rdimartino

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by rdimartino 4mo ago
I wonder if that was supposed to be the Goldberg Variations (currently listed as unranked in 2001). That’s what Wikipedia has, but I don’t see a good source for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_100_Original_(AB
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by rdimartino 4mo ago
What happened in 2001 that Marriage of Figaro was listed twice? This was really neat to explore! Thanks!
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by rdimartino 1y ago
I'd love to learn more about what `CALL "socket"` is doing. CALL is for running subprograms, but it's not clear to me where "socket" is? I've thought about a COBOL webserver before, but didn't get bey
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by rdimartino 1y ago
I liked this too, but interesting that the Makefile uses the `-free` flag for cobc
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by rdimartino 2y ago
I hadn't heard of rope data structures until I read about the xi editor (also written in Rust) a few years ago, but it looks like that's been discontinued. https://github.com/xi-editor/xi-editor
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by rdimartino 2y ago
This is great. I’ve been using multi-account containers for years and have loved the isolation. But I wonder how Total Cookie Protection works with different auth flows, like logging in to Trello using an Atlassian domain. Maybe it’s unaffe
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by rdimartino 5y ago
Yes, I stumbled upon some of these same community discussions happening on Twitter and Tumblr. It was really interesting to read about the in-fighting about traumagenic vs endogenic DID. This discussion of real or imitated Tourette’s remind
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by rdimartino 6y ago
I'm not sure your statements about prison time are accurate, at least in the US. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, 46.2% of inmates are in for drug offenses[1] and there is definitely disagreement about whether that should be
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by rdimartino 6y ago
Another fun one is the slippery devil's staircase, Minkowski's question-mark function. It's strictly increasing but the derivative is 0 at rational numbers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%27s_que
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by rdimartino 6y ago
It sounds like this https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/simulations