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by derleth 14y ago
> the ability to distinguish between cuts of beef and cow organs. This sounds like basic biology to me.
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by derleth 14y ago
And where, may I ask, is the Holy Ghost in all of this? That's who I blame: Absentee Holy Ghosts, never making themselves immanent in Creation and leading to creeping Arianism in the population.
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by derleth 14y ago
Given how explosive nitrogen compounds are (they all want to turn back into N2 gas, some of them more badly than others), I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
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by derleth 14y ago
Provable Programming provably requires non-Turing-complete languages. Which isn't an insuperable barrier, to be sure, but it's a big piece of evidence against its practicality in actual commercial environments.
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by derleth 14y ago
> The solution is to provide sufficiently broad set of tightly integrated base system libraries So... when you find a bug in one, the only thing to do is an OS upgrade? And what about new APIs that come along? Will third-party libraries
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by derleth 14y ago
However, and this is key, those rules are completely and utterly arbitrary , meaning that nobody would come up with them on their own, so knowing them meant you were taught them, and having been taught them meant you were of a high enough
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by derleth 14y ago
> It would take that thing 20 minutes just to load Ghostbusters. That in no way could be considered working better than today's computers/consoles. The solution to this is simple: Pick some arbitrary point in the past, and declare that
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by derleth 14y ago
> Spoiler: Yeah, they were Y2K compliant. The OSes were, but what about the apps in common use? It's the same thing on ancient microcomputers: As far as I know, the C64's ROM-based OS doesn't care about the date at all, but various appl
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by derleth 14y ago
> Drag (anywhere) to install. Drag to the trash remove. Either not have shared libraries at all, and lose when someone finds a bug in something and you have to reinstall everything to get the fix in everything, or have shared libraries
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by derleth 14y ago
> a non-programmer-friendly system. 'Non-programmer-friendly' like how MS-DOS was non-programmer-friendly with its memory models and lack of multitasking, or like how AS/400 was non-programmer-friendly with you choice of RPG or COBOL, o
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by derleth 14y ago
> I'm curious if "esquivalience" or "dord" (another example) have been used in error to support their fictitious definitions, thus becoming suitable for inclusion in newer dictionaries. This would be interesting: Can adding a word to a
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by derleth 14y ago
> How is a new dictionary supposed to source definitions without using current dictionaries? Aren't existing dictionaries essentially the "canon"? No, because that isn't how dictionaries work. Dictionaries, and this goes back to the ver
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by derleth 14y ago
> the SBCL code submitted there could hardly be called idiomatic Common Lisp That's the point of Common Lisp: It gives you enough rope. Some people use it to hang themselves, others use it to selectively optimize the parts that need it,
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by derleth 14y ago
http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/96-04-04 > If you don't know where Apache came from, here's a short history lesson. In late 1994 and early 1995, the NCSA server was stuck at version 1.3. Patches being submitted for the NCSA server d
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by derleth 14y ago
> it's a model that works only for the very most popular acts. Isn't that true of every single model out there ?
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by derleth 14y ago
Hey, I like GNU Unifont! What's wrong with it? http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html Terminus is nice, too, I suppose: http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/ http://terminus-font.sourceforge.net/shots.html Inconsolata is popular: http://
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by derleth 14y ago
> The JVM doesn't have an equivalent instruction; you can only jump around inside a single method, not to the beginning of another method. OK, why do functions in the source language have to translate directly into methods at the JVM l
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by derleth 14y ago
> bitcoin is not yet a currency Bitcoin is just as much a currency as Ithaca Hours are. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaca_Hours
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by derleth 14y ago
> the efficient market is dead and always has been. This is what people mean when they say "efficient market" in this context: > In finance, the efficient-market hypothesis (EMH) asserts that financial markets are "informationally e
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by derleth 14y ago
> the JVM, as a platform, does NOT support TCO. And the x86, as a platform, does? What, specifically, does the JVM do to make TCO more difficult than it would be in the machine code of your choice?
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by derleth 14y ago
> Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. I prefer: Computer science is no more about computers than thermodynamics is about engines.
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by derleth 14y ago
The PDP-11 wasn't a mainframe. It was a minicomputer, which is how Unix came to exist for it in the first place: A mainframe would have been too expensive for such a small project, but a PDP-11 minicomputer was within the budget.
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by derleth 14y ago
More to the point, some confuse 'I never need this' with 'Nobody needs this' and jump from there to 'Anything that implements this is bloated'.
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by derleth 14y ago
You're trolling. Nobody says they're in favor of oppression. Nobody tells themself that, anyway. Everyone's in favor of good things.
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by derleth 14y ago
Except those aren't straw men. Those are valid objections to some extreme Libertarian and/or Anarchist positions that haven't been answered, only painted as straw men.
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by derleth 14y ago
The obvious response is that you'd have to swap out all the Ethernet hardware in order to get the speed advantage, which gets a bit expensive. The other half is software, maybe, but I honestly doubt that is actually the problem here. We've
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by derleth 14y ago
> Well, not every country is like that. In many others lobbying is illegal and people who do it are severely punished. That's not the only way to buy influence. > Monsanto wants to grow GMO crops in our country? Sure, but only after
718.
by derleth 14y ago
Reminds me of KOOLEFANT, by Magnus Bodin: http://x42.com/koolefant/ This goes back to the late 1990s; the page mentions MSIE for Solaris.
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by derleth 14y ago
> A bad food is something that doesn't satiate you as it gives you calories and fat, so you need to do other work to force yourself to not overeat. Example: twinkies OK, this is a reasonable first step. My point, really, is that even 'b
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by derleth 14y ago
> imo all processed items are bad And this is the point where I see the problem with 'diet advice' given online (and not online, too, but a lot of it is online): It's overbroad and not broad enough, because it focuses on the wrong thing

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