gngeal

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by gngeal 13y ago
In another 1000 years, your hard drives will be unreadable.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I was secretly hoping for "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of God's existence, which this margin is too narrow to contain."
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by gngeal 13y ago
Obama said he won't use fighter jets to get Snowden Meet Suspiciously Specific Denial: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SuspiciouslySpecificDe... (alternatvely combined with Exact Words: http:/&#
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by gngeal 13y ago
Or he's just trying to make Chrome behave more like the Lisp Machines.
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by gngeal 13y ago
the US Army was restricting access to the UK version of The Guardian's website So you're saying that because it's classified information, trusted Americans (the soldiers) are going to be prevented access but the rest of the
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by gngeal 13y ago
That's a tautology (and therefore a waste of words) and you know it.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Is that the IT equivalent of legally requiring a man with a red flag to run sixty yards ahead of the car?
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by gngeal 13y ago
Hint: lack of imagination is seldom considered a positive trait in creative fields.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I think the notion of operation serializability is important in this context. From what I understand, in the broadest possible strokes, "concurrency" means "it doesn't matter in what order the sequence of operations happ
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by gngeal 13y ago
What about "The world as a mathematical game: John von Neumann and twentieth century science"?
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by gngeal 13y ago
You can, if you're in control of the framework you're using.
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by gngeal 13y ago
But "Commodore 64" won't, which is a shame.
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by gngeal 13y ago
By "damning", are you referring to the parroting of the silly use of capital letters?
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by gngeal 13y ago
And Knuth doesn't use e-mail at all. And Dijkstra didn't use a computer for a very long time. I think it's safe to assume that this is the class of people that develop habits that would seem strange to most people.
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by gngeal 13y ago
technology has outpaced him It feels sort of weird to see such claims about a guy who was hacking on computer systems that were almost two decades ahead of everything else. (But that probably depends on what one sees as "technology&q
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by gngeal 13y ago
Oops, you're right - I guess I fell too much in love with -i as a plural suffix. I don't know where that came from.
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by gngeal 13y ago
The population of those countries is probably differently off than they are in reality, but not necessarily better or worse. The Afghani probably wouldn't be as high on heroin as they are now.
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by gngeal 13y ago
all garage door openers will have CPUs over 1Ghz and no self-respecting citizen will have less than 512MB of RAM. ...snd NSA will snoop your keys for all the other agencies. ;-)
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by gngeal 13y ago
Oops. Apparently, I've forgotten to include the joke tag.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Obviously, it's the colloidal silver version of homeopathy! I just hope the authors of the article haven't lulled themselves into thinking that they've just invented a silver bullet for infections.
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by gngeal 13y ago
Why not apply it to the life itself? I mean, people who can't afford food are free to die, aren't they? It's not like anyone is forcing them to live or something. Using this kind of logic, anything can be turned into a choice
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by gngeal 13y ago
Well, we're always given a choice in the end: buy it or don't buy it. That works with grocery, baked goods, music, perhaps even computers (if you opt not to look at the CPU inside), but game consoles? You can hardly say "fu
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by gngeal 13y ago
Scan it and post it! Some of us love old time typography.
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by gngeal 13y ago
I suspect that's a math-heavy competition? This goes back to the times of Dijkstra, who - when visiting Russia - wrote quite unflatteringly about most stuff Soviet but the one thing he praised was that his Russian lecture attendees wer
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by gngeal 13y ago
If activists want a potential mass audience, facebook is an essential part of of that. Well, why not clear it through an individual that will put it up there so that the private dealings of everyone else won't leak?
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by gngeal 13y ago
The problem is that ARM has never been a high data throughput architecture, since few devices that need to process a large stream of information also need to be mobile. What, Acorn Archimedes was supposed to be mobile? And if it was low d
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by gngeal 13y ago
You should assume that 100% of your email is available to the intelligence community. Well, at least the message bodies can be encrypted, can't they?
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by gngeal 13y ago
The SLIME addon for Emacs has been using this for symbol completion for at least six or seven years. I'm not sure where they got it from.
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by gngeal 13y ago
In American English, "which" is supposed to be non-restrictive if not followed by a preposition. At least if I remember it correctly. (I'm a Slavic person speaking an L2 English interlanguage, not native English, so I may be
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by gngeal 13y ago
how your "useful" subset of the 1% creates technologies which benefit humanity in the long run, but harm large numbers of individuals in the short run I think you forgot to add "in the current economical/social system&

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