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by jhbadger 9mo ago
This is fairly common in warmer climes in the US like California. Rather than have a monolithic high school building with lots of wasted space for hallways they will have a bunch of smaller buildings that students go between outside. They a
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
When I visit my parents, I often fly to the major airport a hundred miles or so from them and take a bus from the airport to their town. There used to be a desk in the bus station attached to the airport where you could buy tickets, ask the
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
I did like how The Brutalist at least included an intermission the way long movies used to do.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
> Star Trek lost ground to Terminator, Foundation to Neuromancer. Although remember that Neuromancer , despite kicking off the generally spaceship-free cyberpunk genre, did have spaceships and even orbital cities!
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
Well, also to explain why she wasn't there after a time.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
Yes, that's neat -- it is basically a modern Neon, which was an object-oriented Forth for the Mac in the 1980s.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
Yep, given that implementing Forth is so easy (easier even than implementing Lisp) pretty soon nearly every Forth programmer decides to take their turn doing it themselves.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
But that "pragmatism" as you put it is exactly my point. A true ideologue would have realized the revolutionaries in Kronstadt had created a system more in line with the ideals of the revolution than what he had created and woould
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
I think both things can be true simultaneously. Like in the Russian Revolution, there can be a mass of people motivated by a sincere, if naive, optimism in a new way to organize society, but they can get used by people like Lenin and Stalin
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
There are better software keyboards than the default that you can install. I use Unexpected Keyboard, which supports ctrl, alt, tab, and other keys needed for Unix work.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
I've tried both, and Termux is still far better. At least when I tried it a couple of months ago, the Linux terminal lived in its own sandbox isolated from the normal Android directories. Yes, I get how this might be "safer",
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
I had the TI-74 back in the day. Besides Basic, there was a cartridge that let you program in Pascal as well. It was interpreted, and no faster than Basic, but it was fun and let people learn Pascal, which was a useful skill in the 1980s.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
This could be really useful in the future. NIST has been talking about retiring its radio-syncing signal, as there are better modern alternatives with satellites, the Internet, etc. But last time they suggested this there was an outcry, not
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
And the "Aaaah!" when you fell.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
Sure, you can find new MP3 players on Temu and Alibaba, but they are almost invariably nearly unusable instant e-waste (like most things on those sites) And iTunes was great back in the day -- it only got awful when Apple made it support iP
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
It would still work -- the issue both in the Prolog rules and in real life was that monarch(philip) wasn't true, hence why he was just Prince Philip.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
As mentioned, the word "trope" dates back to ancient times, although generally meaning rhetorical devices like similes and metaphors rather than in the "reused plot" sense generally used today. But even the ancients stil
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
In general, in pre-industrial societies families built their own houses rather than "society" building them for them. Of course this was because 1) many tribal societies had no concept of land ownership so you could just build whe
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
I'm not sure "keeping out outsiders" is a bug. The US is experiencing what it is like to be governed by an outsider with no previous political experience and who thinks things like "laws" don't apply to him, an
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
And yet it is the one part of the UK that actually has a language that is spoken by a non-trivial percentage of the population (unlike NI or Scotland where a tiny percentage can speak their Celtic tongue)
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
The thing is, they've purchased so many historic pubs, that if you refuse to drink at one that's a choice. I'm not saying that's a terrible choice, but it's a choice that bars you from an awful lot of pubs.
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by jhbadger 9mo ago
People should just be into slide-rules period. Particularly in the West. We are always so amazed when people in Asia beat people with calculators using their abacuses, but the West had its mechanical computing device too, and like the abacu
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
Fine, that would at least teach them that LLMs are doing a lot more than "predicting the next word" given that they can also be taught that a Markov model can do that and be about 10 lines of simple Python and use no neural nets o
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
Read the famous "Story of Mel" [1] about Mel Kaye, who refused to use optimizing assemblers in the late 1950s because "you never know where they are going to put things". Even in the 1980s you used to find people like th
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
Assembly was a "high level" language when it was new -- it was far more abstract than entering in raw bytes. C was considered high level later on too, even though these days it is seen as "low level" -- everything is r
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
Pity that this isn't for the Cardputer (a M5Stack device that includes a built in (tiny) screen and keyboard), although it might be impractical on it.
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
There is a similar problem with genomic sequencing - when new twchnologies began to replace traditional Sanger sequencing about twenty years ago, it was (and still is) called "next generation sequencing" (NGS). But the field is st
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
I don't know if it shares ancestry with the NextStep X server, but the one that used to be bundled with OS X (Xquartz) is still availsble for download (even on Tahoe) and I for one still keep it installed as I run various X11 based pro
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
I don't think it is unreasonable to define a "video game" as one employing video graphics and real time input. Things like Tennis for Two (and the later Spacewar) are clearly video games in a sense that mere simulations of bo
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by jhbadger 10mo ago
He certainly hasn't been "debunked" with a single counterexample, especially one from an entirely different non-Western culture. N=1 isn't a statistically significant sample in any case.

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