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by qohen 3y ago
Originating in the United States, Vincent Price demonstrated preparation of fish in 1975 when appearing at The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Price presented the dish as "a dish any fool can prepare". Here's a clip[0] of
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by qohen 4y ago
There is an Expanse board game[0] that might interest you (it's been described as being like the cold-war themed classic, Twilight Struggle, but for up to 4 (TS only plays 2): The Expanse, a board game based on the Syfy television ser
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by qohen 4y ago
A comment to the posted-article, from "Frellus", who identifies as ex-Goldman, suggests RabbitMQ might not have been used so extensively: Ex-Goldman person here. To the best of my knowledge, RabbitMQ was used in spots but not whe
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by qohen 4y ago
To save others the Googling: GED == Global Equity Derivatives.
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by qohen 4y ago
If you want more, from someone else who was there, check out Joe Armstrong's "History of Erlang" paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1238844.1238850 -- canonical link and has a video of t
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by qohen 4y ago
Given your love for Lisp, and your knowledge of Erlang, perhaps Robert Virding's Lisp Flavored Erlang (LFE) might be of interest? http://lfe.io -- among other things, the site has tutorials and some edits of Lisp books (e.g
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by qohen 4y ago
I think WhatsApp was Elixir Erlang, actually; and they're still using it -- here's a paper-abstract[0] from Sept.2022 (and video of a talk[1]) about their open-source "EqWAlizer" tool[2] for statically-typing Erlang (a
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by qohen 4y ago
>> Creating a language with the feel of a lisp, the environment of Smalltalk, and the concurrency of Erlang has been my dream for a long time. Have you looked at LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang), by one of Erlang's co-creators, Robert
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by qohen 4y ago
For reference, I believe this is the link to the particular comment in question (and, yes, it's worth clicking through to read it): https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/10ft5iv/amazon_...
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by qohen 4y ago
Still don't know what the fuck it means in regards to diet. Probably this: https://twitter.com/lindydiet/status/1297211546934939651?lan... The wikipedia page shows a bunch of equations. That's about
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by qohen 4y ago
Guessing it's actually this: https://twitter.com/lindydiet/status/1297211546934939651?lan...
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by qohen 4y ago
In line with this, the owner of a book store in the Boston area told me that older folks lean towards digital books and younger folks prefer physical books. This seemed a bit counter-intuitive, given that one might have expected older peopl
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P.S. I actually just called them up to find out what happened -- I was told that a part needed to be replaced which wasn't available any more. Given that they are across the street from Harvard (though not a part of it) and down the st
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by qohen 4y ago
FYI, Harvard Book Store, in Cambridge, MA (not affiliated with the university), had a machine they called "Paige M. Gutenborg" towards the back for doing this, which I was going to suggest checking out if ever in the area -- it wa
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by qohen 4y ago
Anecdote: B&N was by far the best place to buy x-mas gifts this year It was also by far the best place to buy board games this year, since they had a 50% off sale Dec. 26 and 27 on all their games and many of their stores have a fai
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by qohen 4y ago
And, via the magic of YouTube, you can see it all here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsmwVWELBBc
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by qohen 4y ago
There were social reasons and developments in psychopharmacology as well -- this Wikipedia page [0] on deinstitutionalization in the US might be worth a quick read or skim. There's also a WP page on the history of deinstitutionalizatio
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by qohen 4y ago
BTW, since I just stumbled across this, there's a page showing the sets and a reconstructed floor-plan for Rick's Café Américain, if anyone's interested: http://www.paper-dragon.com/fistsand45s/ricks-cafe
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by qohen 4y ago
oceanfront property in Arizona Casablanca, it turns out, has a relevant quote for this too[0]: Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca? Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters. Captain Renault:
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by qohen 4y ago
The line above was a movie-quote, I believe Cassablanca? Where the inspector/regulator comes out of the Casino saying that he's shocked to hear of gambling in the facility, flanked by two call girls. Quick FYI: there are no call
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by qohen 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_Mantel
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by qohen 4y ago
There's a monthly "Who Wants to Be Hired?" thread here on HN, e.g.for Sept. 2022[0], that gets posted at the beginning of the month. Perhaps she should post on those threads? [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by qohen 4y ago
The "Time flies..." quote is commonly ascribed to Groucho Marx. But, according to QuoteInvestigator.com[0], that is not correct: QI has traced the core of the quotation to the work of an early researcher in artificial intelligenc
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by qohen 4y ago
Manufactured electrical outages were used to remove Gray Davis from office. i.e. manufactured by energy-traders, primarily at Enron[0], as described on the Wikipedia page about this California electricity crisis[1]). [0] https:/&#x2
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by qohen 4y ago
Anyone every play the educational mode in Assassins Creed Origins? The sequels have this too. (And, if you want to see what this stuff is like, there are YouTube videos that will show you; I remember seeing one by some historians reviewin
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by qohen 4y ago
<tangent> TIL that Gary Oldman improvised his delivery of that line -- in this short clip[0], he says he was fooling around, doing it that way as a joke, and the director kept it: [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ
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by qohen 4y ago
Yes, from Robert Virding, one of Erlang's co-creators, from the Erlang mailing-list, from 2008 [0]: After reading the blogs about how good Erlang's concurrency model is and how we just just made a super implementation of it in XX
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by qohen 4y ago
If one is interested in Lisp macros, btw, a good (and quite readable) book that covers the subject is On Lisp [0], by Paul Graham. You can download it as a PDF from the author's site[1]. P.S. If you're looking for Lisp enlighten
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by qohen 4y ago
Was anyone else expecting a lawn-mower-based version of the Floppotron[0]? (E.g. here's the Star Wars theme[1] played by the Floppotron, from the inventor's YouTube channel[2]). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by qohen 4y ago
Among other things in that earlier thread, there's some discussion of aspects of ZomboDB with its developer. ZomboDB is a Postgres extension that enables efficient full-text searching via the use of indexes backed by Elasticsearch. (

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