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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Poul-Henning Kamp's article, A Generation Lost in the Bazaar, explained the absurdity of autoconf & libtool at length. I quote some of it, below. “At the bottom of the food chain, so to speak, is libtool, which tries to hide the f
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Thunderbird. Yes, the e-mail client. Adding a new feed is neither user friendly, nor obvious, but it's nice to not need an extra program to read feeds.
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
The (in)famous hacker & troll, weev, lives in Transnistria, at the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weev#After_prison
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
A Hacker News regular, technomancy (the same guy behind the Atreus keyboard), has contributed a great deal to the Fennel language. https://builds.sr.ht/~technomancy/fennel-lang.org I'd like to see him visit this
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
There aren't enough domestic grad students because word has trickled down that that is a slow road to the poor house. Between age discrimination and collusion to keep programmer salaries down, the message has gone out that only the coo
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
No. Being ordinary matter, these objects occlude light. If there were enough of them to make up for dark matter, or even a large fraction of it, then we wouldn't be able to see much past our galaxy.
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Related: The MGR Window System https://hack.org/mc/mgr/ “MGR provides each client window with: curses-like terminal control functions, graphics primitives such as line and circle drawing; facilities for manipulat
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Location: East Coast of Florida Remote: Yes (preferred) Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: WordPress, React, JavaScript, Bare HTML & CSS Resume/CV: Available On Request Email: rudolf <at> winestockwebdesign
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
Related: The Racket Stories news aggregator focuses on the Racket programming language, including news such as the original post. https://racket-stories.com/
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by rudolfwinestock 6y ago
To save people the effort of clicking the link: it's satire. It's as though The Babylon Bee or The Onion were to focus on tech and startup news.
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
How about the ability to include HTML code that's in another file or link? I'm surprised that such a basic modularity mechanism still isn't in the HTML standard.
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
I thought of the Trident missile, as well. Anyone who's either a member of the Baby Boom or Generation X will bear witness to the Cold War for most of the rest of this century.
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
For a moment, I thought that they were talking about this project: https://kono.store/products/input-club-symbolic-keyboard For those too lazy to click, it's a project to resurrect the Space Cadet Keyboard. It&#x
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
If “hate speech” has a computable signature, then not -“hate speech” also has a computable signature. Therefore, we can expect all kinds of bad actors to take advantage of that. Sooner or later, Internet outrage mobs will form around vulne
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
This uses LuaJIT to extend the Nano text editor. Under “Limitations,” the author states that > The macro system can only effect the open buffer, it can't modify nano's default behaviours. It cannot move the active cursor. >
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
Here's another: https://knowem.com/
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
The best source which I've read that corrects the myths behind the Galileo affair was written by science-fiction author Michael F. Flynn. The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
In this regard, the late Jerry Pournelle had this to say about the Vietnam War. http://www.jerrypournelle.com/chaosmanor/mail-new-technology... I recall in a debate with Allard Lowenstein back in those days, he said “
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
Here's another 64-byte demo by the same hacker. https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78044 I saw it discussed on Lobsters. https://lobste.rs/s/lpnlyd/tiny_64_bytes_ms_dos_ray_tracer
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
That's because, ultimately, mainframes and embedded computers are the only natural computer platforms. I expounded on this at length (yes, this is a self-plug). http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Eternal_Mai
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
This was introduced four years after Commodore went bankrupt. Not even Lisp Machine hackers have the dedication of Amiga hackers.
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
Think on how much cheaper rides are with Uber, Lyft, or any similar service, compared with an ordinary taxi cab. The reason for that is that you're splitting the fare with a venture capitalist. The reason why VCs were willing to do th
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
Wasn't the original point of "neural networks" to imitate biological brains?
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Using Newton/Halley methods to find the zeros of a function on a Commodore 64(paulnotebook.net)
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
The difference is only etymological. Both words mean "right conduct." The word "morals" comes from Latin (mos, moris). The word "ethics" comes from Greek. Since, for a long time, the liturgical language of t
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
I stand corrected.
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by rudolfwinestock 7y ago
Bill Gates & Paul Allen originally founded Microsoft in Albuquerqe, New Mexico, in order to be reasonably close to Los Alamos because they wanted to get military contracts.
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Janie Crane: “An off switch?” Metrocop: “She'll get years for that. Off switches are illegal!” —Max Headroom, season 1, episode 6, “The Blanks” https://www.maxheadroom.com/index.php?title=Episode_ABC.1.6:...
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Did you hear about Vim when it showed up on Fred Fish disks? By the way, I like your user name. How odd that I remember that command.
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
One Usenet signature[0] that I saw during the mid-1990s was "Have you ever taken credit for something that hasn't even been invented yet? You will." [0] Yes, I'm dating myself.

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