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by cpr 8y ago
Not: as groundbreaking as Scribe (Brian Reid at CMU) was, I don’t think SGML was inspired by it. They had parallel dev paths...
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‘Too Big to Fail’: Russia-Gate One Year After VIPS Showed a Leak, Not a Hack(consortiumnews.com)
2 points by cpr 8y ago|1 comments
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by cpr 8y ago
I knew Dan from systems hacking in high school ('72?) on the IBM 360 out at San Diego State (no idea how I got involved there). Lynn Brock was the head of the systems group there, and Henry Burgess was involved as well. Dan went on to
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by cpr 8y ago
I was a minor figure in the starting of Byte back in, what 1974? Can't remember the year. I worked with Carl Helmers (original editor, who had a hobbyist micro newsletter already going, dealing with 8008's, etc.) and Dan Fylstra (
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by cpr 8y ago
Again, ask yourself why the powers that be are priming the public in order to partially defuse forthcoming very damaging videos...
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by cpr 8y ago
http://drjudywood.com/towers/ This is easily the most intriguing site on the 9/11 conspiracy.
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by cpr 8y ago
There are 300M guns in the USA spread across 3.8M m^2. 1M soldiers (O(current armed forces)), armed with all the equipment they have (unless they decide to nuke the whole country) could not take down a rebel force spread across most of the
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by cpr 8y ago
Pretty clear the powers that be are using the mockingbird media to step up damage control for when certain damning videos of very powerful people start to drop...
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by cpr 8y ago
Ad hominem applied to the institution...
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by cpr 8y ago
All these wishlists are quite well known, and I agree with many of them. (I really like the butterfly keyboards on the latest 15" MBPs, and the fact that they now have a warrantee extension makes it less of a worry.) But in the end, I&
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by cpr 8y ago
Ad hominem. Can you address the issues?
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by cpr 8y ago
ScreenFlow, a great pro product for macOS, outputs great animated GIFs (just turn off dithering!), with control over framerate, final scaling, etc. And you can decide any time whether a video or a GIF would suit you best (or both, for diffe
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by cpr 8y ago
Trump has made it clear that he's after constitutional conservatives. That happens to be a GOP platform item, but it's the opposite of ideology: follow what the constitution says, not some imaginary "modern updated" vers
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Break the web – Favoring a bigger future over a tiny past(certsimple.com)
2 points by cpr 8y ago|0 comments
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by cpr 8y ago
Sure, if you don't mind the NYT/WaPo in their current incarnation as the official organs of the establishment. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird .)
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by cpr 8y ago
What's wrong with a USB-C to HDMI cable? You've gotta have a cable anyway, and it works great!
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by cpr 8y ago
Gee, why am I cynical about this? https://worldmercuryproject.org/news/bill-gates-are-vaccines...
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Carver Mead – The Spectator Interview (2001)(worrydream.com)
2 points by cpr 8y ago|0 comments
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by cpr 8y ago
I have cpr@{me,mac}.com and get 2-5 emails a day with CPR completion certificates or card scans. Have no idea how to redirect them or turn them off...
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by cpr 8y ago
Sal is a world-class jazz musician, which is his real love. Great man.
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by cpr 8y ago
C was always intended as a higher-level assembly, so by definition, it can't be memory-safe.
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by cpr 8y ago
He supposedly did a lot of research on just how the hook-up culture on campuses worked. (Don't mean that cynically or suggestively--just that he always worked hard for his source material.)
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by cpr 8y ago
As soon as a writer mentions the CIA in conjunction with fighting the "terrorists", you know they're clueless or a shill. Standard Operating Mockingbird fare.
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by cpr 9y ago
Semi-on-topic, are there others providing GraphQL backends in the cloud, other than cloud.graph.cool and AWS?
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by cpr 9y ago
How about a reality check? https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2018/04/12/the_wo...
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by cpr 9y ago
The US intelligence community (aka the Deep State) has a strongly vested interest in covering its tracks, which makes WikiLeaks a dangerous opponent, who must be shut down at any cost.
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Stripe launches a new billing tool to tap demand from online businesses(techcrunch.com)
4 points by cpr 9y ago|1 comments
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Big data for the people: it's time to take it back from our tech overlords(theguardian.com)
3 points by cpr 9y ago|0 comments
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Google Censors Guns, Removes Shopping Results(medium.com)
6 points by cpr 9y ago|4 comments
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by cpr 9y ago
The title immediately called to mind the incredible keyboards, which were still one step down from the original TK MIT AI Lab Microswitch boards. Finer, faster, more satisfying keyboards have never been made...

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