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by jhbadger 1y ago
I don't think you can say that -- I paid about that for my 2021 M1 Max with 64GB and I'm still using it four years later as my main machine. There's an argument to be made to buy an expensive computer every 5 years or so rath
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Nisus' killer feature back in the day was that it was a word processor that supported regular expressions for find and replace, which at the time were only found in text editors for writing code. But yes, LibreOffice supports that now.
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Sounds like you've already moved on from it, but if people are looking for a pretty seamless Evernote replacement, Joplin (open source) is pretty much an exact replica of Evernote and can import Evernote data.
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>And suppose the amount is as trivial as you propose. Then why does a multi-trillion dollar conglomerate need that pittance from a million ordinary people? Reminds me how in the 1970s and 1980s there used to be these ads in the back of m
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by jhbadger 1y ago
I don't think there was ever really such a tension in terms of making money from art, but rather how . The idea of "selling out" was that, say, selling the rights to your songs to advertisers was viewed as crass. That I agre
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Of course Star Trek has its implausible moments (planets where everyone acts like Romans, or 1920s gangsters, and the like), but the Star Wars "Force" is literally magic, and the heroes are fighting an Emperor who is very little d
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Calling Gosling "the father of Emacs" is pretty inaccurate. What Gosling did was create the first UNIX version of Emacs, and while that predates RMS' GNU Emacs, Emacs was originally a series of macros created by RMS for the T
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Reminds me of Richard Stallman and how he used to do a character "St. igGNUcias of the Church of Emacs" who would answer questions like "Is using Vi a sin?" with "Yes, but one that is its own penance!"
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Just alias them in your shell config. You don't have to remember to use them if you have more and less just be aliases to bat. Same thing I do with eza, the ls replacement -- "ls" calls eza.
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Yeah, Lowe doesn't work for Science -- he is a pharmaceutical chemist who has worked for various companies -- his "In the Pipeline" blog is interesting because while academic scientists often blog, industrial ones rarely do (
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There's a great recent book (Anne Trumbore's _The Teacher_in_The_Machine_) on using technology to "disrupt" education (starting much earlier than you would think, with mechanical devices in the early 20th century that co
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The updated build now works on my system, fyi.
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So many retro things are on Facebook. It's a stereotype that the GenX/Boomer audience interested in retrotech is on Facebook, but it's kinda true.
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Same here with MacBook Pro M1 Sequoia 15.6.1
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This is valid only so far as "human benefit" is localized to the human doing the job. I'm a cancer researcher. Obviously. my job is of value to me because it pays my bills (and yes, I do get satisfaction from it in other ways
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by jhbadger 1y ago
How far do you want to take it? Should we write Chinese names in characters and Arabic names in their writing system? And of course, historically Vietnamese used Chinese characters -- the Romanized form was introduced under colonialism (alt
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If you are familiar with a true object-oriented language like Smalltalk (rather than the watered-down form of OO in C++, Java, etc.), an integer like 5 having methods makes sense because it (like everything else) is an object. Objects in Ru
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by jhbadger 1y ago
The weird thing about that game is kind of the same issue I have with Mario Kart -- how do you have arch enemies (Mario & Bowser in Mario Kart, Kasumi & Ayane in the DOA "Beach" games) putting aside their rivalry to race o
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by jhbadger 1y ago
There are many parasitoid wasps, of which the tarantula hawk wasp is only one. It's an sound evolutionary strategy even if their existence even horrified Charles Darwin (and these wasps were obviously the inspiration for the Xenomorph
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I remember his books -- I had his one on adventure games. I always liked this sort of book by people like Hartnell and David Ahl that would have these long BASIC listings with lots of GOTOs and GOSUBs.
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No. Not at least at serious non-tabloid newspapers and magazines. People who are discovered to have made up stories get canned and drummed out of journalism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass https:/&#x
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by jhbadger 1y ago
I loved Mix/Power C. That's how I learned C on DOS in the late 1980s. Mix also had a neat set of DOS tools that simulated UNIX on DOS -- no multitasking, but you got a Bourne-like shell and various utilities like grep and sed -- a
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Or that the genetic code has 64 codons and the Book of Çhanges (I Ching) has 64 hexagrams. Obviously a coincidence due to the fact that codons are combinations of 3 instances of 4 bases (4^3 == 64) and hexagrams are 6 lines that can either
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Egyptian did that too (and that writing system developed independently as far as we know) -- it's interesting that multiple ancient cultures did that (and as you mention modern Japanese isn't that different)
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Depends on what "work" is. In theory furloughed workers aren't working, and can't go in to their workplace, but many different sorts of people are government employees. Yes, an IRS worker isn't processing returns, b
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I think the argument is there is a distinction to be made between signs that were made for practical purposes (as a sort of proto-writing) versus ones that were made to be pretty. We don't obviously know why these signs were made, but
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Paul Erdős basically lived most of the second half of his (extremely productive) adult life like this (although he lived out of a suitcase rather than a backpack so he had slightly more room). Although granted he never married and had no c
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I think the point is saying something is "evil" is very unlikely to discourage young people from anything and even more likely to make it sound exciting and edgy. It's like Oscar Wilde's famous quote: "As long as wa
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Being a "bicycle for the mind" is a fine thing for technology to be. The problem is just as with bicycles that's too much work for a lot of people and they would prefer "cars for the mind" in which they have to do n
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by jhbadger 1y ago
Germany didn't really exist as an independent country with its own laws from its surrender in May 1945 to May 1949 (When the Western powers decided to create West Germany in their occupied area and a few months later the Soviets create

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