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by fao_ 5y ago
IIRC at the time the BSE outbreak in the UK[1] was referred to as "foot and mouth disease" and I've heard people refer to it as that since then. I wasn't even aware they were separate things. [1]: https://en.w
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by fao_ 5y ago
Are there many noteworthy modern science fiction authors that hold up to the Asimov / Clarke / Lem generation? I would think someone reasonably versed in science fiction would have at least heard of it -- I'm a "zoomer
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by fao_ 5y ago
To be fair, "Cat's Cradle" is a famous work of science-fiction
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by fao_ 5y ago
> Bleach works as surface decontamination agent. They know it works for CWD, and I expect it works for others too. I remember reading that nothing but incineration would work in the context of Food-and-Mouth disease, but it seems modern
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by fao_ 5y ago
I actually wrote that in, but removed it accidentally when I was adding capitalisation :) I think it's pretty clear based on context that I'm talking about GlibC though :P
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by fao_ 5y ago
> when have you last tried to create a statically-linked binary that used glibc, and how did that go for you? I don't write code that requires Glib, but last I remember, there are explicit (lesser-known) flags that give complete sta
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by fao_ 5y ago
That is, given a shared library or a position independent executable (PIE), it returns a single, self-contained file packing all dependencies. [...] but closures do allow for deploying to other machines without c
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by fao_ 5y ago
> and the buyer can sit on it as they like for ~15 years. If it's a profitable concept they are wasting money by not developing it. How so? Any competition is unable to proceed because of the patent, and all you need to do is put so
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by fao_ 5y ago
I've seen independent OpenGL libraries packaged along with games, so, I wouldn't think so no.
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by fao_ 5y ago
Well, not really. The compiler is able to optimize the contents of the library and integrate it with the program. i.e. some functions will just be inlined, and that means that those functions won't exist in the same form after other op
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by fao_ 5y ago
> This comes up a lot, but how often do you end up in a scenario where there's a critical security hole and you _can't_ patch it because one program somewhere is incompatible with the new version? Maybe even a program that isn&
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by fao_ 5y ago
I really like this article! Most of them don't seem to go beyond the basics of "yes, spacewar! was a thing. it had spaceships and stuff", but this is a really fun dive into how it was made, what features were available, and t
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by fao_ 6y ago
Corkami's posters are quite nice example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/corkami/pics/master/binary...
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by fao_ 6y ago
People who like smaller systems? Or are poor?
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Competing systems like Mercurial To clone Mozilla Firefox, Mercurial requires you have more than 2 Gigabytes of RAM. Not Firefox, Mercurial. Simply because the version history is so large , it requires over 2 Gigabytes of working memo
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by fao_ 6y ago
> Plan 9 as a 'living system' could have re-evaluated some of the architectural decisions that were made in the late 80s and early 90s as practically every detail of hardware, software and networking changed But that's exa
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by fao_ 6y ago
> The gratuitous incompatibility made it almost immediately a museum piece And yet it made it what it was. The entire point of plan9 was not to be "Unix System 8" or whatever, it was to go beyond that and shed off the half a
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by fao_ 6y ago
At the risk of sounding like someone who is posited against the vaccine (I'm not, and I'm looking to receiving my second dose soon), where is your citation on this?
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by fao_ 6y ago
Agree with most of it, however the jab here: > What this meant was first, you couldn't run stuff like a web browser on Plan 9 (and you still can't; please no-one write to inform me that some dweebish half-assed attempt at a web
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by fao_ 6y ago
The time it takes to become cold enough to freeze is pressure-dependent. "Room temperature" can be assumed in the case, or hell, I could have told it it was 21°C. I only wanted a ballpark figure to base a rough plan around ("
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by fao_ 6y ago
I'm not really sure how that applies here. Apparently Brooks describes this as: An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully an
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by fao_ 6y ago
Not just "developed by Bell", but developed by the original authors of UNIX. Everything gets an overhaul. Dennis Richie and Pike clean up C -- hell, even make(1) gets a complete makeover in mk(1), after 30 years of talking with us
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by fao_ 6y ago
Are there not at least 4 or 5 different competing companies in this space? Also you could, you know, go to a bar or meet people at special interest groups. I do believe that before internet dating most people had some kind of a life -- or l
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by fao_ 6y ago
> As for how that might be demeaning, imagine if things were reversed and you read a piece about the forgotten Great Men Inventors that opened with put-downs of Roberta Oppenheimer and Thelma Edison and the Wright Sisters and demanded th
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by fao_ 6y ago
As per the README from your link: "The Last Resort glyphs were drawn by Apple Inc. and Michael Everson of Evertype."
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by fao_ 6y ago
I'm not sure what's difficult about (map! :n "ff" #'save-buffer) ; Save (map! :n "fq" #'kill-current-buffer) ; Quit a buffer or (defun my/org-buffer-check () &q
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by fao_ 6y ago
It's a number of extremely, extremely well crafted layers on top of Emacs. I switched last July and after 8+ years of using variations of Vim, Vi, Ex-Vi, Ed(1) (yes), NeoVim, et all, it is by far the smoothest experience I've ev
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by fao_ 6y ago
I'm... really (honestly!) not sure how this demeans women? Like to put it clearer: I absolutely in no way can see even a path to understanding how it is demeaning to talk about things people did in the past, that were deliberately ig
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by fao_ 6y ago
I used to think like you, friend! For over a decade, then I discovered doom emacs :)
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by fao_ 6y ago
Can you explain how a media collage of archival video of women pioneering early work in synthesizers is discriminating towards men? I'm not sure I see how that is the case.

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