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by __d 4y ago
So ... next goal is to launch and land the same rocket 3 times in 36 hours. That'd really bring home the "you don't throw a plane out after each flight" thing.
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by __d 4y ago
The other "Helios" project was a commercial operating system from Perihelion Software, which was subsequently kinda open sourced after the company went bust (which is the GitHub repo posted). There are a couple of books about it f
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by __d 4y ago
Yes. It'd be a shame if this effort were to continue to use the same name, especially given they're both operating systems. Drew?
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by __d 4y ago
Ok -- for a less general audience, I also like "Foreign Policy" ( https://foreignpolicy.com/ ), and particularly, "Foreign Affairs" ( https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ). In my view, they have
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by __d 4y ago
I think so, but in saying that, I never go to one even though I have a bunch of projects that'd be great to work on that I don't have the equipment for at home.
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by __d 4y ago
The Economist might be a good starting point? https://www.economist.com/ For a narrower focus, the Wall Street Journal (New York) and the Financial Times (London) are probably the primary English-language sources for finan
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by __d 4y ago
I'm playing along similar lines as the OP. Using Linux as a base avoid a whole lot of code that is basically uninteresting to me (eg, drivers). And using Python (in my case) makes prototyping ideas quick and easy. I've defined a
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by __d 4y ago
Conceptually, there's nothing that makes cryptocurrencies a scam. In practice, however, many cryptocurrency uses, and indeed many cryptocurrencies themselves, are scams. Given the difficulty of identifying actors in the market, the co
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by __d 4y ago
There's also https://larder.io/
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by __d 4y ago
It doesn't really undermine your point, but, well ... iOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS/etcOS is hardly an afterthought, and they are all non-Linux Unix systems.
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by __d 4y ago
First up: talk to a lawyer, not HN. But ... as the name suggests, the primary function of an LLC is to make the company subject to liability, not the owner. So if the company is sued and loses, you don't personally have to go through
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by __d 4y ago
Sure, but Guido put a pre-condition on GIL removal years ago that it must not cause single-threaded code to suffer a performance penalty. So Sam came up with a way to ensure that (on balance, if not in every example), we could have same-or-
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by __d 4y ago
Right. But as you implicitly note, it's a work-around ("escape hatch"), not a feature. eg. Unix had processes from day 1, but threads were added (with significant effort) because threads are a better abstraction for addressi
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by __d 4y ago
C 1972, C++ 1985, Erlang 1986, Perl 1988, Python 1991, JavaScript 1995. C is half-way to 100: an amazing fact in the rapidly-changing world of technology. Of all these, Perl seems to have suffered the biggest loss of popularity so far, whi
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by __d 4y ago
Yeah, I'm worried too. It seems like the core team doesn't share my sense that nogil is the single most important thing that Python needs to do in a world of many-core processors. If nogil is now blocked because it's deemed
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by __d 4y ago
Second this: I worked for years as a contractor for US-based companies from US, DE, and AU. No issues tax-wise -- it's just a service agreement between the two companies/legal entities. Similarly, I often had just a Google (email
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by __d 4y ago
In theory , if manufacturers charge an inflated MSRP, a competitor who doesn't will get the sale instead. In practice ... well, maybe everyone makes more money if no-one undercuts each other too much. Is it collusion/price-fixin
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by __d 4y ago
> I'm solving the interim by having 4 vehicles + mass transit + wfh. Is that, maybe, a little bit ... overkill? Quadruple redundancy, plus a failover, plus reduced demand. Phew!
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by __d 4y ago
I'd love to hear the MCL to CCL story, if you do get around to it.
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by __d 4y ago
Some of the detailed design info is hard to find: those who have done it like to get paid a lot to do it again, so ... they don't write it down. The best way to work this out is to get a job at a trading firm, broker, exchange, bank, e
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by __d 4y ago
And simpler. It used Graffiti rather than a full neural net-based HWR. It used compiled 68k C applications, not NewtonScript. It was a fairly ruthlessly simple device. Consequently, it was much cheaper to make, and could fit in a smaller
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by __d 4y ago
On the one hand, you're right. There were numerous flaws, in hardware, in software, in pricing, marketing, etc. On the other hand, it was awesome. It could do things that nothing had done before, and weren't done by anything els
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by __d 4y ago
Nice to see you here, wrs
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by __d 4y ago
There's a patch for the date issue: http://40hz.org/Pages/newton/hacking/newton-year-2010-proble...
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by __d 4y ago
I wonder if it would be possible to automatically rewrite the elisp code to whatever new runtime was chosen? Assuming the new language is still more-or-less a Lisp ... maybe?
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by __d 4y ago
Tried the easter egg in the Einstein emulator? https://eeggs.com/items/538.html
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by __d 4y ago
Newtons, at least the 2000/2100, and possibly the 130 IIRC, supported PCMCIA Ethernet cards, including both WaveLAN IEEE (first gen 802.11 DSSS) and Proxim RangeLAN (first gen 802.11 FHSS) wireless LAN cards. But the NewtonOS user expe
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by __d 4y ago
Mycroft recently claimed to have won that case, with the USPTO invalidating all claims that had been asserted against them.
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by __d 4y ago
You obviously know the company/situation better than me, but I think it's pretty unlikely that they'd sack you. File a police report first, and then take the whole thing (including the police report, and maybe the photos, if
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by __d 4y ago
Do the photos show illegal activity? How serious is it (like, is it just some weed)? It's possible the consequences of exposure aren't as bad as you expect, if you go to the police, and then to your employer, and explain what&#x2

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