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by theobeers 7y ago
Presumably the days when socketed memory was primary storage for PCs.
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The prototypical patent troll didn’t develop the patent, but rather acquired it some time later, and for the purpose of filing lawsuits.
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by theobeers 7y ago
Same here. This was an unpleasant surprise. Even after I checked and saw that I didn’t have 12.4 installed yet, there was no red badge on the Settings app icon to indicate an available update.
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This is not ad hominem. It’s directly relevant. No attempt was made to avoid discussion of the issue at hand by attacking Doctorow. Let’s please keep our fallacies straight.
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"The community founded by the late Mel Lyman is still around today and runs a flourishing home-renovation business in the Los Angeles area." In case anyone else was curious, the company is called Fort Hill Construction. Here'
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It was a mixture of things, including other killers like Alexandre Bissonnette, victims like Ebba Åkerlund, historical events like the 1683 Battle of Vienna, memes like "Crab Rave," etc.
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by theobeers 8y ago
Has it been argued that Facebook didn't act quickly enough to shut down the Christchurch stream and remove copies of the video posted that weekend? I thought the consensus was that they responded as well as could reasonably be expected
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I’m a Persianist first and foremost, but I also spent time living in Oman, and it seems ludicrous to me that the legitimacy of the way that Gulf Arabs refer to the body of water bordering their countries (al-Khalīj al-‘Arabī, “the Arabian G
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by theobeers 8y ago
It may be worth adding that the adoption of the Arabic alphabet was a major part of the transition from Middle Persian to New Persian, beyond language change itself. People are often surprised by how little difficulty they have parsing a se
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Digitization projects like this are such a boon to scholarship. I haven’t combed through the list of codices yet to see if there’s anything I might like to investigate—but hey, now I can whenever I find the time. I’ve had to plan internatio
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Dick Davis’ translation is currently the standard.
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It's a bit like the efforts of the Iranian government to force people to use the term "Persian Gulf" rather than "Arabian Gulf." They passed a law in 2010 that was supposed to ban any international airline from Iran
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by theobeers 8y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you mean. I clicked through to the Wikipedia entry that you cited, and it begins, "The flag of the Republic of China is the national flag of Taiwan…" edit: Is the technicality simply that the RO
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What about volume control UIs that are generally thought to be OK, but still drive you nuts? Has anyone else experienced this? Some years ago, when I made the questionable decision of buying a Das Keyboard, I was surprised by how much diffi
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by theobeers 8y ago
Unfunded pension liabilities are absolutely related, as they represent part of the "vicious cycle" described in the article. Both Erie County and the city of Erie are mentioned. The comment to which you replied was referring to th
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by theobeers 8y ago
I found this article informative on several points, and the conclusion is correct ("I am sure the future belongs to FBW"), but it sets up a test that has already been failed. Can Boeing trust pilots? Well, if that's how he wa
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by theobeers 8y ago
I’m always amazed to see work like this from the ’70s. (I know I shouldn’t be, but some blind spots die hard…) My father was taking undergraduate computer science classes at that time, and his stories, many of them involving punch-card mish
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I'm also curious how many newer contributors would see friction in simply "firing up a web browser." edit: I may have read that part of the post uncharitably, if what the author meant was continually switching between the bro