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by qubex 6y ago
> there was a period of time when I thought PDF’s days were numbered And indeed you are correct! A time shall arise, sooner or later in the future, a moment when the last PDF file is created, as well as a moment when a PDF is consulted
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by qubex 6y ago
• Because one was proprietary, the other was not. • Because one was top heavy, the other was not. • Because one was a document format shared between an application that creates ne one that displays, the other was a whole server/protoco
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by qubex 6y ago
pdftotext -layout
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by qubex 6y ago
Very pretty... but just about everything I wanted to try out (Control Panel to switch to the Classic interface, the Run command, Command Prompt) just gave generic “program not found” errors, which I understand, but which makes this little m
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by qubex 6y ago
More a decade ago I was involved in High Frequency Trading (HFT) and we did this on a regular basis.
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by qubex 6y ago
My grandmother (92) still uses an identical rotary phone here in Italy, in late 2020. It works, she’s comfortable with it. To be pedantic, however, it isn’t made of Bakelite... it’s not that brittle. It’s some other kind of (archaic, by now
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by qubex 6y ago
I hate the recent “Cancel Culture” thing (that the phenomenon you descrive is an instance of). Firstly, and beside the point, the term itself is wonderfully (though I suspect accidentally) ambiguous and self-defeating, as one can read it as
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by qubex 6y ago
Core affinity and NUMA will do that for you, if I’m not mistaken.
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by qubex 6y ago
I don’t really understand the reference (by concept, at least) to LPAR (Logical PARtitonining) and hypervisor capability. This would be a consumer machine and there’s not really much utility (that I can think of) in having many fragmented O
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by qubex 6y ago
Allow me to introduce you the most persecuted and deplatformed community in the whole social network world: nudists.
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by qubex 6y ago
> Yeah if you get realistic about it, courts in the USA simply see things in the way of the party with the most money all the time. This might or might not be true, but even if it’s true it’s not (necessarily) a sign of bias or corrupt
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by qubex 6y ago
> Performance is so high now that I wouldn’t bother doing this for an extra 5-10% I’m an economist and I’m fascinated by this statement. Surely if something (‘performance’, in this case) is ‘high’ then getting a 5-10% proportion of it
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by qubex 6y ago
24 minutes later from EU I downloaded the update and I’m locked out from Restore with a “Purchase Not Found” error.
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by qubex 6y ago
Variabilising all a company’s costs is every CFO’s dream: it makes all projections perfectly linear and totally eliminates any risk as zero revenue doesn’t create a loss because all costs also go to zero. At least, in the start-up phase of
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by qubex 6y ago
Maybe it doesn’t need ‘updating’, because British English isn’t a deprecated anachronism that needs to be patched and brought up to date, thank you very much.
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m guessing here, but if one were to write that one is unaware of which transgression against the hallowed TOS one has committed it’s possible that a dialogue may ensue... though considering everything I’ve read so far in this thread and o
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by qubex 6y ago
When in armchair-physicist speculation mode I’d always assumed that at some essentially limit density the speed of sound would tend towards that of the speed of light, and sort of conflate the two. The idea that the limit of the speed of
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by qubex 6y ago
Slightly off-topic, but at the foot of the document a reference is provided to Keegan’s To Dissect A Mockingbird , another effort to provide a graphical notation for the lambda calculus. Anyway, to cut a long story short: his notation for
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by qubex 6y ago
He’s a truly wonderful person. ;)
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by qubex 6y ago
I loved Seveneves but I disagree that it provides an indication of how one would face this kind of emergency. For sure one would not venture into space if one fears an onslaught of harsh gamma-ray radiation. It’s an entirely different kin
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by qubex 6y ago
I presume that if the astronomers did spot an imminent supernova that threatens to extinguish life on earth, we’d collectively respond by lowering interest rates to stimulate the economy...
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by qubex 6y ago
The oscillation above and below is probably what actually causes the angle to be roughly 60 degrees.
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by qubex 6y ago
I was about to write ‘yes’, but on closer reflection it’s a genuine ambiguity. The Oort Cloud (as I understand it) is roughly shaped like a bubble that then gives way to the ecliptically-aligned Kuiper Belt. If the article had mentioned tid
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by qubex 6y ago
I have several last-generation iPod Shuffles. Depending on the colour, I’ve loaded them up with various songs that match my mood (Red for Romantic, Blue for Sad, Black for Darkwave, Gold for Retro eighties/nineties, & cetera ) and
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by qubex 6y ago
That “complicate everything” attitude involving several extra items of hardware (Apple Watch, AirPods, and of course an iPhone to configure the watch) and at least a couple services (phone provider, Apple Music or Spotify) is frankly distre
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by qubex 6y ago
Iceland developed a aluminium-smelting industry to make use of the country’s plentiful (cheap) geothermal energy supply.
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by qubex 6y ago
You can’t prove that your neighbor is conscious. It’s the old “zombies hypothesis” from Philosophy Of Consciousness 101.
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m personally fascinated by Julian Jaynes’ The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind that posits that humans had an innate ability to reason linguistically but that it was disjointed from their everyday living ex
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by qubex 6y ago
The millenary histories of the Egyptian and Chinese empires disagree. Yes, dynasties came and went, but those polities endured for thousands of years—indeed one could argue that the ongoing governance of China by the Communist Party is just
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by qubex 6y ago
> Nobody 100 years ago had the slightest clue that the industrialization at the time could cause global warming, for example. This is incorrect. The first measurements and effects were calculated at the end of the 19th Century (quoted

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