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Conway's Game Of Life in APL (2009) [video](youtube.com)
39 points by kick 7y ago|13 comments
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by kick 7y ago
"Customers" are entirely irrelevant to this post.
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by kick 7y ago
All real quotes: https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says?lang=ca I think the threads on imageboards mocking HN are generally funnier, though.
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by kick 7y ago
This is extremely off-topic, but it's a collapsed subthread already, so I think it's fine: Black bar = honoring the dead. /topcolors = list of colors that people have set their top bar to be.
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by kick 7y ago
Mulcahy is a pretty reliable source, and that's definitely his twitter. In lieu of official confirmation, for the time being it seems like this is about as reliable as anybody could hope for.
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by kick 7y ago
Feynman did not return to Cornell. Bacher, who had been instrumental in bringing Feynman to Cornell, had lured him to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Part of the deal was that he could spend his first year on sabbatical i
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by kick 7y ago
I'm claiming it functions more like a doi or other identifier than a sales pitch. I don't think there's a ton of deep thinking involved: there will always be someone who's willing to run a web browser as root on their ma
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by kick 7y ago
Most offline systems, and many systems used only for using trusted code (which obviously bars anything with a web browser, and most internet-connected personal computing devices, among other things). Applications that equate roughly to &quo
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by kick 7y ago
Are we reading the same HN threads on this page? I'm seeing people who I don't consider to be stupid, who obviously have some Linux knowledge, still advocating that user accounts are a waste of time for most desktops. A fool isn
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by kick 7y ago
I could see it.
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Amiga Hombre Chipset(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by kick 7y ago|1 comments
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by kick 7y ago
I may be overestimating them, but I imagine this applies drastically less to your average Linux user who knows how to actually apply this.
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by kick 7y ago
Correct, but 'geofft's criticism of it isn't great, in my opinion. Reading it makes it obvious what it does, and only a fool would disable security mitigations in a situation where it mattered. The link has significant value
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by kick 7y ago
The most essential person in kernel dev linked this just the other day, presumably seriously, in reply to an AMA question: 75 points · 2 days ago If my environment doesn't need to worry about executing malicious code
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by kick 7y ago
J is probably the best language in the world to craft native GUIs (something k could never do very well, and now doesn't do at all). It also has a wonderful amount of books on it, most of them Creative Commons-licensed now (as all&#x2F
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by kick 7y ago
Absolutely yes for J and for k, but I wouldn't necessarily deem it necessary to use one or the other "a lot" just to get an intuitive grasp readability-wise.
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Notes on the Plan 9 3rd edition Kernel Source (2007) [pdf](lsub.org)
2 points by kick 7y ago|0 comments
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by kick 7y ago
Most people are bad at recalling dreams, which doesn't help. It's not a bad experience, if you're interacting with people who are good at it.
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by kick 7y ago
In most modern western societies your spouse that you cheat on can indeed very easily leave you any time she or he wants to, and they're certainly not powerless in either a legal or practical exit sense. Not during the early 1900s, w
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by kick 7y ago
Every article you see on top has been posted multiple times in order to get there. This isn't true at all, for the record.
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by kick 7y ago
X was hated when it got widespread adoption because people began using it for things it wasn't intended for. X was aiming to do the right thing. Sure, if you're using it to connect to a box in Canada over a satellite connection i
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by kick 7y ago
Being shitty about commitment and affection in your romantic life does not by default make you an awful person. Yes, it does. Abusing your spouse is one of the worst forms of abuse, especially during that time, because they can't rea
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by kick 7y ago
X worked great for what it was aiming to do. It's not even bad for really remote applications. It works really well, just don't use a dozen layers of poorly-designed abstraction. Write something with xcb or xlib, and you'
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by kick 7y ago
Not only was he abusive to his first wife, he then got married to his cousin, and almost proposed to her daughter . Beyond that, he had a great deal of affairs. Einstein may have been smart, but he was a really awful person.
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by kick 7y ago
I still think it's a miracle that the browser was the solution to the client-server problem x-windows was trying to solve all along. X was the solution to the problem MIT had, and as such, the problem X was trying to solve. It worked
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by kick 7y ago
If the 3DS hadn't been popular, Nintendo would be where Sega is by now. This is revisionist. Nintendo is a pile of cash with a game development arm attached. Unlike SEGA, Nintendo could release a thousand unpopular consoles and still
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by kick 7y ago
- Using it doesn't feel as smooth as my times with a (3)DS or even the original PSP. I think the biggest difference is that Vita wasn't clicky; hit a button on a Nintendo handheld, and you get a very pleasant tactile sensation.
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by kick 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Red_herring_... Fallacy of relative privation (also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as") – dismissing an argument or
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by kick 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor... . https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/4/1/21201162/amazon-... https://www.cbsnews.com/news&#x
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by kick 7y ago
The two richest people on the planet right now are both known for being almost entirely void of morals when it comes to their business dealings.

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