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by jhbadger 2y ago
Even in the early 2000s, when I dropped my landline, my parents (born in the 1930s) were aghast. "How will people get in contact with you? You won't be in the phone book!"
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yes, it was one of those MS-DOS machines that wasn't a full IBM compatible -- another one briefly popular in the US and Japan was the Sanyo MBC-550 (or "Silver Box"). The idea was that people would write software that just us
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>I read somewhere that Douglas Adams (writer of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) was the first person in Europe to own an Apple II computer. Not the 1977 Apple II, but the 1984 Macintosh. Adams owned a variety of computers from
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by jhbadger 2y ago
They are working on quantum computing, so they do have cutting edge tech in some sectors, but as mentioned, they make their money on their rather outdated infrastructure.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Or A.W.F. Edwards claiming that had it been the Frequentist, the boat wouldn't have sunk.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I think you and the OP are agreeing with each other. The issue with a "single unreplicated paper" is exactly the issue you bring up with science as a journey. It's possible that this paper has found a genuine finding or that
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>However, a crazy person in 2024 with access to a hydrogen bomb could theoretically kill billions. People have been predicting this possibility ever since H-bombs existed. It's been a common trope in fiction -- Peter George's 1
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Maybe Roberts and the Altair are becoming obscure to younger people, but in the traditional story of the personal computer neither he nor the Altair were "secret" or obscure. As the article mentions, Microsoft was founded by Gates
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Remember that this for evaluating future states of the board. A state of the board where the opposing king is taken (or technically just checkmated), yielding a win is highly desirable. In this case K' is zero even though this can&#x27
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And the (perhaps unintentionally spooky) 1925 Edward Hopper painting House by the Railroad depicting one of these Gilded Age houses, which is said to have inspired the fictional houses in the Addams Family and in Psycho . https:/&#
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The problem is that translation isn't just about "capturing the spirit of the original" but realizing where to keep idioms and like from the original and where things need to be changed to make the translation less clunky. Th
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Mostly just the explanations of how the two cities could function as separate entities while physically occupying the same land through the use of legally mandated "useeing". The author goes into detail how this works -- obviously
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Weirdly, The City & the City reminds me of Martin Cruz Smith's books like Gorky Park set in the Soviet Union (or more recently post-Soviet countries) in that it is a police procedural set in a culture the reader presumably doesn&
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by jhbadger 2y ago
A surprisingly number of airline pilots are flight simulator aficionados.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
What about Zachtronics games like TIS-100 and Shenzhen/IO and Exapunks that are literally about coding (albeit in a simplified assembly language).
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by jhbadger 2y ago
At least my local public library has hundreds of CD-ROMs of Mac and Windows software (mostly from the 1990s when boxed software was still standard) that you can check out. Granted, I can imagine that's the sort of thing that will get &
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's pretty good soft serve ice cream, which is a style many people like. It isn't really any worse than other chain soft serve ice cream like Dairy Queen's. It's not the same sort of thing as scooped hard ice cream, and
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It originally used grated cheese according to this article from the Canadian magazine The Walrus (Canada has/had a love affair with Kraft Mac & Cheese or Kraft Dinner as they call it there -- think of the BNL song "If I had a
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's fair to call him the "godfather of deep learning", and many people seem to confuse the two, ignoring that AI research has been going on since the 1950s.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>This is not an open market like taxis vs Uber Interesting choice of example. In most places taxis are/weren't an "open market" either but had various laws preventing newcomers from providing taxi rides. In many place
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by jhbadger 2y ago
In part because programs back then were written by one or at most a handful of people that could be easily credited in the "About" box or equivalent. If you wanted a list of the authors of say Microsoft Excel or Adobe Illustrator
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Many, many places (even academia, not just businesses) only allow Outlook to be used as an email client "for security" these days -- they actually go out of their way to disable POP and IMAP access and even use Microsoft's au
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It seems to have been restarted, which is good. But for a while (look at the the 2017-2020 gap) there was basically nothing done to it and for a while it was impossible to run on current versions of Python.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Unfortunately when Wolfram hired Mathics' lead developer, the project pretty much stopped.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
At least in the sciences, and in the US, there is also the issue that research professors tend to be on "soft money" -- that is they get a minimal salary from their institution but can increase it (up to a point) by getting grants
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And don't forget Starship Troopers, which wasn't satirical as per the movie version. The book really suggested that a militarized society was great, unironically.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
This article seems to blame Verne for colonialism "At the French Société de Géographie, of which Verne was a long-time member, as well as among imperialists across Europe, the Voyages became a casual frame of reference in justification
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by jhbadger 2y ago
"The Landlord's game", the game that inspired (or some would say was ripped off by) Monopoly was cynical in that its designer Elizabeth Magie was a devotee of the the radical economist Henry George and the point was to teach
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Old school SA was written assuming a basic level of scientific and mathematical background. Many people reading it were professional scientists and engineers who read it to learn about developments in other fields than their own. Current SA
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by jhbadger 2y ago
For the long history of such games (where people actually wrote the rather simple AI code for their avatar), take a look at RobotWar and its various later clones like C-Robots and Omega. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ro

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