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I agree. In conversation, people choose their "devil terms." For some, income inequality is one. My devil term (the bad-in-itself beyond argument) is "a situation where poor people can never rise." This might be the resu
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I agree. The author describes writing a program as navigating to a block of code, moving a marker, and typing characters into blocks: > It's really easy to write a program with MSB-OS: you just go into Machine Editor, search for eoc
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I'll play devil's advocate: do you? In America (the only country I'm familiar with), people are sued by the RIAA or MPAA for copyright infringement. I've never seen a pattern of lawsuits for pirating books[0]. So there&#
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Just to emphasize your comment: anyone looking to expand their knowledge should download pdfs and epubs from genlib/libgen (I pronounce it "libgen"). It's changed the way I read. Now, if I have even a passing interest in
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In this talk (software as creative partner, European Lisp Symposium 2014), rpg mentions the DoD's interest. I enjoyed the talk: http://medias.ircam.fr/x03b42f I'll spoil it: the DoD wants natural language generati
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Nonviolent communication is a precise and liberating way of talking. You can be exposed by watching this talk too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwXH4hNfgPg It's three hours FYI. But my sales pitch is: Marshall Rosen
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I'm afraid of Intel's relationship with XYZ media site affecting the articles in XYZ. I get your point though. Reading myself again, I see that I sound silly.
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Absolutely. Unfortunately, as a result I take tech journalism as a whole as seriously as I do auto journalism.
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I upvoted the GP because I think it's important for content publishers to disclose who is advertising on their sites. I'm glad to know Intel advertises there. It doesn't mean the article is wrong, but it's a data point.
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Are thicker bezels associated with durability?
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I often see odes to ibm mainframe reliability. I'm piqued. Is playing with POWER or mainframe stuff edifying for a regular person, and if so, can a regular person obtain them?
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This looks like the beginning of a good suggestion: "The book that I really, really want: Lisp in Small Pieces, but for type theory" https://twitter.com/d_christiansen/status/573767527081316354 I want th
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Another long essay on the english language: Tense Present by David Foster Wallace. It touches rhetoric, conservatism vs liberalism, and offers advice w/r/t how to communicate. And it's laugh-out-loud funny. This is the PDF ve
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I'm going to read some of this thesis. If this piques your interest, Andreas Stefik has a fascinating Strange Loop talk (~40 minutes) where he talks about 1) the history of evidence-based endeavors 2) the curious lack of evidence-based
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I find it funnny that "seriously" in your post turns your sentence into a rhetorical one. Still I'll try to answer your question. Large companies make ten thousand software changes per year, a few of them are bound to be perc
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I just watched that talk. Wow! She's a skilled public speaker; I felt her words as she was saying them. This talk inspired me to try meditating again. Thank you.
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that's a great use! I'm gonna do that. I've been blocking headers and footers of webpages because I have a 16:9 screen and need all the vertical space can get. as "web 1.0" as it sounds, I love that I get to decide
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Chrome, it's a 't' surrounded by italicized parentheses. Unsuccessfully searched for unicode lookup to find the text description of the character. Edit: at http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/cha
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I've used Linux for many years, but I've always defended Vista. The other complaint about Vista was excessive resource use. I tell people that When XP came out, Intel released the Pentium 4. When Vista came out, Intel released the
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That may be. If you think it's dehumanizing bullshit, it's up to give an analysis like GP did without dehumanzing people.
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> but it doesn't make them not-bad. I disagree. I've never found a coherent absolute ethical framework. Not even "Don't kill people." When anyone is arguing that something is bad, that person has to appeal an a
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Long ago I read a quote from a post about mathematicians who are good communicators. I'd love to come across it again. Of John Milnor, this post proclaimed, "When he speaks, you understand." I try to notice rare compliments,
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by delish 11y ago
Wow! I've been looking for an english translation of Recoltes et Semailles for a while. I see now it's easily reachable by google (oops), but still, thanks!
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Man, I would not want to be them in 1981. I wrote in another thread on this post that programmability ended up being valuable to me, but I certainly didn't know its value when I got started with Linux and emacs. I can only now articula
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For anyone browsing mobiley who can't see the url, it's http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/symbolics/L... so you can open folders as URLs and browse many interesting files. edit: Even on de
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Conjecture: I think this is online documentation, for an early definition of "online"[0]: inside the machine, rather than on paper. That would explain the sophisticated-for-the-time print quality, and lack of pictures. Symbolics a
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Page one describes the keyboard being completely reprogrammable: The keyboard has unlimited rollover, meaning that a keystroke is sensed when the key is depressed, no matter what other keys are depressed at the time. Actually, the hardwa
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I consider "programming" to be a religious journey: * "You're on your own path" you get errors that the person next to you doesn't. * "To learn is to invent; you must come to realizations by yourself"
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Same here. Here's a picture. https://twitter.com/zlrth/status/660671388693323777 iPhone 5s, iOS 9.1. sorry to all reading my tweet about the snark. But I just find it so sad that I have so much rendering powe
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Here's another option for building a lisp-descendant from Scheme. http://t3x.org/s9book/index.html "Scheme9 from Empty Space" I've not tried any of these. I'd be interested in someone who'

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