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by mjcohen 5y ago
That is a very entertaining read, especially the financing. I would not want to live in a building like that. I am quite satisfied with our one-story 1500 square foot house.
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by mjcohen 5y ago
How about benefits such as health insurance, vacation days, sick days?
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by mjcohen 5y ago
Amazon supports the 8-day workweek for its warehouse workers.
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by mjcohen 5y ago
Another thing that gives it away is that Udo's fellow monk is Thelonius.
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by mjcohen 5y ago
I recall a SF story from probably 50 years or so ago where someone had to make a suitless trip between two airlocks in space. According to the story (iirc), they survived.
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by mjcohen 5y ago
When I did some assembly programming on the Commodore PET, before I got the dual-floppy drive (so I could run their assembler and do lots of other things), I wrote an assembler in Basic that took the source as data statements. Don't re
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by mjcohen 5y ago
What about macports?
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by mjcohen 5y ago
I still use my Pebble Time (with another for when it dies) and use Pebble-Rebble to keep it working on Android (11).
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by mjcohen 5y ago
My Samsung S10e has the fingerprint reader on the power button. I have it set to recognize my left index finger and right thumb. Works great. The touchID on my new MacBook Pro is extremely useful. Trained on right index finger.
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by mjcohen 5y ago
A real world application is getting someone to respond with a real world application that would help you make money.
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by mjcohen 5y ago
I am a retiree and I very definitely pay income tax.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I didn't know that. Thanks.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Five spaces and a period.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
No. It means the opposite - not paid well.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
What would have happened if Trump had been killed in 2014?
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I haven't used kotlin, but where is length defined? Should it be a parameter to the function?
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Quora has a Chitlin' Circuit group. Lots of good stuff there.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Also, solar panels on a car are natural targets for idiots. Has to be protected against rocks and paint.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Howey-in-the-Hills was a notorious speed trap. Don't know if it still is.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Medicine also requires, after college, medical school and a residency - typically 6 to 9 years work. Programming requires none of this.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
IIRC, in the early days of the Commodore PET, it used a method of keeping track of strings that was fine in an 8k machine but was too slow in a 32k machine. They had to make a change that avoided quadratic time on the larger machine. So str
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by mjcohen 6y ago
We still use Picasa on Windows 7 & 10 and Mac OS X. It works easily on 10.13 (High Sierra) and with some annoyance on 10.14 (Mojave) (requires clicking 5 times on complaining popup when starting, then runs fine). A good incentive not to
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Assembly language is not the most general because and particular assembly code can be run on only a few particular architectures. It's the higher-level languages that are more general.
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If it runs android, you can use the kindle app.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Wow! There's a book in here, waiting to be written.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Of course the indefinite integral of x*exp(-x^2) is elementary.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
I don't understand why Julia didn't do like Fortran and Ada and allow any starting index. E.g., a(-5:5, 0:3).
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Naked Capitalism.
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by mjcohen 6y ago
Why aren't these people in jail?
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by mjcohen 6y ago
We have two.

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