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by grahamlee 2y ago
The presented story has to make sense to the audience, and showing two characters interacting with an isolinear chip, data crystal or whatever hints at "she just gave him a futuristic floppy disc with the plans for Chekhov's Gun&q
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by grahamlee 2y ago
My handy real-world analogy for XOR is the light over a staircase in a home. There's a switch at the bottom, and another switch at the top, and both control the same light. Initially, they're both in the off position. You set the
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by grahamlee 2y ago
Another company has a store called Super Mario, and the courts are reasonable enough to realize that they don't compete: https://ticotimes.net/2025/01/30/david-vs-goliath-costa-rica...
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by grahamlee 2y ago
> The part that’s weird with nulls is that it’s a trinary logic stuffed into a boolean algebra. It's a three-valued logic (though not trinary, which would use a base-3 number system) in a three-valued algebra: specifically, the rela
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by grahamlee 2y ago
Exactly this. SQL is based on the relational algebra and that's well-defined, NULL along with other features of SQL work in an entirely regular and predictable way. The only time it's weird is when a developer decides that it shou
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by grahamlee 2y ago
AROS is also the basis of the ApolloOS fork that the Vampire accelerators people maintain to take advantage of their chips' features. https://www.apollo-computer.com/apolloos.php
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by grahamlee 2y ago
Region locking stops (or is designed to stop) someone, for example, in the USA buying a DVD sold in the UK market. The localization of the product on sale isn't relevant to the decision not to sell the product.
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by grahamlee 2y ago
It seems to me that the extra features on DVD were originally part of the marketing benefits driving people to adopt the format because the studios preferred it to VHS because of CSS and region-locking. Then they found they had painted them
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by grahamlee 2y ago
I used to read his books as exercises in critical analysis—how does he get from the data to these conclusions, and what does he ignore that doesn't fit his conclusions? Then I discovered that, as stated by Carl Sagan, von Däniken also
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by grahamlee 2y ago
If you add every single other church or shrine that's dedicated to St. Michael to the map, what's the straight line you can draw that contains the most of those locations?
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by grahamlee 2y ago
I read 1800-2023 and thought wow, System Verilog had a great run, shame it's over.
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by grahamlee 3y ago
This is about smudging as a leftie, because your hand is trailing the pen if you write a LtR language like English. If you blotted every word or character before moving on you’d be there a while.
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Update law on computer evidence to avoid Horizon repeat, ministers urged(theguardian.com)
21 points by grahamlee 3y ago|1 comments
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by grahamlee 3y ago
The spice must flow.
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by grahamlee 3y ago
Lamport’s time/clocks paper solves this exact problem, using this exact example, without locks.
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by grahamlee 3y ago
I last used REXX last year, to write BDD tests for my Amiga software on AmigaOS 3.2. IBM still support it on MVS and z/OS, too.
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by grahamlee 3y ago
“Rm9sbG93ZXJz” almost precisely presaged the entire plot of all of the Black Mirror episodes combined, and was great fun (particularly the near-total lack of dialog). I thought the “My Struggle” bookends in Season 10 were quite good, but th
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by grahamlee 3y ago
The change in that zeitgeist is also one of the things the creators "credit" with its decline, though Duchovny getting into a lawsuit with Fox and checking out certainly didn't help. After the 9/11 attacks public interes
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by grahamlee 3y ago
“Avoid the passive voice” is a rule that annoys me. Sometimes, the rule that’s annoying is more important than the person that’s being annoyed.
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by grahamlee 3y ago
No, Boole was dealing with probabilities. The first half of his investigation on the laws of thought is all ones and zeroes, but the second half admits any value in between.
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by grahamlee 3y ago
Especially among a forum who mostly derive income by renting their “products” as “services” without letting people own their output.
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by grahamlee 3y ago
Richard Stallman predicted this in 1997’s “The Right to Read”. Predictably rather than listen to him, software specialists discredited him. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html
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by grahamlee 3y ago
Context for people who weren’t there: Perl was created by Larry Wall, who became an O’Reilly employee. The camel was the unofficial logo because it was the picture (presumably from the Dover pictorial gallery) used for the book Programming
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by grahamlee 3y ago
My current situation doesn’t allow me to post as much as I’d like, but I’m at https://SICPers.info .
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by grahamlee 4y ago
It's true that the implementation model didn't change, but the conceptual model did: the new "class" thing lets people express designs containing what they call "classes" with "methods" even though wh
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by grahamlee 4y ago
sorry, on my keyboard 5 is right next to 6.
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by grahamlee 4y ago
Indeed; and I was talking about the Javascript "object model" as it existed at the time, not the ES5 thing that adds classes back in after we failed to teach JS developers what "this" is. Those little dynamic effects wer
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by grahamlee 4y ago
> and nearly 2/3 are using JavaScript (which at least tries to be object-oriented) While Javascript is usually maligned fairly, in this case I think it's unfair. The JS design learned from Self that one of Smalltalk's acci
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by grahamlee 4y ago
I use a remarkable e-ink tablet, though I'm also looking longingly at the PineNote. Don't tell the whole class, but sometimes I print papers out and read the paper version.
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Venture Communism (2014)(c4ss.org)
1 points by grahamlee 4y ago|0 comments

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