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A book: "Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography" (2018) Written by Ann M. Wolfe and Alexander Nemerov and Susan Ehrens and Kathleen Pyne and Heather Waldroup can also be previewed: https://www.rizzoliusa.com&#x
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x87 is still providing some functionality which is more convenient to be used in some specific scenarios. I've used it intentionally even for some 64-bit code, where it was a perfect fit to all other requirements of the whole environme
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Makes me really glad knowing that I donated to Internet Archive (Wayback machine is a part of it). Being able to catch lying politicians is really, really good return of investment: https://archive.org/donate/ I really
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Have you read an article? 1) It specifically needs the 32-bit version of Windows. 2) It won't run on 32-bit Windows 10 without an additional installation (NTVDM). I don't see any "baggage" which limits anything, for any
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And deep in the text is the explanation how it really spread: "A Facebook spokesperson told BuzzFeed News" ... " we are working to remove these types of groups from the recommendations we show people." That means to
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I agree. If the compiler authors make some additional "magic", they are also responsible to "unmagic" the code which checks: "if memcpy is defined as having no arguments, and then a call to it is compiled (the call
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Translating Wikipedia entry about him: "He works as a high school teacher in Munich" Before: "studied physics and law" ... "and in 1993 obtained a diploma in physics and a state examination in law. In 2001 he receiv
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It is believed that the number of people at previous times was also limited by the energy available. See how the population graph looks like -- the real exponential growth starts at earliest around 300 years ago: https://en.wikip
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And the biggest magic that allows for all that complexity to arise is: everything happens in parallel and at the scales that are beyond any intuition of humans. We already know that even extremely simple rules can produce extremely complex-
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Even if that narration is something easily relatable by software developers, the simplification is too big to allow the reasonable comprehension of the subject. So I still suggest anybody interested to really try to learn more about the ac
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The background about these posters: https://www.roche.com/sustainability/philanthropy/science_ed... The book (2012): https://www.amazon.com/Biochemical-Pathways-Biochemistry-Mol... From the the ac
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> two people – Mary and Joseph – who had to travel to a small city – Bethlehem – for the taking of a Roman census. And today it is known that the story about anybody having to travel somewhere else to be counted for census was constructe
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Ask Ethan: Have We Finally Found Evidence for a Parallel Universe?(forbes.com)
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Also, as written in the blog post, the .ASM files are not the original sources, more a temporary expansion of these for the given target. Looking at their binary form, all .ASM files end with zero characters instead of, for example, 0x1a wi
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> QAnon's actions are mainly talk. The state's, however, are different. Isn't QAnon directly promoted by some people directly related to the president of the state ? Don Jr. wears it: https://www.etsy.com&#x2F
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Yes, thanks, there it is: "Dr Karol Sikora is Chief of the WHO Programme on Cancer Control" as per the magazine from "September--October 1998" 1) obviously not equivalent to "ex director at the WHO" 2) obviousl
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> ex director at the WHO Regarding his relation to WHO, according to his own claims (dead link on wikipedia) he was "Chief of the Cancer Program from 1997" (to 1999, just two years, two decades ago). But we also know that he fa
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Apparently somebody claims to have been able to change the extension and submit the picture, but got "file corrupted" later: "Senior Dave Spencer took a demo test before his Calculus AB exam to make sure he understood the pro
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I'm still very sure that the Python's source code can be refactored to avoid the allocation completely in the case of a zero or one parameter for all the functions that now always have an expectation of the tuple. But I also under
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I doubt that what you quote is full story, however and I would really like if somebody would be able to investigate what is actually happening. Let's take a trivial example: everybody has their own router at home, typically with the ad
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> Truly, truly horrible. This was about a month ago. Fascinatingly, it seems that Microsoft for their own purposes prefers to use Electron-based applications. I'm curious if they will manage to reduce that strange state to something
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As an example, how the "Win32" apps are to use these "new" UI features: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/desktop/modern... Desktop C++ users should use: "UWP XAML ho
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> So we need a code path that is specifically for calling the str() function on ints. I would argue that this is prohibitively specialized for an interpreter, I would argue it isn't. It's actually less about the ints but about
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> The title isn't quite right, though. Boxing, method lookup, etc. come under "interpreter" too. See also jsnell's answer here, however. E.g. (with my interpretation added, all possible errors in them mine) a "na
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> on Pentium II > and now you’re talking about developer tools on a Pentium 4. It's to illustrate that arguments are wrong: it's Decade who uses "256 MB" as an argument which is not "small memory" for Pe
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But why? I don't see that the author explains why he doesn't use what's already in the language which he uses to implement all his "dictionaries": https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/datastr
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> Most Pentium II systems were not running Windows NT. They were running Windows 95 or 98 Once again: only somebody using a computer not selected for serious development used Windows 95 and 98. No developer who knew what he was doing was
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> I wasn’t a developer back then. That explains your inaccurate perspective. > Windows NT required a multiple more RAM to run than the consumer versions of Windows (oh no, bloat!), and was much more picky about what hardware it ran o
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> GCHQ has been in bed with NSA for far too long and it's disgusting See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes But also: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nsa-scandal-reki
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I am even "less default" than that, expecting the dates to be formatted the way I've defined them in the system setting (it can be set separately from the language), and some programs ignore that too.

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