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by staplung 3y ago
Maybe it's nominative determinism. ;-)
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by staplung 3y ago
I hope it's good. I hope they can get around the fact that Neuromancer has been so influential for so long that making it now risks having it seem like a rip-off of all the things which copied it . In any case, I'm intensely c
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by staplung 3y ago
Might not handle exactly the difficulties you're having but you can do `from sympy.abc import *`. This will create symbols for pretty much all letters (lower and upper) as well as a bunch of greek symbols (but written out, e.g. "d
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by staplung 3y ago
In William Gibson's The Peripheral (the book, haven't seen the show myself) there's something like a weaponized version of this: ``` “What were you in, up there? Mason says you’re training.” “Kind of like a washing machine,
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by staplung 3y ago
Maybe the author just needs some sleep. To “exhibit the supine behavior,” as we say in the business.
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by staplung 3y ago
Or a portion of one of it's inspirations: Lewis Carroll's Sylvie and Bruno Concluded "We actually made a map of the country, on the scale of a mile to the mile!" "Have you used it much?" I enquired.
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by staplung 3y ago
Excellent work. Reminded me of the description in Neal Stephenson's REAMDE about the world generation code that forms the basis of the game: ``` And so, basically as a protest action —almost like an act of civil disobedience against
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by staplung 3y ago
If you’re afraid of opening links from .ru, perhaps you’ll be happier with .us ;-) https://deathray.us/ebooks/orwell_politics.html
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by staplung 3y ago
I think the hidden feature is summoning the second desktop where Nedry is taunting you. There is a fun level of detail in the keychecks command: if memory serves it shows exactly the output that's given in the book.
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by staplung 3y ago
Seems impossible to make it meltdown and explode. Shutting off the coolant just makes it automatically SCRAM. No incoming tsunamis threaten to swamp your diesel generators, no xenon pits to slowly climb out of. Booooring. ;-)
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by staplung 3y ago
I have a bone to pick with the use of Fn-F to go full-screen in TV.app, Quicktime etc.: it's a stupid shortcut. For years, the built-in video apps used Cmd-F...i.e. using the same modifier they continue to use for all other shortcuts
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by staplung 3y ago
He seems pretty down on Hollywood script-writers but there's a scene in the 2nd season of Westworld where the Man in Black is at a party and corrects someone who uses the Gruber mis-quotatation. "That's a corruption. Plutar
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by staplung 3y ago
I always figured our AI overlords would kill us in a Terminator kind of way, not in a "No! You must not read from the book!" sort of way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0DIsPBczcI
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by staplung 3y ago
Wait, let's enshitify it! We could build an editor that allows you to type but more advanced editing features like deletion would require a subscription on in-editor virtual currency. We could sell loot packs with randomly selected edi
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by staplung 3y ago
This feels a bit like the dicta on 12 Factor: rules handed down from a presumed authority without any discussion of the tradeoffs. Engineering is tradeoff evaluation. Give me some discussion about the alternatives, when and why they'
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by staplung 3y ago
Well, kinda, eventually. The book of 2001 points Discovery 1 at Iapetus, a moon of Saturn. Evidently, the special effects crew for the movie couldn't do a convincing job of faking Saturn because of the rings so they did Jupiter inste
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by staplung 3y ago
Python doesn't have a case statement but (as of 3.10) it does have match. The apparent problem with using either of those is that you'd potentially have to evaluate many, many if statements (or match clauses) in the worst case whe
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by staplung 3y ago
Apocalypse proof? We need something like an IPX scale. Maybe this is like AP5: able to withstand small-arms fire, molotov cocktails and, I dunno, zombie mandibles? But not cruise missiles, direct artillery fire, or giant transforming robots
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by staplung 3y ago
The article implies the nitinol tires will last much longer, essentially a lifetime. Or at least most of it will, since they talk about $10 retreads. Presumably the sidewalls will never decay. And I have no idea if this is true but it&#x2
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by staplung 3y ago
“Two years ago, when a team of archaeologists spotted a painting of an extinct wild bull called an auroch” The correct singular form of the word is aurochs. Little surprising Smithsonian magazine got this wrong
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by staplung 3y ago
On my mac the go version of yes creates a binary that's 30x larger than the yes binary I have on a linux machine. 2MB vs ~65KB.
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by staplung 3y ago
True, but I wonder if it would first get stuck on trying to shred e.g. /dev/stderr or if after shredding the files in /etc some daemon woke up and tried to read a file there and choked.
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by staplung 3y ago
Kind of a fun list of basic utilities. I've been using UNIX for a loooong time and had never heard of e.g. `shred`, `shuf`, or `factor`. Makes me want to try sudo find / -type f -exec shred {} \; to see how far it gets befo
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by staplung 3y ago
https://teenage.engineering/products/po And a little performance with 9 of them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DF2NsGFqJ_Q
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by staplung 3y ago
This. Step 1: measure only that which can be easily measured Step 2: ignore what can't be easily measured Step 3: assume that which cannot be easily measured is unimportant Step 4: assume that which cannot be easily measured is not ev
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by staplung 3y ago
A Joel on Software post[1] has this: A terribly common error is having a debate over how something should be designed, and then never resolving the debate . Brian Valentine, the lead developer on Windows 2000, was famous for his motto “D
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by staplung 3y ago
Wait, you mean Friedrich Siegfried Zweibel isn't the real founder? https://www.theonion.com/taking-care-of-business-1819583590
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by staplung 3y ago
Ink?! When I was in school we wrote on clay tablets with reed styli. We had to maintain the styli with copper knives. Later, even the most reactionary teachers would let us use the new fancy bronze knives. Heh, kidding aside I have all the
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by staplung 3y ago
Weird opening example. Trying to multi-thread a loop and then forcing everything through an atomic is worse than pointless: the atomic will effectively make it single-threaded anyway except now you have worse performance from cache non-loca
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by staplung 3y ago
Everyone knows that fruit flies spontaneously generate. My preferred method to get rid of them is with a black hole: I put a couple of pieces of fruit into my homemade Superconducting Apricot Collider, set it on high and then place the resu

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