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by whartung 3y ago
Well using the Petri dishes of State policy, perhaps someone can track iPhone thefts and see if the impact is imagined or real.
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by whartung 3y ago
Well we recently upgraded to a new build, selling off our 50 year old house. We had to relocated to a different area, because the only houses in our area were...50 year old houses. And swapping from one 50 year old house to another one didn
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by whartung 3y ago
There’s a difference between full stack and solo developers. There’s absolute overlap, but being aware of the stack and actually being the person who put it all together are different. All my solo projects I was intimately familiar with. St
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by whartung 3y ago
My most productive time was early-mid '90s using a 4GL for green screen applications. You could pound out a trivial screen or report in an hour. With SQL being a first class participant, you just interlaced SQL and logic to get your bi
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by whartung 3y ago
I bet you could go quite far writing a straightforward compiler using an S-expr syntax. Any by a "compiler" I'm talking doing something simply like taking Pascal, converting it to an s-expr grammar, and going to town. Scheme
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by whartung 3y ago
I can’t cite any but there were several old (i.e. 70s era) science fiction story where disputes were decided by having, essentially, Champions of sorts battle each other using war simulations. Such as re-fighting some famous ancient battle
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by whartung 3y ago
> It’s not meant to be insulting, it’s a joke in good spirit Indeed. That said it rings a bit true for me. The day I sold my upgraded Macintosh and bought a motorcycle was, in hindsight, one of the best decisions I ever made. I w
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by whartung 3y ago
I'm sorry, all we can do is listen to these? We can't read them?
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by whartung 3y ago
Good heavens. Played that game when it was new. It was a clever, fun game.
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by whartung 3y ago
I'd like to see a similar treatise on the Apple Document system. I love that thing, it's a favorite part of all the Apple apps.
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by whartung 3y ago
Back in the day I got to go to a demo and presentation about the machine. An interesting thing about the design was that it had a 5” screen, but it could only show about 50 columns at a time of the 80 column display. There was a knob you tu
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by whartung 3y ago
Only if its the last hard link. If nothing else, its a wee bit of insurance from deletion since no single link removal should remove the file. Anecdote, eons ago, we had a problem where the vendor needed to log in to the machine with the in
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by whartung 3y ago
The past few failed missions certainly highlights how amazing the successes the US had back in the day. 50-60 years of history, crazy advances in technology from materials to computers to everything else, yet its still objectively a difficu
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by whartung 3y ago
I wonder if they would need a vest at the last hard rock/metal concert I went to. Sheesh, I think they almost blew off my glasses with one of their drum/bass hits that night. Its interesting that now we have tech to let the deaf p
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by whartung 3y ago
It's interesting to contrast a "Forth OS" with a what might be considered a more conventional one. And by this I'm talking about early small machine systems like CP/M and its contemporaries. At a fundamental level,
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by whartung 3y ago
Does anyone know how the telegraph lines were architected? Did you have segments of shared stations, where a message sent from one station was echoed to all the connected stations, with one responsible for forwarding messages across segment
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by whartung 3y ago
I don’t know if it’s significant but on the carrier the arresting system is going 25-30 mph. The ship is moving. Again, maybe not enough to really matter, but enough to at least take into consideration.
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by whartung 3y ago
FEMA and State agencies have been advocating people get at least a 3 day bag ready in there house for each family member. A better plan is for two weeks. Back in the day, with the first surge of the Avian flu, Governor Schwarzenegger ordere
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by whartung 3y ago
Tomahawk missile routes early on took quite a bit of planning because of this. They could only follow terrain that they’d recognized. It had other capabilities (mostly inertial at the time), but the “clever” stuff came from following well m
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by whartung 3y ago
CLISP uses READLINE, and it's "form" based, so if you have a multi-line form, an up-arrow, you get the entire form. SBCL doesn't have anything that I'm aware off, neither does CCL. I've seen mentioned of wrappi
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by whartung 3y ago
The big question today is could someone new to Mac/iOS get started with Obj-C with all of the modern kit and documentation (seemingly, not having done an extensive audit) to be Swift based.
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by whartung 3y ago
Seems ironic. Real ironic was the day the LA (Los Angeles) DWP (Department of Water and Power) declared drought water restrictions on a day we got so much rain we almost had Lake San Fernando Valley. The Sepulveda Dam Recreation area did, i
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by whartung 3y ago
I don’t see any tool working if you’re not disciplined. Organization is just a facet of that.
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by whartung 3y ago
Is this based on Hemlock, or was it written from scratch? I really, really want a graphical emacs. By that I mean, I want an emacs with graphics, not an emacs in windows. I want to easily be able to draw stuff. I ran into this the other day
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by whartung 3y ago
> have you ever had a moment where you needed a bucket next to the toilet? Why yes, yes I have. Was but one leg of my journey to discover I have some allergy to clams. Thankfully, the bathtub was close enough to the toilet to mak
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by whartung 3y ago
It is paid and ad free. You just have to pay the new rate. Perhaps they should have raised the rate of base Prime, and then offered a lower priced paid w/ads option. But there was probably an issue with the annual holders in that case.
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by whartung 3y ago
Who would like to do the math on how big the shade would need to be and how long it would take to reach a tipping point?
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by whartung 3y ago
Here's a quick overview. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Time-Shared_BASIC#String_ha... The key detail is that HP BASIC dimensions the individual strings, where MS does not. Since the HP strings have dimensions,
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by whartung 3y ago
I find coding in Lisp to be very comfortable. If I ever decided to pull the trigger and swap [] for (), it would remove a large portion of the "chording" that happens with coding. And I by "chording" I refer to the shift
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by whartung 3y ago
I’m not a tax attorney but companies have been destroying product for loss purposes for ages. Motorcycle companies crush inventory to take the losses. I’m sure any company with excess product does similar things. I’m guessing they do it bec

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