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by a3n 6y ago
When the manifesto came out I thought it was a great idea, as I recall. But now I can't recall what was in it. Something about "people, not popcorn." Or was that The Cathedral and the Bazaar? You can say we should separate ag
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by a3n 6y ago
21st Century C, Ben Klemens. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=21st+century+c&t=fpas&ia=web Helps you set up your local tooling, and covers the use of C the "modern" language.
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by a3n 6y ago
Ok, it takes $15,000 to enjoy electricity that's relatively free of regulation.
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by a3n 6y ago
Freedom isn't free.
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by a3n 6y ago
But wouldn't this company have to periodically review your contacts, to slurp up new ones?
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by a3n 6y ago
I think these folks must share a building with The Royal Society for Putting Things on Top of Other Things. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LFrdqQZ8FFc
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by a3n 6y ago
Doctors can prescribe medicines "off label," using a medicine for a condition that it was not developed or approved for. So why not this?
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by a3n 6y ago
My impression reading this and other articles is that these things are, ultimately and currently, just context aware random sentence generators. Humanly speaking, of course.
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by a3n 6y ago
I wonder if he could combine math, science, even economics with photography.
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by a3n 6y ago
If I understand correctly, catering to C on modern mainstream processors results in excessively complex C compilers and excessive power consumption. If I further understand correctly, the author observes at least one solution: processor des
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by a3n 6y ago
Independent from what?
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by a3n 6y ago
And what happened to the landers, long term? Are they melted slag? Weather-scattered debris? Future Venus heritage sites?
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by a3n 6y ago
Clearly Rick Perry's house is warm. Also, those glasses, adapted in a previous run for president, are still working for him. They make him look smart.
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by a3n 6y ago
Will people eventually have to pay, or give something else up, to share news links in email and text? Blog posts? Yuh know, the web didn't used to be about advertising, those people just horned in and stank the place up. "We"
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by a3n 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme > The word meme itself is a neologism coined by Richard Dawkins, originating from his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. ...
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by a3n 6y ago
[2011]
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by a3n 6y ago
I sort of do. I've sent hundreds of emails and pics home to the fam. I aim to put some of them up. Eventually. Oh, here. I sent one of those to my boss, and it got forwarded and shared internally, and with my permission the company put
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by a3n 6y ago
I just hope for the best. There's only so much you can do.
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by a3n 6y ago
Used to be in tech. Rage quit my last tech job when I was past my fresh date.
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by a3n 6y ago
> Rattenborg found that ducks with a bird on either side of them put their entire brain to sleep and kept both eyes closed. "However, the ducks at the end of the row slept more with one half of the brain at a time," he says. &q
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by a3n 6y ago
A chocolate cake. Or a worm hole time machine. One of those.
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by a3n 6y ago
We'll know they're done when this happens: "google.com has been identified as containing spam, malware, or other malicious content."
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by a3n 6y ago
I was talking to a manager at a former job, sharing my views about some process issue. She said she appreciated my passion. Which is probably the managerial equivalent of the southern "Well bless your heart." But I took it at face
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by a3n 6y ago
Ahem: Texas Legislature May Introduce Bill to Blacklist Businesses That Don't Love Fossil Fuels https://earther.gizmodo.com/texas-legislature-may-introduce-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26119
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by a3n 6y ago
It's necessary but not sufficient.
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by a3n 6y ago
Often they'll like what you like if you talk about it and play with it. But you can't force it. Just as fun is to like and play with what they like.
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by a3n 6y ago
Expensive commercial anything is an American thing. Textbooks. Education in general. Medical care. Rent vs income.
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by a3n 6y ago
These all look interesting. But I've been trying to find one or more books on just the bones and muscle of economics. Just "what there is, and how it works," without the partisanship of any "school" of economics. Th
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by a3n 6y ago
My son is driving my 30 year old Honda Civic wagon, bought new. We're thinking of dropping in a rebuilt engine.
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by a3n 6y ago
I'm just finishing my third year. It can be lonely for some. But there's phone and email until you get home. I like the solitude, and I have never felt lonely. I'm probably an outlier.

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