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by bklaasen 4y ago
An example of a person falling for the ELIZA effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect
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by bklaasen 4y ago
"Dark Hero of the Information Age" is excellent. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/211053.Dark_Hero_of_the_...
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by bklaasen 4y ago
> Phil Karlton famously said, “There are only two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation and naming things.” ...and off-by-one errors.
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Nobody's yet written the book of the history of Multics, right? Seems like a major gap in the record.
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by bklaasen 4y ago
May I introduce you to the delights of Dervla Murphy's adventures: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dervla_Murphy
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Once I got into the habit of typing the corresponding closing entity (quote, paren, backtick, whatever) immediately after typing the opening one, and _then_ coming back to fill in the data in the enclosure, most of my syntax errors disappea
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by bklaasen 4y ago
This synth got a mention (and a demo) on Late Night Linux just the other day: https://latenightlinux.com/late-night-linux-episode-177/
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Territory Band(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bklaasen 4y ago|0 comments
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by bklaasen 4y ago
A review of Vaclav Smil's new book.
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Charlie Banacos is at the opposite end of the pedagogical spectrum from the abusive sociopath portrayed in the (rather excellent but deeply disturbing) 2014 film "Whiplash", which I watched last night. Thank you for the remedy. Th
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by bklaasen 4y ago
https://archive.ph/q8KLQ
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Twenty years ago I was in Japan, as an onsite tester while we tried out this new thing called XP. The project wasn't going smoothly because no one had told our Japanese clients we were building the solution iteratively, with their inpu
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by bklaasen 4y ago
They're substantially improved in 6.000: "Notifications We ended up rewriting large parts of the code dealing with notifications. The user experience isn’t vastly different, but hopefully most of the annoying things that you had t
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by bklaasen 5y ago
Fair point - I ought to have stated my intention along with the "Media Bias Fact Check" (MBFC) link. I'm unconcerned with the political position of the site, but I am concerned out the "mixed" quality rating. There&
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by bklaasen 5y ago
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mises-daily/
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by bklaasen 5y ago
Have you explored Delta Chat? https://delta.chat/en/
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by bklaasen 5y ago
Back in the mid to late 1990s, a company called ISOCOR made a nice living for itself building and selling X.500 directory servers and a range of software to map other directory services into X.500. They also sublicensed X.500 tech from ICL,
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by bklaasen 5y ago
It involves a tether providing precisely-timed tugs: "“When we walk, there is a short period between steps where one foot is stopping its forward motion while the other is preparing to accelerate to take the next step forward. Our rese
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Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST(ntfy.sh)
2 points by bklaasen 5y ago|0 comments
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by bklaasen 5y ago
pwgen -sy 25 1
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by bklaasen 5y ago
> its tiny brain > automatic cat feeder > Had to take it to the vet Perhaps your cat (which presumably has a gender) is living in an emotional desert. Cats have different behaviours, but mine (born feral, now very domestic) greets
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by bklaasen 5y ago
Run the `file` command on it. It uses magic numbers to determine the file type.
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by bklaasen 5y ago
rms is on the board of directors: https://www.fsf.org/about/staff-and-board/
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by bklaasen 5y ago
https://archive.ph/cgKKX
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by bklaasen 5y ago
It started as an economic project after WWII explicitly to foster peace between France and Germany: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Steel_Comm...
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by bklaasen 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVsUOuSjvcg&t=1093 Start here to hear the deplorable and utterly uninspiring uses the guy comes up with for analogue chips, then rewind to the start. The tech is great, but the (presumabl
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by bklaasen 5y ago
> It's the sort of place where you can spend even a month and still see new things every day. Did exactly that in the mid 1990s. Hampi is a magical place. The evocative granite ruins are scattered across a vast swathe in a hilly lan
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by bklaasen 5y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earth-could-surpa...
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by bklaasen 5y ago
Perhaps give this a go: https://www.chkjournal.com/node/154
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by bklaasen 5y ago
"All pairs" is the approach to take. There is a good amount of quality writing on this; I suggest starting here: https://www.satisfice.com/download/pairwise-testing-a-best-p...

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