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by blacksqr 6y ago
> Every visitor is encouraged to take a COVID-19 test 72 hours prior to their departure and bring the results with them to present upon arrival. Ha! Where in America can you get the results of a COVID test in 72 hours?
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LibAgar: Cross-Platform GUI Toolkit(libagar.org)
2 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
I was not suggesting that I agree with the linked article's argument (I don't). Just that the poster above me misstated the article's main point.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The author explicitly stated that the main point is that the goal is fundamentally unachievable, regardless of economics or budgets.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Author of linked article asserts that computers cannot achieve general intelligence by: redefining general intelligence as precisely and only the specific experience and behavior of human beings. Author has incorporated the argument's
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Does anyone remember Vera Lynn? Remember how she said that we would meet again, some sunny day Vera, Vera, what has become of you? Does anybody else 'round here feel the way I do?
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Wits: Windows Inspection Tool Set in Tcl/Tk(wits.magicsplat.com)
3 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The article writer is a lawyer. She should know the meaning of the First Amendment and her readers ought to be able to expect her to know. Her misstatement is evidence that she is arguing in bad faith. It's not only the people on the o
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The quote at the beginning of the reply above yours was taken from the linked article. The article writer explicitly claims her First Amendment rights are under threat. She's the one who pulled the Bill of Rights trigger.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
"We’re supposed to have a First Amendment right to freedom of the press, but this phenomenon is ruining it." Writer of linked article claims to be a lawyer, but strangely seems unaware that the First Amendment protects speech and
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Hard-core data preservation: best media and methods for archiving (2016)(pcworld.com)
1 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Chip design, internet routing, compiler testing, finance, health care. A legacy language that's only used anymore when basic infrastructure really, really has to work.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Also heavily used in health care information management (Infor Cloverleaf).
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Also heavily used in software testing, including DejaGnu for Linux binutils.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Also heavily used in banking and trading systems (Fidessa).
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Tcl client library for the NATS message broker(github.com)
3 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
"Instead of asking how much of your time is left, ask how much of your mind, babe."
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by blacksqr 6y ago
PySimpleGUI wraps tkinter and thus ultimately Tcl/Tk.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The heart of these issues tend to boil down to finding out that your backups are corrupted or nonexistent when you need them most. Linked post says LDAP database backups stopped in February, which is causing the restore headaches. I'
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The first thing I want to know about a new language is its performance. Then I can start thinking meaningfully about the tradeoffs of using it compared to other languages.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
> Even Tclsh with readline would be better than a Python shell In fact, I think Tcl would make an excellent sh replacement.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
In the early 2k's I discovered that it was impossible to quote or escape spaces in filepaths in a makefile. I naively reported it to the Make maintainer as a bug. The maintainer responded by saying, basically, that the behavior was de
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by blacksqr 6y ago
"Let us abolish policemen who carry clubs and revolvers, and put in a squad of poets armed to the teeth with poems on Spring and Love." --Mark Twain, 1900
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Minneapolis and the Bell Riots(geekunifiedtheory.com)
2 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
FFS, how much CO2 does the energy expenditure of mining, milling and transporting the olivine generate? Just plant more trees!
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Shortly after WWIII humanity made contact with an alien race, and initiated technology-sharing agreements that one can confidently assume included non-carbon-based energy generation, as well as environmental remediation techniques.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Reality has a well-known liberal bias.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
World War III brought industrial activity down to almost nothing, handily ending the threat of global warming.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Shorter: We can easily end the shutdown if we just take steps requiring coordinated national effort that we're clearly not capable of.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The lead author Dr. Neil Rau has been arguing against lockdowns since February. It seems disingenuous for him now to claim that lockdowns have been successful and so it's ok at this point to lift them, without admitting that he was wro

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