purplejacket

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   by purplejacket 6mo ago

   The paper on which the article is based, https://watermark02.silverchair.com/stag328.pdf?token=AQECAH... mentions 3 three alternative interpretations for GRB 250702B: 1. Ultralong Collapsars: These stellar-engine models can
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   by purplejacket 7mo ago

   Sorry, but can someone explain to me why Flash failed? Was it because Apple killed it, or other reasons? Because not open source? Too heavy? I never really got the story, or only got bits and pieces. I know a lot of people liked Flash.
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   by purplejacket 7mo ago

   I had my handyman build one of these in front of our house. Also, I make a hobby of biking around to circulate books between different little free libraries in my extended neighborhood. I've found some amazing books over the years, th
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   by purplejacket 8mo ago

   Magnus is just so tenacious. From a lost position he snatched a victory. Take a look at the five hour mark (plus or minus) for the crucial moments of the key game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6ey5Up4S7w
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   Show HN: Bubble sort on a Turing machine(github.com)

   12 points by purplejacket 8mo ago|2 comments
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   by purplejacket 10mo ago

   Does this mean that now I can watch Bugs Bunny on Netflix?
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   by purplejacket 1y ago

   This paper is delightfully readable.
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   by purplejacket 1y ago

   Maybe Anonymous has some ideas on how to handle this one.
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   by purplejacket 1y ago

   Cops don't become psychopaths rather: Psychopaths become cops.
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    by purplejacket 1y ago

    A read-it-later app. Pocket, you had one job. Just one job. And for a while that was my killer app on mobile. But, as we see, the enshitification of the web continues. "What began as a read-it-later app evolved into something much
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Here's an idea: Compensate any on-call work received during off hours at 10X the normal hourly rate. E.g., if my salary is $150K per year, then my hourly pay rate is about $75 per hour, so compensate my on call work at a rate of $750
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Here's a FEN of the famous position from the Spassky-Fischer world championship match where Fischer weirdly played Bxh2 on move 29 and Spassky went on to win the game: 5k2/pp4pp/4pp2/1P6/8/P2KP3/5PPb/
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    See? This is _exactly_ why Facebook banned Linux.
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Umm ... the site stopped working?
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Ummm ... 2024 - 2007 = 17
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    So this letter ℘ is distinct from another unicode symbol (that I can't copy-paste here?), which we often use for "power set" in math; it's given by U+1D4AB.
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Thanks
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Just do a search for "The Lock Picking Lawyer," you'll have loads of fun seeing what he can do, sometimes with the most minimal of tools (like a thin strip of metal cut from a soda can).
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Hm. Does Apple dare produce something that is actually gritty, ala Bladerunner, a world in which technology is not seen by the author as being sexy the way Apple likes, rather the backdrop to a story that still reflects the human condition
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Lol! Nice one.
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    Double plus agree.
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    by purplejacket 2y ago

    My off leash dog will not bite you, he is well behaved. My dog at home cannot bite you, he is too far away.
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    by purplejacket 3y ago

    Again: Metadata. WhatsApp records a timestamp of every message you send/receive, and who the other party is. Signal only records two pieces of metadata: timestamp of when you signed up, timestamp of the last time you sent a message
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    by purplejacket 3y ago

    Thanks for that link! There's another old story from a collection I read circa 1992 that I'm trying to chase down ;)
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    by purplejacket 3y ago

    I also note that _The Logic Pool_ is also available in a short story collection of Stephen Baxter's called _Vacuum Diagrams_ http://www.vavatch.co.uk/books/baxter/index.htm Quoting from the beginning of the s
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    by purplejacket 3y ago

    YES! That's the one :-) Thanks for identifying it. And it was in that anthology "Nanotech" having editors Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois. I found this interesting article about the story, with links to other similar stories:
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    by purplejacket 3y ago

    I remember in the early 2000s reading a short story collection, a sci-fi book in the nanotech subgenre. One of the stories had something to do with organisms that would search for newer axiom systems in which they could thrive, somehow the
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    by purplejacket 3y ago

    I've always heard it called a "California stop."
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    by purplejacket 3y ago

    Just teleport all the cars into the sun and be done with it. It's the only way to be sure.
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    by purplejacket 3y ago

    Nice :-) I might make the King round though. Set it apart more.