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by bregma 1y ago
As I understand it after having been informed by authoritative sources over a significant period of time, they should just say "no".
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by bregma 1y ago
Plenty of stories about yahoos hitching their pickup to a telephone repeater box around where I live to pull the copper cable only to find it's fibre. You can't beat stupid.
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by bregma 1y ago
Curry 5p Meat Curry 7p Named Meat Curry 15p
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by bregma 1y ago
Where will the experts come from in the future if no one learns and we just accept whatever the Markov chain generates for us from the Bayesian database of old information?
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by bregma 1y ago
I have never seen a Selectric in which the ball moved instead of the carriage. I can't imagine how complicated the mechanics would be for that and how often it would jam, break, or malfunction. Certainly not something a company such as
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by bregma 1y ago
Toronto is relatively balmy compared with every other significant Canadian city east of the rockies and it's not in the snow belt. What it does get is vast seas of road snot a pedestrian has to wade through at every intersection. That
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by bregma 1y ago
> Carriage return moved the paper (on typewriters before the IBM Ball) and moved the print head (the "ball" on an IBM typewriter, or the actual print head on TTYs and DECWriter equivalents) back to column 0. Carriage return alw
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by bregma 1y ago
What would you use for equal-to-or-greater-than comparisons?
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by bregma 1y ago
Even this is wrong. Programming should be explicit and easy for anyone to read. c = a + b; is bad since it's an assertion that c is equal to the sum of a and b, and before it's executed, it's completely untrue. Not o
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by bregma 1y ago
> if you are below or above a certain age or height Is discrimination against dwarves still a thing in Germany?
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by bregma 1y ago
The bezel on my monitor has a bevel.
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by bregma 1y ago
You can still get a QNX demo image [0], only nowadays it requires an 8 GB SD card and Raspberry Pi. [0] https://gitlab.com/qnx/quick-start-images/raspberry-pi-qnx-8...
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by bregma 1y ago
I journeyed from fancy commercial bookkeeping systems that changed data formats every few years (with no useful migration) to GNU Cash and finally to Plain-Text Accounting. I can finally get the information I need with easy backups (through
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by bregma 1y ago
Computer programming is to computer science as working a cash register is to economics.
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by bregma 1y ago
"We choose NOT to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
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by bregma 1y ago
> 12 hours in a day I guess, for a sufficiently large value of 12.
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by bregma 1y ago
How can it be "better" when it is exactly the same?
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by bregma 1y ago
And yet you don't hear the same complaints about the elevated metros in Paris. Why is that and what can we learn from it?
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by bregma 1y ago
Satiety is mediated by cholecystokinin released in reaction to the presence of fatty acids and certain amino acids (partially digested fats and proteins) in the duodenum, or first part of the small intestines. That hormone stimulates the re
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by bregma 1y ago
Wait... you mean everyone with an X chromosome is female? Is it that simple?
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by bregma 1y ago
The policy forced sterilization of indigenous people that went on from the postwar period up until the start of the 21st century is an excellent example.
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by bregma 1y ago
> Isn't computer programing all of computer science. In the same way accountancy is all of math.
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by bregma 1y ago
Isambard Kingdom Brunel? Gustav Eiffel? Robert Stephenson? Nikola Tesla? Alexander Graham Bell? Orville and Wilbur Wright? Thomas Edison? I guess it depends on how much you honour those who lit the way before you.
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by bregma 1y ago
You must live in the city.
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by bregma 1y ago
I do not have sleep problems. I can sleep anywhere, light or dark. It is completely obvious to me that ambient light and sleep are uncorrelated in any way.
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by bregma 1y ago
Regurgitating its input is the only thing it does. It does not do any thinking, let alone critical thinking. It may give the illusion of thinking because it's been trained on thoughts. That's it.
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by bregma 1y ago
It's all because of Big Help.
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by bregma 1y ago
A keener is an ardent enthusiast. A brown-noser (aka a browner) is a sycophant. Not the same thing at all. Also, a brown-noser should not be confused with a blue-noser.
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by bregma 1y ago
Check the foreign foods section of your local supermarket. Probably right beside those chocolate sprinkles intended for making sandwiches.
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by bregma 1y ago
It's a 750.

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