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by dcminter 1y ago
I vaguely recall building a resource allocation tool using IBM's "ILOG" mixed integer linear programming library and we realised that if we'd built the tool about 20 years earlier it would have still been running for the
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by dcminter 1y ago
I must have the last good HP printer or something. Mine is the "HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw" which is a WiFi enabled colour laser printer. It prints nicely, a set of cartridges lasts me for multiple years (low usage of cours
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by dcminter 1y ago
Or you could come to Sweden :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Solar_System
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by dcminter 1y ago
Define "historical" ... Anyway I nominate Cliff Stoll who wrote The Cuckoo's Egg and posts here from time to time. Definitely one of my heroes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book) A
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by dcminter 1y ago
See also Motif: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motif_(software)
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by dcminter 1y ago
He could have said that he had omitted some passages for impropriety. If Bowdler could say then then so could he - by the standards of his day or of ours. Saying nothing would have been an option too. His actual statement still seems at wor
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by dcminter 1y ago
I still think you're doing some special pleading here. Yes, he might have meant people to infer that, but compare with Bowdler at the earlier end of the same century quite simply saying that he'd omitted passages for "propr
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by dcminter 1y ago
Possibly, but an honest man would have said as much.
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by dcminter 1y ago
> ... a willingness to promise whatever carriers and OEMs wanted to close a distribution deal... That always struck me as one of the more impressive things that Jobs achieved with the original iPhone - getting buy-in from Cingular to do
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by dcminter 1y ago
I went to a British private school (which we also call "public schools" to annoy Americans) and it was certainly still hanging on there into the 80s. My brother attended the same school where we briefly overlapped so I was by defa
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by dcminter 1y ago
A few years ago I downloaded some of the Gutenberg version [0] of Pepys' diary which is a transcription of the Wheatley edition which contains this rather odd paragraph in the introduction: "It has now been decided that the whole
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by dcminter 1y ago
It stuns me that eBay is so determined to get you to use the app that they will divert someone who has landed on the site and started typing a search term presumably with the explicit intention of buying something in order to sell them on
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by dcminter 1y ago
> they were intentionally crippling Facebook Messenger at one point [in a browser] They were/did. I was using Messenger Lite for a bit which was ok, but they killed that and the mobile browser mode. I still need FB for some events a
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by dcminter 1y ago
He was fascinating. For those interested in reading further I thought this book on him was excellent: https://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Knew-Too-Much/dp/0333782860
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by dcminter 1y ago
It's not a joke as such. It's a description of drama - particularly Elizabethan drama. The whole play is a riff on Hamlet.
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by dcminter 1y ago
> Routine reminder that Kagi pays share of profit to Yandex(so, directly to Kremlin), I care about this a lot; it's the one thing that prevents me from buying a subscription. > and employs people who support Russian invasion of U
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by dcminter 1y ago
"We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is
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by dcminter 1y ago
Plus he was a pompous old fool... his advice shouldn't be taken at face value!
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by dcminter 1y ago
Then I can only assume that you and I have very different definitions of "hard sci-fi"
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by dcminter 1y ago
I think you're taking that far more seriously than it merits. I'd just read it as "we had fun times too"
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by dcminter 1y ago
The opening scene of the first novel during the cultural revolution I recall as being absolutely fantastic. The rest of that novel was a big rather dull Asimovian deus ex, and then the rest of the series was more of that. Big disappointment
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by dcminter 1y ago
Oh, you think that's a weird view...? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_History_and_the_L... Not that I think anyone much bought the thesis at the time either.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Hi, I'm Dave. Location: Stockholm (remote or hybrid only) Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Java, AWS, Linux, technical writing Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dcminter/
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by dcminter 1y ago
HN generally serves that purpose for me!
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by dcminter 1y ago
Before all the e-tailers existed one would often buy a computer magazine such as Computer Shopper for the ads and the articles were almost a nuisance. True enough now that the best deals are all online though.
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by dcminter 1y ago
Hmm, I don't entirely agree - I don't, after all, need my Disney+ subscription, or my Spotify subscription, or several patreon sponsorships. I think those are comparable. The major intrinsic advantage they have is that they offe
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by dcminter 1y ago
Sure, and I agree except that I'd put the date a lot later; a lot of magazine reading was done on-the-go, so the point at which reading on the mobile phone was ubiquitous would be the delimiter for my expectations. Nobody was reading s
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by dcminter 1y ago
> The last time I bought a mag was probably more than a quarter of a century ago There is some kind of vicious cycle going on I'm sure - where fewer people are buying magazines, so stores have less reason to stock them, so there are
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by dcminter 1y ago
I agree except that I'd say "when internet access was not ubiquitous" actually. One of the major reasons I bought magazines was to have light reading when commuting by public transport (in my case into central London from the
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by dcminter 1y ago
> if people wanted magazines on topics they care about ... they’d buy ’em. I do wonder if this is entirely true. Some print magazines I would have liked to subscribe to made it unpalatable in one way or another (dubious cancellation mech

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