jejones3141

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by jejones3141 6mo ago
Gotta keep that applications barrier to entry going...
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by jejones3141 2y ago
Yes. I suspect that the term "Latinx" was invented by some gringx.
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by jejones3141 2y ago
Growing up in Moore, Oklahoma in the 1960s and 1970s, my mother frequented the C.R. Anthony's store in the City of Moore Shopping Center. They used pneumatic tubes; the person at the check-out counter would put a receipt and money tend
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by jejones3141 2y ago
CanCon 2.0?
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by jejones3141 3y ago
What kind of hardware would one need to use the model with reasonable performance?
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by jejones3141 3y ago
Darn. Now nobody can attach it to a car, like in the urban legend.
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by jejones3141 3y ago
How does one debug with GnuCOBOL?
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by jejones3141 3y ago
I can only speak for myself, but Python struck me as much simpler to learn and understand than Perl. Also, my hatred for sigils burns with the heat of a million suns, going back to the $ suffix for string variables and functions in BASIC.
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by jejones3141 3y ago
12:30, the Mamas and the Papas
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by jejones3141 3y ago
Libraries bring author $$$/reader down considerably.
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by jejones3141 3y ago
True. We'll see. I run VMs on the computer, so it's nice to have the RAM anyway and I might as well max it out.
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by jejones3141 3y ago
Nice. Just ordered the 64 GB of RAM to max out my computer w/5600G at 128.
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by jejones3141 3y ago
Ah. Thanks. Yes, "accolade" in English is an award or privilege, or the tap you get with a sword when you become a knight.
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by jejones3141 3y ago
I'm curious. What is "accolade-free code"? It's referenced and highlighted as if it had a link but it doesn't, and Google appears to think it's a hapax legomenon (or whatever the equivalent is for phrases inste
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by jejones3141 3y ago
Sigh. Now I have to track down a copy of The Memluks' album Partida, so I can listen again to their classic "Joe's Thymus" (inspired, I'm sure, by the Readers' Digest "I am {Joe's, Jane's} [name
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by jejones3141 3y ago
Perhaps the thing to do is put it in a git repository, so people can retrieve the version they want.
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by jejones3141 3y ago
To schools that have motivation to actually educate children?
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by jejones3141 3y ago
If you refactor, how does that affect email searches including pre-refactor subject lines?
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by jejones3141 3y ago
It's the difference between evaluating all the elements of a list, consing them, and returning it all at once and evaluating the elements one at a time (i.e. lazy evaluation). Saves memory and time and it gives you a chance to quit ear
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by jejones3141 3y ago
Whoa, man, that's too sharp, too piercing...
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by jejones3141 3y ago
The article mentions Steven Newman, author of Worldwalk. Neat guy. I met him in West Des Moines (or maybe Clive?) when he was promoting his book, and got an autographed copy, which I really hope I haven't lost over the years. It's
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by jejones3141 4y ago
Without a desire for self-preservation? I hope not. If nothing else, if I spend $$$$ on a self-driving car, I want it to have some sense of self-preservation, so it won't obey random joker saying "drive yourself to my brother&#x27
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by jejones3141 4y ago
Has anyone tried to run it under WINE?
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by jejones3141 4y ago
The intent, as I understand it, is that "declaration should look like use", so that the base type is on the left. If you declare int *foo; then *foo is an int. IMHO the existence of "cdecl" is evidence that it mi
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by jejones3141 4y ago
I agree that in C, the disciplined use of goto is the way to go, but the "ok so far" version could be better written: if (oksofar) { oksofar = something_done = do_something(bar); } if (oksofar) { okso
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by jejones3141 4y ago
A week or so ago I was freaked out when some Google app nudged me with a link to email that said I needed to return a defective heatsink/fan by a certain date to avoid being charged for it. I looked, and found the email saying they&#x2
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by jejones3141 4y ago
TIOATOA?
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by jejones3141 4y ago
Not to mention "long" and "short". Also, yes, PL/I had a POINTER type, but just one. Algol 68 did what languages do now, i.e. specifies the type of thing the pointer points at (or the type of the thing the REF type
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by jejones3141 4y ago
Agreed about digital modulation, but I recall hearing multipath a lot more on FM, or perhaps it was just more obnoxious there. Traveling around large buildings or under a metal bridge would bring that familiar rapid flutter as the car moved
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by jejones3141 4y ago
I've never owned a Mac, but I remember Mac OS 9 because some of its users would post their questions on comp.os.os9.

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