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by qubex 6y ago
I don’t know if it’s still “a thing” or whether showing my years here, but wouldn’t you be better served by setting up a RADIUS-based authentication system? I used to have one at home (2011-2016), using nothing but a Mac Mini Server (which
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by qubex 6y ago
Assuming (as one conversant with how financial institutions of this size’s IT departments work) this is most likely a system for running contract valuations; a five second lag between when the valuation is requested (process launched) and w
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by qubex 6y ago
> These scientific words, like hydrogen, oxygen, and many others, are very important since they filled lexical gaps that English had. English is known for its robbery from the lexicons of other languages, but this is not a bad thing. Lo
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by qubex 6y ago
I imagine that originally the tone-based warnings and alerts were easier to implement. As for the situation regarding cars, it’s probably due to the fact that these beepers etc are already approved, and verbal messages would require an au
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by qubex 6y ago
Your 21st birthday is the day Earth is back in the angular position it was in when the event originally occurred for the twentieth time.
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by qubex 6y ago
It’s just shorthand for stuff that we cannot detect but ordinary (electromagnetic) means. In theory everything ‘feels’ gravity and anything with mass contributes to it. The left-handed neutrino is unusual in that it experiences only gravity
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by qubex 6y ago
Yeah that’s the limit of the repeated map of the cosine function for any initial value; it can be shown to be equal to x such that cos( x ) – x = 0
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by qubex 6y ago
I suppose that’s the limit value of repeatedly taking the cosine of any value and then the cosine of that iterating up to infinity. Sounds easy enough to check, and easy enough to prove, if the hunch proves right.
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by qubex 6y ago
Kudos for remembering DragonFlyBSD. We’re flattered.
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by qubex 6y ago
360 degrees?! I always assumed it would be pretty cold up there. Goes to show, you learn something new every day...
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by qubex 6y ago
I’ve been thinking of this quite a lot, and I beg everybody’s pardon if I now proceed to veer off topic, but... I’ve been thinking about the landmark announcement by Apple that surprised absolutely nobody by informing its developers and the
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by qubex 6y ago
Isn’t this just an illustration of the Church-Turing Thesis? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
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by qubex 6y ago
Helpful hint: I find it very telling to mentally replace “up to” with “at most”. It’s the exact same inequality but sometimes (though not always) totally changes the emotional tone of a piece. The other thing is it never ceases to highligh
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by qubex 6y ago
I remember first reading about BeOS and the BeBox in some 1994-or-thereabouts edition of WIRED (which featured an interview with Jean-Louis Gassee). I was utterly amazed by the screenshots of the GUI and the thought of a computer with “para
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by qubex 6y ago
I encountered RiscOS a couple of times in the mid-nineties, first on an Archimedes a teacher had brought in (my middle school was populated my Apple Macintosh LCII machines running System 7) and later the RiscPC was an exotic object of desi
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m 39 and I’ve never done it in my life.
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by qubex 6y ago
To be honest, I see a bit of a contradiction here... what we now call ‘computers’ are far more than initially intended (and I’m not referring to the “ ‘computer’ used to be a job description ”): the whole original theory and assumptions of
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by qubex 6y ago
I remember Clifford Pickover describe computer art being beneath the artists because they didn’t like the “plastic guts aesthetic” of early procedural renders.
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by qubex 6y ago
Just a chance to highly recommend a subscription to Lapham’s Quarterly . A few back issues helped considerably with my experience of the lockdown (the first one, in case we have to start numbering them).
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by qubex 6y ago
> seems there’s some interest in 1990s UI revival NeXT and BeOS being the ones that really stick in mind.
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by qubex 6y ago
And a NeXT thing.
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by qubex 6y ago
You’ve just made the core argument of anti-trust legislation, which is far broader in scope than discussion of monopolies and far subtler. At root, monopolies are easy to detect, and it follows fairly uncontroversially from basic economics
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by qubex 6y ago
Regarding USB-C I agree with you entirely and think you entirely missed the point I was trying to make. I am well aware Apple participated in the USB-C connector specification processes and only introduced the Lightening port when it became
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by qubex 6y ago
Personally I’m fascinated to know if (with adequate signing and side-loading) macOS 11 “Big Sur” can be run on a standard iPadPro 11”.
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by qubex 6y ago
The “ARM world” is almost inconceivably varied by x 86 standards. There’s not even an agreed-upon boot procedure (the Raspberrry Pi’s CPU famously gets booted by the GPU). Efforts to standardise this in the server space are only just getti
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by qubex 6y ago
I think the “hackintosh” (as we have intended it since Apple’s transition to Intel in 2006) effectively died yesterday. The idea that “Macs” will be relatively generic x 86-64 machines made by a specific company to run its OS preferentiall
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m very satisfied with a fully maxed-out 2012 Mac Mini (quad i7, 32GB RAM, 2x 1TB SATA SSDs). It’s plenty powerful for my needs (productivity, and occasional use of Mathematica ) and at any rate over the past ten years or so I’ve migrated
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by qubex 6y ago
The name (“Tsunami”) and the description (“network scanner”) reminded me of the architecturally very innovative “ Paketto Keiretsu [1]” from the very early 2000s. Very fond memories. I remember that the speed it achieved compared to (say)
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by qubex 6y ago
That’s why the pronunciation of “an history” is such a contentious issue in British political linguistics to this day. Crucially, as has been observed correctly, the rule is that one should use the appropriate indefinite article. That in tu
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by qubex 6y ago
I’m a Mac user and am not terribly enthusiastic about abandoning x 86_64 (though I have to admit I was one of the die-hands that stuck with PowerPC G5 for as long as humanly possible, so maybe I’m a conservative and a nostalgic). I do, how

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