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by leoc 2y ago
IIRC there were also plenty of changes in later editions that didn't relate to controversies (or to colourisation): for example radio sets were made more up-to-date.
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by leoc 2y ago
Since it's a PLATO-based system it seems more natural to look for a classical allusion than anything related to Atari, no?
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by leoc 2y ago
'īrāta' means 'angry [woman]', fwiw.
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by leoc 2y ago
For example, in the 1967 F1 Grand Prix (the subject of the legendary cult-favourite racing sim Grand Prix Legends https://www.pcgamer.com/why-i-loved-hardcore-racing-sim-gran... ) two drivers died, and apparently half of
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by leoc 2y ago
I think that might be the best strategy: a charity playing Google and being transparent about what money it distributes to whom, but being less transparent about the exact mechanism it uses to calculate the disbursement, or at least being r
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by leoc 2y ago
It's a good start, but it's vulnerable to sticky fingers, patronage relationships and so on if the money becomes serious. For example, what if a project writes internal code instead of having a dependency on someone else's li
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by leoc 2y ago
I generally agree, though some of those specific risks already exist and some (like license changes) are if anything probably less likely if they mean giving up significant donation money.
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by leoc 2y ago
In concrete terms, what you would or will see, if enough money starts going down this track, is open-source contributors changing their behaviour as they seek to make projects "donation-optimised" and to maximise their personal sh
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by leoc 2y ago
(Eleventh-century English is ... suprisingly approachable with the right textboox: https://ancientlanguage.com/vergil-press/osweald-bera/ https://youtu.be/YwECgGWCwis?t=508 .)
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by leoc 2y ago
It's a great idea; I have some similar thoughts. The looming problem, though, is that Goodheart's Law is likely to strike if this ever gets scaled up significantly.
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by leoc 2y ago
> In 2009, a surprising amount of the discourse was focused on the algorithms git used to automatically merge changes together. IIRC Torvalds himself was quite pessimistic about what could be achieved with automatic merging. (And in this
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by leoc 2y ago
I have to wonder if part of this is Intel wanting a Trumpier CEO so it can retain the favour of the US government, while Trump associates Gelsinger with the CHIPS act which he reflexively hates as a Biden thing.
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by leoc 2y ago
Red Harvest is in there? You can be sure that number of film and TV writers, and perhaps directors and producers, have set their alarm clocks for that one. https://crimereads.com/the-strange-cinematic-afterlife-of-re...
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by leoc 2y ago
I think that this was Paul Graham's original ambition for YC, really: a hope that some at least of the successful founders would choose to take their winnings and implement the next Lisp Machine and similar projects. Unfortunately, a
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by leoc 2y ago
Pasting my comment on the article https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-would-it-take-to... : > RCA Laboratories/the Sarnoff Research Center is surely one of the most important of the American corporate l
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by leoc 2y ago
There's a nice John Siracusa article from 2008 https://arstechnica.com/staff/2008/04/rhapsody-and-blues/ about how central the cross-platform ambitions were to the Rhapsody vision, and how they fail
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by leoc 2y ago
There's a 2018 Irish Times article, "Apple’s secretive Cork facility opens up – to an extent" https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/apple-s-secre... which includes this: > Among the func
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by leoc 2y ago
Sure, whatever: I had certainly given it approximately no thought in this case, and my personal investment in 'sk**t' is zero. I'd edit my post but I seem to have hit the timeout. I will also say that I don't think this
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by leoc 2y ago
https://bsky.app/profile/leocomerford.bsky.social/post/3l7v6... To help the hard of clicking, this time I have pasted it all for you: Leo R. Comerford ‪@leocomerford.bsky.social‬ Why was it decided not to bui
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by leoc 2y ago
The singular of ‘maxima’ is ‘maximum’.
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by leoc 2y ago
But isn’t it a little surprising (I’m not an expert) that Dell or Supermicro or somefirm like that hadn’t already started offering an approachable access to either OCP gear or a proprietary knockoff of it? Presumably that may still happen i
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by leoc 2y ago
Probably most experienced drumkit players don't generally use their index fingers either (except when playing the ride cymbal).
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by leoc 2y ago
So “shift left” is roughly equivalent to “tests first” or “TDD”?
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by leoc 2y ago
Relevant information about the links between the AT Protocol and IPFS: https://bsky.app/profile/why.bsky.team/post/3l7vjsvufwc2g .
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by leoc 2y ago
As user coffeemug said to me in an email a long time ago (relating to an old article https://web.archive.org/web/20090220121738/https://www.defma... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4
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by leoc 2y ago
Not entirely. GOTO can be pretty nice! And even the lack of structs probably has the advantage of helping to prepare you for today's world where column-major is back in style, for performance reasons.
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by leoc 2y ago
That would probably be ‘perultimate’ (see https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/per-#Latin ). Mind you, since ‘ultimate’ means ‘last’ it’s not clear what this word would actually mean .
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by leoc 2y ago
Yes, but they tend to be 'off' in quite different ways. Crumb's father was the kind of hyper-repressed figure who for most of us nowadays only exists as a boogeyman character in fiction, but who was much more of a reality in
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by leoc 2y ago
It's not merely that 50 years is a long time. There's a profound cultural watershed between the Before Times, the overcontrolled, neurotic world of roughly up to the late '60s, and the narcissistic/sociopathic world of t
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by leoc 2y ago
There's a fuzzy but very real distinction between caricature in general and frankly racist caricature. Quite a few of Crumb's drawings of black people have been clearly over that line, and (polite warning) it would be pretty ras

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