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by leoc 4y ago
It seems that something related to this actually came up recently. Someone with institutional cred claimed that a famous alleged Biblical manuscript from the 19th century, long accepted to be fake https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by leoc 4y ago
> [0] In fairness, the reason we are in this mesz is that said CPU manufacturer has been releasing broken products in the name of speed themselves. As bad as Intel's record there was, it's hard to really single it out either. I
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by leoc 4y ago
That’s interesting. When you do see a compiler writer online it seems that they usually complain that the work isn’t well paid compared to other programming roles.
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by leoc 4y ago
Bill Buxton tangent: http://billbuxton.com/inputManuscript.html is full of great stuff.
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by leoc 4y ago
To be honest the the HOWTO system was clearly starting to die even by the early 2000s, before blogs and "answer sites" (as distinct from web forums more generally) really took off as sources of Linux advice.
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by leoc 4y ago
It's an excellent idea which has been proposed more than once, including by me. ;)
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by leoc 4y ago
Yes. Normally people are too quick to attribute power and fault to individuals, or so everyone says, but here's a case where two individuals really seem to have something close to full power and ability to fix at least the more obvious
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by leoc 4y ago
The routefinding also seems to be seriously imperfect. This journey from London to Tripoli takes the land route around the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean coast: https://omnesviae.org/#!iter_OVPlace427_TPPlace292
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by leoc 4y ago
His "Wells, Hitler and the World-State" is probably better: https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/english/e_whws
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by leoc 4y ago
One thing that does seem almost certain is that, to whatever extent Kildall did intentionally skip or turn up late to the meeting, it was more likely an attempted power move or an expression of annoyance than the sort of genuine indiffere
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by leoc 4y ago
Graaagh, sorry.
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by leoc 4y ago
These absolute bozos. A Web Assembler that can't do jumps. What a show.
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by leoc 4y ago
Yes, compared to Todd Rose's own article telling the story https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/01/16/when-us-air-... this feels like a bland summary. Mind you, even Rose's version wa
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by leoc 4y ago
Even Rose's article (I haven't read his book yet so I can't really say about that) tiptoes around what was going on here. It wasn't just a naive application of statistics. Rose gets through the Norma story without mentio
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by leoc 4y ago
Unfairly or not, the OP does feel like a summary of Todd Rose's own "When U.S. air force discovered the flaw of averages", an excerpt from The End of Average , which you linked there. Rose's article has been strongly up
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by leoc 4y ago
It seems like one possibility. Reading between the lines of the comments about different risk tolerances and so on, another possibility is that the team reached an impasse in trying to agree what their next game project or projects should b
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by leoc 4y ago
Apple Records is still legally a going concern, though. (Though again there's the complicated situation with his songwriting royalties etc.)
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by leoc 4y ago
Hopefully some serious competition and general normality will return to consumer discrete GPUs sometime soon, too.
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by leoc 4y ago
It does say LANGLANDS on the thumbnail, as well as talk about it in the description.
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by leoc 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt2tm9B6A4E is a pretty good video essay which discusses Miyazaki's Lupin TV work, and of course Castle of Cagliostro .
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by leoc 4y ago
He directed the second half of the first (full) TV series and a couple of episodes of the second series, apparently. His Lupin work also probably had a fairly big impact on later film and TV versions of the character. https://www
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by leoc 4y ago
That's definitely a genuine factor. But much the same blasts of hot indignation were released when, for example, people in the US tried to address domestic racism in the era between the end of WWII and the Civil Rights Act. And by and
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by leoc 4y ago
It seems the grandparent agrees with you on that, and not with the opinion which it summarised in that sentence.
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by leoc 4y ago
I draw your attention to this part of my comment: > Google's free rein in its early years surely had a lot to do with the fact that Page and Brin were successfully marketed as nice guys who could be trusted to be responsible steward
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by leoc 4y ago
Sure, there's a lot more which they should or should arguably do. But I wanted to focus on the clearest examples, and people will jump on the excuses of fiduciary duty and shareholder lawsuits if you give them the chance.
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by leoc 4y ago
Isn't there anything else Sergey Brin should be spending his time and attention on? Google's free rein in its early years surely had a lot to do with the fact that Page and Brin were successfully marketed as nice guys who could
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by leoc 4y ago
EEVBLOG tore one down: https://youtu.be/xQ3oJlt4GrI .
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by leoc 4y ago
GTA: San Andreas or Genshin Impact will consume several times that space on iOS, indeed.
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by leoc 4y ago
> Why is there no OED app (just the Shorter one ... which is awful)? It's some combination of OUP wanting to push the Oxford Dictionary of English and OUP wanting to go on charging $100 a year for individual OED access https:/
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by leoc 4y ago
Yes, used copies of the first-edition Compact OED are a great option. They don't take much space or cost much money: https://www.ebay.ie/itm/304361514092 . They only give you the first edition of the OED and the f

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