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by neonscribe 8y ago
It is extremely likely that inhaling combustion products of any kind is harmful to our health.
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by neonscribe 8y ago
Consider a small or even a larger city containing a large, selective state university. Madison, WI; Ann Arbor, MI; Iowa City, IA; Bloomington, IN; Tucson, AZ; Athens, GA; Salt Lake City, UT. There are many others.
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by neonscribe 8y ago
The report is that the keyboard is not the same. Quieter, but not necessarily more reliable. Reliability remains to be seen. Keep in mind that the uproar over keyboard problems started far too recently to have affected the design of the 201
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by neonscribe 8y ago
This isn't a "build quality" problem, it's a design quality problem. The quest for thinness has taken precedence over reliable functioning. If they added a millimeter or two they could put in a proper keyboard, but I fea
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by neonscribe 9y ago
I used make heavily in the 80s and 90s, but haven't much since then. Recently I started a project that had source files getting processed into PDF files, for use by humans. Since this is the 21st century, those files have spaces in the
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by neonscribe 9y ago
Micro benchmarks are usually misleading.
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by neonscribe 9y ago
What sort of optimization might be possible? Also, is there any active development today on separate instruction and data address space architectures?
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by neonscribe 9y ago
"(but try not to cast functions)". Try not to cast at all, of course, but especially not functions.
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by neonscribe 10y ago
Company towns were commonplace, especially near mines in the US in the late 19th-early 20th century. Workers were paid in company scrip that could only be spent at the company store. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compan
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by neonscribe 10y ago
You may be thinking of Harry Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics. He was mainly responsible for the racially motivated propaganda campaign against marijuana in the 1930's.
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by neonscribe 10y ago
Saving initialized data structures into an executable was the traditional way to build large Lisp systems, and was a built-in capability of PDP-10 operating systems in the 1970's. When I was a student at Utah porting PSL (Portable Stan
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by neonscribe 10y ago
In this context, is "rorting" synonymous with "unfairly exploiting"?
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by neonscribe 11y ago
Here's an entire Roman city that was well-preserved thanks to silting and river meandering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostia_Antica
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by neonscribe 11y ago
Another possibility is a multi-device multi-page score reading app. I don't know if that's available now, nor if anyone's working on it, nor how hard it would be.
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by neonscribe 11y ago
BCPL and B were untyped languages, where the fundamental unit of the language was a "cell" that could hold either an integer or a pointer. Also fundamental was that memory was addressable by cells, and that adding one to a pointer
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by neonscribe 11y ago
A taxi medallion, the artificially scarce license to operate in New York, cost $35,000 in 1976. In 2014 a medallion sold for $1.3m. In 2015 a medallion sold for $900,000, presumably as a result of Uber and Lyft.
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by neonscribe 11y ago
(2012)
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by neonscribe 11y ago
No, the Maj3 interval between the 2nd and 3rd strings on the guitar is unrelated to this issue. It's just the fret spacing on the guitar that causes it to have equal temperament and therefore makes chords slightly "out of tune&quo
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by neonscribe 12y ago
Why Do People Have Such Strong Feelings for the East Berlin Pedestrian Signals http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/the...
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by neonscribe 12y ago
"If it’s jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels.” http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
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by neonscribe 12y ago
Micro-benchmarks lead to optimizing at the wrong level. In the real world, if process startup time is a bottleneck in your application then you are creating too many processes too quickly.
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by neonscribe 12y ago
I tried it with a song that is very familiar to me, "Antonio's Song" by Michael Franks, using the top hit in Videos for this Google search. It is in 4/4 time and the beat doesn't vary at all. It has five different a
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by neonscribe 12y ago
Almost every sentence needs work. What you need is a writer who is fluent in English to spend a few hours going over it.
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by neonscribe 12y ago
Nice work. It would be nice if you can find a native English speaker, or at least someone with stronger English skills, to edit (in the literary sense) your prose. You manage to get the point across, but the grammatical errors are distracti
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by neonscribe 12y ago
I've noticed that prepositions seem to change usage over time in different regions. For example, "different to" has become common in British vernacular, even though "different from" is still typical for formal Briti
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by neonscribe 13y ago
So almost one-third of Windows machines are about to be unsupported. That sounds scary, but what percentage of those XP systems are anywhere near current with updates anyway?
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by neonscribe 13y ago
Closely related to Lava Flow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava_flow_(programming)
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by neonscribe 13y ago
Sadly, Dan Weinreb died almost a year ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Weinreb
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by neonscribe 14y ago
Never mind IMAP. My first mail reader was TOPS-20 MM, back in 1979. That combination of command line editing, command completion and context-sensitive help has not been improved upon.
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by neonscribe 14y ago
To be more of a pedant, the Bdim should be a Bm7b5, not a B7b5. Also, The Temptations, not Otis Redding, sang My Girl.

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