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811.
by cat199 7y ago
wow seriously.. So ancient hebrews were just writing stories about their hallucinations for no reason at all other than entertainment? Because some fragment of the hebrew canon doesn't contain language concerning introspection means th
812.
by cat199 7y ago
> you can't always trust the specs promised on Amazon either. didn't realize amazon is the arbiter of all knowledge hardware..
813.
by cat199 7y ago
> on US soil But not before they have technically entered.. (and no, this doesn't mean i'm anti immigration) edit: or pro searching, etc
814.
by cat199 7y ago
ahh yes.. but then there was the endless rewinding and fast-forwarding to find the part you wanted to hear.. CD's were a welcome change back to the random access of records for many
815.
by cat199 7y ago
> Why does someone need to spot check the training data against the output? because one wants to make sure ones program is operating as intended?
816.
by cat199 7y ago
with capital, having your own firm doesn't have to mean 'working for', one can just as easily 'work with' or initiate one's own collaborations
817.
by cat199 7y ago
> I find the GNU cat to have way more options and easier to read source code. My guess is that novice programmers would find the GNU version easier to grok, which also probably aligns more to the goal of GNU. Perhaps, but, also, on a sou
818.
by cat199 7y ago
"If you have a vague recollection of the internals of a Unix program, this does not absolutely mean you can’t write an imitation of it, but do try to organize the imitation internally along different lines, because this is likely to ma
819.
by cat199 7y ago
Did I? "This resource is for novice programmers exploring the design of command-line utilities. It is best used as an accompaniment providing useful background while reading the source code of the utility you may be interested in. &quo
820.
by cat199 7y ago
Or, just browse the originals: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=4.3BSD/usr/src and some of their current deceden
821.
by cat199 7y ago
> Now Kranz, 85, has completed another undertaking: the reopening of Mission Control at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. This article seems to imply that no mission control has been active in Houston since 1992, which is not
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by cat199 7y ago
> The fact that these design decisions have been integral to making Apple one of the most valuable companies in the world probably indicates they were good design decisions. One could very very easily make the case that apple's popu
823.
by cat199 7y ago
why does he have to work 'for' anyone? seems to be loaded & well connected enough to easily do several of his own things..
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by cat199 7y ago
> Fifth: Fuck this “sir” shit. We don’t have titles in the United States. The 1 second it took me to google revealed he is British, and apple is all about showing off your "class".. so yeah.
825.
by cat199 7y ago
how to fix the superfluous use of 'the'. but also: 'API Influencer' as job title? wow.
826.
by cat199 7y ago
> That's the problem with these algorithms that humans don't watch over. ... and Facebook/Twitter profit from it and even promote it. Don't be fooled.. Someone is spot checking the training data against the output a
827.
by cat199 7y ago
because if the room didn't ever exist at $129, this was false adversing.
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by cat199 7y ago
> left, but on the big ones we're forced to slant right so peculiar that while existing in a 4d space, we are so prone to believing that politicians only operate on a 1d vector.
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by cat199 7y ago
> Syria umm. how about those 'moderate rebels'? pretty sure the US and its regional allies were the ones stirring the pot in the middle east since hussein/gaddafi/mubarak..
830.
by cat199 7y ago
> like shooting down the Malaysian Airlines jet over Ukraine were completely unnecessary do you seriously think this was a deliberate action? if so, what would be the rationale and goal of doing it? ps: why is noone blaming the airline
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by cat199 7y ago
> European society If one defines 'European Society' as Bretton Woods + EU/EEC, then yes, you can make a case, although 'enemy' is likely debatable in strength. If however one takes the view that EU is essentiall
832.
by cat199 7y ago
> large enough to sustain a product this critical down the road? This may not be a 'product' per se. also, these libraries tend to be small and self contained and little changing over time. See also: https://svnweb.
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by cat199 7y ago
'Berkeley' never used only the BSD license. BSD UNIX used the BSD license (among other things). There is/were/always will be many projects, departments, professors, etc. doing things needing license at UCB, and each will
834.
by cat199 7y ago
i'm going to disagree here. yes, they have strong core types, but there is nothing preventing you calling some function with completely invalid arguments.. even within the 'interpreted fp' world, there are better examples (e
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by cat199 7y ago
yes, probably so. was going for 'popularity' here
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by cat199 7y ago
> Those languages are also not very popular at all today. But yet, C (arguably 'current algol') and Python (arguably 'current scheme' ) are.. yes: python is verry loosely like scheme, this is meant in the sense of
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by cat199 7y ago
also, chocolate is a heavy part of mexican cuisine.. so it's not 'foreign' to start with..
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by cat199 7y ago
good play - now they will have title to some portion of the mechanical royalties and can promote youtube premium with their own exlusive content.
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by cat199 7y ago
there's also the hobbyist license + SIMH, and hopefully the amd64 port any day now (though that will sadly probably still be for-fee)
840.
by cat199 7y ago
> 1. The world could use an online independent currency and how exactly does having a stablecoin backed by facebook and a consortium of other vc/bank funded corporations achieve this?

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