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by fsckboy 10mo ago
when i took 6.170 it was CLU. it was 15 units because of lab, but yeah, time sink.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
when I took 1.00 it was FORTRAN IV on IBM 370... with actual punchcards, batch.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
i've often marvelled that hardly anybody on the MIT CS faculty has ever considered RDBMS / SQL / Codd-Date / relational model worthy of pedagogical consideration. you might cover some crud when surveying semaphores and m
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
that would be way mo' scary to encounter than those passengers were expecting! there are plenty of incidents of people getting in fights with their Uber driver, cab driver, etc (remember Anjali Ramkissoon the med student who had a litt
575.
by fsckboy 10mo ago
so it's a point-of-snail sort of system, perfect for taking share in a teeny tiny market, and in the growth-share matrix something of a Cashless Cow?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
late 90s Sun and other companies were still selling high end workstations and servers running unix, and Microsoft was trying to dominate the server marekt. Linux won most all that and now there is no competition; that's why it seems qu
577.
by fsckboy 10mo ago
CP/M was already for sale for years, and the PC DOS that Microsoft bought was modelled after CP/M
578.
by fsckboy 10mo ago
what kept Microsoft alive in the post-BASIC pre-OS era was actually sales of the SoftCard, a hardware card which put a Z80 microprocessor into an Apple II so Apple owners could run CP/M software like S-100 machines. It was the brainchi
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
that Pinto Madness led to exaggerated claims does not mean that the Pinto was either safe or as safe as other cars, just that a car with an unsafe record had a worse reputation. The Pinto had a problem with its gas tank when it was rear end
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
nar nar = from gnarly meant in the sense of "great" pow pow = is powder, powdery snow cuttin = skiing (i.e. leaving a trail behind you after cutting through the snow) freshies = means fresh, new; not clear in this context, it coul
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
I just googled (in English) for laws in different western European countries concerning punishing ethnic insults and found plenty of them. People are responding like you're crazy because they can't handle any suggestion that eithe
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Comments made by recent accounts appear with green names until a grace period passes. on HN? huh, i've never seen that (and i'm no spring chicken)
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
a couple of friends of mine from high school rode their bikes coast to coast together one summer. the more heavyset of the two (one was a stick) got 15x the number of flats. just throwing it out there, the fact has never left me, tho, it&#x
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
what's green mean, new?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> they're not allowed to accept cash my sweet summer child, neither rain nor sleet nor cash nor dark of night will stay your postal carrier from zer's appointed rounds, but winter is coming... do you want to still receive your
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Snow is really heavy after a nar nar day in pow pow cuttin freshies up to your nippy nips, you'll change that assessment! (my email address was once inadvertently put on a mailing list for the planning of a bachelor party ski wee
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Were you not worried you were going to get murdered? he had left a trail of breadcrumbs. although he was hungry, it seemed a prudent precaution.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> There's a lot of old laws that special case alcohol in the US yes there are, but the anti happy hour laws are only from the 1970-80s, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, raise the drinking age campaigns. the previous round of laws lik
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> That's probably aimed at reducing consumption. it's aimed at not encouraging consumption which is slightly different. you can have a "hungry hour" where you entice people with food bargains and sell them alcohol, b
590.
by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Technically, any gene sequence can be achieved with enough time and resources. not in a meaningful way, no. the probability that a new mutation you want will occur is much much lower than the probability you can breed offspring withou
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> I’m not sure I like awk, sed, or cat sed is not "stream editor" as it says above, it's "stream ed ", where ed was another prexisting program which was essential and everybody knew it. its name was from &qu
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
zero initialization means "clear memory to zero", or "do no initialization"?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> To be fair those "unrelated" videos are the unrelated videos it shows me are so far from anything I'm interested in that I can only conclude it's showing both of us the same stuff, just lowest common denominator po
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> I am forced to go to street view to read the sign, then type the company name into the search box to force the business marker to show up and get clickable. I've found Apple Maps is a little better in this regard. the way you jux
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
serif vs sans serif is not "a vague aesthetic reason", it's the most fundamental typeface choice you can make, moreso than monospace (which is an artifact of some 19th century technology) Rubio is an attorney, and there are m
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
but compare the wear of the tires, and weigh tires vs brakes by the amount of "total pollution delivered to the environment", i.e. 20% more wear of something that is 2x as polluting is 40% more pollution. I don't know the num
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> motherboard for the IBM PC, and they included an 8086 slot and a slot for either an 8087 or 8089 nit: IBM PC used the 8088, the "8 bit external bus" version of the 16 bit 8086
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
western? what is this less polluting non-western car you are advocating?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
what's the difference between goal and intent?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
it was in the news recently, an Israeli guy was hanging out with dusky sharks, a somewhat common past-time as they've always been considered to be safe for humans, but they ate him and dusky sharks are no longer considered safe.

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