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by jhbadger 2y ago
Ada use was strongly tied to the US DoD, which put some people off it, for one.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
While I haven't been there, I know of it from Alan Furst's novels (which I recommend) -- he writes novels set before and during WWII and likes to often set them in places like Thessaloniki/Salonika in Greece and Trieste in It
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Or 19th century poster art. Many people collect reproductions (or originals if they can afford it) of advertising posters by people like Firmin Bouisset. Yes, they are ads, but they are also beautiful long after the products they were adver
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Although it is worth recognizing that although the Imperial Chinese did have an examination-based civil service, it wasn't examinations on anything actually relevant to their jobs as in modern merit-based civil services. Instead, peopl
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Will this break things like Newpipe and Freetube?
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And badger -- In Europe they are small adorable members of the Meles genus. In the Americas, Africa, and Asia the word refers to larger and more aggressive animals in the Taxidea and Mellivora genera that just look superficially like
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yes, and before PCS Budge made "Raster Blaster" a standalone pinball game for the Apple II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_Blaster "Night Mission Pinball" wasn't created by Budge but rat
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The point is there soon may not be. I'm a Firefox guy myself, but Mozilla looks like it is wanting to turn evil as well. So what's left? One of the forks of Chrome or Firefox? What happens if either "for security" decide
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by jhbadger 2y ago
True, but AT&T and Xerox were kind of infamous for not capitalizing on what Bell Labs and PARC were creating. If you have either an iPhone or an Android phone you are using an OS based on UNIX and yet AT&T gets none of that money.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And you know, government labs, which have generated more than a few Nobels, had a lot in similarity with these monopoly-created private sector labs, I mention them because we are at a time when the government of the US doesn't seem to
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by jhbadger 2y ago
R has probably the best help feature for any language -- not only can you ask it about help on individual functions with "?", the tradition (and this continues with most add in packages as well as builtins) is not only does it giv
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's a reference to a joke by the comedian Groucho Marx (1890-1977) "You can tune a piano but you can't tuna fish" (also a title of a 1978 REO Speedwagon album paying homage to Marx who had recently died). It's a pu
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I don't think that would work. Sure some places ban minors from places just serving alcohol, but restaurants that serve alcohol alongside food are generally open to everyone (even if they don't serve alcohol to minors).
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Although people seem to always forget the 1970 movie "Colossus: The Forbin Project" which already had done the "rogue AI in control of weapons decides to go against humanity" thing already.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Well, when the Soviet Union was starting out illiteracy was high because Tsarist Russia had a shortage of public schools. So propaganda that worked even if you couldn't read was important. And later states in the Soviet sphere like Com
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Or even better, a virtual museum of all virtual museums that don't contain themselves, perhaps named in honor of Bertrand Russell.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And of course audio tapes were a common way of storing computer data in the 1970s and 1980s.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
True, but the references in Star Wars to spice (spice mines of Kessel in the original, a reference to striking spice miners in Attack of the Clones) is pretty much only from Dune. Unless they were mining oregano or something.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Hospitals attached to universities aren't in general "tacked on" but are a part of the educational environment. They exist not only to serve patients but to educate students.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Only because in recent decades there's been a huge dieoff of newspapers. In the 1980s and before it was quite typical for a US city of any size to have multiple newspapers (as NYC still has). You would have at the very least a Democrat
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by jhbadger 2y ago
At least at US restaurants, a "small" omelette is three eggs and larger ones more, though. And likewise for servings of scrambled eggs. Pretty much the only case where 1 or 2 eggs are the norm is when ordering fried eggs (and thos
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by jhbadger 2y ago
China (who has no idea who Wilson was) has the Belt and Road Initiative, and they'll gladly win the hearts and minds of third world nations the US is foolish enough to abandon.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And the worst thing is that they may have misunderstood what "probationary employees" were. In federal speak, they are new employees, but the new regime may have thought they were "bad" employees, based on the idea of &q
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Definitely. I recently taught a class with a practical computer component and many undergraduates seemed to have a hard time understanding where their files were saved -- even at a GUI level, not talking about the command line. But it makes
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>Traditional modding still exists, especially for PC RPGs Yes, I've recently been playing Fallout: London, which is a total conversion mod for Fallout 4. It obviously changes the setting to post-apocalyptic London, but also adds new
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Most non-university non-industry non-government research institutes in the US (eg. Salk Institute, J. Craig Venter Institute, Sanford Burnham Prebys) rely on their researchers applying and getting grants from the NIH and NSF just as univers
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by jhbadger 2y ago
While knowing either meaning of the abbreviation is dating oneself, it's weird that people remember the very obscure and short-lived meaning it to refer to a technique to allow fake multitasking on DOS such as in Borland's Sidekic
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The Stones were giants to the Boomers, sure, but I'm pretty old Gen-Xer myself at 54 and I hardly know them -- I mostly know them because of stories of Mick Jagger being a jerk. And I suspect younger people like Millennials and Zoomers
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Libertarian capitalists like crypto currency fans idolize capitalism without any government regulations. That isn't anything new -- that was what we had in the late 19th/early 20th century when "robber barons" like John
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Because it's contradictory. By definition, the Left is progressive -- they want society to progress and see a future where the problems of the past and present are solved by moving forward. The Right is regressive by definition -- they

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