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by thisrod 8y ago
In the mid 90s, first year computer science at the Australian National University used Miranda, the proprietary language from which Haskell was forking at the time. It was great. When I read SICP later, the first half seemed like a long-w
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In the eastern hemisphere, this kind of place is called an Australian style cafe. Old joke: some Australians take a taxi from LAX to their hotel. As they get out, the driver asks, "Your tip?" "Our tip is, live somewhere with
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Thanks.
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If you know of an article that sums up what this standard protocol does, how it does it, and why that wasn't possible until now, then could you please post a link?
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The most intelligent Christians I know regard communism as a Christian heresy. As a minimum, communists had sacred beliefs, which sounded more like those of a Western religion than an Eastern one. The trumpet shall sound, and we shall be
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I'd put this another way. Here is the CEO of Google laying down the law. And the first question to ask, before you bother reading or discussing any law, is what redress you have when someone breaks it. If Google does start building w
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by thisrod 8y ago
Do you mean that as a reference to Stranger in a Strange Land ?
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This sounds like a publicity stunt. I mean, really, how hard is if (shipping_address[end-9:end] == "Australia") then pay_gst() else evade_sales_tax() end
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> It was somewhat inevitable chain of events The question that intrigues me is why Tcl/Tk didn't take off around 1995. We could have had internet apps about a decade before web apps were feasible. The only answer I can think o
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When I was 13, and the major problem in my life was that all the other boys in my class were straight, I used to daydream about AI and animatronic solutions. The obvious social engineering approach wasn't obvious to me at the time.
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Malaysia after the elections: transition to what?(newmandala.org)
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> Analogy with modern history is, according to Tolkien himself, "completely foreign to my thought". Which, of course, strikes everyone except Tolkien as hilarious, seeing that he wrote LotR in the 1940s.
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by thisrod 8y ago
Crikey is good too: https://www.crikey.com.au/zxy
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Mahathir was the Prime Minister who cleaned up the mess George Soros made in 1998, and I'm sure that when he talks about Jews, he means one in particular. That isn't an excuse.
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Thanks for the link. It's getting hard to find a paper copy of this.
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This article made me think of Beyond Freedom and Dignity by B. F. Skinner. I haven't read it, yet. Has anyone?
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by thisrod 9y ago
PG has written about that. He made the point that, in 1998, the people with experience and wisdom all agreed that the world had enough search engines already.
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by thisrod 9y ago
Remember that Australia is ridiculously urbanised. About 80% of Western Australians live in Perth. Contrasted to the US, the most remote Australians must be a lot further from a referral hospital, but the median Australian might actually
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by thisrod 9y ago
Is there any possibility that Australia would allow volunteers to administer drugs this dangerous, no matter how effective those drugs were? Not to be rude—I volunteer for an emergency service too.
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I don't think it's carelessness, rather that 1000x more accurate navigation gives you a lot more things to care about. That 19th century captain measured the angle between the pole star and the local horizon with a sextant; the c
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Those formats are simply insane. It's well known that some people use decimal fractions of degrees, so why would anyone even consider using a decimal point to separate degrees and minutes?
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It sounds like someone wanted /net and private namespaces from Plan 9, but they were stuck with Posix, and this is the catenary track they built to make the square wheels run smoothly.
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In this case, the theory also predicts that airplanes will need extra thrust when they fly over roads, to pull away from the blobs. The new discovery is a road where that doesn't happen, but the cars still stick together as expected.
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by thisrod 9y ago
There's another thing I heard lots of people saying in KL a few weeks ago. Uber had developed a reputation for employing crooks—drivers who would accept a fare and claim the payment, but simply not show up, and so on—and not doing any
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by thisrod 9y ago
At some point, your phone might tell you that it has subjective experiences. What will you do then?
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I get the impression that OpenBSD has a prejudice against becoming officially involved with the United States, formed in the days when t-shirts were export-restricted munitions.
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> how easy is it for a scientist ... This is hard everywhere. I'm not sure who said, "knowledge advances one funeral at a time," but I'm sure that it wasn't Confucius.
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Why the allies won would be a good start
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I'm surprised that Xerox pays engineers to do all this, when so many companies would pay their lawyers to make it someone else's problem when an odd type of paper stock jammed in tropical weather. Making custom parts and flying o
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Sure, but the importance of research is strongly correlated with how surprising it is. That's entropy and information 101.

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