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by kbob 11y ago
How is this different from Lex, written in 1975? Even the syntax looks fairly similar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lex_(software)
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by kbob 11y ago
If you own or hire SDCs, does your wife still ferry the kids around? Or do they ride alone to the destinations you've approved in the car's parental controls? I expect the "Soccer Mom" occupation to disappear.
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by kbob 11y ago
Numerous people have already recommended Hofstadter, so I'll skip to: The Moral Animal, Robert Wright. It looks at how natural selection applies to human cultures. Debt: The First 5,000 Years, David Graeber. History of economic syste
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by kbob 12y ago
I agree that it's great to be able to get a SBC for the price of lunch, and that just wasn't possible in the 1970s. But the AI Lab PDP-10s were extremely accessible. I walked right up to them several times, and I was never affil
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by kbob 12y ago
I always do this after my Mac updates iTunes. $ sudo chmod -x /Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/* That keeps it from launching accidentally. I never launch it intentionally, in fact, I've never
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by kbob 12y ago
I think you misspelled "40 years ago". By 1994, GUIs were common on workstations, and hardware-based serial terminals were disappearing fast. OTOH, the command line as a UI paradigm is alive and well today and might well be aroun
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by kbob 12y ago
If I had six months free, I'd focus on one or more of my existing side projects. - The big one is my laser cutter. I've got the low level software stack mostly finished, but I want to use it as a vehicle to learn about web progra
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by kbob 12y ago
How about writing on the moon while it's dark? Reflect enough sunlight onto the dark side to make it about as bright as the light side. That would give a good contrast. You would need an array of mirrors about the size of France in o
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by kbob 13y ago
My question is, how slow is the specializer? It is portrayed as very fast, but it looks like it's doing a significant fraction of a real compiler's work. Then again, if it's mostly used at program installation time, who care
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by kbob 13y ago
It seems like the specializer contains a lot of a compiler back end. (I am not a compiler guy, so my understanding is probably wrong.) Different family members have different functional unit timings and different numbers and orders of func
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by kbob 13y ago
How far along are you on the OS work? Have you booted anything on the simulators?
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by kbob 13y ago
The creator, Mate Rimac, has a long build log of his first electric car, a BMW E30 conversion, here. http://www.diyelectriccar.com/forums/showthread.php/bmw-bi-m...
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by kbob 14y ago
Been there done that. https://github.com/kbob/car-stuff/issues
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by kbob 14y ago
And take a new photo with the toilet seat down, for God's sake.
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by kbob 14y ago
The title is inflammatory and misleading. The thesis of the article is that management fees hurt your investments' performance. (And a million dollars ain't what it used to be, but that's hardly news.)
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by kbob 14y ago
I am probably the only person here who learned to program in TeCO. It is indeed a Turing complete language. I'd done a few classes with Algol-60, Lisp, and PL/1, but there was an available PDP-11/05 at TMRC , and later an 11/03 at MITERS
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by kbob 14y ago
I've been a Linux user for a long time. But I'm switching. I have a MacBook Retina on order, so I looked these apps over. I am astounded by their high prices. $49 seems to be the average; that's probably more than I've spent on software
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by kbob 14y ago
There is some financial trickery going on here. It's buried in Section 6.1.3 of the business plan (pp 23-24). Any resident who invests £1500 or more can nominate a property for free connection and one year's free service. The tax authorit
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by kbob 14y ago
The ratio of landowners to households should be very close to 1:1 in the country. (-: In the city, there will be somewhat fewer landowners because of multifamily dwellings (apartments and similar). I agree with your permits and jackhammer
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by kbob 14y ago
Could that graph possibly be more misleading? Plotting the ratio of a number to one much smaller exaggerates small changes so you miss the big picture: PC sales dwarf Mac sales. A better graph: two lines, one showing PC sales each year and
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by kbob 14y ago
That article appears to have been written in 2004. The state of the art has moved on. The best quiet computing resource on the web is www.silentpcreview.com. They've been fanatical about noise reduction for a decade. It's not hard, using
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by kbob 14y ago
$150,000. "millions of domains". That works out to an average of a few pennies per domain. Given that the top 100 sites take a big chunk of the total, the median is probably much less. We're still looking for that sustainable business mo
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by kbob 14y ago
Neul's product literature says that they do download the available frequency database, though they imply it's their own copy. The product literature also mentions the FCC often, so I think they're targeting the US.
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by kbob 15y ago
If the Honda dies, get yourself a minivan and an air mattress.
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by kbob 15y ago
Exactly. A tuple is exactly the same as a relation.
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by kbob 15y ago
Absolutely correct. The key difference between MS and Apple is that MS is a software company and Apple is a hardware company. As a software company, MS tries to maximize SW revenue by differentiating their basic product into various flavor
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by kbob 15y ago
Sorry for the delayed reply. I lived in SJ from 1992-2001. I knew my current boss from that time. Sometime around 2006, while I was living here in Oregon, he emailed me and asked if I might be interested in doing X for him. I've gotten my
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by kbob 15y ago
I like the term, "Copyright Monopoly". It is accurate, and it has a less pleasant connotation than Intellectual Property or just plain Copyright.
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by kbob 15y ago
"If you publicly express an opinion that any particular platform is best for a significant portion of buyers, you’re effectively saying that the people who chose differently were _wrong_." That's the fallacy right there. "A is better than
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by kbob 15y ago
I, for example, am a regular telecommuting employee of a large company in San Jose. Nominally, I'm in San Jose for one week every quarter, though it has been less than that lately. I spend a lot of time on the phone and on video conferenc

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