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by lordleft 1y ago
St. Paul (and his translators) are responsible for some of the most evocative turns of phrase I have ever encountered in literature. From 1 Corinthians 13: "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in p
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by lordleft 1y ago
Are you referring to the fact that Big O has notation and concepts revolving around best-case/average case scenarios, as well as worst-case scenarios?
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We have not evolved far beyond the same problems that bedeviled Socrates and his interlocutors, have we?
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This is a slight tangent, but I have not been on slashdot since the early aughts. I'm surprised that it fell into obscurity since technical forums like HN and reddit CS subreddits are thriving. Or maybe it still vibrant and I'm ma
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RestoHack – a full restoration of the original Hack (1984)(old.reddit.com)
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The personal SOS messages the BBC used to send(bbc.com)
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Félix Nadar: the first celebrity photographer (2019)(bbc.com)
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by lordleft 1y ago
I found this to be a pretty charming blog post & an enjoyable read. Does anyone else feel like some of the newer entries in the IBA list seem a bit contrived, maybe to promote a particular type of spirit?
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The fact that Java is still a go-to language for many companies, including technically sophisticated FAANGs like Google and Amazon, speaks to its robustness and utility. It’s a great language with staying power.
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I feel like an under-discussed consequence of the current administration is how deeply these choices will harm tourism. Travel is a big part of our economy. A 250 dollar fee is yet another reason to choose Europe or Asia or your own country
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Against Self-Optimization(plough.com)
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Delegation and Destruction: Francis Fukuyama on AI(persuasion.community)
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Is this not the same trickle down mantra that has been pushed across developed countries for decades and has only widened the gap between rich and poor? In the US, where this line was pursued since the 80s, real wages for most Americans hav
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by lordleft 1y ago
This what I miss about what the internet used to be.
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Networking for Systems Administrators(mwl.io)
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by lordleft 1y ago
I just saw this today and was shocked; I have disabled notifications for many apps because they sent an errant ad in-between more necessary messages. I personally would love it if Apple would allow for some kind of filtering of 'offers
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Your Job used to impress people. That era just ended(carmenvankerckhove.substack.com)
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KornShell 93u+m(github.com)
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Setting up a public NetHack Server(blog.svenbrauch.de)
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The English Civil War feels like a dress rehearsal for the upheavals of the late 18th century. Many of the impulses of the American and French Revolutions are there, in germinal form. Egalitarianism, freedom of thought, even the see-sawing
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If You Absolutely Must - a brief guide to writing argumentative non-fiction(fredrikdeboer.com)
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Isn't that the point of the article? That the colloquial meaning of HDR is quite overloaded, and when people complain about HDR, they mean bad tone-mapping? I say this as someone as close to totally ignorant about photography as you ca
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Prescription vs. Description(christopherthomas.substack.com)
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Pope Leo XIV's PhD Dissertation(kathleenmccook.substack.com)
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The "Diet" Smartphone: Minimal Phone Review [video](youtube.com)
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Augustine of Hippo(en.wikipedia.org)
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Solvitur Ambulando(en.wikipedia.org)
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by lordleft 1y ago
"... Or that kãla, Time and Death, should be derived from the Sanskrit kãl, ‘to calculate or enumerate’—related to the Latin kalendarium, ‘account book’, the English calendar—imparting, it seemed to me, onto that word the suggestive no
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What Sanskrit has meant to me(openthemagazine.com)
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Galileo's treatment by the Church was abominable, but it's often forgotten that the Church not only drew the lines of permissible thought, but also served as the primary vehicle for advancing and enabling the life of the mind thro

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