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by fernly 10y ago
"...which only the government has access to..." for about 48 hours...
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by fernly 10y ago
Nice to see APL lives and people still try to teach it. For software historians, all the 1970s-era manuals are at bitsavers[1]. The language was quite a bit simpler then; several of the primitives this tutorial thought appropriate to introd
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by fernly 10y ago
very frequent repost (at least 5 other times in the past 72 hours), and pure click-bait to boot. It is not heart tissue and it does not beat.
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by fernly 10y ago
Consumer Reports[1] has reported reliability figures on all its articles about appliances. It would be interesting to go into its archives and see what the shifts are in brands over the years. [1] http://www.consumerreports.org&#
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by fernly 10y ago
What'r the choice points between doing this, and building a Qt app using PyQt (or PySide)? Again all the logic is in Python, no C++ whatever. And use PyInstaller or cxFreeze to make a standalone app for distribution.
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by fernly 10y ago
It's actually there in the penultimate paragraph: "So how can Lemonade be 80% cheaper? You guessed it: by building an insurance company, from the ground up, powered by A.I. and behavioral economics."
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by fernly 10y ago
Oddly enough that is exactly what the linked report says, scroll to exhibit 11 and after: "Findings for the other seven consumer segments indicate near-term unmet demand for more basic mobility solutions (e.g., lower-range, smaller veh
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by fernly 10y ago
The scariest, science-fiction-coming-to-pass quote from this article: "in the future, these cheap, highly available tool/toys turned into weapons will be used in greater numbers and, eventually, will feature autonomous flight coor
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by fernly 10y ago
Yes: http://www.samsung.com/us/computing/chromebooks/12-14/xe513c...
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by fernly 10y ago
I believe this suffers, as do several other CHIP-8 emulators I've seen, from the early mis-documentation of the SHR and SHL instructions. Forgive me if I am reading this incorrectly; I am not used to Lisp: (define-instruction op-
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by fernly 10y ago
It looks very much like github pages[1] combined with github release support[2] will do the job. Thank you again for the pointer! [1] https://pages.github.com/ [2] https://help.github.com/articles/about
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by fernly 10y ago
Huh. TIL. Reading further, thank you!
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by fernly 10y ago
OK, fair answer. I don't really want to own a domain, but that would be a solution: it gives me complete control over the form of the link, and makes it editable and redirectable.
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by fernly 10y ago
Link shorteners are important because the generated links to shared content -- at Dropbox or MediaFire or wherever -- are impossible to dictate or manually type. Also, I've got a Pro ($99/year) account, so it isn't a free god
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by fernly 10y ago
There is a limit on uploads, 2GB for free accounts and 100GB for paid. They virus-check everything in the Public folder and block it -- as I know to my cost, when recently a zip file containing a PyInstaller-made .exe tripped their detector
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Dropbox kills grandfathered Public/ folders
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by fernly 10y ago
Brilliant concept and execution! I figured, it must be every station that has a live stream, but no, my nearest station, KZSU Stanford, has multiple streams and isn't there. And the list of presences in the one green dot in SF is much
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by fernly 10y ago
There are a bunch of legal obligations that make that impossible, at least in the short run. As somebody noted above, ESPN itself is locked into very expensive exclusive-carriage contracts with various leagues. And the providers like Comcas
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by fernly 10y ago
For anyone curious about the Factor language mentioned, http://factorcode.org/
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by fernly 10y ago
Momentarily confused between a ramjet[1] and a valveless pulsejet[2] -- the latter are played with by many amateurs( e.g.[3]) producing amusing videos of their cherry-red glow and eardrum-piercing noise. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
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by fernly 10y ago
If you are in Mountain View CA on a Wednesday afternoon, at 2pm at the Computer History Museum they demo a RAMAC. Under control of a laptop, it seeks and reads data written when it was still in use, 40 years ago. About 30 feet away is a nic
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by fernly 10y ago
The Computer History Museum has an exhibit based on the salvaged 650GB backup of GeoCities. It's a big touch-sensitive monitor that lets you pinch-stretch zoom your way into the data, eventually (with patience, which few museum visitor
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by fernly 10y ago
Yeah, on a tour of the highlights of Istanbul we were taught the word is YOK! which in Turkish basically means "it does not exist" or "cancel" or something. It worked.
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by fernly 10y ago
TIL that an "autoject" is an inexpensive self-injection tool commonly used by diabetics[1] that can be carried safely and used easily. It can be loaded with Insulin, or with any drug whatever. The OP article describes using it to
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by fernly 10y ago
Thanks for the reference. For those like me who'd not heard of it, see [1] for a description and links to many implementations. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earley_parser
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by fernly 10y ago
OMG, memories... at once point in the pleistocene era, I was tasked with writing a manual for what was then Informix 4GL[1], and to get comfortable with the language, I spent a week writing a user forum app, with topics and message threads,
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by fernly 10y ago
Another pretty good quote about the young Don Knuth: "We had written our [compiler] in STAR 0, the only assembler that Burroughs supported on the 205. Our compiler took one hour and 45 minutes to assemble. The first week of don's
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A deep dive into Python's dict module (based on browsing 10 years of commits)(buzzfeed.com)
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by fernly 10y ago
The question that comes to my mind is, are the European countries doing any better in tracking MRSA, etc. infections? They certainly exist. One might hope a more centralized health-care system, not balkanized like the USA one[1], would keep
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Day 5 resurrecting the Xerox Alto(righto.com)
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