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by ableal 14y ago
(Poorly informed guess ahead) That may be a consequence of the "each browser tab in its own process" approach I've read somewhen that Chrome uses and Firefox does not, or not yet.
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by ableal 14y ago
The European mood is shifting (no pun intended). I see an increasing number of models being offered with automatic gearboxes, even at the lower end of the price scale. Sales numbers are probably available somewhere, but, for a quick sample,
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by ableal 14y ago
(Computer Curmudgeon did not age very well, with some stuff now obscure even for those of us who were watching at the time, but this entry is an interesting snapshot of the commercial internet in 1991 California:) "AppleLink - A marketing r
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by ableal 14y ago
> honoring the rule in the breach The other day, I found out we're now using that figure of speech against the intent of the original phrase: a custom best ignored, e.g. http://afterdeadline.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/mangled-sh...
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by ableal 14y ago
"Unless, in a word, he commands his time. Read the life of a great scientist like Agassiz." Hmm. 1807 – 1873, Swiss paleontologist, ended at Harvard, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz . Plus, Ezra Pound's take, http://en.wikip
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by ableal 14y ago
Many thanks. I also like the 2006 picture mentioned at the end of that article - pics at http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230&js=1 . According to comments there, it seems that one won the BadAstronomy blog best pic of 2006 choice.
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PGP, TrueCrypt-encrypted files cracked by £300 tool(theregister.co.uk)
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by ableal 14y ago
Reference fished out of the excellent essay The Mathematical Hacker ( http://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html ), discussed here a few days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4915328
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Real Programmers Don't Use PASCAL [1982](ee.ryerson.ca)
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'NAND flash killer' now up to 10,000 times more efficient(theregister.co.uk)
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by ableal 14y ago
"[...] observers who are freely falling—whether into a black hole or toward the ground—don’t feel the force of gravity, [...]" They will if there's enough of a gradient and the observers are not ideal points. Many years ago, Larry Niven w
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by ableal 14y ago
(A.R. essay, 2011.12:) 'Because as it stands, Python 3 is the XHTML of the programming language world. It's incompatible to what it tries to replace but does not offer much besides being more “correct”.' Ouch. Too close to the bone.
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by ableal 14y ago
As a side effect, those chips also helped launch Internet publishing - sites like the improbable Toms's Hardware, founded by a German M.D. if memory serves, cut their teeth on overclocking advice and benchmarks.
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Oracle: Tape not just for mainframes(theregister.co.uk)
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The Future Of Foxconn: 200 Pigs(techcrunch.com)
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The Future of Retailing Is Search(pcmag.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
The writer is exploiting the "could sink", "possibly doomed", angle; I'd say that a competent agency is doing properly its job, by explaining technical difficulties to be either overcome or accepted. Just the act of disallowing data from ha
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by ableal 14y ago
They forgot driver licenses. (OK, that's not a technology. I think there's a fair chance that children born this year will not need to learn how to drive just to use a car.)
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by ableal 14y ago
[Off-topic] On my copy of that page, I got an ad to NYT's own content magnificently titled "Spatchcocking your turkey" . (It leads to http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/magazine/the-2-d-thanksgiv... , not a bad cookery piece but alas, on
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by ableal 14y ago
> Developers helped build Twitter There were warnings about the fate of sharecroppers well before Twitter existed: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/12/WebsThePla... Quote: "It’s a lousy position to be in, because you’re
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by ableal 14y ago
I believe I once had a short book by CMU's Daniel Sleator and a co-author where they explained some examples showing how different data structures could change the complexity/run-time of algorithms. Can't find either my copy or online refe
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by ableal 14y ago
"Pick up the phone and let the car drive." Actually, it will not be an option. Once it is possible, it will be mandatory.
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Solid print - Making things with a 3D printer changes the rules of manufacturing(economist.com)
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by ableal 14y ago
> imitate OS X as much as possible Apple could imitate a fair bit too. For instance, I'd like the OS X 10.6 Finder to be as useable as the Nautilus file manager that shipped with Ubuntu's Gnome 2 in 2010.
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by ableal 14y ago
Searching "count coup" pops up this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting_coup University professors are expected to advise, and see through graduation, their share of M.S. and Ph.D. students.
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by ableal 14y ago
No way that I know of, but it is a good idea. Supplemented by "search on sites I visited about a month ago", that should cover it. Making that work across multiple devices is another can of worms. Possibly a very desirable can for some peop
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by ableal 14y ago
Curiously, I can't get Google maps to show a name for the lake, unlike several other Swiss and Italian lakes in that zone. May be the reason.
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by ableal 14y ago
"Sorry! Devices on Google Play is not available in your country yet." Yeah, but I'd like to window shop and know what the neighbours are paying, perhaps ask someone over there to buy me one. I really dislike this automatic geolocation enf
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by ableal 14y ago
You pushed me to read it ;-) "When everything is recorded, nothing is remembered." , the final line, reminded me of Mary Renault writing about the transition from oral (memorized) to written poetry in pre-classical Greece.
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by ableal 14y ago
"According to his biographer, Michael Murray, he began a book called “Janus” in 2001, that “was to have been a view of present-day culture by an archaeologist of the thirtieth century.” In 2008, dissatisfied, he put it aside." I think Sta

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