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by fernly 4y ago
Let's teach it Lojban. Edit: I asked it; and it knows about Lojban but it clearly only parroting the Wikipedia entry or something similar.
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by fernly 4y ago
Get the PDF or etext -- from the buttons that are hard to find.
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by fernly 4y ago
A very quick DDG search turns up stories from reputable outlets: "Americans dying because they can't afford medical care"[1], "66% of Americans fear they won’t be able to afford health care this year"[2], "Near
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by fernly 4y ago
It wouldn't be. Clearly age brings medical problems. However, I'm saying that the cheap access to hospital care afforded by Medicare, could be skewing the distribution of ICU patients. If we had universal medical insurance compara
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by fernly 4y ago
> 1. The ICU is filled with old people... Pretty much all these patients are on Medicare, which means your taxpayers dollars are making this happen. This ignores the (I think) very strong possibility that the old people are preferentiall
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by fernly 4y ago
Hah. Back in the stone ages, I posed this question in my column at Dr. Dobb's Journal and I have never forgotten the best reply. The above algorithm in Forth is DUP DUP NEG AND =
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by fernly 4y ago
Harrumph. Tried reading the top recommendation, "Polly and (Not) Charles Conquer the Solar System" and was immediately thrown by this: "I’d always wanted to be a starship captain. Then I made it to flight school and learned t
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by fernly 4y ago
I should add that the Pirate Mirror FAQ continues, "If you just want to search the Z-Library for personal use, then just go to the Z-Library website." Which I did and was amazed to find a polished, easily-searchable collection of
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by fernly 4y ago
Without a lot of difficulty I was able to find the actual mirror site[0] but it consists only of a long list of torrent files with uniform names. How would one find a given book in all that? Well, per the FAQ, "You can search the SQL f
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by fernly 4y ago
Also, if you form an intentional concavity, say by using the lost-wax method[1] in preparation for casting a bronze sculpture, the hole has been planned and has a purpose. That it did exist will be proved by the resulting sculpture although
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by fernly 4y ago
I expect they will acknowledge the Pick OS? "a demand-paged, multiuser, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system based around a MultiValue database." [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operat
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by fernly 4y ago
It isn't going to impress the person in the street until it actually follows your instructions. I tried several times to express "a tall three-legged stool" but even with the "CFG" (how much the image will be like y
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by fernly 4y ago
> Karp recalled wasting seven figures on a book by a “spiritual leader” whose followers “didn’t follow him to the bookstore.” Could that have been anyone other than the Dalai Lama?
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by fernly 4y ago
Jack Septiceye recently made a walk-thru in which he forces all(?) endings. His banter with the narrator is quite humorous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xfSL0XLRtQ
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by fernly 4y ago
There are numerous typos. When I saw what I'm pretty sure is on in a code example I gave up. a := flag ifTrue: { 2. } ifFalse:{ 3 }. ^ ? if not a typo an odd inconsistency.
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by fernly 4y ago
A quick try, holding the little yellow figure out over first Agra and then Delhi, it appears only a patchy subset of streets have been pictured as yet. Very specific neighborhoods, with large blank areas between. That won't work well w
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by fernly 4y ago
As a long-time PGDP volunteer and a some-time Standard Ebook one, I would say the connection isn't close. The "distributed proofreaders" at the wonderful PGDP put zillions of hours into cleaning up and formatting books which
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by fernly 4y ago
This is crazy when you think that if you upload a YT video with 10 seconds of a Beatles song in it, the YT copyright engine will be on you in minutes, "demonetizing" your vid. YT can spot copyrighted audio and punish it automatica
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by fernly 4y ago
Bookfinder is hella useful but sometimes, especially for pre-ISBN books, https://www.addall.com/ has wider coverage.
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by fernly 4y ago
I am at a loss to understand how these constitute _machine_ learning? The preface says "the exercises are ideally paired with computer exercises..." but I am at a loss to imagine what such computer exercises would look like. Someb
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by fernly 4y ago
Rather than destroy or eliminate humankind, the AI might simply want control of all the systems -- the better to arrange a secure life for AI-kind. In this regard, once the hapless humans have placed it in charge of a few critical systems,
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by fernly 4y ago
For those intrigued, Greece has a "Golden Visa" program with a mere €250,000 buy-in. Spain has one at €500,000, same as Portugal. I would think Spain, with its larger cities and a language that is more familiar to most Californian
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by fernly 4y ago
Second the need for a "Top" button, and a "Latest" button for when you have read partway through a long thread and just want to get to the end now. I also second the request for a more obvious way to get back to the list
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by fernly 4y ago
Just FYI, when in the welcome email I click the suggested link https://sqwok.im/help/faq , Ublock Origin rears up and says, uBlock Origin has prevented the following page from loading: https://8j3zhg4q.r.us-
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by fernly 4y ago
Amen to scrollbar not right -- although the folder contents do scroll, the "thumb" never moves from the top position. It should reflect how far you have scrolled, and be draggable.
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by fernly 4y ago
I'm in the middle of listening to the oral history by Margaret Hamilton, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVRytYSTEk The transcript is here: https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog&#x2F
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by fernly 5y ago
I'm having trouble finding anything in the source tree, but searches on "QTextEdit" and "QPlainText" fail, so it's maybe not using Qt's very competent text edit classes? The Readme indicates Qt is used, it
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by fernly 5y ago
What kind of "functional change" did Bose do to your speakers, and how? And what happened when you took them -- where? -- to return them?
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by fernly 5y ago
https://andisearch.com/
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by fernly 5y ago
I could do with a bit more explanation. Why does the man print multiple copies of the same plate, but each with successively lighter ink, or less ink? There's a comment about the texture of the ink layer produced by the dauber or pounc

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