines are not passive! They need repair, management of the money, if they sell goods then they need restocking (and that restock needs to be purchased), and you have to negotiate for location location location. And if coins are i
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
https://archive.ph/m9QoN Article archive link
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
I took M490 “Problem Seminar” (a math class) in 1995 with Dr. Hofstadter - we studied triangles, and the definition of a triangle’s center. You would think that there is a limited set of “triangle centers” but he showed us (and he had us di
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
There are other things still not available, like this! “Lisp lore : a guide to programming the Lisp machine” https://archive.org/details/lisploreguidetop0000brom I discover this reference and boom the Internet Archive
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
This video shows such an expansion, increasing passengers from 212 to 312 https://youtu.be/OTpVxCOjmPY?si=FK5qR-Tvf027WZKM
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
"Some of the scariest viruses of the 20th/21st century emerged in large-scale farming operations (1918 influenza, SARS-CoV-1, most likely SARS-CoV-2). It seems like these farms are massive accidents waiting to happen." What s
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
In the mean time Intuit raised the prices of QuickBooks desktop "subscription" about $100 :( to $694.43 (yes, to the penny).
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
Survey says: Sell threads.com to Meta
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by TruffleLabs 2y ago
“Many do not consider Object Oriented Programming good” Is there data to support this statement? The video is mainly an opinion focused presentation, there was no research provided to support the statement above.
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
"However, human trials are yet to be completed, which could take about five years. The tablet is awaiting approval from the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) and is expected to be available in the market by June-July
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
"We’re building the National Zoning Atlas to unlock zoning’s black box by centralizing, standardizing, and making accessible information about zoning. We believe if people understand zoning, they will be empowered to improve it."
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We're Building a National Zoning Atlas(zoningatlas.org)
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
Call/cc !
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
This is a great book; easy to read / understand :)
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by TruffleLabs 3y ago
But HN still works good enough:)

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