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by garyrob 8y ago
OK, thanks for that clarification. That does make more sense.
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On the Mac, I highly recommend OmniOutliner. I have outlines that have evolved over, literally, decades. Before using OmniOutliner, I used More, an early Mac outliner that ran on a Mac Plus. OmniOutliner could import More files[1], so, when
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by garyrob 8y ago
Mine's a mid-2012 model. I've been quite happy with it. I've long been looking forward to Apple coming out with a model capable of 32GB, so I would have upgraded immediately, but my understanding is that the new machines have
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by garyrob 8y ago
Especially since the next macOS release will run iOS apps. That may be the approach Apple is planning to bring this to the Mac.
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"I honestly don't understand all these quality sacrifices just to make things thinner. It makes the product actually feel somewhat cheap and brittle." Here's a hypothesis: For many years, before the iPhone, Apple's
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How Did Theranos' Holmes Fool So Many Smart People?(medpagetoday.com)
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The best list I've found is https://www.2001spaceodysseymovie.com/tickets/
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The problem I have with his comment isn’t directly about the question of whether the video is “good” or “bad”. It’s with the fact that the comment seems partly designed to slap the face of the person he’s responding too, by starting it out
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by garyrob 9y ago
A response to the Cell article from the team from the article that did not find neurogenesis. """ In an email statement, that group, which works out of developmental neuroscientist Arturo Alvarez-Buylla’s lab, said that while
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by garyrob 9y ago
Oh wow, thank you so much for filling me in. I didn't read the whole thing because it was quoting a lot of animal studies, which I knew were questionable in light of the adult human research, and I was aware of no reason to expect the
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by garyrob 9y ago
A recent study[0] seems to provide meaningful evidence that while adult neurogenesis occurs in rats, rabbits and some other species, as mentioned in the research referred to by the OP, it does not actually occur in humans. I'm not clai
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by garyrob 9y ago
Right, but that doesn't seem to answer my question. I know that Stellar isn't quite fast enough to become the word's money transfer solution on its own. It appears that the Lightning Network (or some other solution) needs to
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by garyrob 9y ago
Is there an advantage to Lightning/Stellar as compared to Lightning/Bitcoin? I understand that Stellar has far better speed than Bitcoin, but with Lightning being used as the transaction layer, does that speed difference matter?
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I was wondering about this as well. I hope the OP responds.
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Can anyone point to a proof that for similar non-isosceles right triangles, the area is proportional to the square of a side? Can that be generalized to other shapes?
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by garyrob 9y ago
Apple is delaying some key iPhone and Mac software features planned for release this year to focus on quality improvements, Bloomberg News reported earlier Tuesday. In my book, that's the best news to come out of Apple in years.
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With a blockchain, they could set things up such that the ownership data is not owned or controlled by any one company. I'm not sure what Kodak would get out of setting something like that up. But there doesn't seem to be another
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by garyrob 9y ago
I respectfully disagree about iOS being mainly airtight. The biggest problem is probably that new iOS updates frequently destroy battery life. Also there have been bizarre problems with the spell checker. But I do agree that macOS is worse.
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Apple hardware still seems excellent to me. It's the software that's unreliable.
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I've been an apple fan since the '70's. My first Mac was a Mac Plus. At that point, I truly was a diehard fan because I viewed it as 10X better than the PC world. The engineering was amazing, both for hardware and software. I
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by garyrob 9y ago
I had one of those too. I remember Wordstar with fondness, which is why I now install the Joe editor on any new computer, and use Joe's jstar mode rather than nano. Another thing I recall is spending $4K for a 40MB hard drive. Indeed,
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by garyrob 9y ago
OK, makes sense. No indication that anything was wrong with the batteries before iOS 11, so why assume new batteries will help. It's strange though, because my experience, with a "new" replacement iPhone 6, is that iOS 11 wor
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by garyrob 9y ago
Why not just replace the battery rather than get new phones? My iPhone 6's lightning port broke around the time iOS 11 appeared, so I used the insurance we had on it to get a replacement. The replacement was another iPhone 6, with a n
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by garyrob 9y ago
Also, can you give any estimate at al as to when you'll have client-side compilation working?
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As far as I can tell, the footprint is around 1MB for the combined skulpt-min.js and sculpt-stdlib.js (not sure why the latter apparently isn't minified). That's pretty huge and makes for a large barrier against using Anvil for a
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by garyrob 9y ago
I'm hoping there will be some opportunities around the 50th anniversary of its release, April 3, 2018. I've actually been waiting for that for years. :)
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Well, I've destroyed two iPhones by means of accidents that resulted in them falling into water.
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"is self-modification compatible with volition?" That's a plot point of WestWorld. A more interesting TV series than I expected.
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Nice. This may be the best short synopsis/theory I've ever run across. (I've seen the movie probably close to 15 times, starting during its initial run when I was 12. And read the book several times.)
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by garyrob 10y ago
If the human race ends in nuclear holocaust, then yes, it was.

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