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811.
by cgh 10y ago
"In no other era could a title like “Machine Code For Beginners” have been a children’s book." This is so, so true. I cannot even imagine such a book for kids or even teenagers now. Something was lost when computers became powerfu
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by cgh 10y ago
Large areas of the world cannot be powered with wind or solar. To use a Canadian example, the west coast of British Columbia is not a sunny place, to put it mildly, and not particularly windy. In other places, the solar energy is simply too
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by cgh 10y ago
Imagine the Venn diagram of "Has a Unix environment because we deploy to Linux" and "Can run MS Office, including Outlook". The intersection has the word "Mac" in it. That's why our entire team was issued
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by cgh 10y ago
Here are some current mainstream media misconceptions regarding health and nutrition. Admittedly, most of these are already acknowledged as wrong in the same way that "all saturated fat is bad for you" is wrong, with the exception
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by cgh 10y ago
Buy the biggest slow cooker you can find. Once or twice a week, fill it with huge chunks of meat, onions, parsnips, garlic, salt, pepper, chicken broth and whatever else you like. You now have dinner for most of the week. This is also a goo
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by cgh 10y ago
Uses soy protein, making it a non-starter for informed people wanting to build/maintain muscle mass. A McMaster study[1] demonstrated that 20g of soy protein (S20) was as effective at muscle protein synthesis (MPS) as 0g. This bar cont
817.
by cgh 10y ago
My experience of French food is exactly the opposite. Meat is central, with some vegetables on the side. There is a lot of fat in the form of oil and cheese. Carbs, such as bread, are side dishes at best. In fact, I struggle to think of a F
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by cgh 10y ago
You are of course correct. By any objective measure, humanity has never had it so good. We live in the safest and most peaceful time in human history, as measured by the deaths caused by famine, disease, warfare and poverty. This is often o
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by cgh 10y ago
If that were true, all cows would be extinct within one generation. As someone who just visited a farm and bought a quarter of a cow for the freezer, I can say I saw various calves wandering around.
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by cgh 10y ago
Yes, the junk will hopefully diminish when we get a micro-payment framework that actually works and people will use. Websites are bottlenecked into ads for revenue, to everyone's detriment and sorrow. Unfortunately, it won't do mu
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by cgh 11y ago
I'm not American so I'm not the "you" you're referring to in your bizarre "aim higher" lecture. That said, the comment I was answering implied the US is an unfree country. That is simply not the case. To i
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by cgh 11y ago
Compared to, say, Russia, Americans are correct to believe they live in a free society. These things are relative.
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by cgh 11y ago
"Folly" is a relatively common English word. "Wangle" is less common but I still see it from time to time. What I find more interesting than the naming is FB's willingness to remove features from Folly as they are m
824.
by cgh 11y ago
Well, Image exists and seems to do okay, and the creators benefit to the extent that they are ditching the Big Two (Marvel and DC) in favour of creator-owned. I'm not sure what the exact revenue split is. Image's books don't
825.
by cgh 11y ago
It would be a great way to buy a house in a very private setting for a trivial sum. It's kind of like buying a house near high-tension power lines. Enough people with kooky beliefs will lower real estate prices.
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by cgh 11y ago
Basically, what's needed is an Image Comics but for music, where the creators maintain control of their works and are paid the lion's share of the profits. Surely there must be a label like this out there.
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by cgh 11y ago
They are both trying to monetize the content. I thought that was obvious.
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by cgh 11y ago
I believe you are correct. Where I work, basic webapp crud and ui-type stuff are handled by younger, inexperienced people because these are easy things. For the more complicated problems, ones that tend to require deep knowledge of eg servi
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by cgh 11y ago
Like my sibling poster said, a full megabyte would have been the sheerest luxury. After the ROM was mapped into memory on startup, my C64 had 38 kB available for programs. It is flat-out amazing what people did with that memory, including o
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by cgh 11y ago
Dune is probably the bestselling science fiction novel ever. By 2000, it had sold more than 12,000,000 copies[1]. It also won both the Hugo and Nebula awards. It's true that it hasn't penetrated popular culture like Game of Throne
831.
by cgh 11y ago
One of the YouTube comments on the SciFi version sums it up best for me: "Dune, a miniseries from Roger Corman"
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by cgh 11y ago
I really liked "Jodorowky's Dune" but I'm convinced his film would have been a disaster. For example, the ending would have consisted of Dune, the newly sentient "enlightened" planet, flying around the galaxy t
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by cgh 11y ago
Inline assembly: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/inline-assembly.html Arbitrary pointer arithmetic is also supported.
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by cgh 11y ago
So you are saying I can install a modern Linux distribution, let's say Ubuntu, and run KDE 2 and Gnome 1.0 applications right away, say by copying over the binary? I don't think so. These won't even run with a recompile, unle
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by cgh 11y ago
Hear, hear. I wrote gui applications fifteen+ years ago in MFC and the ATL. Front-end programming was boring then and it's boring now. I can't believe people are wasting so much time re-figuring this stuff out.
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by cgh 11y ago
Have you ever tried Cisco's Webex? It's pretty good, plus it has desktop sharing and various other handy things.
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by cgh 11y ago
You should know a number of things on this list if you do back-end webapp development, particularly for large/hairy enterprise stuff. So maybe you are referring to front-end only.
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by cgh 11y ago
I have seen guitarists spend serious time debating picks.
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by cgh 11y ago
No offence but this quote seems a bit trite? I watched this movie years ago but I don't really remember it. Did it predict smartphones? That's kind of a litmus test.
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by cgh 11y ago
>> stating also that there are enormous health benefits to eating meat - being surely wrong. No, Bill knows what he's talking about. Animal-based foods are the most nutritious foods for humans. Beef liver, for example, is one of

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