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by leoc 5y ago
The original handheld "brick" phone, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_DynaTAC , came out in 1984. This was the beginning of the period when cellular phones were seen as expensive status symbols and
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by leoc 5y ago
The PC Rifts have long been at least open enough to allow SteamVR to support them, and AFAIK that's still the case.
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by leoc 5y ago
The popularity of the Book of Records probably doesn't have much relation to sales or awareness of the Guinness drinks. Guinness Extra considerably predates the 1850s: Guinness has been a big manufacturing operation and a big brand for
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by leoc 5y ago
Yes, knowing that ~P and not knowing P are clearly and fundamentally different things in the world of classical logic. (I'm not an expert, but I know this much.) It's hacky computing systems like Prolog and the relational model an
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by leoc 5y ago
Graham Priest's Introduction to Non-Classical Logic https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/an-introduction-to-nonc... is so good and deserves to have a SICP-like fandom. But it's certainly going to talk
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Eighteenth-century mechanical automaton: the Writer(youtube.com)
1 points by leoc 5y ago|1 comments
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by leoc 5y ago
It's one of the three Jacquet-Droz automata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaquet-Droz_automata . The clip is from the 2013 BBC documentary "Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams" https://www.bb
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by leoc 5y ago
It's from the original Snowbird manifesto: https://agilemanifesto.org/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/12/agile...
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by leoc 5y ago
As the saying goes, sometimes you have to fight fire with goats.
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by leoc 5y ago
My guess would be that "Milwaukee virtual Unix" https://github.com/BobMorlock/AUX/blob/ac3d03a2a0c0924866ce2... refers to the fact that A/UX was designed to run on Macintosh II (ie. Milwaukee)
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by leoc 5y ago
When Windows NT first came out in 1993 its 12-16MB memory requirement was considered to be a major obstacle to adoption, IIRC.
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by leoc 5y ago
* "Milwaukee" wasn't Big Mac, even though (if Levy is correct) it was also sometimes referred to as "Little Big Mac". As Aventure-Apple states (and Levy confirms), it was a rival (or at least completely indepdende
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by leoc 5y ago
* On the software side, Big Mac's vision of Unix with Macintosh on top is familiar from NeXT and OS X. It was also roughly paralleled by many other projects, from Pink/Taligent and BeOS to OS/2 and WinNT. But it's worth
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by leoc 5y ago
This YouTube video on A/UX https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwrTTXOg-KI is one of the best things I've found about the subject. (It has a usable transcript.) On the subject of what happened with Big Mac, the Macint
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by leoc 5y ago
Mods, can the URL please be corrected to https://issues.edpnet.be/?p=3507 ? The current link to https://issues.edpnet.be/ is likely to rot badly over the years.
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London's Elizabeth Line (Crossrail) will run as 3 separate sections until 2023(mylondon.news)
3 points by leoc 5y ago|0 comments
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by leoc 5y ago
Let's hope so, because 'oil language' is also going to be problematic: https://www.google.com/search?q=oil+language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langues_d%27o%C3%AFl . I came here half-
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by leoc 5y ago
Fun fact: Irish [Gaelic] poetry only switched from syllabic to stressed metre about the eighteenth century. One product of the transition was poems in the form of trí rainn agus amhrán , having three stanzas of syllabic metre then a final
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A New Incarnation of Latin in China (2014)(classicalstudies.org)
1 points by leoc 5y ago|0 comments
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by leoc 5y ago
Mind you, leaded gasoline was (AFAIK) approved everywhere else too, so this isn't just a story about US attitudes, specifically.
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by leoc 5y ago
Well, there's one degree of hierarchial classification.
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by leoc 5y ago
For those who don't know, that's the Caterham 7 née Lotus 7, as seen here for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oROs7aJAg8k It's pretty amusing that it has city-car certification, all right.
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by leoc 5y ago
> it makes me feel as if that system was designed by software engineers SL-1 feels as if it was designed and operated by Kerbals. TFA actually does mention the reactor and the accident > SL-1, a stationary low-power nuclear reactor in
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by leoc 5y ago
Adam Neely also has a video about age-related degradation of perfect pitch and about perfect pitch in general: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRaACa1Mrd4 . Relative pitch is certainly learnable.
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by leoc 5y ago
> the U.K.'s [...] common law You mean England-and-Wales' and Northern Ireland's common law ofc! :)
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by leoc 5y ago
If you want to know more about the author or SuperMemo, Wired has an article: https://www.wired.com/2008/04/ff-wozniak/ .
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by leoc 5y ago
Thanks: I copied and pasted from an older comment and forgot to repair the link.
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by leoc 5y ago
Even having practical skills doesn't seem to make that much difference: witness all the engineers in Al Qaeda. Presumably there simply isn't much in the way of engineering jobs, either.
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by leoc 5y ago
The article doesn't seem great, but I might as well dump my favourite quotation about elite overproduction, from /Nationalism/ by Elie Kedourie http://www.amazon.com/Nationalism-Elie-Kedourie/dp/0631
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by leoc 5y ago
The same MTV effect is credited with boosting the US success of UK New Wave and synthpop acts: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_British_Invasion . Conversely, as other have pointed out, the advent of MTV wasn'

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