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by Zuider 11y ago
You can get PS/2 to USB adaptors which will at least allow you to use a USB keyboard. Probably not functionally the same as a USB port. Can't test this right now, but I wonder whether it would show up as a storage device if one pl
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by Zuider 11y ago
Or perhaps a heating element that would unleash a sulfurous, unfragrant, rotting cabbage stench. The simplest thing that could possibly work.
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by Zuider 11y ago
I am guessing that these are petty crooks trying to cash in on the market for Windows keys. They need something that looks valid, so their victim will pay. The owner of the Windows key will not be harmed apart from the harassment by phone,
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by Zuider 11y ago
I think most people would at least have heard of the Turing test.
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by Zuider 11y ago
Gay like Alan Turing? Don't worry, given Hollywood's penchant for choosing drama over historical verisimilitude, Thomas Edison could be recast as a fading opera diva on whom Tesla had a boyhood crush.
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by Zuider 11y ago
"Bernard Cumbersnatch"? I take it that you are referring to celebrated British actor, Humperdinck Rumblebum? Or was it perhaps, Twiddleplink Cucumberpatch? I can never get these British names quite right.
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by Zuider 11y ago
The large companies that converge on these contests in a feeding frenzy of head-hunting would beg to differ on your assessment of how good a proxy such contests are. Poland has a long tradition of brilliant mathematicians, logicians and che
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by Zuider 11y ago
Related link posted in a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10120648 A web-demo of the Tune.js library which offers a small, but instructive selection of tunings and temperaments which can be controll
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by Zuider 11y ago
Q: What's the definition of a semitone? A: Two fret-less bass guitars playing in unison.
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by Zuider 11y ago
Maybe I should have spelt it out better: > They didn't ban them enough... Google would remove the pirated books, but not the offender's accounts, allowing them to continue selling stolen books. >...then when they banned them
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by Zuider 11y ago
"As bad, when the company acted, he stated, it would often remove pirated e-books but allow e-book pirates to remain on the site." This tolerance of outright, blatant theft stands in striking contrast the draconian approach that G
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by Zuider 11y ago
This is nice. I like how the notes continue to ring, so that they interact with each other. There is a similar application called Scala which has the distinction of being written in Ada. It offers a collection of more than 4500 scales to do
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by Zuider 11y ago
Drakon can describe data too. From the Drakon website: What is ERIL? ERIL is a graphics language for representing data model. It is based on entity-relationship and class diagrams. Thus the name, Entity-Relationship and Inheritance Language
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by Zuider 11y ago
The SETL language is still available. There is an enhanced version written in Java called setlX http://randoom.org/Software/SetlX
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by Zuider 11y ago
The Green Book you mention is available for download on the Google Code page for SPITBOL: https://code.google.com/p/spitbol/downloads/list
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by Zuider 11y ago
From Wikipedia entry on SNOBOL/SPITBOL 'SNOBOL4 stands apart from most programming languages by having patterns as a first-class data type (i.e. a data type whose values can be manipulated in all ways permitted to any other data t
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by Zuider 11y ago
SPITBOL is an enhanced version of the SNOBOL language. From Wikipedia: SNOBOL (StriNg Oriented and symBOlic Language) is a series of computer programming languages developed between 1962 and 1967 at AT&T Bell Laboratories by David J. Fa
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On being the maintainer and sole developer of SPITBOL (2012)(daveshields.me)
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Video games vs. books, or, how not to run a retail operation(blog.ebonyfortress.com)
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by Zuider 11y ago
This website cycles through a series of videos. You will see a different scene depending on when you opened the link. For that reason, not all of the comments here refer the same particular incident. Even so, they all depict the common char
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by Zuider 11y ago
I read the article as saying that the discovery of the Weyl fermion, (albeit as a quasi-particle) provides a proof of concept that it actually can exist in nature (rather than being just an esoteric theoretical curiosity with no physical an
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by Zuider 11y ago
But from the point of view of a phonon, the solid is indistinguishable from a vacuum. What distinguishes the 'real' vacuum from what the phonon sees? Why is what we call 'the universe' necessarily primal? Maybe it is &#x
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by Zuider 11y ago
I have never been bothered by envy either, but for some people it can be all consuming. I have worked in environments where the most common topic of conversation concerned how people in other departments were getting better perks or earning
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by Zuider 11y ago
It is possible that you are getting visitors from China, but this would not be clear from your logs due to the use of proxies as a precaution. The language barrier creates a great divide. It takes more effort to browse a foreign language si
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by Zuider 11y ago
No. This is just new-age pseudo-science founded on a garbled mish-mash of Einstein's field equations, universal resonance, quantum physics, the Kabbalah, the Knights Templar, sacred geometry, the Ark of the Covenant, crop circles, etc.
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>I fail to see how reframing the argument is going to change anything I would argue that joshuak's formulation above is not a reframing, but the original and correct definition of the right to privacy. Just as with property and libe
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Democracy works not because it provides a means of putting people into power, but because it provides a bloodless means of removing them. In the past, factions went to war in order to take absolute power. When they achieved it they would de
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by Zuider 11y ago
>Doxxing is doxxing. I meant that the reddit admins didn't 'deal with' Violentacrez. Chen doxxed him, destroying his career, despite the full knowledge that Violentacrez had innocent dependants who would also be hurt badly
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by Zuider 11y ago
>Why did it take so long to deal with characters like violentacrez? He wasn't dealt with. He deleted his account in a frantic and futile attempt to avoid exposure. Violentacres/Violentacrez (had to block him twice) set himself
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by Zuider 11y ago
The dose makes the poison. The difference is that you see fit to declare holy war over very trivial micro-offences, while the religious factions after the enlightenment managed to interact peacefully despite profound disagreement with each

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