jdougan

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by jdougan 2y ago
That essay is not well worded. They're confusing property in general with land specifically, with wasn't universal across the States. As I understand it, some States' property requirements could be met with non-land assets. S
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A while back someone claimed to me that WASI was structured as capabilities. True/false?
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> It was literally first programming language taught at university. Do you mean "It was literally first programming language I was taught at university."? because the first language ever taught was more likely to be one of the
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by jdougan 2y ago
I'm not sure if it is your issue or not, but when I searched for "red planet" your index entry says it's the Robert A. Heinlein novel, but the link to Librivox goes to the page for the William John Locke book.
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by jdougan 2y ago
I wonder if there is any way of getting X/Twitter to shake it loose?
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My Mom was a midwife in London in the mid-20th century. She used to joke that she was a black belt...in midwifery. Apparently the belt colors had meaning then and still do other places (after a quick search it looks like Ghana still uses a
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by jdougan 2y ago
Call them "United Statesians". I'm sure they'll love that. /s
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by jdougan 2y ago
I think it should have been: "Gulf of the Americas"
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by jdougan 2y ago
press a third time to perform a default action or replay last action
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by jdougan 2y ago
When I was very young in Canada, before the metric changeover, it was still common to measure distance with time.
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J.C.R. Licklider, "Man-Computer Symbiosis" from 1960.
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by jdougan 2y ago
If you add date info to a domain it can work. See the fdc URN scheme for an example. Otherwise, you are right. I'm not sure why they didn't do something like this with ATproto IDs. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc&#x
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https://archive.ph/hb9lw
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Ask twitter/x. They bought smallthought, trendly and dabbledb, probably as an aquihire. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1440928
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by jdougan 2y ago
The Army got really screwed with this and the succeeding Key West Agreement. Doing everything with helicopters ("airplanes want to fly, helicopters want to crash") is ridiculous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Kant at 10 wpm?! Look at the speed reader!
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But that can be done better. I miss DabbleDB. https://youtu.be/MCVj5RZOqwY
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by jdougan 2y ago
Which is why they tested air-launching a minuteman I back in '74. Tough to hit a C-5 in the air over the US with an ICBM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr2_cKfr8Sk
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by jdougan 2y ago
US people who have expressed opinions on the matter near me claim to like the taste of Coca Cola from other countries better. Specifically Mexican Coke, though I've heard similar sentiments with Canadian Coke. https://en.wik
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by jdougan 2y ago
Theoretically, I think that should work. It (At least it used to be) specified that //site/some/path should assume the uri protocol of the current context. So if it was a link on an http page, it should assume http, sam
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I gave them USD 50 for pretty similar reasons plus the additional reason of thanking Roberts for the entertainment I had from his earlier games. Since, I have easily gotten that much entertainment value watching the development, so for me i
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by jdougan 2y ago
> “In my early days it was an article of faith among a selfstyled ‘intellectual elite’ that they could teach calculus to a horse . . if they started early enough, spent enough money, supplied special tutoring, and were endlessly patien
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by jdougan 2y ago
On the other hand, I'm getting some of my news from shorter (5 - 10 min these days, though they used to be shorter) videos with talking maps and war machines...and I'm very much not young. Buff/Franklin for 2028!
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by jdougan 2y ago
Where does Engineering Physics fit?
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What would be the computing equivalent of an Engineering Physicist?
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No fear, there is a fork! Called, imaginatively enough, Syncthing-Fork.
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- Everything is just a filesystem (Plan9/Inferno) - Everything is just a buffer (K&R C and many of its descendants) - Everything is just a logical assertion (Prolog) I look at the list and I see a bunch of successes, though some
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by jdougan 2y ago
Any other issues with it? Sibling comments mentioned potential unicode issues.
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There is also concern in Eve about fraud and cheating, and not just between players. Individual devs have put their fingers on the scale before and something like a blockchain could make it visible.
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Write it!

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