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by jhbadger 2y ago
Then you must not rent your home. I've lived in rented apartments my entire adult life and while not daily inspections, everywhere I've lived the management has mandatory inspections every few months to check on fire alarms and ot
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And I really dig the cover design -- very much late 1960s "New Wave" SF vibes as if it were a collection of J.G. Ballard stories.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
In my town it lists the chains but only one independent out of a half dozen.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I think it was more popular before that book ("The Personality Brokers: The Strange History of Myers-Briggs and the Birth of Personality Testing") came out. Not that I ever believed it before that, but I assumed it was created by
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Waterloo for most of it (where I was a postdoc at the University of Waterloo, then I was at a company in Quebec but that's a world into itself where even Canadian Tire itself was uncommon compared to Ontario). I remember Canadian Tire
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>'Till ~2020, Voynich research was pretty much reserved for nut jobs, and the very occasional academic intent upon career suicide. I wouldn't say that. Probably the most famous Voynich researcher until modern times was William
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Normally in a pub you have multiple drinks over the course of an hour or more while you socialize. It's a very different scene than restaurant where you order a meal, eat it, and leave. Cafes/coffee houses could be similar but sti
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Lots of GenXers still have small children. Not everyone has kids in their twenties.
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Except of course in that the milk had drugs added to it, while the point of the real milk bars was to provide a similar atmosphere to a pub without the intoxication.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yeah, I can see these as "off-the-wall" questions in a job interview but if somebody started asking me these at a party or something I would be seriously weirded out and would quickly find an excuse to go talk to someone else.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
This happens in Liu Cixin's "Three Body Problem" books. Many of the characters experience life in eras starting from the near future, to a semi-utopian era a couple of centuries from now, to when humanity fights the aliens 40
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yeah, this is exactly the problem. Apple doesn't want hobbyist programmers either on iOS or MacOS. They see inconveniencing open source programmers who aren't selling a product (and therefore not going to pay Apple for the right o
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Even though I'm from the US I lived and worked in Canada for about five years in the late 90s/early 2000s. It was interesting how common Canadian Tire money was (which was still physical bills then). Everybody had it because Canad
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The cafeteria at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA is pretty good and often serves excellent seafood -- when I've been there for a course or conference the food was a high point.
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The whole idea that Watson & Crick "stole" the data from Franklin was actually created by Watson himself in his not very truthful memoir "The Double Helix" because he thought that was funny (although his idea of humo
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by jhbadger 2y ago
This thing happens a lot in other fields. For example, once a scientist is discovered to have committed fraud by manipulating a photograph of results in a paper, people immediately start looking at their other papers and find other examples
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by jhbadger 2y ago
That isn't how 8-bit computers (other than CP/M and MSX) generally worked -- instead they dropped you into a BASIC interpreter rather than a command-line shell. Some interpreters did let you list files and so on, but there wasn&#x
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by jhbadger 2y ago
There is a satirical (paper) RPG called "Diana: Warrior Princess" that takes its inspiration from this idea. The idea is it is a representation of the idea of 20th century culture as viewed from a millennium into the future, focus
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yes, Sea Wolf was the first arcade game I ever played. Even before Space Invaders, which came out a couple years later. You are right about emulations of it being lacking, as they just emulate the electronic part.
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Although normally in the other direction -- genetic algorithms and genetic programming directly mimic evolution by natural selection, for example.
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The thing is "positive stereotypes" like Asians supposedly being great at math or tribal people being saintly are still harmful even if less so than negative stereotypes. Peoples and cultures are complex and all have good and bad
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I wouldn't mind in the least if it was a matter of using sudo. That's a logical elevation of privileges. MacOS already does this at points, asking you for your password (which if you are an administrator is basically running sudo
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And in places like academia there are rules where you have to post a job opening even if the job already has a candidate picked (say a lab manager for an incoming scientist who wants to hire their spouse for the job). People who don't
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With each new version it has become increasingly hostile to installing new software, particularly open-source software that hasn't been "signed" by a commercial developer, throwing up huge warning windows suggesting that anyo
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Well, I'm not sure "plentifully" is really the right word. Sure rent was dirt cheap if you could get an apartment, but many young married couples lived with their parents in the USSR and other Eastern Bloc countries because t
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I don't claim to be an expert on Xcode but when I was playing with Xcode 15 the UI editor seemed nothing like Interface Builder -- not only from NextStep but even from earlier versions of Xcode.
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Even on MacOS. I was playing with XCode recently (I don't normally do Mac development as such even though I use Macs as my primary computers) and was disappointed to see that they've gotten rid of Interface Builder as far as I can
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's just that I find calling it "pixel art" (which a style of graphics deliberately made to look crude for a retro effect) odd when it was state of the art at the time. It's like how someone might make a black & whi
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The whole recent crop of extendable editors (atom, vscode, zed, etc.) seem to have been created by a younger generation that never used emacs (and are perhaps scared of it because they find Lisp weird) and so are reinventing the wheel.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
As in the mention in the article that the Algol-68 compiler for early Unix only supported a subset of the language!

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