rudolfwinestock

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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Location: Vero Beach, FL Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: HTML5+CSS3+ECMAScript6, AngularJS, React Resume/CV: On Request Email: rudolf@winestockwebdesign.com
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Reminder: Any CIA or MI6 agent who lasted more than a week in the Soviet Union had diplomatic cover. The NKVD and KGB caught all of our deep cover agents within days; in some cases within hours. The United States excels at sigint and aeria
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This reminds me of a story of how Logo was implemented on 8-bit microcomputers. Leigh Klotz was the man who ported MIT Logo to the Apple ][ and then the Commodore 64. According to him “The Commodore 64 CPU 6510 has a bidirectional parallel
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
How can an essay like this not mention David Foster Wallace? So many of the sentences in Infinite Jest were absolute doozies.
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Although it's attributed to him, William of Ockham did not come up with Occam's Razor. My metaphysics teacher showed me a line in the Summa Contra Gentiles where St. Thomas Aquinas enunciated the same idea behind the Razor almos
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DragonFly BSD, version 5.4, has been released(dragonflybsd.org)
50 points by rudolfwinestock 8y ago|6 comments
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Here's the entry for 14 March 1978: > Came in evening after sleeping most of day, to get computer at better time. > Some day we will have personal computers and will live more normally.
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Keep in mind that Aristotelian logic did not stop with Aristotle. It kept developing through the Middle Ages and even into today. Now, it's called term logic. Fred Sommers made tremendous advances in expanding syllogistic logic into
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
“Any file is a database if you awk hard enough.” —Bryan Horstmann-Allen https://twitter.com/neilkod/status/914217352564137984 Furthermore, no thread on CSV files can be complete without mentioning this infamous b
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Honestly, nothing much will happen. Self-plug, ahead. http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Alien_Life.html Long story, short: It would have to be sentient life in order to get any long-lasting attention. In the recen
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Everyone knows what Microsoft did to the PC market in the 1980s. Everyone knows what the Unix Arts & Crafts movement wants to do to computers today. Open up the bootloader and computers become commodities (modulo some special cases).
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When people complain about being deplatformed, they're just saying "the platforms that accept me aren't popular enough". What happens when you or those who share your opinions don't get accepted by the popular p
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10222934
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That reminds me of a story which I read in Ray Bradbury's collection, _The Illustrated Man_. The captain of a rocketship (that's the word used) is obsessed with finding a supposed miracle-worker. They land on a planet where the l
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
No, it's not. It's Communism. Granted, the difference isn't much in terms of human rights. I don't have the reference handy, but I remember reading about a priest who had the dubious distinction of having survived both
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Here's my site: http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/ It used to be in AngularJS, now it's vanilla HTML & CSS. Mostly typography with just a little bit of animation.
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
There's an extension for Org Mode for Visual Studio Code. https://github.com/ajtoo/vscode-org-mode https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tootone.... There's also an Android app
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
Note that the author of the linked page is Fabrice Bellard. He created a PC emulator in JavaScript. https://bellard.org/jslinux/ He's also made several other impressive hacks: https://bellard.org/
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
The Manhattan Project resulted in a product. That product changed geopolitics. The discovery of alien life wouldn't produce a product and would not change geopolitics (unless those flying saucers really do exist and are nearby). Nobo
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by rudolfwinestock 8y ago
I'm not impressed. Alien life is over-hyped. I wrote a few words on the topic and these findings do not make me change my mind. Fair warning: this is a self-plug. http://winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Alien_Life.h
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Monte Carlo has been called "integration by darts." This is a play on words of the better-known "integration by parts" method of undergraduate calculus.
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From ten years ago: https://www.computerworld.com.au/article/207799/don_t_use_em...
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The cursor stays in the viewport because, deep down, Emacs still thinks that it's outputting to a 1970s-era ASCII terminal. See this https://www.facebook.com/notes/daniel-colascione/buttery-smo... “Internally
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Alien Life is Over-Hyped(winestockwebdesign.com)
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I've noticed that people only speak well of COBOL when Grace Murray Hopper's name occurs nearby. I suspect that this says something about COBOL.
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by rudolfwinestock 9y ago
Burger Time for the Apple ][ was apparently a pile of copy-protection triggers with a mediocre video game attached to it. https://ia801505.us.archive.org/33/items/BurgerTime4amCrack/... https://www
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by rudolfwinestock 9y ago
This reminds me of SID, the custom sound chip on the Commodore 64. It was a hybrid digital/analog chip, so the sound which it produced wasn't consistent between chips due to thermal entropy effects. El33t h4x0rz took advantage o
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by rudolfwinestock 9y ago
Location: Treasure Coast in Florida (Vero Beach) Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: Yes Technologies: React, Bootstrap, AngularJS, vanilla JavaScript, jQuery Résumé/CV: email if needed Email: rudolf at <host name given in previous lin