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by ken 7y ago
Now you're getting into the definition of "writing". I would say I've only seen emoji typed , not written . (Before anyone asks: yes, I've seen cuneiform written. I have some interesting friends.) If you count
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by ken 7y ago
Again, that's great and I understand that (I've studied Japanese), but that's only part of the new version. They're not adding pictures of "mousetrap" and "olives" and "toilet plunger" beca
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by ken 7y ago
Literally every other application on my Mac. I don't know of any Mac applications that don't have a useful context menu. Even if you ignore Firefox's weird horizontal menu items, it looks wrong, and it acts wrong. The divi
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by ken 7y ago
I've not heard any health officials suggest that age is a factor in South Korea's response to the virus. They're only about 3 years younger than Italians [1] -- but have 4x as many hospital beds per capita [2]. [1]: https:&
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by ken 7y ago
Wars tend to give economic growth and technological advancement as consolation prizes, though. I don't see that happening here. I hope we can get at least an improved public health system out of it, but I fear we won't get even
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by ken 7y ago
> Black Cat: a combination of Cat and ⬛ Black Large Square I predict that within 10 years, some group will start a new simplified text encoding standard which is just for text .
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by ken 7y ago
I think that most of the changes in Unicode 13 are not from the evolution of human written language. I don't know anyone who's ever written "blueberries" by drawing a picture of some blueberries in the middle of their t
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by ken 7y ago
VW but not a bug.
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by ken 7y ago
The current "social distancing" can't continue indefinitely without massive changes. It's not sustainable. Beyond a few weeks, it'll put a lot of people out of work, and the system can't support long-term wid
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by ken 7y ago
Neither have I. There'd be no point. "One large-scale review, published in 2012, found that annual physical exams do nothing to improve a person’s disease and mortality risks" [1], while costing us billions of dollars, and t
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by ken 7y ago
From what I've heard from health officials, it'll be at least 6 months before trials can begin on any vaccine, and 12-24 months before it might be available. Is the plan to ask everyone to stay home for the next two years? As tha
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by ken 7y ago
Protobuf/Thrift require predefined schemas, which is a different model. Avro is pretty similar to MsgPack in concept. It seems less popular (at least in my circles), and has fewer implementations, which may or may not matter. As for
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by ken 7y ago
At the very end of this grand tour: > Science has its problems, but it’s still the best we got. I would agree if you're doing particle physics and looking for p < 0.0000003 then absolutely. Science is a great tool for the kind
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by ken 7y ago
Clock speeds aren't comparable between different architectures. You're also looking at a CPU designed for a phone, and a CPU designed for a server farm. If Apple were to design a CPU for professional multimedia workstations, it w
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by ken 7y ago
> I thought most MacOS applications compile to universal binaries that are something like bytecode, not direct x64 code? No, "Universal Binaries" are still native code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers
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by ken 7y ago
> Why invest in the development of such a high-end chip for Mac Pro’s low volume? - Control of the whole stack (Apple's stated M.O.) - Consistent architecture across all their product lines - If it's roughly twice as energy eff
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by ken 7y ago
Actually 2006: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFhBGKU6HA
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by ken 7y ago
Do you have a source for that? The thesis of this article is that it is a more powerful CPU, in terms of performance-per-watt, which is the same metric that spawned the PowerPC-to-Intel transition. The author pointed to specific ARM chi
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by ken 7y ago
Snot tape. Stays put, feels icky, peels off clean.
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by ken 7y ago
This is just our typical air travel fuel usage. These flights are the norm. Our solution to climate change can't be to count on a black swan virus pandemic to reduce global demand.
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by ken 7y ago
> Its a safe social network. I'd much rather post memes in Slack than on Facebook or Twitter Facebook has private groups, too. (I assume Twitter has something similar.) At worst, this is a great demonstration that defaults matter
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by ken 7y ago
This viewpoint seems very common among programmers, for some reason. I don't often hear it in other fields. The point of employing someone with a particular skill is that they know that skill, and can demonstrate that they know it.
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by ken 7y ago
This article describes one: Swift/Go/Ruby/Python differ from C++/Java/JS/C#/PHP on & vs && vs ==.
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by ken 7y ago
Can you name any other mature tech which meets those standards? Do you not consider the web mature?
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by ken 7y ago
Is this for Mozilla users or Mozilla developers ? From what little I've tried, Mozilla has way bigger issues with making their projects accessible to new developers than which chat system they use.
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by ken 7y ago
Is it a case of mistaken identity, or a nickname based on demeanor or skills or other attributes? (I haven't read much Tolkien, and not in decades.) Tarzan is sometimes called the "King of the Jungle" but not because anyone
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by ken 7y ago
Common Lisp had an object system from way back when. I seem to recall the general opinion on it was "who needs objects?" for a while, and then after objects took over the rest of the world, the talk seemed to shift to "our o
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by ken 7y ago
In my experience, the blue/red "Tip-N-Tell" indicator arrow is more common -- and also cheaper.
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by ken 7y ago
The big difference this time around is that a lot of us no longer need cutting edge CPU performance. The CPU in my home computer is over 10 years old, and I see no need to upgrade for performance. A fast 2010-era CPU is still pretty darn
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by ken 7y ago
Maybe I’m just dense, but I certainly have not been productive with any language on day 3. (Not even Ruby, which feels comfortable faster than most languages.) I sometimes felt productive that soon but I always end up having to rewrite

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