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by aa-jv 8mo ago
The alternative reality I wish we could move to, across the universe, is the one where SGI were the first to build a titanium laptop and became the worlds #1 Unix laptop vendor ..
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by aa-jv 8mo ago
Nice one - the prototype sure reminds me of the early OpenPandora days ..
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
As a longtime fan of your work I appreciate very much how willing you are to get into the trench with your users. It is always a delight to see you engage in an interesting, intelligent conversation with those who have a different opinion
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
It sure is. Plus, a little math: Age (years) = Equivalent dose (Gy) ÷ Dose rate (Gy per year or Gy/ka)
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
:exit Because its nice to sound it out .. "colon .. exit" ..
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
What's to understand? You're not working hard enough. The fact is that those who study history, learn from it - and this can be both good or evil. It is very clear that those supporting genocide and fascist actions on what used
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Who are 'they'? I'm not cheering on anything, you are inventing things. I find the recent developments in fascist America very disturbing.
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
I mean, its common knowledge that he was inspired to construct concentration camps by the British and the Belgians doing exactly the same in their colonies. He thought he would get away with it, because they were also doing it - the differe
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Hitler learned of this method from the British during the Boer wars. Americans are just improvising more modern variants.
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Yes, exactly. I feel that AI is only useful in the hands of humans who understand the domain they're applying it to...
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
(Disclaimer: systems software developer with 30+ years experience) I was initially overly optimistic about AI and embraced it fully. I tried using it on multiple projects - and while the initial results were impressive, I quickly burned my
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
In the piano-/synth-keyboard world, this is accomplished by 'interlocked blades', consisting of two curved blades interconnected with notches for each key, allowing the curve of the pressure mechanism to be tuned according to
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
A very nicely written and detailed article, with many details I have not personally learned of, in my own music technology hacking so far .. if anyone else is interested in writing software for musical tuning systems, both Xenharmlib and Py
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Imagine if they'd made the titanium laptop before Apple, and actually shipped it with Irix .. would have been amazing.
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
The revolution has been tokenized.
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
All you had to do to see this for yourself was look under a bridge in any major American city.
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
>Has the technical and scientific community in the US already forgotten this huge breach of trust? Yes, imho, there is a great deal of ignorance of the actual contents of the NSA leaks. The agitprop against Snowden as a "Russian age
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
It's a perfectly cromulant package manager.
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Its not so hard once you learn it. Of course, you will carry that trauma with you, and rightly so. ;)
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
^ This. Plus, we already have great C package management. Its called CMake.
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Trump is just your latest excuse, American, but its not working. The rest of the world saw what Americans did to Iraq, and it has been downhill since then. You don't get to be the #1 funder of terror around the world and keep demandin
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Trump is not the reason for the current disdain for the American state - he is merely the latest excuse that Americans make for the disastrous state of their country. The rest of the world started being disaffected by America's action
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Pretty much the best resource available: https://6502.org/ Check the books section and find something that compels you. Also, don't forget the HUGE number of resources for 6502 assembly programming that are available i
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Its not just for explosives, by the way. Its also for solvents - for example, mercury, which could be used to weaken the airframe very easily.
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Why just western countries? Let the entire world function under this same system of threat/protection. Why should it only be limited to your side?
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
I use Image Capture.app to manually retrieve my photo's - which normally works fine unless I forget to create a new folder for the task, and instead import into the older folders - which often means I overwrite prior photo's and
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
AppImage comes close to fulfilling this need: https://appimage.github.io/appimagetool/ Myself, I've committed to using Lua for all my cross-platform development needs, and in that regard I find luastatic very, ver
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
I've been with Apple since 1979, but these days I don't even use a small percentage of all the features of the iPhone, and in spite of having bought over 800+ apps I still only use 7 of them. However, I dare not even attempt to c
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
Germans forget too easily that theirs is a vassal state without full sovereignty. Until the German people can investigate and prosecute their own intelligence services, this situation will not change. That the German intelligence services
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by aa-jv 9mo ago
There is absolutely no viable evidence presented to support the claim that Russia is responsible for these attacks. It could just as easily be claimed that the CIA is responsible for these attacks - simply because the USA also stand to ben

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