mav88

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by mav88 4y ago
Disturbing. I think I'm becoming dyslexic. You're quite right.
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by mav88 4y ago
>Novell's legacy is just "that company in the SCO vs. Novell lawsuit" That was Caldera in all but name. The Novell people became Tarantella.
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by mav88 4y ago
Or you could, you know, start with the excess mortality rate as measured by actuaries and then find out how many are clots and sudden deaths.
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by mav88 4y ago
The whole back end for a TV solution that worked on mobiles and over Edge connections - 64kbps - for millions of users in Africa.
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by mav88 4y ago
I have the 50mm 1.4 from Canon and it's gorgeous. I also have a 50mm Summicron on my old Leica IIIf and it could have been made yesterday.
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by mav88 4y ago
Pirsig's notion of quality led me to an essay in a magazine that I haven't found again on particularly good pieces of engineering that have that Quality Without A Name: the ARM CPU, the Technics SL1200, the Leica M3, the HP-12C an
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by mav88 4y ago
A huge rollercoaster of a novel, crammed with sizzling gypsies!
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by mav88 4y ago
I loved his cameo as Dr. Johnson in BlackAdder season 3: Ink and Incapability. RIP.
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by mav88 4y ago
No it can't and it is damning evidence. When you wipe the world champion off the board as black (which he did), you need to be able to show you understand how the game progressed in a post-game analysis. Neimann's understanding of
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by mav88 4y ago
Obviously it's because mauve has the most RAM.
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by mav88 4y ago
The author's favorite topic, as described by him in the final Dialogue, is 'indirect self-reference'. This has a double meaning. Indirect self-reference can mean what it says such as Godel numbering which is a method of refer
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by mav88 4y ago
The central thesis of GEB is this: what is a self? From the preface of the 20th anniversary edition: "GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a s
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by mav88 4y ago
Into the Abyss. Werner Hertzog looks at the process of capital punishment with great sensitivity and his usual deep insight. The Jinx. While filming a documentary on a rich man suspected of murdering his wife, the crew become involved in th
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by mav88 4y ago
I have a soft spot for Musl libc just for how clear it is considering it's one of the most widely used libraries in containers and has to perform well in the real world. https://musl.libc.org/
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by mav88 4y ago
To improve your debugging, improve your mental model of the system you're tackling. The more you know about the state and flow of data at every point, the more you can reason about what's going on. I'm a particularly average
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by mav88 4y ago
Making the movie black and white will not gloss over how awful it is. Still, it did give us this wonderful Jabootu evisceration: http://jabootu.net/?p=590
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by mav88 4y ago
The Aureal had hardware 3d audio which has yet to be matched today.
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by mav88 4y ago
Same here. Very annoying editing. Mountain footage is best when it's sweeping, languid and relaxed. Just as I was identifying a location it would cut. Hope there's raw footage out of this.
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by mav88 4y ago
16-bit 44kHz is fine for playback and stair stepping does not exist: https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
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by mav88 4y ago
No single web page I can point you to I'm afraid. My climate folder got clobbered and I haven't had a chance to go and snag all the pages that were in it again. Plus they were mostly from alternative sources. I understand (better
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by mav88 4y ago
Getting a wood stove. The incoming mini Ice Age is going to be nasty, especially in the northern hemisphere.
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by mav88 4y ago
I have the original hardback of this book: yellow cover with a black stripe. Happy memories growing up and trying some of the experiments in it including the flour bomb which was shockingly loud.
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by mav88 4y ago
I was in the boondocks last week and had a striking example of a jet climbing up to its ceiling around 2 or 3 miles away. I tried to figure out the answer to this in my head and didn't get anywhere - was hoping a kind geek would come u
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by mav88 4y ago
Ah the good old genetic fallacy. As it so happens, he was a lead designer on the original PowerPC and received several awards for it. So a real engineer and scientist. After retiring he started investigating the fallacy of climate change. I
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by mav88 4y ago
NASA has been tampering with its figures for a while: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Rc301T-hY
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by mav88 4y ago
Lol. We're heading for a mini Ice Age which will peak around 2035. Get a wood stove if you live in the Northern Hemisphere.
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by mav88 4y ago
Looks awesome. livebud.com isn't resolving though so I can't install.
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by mav88 4y ago
Yeah man, Casey just needs to leave poor Microsoft alone. Can't he see it's completely helpless against his good code and the people who follow him online? I sometimes wonder if there are any adults on this site.
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by mav88 4y ago
I'm a perfectly sane and sober individual, mrtranscendence. I think it's you who might need to ease up on the mind-altering stuff. Besides, I know the New York Times is a crock of shit because it's lied about me several times
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by mav88 4y ago
You're a liar. The entire thread on github [1] shows that it is a technical discussion about the unacceptably slow performance of virtual terminal sequences in Windows. Solutions are kicked around and debated until a Microsoft person s

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