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by wantoncl 4y ago
Live in the south. I have tons of it in my yard, and I'm genetically incapable of recognizing it by sight. I've gotten it 3 or 4 times in the past 10 years, and it's really annoying. I have some other type of vine, it's
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by wantoncl 4y ago
For various definitions of "practical", I remember a quote from Frederick Forsyth, to wit: "No one has ever hacked my typewriter, nor will they." I think he was using some manual thing as well, and possibly from back in
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by wantoncl 4y ago
You would then have to add mechanical devices, which would likely be heavier (requiring even more support structure strength), that would have to move hundreds or thousands of tons of building mass, and with high precision, and then return
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Don't know if SQLite has a feature or extension for that, but MS SQL Server has one: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/b... Not sure how much use it gets though, I never hear any
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by wantoncl 4y ago
PDF: http://www.nobius.org/dbg/practical-file-system-design.pdf From here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17468920
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by wantoncl 4y ago
More imagery: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/things-i-won-t-wor...
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Hilariously, I was trying to enable the minimal JS needed to view that page, and UMatrix DID THE EXACT SAME THING, it shifted down a site I wanted to block under my mouse button. :) For all you dystopian fiction writers: the end of all huma
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Bletchley Park has a commemorative plaque for the Polish mathematicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bletchley_Park#/media/File:Bp-... If you are the slightest bit interested in codebreaking, visiting Bletc
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by wantoncl 4y ago
GuanoWatcher
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Hi Bill! https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
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by wantoncl 4y ago
I read something a while ago, a veteran who said something to the effect of: "all war would end immediately if the perpetrators had to smell it." I think he had liberated a concentration camp. I wish I had remembered it better. I
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by wantoncl 4y ago
I see what you did there. :) You even managed a double-entendre in 2 completely different realms. Well done.
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Tacit Blue is at the U.S. Air Force Museum at Wright Paterson AFB near Dayton, Ohio. Absolute gem of a museum, also free admission last time I went (2019). Plus the XB-70, plus an X-15, PLUS an F-12 or YF-12 (can't remember which), and
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Obligatory: But can it run Crysis?
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Another good example is Louie Anderson's debut on Carson: https://youtu.be/2bRe1CeGe7g I remember watching this right after he died, and was blown away by how good he was. Not only does he get laughs right away, they&#
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Unicode support. It might have been the Windows ports of grep that were the problem, but ripgrep shines with Unicode files. And it handles a mix of Unicode and ASCII files without issue. And I totally agree that having grep installed everyw
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by wantoncl 4y ago
There's COBOL code at least twice, and possibly three times as old, that still runs billion dollar businesses every day, and likely will until you retire. VB has its quirks but during its heyday, it was substantially more productive an
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by wantoncl 4y ago
> What's wrong with stephen wolfram? The ego.
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by wantoncl 4y ago
I think this is it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf5o5liZxnA
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Not a dev tool, but I was very impressed with this demo of Photosynth: https://www.ted.com/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_how_photosyn...
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Blind Man's Bluff: https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Mans-Bluff-Submarine-Espionage/... I think it's on par with Skunk Works. Absolutely amazing stories about submarine espionage, stealth fighters but underwater.
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Wow...finds a way.
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by wantoncl 4y ago
Soul of a New Machine is absolutely classic. You'll learn just how much, and how little, computers and programming have changed since the 70s. And some interesting takes on microcoding, if you're already dealing with APIs on APIs,
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by wantoncl 5y ago
A harder (and better) goal is how many lines you remove: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
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by wantoncl 5y ago
There might be a bit of a problem powering it: https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/to-boil-the-oceans/
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by wantoncl 5y ago
I don't use it, but LibreOffice has the Base component that can be a data entry front-end for many ODBC and JDBC supported databases. I think OpenOffice has/had the same. If you're using Microsoft, you can use MS Access for d
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by wantoncl 5y ago
OK, but where does the blockchain and Stovecoin mining fit in? I gotta make money from cooking on it somehow!
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by wantoncl 5y ago
There's work that Feynman did on the Manhattan Project that is still classified. I believe it was an unpublished formula to determine the yield of the atom bombs. Some videos of Danny Hillis talking about Richard Feynman and Thinking M
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by wantoncl 5y ago
Would you have the model numbers for yours and the newer model? Thanks in advance.
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by wantoncl 5y ago
KEYHOLE and BYEMAN are code words regarding satellite reconnaisance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byeman_Control_System

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