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by apricot 10y ago
Very interesting. I found several books, papers and stories that I had enjoyed very much, but I never realized that they all shared a common subject. I look forward to reading the ones on the list I didn't know about.
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by apricot 10y ago
Just think about how long it took evolution to go from single-celled organisms to complex ones capable of growing diamonds!
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by apricot 10y ago
> Not quite organized crime, but not far from it! It's Montreal. They couldn't organize crime if they tried.
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by apricot 10y ago
See also French poet Guillaume Apollinaire's "Calligrammes", published in 1918: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligrammes
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by apricot 10y ago
> What the hell. If just reading about it frustrates you this much, imagine how the mother must have felt. Ring ring, hello, so you're not on drugs after all, have a nice day, bye. This is how the system apologizes, and it's no
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by apricot 10y ago
$$RN.
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by apricot 10y ago
The Vimperator extension adds vim-like commands to Firefox, including following links (but also much, much more). It's amazing.
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by apricot 10y ago
I wouldn't say scientists are doing nothing. See for instance the "Cost of Knowledge" project spearheaded by top mathematicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cost_of_Knowledge
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by apricot 10y ago
Indeed,"Lojban" and "practical" in the same sentence is not something you see every day.
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by apricot 11y ago
I had a modem like that once.
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by apricot 11y ago
It looks a little like a Ben Nanonote. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_NanoNote
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by apricot 11y ago
Nice. When I was a teenage self-taught programmer, an article like this one, but about the superiority of quicksort to insertion sort, was the trigger that got me to understand that thinking mathematically about algorithms could lead us to
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by apricot 11y ago
AbiWord reminds me of WriteNow, which was my favorite word processor on 68000 Macs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WriteNow
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by apricot 11y ago
HP hasn't been making calculators for years. They buy calculators from some Taiwanese maker and put their logo on them.
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by apricot 11y ago
Sorry, but eqn is just not in the same league as LaTeX. It's okay for simple equations, but as can be seen from the document you linked, it produces awful output as soon as the equations become a little bit complex.
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by apricot 11y ago
Hard to install? It's one command ("pacman -S sagemath") in Arch and three commands in Ubuntu. Hard to get started with, I can agree with. Despite there being several tutorials, it's not as easy to start using out of the
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by apricot 11y ago
Your sentence is a bit ungrammatical. It would be more natural to say "À quelle heure le garage ferme-t-il?" if you mean "when does the garage close?" (expecting a precise time: it closes at 9PM), or "Quand le garag
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by apricot 11y ago
The French verb "épisser" is an old verb that means "to splice", and actually comes from middle Dutch "splissen". Épissage is just the noun form of it. It's as natural for French speakers to use "épis
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by apricot 11y ago
Microsoft is embracing Ubuntu. That's the first step. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish
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by apricot 11y ago
Cryptography: not even once. -- The US government
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by apricot 11y ago
Nice article, but it could have done without the awful monikers "business mode" and "casual mode". I instinctively went for the shift keys fractions of a second after seeing that Sidekick menu.
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by apricot 11y ago
I still have sheets of those stickers. They are perfect for putting on laptop webcams.
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by apricot 11y ago
What does "redbrick" mean in this context?
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by apricot 11y ago
Amazing. This was exactly what we needed right now as a society. More ads.
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by apricot 11y ago
Not just "I got nothing to hide", but "You shouldn't be able to hide anything", which is scarier.
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by apricot 11y ago
And "I stopped smoking" vs. "I stopped to smoke".
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by apricot 11y ago
Reversing the scanline lookup table is indeed how it was done. Source: I disassembled it, a long time ago.
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by apricot 11y ago
Oh, I like this one.
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by apricot 11y ago
I had the same problem when I was young. So much ear wax after a particularly bad cold that it prevented me to hear clearly. It lasted a long time, definitely more than a day. My mother put a few drops of olive oil in my ear, and told me to
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by apricot 11y ago
People tend to be pro-police right up until the day when they find themselves the target of a police officer who knows what they can get away with.

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