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811.
by rusk 6y ago
I think you might be looking for this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_network I believe it was Collins and Quinlan did the seminal work on the conceptual side, but what's interesting is it seems to emerge a
812.
by rusk 6y ago
Apologies that’s a new one on me I guess it hasn’t made it to my neck of the woods yet! I don’t think the similar effort around meats has gone so well ... EDIT still ongoing and not yet legislated you can still buy “vegan cheese” for now h
813.
by rusk 6y ago
Em nope? There was a case brought by the farmers to try and outlaw this labelling but the case is still ongoing, if not thrown out already ... Maybe it’s the case in Your Country but it’s far from being a pan European thing.
814.
by rusk 6y ago
Another well known consultancy took the Irish government for well over €200m for a payroll system they never delivered. [0] and they never had to apologise even once. [0] is http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=8661
815.
Real Commodore 64 – Virtually(sidequestvr.com)
2 points by rusk 6y ago|0 comments
816.
by rusk 6y ago
Maybe it will colonise you!
817.
by rusk 6y ago
Java because GC lures people into a false sense of security. You can still leak memory by failing to release references here and there and in a heavily used system this can rack up quite considerably over a 24 hour period and it's ofte
818.
by rusk 6y ago
Interesting parallel to the “nightly reboot”, the Java community’s dirty little secret ... memory management is hard.
819.
by rusk 6y ago
I’m almost certain the default encoding for reading/writing files in Java is UTF-8 and similarly for the source files. I don’t think I encounter wide char data much really at all day to day ...
820.
by rusk 6y ago
Nope. If you read an ASCII file with control characters in Java you’ll get an exception. Also it won’t work with the 8-bit ASCII variants. Neither are “true Scotsmen” of course, but the point still stands that HTML could yet be more durable
821.
by rusk 6y ago
UTF-8 is backwards compatible with ASCII “as she is spake” but not strictly speaking ASCII as any ASCII control characters will break UTF-8. It also breaks any 8-but extensions/code pages. ASCII vs HTML is a bad example though because
822.
by rusk 6y ago
Well cells are getting smaller all the time and currently there is enough capacity available in an optimally configured network to provide all the services one could possibly need. Of course you’ve got physical cable tying it all together b
823.
by rusk 6y ago
Maybe that’s the case in theory but in practice I have never had a fast booting android device and some of them have been pretty good. Pretty much any other OS is fine. I guess in a virtualised environment you don’t have the same challenges
824.
by rusk 6y ago
I think you’re imagining some centralised MMDS type architecture but with cellular architecture this is a reality in many places. Even in modern settings if you have WiFi you need never even be aware that there is a wire there feeding it.
825.
by rusk 6y ago
Android in my experience takes aaaaages. By far the biggest boot slouch in modern times.
826.
by rusk 6y ago
I think under market conditions you would be continuously tweaking the model, and manufacturing processes, based on feedback eg wrt robustness, comfort etc and also taking into account changing usage parameters/expectations, changes in
827.
by rusk 6y ago
Or just right thinking rather than self serving . Every man for himself is a political position - not the inevitable reality some would have you believe.
828.
by rusk 6y ago
Can you name any that do?
829.
by rusk 6y ago
Big Fake Yoga?!??
830.
by rusk 6y ago
The real world item that the token refers to is by definition “a token off the blockchain”.
831.
by rusk 6y ago
No but the point is, when you’re talking about physical artefacts you can in theory issue as many tokens as you like ... it’s still down to a central authority to certify.
832.
by rusk 6y ago
My point isn’t that the token itself is globally verifiable but that the asset it refers to actually is ...
833.
by rusk 6y ago
Here’s the thing - if it relies on a central authority to say “this is the genuine article” why do you even need a blockchain? A PGP certificate or X.509 is arguably “a cryptographic representation of something unique” EDIT even something
834.
by rusk 6y ago
It’s there somewhere. You can “drop to dos” again - but I guess what you mean is Windows has its own kernel and doesn’t rely on DOS for anything beyond booting. Fun thing I discovered once is that after you shut down, the screen that says “
835.
by rusk 6y ago
I don’t think this is quite right ... it was a fully fledged DOS (aka DOS 7) that ran first, described in your linked article as the “bootloader” what you are thinking of is the dos box that is described later, and maybe there is some confu
836.
by rusk 6y ago
I don’t mean the value of the asset itself but the basis upon which that value is vested.
837.
by rusk 6y ago
Isn’t this about bolstering the network around whatever crypto n/w is serving this? The idea is to bootstrap a digital artefacts market I guess and one a lot of people start trading them the value on the network overall goes up and som
838.
by rusk 6y ago
Ah hence the asterisk- I keep looking for a footnote!
839.
by rusk 6y ago
Interesting analogy vs car transmission. I always find auto frustrating because it doesn’t give me the love of control I’m comfortable with ...
840.
by rusk 6y ago
> it doesn't feel like You’d think ha. Economists have a term for this “deadweight loss”. MVNO are probably the best place for this kind of dynamism but they are always limited by the tools that the tier 1 carriers give them. There

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