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by breadbox 11y ago
Unless the tests are almost never run on the weekends (which is what I assumed the author was implying).
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by breadbox 11y ago
Unfortunately wind instruments are one of the hardest instruments to manufacture from scratch, due to the unreasonable complexity of figuring out where the holes need to go to get a certain note. (String instruments have all the advantages
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Ramsey Theory in the Dining Room(bit-player.org)
54 points by breadbox 11y ago|3 comments
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Our Generation Ships Will Sink(boingboing.net)
2 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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The Long Run(bit-player.org)
34 points by breadbox 11y ago|3 comments
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Hell's code kitchen(devblog.avdi.org)
2 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
I hear this sort of thing so often. Not the OP; I mean your comment. "I can't believe anyone in this industry could be so obnoxious/callous/racist/misogynist/solipsist." It's true that most people are
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by breadbox 11y ago
If there was anything of any size there, we would be able to measure its effect on the rest of the planetary orbits. Also, it would not be in a stable orbit, and would eventually either get ejected from the solar system, move into a differe
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Why Do We Love Henry David Thoreau?(newyorker.com)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
This argument is remarkably familiar; it's basically the same (on both sides) when the motorcycle helmet laws were being argued in the 1980s. It's easy to forget that people actually argued that motorcyclists might be safer withou
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by breadbox 11y ago
A very different review that is also interesting to read: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/books/2015/09/gamel...
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by breadbox 11y ago
You may have missed it at the time, but you can still play it. All of the Infocom games are well preserved. I didn't play Suspended at the time it came out, despite wanting to, because I couldn't afford it. I wound up playing it d
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SHA-1 Freestart Collision(schneier.com)
6 points by breadbox 11y ago|1 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
While the changes to Capitol Hill alarm me as well (having lived there for 25 years), there have always been gay hate crimes on Capitol Hill.
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by breadbox 11y ago
Yes, but the technology of "storing images" is never going to become the domain of free software. It's a little late for that. If you're trying to drive widespread adoption of a competing file format, then don't G
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How DNS breaks almost every design principle of the internet(recompilermag.com)
1 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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The Recompiler [feminist hacker zine](recompilermag.com)
3 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
The article (if not the actual test) appears to make the comon mistake of misinterpreting the second half of Godwin's Law. People often read it as saying that once Nazis are invoked, the conversation ends. What Godwin's Law actual
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by breadbox 11y ago
I have used such a solution at times. But then you usually have the problem of overwriting half of a wide character, which is worse.
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by breadbox 11y ago
This stuff is a nightmare if you're trying to write a nice-looking terminal application. AFAICT there is no reliable way to determine how many cells an arbitrary Unicode glyph will occupy when output to a terminal. None. You can use v
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National Geographic Is Now Owned by a Climate Change Denier(gizmodo.com)
8 points by breadbox 11y ago|0 comments
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by breadbox 11y ago
Yes, via the isatty() syscall. ls is hardly the only Unix tool that does this; it's just the most well-known example.
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by breadbox 11y ago
Agner Fog's resources are amazingly thorough, and some of his documents include information that was completely unknown at the time of publication. If you're trying to optimize for "non-deterministic" Intel chips, there
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by breadbox 11y ago
I've been using a pedal on my Kinesis for a shift key for about 5-10 years now. At some point I noticed that my left pinky was experiencing more pain than my other 9 fingers, due to its heavy use for holding shift and ctrl while pressi
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by breadbox 11y ago
The title is a reference to Babbage's own appellation for Lovelace as "the Enchantress of Numbers".
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by breadbox 11y ago
As always, "kids" == younger than me. But no, I've never used a teleprinter for anything serious. Still, the evidence of their recent departure is all around us. vi (short for "visual", because the idea of a visual
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by breadbox 11y ago
The author's amazement at the oblique reference to teletype outputs is hilarious. Kids these days forget that much of Unix (and most other things) were created without the benefit of "glass teletypes" (aka screens).
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by breadbox 11y ago
I don't think so. I'm going from memory here, but I think in pre-K&R C it wasn't assumed that every struct/union would be given its own separate namespace.
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by breadbox 11y ago
Sounds like what changed wasn't him or the events; it was the fact that the events were noticed by the world at large.
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by breadbox 11y ago
Standout quote: "People think that confidence follows skills, but it’s usually the other way around where skills follow confidence." This is a fact that really needs to be more widely acknowledged. (It also casts the microagressio

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