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by gumby 2y ago
The problem was spare had to be good at fighting case heir kicked the bucket. Then you had to figure out how to keep spare from killing heir. Standard technique was to encourage them to go conquer someplace else. This was also an importa
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by gumby 2y ago
Back in the days of the kingdom of Alba no such convention existed — it was feudal.
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by gumby 2y ago
Looks like only about half of them have been deployed. The rest are mostly retired but not yet dismantled, or in inventory ( https://thebulletin.org/premium/2024-05/united-states-nuclea... ) Apart from the absolute
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by gumby 2y ago
> Shakespeare’s plays, according to Knights, were first and foremost “dramatic poems,” works of literary art unified through metaphor and language, rather than a record of interactions between characters. To treat Macbeth as the final ep
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by gumby 2y ago
> Why would Microsoft even bother making this comment? Is the outage in some part their fault? Two reasons: 1 - Few people understand anything about how their computer (/car/stove/phone/medicine/...) works -- the
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by gumby 2y ago
It was originally implemented in actual hardware (rods and bars). Just look inside a teletype, like a KSR-23 (pre ascii, but similar)
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by gumby 2y ago
Found it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#/media/File:USASCII_code...
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by gumby 2y ago
Yes, though ^m, ^[ et al aren’t so much elegant as coincidental; but look at A and a, for example. I found the chart I was looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#/media/File:USASCII_code...
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by gumby 2y ago
I wish the author had included the full ascii chart in 4 bits across / 4 bits down. You can mask a single bit to change case and that is super obvious that way. The charts that simply show you the assignments in hex and octal obscure
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by gumby 2y ago
The answer that developed for radio is the same answer on the Internet today: payola ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola )
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by gumby 2y ago
This is the extreme stereotype of humanity: travel somewhere far away and continue to litter just like you do at home. No respect for the locals! Worse, since it's far away it doesn't come back to make a bigger problem for you la
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by gumby 2y ago
Never even used `diff -p`? That's been in diff for many decades.
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by gumby 2y ago
Then you're basically back to "anything can convert back and forth with void " -- the point is to avoid* that.
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by gumby 2y ago
I didn't read it as a luddite take so much as a long winded description of what you say: there's a lot more latency in technology adoption (or even understanding by those who are developing it) than most people recognize.
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by gumby 2y ago
There was a funny (joke) academic paper circulating around 2000 that showed if you were plannig to do a computation that would take about a year that in 6 months you could pay 1/3 less and still get the computation done faster. What ma
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by gumby 2y ago
Last year we had a lab that was 25 minutes away. I carpooled with a neighbor. It seemed, OK, especially as we only went in a couple of times a week. We lost that space and switched to a lab about 10 minutes away. It's amazing what a
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by gumby 2y ago
> It's not just AI startups. It's almost all of them. The reality is that a very tiny percentage of new companies get institutional financing at all (and the majority of those that do aren't technical and aren't start
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by gumby 2y ago
Yeah, I meant the house: it would be much in the majority's interest* to leave the position vacant through the election. * I mean the way they seem to operate these days, where keeping the system running properly isn't considered
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by gumby 2y ago
Not in my experience, but YMMV
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by gumby 2y ago
> The modern eszett glyph usually looks like an ss ligature (long s + short s). It is literally a ligature of the long s and z. This is unsurprisingly obvious in Fraktur, given the name, but you can see it in the Roman form ß: the upper
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by gumby 2y ago
Wow! Shows I’m living under a basket.
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by gumby 2y ago
Ah, thanks. I do use kayak to look up flights (which I then book directly).
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by gumby 2y ago
> For GNU ls: e/E, j/J, V, K, M, O, P, W, y/Y and z are not used Challenge accepted!
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by gumby 2y ago
> Booking.com's … grip on the market? Do they have a significant grip on the market? I’ve never used them, but for all I know they sell a majority of plane tickets. Then again I haven’t used Ryanair either. The reputations of Ryan
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by gumby 2y ago
The “rules” are guidelines. Good titles should be useful and encourage those interested to read and do a service to those not interested by preemptively not wasting their time. Consider the following guidelines: > Otherwise please use t
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by gumby 2y ago
Almost. Canonicalize constructs so that they will be easier to manage in later passes. So for example in the x * 2 case, if you canonicalize it to a shift, the representation of that shift may have other properties (or tags or whatever) li
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by gumby 2y ago
Why would anyone hate that? It’s a good marker, like [video], that tells folks like me not to bother clicking.
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by gumby 2y ago
The fact of repeatedly managing to get cooperation out of a divided congress was one of his superpowers.
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by gumby 2y ago
I think of Zeiss as a lens company but indeed, EUV lasers can’t use lenses but instead mirrors which only last a couple of weeks
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by gumby 2y ago
Well, Jefferson anyway (“…to the shores of Tripoli…”)

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