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by bch 3y ago
I don’t recall exactly where I heard (perhaps #tcl on Freenode back in the day) that Tcl dodged a bullet by not becoming the standard, because it was left free to experiment without the responsibility of backward compatibility for the web…
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by bch 3y ago
Note to self: come back to upvote
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by bch 3y ago
Clever - reminds me of: In school, we learn the lesson then get the test. In life we get the test then learn the lesson.
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by bch 3y ago
I believe it was this phenomenon and more discussed in the CBCs The Nature of Things “What Trees Talk About”.[0] Well worth the time to watch. [0] https://www.cbc.ca/natureofthings/episodes/what-trees-talk-a...
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by bch 3y ago
This might be asking a lot, but what’s the Little Schemer for vector processing? A fun on-ramp.
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by bch 3y ago
Playing well obviously important (and I wasn’t involved, have no other insight), but do you know if the poor showing for fbsd 5.x correspond w the disagreements?
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by bch 3y ago
<the BSDs have entered the chat>
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by bch 3y ago
Top Gun one frame at a time on Twitter got shut down… https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/par...
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by bch 3y ago
> has its share of… Interesting choices Curious to hear more.
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by bch 3y ago
> cites a paper from 1957 By Fred Brooks no less… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks
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by bch 3y ago
And I don’t know if you consider it a “peer”, since the NFB was commissioned to produce, but “Hinterland Who’s Who” by the Canadian Wildlife Service is iconic (and indeed to where my mind goes when imagining Boards of Canada’s influences)[0
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by bch 3y ago
Lucas and Star Wars’ relationship with the NFB: https://blog.nfb.ca/blog/2015/12/16/21-87-star-wars/
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by bch 3y ago
Hahaha yes! I used to just skip to “Why don’t you just join some shake’n’rock’n’roll band?!!”
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by bch 3y ago
The Big Snit. https://youtu.be/p1S5pAF1YYA
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by bch 3y ago
I have learned things about Canada[0] via BoC[1], that circled back to the National Film Board of Canada[2]. Enjoy. [0] https://development.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/bl... [1] https://youtu.
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by bch 3y ago
> Jim Butterfield I had a 6502 machine language book of his as a kid. I figured out in my head what I thought I wanted to do with the various instructions, then wrote out on graph paper the (decimal) number for the op or it’s args, then
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by bch 3y ago
> But chances are, you should use none of them. So, no event-oriented programming in Python, or by some other mechanism, or…?
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by bch 3y ago
It’s been so long since I’ve been stung I don’t know which hurts more, but it must be noted the reason honey bees sting only once is that the stinger is barbed and hooks into the skin of its victim. The bee might leave, but will not live to
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by bch 3y ago
Here’s the first story I read (~11 years ago) with an occurrence like this that cracked my concept of hardware/software divide… https://www.theregister.com/2012/03/07/amd_opteron_bug_drago...
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by bch 3y ago
Environment dependent as to whether this is a consideration at all, but still a potential stress riser.
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by bch 3y ago
A large boulder the size of a small boulder…
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by bch 3y ago
HR works for the corp, strictly in the corporations interests. Even if the narrative you’re describing is true (I don’t know either), it’s only a coincidental[0] point, not The Reason for BtO policies. [0] https://en.m.wikiped
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by bch 3y ago
Slack and Debian (mostly Debian) were my favorite Linux experience, and indeed Unix experience, until I landed on NetBSD.
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by bch 3y ago
I’ve been a Thinkpad user for probably 20 years or more, never heard of this (though not entirely surprised this level of attention was developed). Also, just yesterday this happened to me (T470s). Now I know to make a note of the tune if i
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by bch 3y ago
Similar (reverse) principle often applies when converting metrics to goals. Be mindful of not incentivizing a paperclip manufacturing robot.
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by bch 3y ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/what-you-nee...
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by bch 3y ago
What is it? I only see “*******”.
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by bch 3y ago
I don’t know if you’ve over qualified to the point you can’t lose (“shitty”), or if this[0] counts. I thought Peter Buck (of R.E.M., most associated w Rickenbacker) might have worked w a Sears guitar too (he might have, but I couldn’t find
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by bch 3y ago
That’s heartening to hear. I appreciate you taking the time to point this out.
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by bch 3y ago
Good to know. Listened to the full interview, and definitely rooting for Andreas et al with Ladybird.

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