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by leoc 6y ago
Someone could have a go at adding RISC-V assembler to http://www.rosettacode.org/ .
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by leoc 6y ago
It has to be emphasised that (IIUC) Page and Brin's misbehaviour is not just a thing of the past, but active and ongoing, since they still have majority voting power over Alphabet https://www.investopedia.com/articles&#
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by leoc 6y ago
> When your elected government snoops on you, they famously prefer the metadata https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-... of who you emailed, phoned or chatted to the content of
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by leoc 6y ago
As so often, the moral is that pushing your problems in-band doesn't make them go away.
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by leoc 6y ago
Late-2013 MBPs still came with replaceable storage unlike the M1 Macs, no?
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by leoc 6y ago
Or 0. ;)
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by leoc 6y ago
TAOUP didn't make it famous: it was probably about as well known as it is now well before 2003. The cited Usenet post is real https://groups.google.com/g/sci.space.shuttle/c/L8-Upf8gZoY/... .
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by leoc 6y ago
It seems this book's colours were hand-painted, but I might as well mention two famous mid-C19 examples of colour printing, when (IIRC; I am not an expert) high-quality colour printing was still very expensive and rare: * the "Sob
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by leoc 6y ago
And Ozymandias himself is Ramesses II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias#Origin , so in reality his posthumous recognition will probably last for a long time yet.
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by leoc 6y ago
(Ctrl+Alt is a lot better than nothing, but it more or less forces you to move your hand off the home row, which is pretty undesirable.)
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by leoc 6y ago
Oh yes, undoubtedly there are more sophisticated fixes. This is just the minimum-effort, stock approach, which should hopefully also be robust and widely compatible.
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by leoc 6y ago
On Win10 the quick and dirty solution is to select a character on its own, copy it to the clipboard, then, in your clipboard history, pin that particular selection. Nearly every time you use it you'll have to scroll to the bottom of yo
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by leoc 6y ago
I'm talking about the fact that there's only one Alt Gr, on the right of the spacebar, but many characters behind an Alt Gr modifier on the right-hand side of the keyboard. You can't type any of those characters using the cor
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by leoc 6y ago
Feynman enjoyed holding forth about philosopy of science, demarcation and so on but there doesn't seem to be much evidence that he had unusually good judgement on those issues: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/05
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by leoc 6y ago
It seems impressive in general. But are users still going to be stuck with the awful pox that is an important hold-to-use modifier key, Alt Gr, that appears on only one side of the spacebar? All this statistical analysis and the result is
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by leoc 6y ago
Obligatory old-timers the APL keyboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)#/me... and the Symbolics LM-2 "space cadet" keyboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sp
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by leoc 6y ago
It's also worth adding that the general idea of using distributed proof-of-work things in Internet protocols goes back quite a long way, to 1997 at least https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash : it's not just
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by leoc 6y ago
IIRC Franz Kafka joked about Americans rolling through national parks in their automobiles in Amerika https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(novel) , which he wrote in the 1910s.
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by leoc 6y ago
Intel’s bringing 7nm to Kildare https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/intel-to-crea... and it’s promised to make a further announcement about Europe later this year. ASML is no small thing, either: https
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by leoc 6y ago
The World's Strongest Man format contains a number of events that are probably a lot closer to real workplace lifting tasks than barbell events are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Strongest_Man#Compet... .
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by leoc 6y ago
It would also be nice if Amazon at least didn't lie to the public about it.
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by leoc 6y ago
There's also the hurdy-gurdyish Geigenwerk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowed_clavier .
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by leoc 6y ago
Also, a lot of those famously corrupt big bodies like the IOC and FIFA are international organsations. It's not easy to get a majority of the national member organisations, or their governments, to support strong action against corrupt
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by leoc 6y ago
Please reread my comment.
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by leoc 6y ago
Driving Instructor Simulator 2021
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by leoc 6y ago
Apple (as you may know) did in fact have a spell as open-systemsy Unix-loving guys, starting from the NeXT acquisition but ending no later than the release of the iPhone. The usual pattern, basically: https://news.ycombinator.com
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by leoc 6y ago
And a well-defined TCO guarantee would probably not rank very high on the already long list of things that make it ... a bit tricky to discern the performance of a function from looking at the text of the function body.
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by leoc 6y ago
I see Broadway is reviving a '70s production again. ;) TCO is about the same vintage as Chicago .
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by leoc 6y ago
Children not being in school is another major difference.
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by leoc 6y ago
> out of which between 3,000 and 5,000 were executed (~2.7% of all cases) ISTR that the percentage who died in prison awaiting trial was was rather higher, no?

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