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by qubex 4y ago
Absolutely yes. I suspect a poll would be overwhelming.
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by qubex 4y ago
You’re the one that bought the MBP M2? ;) EDIT: figured out a suitable non-gendered pronoun.
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by qubex 4y ago
I have an executive roll and I used an iPad almost exclusively from probably 2013 until about six months ago. It’s eminently doable.
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by qubex 4y ago
It just occurred that I was chatting to a friend on Facebook Messenger and wanted to share some old Medium posts of mine, and it turns out just copy and pasting the URL didn’t work… needed to share, copy, bla bla… quite irksome. Not a walle
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by qubex 4y ago
https://www.aldaily.com
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by qubex 4y ago
I always try to explain it thusly: “up there” is “bigger” than “down here” because the radius is greater and there’s three-dimensional separation, and nobody “down here” is worried a few hundred thousand or even several hundred million buss
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by qubex 4y ago
If you enjoyed Shiffman’s “The Nature of Code”, then I highly recommend Flake’s “The Computational Beauty of Nature”, one of my all-time favourite books.
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by qubex 4y ago
I often find myself wondering what latter-day “common sense” will be viewed uncharitably as jingoism in a few years hence.
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by qubex 4y ago
Likewise, between 1996 and 1999 I used BeOS as my main driver and I felt like a smug time-traveller from the future walking amongst the rubes. “One Processor Per Person Is Not Enough”: how prescient they were! I knew they were right from th
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by qubex 4y ago
I have extremely fond memories of using BeOS as a main driver OS back in the late nineties (‘96-‘98/‘99). First I had a BeBox (dual 603e-133MHz) and later a dual PIII-300MHz. The former was definitely my favourite hardware platform (‘e
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by qubex 4y ago
“Anything you can do I can do meta.” - Charles Simonyi
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by qubex 4y ago
Back when I dealt with AIX (1997-2001) it was common to deride it on usenet as “UNIX by and for drunk aliens” but I myself enjoyed its very regular naming conventions and extremely low footprint whilst under intensive memory load, which was
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by qubex 4y ago
There are no stupid questions? I’ve seen a grown man ask a pregnant teenager whether she was the mother.
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m 41 and Ieft school at the age of 18 in 1999. I don’t dream about it, ever (but then again, I remember almost none of my dreams), but I do think of it and my classmates all the time.
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by qubex 4y ago
The Computational Beauty of Nature , Gary William Flake (1997) Why Stock Markets Crash , Didier Sornette (2003)
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by qubex 4y ago
I’ve often hoped that Apple would adapt the iMessages app to accept ‘plugins’ that would implement the various protocols (WhatsApp, Messenger, Telegram, Signal, & cetera) so that all messaging were located in a single location à la Blac
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by qubex 4y ago
That’s a totally alien idea to me. I grew up in a very nudity-friendly family in Europe and the idea that something as trivial as a naked photograph could occasion such a quasi-disaster is absolutely horrifying.
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by qubex 4y ago
The 12” MacBook (2015) was the last Apple laptop I bought before the current MacBook Air M2. I opted for a BTO with the i7 processor but it was still stultifying and slow, a constant exercise in frustration. Eventually the motherboard died
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by qubex 4y ago
The sky hasn’t fallen?? Have you read https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveil... ?
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by qubex 4y ago
Because lobbyists receive a healthy sum to achieve and defend their benefactors’ ability to influence societal development by indulging in subsidised philanthropy they can focus on issues and aspects they desire (rather than going through t
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by qubex 4y ago
I’m italian and I think this is extremely rude.
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by qubex 4y ago
I never mentioned money, where on earth did you get that from?? I’m saying the most efficient queue is a stack. End of story.
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by qubex 4y ago
It’s highly likely I’ll decide not to continue my Prime subscription. I buy very little and there’s not much value in Prime Video for me at the moment. Incidentally I’m keen to “send a signal” since it seems to me that Amazon is taking our
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by qubex 4y ago
Economics actually teaches that the most efficient queuing system involves people joining at the front , because that way they endure the wait in proportion with their internal system of preferences. Societal sense of propriety literally l
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by qubex 4y ago
Kid’s name was John Connor?
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by qubex 4y ago
Thanks (no sarcasm) but I know how it works. My point was that in Excel this is an afterthought, whereas in Numbers it’s a consequence of how the application is devised from first principles.
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by qubex 4y ago
I personally adore Pages and especially Numbers . I spend most of my professional life designing and dealing with spreadsheets and Numbers’ table-based paradigm is simply orders of magnitude more elegant that Excel’s everything-is-a-shee
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by qubex 4y ago
Yes. Oops.
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by qubex 4y ago
It’s a matter of scope. Axioms are assumptions that undergird the formal edifice (those or mathematics or arithmetic) whereas assumptions are local to the theory. ‘Assumptions’ is a synonym of ‘postulates’. Axioms are foundational, such as
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by qubex 4y ago
Hilarious you’ve visited them in Zhongshan… I had no idea that was were they were based. I worked in Zhongshan between 2003 and 2006.

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