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by cpr 9y ago
I’m sure it’s a slip of the tongue, but you don’t mean Bill Joy but rather Jim Gosling.
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by cpr 9y ago
I've got a 2016 15" MBP (touch bar) and have had zero problems with the hardware and software for a year and a half of heavy daily use. Well, maybe one weird hang. YMMV, but it would seem like there's something wrong with you
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by cpr 9y ago
Alan Shewmon is a friend of mine and a highly respected neurosurgeon, ending a long career as the "chief of the neurology department at Olive View-U.C.L.A. Medical Center" (cf the article). Disregarding his scientific opinion beca
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by cpr 9y ago
Yeah, and this was announced right before Sep 11, 2001. Funny how it never got more attention...
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by cpr 9y ago
So piling up lead/zinc ore leftovers outside the mine in Alaska is clearly polluting? Would need more data.
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by cpr 9y ago
The amazing thing is that Paddy himself (the leader of this daring raid) was just a normal English schoolboy, until he set off on his walk across Europe at age 16 or so...
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by cpr 9y ago
Dang, brings back amazing memories of seeing the Unix source listings on my office mate’s desk in the Aiken computer lab. I think Harvard got the first official copy outside of Bell Labs in about 1973 or 4. Memory vague. It was first used o
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by cpr 9y ago
It wasn’t a mistake, but part of the neocon/military industrial complex plan for perpetual war in the Middle East.
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by cpr 9y ago
I loved those 1403 printers as a high school kid working on the IBM 360/65 at the Naval Electronics Lab on Point Loma (San Diego area). Not sure why/how they hired me for the summer to do systems hacking (lost in the mists of ti
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by cpr 9y ago
I stopped reading at "digital baby blanket." This writer can't be serious.
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by cpr 9y ago
Probably not. But don't let him put you off Waugh! A genius of the first order. Brideshead is a masterpiece. But his other, lesser-known works are mostly gems of sparkling, devastating wit and a gimlet eye on the human condition.
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by cpr 9y ago
I think you could spell it out more clearly that the various three-letter agencies in the USA are quite interested in suppressing information about getting-popular systems that thwart their snooping.
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by cpr 9y ago
The term "conspiracy theorist" was promoted in the wholly-owned MSM (look up Operation Mockingbird) by the CIA after the JFK assassination (clearly a cover-up, as it's coming out now--recently released autopsy report shows bu
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by cpr 9y ago
Funny, I was just pondering this yesterday: whether to "upgrade" to the LG, Phillips or Dell 40+" IPS monitors, or whether to stay with my Samsung 40" TVs (UN40JU6400, 2015 models--later models have annoying misfeatures)
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by cpr 9y ago
Fun times! We have raised eight kids (mostly flown now), and still often have 12-15 for dinner, sometimes up to 20+. (We have one of those big Amish extendable tables that go up to 15'.) We're definitely not rich/elderly (wel
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by cpr 9y ago
I saw the same thing on the island of Achill, Ireland. All sheep are allowed to roam the island freely, so if you want anything protected, you have to fence it in. And there are no trees to speak of. That could either be because of the hars
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by cpr 9y ago
First perhaps look at what the US has been doing around the world for decades, "hacking elections" and worse. And then ask why any other nation-state should refrain from doing the same.
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by cpr 9y ago
It's naive to think that Operation Mockingbird ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Mockingbird ) isn't continuing to this day. These major organs of the media function simply as a fourth branch of governm
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by cpr 9y ago
Certainly it's impossible, because choosing which facts (even if we grant they are "facts") to report is a form of editorializing.
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by cpr 9y ago
But note that those two are entirely different things. CEP is for building extensions with HTML+JS+CSS. ExtendScript (an old JS dialect plus Adobe extensions) is for internal product scripting (e.g., building/manipulating the document
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by cpr 9y ago
I always read the Odyssey (I think the Fitzgerald translation) to my younger high-school age kids (in batches) as part of our home education efforts (8 kids, from birth through high school) and the power and paradoxically absolute modernity
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Britain to Criminalize Reading Online Extremist Content(stephenlendman.org)
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by cpr 9y ago
"can fathom" is a common English (American, too) phrase.
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by cpr 9y ago
IBM 1130, 1970-ish, high school sophomore/junior, programming Fortran in an Explorer post (wasn't a Scout) after hours, Teledyne Ryan, San Diego. Great machine. Single user. CPU drove the printer hammers as each print position whe
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by cpr 9y ago
Right, since Charles Simonyi wrote both originally.
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by cpr 9y ago
Well, being a very CISC-y architecture means they couldn't have kept up with Intel, who spent/d billions on their line.
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by cpr 9y ago
I was around the AI Lab at the time (working for the EECS department sysop'ing their undergrad Lisp Machines and DEC-20), and the dream was to incarnate Lisp in hardware and surpass the slow, multi-user PDP-10's/DEC-20's
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by cpr 9y ago
Why do you call it data collection? It's simply ensuring the firmware (which is really part of the hardware--though nothing's "hard" until you get down to the microcode interpreter on the CPU) hasn't been altered. T
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by cpr 9y ago
This calls to mind the amusing Harvey Mansfield, who used to be the only "conservative" (arguable) professor in the government dept. (I missed him in my time there epochs ago.) He gave two grades, the official, inflated, career-pr
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by cpr 9y ago
Yes, sex can be joyful. But sex is not a play toy, even if you're an atheist. The physiology of sex creates very strong bonding, and arbitrarily creating and then breaking those bonds is usually quite damaging to the human psyche.

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