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by hga 10y ago
Ah, yes, the "best", as in fastest by far with highest quality results OCR software back in the '90s was owned by a company that was rumored to have pissed off their core technical team, who left and only occasionally deigned
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by hga 10y ago
Search for SimCity in this item: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html It's kinda strange for an OS to be maintained for a long time with that style of backwards compatibility....
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by hga 10y ago
This is one of the big worries about Iran's nuclear program. 3 IRBMs, which they have, lofting 3 warheads (you need that many to get fairly complete coverage of the CONUS), they might be able to pull it off. But it would be a terrib
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by hga 10y ago
Food is pretty easy, from my readings of nuclear war survival during the Cold War. E.g. a single semi-tractor trailer, long before their allowed weight was upped to 80,000 pounds, could carry enough wheat to keep 100,000 people fed for one
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by hga 10y ago
I found the difficultly of reading The Deceivers to depend on what's being discussed. Sometimes it's either very detailed to the point of being boring for the non-specialist, or intrinsically boring, e.g. the Japanese didn&#x
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by hga 10y ago
Indeed, NeWS was at the level of X11, but tuned to the hardware and networking set up we ended up having instead of the DEC 11/750<-very fast fiberoptic link->[display head with a 68000, 1MiB of memory, ~1 megapixels, i.e. pretty
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by hga 10y ago
For the overall story of strategic deception in WWII, The Deceivers: Allied Military Deception in the Second World War by Thaddeus Holt ( https://www.amazon.com/Deceivers-Allied-Military-Deception-S... ) is highly recomme
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by hga 10y ago
Also note the original book on the subject, The Man Who Never Was by Ewen Montagu, I read it in the '70s and remember it to be a solid, basic account. Per Wikipedia: Duff Cooper was a diplomat who had held several top level posts d
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by hga 10y ago
Every day I use an HP LTO-4 tape drive for backup, they are or at least were good at that. And echoing jhbadger, I still make occasional use of my 2nd HP calculator, a 28S. Nothing beats RPN.
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by hga 10y ago
Of those three I've only been to the Grand Canyon, my family otherwise went to more obscure places including very obscure ones where my father hunted elk, and it's as you say. Is there anywhere else in the US where you can stand
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by hga 10y ago
Yeah, it's not of great quality. E.g. it might have emphasized how much COMPAQ's PC quality dropped during that period, e.g. two computers with the same model number and consecutive serial numbers could have significantly differen
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by hga 10y ago
For seL4, as I understand it their trials and tribulations also included false starts, like trying CompCert before moving to Magnus Myreen's generate logic from binary code and then meet in the middle approach. And they've releas
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by hga 10y ago
Yeah, I know; in this case, a deliberate style choice not to break the flow most of the paragraphs. This isn't standard expository prose, I think it's allowed for the effect.
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by hga 10y ago
Hmmm, well, I suppose it's a pity my mother's abuses left me poor and not very able to help pay her future out-of-state medical bills....
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by hga 10y ago
And as I read it sometime ago while searching for Scheme implementations with native threads, Cheney on the MTA is inherently single threaded.
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by hga 10y ago
Hmmm, and what happens if the child is living in another state? (Although in this case it's just on the other side of the Beltway in Maryland.) My, that law is quite detailed, incorporates quite a bit more into it, and doesn't ha
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by hga 10y ago
Are these laws actually enforced? In addition to the one you point out, there's a host of loopholes I see in the bare bones law, "when such parent through misfortune and without fault of his own is destitute".
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by hga 10y ago
As I understand it, in the US in general (this area of law is more done at the state than Federal level), unless you take upon yourself the responsibility of taking care of one of your parents, in which case metrics of care come into play,
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by hga 10y ago
As the son of one who's in fact gotten even more abusive this year, as my father got early stage Alzheimer's, which to date is still a minor disability, to more comprehensively take out 57 years worth of grudges against him, to th
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by hga 10y ago
I think it's flaws, only somewhat addressed in recent revisions, are better known now than they were in the mid-'90s when I learned and started using it, plus the industry wide ... obsession? with OO and especially class based OO
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by hga 10y ago
Even if you dislike C++, or like me, came to loathe it, I highly recommend the book he published in the same year, The Design and Evolution of C++ ( https://www.amazon.com/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/... ).
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by hga 10y ago
Thanks! There was a delay after the Civil War as you'd expect from all the chaos and disruption that caused (e.g. MIT got its charter before the outbreak, but wasn't able to start up until after), but it's pretty clear, and
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by hga 10y ago
And you don't think the Japanese didn't know that? (On the other hand, anyone pointing that out would have been assassinated, so...). And note we were likely to be committed to the European theater as well. A lot of this comes d
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by hga 10y ago
How much of our current Federal debt is just funding current consumption? How much of the budget can truly be scored as investments? Perhaps not even the bulk of student higher education loans....
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by hga 10y ago
I'd thought we'd reached, or will in short order, the debt to GDP ratio where, historically, countries sooner or later repudiate their debt one way or another (which of course includes inflation). Of course the Federal Government
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by hga 10y ago
If the government doesn't pay back/at least keep current on that debt, it's likely to fall, as in, the whole system of government, as happened the last time it screwed up so badly ("Not worth a Continental." althoug
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by hga 10y ago
Although I'll note that as of WWII that strategy was pants for Imperial Japan. We peeled off their 3 or so defensive island chains, and nowadays we're a lot more mobile, we have all sorts of things than can all but completely ign
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by hga 10y ago
One way or another that's pretty well established, when the Khan network fell apart after Gaddafi saw the light after Saddam's capture and surrendered his WMD program to us (and note how we rewarded him...), a key artifact was the
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by hga 10y ago
The only long-term solution I have seen is Debt for Equity swaps. It won't work everywhere, but it does help. Note the US Federal government owns so much land in the Western part of the country and Alaska that that alone might allo
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by hga 10y ago
I'm starting to get tired of making this point in some of the many discussions of this topic (most recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12457371 ), so the last time for a month, I swear: You tell me when I can

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