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by russfink 4y ago
From Celsius to Fahrenheit: “take the temp, minus a tenth, times two plus thirty-two!”
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by russfink 4y ago
Few things are easier to miss than a string that breaks your (nontrivial) regex. I’d like to see a mathematical estimate of the number of test strings I should generate given some input regex.
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by russfink 4y ago
Thank you! Arthur C Clarke raised a similar point in Childhood's End. When confronted with some alien silver viewscreen, which everyone thought was some advanced thing, one character asked what if is a simple two way mirror? Point is
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by russfink 4y ago
Some of the games appeared to not have randomness (eg PacMan ghost patterns). Was this an intentional gameplay feature, or did the hardware lack a suitable source of entropy?
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by russfink 4y ago
What I take from your question is, were the other health issues the thing that actually killed the heart? Following from that, how can we declare something not successful when the odds are significantly stacked against it from the start?
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by russfink 4y ago
Fabulous! Thanks!
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by russfink 4y ago
[1] is excellent, thank you! It leads to another question, how did it come to Eisenhower’s attention that this is what was needed? And [2] promises that answer. Before reading that, I was thinking some mechanic, or perhaps a farm hand tur
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by russfink 4y ago
Tongue in cheek: “my great Aunt Ellie saw this on a BBS in 1984, and on GeoCities in 1994, and passed the link down for generations..”
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by russfink 4y ago
My 100++ problem with recipe sites is a useless story about how my great aunt Ellie passed this down to me from her mom,. . . Making me scroll through random stuff until I land on “ingredients.” I favor the simple site. (Ads are okay even,
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by russfink 4y ago
I cannot find any information on what Eisenhower grease is, or how it helped witn the invasion of Sicily. Can anyone comment?
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by russfink 4y ago
Interesting! Do you store your own recipes, or does this scrape recipies from other sites? I like the lack of ads and overall simplicity. Well done!
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by russfink 4y ago
>move rug With a great effort, the rug is moved to one side of the room, revealing the dusty cover of a closed trap door. >open trap door The door reluctantly opens to reveal a rickety staircase descending into darkness. >turn on l
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IBM ordered to pay $105M to insurer over tech project's collapse(theregister.com)
8 points by russfink 5y ago|0 comments
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by russfink 5y ago
But that's assuming one-at-a-time connections, no? A true BBS would allow multiple connections. Plus, OP's timeframe was 1980, yours is 1985. A couple years back then meant major differences in capabilities, costs, offerings.
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by russfink 5y ago
This came out at the start of the pandemic. Very useful advice. I’d add, make your intentions clear on asynchronous communications: state your intention/purpose/request on the first line of your email message, then follow it with
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by russfink 5y ago
(I got a paper route at age 14 … saved enough over 4 months to finally buy a TS-1000, then eventually my C64.)
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by russfink 5y ago
None of the screens show the obligatory colored bar graph and pie charts, an image often used to convey “this computer is also serious!” to the on-the-fence parents that were contemplating their wide-eyed kids’ pleas.
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by russfink 5y ago
And what if you flip it over turf, e.g. at a large stadium during a huge televised sporting event? The implications on all of it are pretty big.
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by russfink 5y ago
If the number of 1's itself is prime, then n is prime. That's all this does. Search the other comments for 'hung' or 'hang' to see examples of small numbers that take forever to resolve.
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by russfink 5y ago
Yes, and it is our lot that decries software bloat. We know what can be done with K bytes, why do we need K * K * K to simply boot?
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by russfink 5y ago
I would even call that a sort of primitive IDE - it only let you enter valid commands like 10 GOTO 20 instead of 10 xhehcbehsjsjdheh
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by russfink 5y ago
Took my TS 1000 out about THIRTY years ago - plastic membrane keyboard leads cracked with age, could no longer type (arguably only a minor loss compared to when the keyboard was working :-)
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by russfink 5y ago
They cite the use of AI and algorithms to have correlated addresses and possible betrayers; can anyone guess or find more about this?
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Investigating who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis(cbsnews.com)
4 points by russfink 5y ago|2 comments
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by russfink 5y ago
TY - I come here to get the real scoop on these "too good to be true" stories.
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by russfink 5y ago
But which is which?
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No, we didn’t accidentally create a warp bubble(bigthink.com)
171 points by russfink 5y ago|101 comments
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What If the South Had Won the Battle of Gettysburg?(jeffreyevanbrooks.blogspot.com)
9 points by russfink 5y ago|10 comments
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by russfink 5y ago
Obligatory RFC-1149 reference.
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NetBSD Explained: The Unix System That Can Run on Anything(makeuseof.com)
3 points by russfink 5y ago|0 comments

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