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by aamargulies 3y ago
My Japanese teacher said that, for her, the English words “ear” and “year” are indistinguishable. I see how that could be, the words are very close, the ‘y’ sound is very brief, but it helped me understand how something that is so clear for
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by aamargulies 3y ago
Grey Matter Response reverse-engineered the DX7 with a logic probe to create their E! product: https://www.muzines.co.uk/articles/grey-matter-response-e/20... E! was so good that Yamaha suspected them of industria
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by aamargulies 3y ago
Likely on UCSC's VAXen running BSD4.2.
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by aamargulies 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LALR_parser https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/69622.357187
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by aamargulies 3y ago
We all had windows machines on our desks, but MetaWare made cross-compilers for the complete cross product of every flavor of CPU and OS. So lots of SunOS/Solaris servers, BSD, IBM 360, Irix, etc servers on the network.
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by aamargulies 3y ago
The High C Compiler was designed and built by the geniuses at MetaWare: Frank deRemer (MIT) and Tom Pennello (UCSC), the pair who invented LALR2 parsing. I worked there in the early 90s, great memories of Tom editing compiler code in his wi
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by aamargulies 3y ago
Seconded.
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by aamargulies 4y ago
HN does this purposefully to show its preference for external content rather than self posts.
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by aamargulies 4y ago
Humanities: anything by Michael Sugrue https://youtu.be/Auuk1y4DRgk He also has a podcast “The Idea Store”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-idea-store/id15759... He can speak off-th
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by aamargulies 4y ago
Many years ago I needed to understand hashing for an important work project. I sat down and read Knuth's chapter on hashing. It was very, very good and it helped to greatly accelerate my project work. However. What I also learned is ho
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by aamargulies 4y ago
I 'climbed' Mauna Kea (mostly driving to the top, with a short hike from the parking lot). 13803'. Simply walking at that altitude, which is less than half the height of Everest, was so uncomfortable that I couldn't wait
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by aamargulies 4y ago
I have a fun story about using Warp while on vacation (Bahamas). I was finding that my net traffic felt like it was slower/more variable than I'd expect with uneven speedups and slowdowns. On a whim I installed and turned on Warp
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by aamargulies 4y ago
Michael Sugrue https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB5ShJRcpNFPz_2uazuT4XJ3y... I didn’t think it possible to learn this much this quickly.
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by aamargulies 4y ago
As Neil deGrasse Tyson said: I don’t play golf. That doesn’t make me an agolfist.
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by aamargulies 4y ago
Hitchens’s Razor: That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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by aamargulies 4y ago
Roger Penrose talked about this with Lex Fridman. The anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff is looking into how anesthesia affects microtubules and the implications for consciousness. Penrose is intrigued by the symmetry of microtubules and the
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by aamargulies 4y ago
This reminds me a bit of the role string theory plays in the physics community.
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by aamargulies 7y ago
Try looking at bbcp perhaps? http://pcbunn.cithep.caltech.edu/bbcp/using_bbcp.htm
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by aamargulies 7y ago
Without work there is no play.
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by aamargulies 7y ago
Marklar https://southpark.cc.com/clips/151539/welcome-to-marklar
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by aamargulies 13y ago
I've been having a discussion with a fastmail staff member about surveillance and fastmail. You can see the discussion here: https://www.fastmail.fm/html/?MSignal=TZ-**378397*97ae93f3