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by ttctciyf 4y ago
If you like Adams there's a good chance you'll appreciate some of Robert Sheckley - I recommend Mindswap in particular. FWIW, my own favourite humorous sci-fi short is R.A. Lafferty's Been a Long Long Time which can be re
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Someone should re-invent USENET.
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As a long-time reader and fan I broadly agree with the highlighting choices. My only further suggestion would be, maybe for the final "body and soul" category or maybe for those who already have some familiarity with the author,
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
> Middle mouse button click for any link. Yes, and firefox configured to open windows, not tabs (!) Call me a luddite if you like but ctl-w and alt-tab are always to hand and better than any amount of new-fangled tabby nonsense IMNSHO...
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
Thanks, I'll certainly give that a try!
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Thanks for the reply. I followed this quite closely at the time, but not for the last few years. Glad to hear they're still open. Features will get us all in the end, eh? :)
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
Is any substantial store of endorsements / comments for f-droid apps to be found? I guess the absence of a "like" or review function in the f-droid app is a deliberate choice, but I'd love to see user feedback at a centr
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
What happened a couple of years ago with MariaDB?
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
The PDF dump of Musk & correspondents' messages [1] that this is based on is a such a fascinating read, you'd think the article could have found a bit more to say! 1: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents&#x2F
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
The Branton Files[1] set a high bar for this kind of conspiracist fantasy. 1: see: https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_autor_branton.htm (If you dare .)
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Though this is the normal construction: noun + verb + "-er", like the "firefighter" and "naysayer" examples in the thread, whereas the tweet's claim is that "exocentric" coinages with form: verb
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Ah, thanks, seems I misremembered.
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What they call "logorc1 [...] or complement of integer1 with integer2" with truth table: > 1 1 0 1 I think of as (material) implication (the '→' operator, where you can read A → B as "A implies B" or "i
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
You don't need the http:// for pn. (At least in firefox on my laptop) pn./ suffices.
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for the many chuckles I've had over your knowing tabloidese headline pastiches over the years. Hope they'll continue to make occasional appearances.
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Wait till they find out about the parental concept of secretly coercing somebody to do something that is in their interests!
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One version of this is in the lobster article I linked in my other, longish, comment here.
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
Anyone pursuing this further might be interested in Lobster Magazine's 1991 piece by Jeffrey M Bale: The Moonies, WACL and the Korean CIA (see [1]) Regards Japan, though it's primarily concerned with "the links between th
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
Well, yes, you're replying to me as though I was suggesting some scheme for actually compressing things. But as I say it's just a theoretical observation, nitpicking the bold claim that statistical compression techniques determine
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Contrariwise, to me you seem to be the confused party. I am contrasting the compression given by lzw or zip as discussed in the article, which would be unable to significantly compress the bit sequence of pi, with the "compression tech
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Regards the interpreter aspect, that is dealt with by fixing some universal Turing machine - call it U - which runs all the programs considered, so that the program length of U becomes a constant which can either be factored out or reduced
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
Yes, this is a purely theoretical observation, and not relevant to any practical compression scheme. In "algorithmic complexity" the time taken to run a program is not taken into account. There is another interesting complexity me
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> Engineers can build probabilistic models for patterns of pixel colors from one frame to the next. The models make it possible to calculate the Shannon entropy [...] That value tells you the limit of “lossless” compression — the absolut
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.jak_linux.dns66/ Been using this for years, though I don't often use ad-serving apps anyhow, so it's mostly just a second layer of defence behind firefox/u-block (an
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
The linked article seems to want us to believe that concern about global warming is part of a CIA mind control plot. I would skip it. No doubt considerable effort has been spent muddying waters, and it's not an easy topic to research,
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Recognise that the time you spend worrying about years wasted on pointless things is itself wasted on a pointless thing, and just get on with what you want to do.
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I was amazed recently to read about some of the seamier aspects of Lyndon Johnson - aggressive bullying, sexual predator, wholesale corruption, etc., but perhaps the most eyebrow raising thing was Johnson's apparent habit of breaching
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> We absolutely add, remove, and change things about the UI Please consider stopping with that UI changing thing :)
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I was thinking of blocking its endpoints, except I don't know what they are. I wasn't aware I could configure firewall rules for specific applications. Any hints where I could start looking at that?
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by ttctciyf 4y ago
Very true. But I have specific reasons for wanting to use vs code in this instance.

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