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by cbd1984 11y ago
If you limit yourself to the 16-bit subset, you can use manuals that are even older. And if you give up binary portability and restrict yourself to the source portability which helped sell people on the 8086 and the 8088 to begin with, you
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Interesting charges. Are they ever applied to companies that allow money to be wired or otherwise transferred between banks?
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Magnetism, Radiation, and Relativity (1999)(physics.weber.edu)
37 points by cbd1984 11y ago|13 comments
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Why are you linking to an OCR of a scan? Link to the main page, where multiple formats are on offer: https://archive.org/details/jstor-27899007 The main page even has a rather nice viewer to view the document in your b
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> No one needs a car that can go faster than 85mph ... until they REALLY do.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I can't see how drones made killing any more economical than high-altitude daylight bombing did in WWII and Vietnam. Once you've established absolute air superiority, and the USAF is good at that these days, the bombers would be a
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by cbd1984 11y ago
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~matc/Readers/HowManyAngels/Wayso... Quine (who never went by QuineQuine, more's the pity) had an answer to this problem: Differentiate between veridical and falsidical paradox
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Is potato-blackhole distinguishable from same mass water black-hole? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-hair_theorem We don't know if black holes have hair, so the answer to your question is "We don't
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by cbd1984 11y ago
BOFH-admins will configure to accept-and-bitbucket-default; that is, make the other party think it's gotten through, and then ignore everything it has to say. Maybe throw in some fuzzing: accept-and-respond-with-gibberish-default. acce
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by cbd1984 11y ago
If nothing else, UDP provides ports, so multiple applications can be sending and receiving UDP datagrams at once without getting confused, or, indeed, even being aware of each other.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Flagged as spam.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> diverse philosophies at the table, including classics like liberty, speech and privacy. Are you seriously claiming those philosophies are on a level with the gibberish you quoted, which may as well have come from Sokal?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Yes; abstract culture is killing the academic world. In truth, only one Abstract is needed: JUST READ IT
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Yes, that fashion for destroying infectious diseases using vaccinations, drugs, and hygiene is certainly fleeting, isn't it?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Flagged as spam.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Is this URL not loading for anyone else?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Yes, it does. I will say that "the cloud" can have an actual definition: "We've outsourced that function to a company we communicate with only or primarily over the Internet." It's like outsourcing facilities
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by cbd1984 11y ago
I don't like the word "buzzword" because I've never actually seen it defined. Is "WiFi" a buzzword? Is "email" a buzzword? Is "car" a buzzword? Why or why not? It's like the word "
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Remote controls. Why are they terrible? They're the pinnacle of 1980s consumer electronics technology. Or, well, they're close to the top of the digital electronics we put into analog TVs, anyway. > Why is no one fixing th
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Downvotes for making an irrelevant tu quoque don't imply people disagree with your statement.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
And that's what passes as serious philosophy these days?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Literally none of those quotes make any sense. Can you explain them?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Interesting how something can explain how something works without giving a hint as to what it does.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> diverse philosophies at the table, including classics like liberty, speech and privacy. 'Speech' is hardly a philosophy, 'liberty' is deeply contested down to its core, and 'privacy' is, again, something y
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> The univalence axiom says that two types are equal if we can convert their values back and forth (without loss of information). So strings are equivalent to everything, and vice-versa. > Now, the issue is that currently we don'
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by cbd1984 11y ago
Are you quoting these for comedic value?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> diverse philosophies at the table, including classics like liberty, speech and privacy. Are you seriously claiming those philosophies are on a level with the gibberish you quoted, which may as well have come from Sokal?
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by cbd1984 11y ago
The highbrow Internet isn't hindered in any way by the chans or the cat GIFs or whatever the current New Media bogeyman is. The great thing about the Internet is that it gives you infinite room to build what you want.
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by cbd1984 11y ago
> Who dreamed of a highbrow Internet, and how did they get so out of touch with humanity in the first place? The people who invented it, who wanted a way for scientists to access mainframes using a single network instead of having to use
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by cbd1984 11y ago
How many people know how to multiply two numbers expressed in Roman numeral format without reference to an algorism (not a typo!) or other methods based on Hindu-Arabic numerals? How many people are fast at computing fifth roots without rec

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