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by dhosek 7mo ago
One of the biggest myths that people believe is that war is an economic stimulus. In fact, the US entry into World War II delayed the economic recovery from the Great Depression (and created conditions for a recession after the war). One of
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I’ve completely avoided using AI for writing (although it looks like my coding avoidance is coming to an end). As someone who kind of views using a thesaurus as “cheating”¹, using AI to do the writing is way beyond the pale. A lot of what
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by dhosek 7mo ago
The IBM mainframe that I used at UIC in the 80s had 64 MEGA bytes of RAM and about double the users.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Ain’t much US taxpayer money going to mathematicians and I think that if any goes overseas it would be to US citizens.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Ameritech.net was backed by yahoo’s mail and IIRC, joefish@ameritech.net and joefish@yahoo.com would be the same mailbox.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I remember in 1980, when our school got a VCR and television (on a cart to allow it to be moved from one classroom to another). one of my teachers said that she wasn’t allowed to record something off the air at home and then show it in the
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I don’t see any value in knowing before the pilot knows. I’ve mostly flown American the past few years and with their app I get updates about delays and gate changes on my phone just fine. I suppose there might be some advantage to getting
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I’ve only ever used Outlook when forced to by an employer and I find it a dreadful application to use. I would guess that most people prefer something else. I would imagine that most people tend to stick with the default email app on their
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Way back in the 90s when I used OS/2 and running Windows applications required running a fully copy of Windows inside OS/2,¹ I had dreamed of writing something akin to Wine for OS/2, but I lacked the knowledge to do it back t
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Who has successfully managed this kind of transition? The obvious case is IBM which is now essentially a consulting company and doesn’t sell PCs anymore.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Intel or Apple Silicon? The latter manages memory much better.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
The gotcha is what happens when TypeWithSomeSerialization is not something you’re using directly but is contained within SomeOtherTypeWithSomeSerialization which you are using directly. Then things get messy.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
As an aside, I remember visiting Guatemala (in the border area near Chiapas) in the early 90s and discovering that “Mayan” was not the monolith that I had been led to believe by my culturally narrow American education, but was a diverse col
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I’ve occasionally contemplated using some non-ASCII character like • or š in a password, but have backed off for fear of needing access from a device that doesn’t support input of those characters.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
The relationships between the functions are pretty standardly taught, but their derivation from the right triangles on the unit circle less so (other than sin and cos).
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by dhosek 7mo ago
There’s a whole pile of math like this that kind of lies in this nether land between more advanced than you’ll get in most high school math¹ but less advanced than you’ll get in most college high school math that I was only ever exposed to
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by dhosek 7mo ago
The thing here is the exponentially increasing cost of renewing the copyright, with the inflation-adjustment I proposed and the 10-year term for a corporate or posthumous copyright, in 90 years, that $1000 renewal fee goes to $256000 in inf
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by dhosek 7mo ago
My feeling is that copyrights should be infinitely renewable, with say a 20 year term, but the renewal fee should double with each term so that Disney can have their infinite copyright on Snow White but at an ever-increasing cost so that
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Although from the photos of the space, it looks to be empty, so no amazing artifacts to be discovered. I would guess that any ancient unknown artifacts that are discovered in the next century will come from undersea archaeology with all the
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Liquid glass isn’t too bad on the iPhone or even the iPad. It’s mostly on the Mac that it sucks.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
You think a bitmap is a program? I do not argue with idiots.
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by dhosek 7mo ago
Legally, typeface designs do not receive protection (which is based on idiotic declarations like “you can’t copyright the alphabet”) but digital font files are considered programs and thus are able to be protected as IP.¹ You can try to j
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by dhosek 7mo ago
I remember during the audio commentary for one of the Peter Davison–era Doctor Who stories,¹ Davison commenting that in the 60s/70s the acting on the BBC was more theatrical than cinematic. After hearing that, I could never unsee it. ⸻
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I was just thinking about Danger UXB recently and remember watching it on PBS with my Mom. Another show of that era that I remember loving was the miniseries of the Barchester Chronicles (adapting the first two of Trollope’s Barsetshire nov
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by dhosek 8mo ago
It is, in fact, exactly where these two came from.
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Yeah, that was a weird way to describe the algebraic numbers. The formal definition (those numbers for which a finite polynomial p exists with p ( x )=0) is not that complicated, is it?
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Who’s going to trust an AI like that? Maybe the Meta Superintelligence safety director. https://www.fastcompany.com/91497841/meta-superintelligence-...
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by dhosek 8mo ago
I’ve always said that one key difference between British English and American English is that a British speaker will intentionally mispronounce a foreign word, while an American will attempt to pronounce it correctly but get it wrong anyway
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by dhosek 8mo ago
Indeed, it’s a simple matter to figure out what you want if you’re buying a Mac. Laptop vs desktop. For desktop: integrated screen or not, for laptop, screen size, weight, then pick your processor, memory and storage and it’s done. There ar
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by dhosek 8mo ago
That’s because PC manufacturers compete on spec sheets and how much does the trackpad suck isn’t one of the numbers on the spec sheet so they don’t care.

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