jejones3141

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by jejones3141 5y ago
One thing I've found nano useful for: git commit messages. If the commit file is empty, that cancels the commit. Nano will tell me how many lines it actually wrote, so if I have second thoughts I can cancel with certainty. Nano may wel
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by jejones3141 6y ago
From Merriam-Webster: "a situation in which a public figure (such as a political leader) is deliberately presented to the people of a country as a great person who should be admired and loved". Wikipedia mentions the use of mass m
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by jejones3141 6y ago
The Democrats had their cult of personality in the Obama years.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
> Lets put it this way, no one is suggesting to blacklist the WSJ or the National Review. Yet.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Stuttering is an unfortunate condition, but it has to do with pronouncing words and problems speaking fluently. I've never heard a stutterer say the sorts of things Biden says.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
It's ironic that the Institute for Public Education should be concerned about monopoly technology platforms. The educational monopoly to be concerned about is government schools.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Jack up tax and let the market decide? Those seem inconsistent.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Just for the sheer heck of it (and because my father got me some polar coordinate graph paper) I spent part of a summer in the early 70s making a circular hexadecimal slide rule. Back in the day people used printed log tables. Attach your p
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by jejones3141 6y ago
There are those who have been stuck paying for kids who are not their children. https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/man-forced-to-pa...
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Of course, there are some programs that are intended to run potentially forever, e.g. servers. Does Alan have some way to allow a non-terminating top level while constraining all the pieces underneath?
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Could be a conspiracy, could be concern that being targeted if they are somehow identified as Trump supporters.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
First, what on earth does a likelihood of 2, or -3, mean? The graph is a bit puzzling. Second, even those who master those "subtle social cues" (which have the important feature of plausible deniability) have to learn them at som
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Or possibly poking fun at meat that is equally incredulous at the notion of AI.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Yup. I rather liked _Night Beat_ ("Copy boy!").
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Yup. I understand that Al Capone ran soup kitchens in Chicago.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Yup. The Signetics 68070 that was used in CD-i was like a 68000, but slower because it didn't have that second ALU.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
The first? Algol 68 allowed implementations to have language-specific versions of keywords. I remember seeing a French language Algol 68 book in the stacks at the OU library that had listings with French keywords. I don't remember what
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by jejones3141 6y ago
In my case, I get 1 Gb/s (symmetrical, no data cap, and they gave me the modem/router) internet from CenturyLink for $65/month, and we decided YouTube TV was the best choice that gave us local channels (not their subchannels,
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by jejones3141 6y ago
Has anyone gone out there with a sound level meter? If it's that loud, won't it drown out sirens or car horns??
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by jejones3141 6y ago
I'd be very interested in any example of C++ having "Code that is simple and easy to read, understand, and write" as a goal.
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by jejones3141 6y ago
If it's signed int, unless you know the value is positive you can't just shift right 1--if the result of the shift is negative, you have to add 1.
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by jejones3141 7y ago
People have run Hitachi 68C09Es at 5 MHz. May not sound like much, but the 6809 (which the 6309 is an improved version of) takes fewer clock cycles than Z-80 or 808x take to do similar work. OpenCores has a 6809 core, not cycle accurate, th
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by jejones3141 7y ago
I like SPJ's use of Comic Sans for presentations. As others have said, overuse and misuse have caused the hatred of Comic Sans, and at least from what I see, that overuse has receded, now replaced by other fads like pseudo-handwritten
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by jejones3141 7y ago
If syntax doesn't matter at all, then why haven't more people switched to [insert name of esoteric programming language]? Programming is indeed about design and structure, so why create tools that gratuitously distract programmers
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by jejones3141 7y ago
Surely it's better to confine it to a package labeled unsafe that one must import to use (and which by Go's rules one can't import and then not use) and to make a point of only using it where necessary and paying particular a
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by jejones3141 7y ago
RIP Mr. Suess, and I hope you're not cringing too much at "Mr. Suess and Mr. Christiansen built their electronic bulletin board using a personal computer called the S-100."
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by jejones3141 7y ago
"...bootstrappers find that many different spin-0 particles are possible." Is that a typo, or is it really possible to have spin -0?
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by jejones3141 7y ago
See also the portion of "The Humble Programmer" starting with "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among ot
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by jejones3141 7y ago
I'd say those who claim that speech is violence (and therefore merits a violent response) would be a really good example.
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by jejones3141 7y ago
They are different attacks. They're not EEE-ing by not giving Wine devs access; they're maintaining the applications barrier to entry.

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