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by krallja 4y ago
Unfortunately, times don’t add like that under relativity
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by krallja 4y ago
We had a “robust” backup strategy. (Taking a copy of the source code onto the file share every night.) Definitely lost VSS revision history at least once. I don’t know how VSS ever made it to customers!
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by krallja 4y ago
Nixon called Neil and Buzz on the moon. Reagan sent a message of good wishes to STS-1 (he was recovering from an assassination attempt). Biden gets to present the government’s telescope pix. It’s one of the honors of being the President.
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by krallja 4y ago
When you say “northeast,” do you mean more like Boston, NYC, or Kennebunkport?
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I got my start in the software industry in that building, too. I was an intern at Rose-Hulman Ventures in 2005, building tax administration software for Indiana counties in C# 1.0 WinForms with Visual SourceSafe and Microsoft SQL Server. VS
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There will be NO fanfic in this interview please!
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Do you know any examples of semiconductor junctions being used in biological processes? It would be hilarious to me if there was a bacterium out there that just ”invented” a transistor or a diode for some silly reason.
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I just booted a Gentoo rescue CD from the early 2000s and it didn’t have perl. It pretty much only had busybox and nano.
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I keep building breadboard computers and single-board computers, learning the ISA and peripherals, and then not really using them for anything. I guess the building is the fun part, for me.
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by krallja 4y ago
BASIC on the Plus/4 is actually much better than Commodore BASIC v2.0 on the C64. It has commands for drawing shapes! It has TEDMon for writing machine language/primitive assembly programs!
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No, front running is where they go take the same position as you, but in FRONT of you.
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That’s false; brokerages make enough money from retail customers with payment for order flow.
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Vast minority*
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Mods don’t flag, users do
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Read the title again.
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These CHM oral histories are so great – I love the ones about the 6800 and 68000, because Motorola didn’t seem to keep historical records in the same way as Intel and others did, so this is the only way some of these stories have ever been
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by krallja 4y ago
“Smart people won’t suffer from climate change because they believe in it” is a pretty wild argument.
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> Ethical approval Our study was approved by the director of the Burnet Institute. For research on humans, you need to use the institutional research board. It’s unethical to use approval from a director, as they have a direct conflict o
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by krallja 4y ago
Does Not Commute, by Mediocre AB, is a fun mobile game that plays with this concept.
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I’m even suspicious of the newer varieties of fruit, like Cotton Candy grapes, Cuties clementines, and Sunkist oranges. They’re just too sweet to possibly be healthy at all.
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Also, as the article mentions, “orange juice” is not the result of taking some peeled oranges and squeezing them, like you might find at the fancier grocery stores. They are concentrated, evaporated, adulterated, and recomposed many times,
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by krallja 4y ago
If you don’t want to deal with breadboards, there are lots of cheap (under $50) programmable Z80 computers out there; here are a few I’ve collected: * Timex-Sinclair 1000 (American ZX81 with double the RAM — an entire 2KiB!) * TI 81-86 grap
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It’s only used to generate a very low clock rate. It’s replaced with a 4MHz oscillator later in the series.
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HN auto-titler removes the word “How”
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Graphing Calculator was one of the delightfully “impossible” things I discovered in the hard disk of our brand new iMac back in 1998. I had just started using a TI-83+ at school, so seeing a 3D full-color animatable graphing calculator with
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It definitely had a minor positive effect on my feelings about learning Python later, when I was offered the professional opportunity.
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Exclude that as a sunk cost: the paper is coming to your mailbox either way. The only difference is, does the carbon get sequestered in the dump, or does it prevent another artificially-fast-growing pine from being processed into paper? Whi
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by krallja 4y ago
Preordered, looks beautiful & one of those books I’ve never thought to want, but know I need it as soon as I saw the first photos. Poking around the No Starch website, I see another book I’ve already preordered: Grady Hillhouse’s Practi
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import antigravity
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also usually anti-badmouthing clauses in both directions. “you may never blog about this experience”

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