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by jhbadger 10mo ago
In scientific papers (where acronyms are common) this is definitely the rule.
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
Yeah, the main flophouse discussed in the article (White House) closed in 2014 and is now a "boutique" hotel serving a very different set of clients
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
Needs microcassette drives like the original PX-8 (which I actually had for a time, although after it was discontinued and sold by liquidators for a fraction of its former list price). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epso
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
As the article mentions, this was about their shared worry of Mao's China and their nuclear advances. India then as now has a strong connection to the USSR/Russia -- they flew, and still fly, MiG planes, for example.
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
If Tomb Raider is an "adventure game" so is Donkey Kong. Tomb Raider is basically a platformer like Donkey Kong but in 3D. Neither made actual adventure games "obsolete" because taxing your hand-eye reflexes is a differe
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
Yes, that's true of large predators in general, like tigers and grizzly bears. But traditionally, while people realize that these animals can be dangerous, people don't hate these animals but want to protect them, just away from p
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
That was the idea of APL (and its successors like J and K) -- make programming a math notation rather than pretend to be a human language (generally English, but there have been programming languages with keywords in Chinese and Russian, am
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
But still, that doesn't make sense. Say, they tell AGI to collect all the gold in the world. What makes that more interesting than just yellow rock unless there is an economy underneath them that sees gold as valuable?
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
The problem with that dystopia is how those people would remain rich if nobody below them could afford their products. Henry Ford was a terrible person in many ways, but his idea of paying his auto workers decently so they could afford to b
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
Pro bono cases are basically "hobbyist" projects for lawyers - they get to practice their skills, and maybe do some good, but they don't get paid for them.
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
When people say "pre-Snoopy Peanuts" they don"t mean before the character existed at all but before the strip became focused on Snoopy and his wacky adventures in the mid 1970s and later. Early Peanuts was more focused on the
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
Are Emacs users really known for "self-flagellation"? I would have thought that was more vi users. Even if modern vis like vim try to make it slightly less painful, the fact is modal editing is really nonintutive. Certainly the re
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
True, I think technically I got one when I passed my prelims -- they do that so if people end up dropping out before completing their dissertation they have something at least. But what I mean is in the US dedicated Masters programs are lar
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
Interesting -- I wasn't aware of Diamond OS for the Atari 8-bits -- it seems similar in concept to GEOS (which was available for the Commodore 64 and 8-bit Apple II series, and later in a much expanded version for x86 PCs) -- basically
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
In general, nobody needs to pay someone to do a PhD, at least in a scientific or engineering field -- even in the US, the country where education generally costs the most -- typically PhD students get free tuition as well as a living stipen
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
Are you interpreting "poor" as "unemployed"? The OP was talking about people who are employed full time but at a low level job (at a shop, or as a janitor or something like that).
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
If you mean does this support MacOS, yes it does. If you mean, has the author written something like this only for (classic) MacOS instead of Windows 95, also yes -- https://github.com/felixrieseberg/macintosh.js/
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by jhbadger 11mo ago
There was a real world example akin to the alchemists getting their wish of making gold and finding out that that destroyed the value of it -- Spanish colonialism. Spain brought back tons of silver and gold from the New World and instead of
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by jhbadger 1y ago
"First off, it is really low level. From what I understand, not even the people at Infocom wrote raw zil. Instead, they used Lisp macros that generated zil." Is there any evidence of this? The standard guide to ZIL (written as an
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by jhbadger 1y ago
I'm not so sure about that -- Crick had a much more productive scientific career post structure than did Watson (who went into administration instead). He also had the mathematical skills needed for interpreting crystallography data th
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by jhbadger 1y ago
It's important to realize that "Photograph 51" wasn't "Franklin's" -- it was taken by Raymond Gosling, a grad student mentored by Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. What happened was that Wilkins chose to share
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by jhbadger 1y ago
And JOTTO, a version that even used words like Wordle, is from 1955! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotto
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by jhbadger 1y ago
That's for the last version. It initially was for Windows 1.0 in 1987!
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by jhbadger 1y ago
I remember this -- it was basically Smalltalk (complete with a class browser and image-based development) except they changed the syntax to make it look C-like -- like you would have calls like method(object); instead of "object method
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Not unlike how Crystal isn't really "compiled Ruby" but rather its own language that just looks and feels similar to Ruby.
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Turbo Pascal and other Borland products used to use keys based on WordStar. These days JOE (Joe's Own Editor) still uses a similar keyset.
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by jhbadger 1y ago
And springs! They brought up springs, surely. But it is true that Hooke is underrated in popular culture, in part because Newton thought very little of him, unfairly.
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by jhbadger 1y ago
No. Postulate 1 says that for any two points A and B, there is a line AB connecting them. While you could argue that "infinite lines" are a superset of "a line" it is pretty obvious that Euclid meant one and only one lin
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Well, for 1, consider spherical geometry. In Euclidean geometry, there can be only one line between any two points. But consider the lines on a sphere between the antipodes (like lines of longitude on Earth) -- there are infinite lines of l
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Wouldn't any geometry that violates any of Euclid's five postulates be non-Euclidean? Yes, the parallel lines one is the most famous, but surely a geometry that violates any of the other four would be too.

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