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by schoen 1y ago
In Latin it's somewhat usual to use the past perfect of "to live" to indicate that someone has died. In Dido's last speech in the Aeneid , before committing suicide, one of the things she says is "vixi" (&quot
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by schoen 1y ago
Such a program in Python could be python3 -c 'import ipaddress, sys; print("\n".join(sorted(ipaddress.IPv6Address(x).exploded for x in sys.argv[1:])))' It takes the IP addresses to be sorted on the command line. O
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by schoen 1y ago
I had a phone call with him in about 2000, because he was then publishing a lot of material about DRM (and attacks on DRM), and I was also into anti-DRM stuff and was thinking of going to an industry meeting related to it. I wanted to know
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by schoen 1y ago
Can you explain what you're referring to about the heresy here? My impression is that Christianity traditionally taught that natural theology is possible but is incomplete , in the sense that people could rationally conclude that Go
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by schoen 1y ago
> They had started significant expansions right before the pandemic, allowing a long (but no traffic) ride possible from Oakland to San Jose. They're still working on this, with four more stations planned beyond Berryessa (Little Po
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by schoen 1y ago
It looks like it was originally meant as a reference to the username of the founder (Stephen Marsh).
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by schoen 1y ago
> SA.45s (and the eval board) has been on mouser in the past, I'm not sure if they carry it now because mouser continually blocks me these days. It was previously around $1500. I searched on Mouser and found that part no longer has
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by schoen 1y ago
Maybe a bank of (extremely) huge capacitors that get charged up very quickly, and are then connected to a battery pack to charge it more slowly? Keeping control of those charges seems like a huge challenge, as they literally contain the ele
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by schoen 2y ago
How does the efficiency of the WASM version compare to running the same algorithm as native code?
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by schoen 2y ago
Signal was partly created with the use case in mind of political activists who may know each other informally, through loose social ties, and who might not always even know each other's offline identities. It's also great for secu
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by schoen 2y ago
Your page says that your fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, and then your FAQ says that users need to buy a separate license for commercial use. But the SIL Open Font License permits commercial uses. https://open
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by schoen 2y ago
> There are two evasive actions we are considering mostly out of protest to being taxed without Congressional approval: I don't think you have a moral duty to pay tariffs, but evading the tariff doesn't seem like a very effecti
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by schoen 2y ago
My only source so far is this anonymous mailing list post. https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2025-April/0...
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by schoen 2y ago
I've only seen a single-sentence post on the cryptography mailing list by someone I don't know. (I think the news is true, but it's not the clearest source!)
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by schoen 2y ago
Maybe also "with"? I think it's sense 13 at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C3%A0#Preposition_3 If so, the most natural English version (when choosing to use a proposition at all) would probably be &quot
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by schoen 2y ago
It wouldn't be accepted by a palindrome-detecting function but it would generally be accepted by puzzle-solving conventions (e.g. for crosswords), which normally ignore spaces.
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by schoen 2y ago
The other points make sense to me, but I have to disagree with this one. > It does not mean it is free and open-source (FOSS). When the campaign to describe software as "open source" kicked off in 1998, it consciously choose
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by schoen 2y ago
English speakers often do care about the connotation of "propaganda" as something deceptive or manipulative (with the paradigmatic example probably being wartime propaganda which tries to influence populations, supposedly without
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by schoen 2y ago
Hmmm, it could also be the wall(1) program, which was already a part of AT&T Unix! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_(Unix)
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by schoen 2y ago
I think the spool with usr written on it most likely refers to the /usr/spool directory, where user mailboxes (and I think print jobs) were traditionally kept.
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by schoen 2y ago
I'm also a vegan, but it doesn't seem likely to me that other species have languages similar to ours. I think people have already used ML to interpret cat and dog communications, and they got general emotions more than something l
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by schoen 2y ago
Wasn't there someone who did a physical discrete logic implementation of the NAND to Tetris design? I feel like that could be a good choice for someone doing this today because there's now a kind of a large ecosystem of resources
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by schoen 2y ago
Yep, they started in 2020: https://letsencrypt.org/2020/02/19/multi-perspective-validat... This has been challenging for some subscribers who are unaccustomed to receiving any legitimate site traffic from for
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by schoen 2y ago
I know Dave was still trying to figure out exactly how Starlink worked, and how he could help with its performance characteristics, at least two years after that talk, as he sent me a draft of a document related to that.
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by schoen 2y ago
If I remember correctly from the FOIA documents we got, it was a meeting or series of meetings with a Japanese printer industry association during the 1990s. I forgot if we learned whether the government side was a specific government or go
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by schoen 2y ago
Thanks, I guess I confused its role with the adjacent step!
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by schoen 2y ago
It's deliberately made nondeterministic, partly using something called softmax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softmax_function I'd say mainly in order to avoid boring its users.
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by schoen 2y ago
Argh, he was the immediately previous person before me to work on the Unicast Extension Project and still a coauthor on all of our reserved address drafts! Now our lowest-address draft is at 50% deceased coauthors.
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by schoen 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copernican_principle It seems to have caught on, but one could still doubt its applicability to all phenomena at all scales.
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by schoen 2y ago
Also historically true of OpenOffice.

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