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by inetsee 6y ago
From a company that manufactures cables for bridges?
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It appears to be a version of bitcask written in Go by the author of Twtxt. There seem to be several other versions of bitcask, including one written in Erlang (the original?), one in OCaml, one written in Rust, and maybe others that don&#x
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by inetsee 6y ago
In case it's not clear, the link is to one chapter in a larger book titled "Psychology of Intelligence Analysis" by Richards J. Heuer, Jr. The table of contents is here https://www.cia.gov/library/center-
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by inetsee 6y ago
Having read "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" a looong time ago, I have sometimes wondered why no one has ever tried to use rail guns as launch mechanisms. I vaguely remember from not so long ago that one of the criticisms was that t
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by inetsee 6y ago
I am confused. From the paper: "Thomas F. Knight, Jack Holloway and Richard Greenblatt developed the first LISP at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the late 1970s." From Wikipedia: "John McCart
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by inetsee 6y ago
There was a suite of software developed for Unix in the late 80s called "The Writer's Workbench", described in Wikipedia as "perhaps the earliest grammar checker to receive wide usage on Unix systems." https:/
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by inetsee 6y ago
Are you saying that your wife has never said "Are you really going to wear that?"
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Years ago I worked on a Special Access project. Everything that got thrown away went into the burn barrels, whether it had a classified label or not. Of course, when California took away our license to burn stuff, we acquired a grinder type
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by inetsee 6y ago
The collection model is that the person delivering the newspapers has to knock on doors and ask the subscribers to pay for the subscription. This is in contrast to the subscription model where the subscribers pay the newspaper publisher, wh
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TLDR: The old COVID-19 contact tracing app was banned in June. "A new app is already being planned" (As of October 24, 2020). "The new app expected to be implemented this year (2020)." Meantime: US CDC has issued "
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by inetsee 6y ago
The Wikipedia article about the treasure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenn_treasure confirms that the treasure was hidden in Wyoming. "On July 22 Fenn stated on the Thrill of the Chase blog site that the treasure
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by inetsee 6y ago
Saying that nuclear power plants are zero emissions ignores that fact that nuclear power plants produce nuclear waste that will have to be dealt with.
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by inetsee 6y ago
There is also "The Art of Logical Thinking; Or, The Laws of Reasoning by William Walker Atkinson" https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/41838 at Gutenberg.org. The Art of Logical Thinking is available in multiple form
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by inetsee 6y ago
Whenever I read articles like this I wonder about the economics of behavior like this. Are the profits gained by these kinds if behaviors enough to offset the loss of customers, either directly by people swearing to never buy HP products ag
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by inetsee 6y ago
If you sign up for a carrier and they provide a phone with payments folded into your monthly bill, is that not a loan?
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by inetsee 6y ago
This is a sample size of one, but one of the Youtubers I follow is Ali Abdaal. In addition to his Youtube channel he has courses on SkillShare. The combination of Youtube and SkillShare seems to provide him with a very good income. Update:
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by inetsee 6y ago
Pandoc https://pandoc.org is described as a Universal Document Converter. It can convert markdown (and quite a few other formats) into ePubs, PDFs, doc files, etc. If you need to produce eBooks, Pandoc is a more powerful tool. I
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by inetsee 6y ago
I wouldn't describe Gerald Weinberg as "seemingly unknown". He wrote "The Psychology of Computer Programming" which I believe was very influential in its day (it was published in 1985).
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by inetsee 6y ago
I recently noticed that LibGen has started using Cloudflare as one of its download options. I was somewhat surprised that Cloudflare would allow use like this.
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by inetsee 6y ago
I don't know how I missed that one. We could call it a tie?
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by inetsee 6y ago
And we have a new winner for the most unusual headline on Hacker News!
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TLDR: The Octocopter costs $4000. Of course, if you can afford to buy a RED Komodo, $4000 is a drop in the bucket of your loss if your RED Komodo falls out of the sky!
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How to Teach Yourself Computer Science: A Developer's 100-Hour Journey(thenextweb.com)
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by inetsee 6y ago
2019 is not that long ago. Do you have any examples where the issues or concerns raised in the post have been satisfactorily resolved?
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by inetsee 6y ago
This article also says that Amazon may develop William Gibson's "The Peripheral". https://www.engadget.com/2019-11-13-amazon-william-gibson-th... I'd love to see that!
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by inetsee 6y ago
I have in the past been very critical of some web pages for poor readability. When I first read this page I didn't think it was that bad. I have seen web pages designed by professionals that are much worse: tiny fonts and really low co
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by inetsee 6y ago
Doesn't Barnes and Noble sell ePub versions? (They call them "Nook Books".)
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by inetsee 6y ago
There are other variations for functional programming languages. Lisp [1]. Scheme [2]. Lisp Interpreter written in Python. [1] http://buildyourownlisp.com/ [2] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/com
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by inetsee 6y ago
I have read that the best way to get started in finding good films is to use awards as a starting point: Academy Awards, Directors Guild Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards. These organizations are made up of people who live and breathe film
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My experience has been that DDG produces satisfactory results 95+ percent of the time and Google produces more ads that crowd out the results 100 percent of the time.

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