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by gumby 2y ago
I’ve always assumed this kind of stuff is cheaper than the damage they’d cause if they were idle.
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by gumby 2y ago
I recommend the funny and gross book, "New Guinea Tapeworms and Jewish Grandmothers: Tales of Parasites and People" by Robert S. Desowitz. Basically a bunch of horrible parasite diseases, some with a bit of detective story to fig
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by gumby 2y ago
> I was in the Marine Corps and every time we got to test some new piece of gear the safety officer was like "No, you can't live fire... I thought the whole point of the Marines was to cause maximal amounts of damage. Are you
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'Weird and Daunting': 7k Readers Told Us How It Felt to Focus(nytimes.com)
66 points by gumby 2y ago|31 comments
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by gumby 2y ago
The name is hilarious because HME is anything but speedy -- by many orders of magnitude. I think the real fix is secure enclaves, and those have proven to be difficult as well.
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by gumby 2y ago
> In other languages one can easily tell the precise pronunciation of a word just from how it was written Some other languages. Just considering the Latin alphabet: French pronunciation is so far from spelling that spelling bees used
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by gumby 2y ago
WTF is "modern syntax"?
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by gumby 2y ago
Rus was settled by people who migrated from what is now Sweden.
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by gumby 2y ago
> I keep meaning to update it, but if I'm honest with myself, I have to say this is unlikely. " IME he hates to revisit anything he's already written so this claim is polite but implausible.
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by gumby 2y ago
Or even write a script which is just those commands. Meanwhile every step a user as to do is an opportunity to cause a new and different problem.
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by gumby 2y ago
Sometimes the only way to investigate a problem. How can you even write a test case if you don't know what's going on?
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by gumby 2y ago
I don't know about `ls`, but I typically type something so short on one line: $ echo 'int main(){return 42;}' > a.c; make a && ./a; echo $?
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by gumby 2y ago
You can just say `make hello` — no Makefile required! And then run with `./hello` instead of invoking the more obscure a.out Obviously that doesn’t scale, but for a beginner it’s simple.
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by gumby 2y ago
Since smart phones are explicitly mentioned in Article 4 along with bump stocks, it’s pretty clear how this SCOTUS would rule.
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by gumby 2y ago
Thanks, I did angolia HN search while writing my comment but couldn’t find my reference. Looks like my memory was faulty.
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by gumby 2y ago
You put it in library code so the callers don't have to see it. I am always amused when a new C++ standard issues how many people complain "why did they add this obscure stuff and not my favourite feature?". Many of those ch
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by gumby 2y ago
> ... managed to tear out the streetcars (on hindsight a mistake) Having lived in places with OK (SF) or good streetcar service (Berlin, which is a nice A/B test case with East/West Berlin) I am a huge fan of streetcars. But my
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by gumby 2y ago
I do look at the commenter's name (same as for an article's author) as I know quite a few commenters personally (some are former colleagues) so our replies sometimes refer specifically to something the other person knows or did. O
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by gumby 2y ago
Will they bring back the backward-facing seats? I always chose them, believing them to be safer in an abrupt landing (same on the train).
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by gumby 2y ago
Have you ever seen TECO? It barely has syntax — it looks like line noise. Would you want to run the local assembly language (x86 or ARM) or are you thinking of also doing this with a PDP-10 emulator? Either way, this would be rather cool.
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by gumby 2y ago
I used to use meta-altmode (a non-ascii key on the KTV) to enter the minibuffer (note: not the region under the mode line) that accepted raw TECO and interpreted it directly. And to be more extreme: you could actually write small assembly
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by gumby 2y ago
> Any idea why there were @@'s in a lot of the messages? If you left @ as your TIP intercept character you had to type it twice, but only one @ would end up being sent. I don’t remember either. Could be an artifact of all the file
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by gumby 2y ago
Bfox made the name field in gnu finger specifically long enough to fit my entire name.
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by gumby 2y ago
The MLDEV was quite convenient for talking to the other ITS machines, as they just lived in the filesystem no differently from local files. Among the many hackerish features of ITS was allowing a user space process to act like a device, not
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by gumby 2y ago
Just living my life in an urban setting it’s never been a problem. Had a serious episode about a month ago (ketones at 9 mmol/L). I was on a short backpacking trip with some friends: four 15 mile days. I don’t carry a lot of carbs. M
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by gumby 2y ago
Though few, if any of the contemporary audience would have known this. It wasn’t one of his historical plays. It was just casual context.
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by gumby 2y ago
uucp would not be written until years later.
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by gumby 2y ago
I answered in a parallel comment.
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by gumby 2y ago
The fat thing mentioned in the post: fat seems to slow down absorption in my experience, though not to the extreme that some self-described “body hackers” (who don’t have DM) seem to think. I basically consider my malfunctioning pancreas to
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by gumby 2y ago
Wow, I know all those people on that recipient list! Yes, “ at “ was still in use. ISTR typing ‘@‘ but this was a long time ago (I didn’t get to the AI lab until ‘78 by when EMACS was well entrenched). This was pre TCP, pre RFC 733, pre DN

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