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by leoc 4y ago
Hmm. Since 1928 is the "Year of the Dictionary", https://public.oed.com/blog/1928-year-of-the-dictionary/ all of the first edition should be out of copyright on or after 2023, no? OTOH the first suppleme
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by leoc 4y ago
I guess that that partly reflects its greater market share though.
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by leoc 4y ago
For my money it probably started as a play on or corruption of ‘brass-hat’, the old unflattering slang word for a senior military officer.
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by leoc 4y ago
Good question! https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/02/insider/1966-2016-the-las... mentions an IBM 1620 being installed, but that was all the way back in 1964. The 1978 coverage of switchover day http:&#x2F
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by leoc 4y ago
When I was small I would take a desktop mirror and hold it facing straight up at about waist height. If you adjust the height of the mirror a bit then, when you walk around carefully while looking into the mirror, you get quite a vivid and
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Quatermass: The sci-fi series that terrified a generation(bbc.com)
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by leoc 4y ago
Reposting my old comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10774245 : > People seem to have forgotten that when Perl evolved from being a better AWK to the paradigm example of the modern "scripting language"
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1841-45: Invention of anastatic printing enables cheap facsimiles and piracy(historyofinformation.com)
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by leoc 5y ago
In the form of "the law of the conservation of misery" it was apparently a favourite saying of Steve Jobs' not-always-loved subordinate manager Bob Belleville https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Maci
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by leoc 5y ago
I've just found another publisher of classical interlinears: http://www.classicalbooks.co.uk , and a journal paper about it from the proprietor, "Using translation-based CI to read Latin literature": https:/
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by leoc 5y ago
Didn't it go through a popularity cycle? It seemed to get sufficiently well-known that outsiders and tourists (including me) started turning up, so the core membership of PL theory insiders quietly disengaged. I think there may also ha
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by leoc 5y ago
I can't help be reminded of the big US banks and sub-prime.
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by leoc 5y ago
As I've said before, I just find it hard to believe that the very foreseeable problems lurking at the intersection of speculation, cache and protected mode were really such an unexpected shock to the industry https://youtu.b
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by leoc 5y ago
https://www.latinum.org.uk/shadowing/interlinear-method lists various old interlinears. Though even for the Latin-English interlinears it's not complete: for example it's missing the gonzo Completely Parsed s
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by leoc 5y ago
https://refold.la has a good community.
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by leoc 5y ago
But was that better driver support simply a snowballing consequence of Linux already having been ahead by then? If so (and IDK if it is so) then the original explanation would have to lie elsewhere.
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by leoc 5y ago
That picture of the "Wallabies" https://twitter.com/kocienda/status/880451736049139712 suggests that the often-repeated claim about the hardware and software teams working in mutual igorance is overblow
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by leoc 5y ago
Here's a pretty good YouTube video about Cryo's Dune (1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20h7pfLeSaE and another from the same author covering every Dune computer game https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by leoc 5y ago
Annoyingly, neither Dune (1) nor Dune 2 seems likely to get a legal rerelease. I can't find the details atm, but apparently GOG made quite a serious try to get the rights, only to hit a brick wall with the Herbert estate which claimed
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by leoc 5y ago
Is the Dune MMO from Funcom https://massivelyop.com/2020/04/24/funcom-dune-still-a-few-y... ("more ambitious and robust version of Conan Exiles") still going ahead?
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by leoc 5y ago
Also https://www.audiblegate.com/post/audible-royalties-ain-t-roy... . I may submit this separately.
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by leoc 5y ago
https://twitter.com/mwseibel/status/1477707884632834049 > I’m pretty sure the engineers responsible for Google Search aren’t happy about the quality of results either. I’m wondering if this isn’t really a tech
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by leoc 5y ago
“Linux is a free set of buggy device drivers” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13660437
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by leoc 5y ago
The mostly did at the time too, I think. The Handbook's sentiment was largely "you can make me use it, but you can't make me like it".
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Human Input to Computer Systems: Theories, Techniques and Technology (2011 WIP)(billbuxton.com)
1 points by leoc 5y ago|0 comments
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by leoc 5y ago
And while everyone wants more investment in capacity, presumably no-one wants to be an investor who's left holding the bag if capacity overshoots and supply exceeds demand in 1-3 years' time.
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by leoc 5y ago
'Siege overflow' is one of the standard attacks on the security of a fortification system. It often employs ladders while the related 'underflow' attacks use mines. In time, rapidly advancing technology made it feasible
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by leoc 5y ago
Parents! Are your teens getting into "salt"? Know the signs.
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by leoc 5y ago
This layout seems to have characters which are behind Alt Gr+Shift+a right-hand key, IIUC? Yet it has no left-hand Alt Gr button? If so ... why? What was the thinking? That no-one touch-types anymore, anyway? Or is there something I'm
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by leoc 5y ago
'Hard' is meant as an antonym of 'easy' rather than 'soft' here.

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