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by msla 6mo ago
Also, tabbed browsing was still a couple years off for most people, although some browsers got there earlier than others: > In 1994, BookLink Technologies featured tabbed windows in its InternetWorks browser.[citation needed] That same y
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by msla 6mo ago
Yes, the TCP/IP protocol stack beat the OSI protocol stack comprehensively, even down to four layers beating out seven unless you're so wedded to the Magic Number of Seven that you see Session as distinct from Application in the m
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by msla 6mo ago
Plus, having to change email addresses when you physically move, in addition to when you change providers, would be immensely annoying.
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by msla 6mo ago
"Why is this person testing that Arizona does such bizarre things with time? Surely no actual state is like that! Such complexity! Take it out!"
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by msla 6mo ago
I wonder how robust they are against people sending them fake data.
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by msla 6mo ago
It's a counterpoint to the maxim, not the post I'm replying to.
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by msla 6mo ago
> Similar to the "code should be self documenting - ergo: We don't write any comments, ever" My counterpoint: Code can be self-documenting, reality isn't. You can have a perfectly clear method that does something nobo
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by msla 6mo ago
Since the article doesn't mention: I've read that ICBMs used celestial navigation. Is this similar to what contemporary missiles used? Do we even know at this point?
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by msla 6mo ago
Also, just to be clear: This links to a PDF, for some reason.
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by msla 6mo ago
Do you think your comment adds anything?
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by msla 6mo ago
PDF, because it isn't marked.
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by msla 6mo ago
It made me drink myself Venetian blind.
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by msla 6mo ago
Your comments read like they're AI generated. Using "spend" as a noun, for example.
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by msla 6mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10791521
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by msla 6mo ago
fanf2 on Dec 25, 2015 [dead] | parent | prev | next [–] I quite like "understanding and writing compilers" by Richard Bornat - written in the 1970s using BCPL as the implementation language, so rather old-fashioned, but it gives a
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by msla 6mo ago
> But Franklin Computer Corporation’s hardware, software, and ad concepts were stolen intellectual property, which, I think, qualifies as “bad.” "Intellectual property" is doing a lot of work in this sentence, in that it's
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by msla 6mo ago
> Reviewers were even able to pull cards out of an Apple ][ motherboard, plug them into an ACE machine, and they’d work without any other modifications. My God, such an Architecture might have become an Industry Standard! https:/&#
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by msla 6mo ago
> In contrast to studies cited in recent decisions to end CWF in Utah, Florida, and elsewhere, we find no evidence that CWF is negatively associated with adolescent IQ or adult cognitive functioning. As if we didn't know. Not being
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by msla 6mo ago
Interestingly, the Wikipedia app devs prevent you from opting out of sharing supposedly-anonymous data with their app. Supposedly-anonymous because I think we all know how deanonymizing works by now, and how easy it is: https://p
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by msla 6mo ago
> The UK is not part of the US (yet?) nor the EU, but they're currently fining US companies Are they going after money they have in the UK or are they delusional enough to think they can successfully fine a company with no ties to t
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by msla 6mo ago
It makes perfect sense: Rust compilers will never beat a human at scheduling every single opcode perfectly based on the deepest microarchitectural analysis short of decapping the chip and breaking out the ol' electron microscope. Wheth
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by msla 6mo ago
> My bad. I used that as a stand in for a single payer system like Medicare. Good idea, yes? Or do you object to that? My objection to that is putting too much power over healthcare in the hands of the Federal government ends badly when
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by msla 6mo ago
Well, they were obviously incorrect.
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by msla 6mo ago
> Medicare For All Nobody who relies on Medicare would say that. The people who say it want a fantasy Medicare that doesn't exist. https://www.medicare.gov/providers-services/original-medicar... Some of the ite
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by msla 6mo ago
Incorrect according to who? You? Your Sainted Mother? Sounds innovative to me, and hardly traditional. Saying male is somehow gender neutral sounds even more bizarre. No, usage makes correctness in language, not people trying to invent some
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by msla 6mo ago
With Windows, you get what you pay for. In this case, that's an OS controlled by an unaccountable company that can take application software away from you. Related: If you're the customer, you're the product.
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by msla 6mo ago
They're coming for the jobs immigrants would be taking if the Japanese government weren't so xenophobic.
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by msla 6mo ago
Support for the Pentium isn't going away now, certainly, and nobody's announced plans to drop it from the Linux kernel, but every architecture has a time horizon.
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by msla 6mo ago
Well, that leaves the Pentium family, doesn't it? I wonder how far we are from the removal of all 32-bit x86 support from the mainline Linux kernel.
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by msla 6mo ago
A bit less than 50% of the whole Internet. Wow. That's so amazingly unpopular. Why anyone bothers talking about something untold millions of people use every day is beyond me.

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