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I've got a fun project in mind, I will give it a try.
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In the 80's I was intrigued by literate programming. I studied Knuth's literate source code for TeX carefully. You're right, it never caught on, but a few years ago I read a statement by Knuth that said he still writes code t
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This was true for me. I was in a internal software tools department at a large company that did some classified work. Because I might need to interact with departments doing classified work I had to apply for Top Secret classification. This
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Yes, when I was younger and had just 20 years of experience with programming it was before 1990! Back then I knew a small amount about virtually everything in CS and virtually everything in a small portion of CS. However things in CS chan
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Nora.codes makes a lot of sense in this essay. CS instruction is a mixed bag. I started out in CS in it's Middle Ages so my own initial experiences aren't relevant. As a graduate student for many years though, I have watched and t
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For those interested in some of the challenges facing schools and the attempts to improve them, I found this documentary very interesting: Waiting for Superman . https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/waiting_for_superman A
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I have to keep hundreds of documents I receive each year for five or ten years, some indefinitely: invoices, statements, contracts, etc. Quite a few of these documents are 1 to 2 cm thick. My accountant organizes them in folders sorted by t
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by todd8 5y ago
What alternative to capitalism are you implying would be better? If you have a viable alternative, just do it yourself. (I’m not saying all by yourself, team up with others to make it happen.) I’m not being sarcastic, I’m genuinely interest
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So true! The dream of adding support for an additional extension language doesn’t fix the UI, the archaic defaults, unusual terminology, licensing restrictions, key bindings from keyboards used half a century ago. It’s all very sad. The wor
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I agree with you that replacing all of the eLisp with say JavaScript would be impractical because there are hundred thousands of lines of eLisp that would have to be replaced, but Emacs is never going to increase its appeal while requiring
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I've used full Emacs and Emacs style editors (mg, jove, epsilon) for over 40 years and programmed in LISP for longer than that. In the 1990's it was evident that Emacs was in decline. For a couple of years, I used Vi because IBM&#
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Corona virus is mentioned first. It's easy to get a nice visualization of how Sweden compares to other countries at Our World in Data website [1]. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/explorers/coronavirus-data-explor...
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Did you verify that it really was the bank calling and not a scammer? I get calls and texts from “credit card fraud departments”, “banks”, “service warranty departments”, “Amazon billing”, “Microsoft security”, “Social Security Administrati
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I know this is a joke, but I actually used to handwrite all of my programs. Back then, I would then keypunch them the next time I was on campus and could access a keypunch machine. Writing even a modest 1000 line program was quite a chore
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> We had _just_ settled the emacs vs vi argument when this starts ... We did? That’s news to me!
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I have been very happy with my M1 systems, and I’m looking forward to getting function keys back. However, the SD card capability is coming back at a time when pros are moving to CFExpress cards. Unfortunately, there are some form factor d
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I remember playing this game a couple of times at the MIT Student Center when it first appeared. I recall that it cost 25 cents, which at the time I felt was too much for me to spend on a less than engaging game. I also got to play Spacewa
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Take Back MIT: Eric Weinstein and Lex Fridman(youtube.com)
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From the article: > We (W3C) can no longer take a wait-and-see or neutral position on technologies with egregious energy use. We must instead firmly oppose such proof-of-work technologies including to the best of our ability blocking the
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Here are three cases from three different states: https://lawandcrime.com/video/man-legally-forced-to-pay-chil... https://thefreethoughtproject.com/court-forcing-man-pay-chil... https://www.
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A Perfectly Cromulent Word (2016)(merriam-webster.com)
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Here's an interesting take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFp86n7QCf0 This analysis suggests that the value of tracking every financial transaction will eventually cause governments to all want to institute t
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Here's an interesting take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFp86n7QCf0 This analysis suggests that the value of tracking every financial transaction will eventually cause governments to institute their own cry
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Here's an interesting take on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFp86n7QCf0 This analysis suggests that the value of tracking every financial transaction will eventually cause governments to all want to institute t
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Apple will soon allow your vaccination card in Wallet. What it'll look like(techxplore.com)
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From the article: > Lobsters are notoriously difficult to age. Nobody knows exactly how old they can get, and some experts have estimated they could live on the ocean floor for as long as a century or more.
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Ageing the unageable: Researchers develop new way to age lobsters(phys.org)
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NPR’s treatment of the Hunter Biden Laptop story that appeared in the NY Post was typical—they just hushed it up. Here is a statement regarding this decision to avoid the story from their own newsletter[1]: “We don't want to waste our
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It won’t eliminate AC for me; I run my air conditioner at night.
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One of my contrarian opinions (judging from the number of comments here) is that it is best to avoid posting controversial contrarian opinions on social media, including HN, in response to a question (e.g. Ask HN) especially if the OP ask

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