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by tjr 6y ago
I bought an HP LaserJet printer in circa 2005, printed with it occasionally, and the original toner cartridge lasted about 11 years. I was pretty delighted with that.
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by tjr 6y ago
A passage from one of Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls : As soon as we settled on the problem to be solved, I ran to my nearest copy of Knuth's _Seminumerical Algorithms_ (having copies of Knuth's three volumes both at home
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by tjr 6y ago
I'm going to guess that for the OP, their reader is already past this level, but sharing anyway for the benefit of others, as I think it's a great book for roughly around that age: https://www.amazon.com/Prof-McSqu
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by tjr 6y ago
I do software development and music production. I am not as thrilled with Apple products as I once was, but they remain my preferred choice for what I want to do with my computers. Inadequate selection of music software for GNU/Linux,
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by tjr 6y ago
And I reckon those of us who just bought a shiny new Intel Mac in the past few months might be questioning our decision. Should have held on to that 2010 MBP one more year?
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by tjr 6y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yscm61p5eyA
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by tjr 6y ago
My team inherited a 70%-complete AngularJS application, the user interface for a passengers and crew on a new series of airplanes. It worked fine enough on modern tablets and phones, but there were also some interface devices hardwired into
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by tjr 6y ago
Can you share, what was the deciding factor against Racket?
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by tjr 6y ago
Just got a new Mac computer with Catalina pre-installed, and was surprised to see zsh: command not found: emacs Of course, I can (and did) install it myself, but it used to be included by default.
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MacBook Air 2020 Review for Travel Photography(fcracer.com)
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by tjr 7y ago
The only times I can remember having real issues with buying from Amazon is when I failed to notice that I was buying from a third-party on their site, not actually from Amazon directly. And that said, the vast majority of my (intentional)
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by tjr 7y ago
Would suggest also The Inmates are Running the Asylum , and for history/culture, the Jargon File.
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by tjr 7y ago
This is largely my concern here also. The virus in question has only been around, and been studied, (as far as we know) for a few months. Doctors and scientists have been trying for decades to determine what people should eat , and are sti
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by tjr 7y ago
Indeed, they do perform long-running tests. Is 51 days not long enough? How many days would be long enough?
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by tjr 7y ago
When lives are on the line software should be tested for reliability beyond 51 days. Avionics software is written a world of verifiable requirements. For how many days should the software be required to operate? Is it acceptable to add th
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by tjr 7y ago
I imagine true of couches; certainly true of mattresses, per 16 CFR Part 1633, Standard for the Flammability (Open Flame) of Mattress Sets . At least one company sells nontoxic mattresses: https://www.nontoxicbeds.com/
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by tjr 7y ago
We inherited a mostly-complete AngularJS (Angular 1.x) project for a business jet cabin control interface. Meant to run on both user's personal phones/tablets and on devices attached to the interior of the plane, we found that the
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by tjr 7y ago
I feel misled! Clicked on your link, expecting one thing, but getting something else entirely.
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by tjr 7y ago
It appears that the actual title of the article is "Hobbies are not distractions", with the HN submission title being... I'm not sure it's really a subtitle, maybe a pull-out point from the quoted reference in the articl
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by tjr 7y ago
I have built some other GNU packages without issue. In particular, I remember having easy success with CLISP. But at the same time, I have not needed to try to build a lot of packages, as many are available as pre-built binaries already.
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by tjr 7y ago
I've tried to build it on Mac in the past (years ago). I spent hours fiddling with it, and finally gave up and ran brew install guile . It might be better now?
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by tjr 7y ago
For getting started, I like this book: https://www.amazon.com/Yes-You-Can-Financial-Life/dp/1401911...
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by tjr 7y ago
I don't care if people sell clean, safe, reasonable things that are gleaned from a dumpster. That's waste reduction and a net good. Years ago, I lived in a city that decided to offer a "garbage collection amnesty week"
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by tjr 7y ago
I like Joel Fuhrman's books. Not sure if the science included is as deep as you (a Hacker News reader) would want or not, but I found it adequate. I'm not trying to become a nutritional scientist myself, just understand things bet
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by tjr 7y ago
I would suggest there are some good language research programs at some other schools that might not be quite as selective. Might be worth applying to, for example, Brown, Northeastern, Indiana University. If you were to follow a typical bac
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by tjr 7y ago
I don't know what but if it's consider "best" or not, but I use Zoom: https://www.logicalshift.co.uk/mac/zoom.html
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by tjr 7y ago
I'm thinking I might want to opt in. What should I add to GitHub before February, to make sure it gets in the archive?
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by tjr 7y ago
Bradley Kuhn also wrote an article with regard to recent matters with RMS, which was submitted on HN a couple of days ago, and (I think) received inadequate attention: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2019/10/15
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by tjr 7y ago
From a 2002 Stallman lecture: There was no free software Emacs editor that ran on Unix. I did, however, have a friend who had participated in developing Gosling's Emacs. Gosling had given him, by email, permission to distribute his ow

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