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by rvense 5y ago
I bought both volumes last year and made a point of only reading them outside by sunlight. It's great stuff, very thought provoking. One of the many points that has really stuck with me is how the invention of the typewriter allowed us
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by rvense 5y ago
Open source software is free to take is a practical measure as much as anything. It's because having the left-pad package surrounded by a paywall would suck, and would create all kinds of weird incentives to mess with both the software
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by rvense 5y ago
AFAIK no old Mac will do 5MB/s on its built-in, external SCSI.
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by rvense 5y ago
You're looking for a single-bit stream of information and very likely you can find it as an electrical signal inside your doorbell already. I wanted to replace the sound my wireless doorbell made so I took the basestation apart and it
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by rvense 5y ago
I have a T490s from last year for work. I just had the keyboard (well, entire top assembly) replaced today via the on-site warranty because the touchpad was ghosting and the physical buttons had stopped working, i.e. it was basically imposs
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by rvense 5y ago
But how will the taxpayers ever see any of the profits? It's not like enterprises funded by grants from the government send any of their profits back, unless the government takes actual ownership, which I don't think is very commo
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by rvense 5y ago
Looks pretty great! Oddly enough, I came to HN to take a break from coding something eerily similar (different use case and target audience though). Now when I launch in a month everyone will think I stole your idea. Thanks for that, I gues
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by rvense 5y ago
Branch delay slots make. assembly weird
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by rvense 5y ago
I don't like the word at all when describing interfaces. It's an overly broad term that in my experience doesn't tend to lead to very good conversations about what's good or bad. Case in point, we recently did a complete
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by rvense 5y ago
I compile stuff for myself all the time and I bought the installer. As far as this category of software goes, $15 is cheap. (Although I think it was $5 when I got it.) It didn't work very well a year and a half ago or whenever it was,
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by rvense 5y ago
There's absolutely nothing cool about the military. https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
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by rvense 5y ago
Here in Denmark, almost none of the food that the actual people here will eat next week is in the country yet. It's on its way in from overseas or further south. Now, about 60% of the surface area is cultivated. Most of that (80%, so
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by rvense 5y ago
That's just the etymology. It's a word. French speakers aren't multiplying in their heads...
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by rvense 5y ago
This is just the etymology. These words are just words, both in Danish and French. It's not like speakers of that language do the maths before saying it.
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by rvense 5y ago
No, Persian has words that are vaguely derived from the basic numerals.
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by rvense 5y ago
*hourly
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by rvense 5y ago
Certainly in my country you have to accept our own currency. Cash is mandatory too, although that's just a matter of a years.
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by rvense 5y ago
I have a 50 lira bill from 2011 - I think was it about 20 euros at the time? Should have exchanged it sooner.
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by rvense 5y ago
Built-in UPS and KVM, too. Keep it cool and stock up on PSUs and that'll last you a long time.
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by rvense 5y ago
The typewriter allows you to write five times as fast as a pen. So naturally, now that we have typewriters, we are spending one fifth of the time writing that we used to.
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by rvense 5y ago
AFAIK this was the best board for BeOS, which was made to take advantage of the two CPUs.
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by rvense 5y ago
Dane here. I work 30 hours per week as a programmer. My wife works full time for an NGO. Looking at that chart I think we're fairly average for our country, maybe a little bit higher. My wife is currently on maternity leave with almost
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by rvense 5y ago
I've actually turned on a number of things invented before I was 35. Including a lot of what my career is in.
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by rvense 5y ago
Again, thank you for replying. You are right, I maybe have lost track of what we're talking about, or maybe I am reading too quickly - a bit like I think you are when you take my reference to "the modern Latin alphabet and all its
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by rvense 5y ago
Thank you for typing all of that out. First of all, I should like to apologize for the tone in my last post. It seems quite strange to me to say that blackletter is not a font/typeface/script (or a clade of such objects). Historic
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by rvense 5y ago
> Linguists do. It's one of their standard examples. Well, I do have a degree in linguistics, so I know as well as anyone that you can always dig up a linguist who'll argue some position, however untenable. Can you specify your
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by rvense 5y ago
Arabic I actually know, and it has nothing like case. The letters have alternate forms depending on their surroundings. And of course various shorthands use in handwriting, much like our cursive. I don't see the connection between curs
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by rvense 5y ago
The Latin, Greek and Cyrillic alphabets have case. I think that's it.
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by rvense 5y ago
> No one asked for strings to be ruined in this way Except for the, what, 80% of the world's population who use languages that can't be written with ASCII.
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by rvense 5y ago
No, the two problems in CS are that we only one joke and it's not funny.

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