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by msla 1y ago
I wonder how the USDA can demand anything regarding images created well before the copyright cutoff of 1929. I strongly suspect that's boilerplate text with no actual force.
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by msla 1y ago
Lisp is "functional" in a 1970s sense in that it has functions as first-class objects you can pass as parameters to other functions, but those functions are basically subroutines which can have side-effects and un-functional behav
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by msla 1y ago
Unsustainable what? The title got cut off.
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by msla 1y ago
Four years ago today, I was diagnosed with primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma, a form of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, a form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Three years ago on May 26, I was declared in complete remission at MD Anderson,
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by msla 1y ago
Right. Unicode is the current best effort good faith way to include everyone. It isn't perfect, and there's always a way to subvert good faith if you want to make a point or just be an asshole. The Unicode Consortium is working on
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by msla 1y ago
At a certain point, no, you can't unpublish because the world only has one arrow of time. Imagine if Torvalds decides to unpublish his code in the Linux kernel. It's easy to understand how that would work: His code would remain ou
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by msla 1y ago
Read further: > Pollan, for his part, signed a letter with a group of fellow academics (including Nestle) on June 16 to protest UC Berkeley’s screening of the film (let’s pause here to note: they are protesting the mere fact that this fi
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by msla 1y ago
It seems the next battle we'll have to fight is for fonts that actually present enough information to the user to disambiguate "Weird Al" from "Weird AI". Seems like we used to have these things called "serifs&
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"It must be good because people use it" is not a good argument. Even if people use that argument quite a bit.
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Great article. One clarification: > In 1948, Manchester Baby, the first electronic programmable stored-program computer, had a Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) display that allowed users to peer directly into its 32-bit word memory. This worked be
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by msla 1y ago
> Pine is well suited to its use, otherwise, well, we wouldn't use it! This statement works just as well if you replace "pine" with "leaded gasoline".
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by msla 1y ago
The example works if and only if there's one National ID per person. That's not true for SSNs. It's not true in that it is false. My statement that it is false is, in point of fact, true, and therefore not up for debate. The
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by msla 1y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkfpi2H8tOE That's "O Superman" by Laurie Anderson. It's 8:21 and quotes both the Tao Te Ching and the US Postal Service. It peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart i
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> If I declare a value type with 32-bit floats x, y and z, the in-memory representation for that struct contains exactly 12 bytes, arranged in the obvious way. Nothing more, nothing less. C doesn't even give you this. See: "The
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by msla 1y ago
"What am I paying my IT department for? My computers never have problems! It's a scam, I tells ya!"
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by msla 1y ago
Is there any plausible mechanism for Y2K bugs to cause planes to fall from the sky?
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by msla 1y ago
ARM has the Thumb opcodes, which aren't your "PISC" concept (which is a limited form of loadable microcode, another thing that's been done) but special, shorter encodings of a subset of ARM opcodes, which the CPU recogni
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by msla 1y ago
The question these think pieces never seem to answer is, "What did phones do that books didn't already do?"
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by msla 1y ago
Did you reply to the wrong person?
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Great post, but it's a bit disorienting. As I said in another post here: > This is like a transmission from an alternate universe where the mice I used for decades didn't exist.
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by msla 1y ago
> Unicode is not the only character set (or the best one); this is a falsehood programmers believe about character sets Unicode is the best if I want to communicate with other people. I lived through the 1990s; you won't convince me
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by msla 1y ago
I've lived somewhere with cicadas. If their drone begins to tell me things, I'm checking into a mental hospital for a schizophrenia workup and/or so the massive bug monster doesn't eat me.
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by msla 1y ago
I'm pretty sure nobody in the historical record mentioned how their armies have never once used blackcurrant jam to destroy a rampaging army from Venus. Does that make such an event more or less likely for you? People mostly don't
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by msla 1y ago
This is like a transmission from an alternate universe where the mice I used for decades didn't exist.
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by msla 1y ago
How much emulation is required to get System/360 code running on a modern IBM mainframe? Can the CPUs still run the original 32-bit code? Do CCWs and whatever other peripheral code still work?
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by msla 1y ago
Sounds like something that would require a lot of infrastructure that wouldn't make a lot of sense to build in the most rural areas of a country, unlike roads which can be quite cost-effective even without towns nearby.
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I get what he's doing, but some of these are not actionable: > People’s names are all mapped in Unicode code points. So... what? What do I do with this? My program has to use something to represent text, and since I fail to be a lar
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by msla 1y ago
No, it's unethical because it's human experimentation. Experimenting on humans requires consent.
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by msla 2y ago
Python is like Algol in terms of syntax, certainly, and in fact is almost an ideal Algol syntactically: It has no (or few) block delimiter characters or keywords, but imposes proper indentation as a syntactic requirement.
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by msla 2y ago
Huh. It actually is ASCII and not EBCDIC. I didn't know ASCII block mode terminals existed: https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/IBM_3151 https://www.ardent-tool.com/3151/

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