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by mietek 4y ago
Joe Armstrong (the creator of Erlang) said the same thing back in 2008. > The fundamental problem with taking a remote operation and wrapping it up so that it looks like a local operation is that the failure modes of local and remote op
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by mietek 4y ago
I would love to use such a desktop environment. Do you have a link for your project?
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by mietek 5y ago
It was both Doom and Quake!
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by mietek 5y ago
> It's not bipolar because it's not random, there are things that trigger the change. I am not a mental health professional, and neither are you. Perhaps you can use the opportunity that you have right now, living in Europe,
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by mietek 5y ago
The closest kind of apple to Antonówka that I found in England is Bramley apple, or more generally, various kinds of cooking apple. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bramley_apple https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by mietek 5y ago
List view remains available in the modern macOS Finder.
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by mietek 5y ago
If only mere mortals could get hold of it…
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by mietek 5y ago
100 - 49 - 11 = 40
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by mietek 5y ago
Never forget JSTOR together with MIT drove Aaron Swartz to suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
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by mietek 5y ago
Note it’s just a black version of the actual Apple IIgs keyboard. https://deskthority.net/wiki/Apple_Desktop_Bus_Keyboard
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by mietek 5y ago
Yes, you can easily import it to Fastmail. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/360058753594-Imp...
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by mietek 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this information. My order is in.
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by mietek 5y ago
Tangential, but — have you heard about vacuum decay? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijFm6DxNVyI
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by mietek 5y ago
What is the problem with solar panels and fires? What happens when a house with a Tesla Solar Roof is on fire?
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by mietek 5y ago
It still regularly crashed my OS 9 Mac.
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by mietek 5y ago
Please upload the scans to the Internet Archive. https://www.archive.org/
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by mietek 5y ago
How about a Lisp without the need for garbage collection at all? http://web.archive.org/web/20020331165324/http://home.pipeli...
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by mietek 5y ago
You may find it interesting to learn that one cannot generally determine whether two real numbers are equal or not: equality on real numbers is undecidable.
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by mietek 5y ago
Simply: money is what you use to pay your taxes.
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by mietek 6y ago
> Heck even the default apps are hard on her. iMessage keeps getting moved to the home page and SMS to the 2nd page. So she sees the blue bubble and uses that to message us, even tho we are sending SMS. She needs to use the green bubble
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by mietek 6y ago
Indeed, FEXPRs are Kernel’s entire thing. However, vau is a language primitive, not a notion of evaluation, such as eager or lazy.
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by mietek 6y ago
> [laziness] blurs the distinction between macros and functions by allowing arguments to be lazily evaluated. Good point. Interestingly, there doesn’t seem to be a commonly known notion of evaluation that would blur the distinction be
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by mietek 6y ago
> The problem is that English universities are inherently more attractive so UK has way more EU students than EU had UK students making UK support a disproportionally large number of students. The English evidently agree this is a prob
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by mietek 6y ago
Try Wipr.
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by mietek 6y ago
> Windows has been multiplatform since NT 3.1 (Alpha, MIPS) and then in 3.51 adding in PowerPC. What was the last version of Windows to support either of these platforms?
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by mietek 6y ago
I share many of your views, and so I think you will enjoy Jean Bricmont’s “Making Sense of Quantum Mechanics”. The book clarifies there is no reason to doubt the pilot wave interpretation, or Bohmian mechanics. For a more popular account th
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by mietek 6y ago
Fascinating story. The detector used in this case appears to be a Polimaster PM1208. Photo source: https://www.idnes.cz/zpravy/domaci/zvysenou-radiaci-v-praze-... Manufacturer page: https://www.pce-ins
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by mietek 6y ago
> [Bohm/de Broglie Pilot Wave interpretation of QM] is interesting despite being debunked by Bell's, etc No, the pilot wave interpretation is not debunked by Bell’s theorem. That is a persistent misrepresentation of Bell’s th
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by mietek 6y ago
Peppered with Amazon referral links, too.
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by mietek 6y ago
s/demon/wizard/

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