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by xxr 3y ago
Presumably all their F# runs on .NET--if their goal was simply transitioning to a language with a broader talent pool, wouldn't they "just" migrate the project to C# instead? I'm wondering if this is less about "the
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by xxr 3y ago
I’m interested in learning where you’re from—I’d assume outside of North America/Western Europe? I take familiarity with it so much for granted that it’s fascinating that someone’s familiarity with it comes from Narduwar.
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by xxr 3y ago
The author of this piece (Nicholas Pileggi) later wrote the books that became the Martin Scorsese films Goodfellas and Casino (and wrote the screenplays for these as well). More than anything, he seems keen on capturing exactly how these gu
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by xxr 3y ago
Andy was close with family members of mine, and I regret that I did not get the opportunity to know him better.
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Andrew M. Weiner: A Brilliant Mind, an Inspirational Mentor, and a Real Mensch(engineering.purdue.edu)
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by xxr 3y ago
It’s a ligature defined in https://github.com/IdreesInc/Miracode/blob/main/src/ligature...
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by xxr 3y ago
Liking Rivers Cuomo for his code and not for Weezer is the most Weezer thing I've ever heard
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by xxr 3y ago
Absolutely--I'd click a link, and it would feel like the page had already been in memory.
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by xxr 3y ago
I remember a very specific rastering effect with loading images, probably around 1994-1996? The image would load every nth line and then iteratively nth line + i until i==n. Compared to what I would see later (just loading in every line fro
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by xxr 3y ago
And Tomoyasu Hotei didn't release "Battle Without Honor or Humanity" (the autoplaying MIDI) until 2000 ;)
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by xxr 3y ago
A favorite instance of mine is Rolly Crump, who did a lot of design work for Disney theme parks but also created the iconic branding for Ernie Ball guitar strings.
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What's New: January, 1994(home.mcom.com)
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by xxr 3y ago
Here’s the particular explanation I remember reading a few years back: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/11535
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by xxr 3y ago
When all the thoughtlord talent is finally and permanently collected into an enumerable initialism, so no thoughtlord feels any insecurity at being excluded from FAANGMAULTALONRIP.
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by xxr 3y ago
> they used to say INMATE but that word has gone out of fashion Is this due to some kind of “political correctness” thing coming from well meaning people outside the system that the system is pleased to accommodate for easy brownie point
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by xxr 3y ago
The classic rock version of finding Jane Doe [0] Perhaps one day we'll finally find out who's on the back of Abbey Road? [1] [0] https://www.kerrang.com/model-from-converges-jane-doe-cover-... [1] https:/&#x
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by xxr 3y ago
Heh, I never realized where the initialism came from. (I had always guessed LySergic acid Diethylamide, but I never felt like that made sense.)
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by xxr 3y ago
"Ah, neat, a new programming language." >Frink Applet "Ah, neat, a programming language that has eluded my attention for quite some time."
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by xxr 3y ago
Additionally: * Once the bottom falls out, bag-holders get burned, but the collective nightmare is over.
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by xxr 3y ago
How will that argument go?
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by xxr 3y ago
“You won’t believe how many words the Sinhalese have for monitor lizards!”
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by xxr 4y ago
Yep—once a month when an issue came in the mail, it was like a bomb went off
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by xxr 4y ago
Should include the classic disclaimer: >The stories and information posted here are artistic^wmechanically generated works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.
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by xxr 4y ago
Not US-only, but it appears that Sweden is indeed one of the countries that no longer supports it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_wave#Use_in_Europe
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by xxr 4y ago
“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” I'm sure that a back-and-forth with Julie Kavner and Dan Castellaneta doing those exact lines would still give me the biggest side-splitting laugh of 1996.
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by xxr 4y ago
God, that’s so clowny. I have to assume that it was a decision made by “smart people who know better” (just like everything outside my professional domain that perplexes me), but you could post this exact side-by-side to /r/movies
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by xxr 4y ago
I first learned about the idea from SimCity 2000[0]. Not saying it was the impetus here, but I wonder what amount of the continuing interest in orbital power is due to SC2k. (I suspect my experience is not unique here on HN, but I wonder ab
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by xxr 4y ago
They all could have just been basic rich people pulling $600k[0] a year at Jane Street, but they just couldn’t get enough. [0]This number is completely made up and betrays my total lack of knowledge about what finance people make.
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by xxr 4y ago
I was at the Australian Museum a couple weeks ago, and when I looked at the dinosaur skeletons I realized that one of the most confounding things future paleontologists would discover at this sedimentary layer would be all the completely in
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by xxr 4y ago
Except our metaverse doesn’t even have the Black Sun

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