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by apricot 11y ago
Asimov was my favorite Golden Age SF Writer. And by Golden Age I mean roughly 13 years old. More than his fiction, his books on science had a tremendous influence on me during my larval stage. I still have my old copy of "Asimov's
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by apricot 11y ago
Well, you can ask ...
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by apricot 11y ago
> Would you ever rent services from someone saying: "I'll do the work in your house, but you can't look"? For a second there, I thought I was in another proprietary software vs. free software thread...
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by apricot 11y ago
Another short paper published in the American Mathematical Monthly by Doron Zeilberger can be found here: http://i.imgur.com/PSigYcb.png
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by apricot 11y ago
I'm just a little bit disappointed that the references section does not cite the French singer Charles Trenet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0KWyWwVp0E
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by apricot 11y ago
Could there be second-level bottom-feeding attorneys whose business is suing bottom-feeding attorneys for abusing the law for their own monetary gain?
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by apricot 11y ago
> the joy of getting X to run I think you mean "the joy of having X finally running". The actual "getting it to run" part was pretty much the polar opposite of joy.
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Organic, artisanal small batch secure passwords.
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by apricot 11y ago
The problem is compounded by the fact that in Chinese, there are "traditional" and "simplified" versions of many characters (with the Japanese character usually, but not always, being the same as the traditional Chinese
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by apricot 11y ago
Sure, those 5K monitors are really nice. But to tell the truth, when I really need to be productive, I use an old laptop with a 14-inch 1024x768 screen and a full-screen xterm with a nice bitmap font that embraces its pixelated nature. I fi
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by apricot 11y ago
The best way to deal with Caps Lock is to make it a Control Key when used as a modifier (held down when another key is pressed), but Escape when typed by itself. There's a program for GNU/Linux called xscape that does exactly that
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by apricot 11y ago
If you can change it in the BIOS, then there's no problem, right?
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by apricot 11y ago
Thank you, I will investigate that. The number and variety of Minecraft add-ons is amazing.
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by apricot 11y ago
Just because I love buckling springs doesn't mean I don't also enjoy Topre. I'm far from monogamous when it comes to keyboards. And I most certainly did my homework, which in my case meant walking around in Den-Den Town (Osak
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by apricot 11y ago
Ah, the Model M. Still have mine from 1990, used it for decades, and I would still be using it at home if it were not for the fact that it was so loud it woke up my newborn son sleeping in the other room. So I got a quieter keyboard (Realfo
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by apricot 11y ago
I found that by asking the seller to use the USPS instead of a courier company, I could avoid brokerage fees and sometimes even duty/import fees as well. Not all sellers will agree to use USPS, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
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by apricot 11y ago
"To avoid customer confusion". That's not even good bullshit.
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by apricot 11y ago
This brings back memories. In the late eighties, I wrote a program similar to this one for archiving one Apple II floppy disk on a sheet of paper. One floppy disk is 140 kilobytes (35 tracks of 16 sectors containing 256 bytes each), so a sh
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by apricot 11y ago
Speaking of which, Star Simpson tweeted yesterday: "I hope Ahmed finds the community he seeks at MIT — & I hope MIT's administration can support future engineers in need of legal protection."
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Zero conscience.
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by apricot 11y ago
Calculators with a "typewriter-like (qwerty)" keyboard are forbidden, but they allow the TI Nspire CX, which has an alphabetic keyboard (albeit in the order abcde). What kind of stupid rule is that? (Especially considering they do
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by apricot 11y ago
Once a decade? Everyone in my family gets annual checkups from our family doctor.
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by apricot 11y ago
Windows updates (from 7 or 8 to 10) will be free, too, according to Microsoft.
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by apricot 11y ago
I teach math, and just as some people cannot taste the bitterness in Brussels sprouts, I'm not affected by the fingernail-on-blackboard noise. I find it very useful for taming a class of wild freshmen, though. I only have to do it once
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by apricot 11y ago
> I've never been to Japan, so I'm curious to know what it's like there. There's no comparison, Japan is light years ahead of the U.S. when it comes to stationery. Premium stationery items in Japan are often more tech
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by apricot 11y ago
"Our current interview process managed to hire me. I think I'm really smart. Therefore, our current interview process manages to hire really smart people. Why change it?"
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by apricot 11y ago
Maybe not mind-blowing but life-altering: The Turing Omnibus, by A.K. Dewdney. I read it while in high school and it made me decide to learn computer science. It has 50 short chapters on things like RSA cryptography, the halting problem, lo
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by apricot 11y ago
As a person who uses Minion by choice, and actually spent quite a bit of time configuring LaTeX to support Minion (not to mention quite a bit of money buying the actual font, before it was bundled with Adobe products), the fact that Minion
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by apricot 11y ago
I agree. It worries me that finding out exactly what data your device or software shares with whom is very hard to find nowadays. You buy something without really knowing what it does. This is not really new (how many people, even today, ar
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The gemstone industry's approach to this is to call mined gemstones "real gemstones" or "natural gemstones" and ones made in a lab "synthetic gemstones". This leads the general public to believe that lab-c

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