hollerith

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by hollerith 4mo ago
Some of us like Emacs Lisp fine. Its documentation (the manual in Info and M-x describe-function, etc) is exceptionally good. I don't need to be connected to the net when I'm writing something in Emacs Lisp. Try that with Javascri
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Can you explain how that would have worked with the much less efficient and much more expensive solar panels available in the 70s?
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by hollerith 4mo ago
"On MacOS" is not specific enough. Do they work in a textarea in Google Chrome on MacOS? In vscode on MacOS?
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by hollerith 4mo ago
And pigeons!
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Emacs keystrokes don't work in the textarea I'm using to write this comment in Google Chrome. Specifically none of these do anything like what they do in Emacs: C-a, C-e, C-n, C-p, C-f and C-b. This is on Linux, but ISTR finding t
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by hollerith 4mo ago
I learned Emacs before search engines and can develop Emacs software while disconnected from the internet. My point is that Emacs is more self-documenting than most things.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
You can't build an Emacs with Wayland (PGTK) support without native comp. ./configure will complain and refuse to do it.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>You won't suddenly find your text editor "upgraded" with tons of new features you never asked for. I never asked for native compilation implemented via the trampoline technique, which increases attack surface (because it
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Same here. I'd probably still be using 24.4 if I didn't want PGTK support.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
If travelling fast were an essential component of living a good life or having a good civilization, then that would say something.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
No, it was the common thing till the introduction in the 1960s of the IBM 360 line of computers (which shared the same instruction set and operating systems).
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by hollerith 4mo ago
And have any of those NZ utilities been privatized? Where are these utilities that were public, then were privatized? Not AFAIK in the US where the intercity and freight rail lines, telegraph lines, telephone systems, natural-gas-distributi
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>Utilities were generally public prior to this. Which utilities do you believe were government-funded or government-owned in the West? I will grant you most water supplies. Which other utilities?
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by hollerith 4mo ago
The people who've been in charge of the web (i.e., mostly the browser makers, but also the owners of the most popular sites) have made decisions that are IMHO severely anti-user. Although these anti-user design decisions have been accu
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Since Uber's never paid dividends, ROI is easy to calculate. At the end of its first day of trading (in May 2019), Uber's price was $41.57 per share, and it is currently $72–73 per share for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of
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by hollerith 4mo ago
I think the site owner actively filters them out and has been doing so ever since you joined this site in 2011. But no matter the reason for the complete lack of emoji, the fact that you like this site enough to participate here is evidence
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Of course it had nothing to do with America's having been on the winning coalition in two world wars or its being the only developed country whose homeland was not devastated by the second of the two wars because those reasons wouldn&#
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by hollerith 4mo ago
And yet you are here, a site completely devoid of emoji.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Gotta love browsers that let websites hijack basic browser functions.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
I dispute your assertion that Chinese investment is more diverse and your assertion that most US investment these days is going into AI. Also, how are you defining stakeholder and what makes you think there are more of these stakeholders in
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by hollerith 4mo ago
OK, but by hypothesis the AIs are in control. Now suppose they want to switch to a more efficient kind of data center that would corrode quickly in the presence of oxygen, so they remove all the oxygen from the atmosphere. Or they disassemb
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by hollerith 4mo ago
I don't agree with "mostly capitalist" when (again) most investment is made by regional banks that are state-owned enterprises with strong guidelines set by Beijing about what sectors to invest in.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
No. Beijing instructs Chinese banks what to invest in (e.g., AI, electrical generation infrastructure). The Fed has never done that. When there is an economic downturn, e.g., the Dot Com crash in 2001, the Fed makes it easier for US banks t
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Are you sure you don't mean Andrew Huberman? Jordan Peterson has probably mentioned dopamine, but if so, its at a rate of about one mention every 50 to 100 hours.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
No, most investment is still done by banks controlled by the Party whose priorities are set by Beijing.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
I didn't see any shitposting on the internet in the 1990s or the decade after that, nor anything remotely like "tits or gtfo" before I saw it on 4chan (which started in 2003). I did see a lot of trolling and a little harassme
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by hollerith 4mo ago
It's not more sustainable though. It takes more energy to grow the food to get the calories to metabolize to turn the crank than it would to run an electric motor or a engine to do the same work.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
And I suppose these jobs that pays 10x would go to people that AOC approves of, i.e., preferably no Republicans?
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by hollerith 4mo ago
>We're bringing it up because it's not being mentioned Huh? I must've read thousands of comments on this site over the years to the effect that any censorship of the internet would be wrong.
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by hollerith 4mo ago
Correction: UVB, not UVA. Correction: the standard used for clothing is UPF, not SPF. They're similar, but there are differences.

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