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by fernly 10y ago
Thank you. It appears I was wrong.
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by fernly 10y ago
Coincidentally Anders Hejlsberg, who wrote TP, is interviewed here[1], HN comments [2]. [1] https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Anders-Hejlsberg... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by fernly 10y ago
RSS Owl ( http://www.rssowl.org/ ) is a good replacement.
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by fernly 10y ago
I am baffled by the article's frequent use of the word Kepler. The first mention is correct: "New planets are uncovered all the time, thanks to Kepler. In fact, the mission just unearthed a stash of more than 1,200 new exoplanets,
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by fernly 10y ago
To assist you all in reminiscing? A lot of TP manuals are at bitsavers: http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bor...
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by fernly 10y ago
Such a checker could be a boon for students as well as instructors, but take note of this near the end of the article, > This suggests that we are approaching human performance—but only on well-formed text. It may fall down on exactly th
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by fernly 10y ago
right right right, don't do anything to the plastic. To a museum the natural aging of the plastic is part of the artifact and its history. Ret0bright[1] is a chemical combination that could have effects down the line. museums have to t
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by fernly 10y ago
> Researchers found that three quarters of systems infected with Jaku were running an unlicensed version of Microsoft Windows. Which means, systems that are never updated, so, systems that are vulnerable to a broad range of attacks, and
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by fernly 10y ago
Hah! Found it! This discussion reminded me of Robert Heinlein's rant against the automobile. Turns out it is from the YA novel "The Rolling Stones"[1]: "Despite the name 'automobile' these vehicles had no auto
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by fernly 10y ago
Put me down as one who does not want to OWN an autonomous car. I don't. It is ridiculous to tie up so much capital in a vehicle I use no more than 1-2 hours a day, max. But I would LOVE a world in which I can call an autonomous car to
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by fernly 10y ago
Checklists applied rigorously have been _demonstrated_ to make a huge difference, see The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande [1] [1] http://smile.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right...
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by fernly 11y ago
TIL: about the rope data structure[1]. Never heard of it in decades in the industry. Disagree with the comment "Cross-platform UI toolkits never look and feel quite right." Qt, for one, uses the native toolkit on Mac and Windows a
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by fernly 11y ago
Where will an autonomous truck (AT) refuel? On US highways, fuel stations are not "full service", the driver is expected to operate the fuel filling and pay. So will some stations provide attendants to fuel ATs? If there is resent
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by fernly 11y ago
Moar surfboard. Hmmm.
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by fernly 11y ago
Nasty sounding condition. Here's a link[1] and a summary, > ...a mental disorder in which the people have persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization and/or derealization... Depersonalization is described as feeling d
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by fernly 11y ago
Re PWM, I coincidentally recently was reading "Magic Sine Waves"[0] by the irrepressible Don Lancaster. He's done a lot of development since that article[1] [0] http://www.tinaja.com/glib/sinquest.pdf [1
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by fernly 11y ago
This was covered in depth on the Security Now podcast in May 2015 (Transcript [1]). The Passive Keyless Entry and Start PKES system relies on the assumption that if the car can "hear" the key, the key is in close proximity. Normal
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by fernly 11y ago
Nostalgia... In the 70s I lived in a London suburb that was under one of the approach paths to Heathrow, and could always tell when Concorde was passing over on final. Its sound was many decibels above a 747 and had a harsh, rock-crushing q
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by fernly 11y ago
Thank you. That is the _second_ item in the DuckDuckGo search results. Guess I should have looked a millisecond longer. But why the one.npr.org does not at least have an "about" link to it...
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by fernly 11y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. However, it is not my habit to listen to stuff with my phone. I have an iPod Nano that I use to listen to music and podcasts while running (much lighter as well as less breakable and stealable than a phone); and w
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by fernly 11y ago
I listen to local NPR station often and I had never ever heard of NPR One. So I went to one.npr.org and I'm no wiser. It's a white page with a logo and a completely undocumented audio-play widget. I'd say the "don't
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by fernly 11y ago
Also, just plain convenience. You want to go into the city center for a date, e.g. wife and I want to go have dinner at the Hayes St. Grille and hear a concert at SF Jazz. Today: drive into the city, deal with stressful traffic, also stress
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by fernly 11y ago
The systems named, TX-0 and TX-2, tweaked my recollection of items I'd seen while cataloging at CHM. There are a number of items related to the TX-0[1] including a picture[2] but also quite a number of its unique circuit modules[3], wh
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by fernly 11y ago
The real sins, the true annoyances and the routes for malware, come from ads brought in from off-site. Ad copy served directly from the domain to which you've gone are rarely a problem. But when that domain sublets part of their page t
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by fernly 11y ago
They only downscale if you choose the "free unlimited" option under settings. If you choose the "Original" option they don't -- or at least, I assumed they don't! Unfortunately if you want to store more than 14
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by fernly 11y ago
"Here fsync at every write is mandatory because if nodes go down and restart, they MUST have the latest value of the “current” key." Why could not a node that is restarting, simply do the algorithm and set its own "current&qu
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by fernly 11y ago
All the lectures as transcripts, not videos: http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ Playlist of Feynman lectures on video at Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLzGzdSNup63lMYeOpU9H...
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by fernly 11y ago
This issue is mentioned in a small sub-comment and has drawn no replies but it seems to me like the Heffalump In the Room: "For its first four years online, a portion of every mined Zcash coin will go directly to Wilcox’s Zcash company
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by fernly 11y ago
OK I be confused. This seems, to a quick poke-around, to be all about QML. The Qt that I know, from writing a couple of apps using PyQt, is about windows and widgets made by creating instances of classes, and connecting signals to sockets a
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by fernly 11y ago
"printed on ... a business card" -- at what point size? That's a lot of text!

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