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by qubex 4y ago
I don’t want to collaborate with anyone. I don’t want that ‘functionality’ to get in my way. I don’t want to be driven to despair in an attempt to save a document to my local storage rather than to the OneDrive or whatever it’s called by de
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m 41 and I’m utterly baffled by my 24 year-old SO’s interest in binging an apparently infinite litany of TV shows from streaming services. I’ve watched the first six seasons of Game Of Thrones, the first season of Dark, all of The Expanse
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by qubex 4y ago
Turing-Church Thesis disagrees.
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by qubex 4y ago
“Minimum number of constructs you need to have complete control over your hardware” is a bit of a slippery slope when it’s known that one-instruction computers are Turing Complete (“subtract and branch if negative” being one I recall). Ther
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by qubex 4y ago
As opposed to “why am I learning category theory”, which is usually screamed deep in the night before an exam.
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by qubex 4y ago
Just murmurs in the grapevine.
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m really looking forward to what a Star Trek ‘transtator’ turns out to be. And “isolinear circuitry” is going to look awesome when illuminated by LEDs in gamer rigs.
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by qubex 4y ago
The coverage is full of holes.
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m guessing he’s referring to Craig Federighi.
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by qubex 4y ago
As a teenager I avidly read some Microsoft book on the impending Windows 95 release (I didn’t have the “Chicago Betas”. I remember reading that book cover to cover. I remember that it depicted checkboxes are rhomboid-shaped, which didn’t ac
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by qubex 4y ago
Thanks for the TL;DR.
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by qubex 4y ago
> Eternal September Now there’s a term I haven’t heard in aeons…
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by qubex 4y ago
The Computational Beauty of Nature (1998) by William Gary Flake
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by qubex 4y ago
You’re probably right. As an industry IT seems to reinvent the wheel on a cyclical basis, and every time it seems we get a lower-resolution polygon (combined with a drop in performance due to the ever-growing number of abstractions).
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by qubex 4y ago
It’s got to the point where if I find myself in cordial debate with so,embody whose thesis I disagree with (in 280 character chunks at the time) I thank them for the debate. And that’s the thing: if you go into a conversation only to ‘right
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by qubex 4y ago
I’ll go further and say that criticism is _none_ of those things and that conflating is tantamount to scaremongering with a straw man. An academic must be prepared to defend his research. An academic must be willing to change their mind whe
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by qubex 4y ago
A person in a position of power over her perceives their options as being a dichotomy between ensuring she can continue to produce output or terminating her contract. This is the crux of the matter that I am not misunderstanding. My “inappr
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by qubex 4y ago
I agree… focussing on her output when she’s enduring a war situation is just heartless. Consider it sick leave. She’s incapacitated by circumstance, behave accordingly.
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by qubex 4y ago
Try to convince her to move. Cancel her workload and deadlines and tell her you’ll keep paying her regardless of her output. That’s the compassionate thing to do. Anything else is tantamount to trying to squeeze blood out of a stone.
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by qubex 4y ago
“Taking advantage of forrest fires” is not a long-term strategy for survival unless you also evolve a penchant for arson, and then you’d run out of forests pretty quickly once your local population rises even slightly.
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by qubex 4y ago
Nitpick about “sending messages to employees”: he’s no longer CEO and therefore ‘employees’ are not beholden to execute his commands. Depending on the jurisdiction, this is somewhere between “freedom of expression” and “witness tampering”,
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by qubex 4y ago
Since UV can be pretty hazardous I’d like to add this video (courtesy of the inimitable Big Clive) for your consideration: https://youtu.be/2T39BHvrHZ0 (“How to use a UVC germicidal lamp safely”)
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by qubex 4y ago
I’ve ben actively avoiding Adobe for about a decade now. Affinity is great. Adobe needs to learn to respect its users and not take them for granted while feeding them crap.
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by qubex 4y ago
I distinctly remember a precursor of some sort being available on NeXTStep 3.0 in ‘95 or thereabouts.
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by qubex 4y ago
Don’t forget that the whole macOS GUI is based on PDF.
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by qubex 4y ago
I remember using the POSIX and OS/2 ‘personalities’ back in Windows 2000 (or maybe NT 4.0 Sp6a, I forget, it was so many years ago).
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by qubex 4y ago
One of my favourite dystopia films.
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by qubex 4y ago
Paywalled.
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by qubex 4y ago
As remarked by others this is likely so they can kill it off in the near future (in a couple of years) if it is an unmitigated disaster. It’s highly unlikely they’ll make it into a subscription service because the optics could be so bad (“m
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by qubex 4y ago
Humans’ ‘concerns’ about lack of attire is truly baffling.

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