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by cpr 2y ago
And, of course, the Asteroids Atari game sure looks like a version of the original Star Wars game on the PDP-1 from MIT I used to play in the Harvard grad computing center...
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by cpr 3y ago
I'm so old I remember in the early 70's when the ARPAnet had only a few dozen nodes, and there were free Telnet logins on most hosts -- we'd play a game (starting from HARV-10) where we'd make telnet chains to as many ho
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by cpr 3y ago
Gee, I wonder why so many Americans are reluctant to get vaccinated, after the COVID clusterfuck -- in the end, even the official government stance was that the vaxx didn't protect against COVID and also didn't prevent transmissio
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by cpr 3y ago
Yeah, but didn't Signal say they would have to shut down if they didn't get their government subsidy? Doesn't bode well for their independence from three-letter agencies.
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by cpr 3y ago
Isn't PrinceXML pretty much up to date? What's missing?
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by cpr 3y ago
Sure, ban the people you disagree with. That's a good, practical solution with no unintended consequences. Oh, wait, now you're the fascist.
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by cpr 3y ago
Isn't an iPhone (which you always have with you if you're in the Apple ecosystem) hotspot good enough for almost anything? I don't think the indirection slowdown could even be detected. Also, I noticed a while back that conne
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by cpr 3y ago
So are you using PrinceXML for your "completely separate engine where typography is a first-class citizen"?
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by cpr 3y ago
As first expounded by Matteo Ricci, a 16th/17th-century Jesuit missionary to China. https://web.mit.edu/uricchio/Public/Documents/media-in-trans...
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by cpr 3y ago
Was at Multiflow (Yale spinoff with Josh Fisher and John O'Donnell) '85-90 and saw the VLIW problem up close (was in the OS group, eventually running it). The main problem was compiler complexity -- the hoped-for "junk parall
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by cpr 3y ago
Big wake-up coming in 2024...
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by cpr 3y ago
So it's like the DEW weapons that can cook half a car in the twin towers parking lot and leave the other half perfectly intact...
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by cpr 3y ago
Great stuff! Yes, please open source it.
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by cpr 3y ago
Yes, they're alarmed and baffled because they aren't allowed to talk about the entirely obvious cause.
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by cpr 3y ago
Yes, and Germany is in steep industrial decline...
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Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check(stream.org)
4 points by cpr 3y ago|0 comments
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by cpr 3y ago
This article ignores the fact that three-letter-agencies are behind many of these tech moguls' "successes", and they're in fact being used for total surveillance by the intel community. I.e., while the tech moguls may dr
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Create the ultimate passive income streams(thegoodcitizen.live)
2 points by cpr 3y ago|2 comments
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by cpr 3y ago
The problem is utterly simple. If you print dollars (created out of nothing), the value of each dollar goes down, since nothing of value has been created or destroyed. You have more dollars chasing the same value. But of course the official
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by cpr 3y ago
Because I found just about the perfect keyboard and it's not wireless: Steelseries Apex Pro ( https://www.amazon.com/SteelSeries-Apex-Mechanical-Gaming-Ke... ) With some lube, this Hall effect keyboard comes as close as
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by cpr 3y ago
Jim Kunstler is a national treasure. Can't recommend his blog enough: https://kunstler.com/writings/clusterfuck-nation/ .
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by cpr 3y ago
I don't understand the "smurfing" solution he references, but CPython's runtime uses reference counts in each referenced value to detect garbage (when a value can be freed), which means even read-only values can be modif
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by cpr 3y ago
A global temperature average is utterly meaningless. https://off-guardian.org/2023/07/12/reality-check-no-we-didn...
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by cpr 3y ago
I resemble that remark! Hey, I was one of the "get some fresh middle class white nobodies from the San Diego area for diversity" legacies in 1972. ;-)
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by cpr 3y ago
An older friend of ours from California had a brother who was a fluent Latinist from grad school, and when his brother went to Rome for the first time, he didn't know any Italian. He figured, what the heck, and ordered a meal in Latin.
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by cpr 3y ago
Conclusion of article: >Overall, the long-term trend in Antarctic sea ice is nearly flat. (in contrast, the glaciers and ice sheets over land in Antarctica are losing mass.) The satellite record spans more than four decades, and although
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by cpr 3y ago
While not standalone apps, our data publishing plugins for Adobe InDesign ( http://emsoftware.com ) are now 23+ years old and going strong...
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by cpr 3y ago
That the cabal is trying to kill us all?
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by cpr 4y ago
Great to see another Yegge rant! Thought those were all history...
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by cpr 4y ago
Try Operator Mono Lig -- beautiful & readable italics for code styling.

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