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by dhosek 2y ago
I’ve only read excerpts from it, and frankly, you don’t need to read it to understand WWII history. The important bits are well covered in any decent book on the subject and you won’t get any deeper insight by reading the source material.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Where I live now, a large fraction of the suburban libraries are part of a consortium (SWAN—covering mostly south and western suburbs of Chicago). They have a shared catalog and any book/CD/DVD/etc.¹ can be requested right ou
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by dhosek 2y ago
There was an article I read by Keith Gessen about contacting his 3rd grade teacher as a parent during Covid and the thing that stuck out with me was the teacher talking about how some kids entered kindergarten able to read and some didn’t l
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by dhosek 2y ago
I’ll bet a lot of Tesla investors are wishing neither of those applied these days.
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by dhosek 2y ago
My strategy for syncing my music library with my phone is that I have four smart playlists: - songs rated 5 stars which I haven’t listened to for at least 8 months¹ - songs rated 4 stars which I haven’t listened to for at least 16 months -
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by dhosek 2y ago
Ah, I remember using the memory holes in the HIRES graphics memory for scratch-pad usage, but had forgotten about this part. I loved the Apple ][ since it (up to the //e) was capable of being fully understood by a single human bei
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by dhosek 2y ago
Hmm, I don’t remember there being anything special about those little 8-byte holes in the lo-res/text memory.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I remember the annoyance a lot of people had with the non-sequential layout of text/graphics memory on the Apple ][ (thanks to Woz’s clever hacks to reduce chip count), but when writing assembly code to access screen locations, it turn
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by dhosek 2y ago
46 comments at this point and nobody clicked the link where the author’s thoughts are behind the paywall and instead argue a point that she explicitly says she’s not going to address!
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by dhosek 2y ago
For online sales of drugs it’s through crypto. Also, it’s the preferred way of paying ransom these days.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Kind of reminds me of the system we used in my band in the 90s: The person who brought the initial idea to the band gets to be first. After that, it was based on importance of contributions as determined by myself as the benign dictator, bu
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by dhosek 2y ago
I think it’s the latter for me. We had a 1960s Reader’s Digest atlas when I was a kid that gave me countless hours of entertainment examining the various maps of the world and the regions within it (there were also maps showing continental
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by dhosek 2y ago
On the flip side, given how difficult the journey was from the Shire to the Misty Mountain, it always bugged me that it seemed like Bilbo got home pretty easily.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I prefer to pause reading at chapter breaks or, if necessary section breaks. Of course, with some authors you may be looking for paragraph breaks (and in the case of Proust, even those might be dozens of pages apart). Natural breaks in the
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by dhosek 2y ago
I realized last night that I’ve never read anything by him in translation (there was one book in English— A Writer’s Reality —which was in English, but that book was based on lectures given in English and there is no Spanish original. As my
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by dhosek 2y ago
There’s a certain amount of “it just is” when it comes to non-textual characters. I remember being interviewed by a reporter from The Wall Street Journal about the claim that Wingdings had an antisemitic message secretly encoded in it bec
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by dhosek 2y ago
Although originally the character Δ began life as 𐤃 (named dalet, meaning door) so it should be a door, not a house (he says with a wink) and that β should be the house (from 𐤁‎, bet, meaning house).
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by dhosek 2y ago
My view on open source software and monetization thereof has changed a lot between when I was in my twenties and today when I’m in my fifties. In the 90s, as a young man, my primary concern was paying bills. Now, I’ve kind of reached the po
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by dhosek 2y ago
“Bats: Bug Scourge of the Skies!“
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by dhosek 2y ago
I’m aware my son is an outlier, but I’m rather proud of his working out the square root(s) of i without even having algebra yet (he’s in fifth grade). Last year I taught him how to solve simple linear equations ( ax + b = c ) and expa
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by dhosek 2y ago
There seems to be some laws of (human) nature about these sorts of things at work here like how all programs eventually evolve into either Microsoft Excel or an operating system (or both) or how all basic cable channels eventually end up pr
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by dhosek 2y ago
Oh definitely a Mezuzah. Right down to the angling (although the Sephardic practice is to position it straight up and down).
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by dhosek 2y ago
Oh God no, that movie is a horrid mess. It’s why Waugh’s novels were never adapted by Hollywood studios after that.
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by dhosek 2y ago
His journey doesn’t really follow that pattern though. The Loved One , a deeply iconoclastic satirical novel came after Brideshead .
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by dhosek 2y ago
So what are the alternatives to gumroad? I’d been thinking of using them to sell the PDF version of a book, but after reading about the doge thing, I feel like I need to look elsewhere.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I wrote a Z80 disassembler that was, alas only partially complete as it didn’t handle the two-byte opcodes as part of my efforts to reverse engineer the MSX Spectravideo computer I got in exchange for writing some demo programs for the midw
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by dhosek 2y ago
The Wozniak method was how I used to write 6502 assembler programs in high school since I didn’t have the money to buy a proper assembler. I wrote everything out longhand on graph paper in three columns. Addresses on the left, a space for t
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by dhosek 2y ago
Emacs has the ability to do spellcheck inline, both as a run through the buffer (old-school style) and as an as-you-type live feature. That said, I do most of my coding in JetBrains IDEs these days.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Alas, the democrats have largely ceded the idea the idea that the government can do things as well and they fail to do things like fight for civil service wages that can attract the best employees.
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by dhosek 2y ago
It’s all part of an ideological attempt to stymie the ability of government to work effectively and then point to how government doesn’t work effectively to justify funneling money to politically connected contractors. It’s the modern versi

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