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by hybrids 7y ago
Somehow I feel like the Age of Enlightenment occurring at around the same time as when coffee drinking was becoming increasingly widespread in Europe can't have been a coincidence
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by hybrids 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
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by hybrids 7y ago
Feel free to argue otherwise, but I think GIMP's relevance has waned over the years, which is why I speak in that "past tense" you take issue with. For what it's worth I think Krita has worth in the domain of photo manip
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by hybrids 7y ago
GIMP (GLIMPSE?) had a number of interface and overall "jankiness" problems that, to my knowledge, it's core team never really sought to change. (I would probably have to install it again and play around with it again to have
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by hybrids 7y ago
I don't know if that's necessarily true. Look at Facebook - people say mean and vulgar things under their real name all the time, often complete with a picture of their own face. Anonymity can be a factor in the way we treat each
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by hybrids 7y ago
Handle and design loosely reminds me of the OLPC. It's cute (and aptly-named)
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by hybrids 7y ago
I just had a horrid flashback to ActiveX plugin installation wizards in Windows 98...
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by hybrids 7y ago
> Many CISC machines (eg Intel's) are CISC in name only. The instructions are translated to micro-ops in the hardware. The micro-ops and the hardware itself, is RISC. This is a half-truth at best. Unless you work at Intel/AMD&#
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by hybrids 7y ago
Seems to run contrary to the concept of human memory being supremely unreliable, and that our subconscious has a tendency - beyond the feeling everyone's familiar with of memories being "vague" and "difficult to rememb
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by hybrids 7y ago
From what I recall, Malwarebytes (which is more or less the antivirus package to use if you're on Windows) is written in VB .NET. It using .NET in lieu of a native language gave it a leg up on certain other insecurely designed C++ ba
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What version of Visual Studio Is Windows compiled with? (2009)(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by hybrids 7y ago|0 comments
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A possible declining trend for worldwide innovation (2005) [pdf](accelerating.org)
3 points by hybrids 7y ago|0 comments
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by hybrids 7y ago
I had just reread "State and Revolution" a few months ago and do not remember this quote. Do you mind linking to me where you found it?
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by hybrids 7y ago
"Marxist revolutions 'of the peasants' pioneered this mass delusion of flattening." Ironically the Bolshevik revolution didn't really start out this way. The Bolsheviks advocated for a strict disciplined party model
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by hybrids 7y ago
Democracy is a formal system of governance - this essay isn't "anti-democratic," it is just against the absence of formal governing structures in groups (nor is it necessarily against informal structures either, but just agai
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by hybrids 7y ago
The Jo Freeman article was written in retrospect to her own experiences with the feminist movement in the 1960s - she has another article - "Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood" - that I think illustrates very well that in spi
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by hybrids 7y ago
Putting giant labels on top of everything and making grotesque caricatures of political figures is not what I would call subtle
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by hybrids 7y ago
This seems less like a case the "oh, the PC Police want to do away with political humor!" and more just shifting tides in media - i.e. that the conventional newspaper political cartoon is a form trending towards obsolescence. Poli
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by hybrids 7y ago
Sounds similar to NVIDIA's GPU Direct RDMA in principle. https://developer.nvidia.com/gpudirect
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by hybrids 7y ago
I can't be the only one that really wants a monospace version of this. Although I suppose Inconsolata is good enough...
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by hybrids 7y ago
Both of these things were invented by Lisp. The reason C didn't include them was because C and its ancestors was designed to be easy to write a parser for (well, "relatively" anyway, it's not exactly as barebones as sexp