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by fernly 8y ago
The README here is a model (or perhaps a superfluity) of modesty. This person has, apparently, written a complete OS from the metal up to a usable GUI, single-handed, AND done it in about 6 months -- at least, the oldest commit in the Kerne
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Brief bio of Ann Hardy at [1]. Hardy started programming on the Stretch project. She was a programmer and later an executive at Tymshare corp 1966-1985. Top link is to the videos of the oral history sessions, several hours in length. For PD
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Oral History of Ann Hardy, Programmer, Tymshare Executive(computerhistory.org)
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Thank you, but the text of that article is, um, science-challenged, for example, > At room temperature, graphene is also capable of conducting electricity 250 times better than silicon, a rate faster than any other known substance. Condu
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by fernly 8y ago
Can someone ELI5 why graphene, defined as "a sheet of carbon just one atomic layer thick", can be sold as a "chip"? Of what use would be a one-atom-thick "chip"? Also, "graphene-based chips could deliver s
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by fernly 8y ago
Since you know a bit, can you clarify something not clear from the article? My aortic valve was replaced due to "ectasia", meaning the valve root stretched so the leaflets, which were otherwise fine, no longer met properly. Given
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For those who don't know (as I didn't), Kryoflux is > a software-programmable FDC system that connects to a floppy disk drive and a host PC over USB... reads "flux transitions" from floppy disks at a very fine resolut
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I had an "aortic root reconstruction" by open heart surgery about 18 years ago, and my animal-tissue valve will no doubt need replacement sometime reasonably soon. At that time, I made the optimistic prediction that by the time I
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by fernly 8y ago
Folks, the "Great Filter"[1] is looking us right in the face, in the form of catastrophic climate change[2]. It seems quite a likely hypothesis that any upcoming intelligent species would, like us, ride the horse of fossil fuels r
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Yup. It's called a fecal microbial transplant (FMT) and it works for several problems, notably C-diff infection. (Unfortunately it isn't the first-line treatment for that nasty bug, it is usually preceded by weeks of antibiotics a
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by fernly 8y ago
Also from the prologue, "Although the WAM is a distillation of a long line of experience in Prolog implementation, it is by no means the only possible point to consider in the design space. For example, whereas the WAM adopts “structur
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I'm sure one cause is that QtWebEngine is a steaming garbage fire, with a far more limited API than the old WebKit based system, and many more bugs (not that the Qt4 WebKit support was a shining example) -- especially if you attempt to
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Where will you retire to?
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Audio of oral history interview at the end of the linked article. Partial transcript at[1]. [1] https://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/an/2018/02/man2018020006....
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Meeting Whirlwind’s Joe Thompson – An Early African-American Computer Pioneer(medium.com)
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So... is the idea to be like Pandoc[1], but for programming languages? Like, with the current support, could you write a PHP-to-Fortran89 translator? (Assuming you would want to) [1] https://pandoc.org/
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by fernly 8y ago
While I was reading the last paragraph of this story, my phone rang, showing a number in a nearby town. And of course, as I confidently expected, it was "Hi there! This is Stan, from your local air duct cleaning service!" Nice to
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by fernly 8y ago
Excellent, a brand new attack surface for malware. Cue the report of a Docs worm in: three, two...
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Very readable article with the fun of first-person problem solving.
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TIL a new word, abjad, "a type of writing system where each symbol or glyph stands for a consonant, leaving the reader to supply the appropriate vowel." Thanks! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abjad
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by fernly 8y ago
The article mentions the possibility of a similar problem with the new Air. For curiosity I went to iFixit to see what the current (2017) macbook has. It appears[1] to be a much longer cable that flexes over a longer radius. [1] https:&#x2
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They did redundant work to make it LASER (Language-Agnostic SEntence Representations). If they'd just gone with initials they'd have had LASR, which is a cooler-looking acronym anyway.
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But isn't a modified molecule a reformulation, which cannot be assumed to have the same effect, or dose-response, or even safety, as the original molecule? Say if you can synthesize something _like_ garblezolib or whatever, aren't
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by fernly 8y ago
It's sad to be reminded of Allie Brosh who published these wonderful stories and then went silent[1]. It's nice that the stories are out there and people continue to rediscover them. I hope she's alright and having a good lif
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Not really current despite the 2019 byline: > This article was originally published in our “Dark Matter” issue in August, 2015. See the home page of laboratory[1] and their list of publications[2]. One particular publication[3] appears t
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by fernly 8y ago
Are you sure about PayPal? Because I believe I have read quite a few pathetic stories -- similar in tone to the posted article about Google Fi -- about PayPal accounts being frozen with no recourse, for example[1]. And PayPal settled a clas
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by fernly 8y ago
Here's an odd thing: browsing the fiction books with date:1923 I saw a familiar title, "Seven Days in May" by Knebel and Bailey[1] -- a story definitely written well after that year, since it opens at the Pentagon, a building
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by fernly 8y ago
All of PGDP is fun and satisfying volunteer work if you like reading, but the Post-Processing stage was for me, the most fun of all. However, in order to qualify as a PPer you must first put in a rather lengthy apprenticeship working in the
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by fernly 8y ago
I just made specimen paragraphs in Courier, Courier New, Courier Prime and Prime Code, and Cousine[1]. I believe I much prefer the latter, for code and editing. Also, despite looking beefier, Cousine text takes exactly the same horizontal w
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The article notes the "maturity" of the support software. Indeed when I was writing manuals for SGI in the 90s, I was trying to document what seemed like extremely sophisticated compiler optimization techniques, including link-tim

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