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by qubex 3y ago
How are cars that one has to pay for ‘free’?
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by qubex 3y ago
> Every industry seems to have gone through a similar cycle where the free has been a threat to the commercial products. This is hilariously out of touch. Software is one of the very few industries where marginal costs of production ar
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by qubex 3y ago
I did something similar for my (then) favourite game Pentago , with similar results: I drained all the fun from it.
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by qubex 3y ago
Any particular reason why knowing how useful it would be you’ve not implemented some kind of Newtonian iterator to solve circular references numerically?
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by qubex 3y ago
I agree, I use it intensively and extensively. I really wish it had circular solving functionality, as that is crucial for financial planning (in order to estimate debt on the balance sheet and interest payable on the profit and loss accoun
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by qubex 3y ago
What I really want is a spreadsheet that separates formulas from data as Lotus Improv did, has a native understanding of tables as Apple Numbers has, and solves circular references as Microsoft Excel does.
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by qubex 3y ago
About a decade ago I wouldn’ve jumped at the opportunity of paying for an ad-less Facebook. Now that it’s deserted by actual posts by people I know and care about and has become a desolate expanse of ‘pages’ and manufactured content, the on
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by qubex 3y ago
As a Bristolian native living abroad I’m absolutely fascinated and would really like to set up something analogous.
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by qubex 3y ago
Being born in 1981 and having used wintel machines until 2003 when I ‘switched’ to Apple Mac, it’s fascinating to watch the x86 architecture (finally) be challenged and the postfix of the portmanteau be called into question. I remember ogli
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by qubex 3y ago
I deplore cheese. It’s a personal thing but I just cannot fathom people eat rotten solidified milk. Same applies to yogurt. I’ll happily eat seaweed and insects though.
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by qubex 3y ago
That has parallels with Escher’s ‘paradoxical’ image of two hands recursively drawing each-other: it’s not paradoxical once you realise a third hand drew them sequentially in order for them to appear paradoxical.
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by qubex 3y ago
The idea may be compelling, but the math doesn’t add up: https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.01589
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by qubex 3y ago
PowerPC can switch endianess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC?wprov=sfti1#Endian_mod...
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by qubex 3y ago
Windows 2000 is some kind of apex in the Windows OS abstract space. I remember being in the beta programme back in the second half of 1999 and being amazed at how solid it was even then. (I was a home user but I’d been bitten by the BeOS bu
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by qubex 3y ago
MIPS, which at about that time was derided as “Meaningless Integer Performance Statistic” by those who moved in the supercomputing (now ‘HPC’) circles.
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by qubex 3y ago
You mean Replicants, I’m sure.
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by qubex 3y ago
I say we use the hallowed Navigational Deflector to emit a tachyon pulse.
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by qubex 3y ago
I remember losing the manual for Star Trek 25th Anniversary (Interplay, 1992) and that was a disaster. I eventually got a photocopy from a friend.
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by qubex 3y ago
Greetings fellow human born in 1981. I skipped the straight-to-BASIC machines (my first PC was an Amstrad 1512) and I didn’t sign up for the Windows 95 (‘Chicago’) beta but I remember queuing for it when it was released on 24th August 1995.
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by qubex 3y ago
Yeah… I’m a trekker… but stuff like this really riles me up… ‘neutronic’ radiation sounds a lot like neutron radiation, and neutrons are massive and cannot travel at the speed of light far less exceed it.
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by qubex 3y ago
Well yes and no… though there’s a deliberate faster-than-light mode of travel, we see no evidence of natural disaster phenomena propagating faster than the speed of light (obviously), so… let’s say that this places the absurdity of the noti
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by qubex 3y ago
Evidently the various calendar systems have been ‘harmonised’ in such a manner that (I presume) according to our calendar it would’ve been on the 1st May 1006, which I take literally to mean something along the lines of “May 1st 2023 was th
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by qubex 3y ago
This is part of why I laugh like crazy whenever in Star Trek something is presented as being an instantaneous existential threat to the whole galaxy.
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by qubex 3y ago
I’m quite stunned by the virulence of the responses and how strong the (false) dichotomy between ‘communism’ and ‘capitalism’ is.
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by qubex 3y ago
It’s not an observation about communism-vs-capitalism (or at least that’s not how I understand it): it’s about how we’re collectively as a society so fixated upon the inevitability of property rights and capitalism and return on investment
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by qubex 3y ago
And just on cue there it is: “It is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of Capitalism”, variously attributed to Frederic Jameson and Mark Fisher (amongst others).
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by qubex 3y ago
That’s voxels/second, surely?
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by qubex 3y ago
Not to mention the rise of the dreaded Subscription Model. That has to be the most miserable scam ever inflicted upon software users. I’m sure a lot of developers here will disagree and quote needing a constant stream of revenue, but the sa
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by qubex 3y ago
I’m sure there’s a vocabulary in terms of local domains and being affected beyond the constraints of the light-cone as expressed on space time absent the wormhole so the absolute definition you offer can probably be tempered.
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by qubex 3y ago
Insofar as they create a shorter path for information to flow along, they are nonlocal.

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