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by jhbadger 3y ago
It also doesn't really answer the interesting question -- if one presupposes a "progenitor civilization" that gave rise to later civilizations, how did the first civilization start? It's not unlike the arguments for &quo
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by jhbadger 3y ago
The Osborne wasn't an MS-DOS machine but an 8-bit CP/M machine, which was the standard for generic computers at the time (Apple, Commodore, etc. had their own non-compatible systems, but you could for instance buy a Z80 card for a
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Exactly. There's lots of things AI/ML is being used for in medicine besides image analysis for diagnostic purposes. It's helping laboratory researchers analyze their data and pick which hypotheses to investigate further, for
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by jhbadger 3y ago
It's the hub for Delta (one of the major US airlines).
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Maybe. But it is so obvious what the right orientation is. I almost wonder if this was some sort of passive aggressive rebellion against the regime by installing it in an absurd way.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
The ADAM's SmartBasic was interesting in that it was specifically designed to be as close as possible to Applesoft on the Apple II given how common the Apple was in US schools in the early-mid 1980s.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
BTW, the author of this earlier created IntyBasic, a Basic compiler for the Mattel Intellivision ( https://intellivisionrevolution.com/intybasic ). And the famous "nanochess" tiny chess engine (hence his user name
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>war of independence as "revolutions" The war of independence the 13 American colonies waged against Britain is generally called "The American Revolution", but yes, for some reason most other wars of independence aren
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by jhbadger 3y ago
I'm trying to find the interview where he talked about that it that I read a decade or so ago, but as I recall, he said that his idea (which wasn't actually stated in the books) was after the brief WWIII, the US was demilitarized
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Technically the Fremen aren't exactly Muslim (although they seem to be Muslim-coded) -- they are members of a new religion called Zen-Sunni, which was formed when Zen Buddhism and Sunni Islam merged at some point in the future. And the
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by jhbadger 3y ago
While the Internet certainly is more than the Web, the whole reason people are here on HN and on Reddit is because unlike 20 years years ago USENET is basically a ghosttown (other than the people using it for piracy). Or maybe that's y
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Even without that issue, many Orthodox Christians still use the Julian rather than the modern Gregorian calendar for religious purposes (while still using the Gregorian for daily life). That's why Orthodox Christmas and Easter are on d
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by jhbadger 3y ago
From the article: "Malicious hackers are targeting people in the cryptocurrency space in attacks that start with a link added to the target’s calendar at Calendly" This is only an issue for users of "Calendly" which appa
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by jhbadger 3y ago
>Japan became the world's dominant superpower rather than the US. According to Gibson himself, the US itself no longer exists as a country in the Sprawl novels. I never noticed it from reading them, but apparently the only person wh
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by jhbadger 3y ago
I can’t think of any other sort of short stories series I like much Not even the original The Twilight Zone (which Black Mirror basically is a copy of except with cell phones and social media)?
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Buffy had an episode where there was a club where goths volunteered themselves to vampires because it was "cool" (Season 2, episode 7 "Lie to Me").
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Marx was probably referring to the 1828 German opera "Der Vampyr" (in turn based on Polidori's 1819 English story of the same name). Polidori's Lord Ruthven was the most popular vampire in pop culture before Dracula. ht
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by jhbadger 3y ago
While learning to read an alphabet isn't at all the same as learning to read the actual language, I strongly encourage learning an alphabet if possible before visiting somewhere -- even if you don't know the language written in it
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Yeah, that's kind of what Standard Ebook's whole deal is -- they have only a small fraction of the number of books Project Gutenberg has, but they spend a lot of time making the ones they have pretty -- often better than even comm
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Well, a very mild WW3, so it hardly matters. It's not like it was in a Fallout/Road Warrior style wasteland.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Depends on what you want from a book "like Declare". While it isn't about spies, Powers' "Last Call" is basically "Declare" only about the early mob-run history of Las Vegas as the background instead
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by jhbadger 3y ago
In terms of Tim Powers, Byron shows up in his "The Anubis Gates" as well.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
i think the "mock 3d" stuff was ultimately inspired by NextStep (1988), although they did it in a classier way than Windows, Motif, or the Mac (either in the late classic (8 or 9) or OSX)
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by jhbadger 3y ago
It's Esperanto, minus the diacritic on the "g" -- the word is forĝejo, meaning a place where things are forged (metalworking, not false documents). It's basically pronounced like the English word "forge" then &
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Yes, but that's more expected (if still not really justified). White collar jobs often have personality tests as a "filter" -- even decades ago I remember taking the now generally mocked Myers Briggs test at interviews. Fast
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Yes, Flipper was the name of a dolphin in a 1960s TV show of that name (that has had various TV and movie reboots since). That's the reference they were going for.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
Canada also has a federal government. The USA is not unique in being made up of smaller units with their own governments with an overall federal government at a higher level.
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by jhbadger 3y ago
The author of this later published it as a novel, because while the C64/Apple II/DOS/Amiga/Mac version was presented as a game, there really wasn't much influence from the user -- it was more akin to modern visual n
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by jhbadger 3y ago
One of the amusing things I encountered in grad school was taking a course where both grad students and undergraduates were allowed. The course was curved for the reasons you mentioned but what was interesting was that the grad students and
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by jhbadger 3y ago
And the US Post Office and other postal services have been using this tech to sort letters for several decades now (although postal codes with both letters and numbers like Canada's are harder). It was viewed as the "killer app&qu

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