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by colomon 9y ago
"But you can find an American-Chinese restaurant in almost every po-dunk country town across the entirety of America." This is a relatively recent development, BTW. I grew up in small town Michigan. In the 70s, when we wanted Ch
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by colomon 9y ago
"The bone fragments, some from a mastodon’s stout thigh, were scarred with marks and notches that are hallmarks of a violent blow on fresh bone. Old bone, the scientists say, shows different fracture patterns." [1] https:/&#
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by colomon 9y ago
Disclaimer: I am financially tied to NLib's current distributor. NLib has a lot of sophisticated NURBS math tools. It was literally written by one of the men who wrote The NURBS Book. As far as I know, it doesn't do anything much
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by colomon 10y ago
That's simply not true. They work very hard to understand and control the risks they take. But there is an entire field of reinsurance[1], which is insurance for insurance companies against the times they get it wrong, such as major
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by colomon 10y ago
Doesn't the reason for asking that question depend heavily on context? If your wife asks you that as she's getting dressed in the morning, she may well be asking for honest(-ish) feedback to avoid looking fat all day at work. It
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by colomon 10y ago
Another great thing here: "Design sacrifice: killing 5% to get 90%." I remember a very specific example of this from Perl 6 development circa 2009. perlgeek (I think) and I had been struggling with coding up the sequence operator
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by colomon 10y ago
On the bright side, it seems like more light is being shown on these long-standing terrible policies now that Trump is president...
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by colomon 10y ago
Real grammar [1], regularly used by me, at least. It may not be the best way of doing things today, it was written three or four Perl 6 compilers ago. But it works on the latest Rakudo release. [1] https://github.com/colom
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by colomon 10y ago
I've been a Perl user since 1994 or so, using it for an endless variety of small scripts to aid my $work and computer use in general. Since 2010 or so the vast majority of new scripts I've written have been in Perl 6, and I'
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by colomon 10y ago
I forget what the name was, but I used a Microsoft Basic on the IBM PC platform a few years later which was light years better than the C64 Basic. Still gave it up ASAP after learning C, mind you.
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by colomon 10y ago
Young whippersnapper. I remember when a 170K floppy for storage was a huge improvement, because at least it was random access...
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by colomon 10y ago
For what it's worth, after a bit of research [1], I discovered Commodore Basic 2.0 had simple FOR loops (which I think I used and forgot), and the ability to create functions which encode a single one-variable mathematical expression (
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by colomon 10y ago
I suspect younger programmers can't even begin to imagine what it was like. I learned to program on the Commodore 64. The default language was (Microsoft) Basic. Line numbers. Only flow control IF, GOTO, and GOSUB/RETURN. No
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by colomon 10y ago
Was it Lisinopril? A cough is a recognized side effect of it, but I think something as severe as you are describing would be fairly rare? While I think you might be overreacting a bit here, I have a similar story. I had an irritated, gunk
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by colomon 10y ago
I'm trying Backblaze now, hoping my first backup will be done in a week or so...
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by colomon 10y ago
How long have you been using this? When I search online for solutions to the Time Capsule problems I have been having, they are full of "Time Machine does not work backing up to non-Apple products" warnings.
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by colomon 10y ago
This brings up a great practical question. What's the state of the art of this sort of thing for more modest but still modern data storage requirements? Context: For the last five years, my backup system has been to have Time Machine
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by colomon 10y ago
Wow!
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by colomon 10y ago
Twice as fast as the previous generation's SSD?
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by colomon 10y ago
It feels to me like you are putting this backwards. I've been using the MBP as my main software development platform for eight years now. My current machine is a maxed out mid 2014 15" MBPr. What does the new MBP offer me over
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by colomon 10y ago
Huh? I've only ever used Time Machine to grab individual files from backup, which is dead easy. (Okay, I have grabbed all the most recent files when doing a full system restore.)
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by colomon 10y ago
I'm not enough of a fan to know how many of those verses he did sing in concert, but I do know that I have two recordings of him singing the song and they only have one verse in common. Weirdly, this verse ISN'T in the Jeff Buckl
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by colomon 10y ago
Tom Sawyer is sitting in the rafters watching his own funeral. There's more than one sequel, and he survives all of them.
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by colomon 10y ago
It's like the people complaining about all the fancy Lego sets today are removing creativity from Lego, no? One kid might build the set and leave it together forever. But my kid builds the set, leaves it together a few weeks, then us
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by colomon 10y ago
It's a somewhat interesting question. One of my favorite recent albums [1] is at A = 366Hz. That's literally the case (the A string on the fiddle is tuned to 366Hz), but of course you could argue the whole thing is transposed do
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by colomon 10y ago
Hell, I'd love to move to Newfoundland, but even so there's no way you'd ever get me to move to somewhere as isolated as Little Bay Islands. 6.5 hours to drive to St. John's? It's faster to fly from Toronto... (Ed
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by colomon 10y ago
My understanding is third hand at best, but certainly the stuff I've read / heard from the 80s talking about the first wave of resettlement was quite bitter. "The Government Game": http://www.wtv-zone.com&#x2F
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by colomon 10y ago
Strictly retrocomputing. I loved my C64 back in the day, but it is completely outclassed by pretty much every modern computing platform no matter how humble.
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by colomon 10y ago
This is old news, new rules came out as a result this month: http://www.curling.ca/blog/2016/09/11/curling-canada-adopts-...
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by colomon 10y ago
Well, if he'd written an article saying a larger workspace area is nice, would it have hit the front page of Hacker News?

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