Youtube comments of Lawrence D’Oliveiro (@lawrencedoliveiro9104).

  1. 8:12 He was actually forced to create Git. What happened was that BitKeeper was made available as freeware to the Linux developer community, hedged around with a great deal of caveats. One of these was “no reverse engineering”. Torvalds felt for some reason he could agree to these terms on behalf of the entire Open Source community. So when Andrew Tridgell was commissioned (by the FSF, I think) to reverse-engineer BitKeeper’s formats and protocols, Torvalds ordered him to stop. To which he responded in the predictable way. So Larry McVoy gave notice of the termination of the BitKeeper licence. Torvalds went off to ruminate on things for a couple of weeks, and came back with the beginnings of Git. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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  2. This is what happens when your leader plays golf and sulks over his re-election loss while the country burns.
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  3. Come for the jokes, stay for the mini-one-man shows. Never lose them, Seth. Never lose them.
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  4. Fun fact: there is a book called “JavaScript: The Good Parts”. There is no book called “PHP: The Good Parts”.
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  5. 1:52 “Make sure everyone’s on the same page.” Flips to a different page
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  6. 18:01 RIP John Conway, sadly a victim of COVID-19.
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  7. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Reality doesn’t.
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  8. What’s it like to be working again for a boss who respects you?
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  9. One political party has completely abandoned any pretense of playing by the rules, and is just out for a naked power grab, at whatever cost, democracy and rule of law be damned.
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  10. “Build the wall!” ... wasn’t that the wall your guy promised to build? Instead of which he spent most of his time in office playing golf?
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  11. The separation between the S and T servers is the separation between authentication (proving you are who you say you are, done by S) and authorization (what services you are allowed to access, controlled by T). Each one can be updated independently.
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  12. Note to all translators of international content: yes to subtitles, no to dubbing. Let me hear their voices!
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  13. I just learned this new term: “voteflake”. That’s his supporter fanatics who still insist he won the election.
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  14. 1:07 She can’t help corpsing, can she ...
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  15. 6:36 Probably good to mention by this point that “I” stood for “in-phase” and “Q” for “quadrature”. That is, these were the 0° and 90° components extracted from the phase-modulated chrominance signal. If you think of this signal as a point moving in two dimensions, the direction of the point from the centre gives you the hue, and the distance from the centre is the saturation of the colour.
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  16. Stanislaw Lem once wrote a story about an inventor who created a machine that could make anything beginning with the letter N. He told it to make nimbuses, noodles, nuclei, neutrons, naphtha, noses, nymphs and naiads, and it did them all. Then he asked it to make natrium. “Never heard of it,” said the machine. “What? But it's only sodium. You know, the metal, the element...” “Sodium starts with an S, and I work only in N.” “But in Latin it's natrium.” “Look, old boy,” said the machine, “if I could do everything starting with N in every possible language, I'd be a Machine That Could Do Everything in the Whole Alphabet, since any item you care to mention undoubtedly starts with N in one foreign language or another. It's not that easy. I can't go beyond what you programmed. So no sodium.”
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  17. You mean the way the digits add up to 9? Imagine a planet where they use hexadecimal, and some little alien child discovers a similar pattern in their F-times table. Yes, maths is universal in that way.
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  18. 12:05 It becomes easier to tell once the percussion and rhythm kick in. Full-spectrum sound really brings out the difference.
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  19. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  20. “26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody!” --- Bilge Egates
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  21. I have long had this suspicion that right-wingers don’t really have any positive policies of their own, they define themselves strictly in terms of being opposed to everything liberals stand for. So they are ideologically opposed to all of Obama’s success stories--the Affordable Care Act, the Iran nuclear deal, opening up relations with Cuba--but they have no clue about anything resembling a credible alternative. It’s all about destroying the opposition, not about constructing anything worthwhile in its place.
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  22.  @maxlife459  It’s not clear that the universe has a beginning or an end.
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  23. Don’t use an RE to parse e-mail addresses.
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  24. 3:37 Note that each λ represents a function definition: so “λx.λy.x + y” is not (directly) a function of two arguments: it is a function of one argument (x) returning a function of another single argument (y) which returns the sum!
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  25. 5:38 That “security” aspect was a bit of a joke in the early days, when Red Hat installers tended to load on everything by default. A client of mine got hacked through a vulnerability in the SunRPC service, which we weren’t even using.
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  26. Here’s a key acronym to remember about GPUs: “SIMD”. That‘s “Single-Instruction, Multiple-Data”. It has to do with the fact that a GPU can operate on a hundred or a thousand vertices or pixels at once in parallel, but it has to perform exactly the same calculation on all of them. Whereas a single CPU core can be described as “SISD” -- “Single-Instruction, Single-Data”. With multiple CPU cores, you get “MIMD” -- “Multiple-Instruction, Multiple-Data”, where each instruction sequence can be doing entirely different things to different data. Or in other words, multithreading. So even with all their massive parallelism, GPUs are still effectively single-threaded.
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  27. 6:30 I like this bit from “Halloween II”: An important attribute to note which has led to volume drivers is the ease with which you can write drivers for linux, and the relatively powerful debugging infrastructure that linux has. Finding and installing the DDK, and trying to hook up the kernel debugger and do any sort of interaction with user-mode without tearing the NT system to bits is much more challenging than writing the simple device-drivers for linux. Any idiot could write a driver in 2 days with a book like "Linux Device Drivers" — there is no such thing as a 2-day device-driver for NT This tells you why Linux has better hardware support than Windows.
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  28. 13:10 I’m sure “minus” was a term promoted by the Sony/Philips group just to make the DVD Forum grit their teeth every time they heard it. ;)
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  29. Remember how Putin insisted, before the war, that he had no plans to invade Ukraine? Maybe he wasn’t lying after all: maybe he really didn’t have any plan. Just point his troops at the border, tell them “go on, then” and hope for the best.
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  30. There is a saying: “If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth overdoing”.
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  31. 2:56 The key lies in observing that each half of the original data block does not go through the F-block to get to the next stage. The only use of the output of the F-blocks is to xor with data blocks. And xor is reversible: xoring with the same bitstream twice gives you back the original bitstream. That’s why the same sequence of bit-mashing works for both encryption and decryption. It really is that simple.
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  32. 0:52 I used punched cards in a University summer job. The keypunch was a think an IBM 129 unit -- it actually had a memory for storing the contents of a card. You keyed it all in (you couldn’t actually see the characters you were keying, just a column count), then pressed the Punch key to actually punch the card, and if there was a mistake, you just advanced to the column where the error was, fixed that, and punched a new card from the updated memory.
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  33. 0:30 “Comforting pile of flapjacks” sounds pretty good right now ...
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  34. GCC could be made more modular internally, for example by adding a plugin API. However, this was resisted for a long time by Richard Stallman because he was afraid it would be (mis)used to hook proprietary code into GCC and thereby evade the GPL. This allowed LLVM to get an edge in areas where GCC could not compete.
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  35. In civilized countries, parents do not have to worry about buying bulletproof backpacks to try to ensure their children survive their school years.
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  36. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” — Arthur C Clarke
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  37. Why do people value Adobe software so much? Open-source products are designed to enable you to do things, not hold you back: GIMP, Inkscape, Krita, Blender ... lots of them. And you don’t have to be dishonest to use them!
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  38. The irony being that he was a linguist, but linguists found little or no use for his mathematical innovation. The computer scientists, on the other hand, lapped it up.
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  39. 6:53 Actually you’ve got it upside down; higher signal levels correspond to lower luminance levels (darker), while lower levels are higher (lighter). It was done this way so that transients caused by interference would random dark dots instead of random light dots, and the former were considered to be less noticeable.
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  40. Well, you know, he’s only been President one day, and already 400,000 Americans are dead.
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  41. 1:38 “Apolish our police departments” ... the ones with the bad apples in them? Apple apolishing, perhaps?
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  42. Yup, while Darnella’s footage was the centrepiece, there were quite a few other clips as well. Basically, the evidence against Mr-George-Floyd-Killer was overwhelming. Even so, his conviction was still in doubt. And he might appeal. And no doubt his Police Union still backs him all the way.
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  43. SpliffsNotes could take off, particularly abong the cool kids. Weed like to think so.
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  44. I like the headline The Register did on Elon’s flight: “Good news: He went into space. Bad news: he came back.”
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  45. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  46. Did a search of “no longer deprecated” on the PHP website, and found quite a few hits. E.g. on the “OOP model” page: “5.1.3 Changed: In previous versions of PHP 5, the use of var was considered deprecated and would issue an E_STRICT level error. It's no longer deprecated, therefore does not emit the error.” Or how about: The “instanceof” operator was introduced in PHP 5. Before this time “is_a” was used but “is_a” has since been deprecated in favor of “instanceof”. Note that as of PHP 5.3.0, “is_a” is no longer deprecated.
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  47. 16:26 One hilarious ad I remember from this time is made up to look like a newspaper, “The Highly Reliable Times”. The “headline” was the London Stock Exchange choosing Windows NT over Linux to run their trading system. Not long after this, there was a massive failure of said system, which cost traders millions. Microsoft tried to blame it on some kind of “network issue”. Soon after that, the Windows NT system was ripped out in favour of ... a Linux-based one.
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  48. In 2016 when Trump addressed their rally, he promised to abolish gun-free zones. And he was saying that in the middle of a gun-free zone!
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  49. They want credit to go to their guy. Credit for all the good stuff, no blame for any of the bad stuff. Just like the god they worship, really.
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  50. I remember in 2016 Trump addressed that NRA convention and promised that he would get rid of gun-free zones. And he said this in a gun-free zone!
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  51. 4:09 The amusing thing about that leader of the Oath Keepers is he is a living, breathing testament to the oxymoron that is “gun safety”.
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  52. 4:18 Those behaviours may be “surprising” and “counterintuitive”, but they are not “undefined”. They are defined in the language spec. Actually, a lot of the things in that list make perfect sense. For example, “NaN” may stand for “not a number”, but it is a valid floating-point value according to the IEEE-754 spec. Every modern computer implements floating point according to this spec, and every modern programming language likewise respects this behaviour in its floating-point type.
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  53. Zelenskyy has been travelling again, this time to Western Europe. When he visited 🇬🇧 PM Rishi Sunak, he got applause from the staff as he entered Number 10. That’s not something that happens every day.
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  54. If he calls it a “terrorist” attack, isn’t it the implication that it came from inside Russia?
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  55. Trump is now trying to scapegoat the WHO. They gave the warning to the entire world as soon as they knew about it, but he spent months downplaying and flat-out denying that there was anything to worry about. Now his country is suffering badly, while others who took the warnings more seriously and acted in time were able to deal better with it. Yes, China should have told us all about it three weeks earlier. But that doesn’t excuse Trump’s inaction.
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  56. Seth Meyers just pointed out that complaining about losing lots of followers just about the time that Twitter has announced the removal of large numbers of “fake” accounts is ... displaying somewhat dubious judgement, don’t you think?
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  57. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  58. This guy even lost money on a casino. If you can’t make a profit in a situation where your victims customers are literally throwing their money at you, what does that say about your business acumen?
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  59. When you keep interrupting somebody who is trying to answer your question, that seems to indicate you don’t really want to hear the answer.
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  60. Yes, Windows source code has been leaked, I think more than once. And yes, it is just as embarrassing as you might think it is. There was some include file where the exact number of spaces on a particular line had to be kept unchanged, otherwise the build script would break. There was a comment that said “we are morons” next to it.
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  61. 3:15 “Scooby Sandwich of Crime” shall be my phrase of the week. Oh, and his Shaggy impersonation is five-star. ;)
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  62. 2:17 “MARATWA” -- “Make America Respected Around The World Again”.
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  63. Sounds like a good place to set up an interplanetary tech support service. “Good evening, you are talking to Glork. Haumea help you?”
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  64. “No one expects accuracy in a TED talk.” Sssssss ...
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  65. Putin’s credibility is gone. The façade of invulnerability, without which no strongman can operate, has been severely dented. And the fact that the ringleader seems to be getting away with it just makes it worse.
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  66. Unless the question was “why is half your brain missing?”
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  67. When infowmation is lost, it cannot be wegained.
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  68. Ever notice you never see Prigozhin and Pope Francis in the same room together?
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  69. The reason why you are kept awake during brain surgery is so that the surgeon can get immediate feedback if they get anywhere close to cutting something they shouldn’t. The brain has no pain sensors, so the patient doesn’t actually suffer (much) discomfort. I read once about this virtuoso violinist, who actually kept playing during his surgery, so the surgeon could be sure no damage was done to that precious skill. Of course, your head is completely immobilized, otherwise the accuracy of the cutting would be jeopardized.
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  70. When CISA announced this had been “the most secure US election ever”, Trump was so conflicted. On the one hand he wanted to take credit for such an accomplishment happening on his watch, but on the other he is still trying to insist the Democrats stole the election from him. He managed to combine both claims into one tweet! Edit: for reference, his tweet is here https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1327279929319432200
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  71. 7:50 Some people might be accustomed to other VCSes which automatically assume that every change you have made to your working copy is to be included in the next commit (e.g. Subversion works this way). Git doesn’t do this -- it requires you to explicitly add changes to the “index” to be included in the commit. This is because Git recognizes that you often make multiple sets of changes -- for example, while fixing one thing, you notice something else that needs fixing, that is quite unrelated. So when you actually get round to committing your changes, you can pick and choose which ones go into the same commit, and which ones to leave for another separate commit. And some things, like debug message lines, can be left out altogether.
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  72. If it’s any consolation, the Republicans’ attempts to invalidate Democrat-leaning votes are getting, shall we say, mixed results. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/2/judge-rules-nevada-ballot-counting-legal-in-blow-to-republicans https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/1/texas-court-denies-republican-led-effort-to-reject-houston-votes Even an all-Republican-leaning panel of judges cannot be trusted to rule the Republicans’ way!
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  73. “Each time the Republicans lose the presidency, there are internal reviews that say they need to broaden their base. In practice, they swing further right. So much so, that what had been the loony fringe at the start of the process becomes their centre.” -- Larry Beinhart https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/13/even-without-the-senate-democrats-can-get-a-lot-done/
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  74. Making every vote count the same is called “proportional representation”. It’s how voting works in Germany; the system was put in place after World War II to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. And it worked so well, we here in NZ copied it. It does almost inevitably lead to coalition politics: you get a range of political parties in Parliament, none with a clear majority, so they need to figure out how to work together to get things done. But most of us see that as a feature, not a bug. Time for the US to give it a try?
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  75. He claimed the NY Times report was “fake news”, but he didn’t actually come out and say he was paying more in taxes than that. Now I hear he’s claiming the data was “illegally obtained”. But that means it must be true!
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  76. The “My Cue-Card” guy.
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  77. In order to be unified with quantum theory, gravity needs to be a force. But if it is a force, then it has to be transmitted by a gauge boson (call it a “graviton”). However, such particles cannot travel faster than light. And in a black hole, even light cannot escape. Therefore gravitons also cannot escape a black hole. But if gravitons cannot escape a black hole, what propagates the gravitational attraction to the outside of the black hole?
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  78. Also, “stand your ground” + “no-knock warrants” = recipe for tragedy.
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  79. As the saying goes: “Ba-dum-tish!”
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  80. Some people, faced with the problem of comprehending a presentation on regular expressions, like to distract themselves with a well-known and overused Jamie Zawinski quote. Now they have two problems ...
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  81. I remember in the mid-1990s, working on the first automation system for the NZ DNS registry, and learning Perl at the same time. The script we started with (from the Australian registry) was storing 2-digit year numbers. A (presumably more experienced) colleague immediately said not to worry about it, that there was no way our particular software would still be in use by the end of the century. I disagreed and insisted that years be stored as 4 digits. That was purely out of instinct, which turned out to be correct.
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  82. 1:33 Two keys, not three for triple DES. That’s what it says in Tanenbaum’s Computer Networks text, 4th ed, page 740. You encrypt with key K₁, decrypt(!) with K₂, then encrypt again with K₁.
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  83. You can play with the sound effects, as the old Goon Show used to do: (Doorbell rings) (Footsteps along passage) (Footsteps down flight of stairs) (Footsteps along passage) (Footsteps down flight of stairs) (Footsteps along passage) (Footsteps down flight of stairs) (Footsteps along passage) (Footsteps down flight of stairs) Henry: “I can’t understand it. We live in a bungalow!”
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  84. 1:17 ... and their mode of response when this fact is pointed out is “I know you are but what am I?” The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  85. 13:23 Bear in mind on Linux, if there isn’t an official update for, say a binary in /usr/bin, I can install my own build from source in /usr/local/bin, which will hide it. It’s easy enough to remove that later, when the official binary is fixed. Similarly for libraries (though that might have more consequences I haven’t thought through here...)
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  86. Turing also published a groundbreaking paper in an entirely different field, namely biology. He was considering the issue of how the amorphous mass of cells making up a fertilized embryo can suddenly decide that this is its “front” and this is its “back” and that is “the left side” and that is “the right side”.
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  87. Those are just the colours of the car-jumpsuits.
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  88. 1:16 Space before colon, but not after comma. ‌twitch‌
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  89. With friends like him, who needs enemies?
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  90. It’s not just new features being added, but some old ones dropped as well. The one that comes to mind for me is the X font server capability. Nowadays all GUI apps do their font handling client side (e.g. using FreeType and Fontconfig). There is still the concept of “X fonts”, and the display server still supports text-drawing calls. But I suspect these don’t get a lot of use these days.
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  91. I think a time limit might be more effective than cutting the mic. Every time either side starts talking, the timer starts running, even if it’s not their turn. Then when it is their turn, if they find they’ve run out of time, tough.
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  92. 5:14 Rust (FeO, Fe₂O₃) is not magnetic (much). The iron oxide used in magnetic tape is magnetite, Fe₃O₄. Oh, and it also appears they use the γ-form of Fe₂O₃ (maghemite).
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  93. 7:03 What’s really bad is that the second r in “Corporation” is not capitalized as well. “TelePrompTer CorpoRation” ... now isn’t that better?
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  94. My attitude to comments is that they shouldn’t say just what the code does (the code itself does that), but why the code is doing what it’s doing. Perhaps a comment on the regular expression could be expressed on the same basis.
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  95. Ah, binomial theorem, my old nemesis, we meet again.
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  96. When I brought that up in an online discussion once, the conspiracist started insisting that the very Cold War itself was fake.
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  97. 7:33 Actually only 170K of the ROM was used. The other 80K had digitized pictures of the crew that created the product. To see the slideshow of the pictures, hit the interrupt button and, and the “>” prompt, type “G 41D89A”. Note that the only way to stop the slideshow is to reboot the machine.
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  98. Previously, it was Twit-rated. Now it is X-...?
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  99. I tried doing the same. Not long after that I discovered computer programming. And I figured out how to do a first-order binary search between two points on the curve, one with positive Y and the other with negative Y, looking for the zero point. And I also figured out that the solutions for the (n+1)-degree polynomial, if they existed, lay between those for the n-degree polynomial which was its derivative. All this was before I actually got my hands on a computer for the first time.
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  100. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  101. I don’t see why they’re squeamish about the term. It’s only used for recovery of unmanned boosters, after all. A passenger rocket, on the other hand ... “Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We are due to land at Luna Base in 20 minutes. Landing maneouvres can be a little bumpy, so please make sure your seatbelts are fastened and your trays are returned to the upright position.” “Cabin crew, take your positions for suicide burn.” “AAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!” “Dammit, Fred! Next time check the PA switch to the passenger cabin is off before announcing that part of the procedure!”
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  102. I recently discovered “text properties” and “overlays”, which let you customize the display of selected regions of text in a buffer. For example, you can define custom buttons which perform actions when clicked -- basically, Emacs becomes a simple GUI toolkit.
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  103. 10:27 The WHO already had a working test, but the US refused to use that, instead preferring to develop their own. Which it turned out didn’t work, so it had to be withdrawn and redone before trying again. Wasting precious time while the virus continued to spread.
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  104. I learned a new word today: “vatniki”. It comes from the word for a kind of warm jacket, but it refers to people who prefer to bask in the warm glow of not thinking about things, of having implicit trust in their leaders ... regardless of the consequences.
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  105. Aka the “Super Mario” approach to scripting ... Well, he was a plumber, wasn’t he?
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  106. 1:52 As a software guy, I resent the idea that a ground-breaking OS with integrated graphics engine could not be “technological innovation”. Remember, this thing let you interact in real-time with on-screen drawn images using just a CPU running at 7.8MHz, with no hardware acceleration!
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  107.  @nneeerrrd  More Android devices ship per year than the entire Microsoft Windows installed base.
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  108. So you end up hiring a lot of constipated staff...
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  109. 11:50 It may be instinctive to MS-DOS-experienced users to type “*.*”, but remember such a wildcard will only match names with a dot in them. To match all names, type “*”.
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  110. 1:01 Overlooking the fact that C++ is already so insanely complicated to begin with, that it becomes exponentially harder to add new features without tripping over undesirable interactions with existing ones. Python 2→3 was one big bang of breakage, and evolution since then has been able to proceed much faster with minimal backwards-compatibility trouble.
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  111. The original plan was to make an educational machine that could only run Python code. The developers were surprised to discover that it would actually be cheaper to make it a full general-purpose computer. And so they did.
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  112. I set up an MTA for a client that identified itself to a HELO as “Sendmail 8.8.8”. Of course it wasn’t really Sendmail, let alone such an ancient version. The security auditors even made a comment when they saw that, but of course there was no actual vulnerability, so nothing they could really complain about.
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  113. That, and the fact that their “end-to-end” encryption wasn’t end-to-end at all, it was end-to-middle, middle-to-end. They were also criticized for using AES-128 instead of AES-256, but really AES-128 is fine.
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  114. Lois’ voice is not only hard to keep up, imagine expressing a range of emotions while maintaining that voice. That takes skill.
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  115. The correct answer is: “We run a private company, under the expectation that the Government doesn’t get to tell us how to manage our own business.”
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  116. 10:23 That’s OK, we salute you for trying ... a 21-gon salute. Thank you, thank you, I’m here all week.
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  117. 10:32 Mitt Romney ... henceforth known as “the only Republican with a conscience”.
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  118. 1:47 The key thing to identify this situation (in the “top” display, or output from the “free” command) is to look at “available” RAM, not “free” RAM. The former includes cache usage, the latter doesn’t. So don’t worry if the latter is small, so long as the former still shows some useful amount.
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  119. 10:02 And one nice thing about scan codes is they don’t distinguish between modifier and non-modifier keys; it’s just “key «n» has been pressed” and “key «n» has been released”, it’s up to the software to decide if key «n» is a modifier key or not. And you can distinguish between e.g. left-shift and right-shift (they have different scan codes), and implement other fun custom behaviours.
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  120. A few years ago I wrote a modest-sized Python script that could generate curves of various types--trochoid (spirograph), Lissajous, Maurer rose, spirolateral, nested polygons--with different parameter settings, colours etc, and let some children play with it on the Linux computers at a local community centre. As kids do, they came up with some ideas I hadn’t thought of. Like what happens if you use a huge pen thickness, for example several hundred units? Yes, you get a fun blobby curve that way.
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  121. He wants it both ways. It was always a hoax, but he came up with a vaccine for it anyway. Just like he agreed with Chris Krebs that the 2020 Presidental election was the “most secure ever”, yet in the same breath still managed to insist that the Democrats had somehow stolen it from him.
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  122. 9:25 No, that’s not actually a literal “$”, it’s actually “\$”. According to the bash docs, “\$” is expanded to a “$” for a non-root user, or “#” for a root user.
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  123.  @ko-Daegu  Fun fact: collage is an art form consisting of cutting and pasting.
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  124. Being antiliberal also means being unable to retain long-term memories.
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  125. 9:54 Back when Ethernet was expensive, Apple developed its own, cheaper† “LocalTalk” layer-2 connection system for its AppleTalk protocol stack. Besides the much lower bandwidth and lower-spec wiring, another way they kept the cost down was to omit the collision-detection hardware. An Ethernet node could notice if someone else started transmitting while it was doing so, but LocalTalk could not. Instead of being “CSMA/CD” (the “CD” standing for “Collection Detection”), LocalTalk was “CSMA/CA” (the “CA” standing for “Collision Avoidance”). †Yes, “Apple” and “cheaper” in the same sentence. Not something that happened very often, even back then.
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  126. I thought it was one of those “famous quotes that the person never said”, but it’s true -- he’s apparently even said it more than once.
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  127. Five words: “Protected Media Path”.
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  128. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” — Arthur C Clarke
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  129. Imagine: the home of the most advanced military power, with access to all the best cutting-edge classified sensor equipment, and they are completely stymied by a few lights in the sky.
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  130. Remember he took money from the military training budget to throw away on his wall? And he still couldn’t get it done.
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  131. Overly complicated, overly expensive, far too prone to problems (particularly software problems). They even had trouble with the laptops that were used to do diagnostics and software updates--it had to be this specific weird model of laptop, nothing else would do. And when they broke down, that was it.
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  132. Probably to avoid the notorious C mistake of using an assignment when you meant to do an equality comparison.
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  133. Reality has a Liberal bias, don’t you know?
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  134. His good friend Sam Bankman-Fried told him it was the hot new thing.
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  135. Also, don’t forget why mammalian testicles are outside the body: they don’t like being warm. What I want to know is, how come that doesn’t apply to bird testicles?
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  136. Here’s a trivia question. In C++, you use “new” to create a class instance on the heap; when declaring a class instance on the stack, you don’t use “new”. In Java, all class instances live on the heap. So you would think that “new” would be redundant, and would have been omitted (as in Python). Yet Java still requires “new” for creating class instances; why?
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  137. 7:27 If you watch the SF film The Last Starfighter which came out this same year, its CG is just streets ahead of anything from around the same time. These were rendered on a Cray X-MP super. The cost of the computing time was a third of the entire movie budget, and the result took up a similar portion of the movie running time.
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  138. ... something something Jerry Falwell Jr something pool boy something something ...
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  139. 13:53 “Open source code”? Never. In fact, AT&T sued the BSD people just a few years later over their inadvertent inclusion of a few lines of Unix source .
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  140. There is a term for this: it’s called “grandstanding”.
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  141. I keep adding to my Emacs customizations little by little, just as I need them. My published emacs-prefs repo is currently up to about 1500 lines of Elisp code, and it took over a decade and a half to reach that point.
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  142. 3:31 The Electoral College wasn’t designed to give more weight to rural areas, it was designed to give more weight to slave owners. In other words, not a good example to emulate!
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  143. After so many decades of trying to claim “liberal” doesn’t mean what it says ...
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  144. What happened to the “more than you can imagine” that Giuliani was supposed to have found in Ukraine?
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  145. 3:56 ALGOL 68 had its own terminology for so many things: types were called “modes”, addresses/pointers/references were called “names”, and instead of saying “input/output” or “I/O”, they coined the term “transput”.
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  146. 16:00 Actually, if you look at the man page for dd, the synopsis says “convert and copy a file”. When it was being created, it couldn’t be called “cc”, because that name was already used for the C compiler. So the author used the next letter on, and called it “dd”. This has also (semi-facetiously) been interpreted to stand for “data destroyer”, in recognition of what can happen if you get certain parameters wrong ...
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  147. Statements were not limited to the length of a single line. FORTRAN had continuation capabilities (put any character other than blank or “0” in column 6) since the beginning.
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  148. Yuge sections. The best sections.
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  149. 4:34 Perhaps more importantly, MINIX was only available under a non-Free licence: you had to buy a copy of Tanenbaum’s textbook in order to get the licence. Linus wanted something he could use and redistribute freely, and that others could also use and redistribute freely.
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  150. Ahh, but are they “thermodynamic photon blasters” (incandescent bulbs) or “quantum photon blasters” (LEDs)? Or even “plasma photon blasters” (fluorescents)?
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  151. The god they worship is the one that takes credit for all the good stuff, but none of the blame for the bad stuff.
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  152. The F-35 wasn’t even supposed to be the “high-end” fighter -- that role was reserved for the F-22. But as the cost kept going up and up, suddenly the F-35 wasn’t the cheap option any more.
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  153. 22:53 This was true. Deliberate vendor-introduced incompatibilities between different Unix platforms was what killed it. But it also allowed Linux to step into the breach. And conquer the entire computing world.
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  154. 15:13 You could leave out both the “await” and the “async”. So “send‗async‗request” becomes a regular function which returns an awaitable.
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  155. That GUI reminds me a lot of Blender, for some reason...
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  156. If any taxpayer money went into the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine (the first one off the ranks, remember), it was from 🇩🇪 or 🇪🇺, not 🇺🇸.
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  157. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  158. Easter eggs are normally something you have to use some specific action to trigger. Like one version of old MacOS from 1993 or so had a little breakout game hidden in the “About This Macintosh” info window, that you had to press some combination of keys to activate. This way, the “leetle joke” does not impede the normal functioning of the software in any way. In fact, it becomes something “only known to a select few” (that you can feel smug about).
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  159. Remember “rake the leaves”?
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  160. A joke for linguists: Carissimus Dei.
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  161. You should meet this guy who got a BSc in Agriculture, and now plays with the Royal Philharmonic.
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  162. “Make a sentence with “metadata”.” “I never metadata I didn’t like.”
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  163. Voting has stopped. He has (deliberately?) conflated “voting” with “vote- counting”.
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  164. 13:23 “Adaptation” ... you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means. “Adaptation” means “changing behaviour to cope with changed circumstances”. It doesn’t mean “trying to continue as before, as though things will be fine”.
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  165. In all the best democracies, every vote counts equally, and the ones running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  166. Yes, in the USA it seems it has become normal.
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  167. “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” -- John Maynard Keynes
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  168. The Teamster guy forgot to ask about stock options.
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  169. Unfortunately, when you only have two parties, you don’t get much of a choice. The best democracies manage more than two parties.
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  170. It is the illegality that leads to abuses, because it operates underground and those being exploited live in fear of reporting those abuses for fear of being prosecuted themselves. This is why many countries, including here in 🇳🇿, have legalized it.
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  171. There was the time I lost my grip on reality ... oh wait, that never happened.
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  172. Jordan Klepper’s segments show their mindset in all its naked glory. George Orwell had a name for it: “doublethink”.
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  173. 2:55 Jupyter notebooks can support a range of languages. It started as IPython, which was Python-centric. And while Python is still the foundation and implements the Notebook API, there is a range of kernels allowing you to run other languages in notebook cells.
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  174. 7:43 This has been such a historically popular way to dispose of your opponents, it even has its own name: “defenestration”.
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  175. 8:35 True story: they get bred so plump and round, they can no longer mate without falling off.
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  176. 0:37 The Russians also have something else: sponsorship placards.
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  177. 6:10 A common use for mouse-moved events is changing the mouse pointer, e.g. making it an I-beam pointer when the user moves into a text field, to indicate that they can type there.
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  178. CP/M was strongly influenced by DEC minicomputer timesharing operating systems of the 1970s. The name “PIP” (“Peripheral Interchange Program”) for the file management utility is exactly that of a corresponding DEC utility found across several of its OSes. Only of course the DEC versions had a lot more functionality. One thing, though: DEC OSes had multi-character device names; pity CP/M had to “simplify” them down to a single letter.
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  179. George Orwell had a term for it: “doublethink”. Remember the chants of “read the transcript” from people who had never read the actual transcript, or ever intended to?
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  180. They don’t even have to try to make sense any more. Seems their followers will continue to follow, no matter what. It’s like, to them, “sanity” has become secret code for “radical Left”.
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  181. Prophets are not necessarily people you can get along with personally.
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  182. This is what happens when you put the ascendancy of a political party over the well-being of the country.
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  183. “Rally Lite” -- “Tastes great, less filling”.
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  184. Mexico has two problems: the USA and the USA. It is US money that is paying for the illicit narcotics that are being smuggled north, and it is also US guns being smuggled south that helps the gangs survive. Dealing with one while ignoring the other will not work.
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  185. 1:56 Best to distinguish between the X protocol (or perhaps “protocol family”) versus XLib, which is just one implementation. Remember there is at least one other popular implementation, XCB, which gets rid of various responsiveness/performance bottlenecks in XLib, while still implementing exactly the same protocol.
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  186. There’s the gag about a man who got a Christmas card from his doctor, but he couldn’t make out what the message was. Then he remembered who was the only person in town who could read the doctor’s hadnwriting, namely the pharmacist. So he took the card round to that establishment. The pharmacist read the card, then took a bottle down from the shelf and said “That’ll be $4.75 please”. (It’s an old joke...)
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  187. In fact, LibreOffice is known for being able to handle corrupted MS Office documents that MS Office itself gives up on. Python scriptability is quite common across open-source products like GIMP, Inkscape etc. I also mention Blender because Photoshop users seem to spend so much time and effort trying to create faux-3D effects, when they can have access to something much more powerful and realistic -- but not from Adobe.
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  188. 5:47 If you think about it, the OSI seven-layer model included a “presentation” layer, between “transport” and “application”, that nobody could fit into the reality of TCP/IP very well. But SSL/TLS fills that layer very nicely.
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  189. Consider that the Linux kernel runs on over two dozen major processor architectures, which is close to one for every year it has been in existence. And you can get full Linux-based development/deployment stacks on all those architectures. Open Source software finds it much easier to port to new architectures than proprietary software does. Consider, for comparison, that Microsoft has been struggling for over a decade to try to get Windows running in a useful fashion on ARM, and the odds of having Windows on RISC-V are essentially zero.
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  190. Someone tried to submit a bug report to Microsoft over trouble with Powershell scripts on Linux. Microsoft rejected it, on the grounds that it had to remain bug-for-bug compatible with the Windows version.
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  191.  @joyphillips1821  So you call something “Fake news” when it did actually happen? No, the Republicans had no right to attend the closed-door hearing. The law giving the Democrats the power to keep them out was passed by ... the Republicans.
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  192. I think the midterms have proved that they have thinned out a bit ... perhaps even in the Darwinian sense.
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  193. The judge certainly seemed to agree with Aldrin.
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  194. “This President has committed an illegal operation and will be shut down.” Well, we can dream...
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  195. Every time you hear a Forever Trumper speak, you think that has to be the dumbest thing ever. Until the next time they open their mouth ...
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  196. That is the surprising thing. When you consider the armed response to the Black Lives Matter protests, this time they were almost welcoming to Trump’s Fascists.
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  197. Wonder why the Secret Service doesn’t agree that “more guns make people safer”? Haven’t they been attending NRA services meetings?
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  198. My microwave is also an oven. It’s a combo unit. Very handy. Though I miss the first one I had, an LG with a rotisserie attachment.
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  199. At least XML allows comments.
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  200. This is why, all the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for. You can’t really have a functioning democracy with just two.
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  201. That woman who was in bed with her boyfriend, when the cops come in with a no-knock warrant without identifying themselves. So the boyfriend fires his gun, thinking he’s defending against a home invasion, and the cops shoot back and ki
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  202. 9:41 Remember, none of these public keys is confidential. The problem is, you have to trust they are authentic, that they really came from the people they say they’re from.
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  203. A couple of significant notational differences between C and Pascal are, when declaring variables, C inherits the Algol syntax of type-spec before variable name: “«type-spec» «var-name»” whereas Pascal invented its own syntax: “«var-name» : «type-spec»”. And also pointer dereferencing: C uses a prefix operator “*«pointer-val»” whereas Pascal has a postfix one: “«pointer-val»^”. This may seem very tomayto-tomahto, but consider how C++, which inherits C syntax lock stock and barrel, is now trying to deal with newer features involving dependencies between types, for example between the arguments to a function and its result type. It now finds that, in addition to the C syntax of putting the return type before the function name, it also has to add an alternative syntax where the return type comes after the argument list, à la Pascal. As for the pointer issue, this may not occur very often, but back in my Mac programming days, more than once I had to write an expression like “thePort^^.theGDevice^^.gdPMap^^.pmTable”, which in C would have had to become “(**(**(**thePort).theGDevice).gdPMap).pmTable”. (These were structures defined for interfacing to the Mac system, not created by me.) Which would you prefer?
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  204. 20:23 This is where “quality of service” (“QoS”) comes into play. TCP/IP allows for marking packets with indications as to whether timeliness of delivery is more important than reliability of delivery: that is, if a packet is taking too long to be delivered, it might as well be dropped rather than delivered too late to be of use.
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  205. Attacking Ukraine from Belarus isn’t the problem. The problem is that Lukashenko’s position is precarious enough as it is, he is hated so much by his people that if he drags them any further into this conflict, he will find himself strung up from a convenient tree outside his Presidential Palace.
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  206. 12:42 He loves the military so much he diverted funding from them to build his wall.
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  207. You could say it was “detentive” ...
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  208. 10:43 Tip: the “-y” option tells it to overwrite an existing output file without asking. Yeah, it can be dangerous ...
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  209. Just so long as you don’t have to put in more energy than you get out...
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  210. When Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered, an IDF spokesperson went on the record as saying that a Palestinian with a camera was just as dangerous as a Palestinian with a gun. In other words, the feeling is mutual.
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  211. Back when Microsoft was calling Linux a “cancer”, it made a big noise about the London Stock Exchange choosing Windows Server over Linux. Even put out an ad featuring a fictitious newspaper, the “Highly Reliable Times”, touting the story. Then that big, embarrassing crash happened. The Windows Server systems were ripped out and replaced with ... Linux.
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  212. Yes, but Autodesk has by far the bigger advertising budget. Telling people how wonderful you are tends to count for more than actually putting out a superior product.
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  213. And the wall between 2D and 3D animation crumbles a little more ...
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  214. 3:49 FFmpeg is actually a suite of tools. Besides the “ffmpeg” executable, there is also “ffprobe” for analyzing the structure of media files, and “ffplay”, which is a basic command-line-based media player. Plus there are a bunch of underlying libraries (libavfilter, libavcodec, libavformat, libswscale etc), that apps can link directly against. Myself, I have written a few programs that made use of FFmpeg. In every case so far, it was easier to spawn the standard FFmpeg executables and feed them suitable command lines, than to try to make use of the libraries myself.
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  215. 3:06 You don’t get two dings as the toast is going down? (Sorry, just been watching your elevator-sound video.)
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  216. About talking you are what.
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  217. Police attacked mourners and made them almost drop her coffin. Then arrested one of the guys who was trying to stop it from dropping.
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  218. Unfortunately, it’s expensive to be a politician in 🇺🇸. That’s why one who can survive without being bought by lobbyists, like Bernie, is such a rarity. Not many are tough like him.
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  219. Even if it detonated after being poured into the propellant tank, that still wouldn’t be much use. Ignition ≠ detonation.
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  220. 16:00 The infamous power button, located right where you might expect to find an eject button on non-Mac machines...!
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  221. “Our country is more important than one man. Our constitution is more important than any one man’s career. On January 6th, Former President Trump demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. I chose the Constitution and I always will.” -- Mike Pence
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  222. “Does this document look deleted to you?” “It’s got a ketchup stain on it. Does that count?”
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  223. By the way, greetings to 🇨🇦 from 🇳🇿. We went through our lockdown. We went hard, and we went early, while other countries were still dithering about, or outright denying there was a problem (∗cough∗ 🇺🇸 ∗cough∗). It was a painful, misterable time. But it paid off. Now we have our own fragile little bubble. And as long as we keep watch, we get to have a Christmas. And music festivals. And cinemas. And shopping malls.
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  224. You didn’t mention Ada, which was an offshoot of Pascal created as the result of a competition held by the US Department of Defense, to create a language suitable for doing systems programming for safety-critical and mission-critical systems. There is still Ada code in use today, for example controlling the life-support systems on the International Space Station (running on Intel 386 processors, with no Microsoft code anywhere in sight).
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  225. Call it the “Hollywood mentality”. Too many movies and TV shows have the guy with the biggest guns/bombs winning the argument. And then the story ends, as though there are no consequences afterwards.
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  226. The old hand-over-a-bunch-of-money-without-admitting-guilt gambit. Works nearly every time.
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  227. Maybe he’s not into the whole rubber S&M thing...
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  228. In their eyes, ideology > science. I’ve been thinking about the concept of a “Conservative” being someone who is supposed to prefer how things were in the past. But their memory of how things were in the past seems very limited and selective. Those who actually make a point of studying how things were in the past, and learning from the lessons of history, tend to get branded “Liberals”.
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  229. Basic arithmetic is also a lapdog of the Radical Left, don’t you know?
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  230. In his honour, instead of #hashtags in future, let us have £poundtags.
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  231. If the President were elected by popular vote, a Republican would never hold the position again.
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  232. You can put “.” in your $PATH variable to avoid this, if you want. In the early days of Unix, this was done as standard. Then it was realized what a security hole it could be, so nowadays it is not done as standard, and it is not recommended that you add it.
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  233. The promotion of guns is rationalized in terms of fear of not having one. So now you have a gun, but the fear doesn’t go away. So when you encounter an unexpected situation, one of your first thoughts is to use that gun, just in case. After all, the other person might have a gun, too.
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  234. 10:47 “Dismissal without prejudice” means “you can bring the case again”. “Dismissal with prejudice” means “judge says, piss off and never come back”.
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  235. The lesson for the US is: put together a democratic election for your own leaders. What’s funny is, the NZ proportional-representation electoral system is copied from the German one. This is the one put in place by the Allies after WWII to ensure that a dictator could never get power there again. Even though the US had a hand in creating it, it looks nothing like the US system. Maybe what’s good for the goose is good for the gander? Maybe the US should try out the system it helped to implement?
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  236. Peer pressure is an incredibly powerful thing. You look at examples like some formerly mild-mannered schoolteacher in Cambodia who ran a prison where essentially nobody came out alive, and realize that the barrier to that sort of thing happening doesn’t have to be that high, once you start destroying the credibility of your institutions.
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  237. Remember when Trump promised to make it easier to sue journalists for libel?
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  238.  @trowawayacc  Sure. And 24% of casualties in the First Gulf War were due to “friendly fire”.
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  239. All he did was reinvent VMS, and carry over the anti-Unix culture from DEC. This is why the entire rest of the computing world is now dominated by Linux.
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  240.  @IceMetalPunk  Code can only do what it does. Comments that describe what the code does are obviously superfluous, but ones that explain why it is doing what it is doing should be essential. How could code ever be “self-explanatory” in that way? It cannot.
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  241. Old Arab Proverb: He who knows and knows he knows -- he is wise, follow him. He who knows, and knows not he knows -- he is asleep, wake him. He who knows not, and knows he knows not -- he is a child, teach him. He who knows not, and knows not he knows not -- he is a fool, shun him.
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  242. 1:10 Multics had some features that would still be considered advanced today. For example, something still lacking in present-day Linux is the ability to share ownership controls over a set of files/directories between more than one user. Linux has ACLs, but there is no ACL entry conveying ownership privileges, like there was on Multics.
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  243. Complete, coherent sentences with a beginning, a middle and an end.
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  244. Surely a majority vote is one of the important checks and balances in a democracy. Without it, you could have a situation where, say, 30% of the populace installed a leader that 70% didn’t want.
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  245. When you’re that far gone, what’s a little H₂S between friends co-conspirators?
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  246. The three basic objects in Git are blobs, trees and commits. A blob represents the contents of a file, and is identified by the SHA-256 hash of its contents. A tree associates names with blobs, and represents a snapshot of source tree contents at a point in time. A commit holds a pointer to a tree, and to zero or more parent commits, as well as information about who did the commit and when, an explanatory comment etc. Trees and commits are also represented by SHA-256 hashes of their contents. This is why a commit holds pointers to its parents, not to its children; because once the commit has been created, it cannot be changed (e.g. to add child pointers) without losing its original SHA-256 ID. Branches and tags are just pointers to particular commits. They have no associated SHA-256 hashes, so they can be added, removed and changed at any time.
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  247. 12:36 No need to worry about DIP switches, IRQs or any of that nonsense. Plug-and-play! In 1987!
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  248. I can remember a computer consultant I met once, whose job it was to help people with their FORTRAN code, stating that he would never even look at a user’s program unless it had IMPLICIT NONE at the top.
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  249. Someone else just pointed out: he took more territory in Russia in 8 hours than he managed in Ukraine in 8 months.
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  250. 7:44 Wow, a reporter who knows what “viral load” means. I doubt she works for Fox News ...
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  251. 7:21 And the Koreans also managed to hold a general election in the middle of their coronavirus containment measures. And not mail-in votes, but actual personal voting. Every voter had their temperature taken as they came to the polling stations, and those with temperatures were not turned away, instead they were sent to a separate section to cast their vote. You hear that? Nobody was turned away from voting, not even those who might be infected!
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  252. Peeling quaternions can apparently do that to you.
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  253. “Never challenge a librarian when it comes to free speech.” I love that. #WordsToLiveBy
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  254.  @bubbawilliams  Didn’t Reagan get rid of that?
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  255. If the President was elected by popular vote, it seems likely a Republican will never occupy the White House again.
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  256. Vendor certifications have always had a short shelf life. They also seem to be a tidy revenue stream for the vendors concerned. I would say avoid them all.
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  257. Emacs is an editor. It doesn’t just edit text. I’ve used it to patch binaries, too.
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  258. Imagine waking up from a hangover to find a strange OS on your PC ...
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  259. So has Python. And Python isn’t limited to 18 decimal digits.
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  260. Emacs doesn’t just have a GUI, it also provides a GUI toolkit you can access from Elisp code. Think of how the menus, status line, windowing etc are implemented -- yup, all in Elisp.
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  261. 20:37 Interprocess communication I thought would be a big one: the ability to pipe data directly between running processes, rather than having to go through temporary files.
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  262. Looking at their “roadmap” page, several of the issues they cite seem not to be relevant any more. Also, the irony of wanting to build new GPLv3 components on top of one of the notoriously GPL-allergic BSDs seems to have been lost on them.
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  263. Jupyter does rich output and interactive widgets. Quite handy for teaching/exploration purposes.
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  264. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  265. 7:04 Notice the only kind of recursion allowed is tail recursion—there is nothing after the B that occurs in the substitution for B itself. This can be implemented with simple iteration, without a stack. Otherwise, it would no longer be a Type 3 grammar.
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  266. Trump ... “law-abiding life” ... “paid all fines and restitutions” ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
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  267.  @captiannemo1587  Stock is exactly what I was thinking of. Slightly surprised the Teamster guy didn’t think to ask about that.
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  268. I think the whole Snap/FlatPak idea was created to accommodate proprietary software vendors. They find the idea of 300+ Linux distros too horrible to contemplate. So by just providing a self-contained installation in a cross-distro format like this, they don’t have to worry. They probably won’t want to support theming anyway, and proprietary developers like to think they control your machine and they know best where to put stuff. So corralling them inside a Snap/FlatPak helps to reduce the havoc they can cause.
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  269. Remember, Cutler had just left DEC in a huff, after they cancelled his project to create a successor to the VAX and VMS. So he went to Microsoft and basically reinvented VMS. Windows NT was supposed to be portable across multiple architectures, yet in the end, every single non-x86 port failed.
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  270. Seems like America’s “greatness” can’t have been much if it magically disappeared the moment he left office.
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  271. A “magitain’t”. Or “magnitain’t”.
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  272. 3:41 Tip: You can do “git show --raw «commit»” to get a list of the files affected by that commit. You can similarly list the files affected by each entry in the log with “git log --raw”.
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  273. 1:31 pdfinfo (part of the poppler-utils package) will show info about PDF files such as titles. But these don’t always match the text you see on the title page of the document.
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  274. In physics, the electron has a wave function that has to be rotated through 720° to bring it back to its original orientation. #Relatable
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  275. They follow a religion that rewards faith, not just in the absence of evidence, but directly contrary to the evidence.
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  276. That particular writer was known for writing stories about enigmatic, baffling events where the characters have no idea what’s going on. Like one about a trial where the person on trial is not even told what the charges are.
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  277. 13:15 So when did “amber” enter the language? “Gamboge”?
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  278. 1:23 Interesting that they were able to intercept calls between Hamas operatives over this misfire, yet nothing about the planning in the leadup to the whole offensive.
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  279.  @joermnyc  Oh no, 🇺🇸 is not in the top league of the democracy index. They are down in the “flawed” section.
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  280. This speaks of a certain mentality towards guns. Remember, most of those mass shooters got their guns legally.
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  281. Putin has completely miscalculated, hasn’t he?
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  282. 6:57 There is another technique, called “pipelining”. Or, in industrial terms, you set up an “assembly line”, where one person just butters the bread, and passes the slices onto the next person to put in the cheese and slap them together. Modern CPUs use this technique as well as multiple processors. And then there’s also caching.
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  283.  @billyoc4927  That didn’t apply in 2016. Why were they not permitted at the NRA convention then?
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  284. That’s always the case, though: individuals working at the company may seem like perfectly reasonable, intelligent people. But still the corporate culture aggregates them together into an organization that is collectively capable of some remarkably stupid and arrogant things.
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  285. Anybody remember the London Stock Exchange brouhaha? Microsoft made a big deal about the LSE choosing Windows NT to run its real-time trading system -- even put out a fake newspaper ad titled “The Highly Reliable Times” with that as its headline. And then there was this massive outage. I think the system was down for several days. Microsoft tried to blame it on “network issues”, not Windows NT itself. But not long after that, the LSE ripped out that Windows NT system and replaced it with Linux.
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  286. It’s one of those things, you think it’s one of those famous phrases that were never actually uttered, like “Beam me up, Scotty!”. Then you discover it’s entirely true, he does actually say it.
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  287. If every vote counted equally, it’s likely a Republican will never occupy the White House again.
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  288. That’s incredible. Because witchcraft accusations are so notoriously based on circular reasoning, which simply ignores any attempt at refutation.
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  289. 5:05 Actually, any material created for payment from the 🇺🇸 Federal Government, that would ordinarily be under copyright, is legally in the public domain. It would be nice if other Governments did the same. And also nice if it could apply to patentable things as well.
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  290. Because socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works. Hi from NZ, basically a nation of secular godless socialist liberals. Who value democracy.
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  291. Pro world-leader tip: if you are trying to dissuade your neighbours from joining a defence pact against you, threatening their security is going to achieve the opposite effect.
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  292. Joschka Fischer quite famously said he didn’t believe a word of what Bush+Blair were claiming about Saddam and Iraq. He got that right.
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  293. 0:51 There is a similar thing in book/magazine printing called “imposition”. This is where you arrange the printing of pages in fours on double-width sheets so that when they are folded in the middle and stacked and bound together, the page numbers end up in the correct sequence.
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  294. GIMP is more innovative than people realize. For example, its GEGL pixel engine can natively handle images with 32-bit floating-point pixel components, which Adobe Photoshop still struggles with.
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  295. Funny how so many Republicans are getting sick. It’s almost like the Democrats are conspiring with the laws of hygiene to bring them down.
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  296. 2:59 OS/2 for PowerPC never shipped. In fact, this is the first I heard that it ever existed.
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  297. Death-Methal.
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  298. For some years now it has been my practice to have the OS install in its own partition, even with only one drive. Allocate one partition of, say, 50GB for the OS, and a second one of the same size, initially left unused. All the rest is for /home. On today’s multi-terabyte drives, this is no big deal. What’s the second OS-sized partition for, you may ask? That’s if you want to try out another distro without wiping out your original OS install. You can point its /home directory at the same one used by the first install, and have all your user files immediately available under the new OS without having to copy them back and forth.
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  299. This guy has been all round his own front lines to meet face-to-face with his own troops, even in the most dangerous place, Bakhmut. Meanwhile, the other guy stays in his opulent palaces, far away from any actual shooting, sitting at those huge tables so even when people visit him they are still kept far away.
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  300. That’s how their religion works. So of course they start assuming that’s how you’re supposed to think about other things.
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  301. Putin is determined to make the Ukrainian people suffer for his own incompetence.
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  302. A coupe is too small for Prigozhin’s ambitions; he wants a whole sedan now.
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  303. If there was any “spite”, it was not on his part, but on that of Larry McVoy in cancelling their BitKeeper licence.
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  304. Fun fact: Citroën also had a guy named Paul de Casteljau working for them. He was a pioneer in the use of certain mathematical formulations of curves for designing shapes (like those of car bodies) on a computer. Those curves have since become universal in computer graphics--if you’ve used any kind of drawing app, you will have come across them. But there was another similar pioneer working at another French car company, Renault, who got the credit (and the name) for these curves. Pierre somebody, as I recall.
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  305. Remember Saddam Hussein’s information minister, who kept denying the Iraq invasion was succeeding, even while the tanks were approaching Baghdad? Trump’s supporters have been taking lessons from him.
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  306. Seems a lot of these analyses are very complex. Remember the supposedly-faster-than-light neutrinos being detected at Gran Sasso? They checked everything they could before publishing, and even then, it was three years, as I recall, before someone found the mistake.
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  307. On the entertaining side, now we have one group of Republicans accusing another group of Republicans of being in league with dead Communists, or something. Seems like one lot of loonies are trying to out-loony another lot. With luck, the Republican party is simply going to implode.
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  308. Actually, the first transistors were germanium, not silicon. And other materials have been tried as well, e.g. gallium arsenide. Also note that the “doping” process uses such tiny traces of the additional elements to make such a big change to its electrical properties, the substrate would still for many purposes be considered “chemically pure”.
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  309. Their loss of followers just happened to happen at the same time as Twitter closing thousands of QAnon-linked accounts. You really think they should be wanting to draw attention to that ... “coincidence”?
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  310. Perhaps something that doesn’t care about security is best characterized as “asecure” ...
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  311. Every time I hear the term “cowboy”, I wonder where the “cow” is. Shouldn’t they be “horseboys”?
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  312.  @jla1977  They are pretty much all American-made, yes. The USA is the easiest place in the world to get hold of guns. Lots of guns. The gun makers are well aware of the illicit traffic, but they turn a blind eye to it, because it’s good for business.
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  313. 27:05 That is the inevitable fate of every GUI architecture, to get more and more complicated over time. There are no “simple, efficient” GUIs.
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  314. And his inexhaustible patience and good humour.
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  315. There is a saying: “Every country gets the government it deserves”. Ardern is a product of the society she leads. Using USian terms, NZ is a nation predominantly made up of secular liberals with a high respect for science and low tolerance for dogmatic ideology and “faith” and other such reality-optional doctrines. The Government gets a high credibility rating because it treats the populace with respect.
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  316. You practise by spending a few months in a war zone.
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  317. Easy way to tell: monkeys have tails, apes don’t.
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  318. She’s fairer than I am, and I’ve been called “white”, too. Scientifically, “race” is a pretty dubious concept, anyway. Time to leave aside the politics and recognize that?
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  319. He complains about having to face NATO. But NATO has not yet even begun to fight!
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  320. Wasn’t one of Trump’s campaign promises to make it easier to sue journalists for libel? Actually, I don’t think he actually followed through on that. But you see the irony ...
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  321. By all means, check the references that are given.
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  322. 4:22 That GUI is called “CDE”. I remember using it on DEC Alphas.
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  323. 12:15 “Boring hunk of junk” ... actually an apt description of every piece of real-world technology that we rely on to work reliably to get through our lives. If ever space travel becomes routine, that will apply to spacecraft as well.
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  324. 5:57 Presumably it’s actually a “geodesic”, i.e. the shortest distance between those two points.
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  325. It’s like waiting for the bus: you stand around forever, and suddenly 34 of them arrive at once.
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  326. Back in their day, they could rock without ’em.
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  327. 4:56 It would be easier just to say that inodes limit the maximum number of files you can create on the volume, regardless of the space they occupy. So if you run out of inodes, you cannot create any new files (or directories), you can only extend existing ones.
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  328. So who divorced whom? Which one of these looked at the other and said, “I’m sorry, he’s just too crazy, I don’t want to work with him any more”?
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  329. 11:43 Militarization of the police just seems an inevitable reaction to the great wash of guns out there. How else are police to act when anybody they come up against could potentially be armed? It seems to me an essential part of the whole process is getting rid of the guns.
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  330. KVM isn’t something you “install”, it’s just another standard capability of the Linux kernel.
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  331. Legendary Unix-hater, refugee from a nest of them at DEC. He is the reason why Windows needs WSL today.
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  332. I think all the well-known ones have been thoroughly covered by this point. I can think of one or two obscure ones. For example, 3D workstation companies Stellar and Ardent were acquired by the same investors, who forced them to merge into Stardent--did they manage to achieve anything interesting before fading into oblivion? Then there were Alias and Wavefront, who also combined together. You don’t hear much about these any more (though the memory of Alias|Wavefront lives on in the “.obj” format, still popular for 3D data interchange, because of its sheer simplicity).
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  333. 5:19 Isn’t this also where the “CIRC” (“Cross-Interleave Redundancy Checking”) comes in? The bits are arranged in a pseudorandom scrambled pattern (which is unscrambled as part of the decoding process), so that any contiguous run of errors on the disc is spread across a larger area after unscrambling and affects a smaller proportion of bits within that area.
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  334. Is this the beginning of a trend? Or just a flash in the pan? Time will tell.
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  335. 11:06 Talking about hollowing out, today I hear that there are mass layoffs among US medical staff, even as coronavirus infection rates continue to rise. Why? Because most of the high-revenue elective surgeries have been cancelled to deal with the virus, leading to a cashflow crunch, and Wall Street investors want their money back before the health-sector investment funds collapse.
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  336. 9:46 Two screensaver modules I find particularly fun are “BSOD”, which is a collection of system crash screens from more different OSes than you have heard of, and “XAnalogTV”, which puts up a random picture as though it is being shown on an old TV set with really bad over-the-air analog reception. That latter one does an amazingly faithful recreation of all the crappiness that you used to see on actual TV: noise, ghosting, distortion, rolling, you name it.
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  337. If you remember, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Ukraine agreed to give up its nukes, leaving Russia as the sole nuclear-armed remnant of the original nation. In return, it got security guarantees from various parties, including Russia. Now we know how worthless those “guarantees”, from that one party at least, have turned out to be ...
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  338. Better for number-crunching. Wipes crumbs from mouth
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  339. Considering most of the Jesus freaks enthusiastically supported Trump ... “‘Jesus’ ... you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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  340. His whole mini-one-man shows are a delight.
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  341. “When Hong Kong demonstrators throw stones at the police in Hong Kong, that’s considered to be heroism in the American press. When in Myanmar, the demonstrators throw slingshots at the ... oppressive army, they’re considered to be heroes in the Western press. When Palestinian kids throw stones at the Israeli solders, they’re called terrorists.” — Gabor Maté, a Holocaust survivor
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  342. The world’s most popular DBMS is so widespread, you probably have a copy literally within arm’s reach right now, in your purse or pocket. It’s SQLite, and it ships with every Android smartphone.
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  343. NZ is basically a nation of secular godless socialist liberals. Because that’s the only way to run a democracy. ;)
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  344. 80% of evangelical Christians support Trump. When you prize “faith” in the absence of evidence -- indeed, that is directly contrary to evidence -- this is where it leads.
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  345. And you have explained, in less than 6 minutes, more than I have been able to gather from the local TV news reports (both channels).
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  346.  Yuki Babayega  More people voted for Clinton than Trump. The election was stolen from her by your slavery-era Electoral College system.
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  347. 7:51 Church and his student Kleene did some interesting work with the λ-calculus. For example, they showed how mathematical paradoxes (like Russell’s paradox) could be represented by expressions that could be manipulated logically without the whole world collapsing about your ears. Mathematicians go to great lengths to try to ensure that their theories are free of paradoxes. But I think λ-calculus shows how you can tame the paradox and not be afraid of it.
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  348. A variant of that joke is to set the wallpaper to be filled with copies of the mouse cursor image. Now try to find your mouse ...
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  349. In other words, you cannot properly automate GUI testing, but algorithms can certainly be tested.
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  350. 5:44 Wow, is he going to change campaign managers after every rally from this point on?
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  351. 1:43 Not coincidentally, 2004 is the year that XFree86 made that notorious change to their licensing conditions, provoking the Xorg schism and, one might argue, actually revitalizing X11 development.
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  352. Impeachment proceedings may not seem useful at this stage, but if he’s found guilty, he would be barred from public office for the rest of his life.
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  353. ill the woman. Or that case just a few days ago, when the cops knock on this door (it wasn’t even the right address they were supposed to go to) and nobody answers. I don’t think they identify themselves as cops this time, either. A little while later somebody comes to the door with a gun, and the cops immediately open fire and ki
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  354. The story by Edward Murphy involved a jacket being worn by a volunteer undergoing g-force experiments on a rocket sled. Except every time they launched the poor guy on the sled, they kept getting back readings of zero. The jacket had accelerometers sewn into it--not just one, but a whole bunch of them, to measure forces at different points. Each one could have been put in the right way, or the wrong way--you’d think, by chance, that about half of them would work. But they had all been put in the wrong way round.
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  355. Smallpox is now officially eradicated. And we are this close to doing the same to polio. Measles and others could follow, too, if it weren’t for the anti-vaxxers.
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  356. 4:45 “Not a questionable astronomical unit” ... so, not less than 12 parsecs, then?
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  357. 2:12 In a lot of the OS calls that take PIDs, PID 0 is understood to refer to the current process.
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  358. Maybe not impeach him right away, but sneak up on it: implum him first, then imapricot him. Kind of work your way up the stone fruit, if you get my drift.
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  359. “For the Econo-ME!”
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  360. GPL is Free software. The only thing about the GPL is that it forbids you from taking away the freedom of others. Fun fact: the Linux kernel is also under the GPL. Yet you have no problem using that, do you? Or how about Samba, which is GPLv3? Got that deployed in your organization? Most likely you do.
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  361. 10:49 Games can run quite fast on X11, by making use of modern extensions such as XRender and shared memory sections. The legacy baggage doesn’t need to slow things down if you don’t use it.
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  362. IBM Selectrics were also often adapted for use as computer output devices. It was basically a matter of replacing the printing electronics that were driven by the keys, with circuits that could be driven by impulses from the computer.
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  363. This is why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.
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  364. Worth mentioning the fundamental schism between “LISP-1” (e.g. Scheme) and “LISP-2” (e.g. Common LISP, Emacs LISP) languages. The first kind put both function names and variable names into a common namespace, while the second kind put them into separate namespaces.
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  365. 7:22 Ah, those were the days, when the numbers could double because of one ship ...
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  366. 5:44 “He’s keeled over.” “OK, we got to leave the mine now.” “Wait -- aren’t we supposed to take him too -- oh, never mind.”
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  367. Heart cells will beat in a Petri dish in a lab. Does that make the cell culture a human being?
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  368. They keep saying this is just normal “democracy” in action. So you can expect this sort of thing to continue for the next two years.
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  369. Russia complains that it is effectively fighting NATO, yet NATO has not yet begun to fight!
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  370. A lot of tools use FFmpeg behind the scenes, without you realizing it.
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  371. 14:50 It’s not two “sides”: the tracks are still on the same side of the tape. They are simply positioned in-between the tracks recorded in the other direction. So you have four tracks along the length of the tape — two stereo pairs, recorded in opposite directions.
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  372. Key points to remember about Python: * Every name you can define is a variable. This also includes function and class definitions: they are not declarations as in other languages, they are just special forms of assignment statement. * Every value (that you can return from an expression, put into a variable etc) is an object. * Functions and classes are also objects. * Every object is an instance of some class.
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  373. They may not be turbining anything, either. A turbine needs a duct with impeller and compressor fans in it. A bunch of blades moving in open air is called a “windmill” regardless of whether it’s actually connected to any kind of “mill”.
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  374. 7:11 Remember that the Free Software Foundation explicitly recognizes many non-copyleft licences as Free licences. So even in Stallman’s terms, “Free Software” does not have to imply “GPL” or “copyleft”.
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  375. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  376. 2:31 “touch” is the standard command-line tool for fiddling file timestamps.
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  377. And he’s entirely happy to laugh at himself, and admit that when he’s being portrayed on SNL, that’s not a good sign for the health of the country. Just something comforting about that. And I say that even though I’m from 🇳🇿, where we have our own Fauci, a certain Dr Ashley Bloomfield. The difference being, our administration has been supportive and respectful of him and the other experts right from the get-go.
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  378. Paradoxically, they are a type that is very likely to rise to positions of power.
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  379. The term for those artifacts is “mosquitoing”. They are the image equivalent of “ringing” in digital audio.
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  380. Nokia were the kings of mobile, until they hired Elop as their boss and he took them down the Windows Phone route. That’s when the company died.
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  381. It was JFK who got the US involved in Vietnam.
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  382. 2:10 The later term for this separate processor on the ARPAnet was “Interface Message Processor” or “IMP”. It was probably necessary because IBM mainframes did not like to be interrupted for every little bit or byte of data -- their I/O was done through elaborate “channel” processors which could be given sequences of operations to perform without bothering the CPU until the sequence was complete -- or some unusual situation arose (e.g. an I/O error). This probably also eased the problem of implementing the network, because the IBM OS wouldn’t have been interactive. IBM preferred terminals that operated in “block mode”, where you had fields defined on-screen by previous computer output, that you filled in locally, and nothing got sent back to the mainframe until you hit the “Send” key.
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  383. Too dependent on specific hardware features, which meant the architecture could not evolve without breaking all the software.
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  384. 7:22 “Personal” because it was a cheap enough purchase (5 figure price tag) to be OK’d by the head of an engineering department.
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  385. It was supposed to be “business-oriented” for the 1960s concept of “business data processing”. This meant fixed-field records and ISAM files, and certainly did not include dynamic string processing. Then, a decade or two later, relational databases came along, and became a rather important business need. And the best way of interfacing to these turns out to be via dynamic generation of query strings. Which COBOL can’t cope with very well. They did some nonstandard kludges to cope with this, but the reality is that even klunky old PHP is better at interfacing to relational databases than COBOL will ever be.
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  386. It won’t be enough to vote him out. The system needs to be fixed so a dictator like him can never take power in the US again.
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  387. The safest Easter eggs are the ones that will not appear in normal production use -- you have to explicitly invoke some (undocumented) function to trigger it. Like, for example, on particular festival days, if you were to click on the date (which would not normally respond to clicks), then this amusing but relevant animation will appear.
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  388. It’s a comment on the ridiculously convoluted arguments offered by conspiracy believers.
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  389. I use functional constructs heavily, and I like languages that support this (Python, LISP, JavaScript). But a pure-functional language just seems like a waste of time.
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  390.  @adamwallace7638  Poland, the Baltics, Sweden, Finland ... every country that shares a border with Russia knows they could be next.
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  391.  @gordonrichardson2972  The 486SX was a completely cynical marketing ploy. It lacked the (functioning) floating-point hardware, but you could buy a 487SX chip to add this. However, the 487SX was more than just a floating-point coprocessor: it was actually a complete functioning CPU. Plugging it in caused the 486SX to turn itself off and hand over all functions to the 487SX!
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  392. I thought that’s what Putin said: “Seal it so that not even a fly gets out”. He lied, as usual.
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  393. Just highlighting how much 🇺🇦 is considered an upstanding member of the international community, and 🇷🇺 is not.
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  394. They say life begins at conception. So what about citizenship?
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  395. Worth noting that Linux drivers are written, not for the brand name on the package, but for the chipset inside it. So for example umpteen different vendors might sell a doohickey with their own brand names on it, and also their own proprietary Windows drivers (which would likely clash with each other anyway), but on Linux there would be just one common driver, which can work with all these products, and also work with more than one of them at once.
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  396. 6:14 Unfortunately, the Java specification is barely smaller than the C++ one. So much for trying to “simplify” -- it just introduced its own complications ...
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  397. Reagan was one of those who first used “Liberal” as a swear word though, wasn’t he.
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  398. Because if they don’t support their own idiot, it makes the Democrats stronger. Remember, party is more important than country!
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  399. I just love what Robin Williams said: Canada is like living in a really nice apartment over a meth lab.
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  400. I wonder how you can commit to any compliance requirements for a piece of proprietary software that you don’t control. At best you can commit to “being up-to-date with all vendor patches” -- I can’t see how you can do better.
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  401. “Computers” have been around for centuries. The term used to mean “person who did calculations”, before machines did them.
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  402. Then there is the problematic ALIS software that Lockheed-Martin offers to manage F-35 deployments: basically, you cannot buy an F-35 without also installing this software. That is supposed to do parts and maintenance management, which it manages to screw up in an endless variety of ways.
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  403. Emacs: the world’s most powerful editor. Does ∗your∗ editor’s extension language understand closures and lexical binding? Emacs’ Elisp does. Notice I didn’t say “text editor”, I said “editor”. I have successfully used it to edit binary files.
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  404. 0:53 Also worth mentioning filesystems, network protocol stacks, and security management, as additional important parts of the kernel.
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  405. 18:43 The first LaserWriter we got, took so long to image graphics pages, that I named it “Deep Thought”. It was built around the legendary Canon LBP-CX engine, also used in HP LaserJets of the time. That thing could really cope with abuse--i.e. high print loads.
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  406. Newton’s Third Law, action = reaction; contemplate the Zen of physics: when you a press a key, the key presses back.
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  407. He seemed to think his troops could just walk in. He had no idea that the people of 🇺🇦 actually care about their country. It’s not clear what he’s trying to achieve with his invasion any more.
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  408. Newsmax can post a clip like that with absolutely no sense of irony whatsoever.
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  409. They did something like that on Apollo 10.
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  410. “Calm is when Gaza is bombed, villages are invaded, homes are bulldozed, journalists are shot, ambulances are attacked, mosques are vandalized, schools are tear-gassed, and Palestinians are massacred...” “Calm shattered is when Palestinians finally respond.” — Remi Kanazi
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  411. Wow, I thought you were some kind of conspiracy nut. Then I realized you meant “thrust”, not “trust” ...
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  412. Voting him out won’t be enough. The system needs to be reformed so a dictator like Trump can never get power again.
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  413. Ah, I see: from the source code, it uses oui-blendish, that’s why.
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  414. They say laughter is the best medicine. But then, that’s just what they want you think, isn’t it? twitch
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  415. In NZ, the politicians put country before party. The Epidemic Response Committee, which is monitoring the Government’s handling of the crisis, is actually dominated by the opposition National party. So basically every single one of the 5 parties we currently have in Parliament has some say in what is going on. That’s part of what, in a democratic nation, we might call “checks and balances”. Contrast the situation in the US...
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  416. That was obvious from the beginning. Remember he said the Constitution gave him the power to do anything?
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  417.  @janglestick  Lessig’s Law says “the one who writes the code makes the rules”.
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  418. Thumbs down if your calendar still goes by “AD”.
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  419. 32:13 I suffer a mental framing error every time I see YouTube UI cues (like the buffering animation) show up in a YouTube video I’m watching. ;)
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  420. 11:33 I think this “clean and minimal design” is a fashion idea promoted by Microsoft, because trying to do fancy 3D effects turned out to be such a disaster for them, in the resource-hogging Windows Vista.
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  421. Anybody else notice you never see Prigozhin and Pope Francis in the same room together?
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  422. Back in the 1990s, there were these things called “Unix workstations”. What made them “workstations” rather than “desktops”, besides the higher-end hardware, was that they included both client and server functionality together in one box. Somehow, Microsoft managed to persuade users that they didn’t need such a wide range of capability. Windows NT “Workstation” had its server functionality deliberately crippled (and being a bit cheaper also helped), and yet it still managed to wipe out the Unix workstations. So now what users had on their desktops was just a “desktop” OS. If they wanted server-style functionality, they would have to pay extra for a separate product: Windows Server. And not just that, but they would have to pay even more on top of that, for “CALs”, one for each user of a server function. So really the “desktop” segment could be seen as a creation of Microsoft’s marketing department, as an excuse for nickel-and-diming its customers to death. And somehow that has come to be accepted as the way things should be. Linux, on the other hand, is essentially the last standing “workstation” OS. It doesn’t play by the “desktop” rules. It offers full server-side functionality in the same box, with no “CALs” limits. Think of it as Usain Bolt, and the “desktop” market as a three-legged race; would you really complain that an Olympic-class runner would do so badly in such a pointless and trivial competition?
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  423. 1:56 Linux systems don’t tend to need defragmenting. But then, they don’t have a “Registry”, either. The problem with Windows is that it is so complicated inside, nobody at Microsoft understands how all the parts interact any more. Why else would it need to reboot 5 times during a system install?
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  424. Linux dominates the entire rest of the computing world, apart from the desktop. Everywhere there is a non-x86 architecture in use, Linux is there. This is why Windows cannot get traction outside the desktop, or anywhere outside x86. It is completely surrounded.
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  425. “Being powerful is like being a lady; if you have to tell people you are, then you aren’t.” -- Maggie Thatcher
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  426. Wouldn’t they have to fit into the lightbulb before they could begin scr—oh, never mind ...
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  427. You’d need a lot of heat to melt the water first. Remember it’s in the form of water ice that is literally hard as rock at the prevailing temperatures.
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  428. Unsalted butter ... eeuuwww.
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  429. “Look, never mind signing your name, just put an ‘X’.” “What’s an ‘X’?”
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  430. I call it “Lawrence’s Law Of Gun Debates” ... if these go on long enough, somebody is inevitably going to try to conflate the issue with cars. Here’s the difference: cars are constructive tools, not destructive weapons. A car can carry your shopping home from the supermarket. It can rush a loved one to the hospital. It can impress a date. Can a gun do any of these things? No. All a gun can do is blow holes in things. And people. Cars are designed with safety in mind. Even when you do hit someone or something, they are full of features to minimize the damage. Do bullets come with air bags or crumple zones? Of course not! When a gun is causing destruction, injury and death, it is only working as designed. A car is a constructive tool. A gun is a destructive weapon. End of story.
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  431. If you want a nice GUI-style viewer, KDE Konqueror recognizes “man://” and “info://” URLs. Those particular URLs give you browseable lists of what’s available.
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  432. Given the way the Electoral College works? 3 million votes weren’t enough to keep him out the first time; how many do you think will be needed this time?
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  433. 8:04 If you are wondering what “LibreJS” is: https://www.gnu.org/software/librejs/index.html
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  434. For a guy named DeJoy, he is so sad.
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  435. Besides being a slaveowner, he’s like the Microsoft of the Founding Fathers: great at popularizing ideas he didn’t invent.
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  436. 5:40 Yet when a talk show host asks you a question about it, you hang up on them.
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  437. Tucker Carlson already had to face a lawsuit, which he defended by testifying, under oath, that his program was to be construed strictly as “non-literal commentary”. 4:28 “Even his own employer admits that he cannot be trusted to tell the truth”.
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  438. Bernie could never be elected as leader under the US two-party system. That’s why all the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  439. Democracy cannot be based on religion, race, ethnicity or any other such divide. A democracy needs to cater for the welfare of all its citizens, and only a secular state can manage that.
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  440. That Constitution is part of the problem, though. The Electoral College is what helps keep Portland Mud in power, and the Second Amendment is killing too many Americans. Remember, law must be based on what is right and what is wrong, not the other way round. If a law conflicts with morality, it is the law that is broken.
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  441. 4:05 Not just a security issue: think about languages that require a front-end processor (e.g. Chinese/Japanese/Korean) to translate keystrokes into a large character set: putting this in userland makes it more flexible, replaceable, configurable etc.
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  442. One of the key things I learned from my CS courses is abstraction and layering. You start with the bare hardware, which is the most general machine possible because it hasn’t been specialized in any way. You put down the first layer of programming, which creates a new “abstract machine” that is better suited to some purpose you have in mind, but is likely less suited to something that someone else may have in mind. Then another layer on top of that, and so on. And every stage, each layer is replaceable and can be substituted with something else. For example, you get to the layer of the command-line shell, which can do a range of things. You can customize it by writing a shell script, which performs some function that is useful to you. But once you get to the GUI layer, that’s the end of all your abstractions. That’s because the GUI layer cannot be automated. So you cannot build any more “abstract machines” on top of it. It is designed to be directly controlled by humans, and that’s it.
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  443. Long-term, the demographics in the USA are moving towards a majority of Blacks and Asians and Hispanics and basically everything non-Anglo. I see this as the last gasp of the slave-owner mentality, pulling out every stop and sacrificing every scruple and semblance of ethical behaviour in order to maintain their grip on power. They seem prepared to trample on every part of the US Constitution🗡 in order to keep that power. 🗡Except one: the Second Amendment seems to be the only part sacred to them.
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  444. Straight from the fridge: I Can’t Believe It’s Not Trump™
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  445. The whole concept of tying the GUI inextricably into the OS kernel is one that should have been left behind in the 1990s.
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  446. He sits very close to the wheel.
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  447. They were comparing like with like, which sounds completely fair to me. Note that Intel’s Pentium 60 and 66 processors were pretty crap. The 90MHz chips they brought out the following year were the real killers that fought back against PowerPC.
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  448. Tyson has a bit more brash approach, more suited I suppose to today’s generation, who most likely see Sagan as a bit stuffy by comparison. (Me, I appreciate them both.)
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  449. That’s OK. Some of us were dreading his opening his mouth and putting his foot in it.
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  450. What he means is that Linux distros tend to integrate package managers that will automatically get the software and all its dependencies from known and trusted sources, rather than random websites.
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  451. 4:18 Fun fact: Imagination is what’s left of the company that used to own and license the MIPS architecture patents. As far as they’re concerned, that was yesterday’s business, and they have gone all in on RISC-V now.
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  452. 0:17 Command-line interpreters (CLIs) were not a revolutionary concept in 1971. After all, every interactive OS had them, and there were quite a few by that time. What was revolutionary was the idea that the CLI ran as just another ordinary process with no special privileges, rather than being built into the OS.
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  453. 8:10 Wondering when you were going to mention Blue Monday ! Note it wasn’t a disco piece by any stretch, though it obviously would have had trouble existing if the 12” format wasn’t already popular. Also note that FM radio took full advantage of 12” singles as well, since they sounded so good, and hi-fi stereo radio could really show that off.
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  454. 8:34 So lex was written by a guy named Lesk. So near, and yet so far ...
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  455. Other countries have regulations about corporate political contributions, including limits and reporting requirements. That kind of thing helps.
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  456. In a nutshell: socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works.
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  457. I’ve wondered why telephone numbers don’t have check digits. It would reduce the incidence of wrong numbers by 90%. Yes, it would make them longer. That mattered more back when they might only have been 5-6 digits. Now that they are commonly 7-8 digits or longer (particularly for mobile phone users), it seems less of an issue. Come to think of it, why are we still using telephone numbers? They’re an idea that dates from the 19th century. Why don’t we use 20th century Internet-based technologies, such as the Domain Name System? Use names, instead of numbers, to connect to people.
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  458. 6:19 I remember a description from the time that “pointers are the gotos of data structures”. And guess what: Pascal had gotos as well. Not even restricted gotos: they were a full implementation, including being able to jump out of an inner procedure/function call into an outer one. This was, of course, a way of doing exceptions before languages had the concept of “exceptions”.
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  459. 5:22 You can set your working directory to any subdirectory of a project directory. Git will automatically go up into parent directories until it finds one containing a .git subdirectory, or until it hits a filesystem boundary, at which point it gives up.
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  460. I wonder how to reconcile “we love you” with “some of them were Antifa”. Did Trump include those in his ”love” as well?
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  461. It’s his job as President to try to unite the country, not divide it. It will be a massive job, but he has volunteered for it, remember. Try your best to help him.
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  462. The number of ways he could leave the White House on Jan 20 are rapidly narrowing. So which do you think it’ll be: in handcuffs or a straitjacket?
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  463. Depending on the chemicals, he might be flying, all right ...
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  464. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  465. Maybe he didn’t realize, those experts he was talking to were talking about him.
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  466. Because they were the only ones making gains in the war.
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  467. 4:03 Note that “1I/” prefix on the name: that indicates it is the first interstellar celestial object ever detected in our solar system.
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  468.  @davidknightx  Well, you have a significant proportion of the American public who believe they never put a man on the moon.
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  469. 3:33 That window-frame colour keeps screaming “Windows XP” at me ...
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  470. The Apollo Guidance Computer used “rope” memory for its ROM -- the bits were encoded in the weave.
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  471. 0:51 Actually, the OpenGL term “fragment” refers to intermediate pixel values. They are not called “pixels” until they are composited into final pixel values on the display surface.
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  472. Interesting to see those who keep harking back to the memory of Hitler. Note that the Germans have a democracy where every vote counts equally, and this was brought in after WWII precisely to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. We in NZ liked it so much, we copied it too. Maybe time for the US to give it a try?
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  473.  @MatthewStinar  COBOL didn’t really have the concept of arithmetic in bits. It preferred to do it in decimal, with a precision of 18 decimal digits.
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  474. 26:10 I was wondering when you were going to mention minicomputers. But I was thinking of the original minicomputers, mainly from the 1960s through to the 1980s, offered by companies like DEC, DG, HP, Perkin-Elmer, Prime and others. They showed that small computers, while less powerful, could be a lot more versatile than big ones.
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  475. The paradox of modern cache-intensive CPU architectures: RAM is cheap, but accessing RAM is expensive.
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  476. 7:15 Tip for the find command: start by putting an “echo” as the first word after -exec, so it prints out the command instead of executing it. That helps you ensure it will do the right thing before turning it loose.
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  477. Death to dotfiles! Not only do they clutter your home directory, they are also visible to other users, who can see what sort of apps you use, which is a privacy breach. Luckily, more and more apps are adopting the XDG Base Directory spec <http://standards.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/latest/>, which defines default directories ~/.config/, ~/.local/ and the rest of it to contain these things (and these locations can be overridden by environment variables if you wish). If you are a developer working on an app which needs to create user preference/cache files and the like, and you haven’t already adopted this spec, I urge you to do so!
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  478. “helps your scripts to be more readable” sounds like those people who write “if (cond == true)” in languages where the condition is only allowed to be of boolean type anyway.
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  479.  @anthonyowen1556  Worth pointing out that the Soviets had their own home-grown smarts. They managed quite fine without von Braun.
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  480. The reporters need danger money for sitting through a two-and-a-half-hour propaganda press conference.
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  481. Greetings from 🇳🇿, a democracy run by a bunch of godless atheist socialist liberals, where sex work is legal.
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  482. I was wondering. If it was an adverb, wouldn’t it be “uply”? And what about “stand down”? Every time I hear that, I think of the MASH episode where Hawkeye went without sleep for several days. Potter: “I thought I told you to stand down.” Pierce: “I did, but I fell up again.”
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  483. 7:18 This kind of cleverness can get dangerous, though. What if it substitutes the wrong thing? Beyond a certain point, you would really like the option of confirming what it is going to do, before doing it. Found a fix: do “shopt -s histverify”, then instead of immediately executing the substitution, it presents it to you in the readline buffer, so you can edit it before pressing Enter to execute the result.
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  484. I see a civil war coming. In the only country in the world with more guns than people ... how bad do you think it’ll get?
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  485. Talking of Nazi Germany, the proportional voting system that they have now in Germany, where every vote counts equally, was put in place after WWII to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. It has worked so well, we in NZ copied it. Perhaps time for the US to give it a try?
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  486. 7:17 If you operate in high-dynamic range formats like EXR, which has floating-point pixel components, you have room to both overshoot and undershoot. Then you can renormalize the image using a filmic response curve or something without clipping.
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  487. Certainly, Putin is displaying Trump-like cunning!
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  488. 2:35 The trouble with OS/2 was that it was a 16-bit OS coming out in an era when the customers were already moving wholesale to 32-bit hardware. When IBM first released the AT back in 1983 or whenever, they made a promise to their customers that there would be a protected-mode OS that would take advantage of its capabilities. But by the time that promise was fulfilled with OS/2 in 1987/88, nobody cared any more.
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  489. 10:34 “Klb”? Way to keep resisting those SI units, kicking and screaming until the last, eh?
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  490. Seems like in 🇺🇸, just so long as you cannot tie specific dollars to specific votes, anything short of that is allowed. When called out on this, officials tend to claim “innocent until proven guilty”. But that principle is supposed to apply to private citizens going about their everyday business, not to those holding positions of statutory power. If you are given such power, then you must be seen to exercise it impartially and transparently, otherwise you should be sacked.
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  491. The context for that comment was I think the phenomenon that people who have just discovered regexes tend to (over)use them for everything. One horrendous example was a regex for parsing e-mail addresses.
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  492.  @pepsi5432  Actually, I made it up. The Philharmonic won’t hire anybody with less than a Masters.
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  493. Worth noting that Larry Wall, renowned creator of Perl and Patch, described laziness and hubris as two of the most important programmer virtues.
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  494. No, they are entirely DIFFERENT hive minds!
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  495. If a fertilized embryo is entitled to all the rights of a full human being, doesn’t that include citizenship?
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  496. Does anybody still seriously believe that Christian nonsense? I mean, apart from Trump supporters.
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  497. ORMs don’t make any sense to me. The code doesn’t end up any simpler.
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  498. We already do. GPS already needs to take General Relativity into account. Because, you know, clocks run slower down here than up there.
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  499. The 1st amendment, on the other hand ... the gun nuts don’t care.
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  500. The USA was the worst-hit country last time. It also showed the most resistance to common-sense sanitary precautions, and even vaccination. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  501. 4:39 That fake tan looks even more gruesome in that shot.
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  502. 9:29 Also, I tried checking out the link about the supposed Java dependency, and all it seems to say is that the Java-related documentation is still built even if you disable the Java functionality. If you turn off the Java functionality, you will end up with a Java-free build, as expected.
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  503. One optimistic comment I heard was that PAN-STARRS discovered this object very soon after receiving a system upgrade. So maybe it’s not coincidence, and with its increased sensitivity we might be seeing more things like this in future...
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  504. He did chuckle at one point at something Biden said. TFG probably called him afterwards to make him regret it, though.
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  505. The more you point out their character flaws, the more they double down on their denials.
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  506. “Special Political Operation”!
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  507. I remember seeing a print ad, back in the day, showing a wooden chair in the middle of a forest. The caption was “We took it back to see its children.” Couldn’t decide if that was funny, tasteless, profound or none of the above ...
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  508. 0:55 “Mustn’t grumble.”
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  509. Killing themselves is one thing, but then they may leave young children without a family breadwinner, loved ones heartbroken, dependents in need of state care, all the kind of thing. So really those rules are not so much to protect the idiots, it’s to prevent them putting a burden on society.
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  510. And that it is dressed in clothes.
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  511. DeSantis is best described as “passive-aggressive”.
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  512. I mainly use MDN as my reference for things Web. That has handy compatibility matrices for all the important features (that I’ve come across so far), so I know to only use stuff where all the boxes are green.
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  513. It seems to be characteristic of right-wing nut cases that they project their own evil onto their opponents. “You are behaving in an anti-democratic fashion.” “I know you are, but what am I?”
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  514. 6:17 “E-virgin-see” ... I think they call that a Freudian slip ...
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  515. Mexico has two problems: the USA and the USA. It is US money that is paying for the illicit narcotics that are being smuggled north, and it is also US guns being smuggled south that helps the gangs survive. Dealing with one while ignoring the other will not work.
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  516. Version control has evolved a lot over the decades. In the beginning, it was thought that it was vital to lock files when somebody checked them out, because if two people made simultaneous changes to the same file, the world would end or something.
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  517. Still, it’s important symbolism to offer some. That could tip Germany over its hesitancy in allowing deployment of the Leopards.
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  518. FG wasn’t the first to notice such politicians’ techniques.
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  519. You don’t realize that Dougherty has 30 years’ experience in this sort of thing?
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  520. There were two different quadraphonic systems. There was SQ, a “matrix” system which didn’t really have four separate channels, and there was JVC’s CD-4, which used subcarriers to encode either the rear channels or front/rear difference signals, not sure which. This gave better channel separation. I remember reading a bunch of Sansui brochures at the time. They took SQ and turned it into “QS”, which some kind of dynamic level-based adjustments of the decoding matrix, to give the effect of better apparent channel separation.
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  521. 0:17 But surely those Parler followers are more valuable to you than your Twitter followers, are they not? Or are you valuing a Liberal-leaning social network more highly than one that subscribes to your own Fascist Conservative values?
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  522. Trump is like the movie villain, surrounded by incompetent henchmen. They were all his picks, yet when they testify against him, suddenly they turn out to be useless. It’s his fault they were on his team to begin with.
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  523. Don’t spend it all at once.
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  524. Part of it is just text pointers, which are easy enough to examine with regular file tools. E.g. the HEAD file just contains the name of the “current” branch. Unless you have checked out a commit in “headless” mode (what I like to call “Marie Antoinette” mode) ...
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  525. You would know, I suppose...
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  526. Particularly since PC hard drives of the period were only on the order of tens of megabytes. This was a particular issue to those trying to create CD-ROMs. Even when DVDs first came out, they held more than the common hard drive capacity, though the ratio was smaller. By about the ’00s, hard drives had overtaken optical media and left them in the dust.
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  527. NASA has published models of Voyager and other craft in various formats for free download and use. Because these were funded by the US Government, there is no copyright on them.
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  528. Colbert -- relaxes while off work Meyers -- work is his only way to relax
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  529. “... that someday my four thousand little workers will be judged, not by the colour of their payslip, but by the content of their resumé ...” “Redundant at last! Redundant at last! Thank the Balance Sheet Almighty, we are redundant at last!”
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  530. 0:47 Only a dozen? Kids’ stuff. /me remembers SCSI connectors with 50 wires (OK, 25 signal wires plus 25 ground wires).
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  531. 2:42 He spits out the word “peace”. Not to his liking, I think.
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  532. The vatniki agree to accept his rule as long as he keeps them safe. If they no longer feel safe, then they have nothing left to lose by getting rid of him.
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  533. In the US, any attempt to interfere with radio signals will bring the FCC down on you. I remember in the early days of wi-fi, an airport somewhere tried to block free wi-fi signals from other providers so it could charge for its own service. That didn’t last long.
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  534. No no no, he’s just going to conduct an extended inspection. A long-duration, live-in inspection. Kind of a test run for when he really needs it. As though he were really using it. Not as though he would ever actually need to use it, no way.
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  535. But ... but ... more guns make people safer!!!!
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  536. Maybe some things are more important than money...
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  537. 2:33 Hmm, a couple of centuries ago that question might have elicited a “Huh?” response ... back when people thought electricity was some kind of fluid anyway.
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  538. He avoids using Trump’s name, keeps referring to him as “the former guy”. 👍
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  539. I think he includes dicey jokes in his act on purpose, just so he can do something adept to recover from them, and still get that audience laugh.
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  540. When you get your cow, then you become a real horseboy.
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  541. 11:17 There is a thing called “QoS” (“Quality of Service”). This has to do with the differing needs of different Internet applications: for example, file transfer requires maximum reliability, even if packets get held up occasionally, while telephony and video streaming require timeliness, and can tolerate the loss of a packet here and there. But this is something that needs to be explicitly specified by the applications at the endpoints, the ISPs have no business second-guessing these requirements. The creators and users of the apps are in the best position to know what they want: those who run the network are not.
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  542. Why is it always “Hillary” and “Trump”, never “Clinton” and “Donald”?
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  543. SSH is one of the major ones that is so widespread, you can give them a pass.
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  544. Something as major as this would be worthy of an orientation course of at least an hour or two, not just some random memo.
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  545. If it were Ukrainian troops merrily marching along Russian territory, that would be a rather stark admission that the invasion has completely backfired, would it not?
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  546. It’s not “Microsoft Office” any more, it’s now “Microsoft 365”. Except it has never managed 365 consecutive days of uptime yet. If you are going to merge documents, learn from the software developers who use plain-text formats for that. Merging binary documents does not go well.
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  547. Does Windows have a PID 1? More like it’s a “PID e10d8a4c-f756-4f2a-98f8-8d395aaadab6” or some rubbish like that.
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  548. It is good that they got most of the kaboom out of the way early on.
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  549. Going to say, his “Opticks” would be more sort of, ahem, “light" reading. “Principia” would be somewhat heavier, being about gravity, you know...
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  550. The actual proverb is “when elephants fight, the grass gets trampled”. Meaning that, when the big and powerful battle each other, the ordinary people suffer. She has turned it to mean, keep your distance while the big, dumb beasts destroy each other, then you can swoop in and claim the spoils.
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  551. 7:25 No 640K limit! No extended/expanded RAM nonsense! Completely uniform linear address space!
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  552. The right to reverse-engineer is explicitly protected under 🇪🇺 law.
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  553. In all the good democracies, every vote counts equally, and those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  554. The old saying is: one side’s “terrorist” is the other side’s “freedom fighter”. Like it or not, terrorism does often work. Various Jewish terrorist groups (like Lehi) did play their part in the lead up to the foundation of Israel. In Northern Ireland, if the IRA hadn’t carried out its campaign of bombings and assassinations, do you think the UK would have bothered to negotiate? And In South Africa, Nelson Mandela was officially a “terrorist”, too.
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  555. 6:53 This is one area where most *nix shells are deficient. I had a look at the “complete” system that was added to bash, but only because it was preventing me typing file names that I knew to be perfectly valid for those commands. So I just turned it all off. I remember some older systems that had more of the sort of thing we need. Back in the 1980s I used BTOS/CTOS for a while, and when you pressed RETURN on a command, you got a form to fill in that showed all the relevant options for that command. And then later Apple’s MPW development environment included “Commando”, that would pop up a nice GUI dialog in a similar fashion. Where do we get something like that now?
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  556. We elected her. We have a democratic system, where every vote counts equally. We are also a secular society, which doesn’t take kindly to overtly religious people trying to dictate our laws.
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  557. 0:50 Occam’s Razor applies -- look at the company’s past history of living up to their claims ... or not.
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  558. Consider what language an “enterprise” company like Facebook uses: they created “Hack”, which is their own dialect of PHP. They even open-sourced its implementation, the HHVM.
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  559. 9:53 Some people think that stuttering might be caused by a neural analogue to this sort of phenomenon.
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  560. Atom created its own JavaScript framework for running in the browser. Then this was spun out into a separate project, initially known as the “Atom shell”. Physics nerds: what are those things that occupy the “shells” around an atom? Answer: electrons. So the shell project was called “Electron”. VS Code uses it too.
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  561. 4:27 PHP is crap. I say that as someone who has been paid money to write it.
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  562. 12:28 Every time I change some config file in /etc from its default state, I like to keep a copy of the original file with the same name plus an “-orig” suffix. That way I can use a simple command like “find /etc -name \*-orig” to list all the places I have made configuration changes. Of course, this doesn’t work when adding new files.
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  563. If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat. Particularly after the Democrats ejected the KKK and other bigots, and they found a home with the Republican Party.
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  564. Emacs isn’t just a text editor, it’s an editor. I have successfully used it to directly edit binary files. Because it doesn’t assume a file has to consist of lines, it doesn’t need different commands to navigate/edit across line boundaries versus any other character byte in the buffer.
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  565. Tell you what: hire NZ as a -- what do they call them? -- management consultant. We can come in and revamp your political system for you. Charge high fees, write up a report, and then go home and watch your lobbyists make your politicians completely ignore it.
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  566. ... that Guilfoyle voice ...
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  567. 1:44 No mention of the fact that France is trying to prohibit any kind of pro-Palestinian demonstration whatsoever.
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  568. Even Apple don’t want to use it any more.
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  569. I was looking at an open-source project (libffi) which has an interesting bug report: the build process works fine on a genuine Linux system, but breaks under the WSL kernel. Trust Microsoft to take a properly-working piece of code and screw it up ...
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  570. I still remember that long line of Russian tanks, just waiting to stroll into Kyiv. They were stuck, waiting for days--I’m sure Putin was figuring “just another few days ... just another few days, then they can roll in”. Then somebody who was not entirely clueless in his military leadership pointed out that they were sitting ducks. So finally they turned around and went home. And they’ve been there ever since.
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  571. 1:40 I got hold of a copy of the ALGOL-68 spec when I started first year at Uni, and it just blew my mind. I was quite disappointed later to discover that most computer scientists considered Van Wijngaarden grammars to be just too complicated, and so they stuck to simpler, less formal, not to say cruder, ways of defining their languages.
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  572.  @MattExzy  It did happen, albeit (mostly) not in a big way. There were instances of system failures from about early-to-mid 1999 onwards, certainly that I can remember. For example, a system for issuing cards with a 6-month expiry, which couldn’t handle expiry dates past 31st December 1999.
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  573. 25:05 That never happened. Aren’t you glad?
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  574. The law is not what makes things right or wrong; it is our sense of right and wrong that is supposed to guide the formulation of laws. If a law is clearly no longer relevant for our times, and is in fact becoming downright harmful to society, then get rid of it. Simple as that.
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  575. 5:40 I use Claws. The fact that it doesn’t render HTML I see as a feature, not a bug.
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  576.  @jimbendtsen8841  Are you angry that their votes counted for almost as much as yours?
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  577. But didn’t you have to install the “run” button? And connect it to ... whatever it’s connected to?
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  578. If Lincoln were alive now, he’d be a Democrat. The two parties basically switched sides after the Democrats expelled the KKK and other bigots, who then found a home with the Republicans.
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  579. Yes, but the vectors that your typical present-day CPU operates on are short ones, with something like 4 or 8 elements at most.
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  580. 2:45 The RT/PC was such an absymal performer, the joke was that “RT” stood for “Reduced Technology”*. Just a few years later, though, IBM came out with its POWER architecture, and then the world really stood up and took notice. *Echoed also in Microsoft’s more recent cut-down “Windows RT” OS.
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  581. Still can’t forget that long line of 🇷🇺 tanks, ready to just saunter into Kyiv like it was some evening stroll. Except they were forced to a dead stop. And then had to turn round and go back. I think that was the point many of us realized that 🇺🇦 had a chance.
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  582. In a democracy, they would get handily outvoted. But in the USA ...
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  583. The concept of VR is now about 30 years old, and still really no closer to practical use.
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  584. The “intuitive” way to think about rotations in 3D might be to express them in terms of latitude and longitude on the surface of a sphere. Starting from long 0° and lat 0°, you might move x° east or west, and y° north or south. This works OK starting from (0°, 0°), but it doesn’t work so well when you start from, say, the North Pole. Because every direction from there is south, how do you define how far east or west you want to go, and from what point? This phenomenon is called “gimbal lock”. It is a phenomenon well known in computer graphics if you try to specify rotations in terms of “Euler angles” (as the longitude/latitude angles are known). It was also a known hazard during the Apollo moon landings, as it imposed limits on how their spacecraft could maneouvre without confusing the orientation gyroscopes. Quaternions are really nice because they avoid gimbal lock. Related to this, they also interpolate nicely between any two orientations, which is handy for animation purposes in CG. Trouble is, many people working in CG are afraid of quaternions, because “math is hard”. This includes some developers of CG software.
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  585. He’s gone full Poe’s Law on himself.
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  586. They were talking about products of the Octa-Gonnell Corporation.
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  587. One note is that if you download a prebuilt binary, you can never (legally) get the full functionality of FFmpeg. This is because the build options include both “-enable-nonfree” and “-enable-gpl”, and if you specify both, you end with a build that says its licence is “unredistributable”. But at least you have that choice if you build it yourself.
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  588. 16:14 One thing that makes this sort of thing easier nowadays is the existence of interactive languages like Python that have built-in infinite-precision integer arithmetic. No rounding errors if you avoid fractions!
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  589. When asked why they can’t move away from Windows, people normally say “games”. Yet the Steam Deck runs Linux with a purpose-built UI, and it’s amusing to see Microsoft trying, and failing, to adapt its Windows UI to work on that form factor.
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  590. Consider that every single one Russia’s neighbours is now feeling uneasy about its intentions, and you will see why Ukraine needs support.
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  591. Key point: those documents she published were genuine. Uncle Donald has admitted as much in his lawsuit!
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  592. 3:15 Note for Transatlantic folks: “Heath Robinson” (UK) ⇔ “Rube Goldberg” (US).
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  593. “When Hong Kong demonstrators throw stones at the police in Hong Kong, that’s considered to be heroism in the American press. When in Myanmar, the demonstrators throw slingshots at the ... oppressive army, they’re considered to be heroes in the Western press. When Palestinian kids throw stones at the Israeli solders, they’re called terrorists.” — Gabor Maté, Holocaust survivor
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  594. A two-party system doesn’t give you much of a choice. All the good democracies give voters a realistic choice of more than two parties to pick from.
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  595. 4:21 So, somebody named “Chee K” came up with that “Cheek” joke? #TotalCoincidence
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  596. There is a saying with online social media: “If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product”.
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  597. 2:57 One subtle point worth noting is that the GUI framework usually handles keyboard autorepeat. That is, when you ask for another event, no “real’ event is pending, and a key is still down from the previous one, and the autorepeat interval has elapsed, then the framework will generate an autorepeat key-down event for you. Note that these autorepeat events are not buffered, so they are only generated as quickly as your code can handle them. Thus, autorepeat can never run away from your program’s ability to respond!
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  598.  @akashchoudhary8162  You could get fooled into accepting messages from a fake sender instead. So you need to obtain the public key from a trusted source.
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  599. Operation Nancy Reagan.
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  600. “Machine” does not have to mean “hardware”. For example, bytecode interpreters are commonly called “virtual machines” nowadays.
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  601. Remember what MTG was like, perilously skirting the edge of perjury? Trump doesn’t have that kind of self-control.
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  602.  @MegaLokopo  Make it a modular, replaceable layer, like Linux does. That way you have your choice of GUIs, or even no GUI at all.
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  603. That was discussed in part 1. It’s why the matrix is scanned, not simply fed with static voltages.
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  604. 1:28 Please, do not do feature/behaviour selection based on user agents! Use more functional tests instead!
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  605. But the secret that nobody has noticed is that “sudoku” sounds like “u-code-us” backwards ... muahaha!!!
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  606. 6:20 By “most” he means “100%”. The ones inside that outermost circle make up the remaining 0%.
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  607. Actually, CPUs have been reproducing themselves for decades. Consider, you can no longer do modern CPU design without the help of a computer. And yes, there are legitimate use cases for recursion. I wrote a tool for doing version control on Blender documents. It’s not enough to store the base document in the repo, it might also have external dependencies that also need to be included. Some of these dependencies need to be found by scanning node graphs, which can contain node groups which in turn recursively reference further node graphs. Do you really want to code that with an explicit stack? Recursion is just so much easier to code, and easier to understand.
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  608. Python handles its rational Fraction type with the regular “/” operator. E.g. from fractions import \ Fraction as F print(F(3) / 4 * 1 / 2) prints out 3/8
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  609. You should be boiling mad that months of privation and lockdown have basically all been in vain.
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  610. 21:00 One reason for using the terminal is if you switch between distros a lot. Each distro will likely provide its own GUI tools for performing various admin/config tasks, but they will all be different. But behind the scenes, they are all managing the same common config files, system processes etc. In fact, they are very likely generating command-line sequences to perform their actions. So at the command-line layer, a lot of the differences between distros disappear, and you have common ways of performing common tasks.
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  611. My employer was mainly a VAX/VMS shop back in the day. I remember when the PHONE program made an appearance, and was a novelty for all of ten minutes. Then everybody made sure to add SET BROADCAST/NOPHONE in their login scripts ...
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  612. Special Political Operation!
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  613. “Throughput” is really the point. In particular, that comes at the expense of minimizing latency. That made mainframes great for batch processing, not so good for interactive operation, like the DEC minicomputer timesharing systems could do.
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  614. 11:03 “Computers that last” ... now that’s not something that was commonly heard up to, say, 15 years ago. But now that performance has hit a plateau, maybe longer-term thinking will become more fashionable ...
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  615. 2:35 And also note that they only accept plain-text emails. No HTML! This already seems a surprisingly high entry barrier to some.
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  616. Many in Russia itself remember Stalin fondly. Those elsewhere, not so much. Ask those in Ukraine what they remember about Stalin, and they will likely reply with one word: “Holodomor”.
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  617. I doubt the toenails part. Remember, he was living in a country that offered free Socialist-style healthcare to all its citizens.
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  618. Gnome is the favourite of those who like to use something and complain about it. I guess for those used to proprietary platforms, this sort of thing makes them feel at home.
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  619. You mean, somebody with experience of cooking with more than just a microwave?
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  620.  @qandak  As I understand it, Autolisp manages to leave out the features that make LISP so powerful (e.g. macros, lexical binding), leaving only the mess of parentheses.
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  621. Microsoft has tried so hard to be like Apple -- look at Windows Phone. And what is UWP, if not yet another attempt at a “closed ecosystem”? Only its abandoning the use of UWP for its Edge browser is hardly a good advertisement for that ...
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  622. Short attention spans is one of the key defining characteristics of the anti-Liberal mindset.
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  623. 0:45 Worth also mentioning that there is another terminal emulator, built right into the Linux kernel itself. This offers up to 8 different text consoles, and if you don’t have a GUI running, you will normally see one of these anyway. You can switch between them using CTRL-F1 .. CTRL-F8. If you are already in a GUI, you can suspend it and switch to a text console with CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-ALT-F2 etc. (Once you are in a text console, you can leave off the ALT for subsequent switches.) The GUI takes over one of the text consoles, so you switch back to it with the corresponding CTRL-Fn keystroke—for example, CTRL-F7 works on my Debian system.
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  624. It’s like the whole of reality itself has a liberal bias...
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  625. I fear there’s a good reason why 🇺🇸 is classed as a “flawed democracy” ...
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  626.  @andybaldman  Time for these network pros to get some advice from those more experienced at being online.
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  627. Also note that an important part of the XDG spec is the ability to override all these paths with environment variables. And do so individually. This gives you fine-grained control. The only reservation I have is why the default directory for systemwide configs is /etc/xdg, instead of /etc.
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  628. Remember he took more territory in Russia in one day than the massed military might of that country was able to seize in Ukraine in 8 months. So waiting a day may not be advisable with this man ...
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  629. Mexico has two problems: the USA and the USA. It is US money that is paying for the illicit narcotics that are being smuggled north, and it is also US guns being smuggled south that helps the gangs survive. Dealing with one while ignoring the other will not work.
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  630. The original name for JavaScript was “LiveScript”. Doesn’t seem to be used much nowadays ... just sayin’.
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  631. Speaking of “frameworks”, a logical next step would be to look at RATFOR, a.k.a. “RATional FORtran”. It was basically a preprocessor that translated into regular FORTRAN, but introduced some nicer statement constructs.
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  632. “The appeaser feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” -- Winston Churchill
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  633. But the only way Microsoft could be “innovative” to compete against Linux was to ... copy Linux. Wholesale.
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  634. In the US, there are ways to hide your money by declaring bankruptcy, which his organization has already done. You really think these families are going to see any money from him? I doubt it. He really deserves jail time.
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  635. This is not a duty you do once and then consider it done. Who was it who said “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance”.
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  636. I’m sure that will work out as well as it did for those Georgia Senate candidates ...
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  637. It’s genuine because everybody is going through the exact same thing.
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  638. What a corny joke ... 😜
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  639. A veritable feast of mini-one-man shows packed into this one. 10/10 Would watch again.
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  640. All the news subtitle/scrollers. E.g 1:17 “90s Pop Band ... Back In Studio To Record Filler Material For Upcoming Greatest Hits Album”.
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  641. Claiming land based on religious books is not a recipe for harmony.
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  642. What if the health insurers started demanding surcharges from those who are unvaccinated?
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  643. I thought he was against Musk mandates ...
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  644. I wonder if they’re queueing up for “Insurrection Is Not A Crime” T-shirts ...
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  645. Linux already runs on RISC-V. A different group at Google has been working on its own kernel, called Fuchsia. But so far it seems to be a solution looking for a problem.
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  646. He fits into the Christian narrative perfectly. What, you thought organized religion was about morality? You poor deluded fool, you ...
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  647. I did GUI programming in MATLAB once. Let’s just say, a matrix-centric language is not suited to GUI programming.
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  648. If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat.
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  649. I think both sides are using essentially the same uniforms, perhaps from a Soviet-era design. That’s why they add those coloured armbands -- I think white for Russian, yellow for Ukrainian. Each I guess a colour found in their own flag, but not in the other one.
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  650. Remember, he’s just letting the Trump sheeple supporters speak in their own words.
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  651. Let’s hope the guy who supplies them the plans for the tunnel system isn’t the same one who told them Hamas had no imminent plans to attack.
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  652. It emulates the Windows abstract machine. People seem to think there is some kind of impermeable wall between “hardware” and “software”, but in Computer Science we have the concept of “abstract machines”, where we can build one layer on top of another, and the distinction is a minor implementation detail.
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  653.  @BrodieRobertson  You can also build your own packages and replace the official ones installed on your system with them. I did this once, years ago. The Debian version of zip was lacking some (obsolete?) compression algorithm that I needed, and I was able to rebuild the package with that enabled.
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  654. This is the difference between “politics” and “leadership”.
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  655. I think it is quite common to clean up and simplify your private commit history before sending a bunch of patches to the central authorities for a project. For example, you probably don’t want them seeing every little typo correction or whitespace fixup as a separate commit.
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  656. The Toaster really sparked a big wave of budget analog video production. However, by about five years after this, video was moving to digital, and the Amiga couldn’t really keep up. The Video Toaster Flyer was never quite as successful as the original Toaster.
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  657. They could have a lot of fun with the isotopes. Carbon-14: Carbon-12’s evil twin. Uranium isotopes: “We’re all evil twins!” Oxygen-17: not evil, just shy.
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  658. He has consistently been the most popular choice. Republicans need to choose: does their party’s hold on power take priority over the good of the country?
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  659. But if a crucial part of Trump’s defence is that he is still the sitting President, then the 🇺🇸 Constitution absolutely does allow him to be put on trial in the Senate.
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  660.  @underscore.  You mean proprietary apps? Proprietary software comes and proprietary software goes. What lives on is Open Source, and that has already mostly been ported.
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  661. His sense of comedy is very fluid. . . . One might say, “aqua-esque”.
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  662.  @MatthewBishop64  Except that nobody cares about Dotnet Core. If C# could free itself from all these Windows encumbrances, perhaps it could become a useful language.
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  663. Best response I can think of: “Yes sir ... unfortunately.”
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  664. 0:28 I see some interesting books on GCHQ and the like. No copy of Spycatcher ? Is that still banned in the UK?
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  665. How about Jimmy Kimmel’s suggestion: Anita Hill.
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  666. Aren’t you glad you didn’t have a UV lamp?
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  667. She made major contributions, particularly in collecting actual experimental data, this is true. But two problems: a) The Nobel prize has this weird rule where a prize cannot be split more than 3 ways, and b) She had died by the time the award was made, and posthumous Nobels were never much of a thing.
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  668. And “Fido” (faithful one) I think was a Latin tradition.
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  669. Actually, coarse and rough sand is getting harder to find. It’s in high demand for making concrete. The stuff that deserts and beaches are full of tends to be fine and smooth.
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  670. One problem is that 🇺🇸ans pronounce turbine like “turban”, which is confusing.
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  671. 21:34 Having lots of on-chip registers was the single biggest thing, in my view. But that was already enough to create a big headache for code compatibility.
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  672. Except that your choice not to be vaccinated can impact the health of others. Sacrificing your own life for your liberty is one thing; are you allowed to sacrifice the lives of others who did not make that choice?
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  673. I’m not really interested in vendor-specific tools. When are these vendors going to support SYCL/OpenCL? Build it on top of your vendor-specific layer if you must, but give us the option of writing to a standard API and not caring what brand lies underneath.
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  674. Jupyter is great for “scratchpad” programming, when you are trying things out.
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  675.  @MegaLokopo  Windows 10 “IoT Edition” was a hilariously crippled version of Windows 10 that was useless without a regular PC running full Windows 10. Compare that to Linux running on the same Raspberry π, which fully self-hosts its own development and deployment stack.
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  676. You are elected in order to do what’s right for your country, not what may be good for your party.
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  677. 10:42 Fun fact: Debian used to use runlevel 3 as its normal mode of full multiuser GUI login. Which just goes to show how wonderfully inconsistent sysvinit could be. With systemd, all runlevels (now called “targets”) are identified symbolically, so you don’t have to figure out what cryptic numbers mean, because there aren’t any.
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  678. I had to chuckle at “raspberry pi” and “can’t afford” in the same sentence, given that there is still hardly anything in its price range (except maybe the up-and-coming RISC-V machines). The Pi Zero still remains the only computer ever given away on the cover of a magazine.
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  679. Because of course an outfit that is supposedly providing “information” would not want the public to become “informed” about its activities ...
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  680. Essential reference material, though.
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  681.  @BrodieRobertson  What GIMP is lacking is not so much functionality, but publicity/mindshare. Adobe can afford a 6-7-figure advertising budget to tell everybody how wonderful they are, no open-source project can match that.
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  682. “realistic” + “flat-Earth” = “does not compute”
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  683. It was discovered, I think around the time of NT 3.5, that the difference between the “Workstation” and “Server” installs of NT came down to a simple registry key: change that in your “Workstation” install, and suddenly you had “Server” capabilities, without having to pay extra for them. Naturally, that no longer worked in later versions.
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  684. Just a note that that is not the whole B205 computer. It is just the Control Console. Like most computers from the 1950s, the complete machine filled a room.
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  685. The Canon Cat was the most faithful incarnation of Raskin’s original idea. Guess what--it didn’t sell...
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  686. They don’t have to issue an apology, but they don’t get to deny wrongdoing. At least that’s something.
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  687. 19:10 Print is right next to the Delete button!
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  688. 6:02 If the Democrats were behind the violence on Jan 6, why does Trump want to pardon them? Maybe she should meet with other Trump supporters who claim that there was no violence, and they could have a great time reaffirming their common view of reality around this great man.
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  689. It was invented by Tony Hoare. What was remarkable was that it could be implemented with essentially zero run-time overhead. Hoare was also one of the proponents of “structured programming”. Which I feel is underrated these days, where I see C code especially using gotos like they’re going out of fashion.
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  690. Cannot ... unsee ... Meemaw getting into tub with Lindsay ...
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  691. ll with the lordosis. In layman’s terms, you don’t want to be in this guy’s shoes.
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  692. 7:19 Poe’s Law would seem to apply here. Some Anti-Liberal viewpoints are so extreme, it’s hard to tell where seriousness ends and self-parody begins.
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  693. There are already millions of them in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, in camps like Sabra and Shatila. Remember what happened to them there?
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  694. Remember, Microsoft is not going to offer you Python-in-Excel for free.
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  695. That was after the cancellation of the BitKeeper licence.
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  696. Amy “Vintage Space” Shira Teitel did an item on the comparison between hypergolic rockets and ones needing explicit ignition. For example, the Gemini craft took off on Atlas boosters, which were hypergolic. You can see from the footage of the launches how the exhaust flame is barely perceptible at all. This also has to do with why Gemini had ejector seats, while neither Mercury nor Apollo did. But I digress...
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  697. The curvature of the Earth is visible at any height greater than zero. Just stand in a boat in the middle of the ocean, and look around you. What do you see? Water all the way to the horizon. What shape is the horizon? Why, a circle, of course, right around you. Circle = curvature. QED.
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  698. 7:53 Don’t forget, server programs are also event-driven, and they often don’t have any kind of user interface at all. Instead, they are responding to events received over client connections.
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  699. That will all go to the DOJ.
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  700. And Prigozhin proved it was the second best in Russia, too!
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  701. Look for one of those low beams with a sign saying “MIND YOUR HEAD”, and try walking into it. Does it hurt? Where does it hurt? That’s probably where your head is.
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  702. He thinks the orders are to say things that make people gag.
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  703. 9:20 Unlike Subversion, Git does not keep track of what you have checked out at the commit level, only at the branch level. To get around this, it can be helpful to use the “checkout -b” command to create a new, temporary branch pointing to the commit you just checked out. Since this branch is considered “fully merged” (the commit is part of the past history of some branch you really want to keep), you can delete it afterwards with “branch -d” (lowercase d, not uppercase D).
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  704. If they’re sharing the same band, then they’re contributing to interference and reducing your bandwidth, even if they’re using an entirely separate protocol.
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  705. Consider that, if the 🇺🇸 President were elected by popular vote, it’s likely a Republican will never occupy the White House again. Now do you see why they are so afraid of democracy?
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  706. Trump supporters: “Now is not the time to talk about wearing masks.” Let’s all send our thoughts and prayers to the Lügenführer ...
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  707.  @B3Band  Unfortunately, it’s not that easy. Remember Breonna Taylor? She didn’t fire at the cops, but she was the one killed.
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  708. I started my career back in the early Apple Macintosh days. Back then, there was this document called the “User Interface Guidelines”, which carefully spelled out concepts like “interface stability” and “progressive disclosure” and feedback to confirm user actions. We were taught to care about actual user-interface testing, rather than just assuming that what we were doing would be “intuitive” to the user. But increasingly, I found that app vendors didn’t bother following these rules. And even Apple itself seemed to be moving away from them. Nowadays, it all seems to be about looks and following fashionable “design trends”. Hence the move away from the “3D” look to the “flat” look, which may be going back to “3D” now. Or what about this “dark theme” fad? What happened to usability testing? Seems nobody even bothers with that any more.
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  709. Another thing is, there are no language-independent ORMs. I do some stuff in PHP also, so I have to learn SQL anyway, I might as well do it properly.
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  710. All you need to know is, it dates from the era when Apple were still a technological pioneer.
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  711. 21:01 For those too young to know, “POKE” was a BASIC command to directly set the value of an arbitrary memory location. This was commonly used to control low-level machine features like display modes and colours, but if you poked the wrong location, you could easily corrupt some important part of system memory, and the only way out would be to reboot.
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  712. Wonder why you can’t ... maybe it wasn’t real CGI?
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  713. The only thing I use sudo for is “exec sudo /bin/bash”.
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  714. The key point is that these macros (like those in LISP) are syntax-based, not string-based. This is why ♯define in C is such a pain to use, so fragile and fiddly: because it’s based on string manipulation. I thought it was simply because the string manipulation wasn’t powerful enough. So I had a play with m4, which is a much more powerful string-based macro language. And it is, if anything, even more fragile and fiddly than the C preprocessor. How do you tell which languages get it right? The word to look for is “homoiconicity”.
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  715. Their main advertiser is the “My Pillow” guy, remember.
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  716. Flying birds are damn smart. Smarter than cetaceans.
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  717. Political appointments should not be for life. If they are lifetime appointments, then they should not be political.
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  718. France has long been an example of how you can run a safe nuclear-power program.
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  719. I think they also introduced “overloading” for multiple definitions of an operator that were chosen according to context. That term is commonplace nowadays.
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  720. To model elaborate shapes, they were first sculpted in wood, I think it was. This was then sliced into thin layers, which were individually scanned to build up the mesh data in the computer.
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  721. This was also about the time Microsoft acquired Hotmail, which had been running its operation some BSD variant, and then made a big noise about switching everything over to Windows NT. Only it’s not clear that they got very far.
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  722. I charge for my time developing software for in-house use and providing support, on top of a Free Software stack. Some of that Free Software is my own.
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  723. 2:14 Is that Spanish for “/dev/null”?
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  724.  @e22ddie46  Precisely. 3 million more votes weren’t enough for Clinton in 2016; it took more than double that margin to take out Trump this time. In a democracy, every vote would count equally.
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  725. I’ve never felt the need to use the C API. One project I did involved extracting telemetry data (accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS) from videos captured from GoPro cameras. I wrote a Python script which called ffprobe to identify the right streams and the exact locations of the data packets and their timestamps, then I could read those parts of the video file directly and decode the packets using the standard “struct” library.
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  726. Python is a good tool for building wrappers. I did a job a few months ago involving extracting telemetry data from videos recorded on GoPro cameras. Yes, did you know there are extra data streams on those videos, besides the regular video and audio? Besides the ffmpeg command itself, the suite also includes ffprobe, which lets you analyze a video file and determine the locations and timestamps of every packet in every stream. Once I had this, decoding the data was quite easy (barring discrepancies between documented formats and the actual data generated by different camera models ... c’est la vie ...).
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  727. Read his PhD thesis http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652 to find out why he was nicknamed “Dr Rendezvous”. Edit: Hey, why the past tense? The guy’s still alive and kicking, you know.
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  728. Fun fact: Jupyter notebooks are used for production code. It includes quite advanced rich-output facilities, after all.
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  729. So much for being a “free speech absolutist”, eh ...
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  730. Fun fact: that Buggles video was the very first thing that MTV played.
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  731. Apple Watch has been around for a few years now, it has yet to be a success.
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  732. “Modernizing” and “PowerShell” in the same sentence ... 🤣🤮
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  733. Wasn’t their testimony to Congress under oath?
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  734. She has connections to a conservative Christian group known as “People of Praise” ... which is busily erasing any mention of such connections from its entire website https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/29/us-supreme-court-nominee-barrett-tied-to-people-of-praise-report .
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  735. I can’t imagine they let her pass on that voice.
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  736. Only a man who is pure of heart could walk into the lions’ den and come out smelling of roses. (If I may mix a few too many metaphors...)
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  737.  @MegaJmerk  And if this state of war never actually ends? Then Netanyahu gets to stay in power.
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  738. 23:00 I remember discussing the 386SX chip with colleagues. They saw it as a waste of time, but being the software guy, I pointed out how this was an opportunity to get rid of the ball-and-chain that was the 286 chip and start writing code for a linear 32-bit address space.
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  739. 18:15 Notice it’s Windows NT, not 9x. Silicon Graphics was starting to feel the pain at this point.
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  740. But there were AT compatibles from other manufacturers, and the PS/2 line did include 80286-based machines in its lineup for a while longer.
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  741. Socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works. Didn’t they try to belittle her dancing skillz, as well? Look how well that went ...
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  742. 8:05 Interestingly, the speed of sound in Earth’s atmosphere at room temperature is almost exactly one millionth of the speed of light.
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  743. 3:06 I think the term is “endemic”. It is an epidemic that never seems to go away.
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  744. I hope somebody isn’t advocating another insurrection ...
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  745. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  746. Ah, but Putin has these wonderful Liberal Bombs, which will only kill Liberals and leave Restrictives standing! Or whatever it is that Restrictives do, that passes for standing.
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  747. Org Mode has its own separate manual from the main Emacs one: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/org/index.html
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  748. I think an attribute bit is the wrong solution to the problem. Think about why the dot prefix exists: it gives applications a separate namespace to use for their own housekeeping, to minimize collisions with names that users might choose for their own files. Think if you had a hidden “config” folder, and the user, for whatever reason, tried to create a file or directory called “config”, they would either overwrite it, or get an error saying it already existed. The first possibility is unfortunate, the second is just mystifying, because they cannot see the item that supposedly already exists.
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  749. 11:42 The original LaserWriter (Canon LBP-CX engine) looked great, until you asked it to print a full page of black. Then you saw that it was really grey.
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  750. Imagine if just 100 Adobe users were to pool the money they would have given that company and use it to sponsor some work on some open-source project that they would like to see improved -- what a difference that could make.
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  751. So there was no beer during that dip in the global temperatures? Dry As!
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  752. Regarding that screencap playing in the closing credits, one command that may look slightly unnerving but is actually perfectly safe, is “rmdir -p”. This removes the named directory (assuming it’s empty), then removes its parent if that is now empty, and so on as far up the tree as it can go. So it always stops with an error, and it might be an error trying to remove a directory that is important to you. I did say it could be unnerving, didn’t I?
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  753.  @avadarkness666  I’m as godless atheist socialist liberal as they come.
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  754. Another commenter mentioned it would have been more interesting with actual chemical elements from the periodic table, not old mythological elements. Imagine the coming-of-age of a character called Selenium, still trying to decide “am I a metal or a nonmetal?” And trying to ask the inert gases for advice, but of course they’re no help at all. Meanwhile, the alkalis and the halogens are having another one of their explosive parties ... “What’s that white stuff on the floor?”
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  755. 9:29 Interesting. I tried following the link to the purported “freedom flaws” in Rust, and got a page in Hyperbola’s own wiki saying “Permission denied/Sorry, you don’t have enough rights to continue”.
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  756. All it takes is enough of his supporters to realize he has become a net liability rather than an asset, and down he comes. Even some state-sanctioned political pundits are starting to say that the war is a bad idea. Of course, that’s the end of their career right away, but that’s not stopping them.
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  757. But if there were two Frankensteins, then the name “Frankenstein” just becomes ambiguous. The monster should more correctly be “Frankenstein Jr”.
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  758. 4:43 A key thing happening here, as with the triode vacuum tube, is amplification : a small-amplitude signal can be used to control the amplitude of a much larger voltage or current, producing a stronger version of the same signal (barring well-known limitations like noise and distortion).
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  759. @Gonçalo Amaro I have used PHP, far more than I ever wished to. I have enough expertise in it to be able to make a living from it. For example, I wrote a WordPress plugin to extend the functionality of another WordPress plugin. So yes, that gives me a license to shit on it.
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  760. Random thought: have you noticed you never see Prigozhin and Pope Francis in the same room together?
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  761. Quote https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War : “U.S. involvement escalated under President John F. Kennedy through the MAAG program from just under a thousand military advisors in 1959 to 16,000 in 1963.”
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  762. “No matter how much money you think you may have” ... how’s that for a burn?
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  763. 22:21 Unfortunately the Pentium Pro did poorly on 16-bit workloads. And since the Windows world was still largely stuck in 16 bits at this point, it made the new 32-bit chip look bad.
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  764. Too many people class his music as “easy listening”, but if you’ve tried to transcribe those chord changes, you quickly learn how complex they can be. Also, just try singing “What’s It All About, Alfie?” -- is there a more intricate melody around?
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  765.  @marvink7969  Precisely my point. Those calling those kids “terrorists” have no sense of proportion.
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  766. What did he state that wasn’t fact? Nobody has denied that Trump has indeed called for the overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution. Is there some other side they should have given weight to? That other than being an insurrectionist, he’s a good family man and supporter of the community or something?
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  767. Such a filter on the output side is called the “reconstruction filter”, while on the input side it is called the “antialiasing filter”. In both cases, their job is to get rid of spurious frequencies above the Nyquist limit. The reconstruction filter is a “usually-good-enough” approximation to the ideal sinc reconstruction function.
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  768. Some parts of Hungary, Poland and Brazil are nodding approvingly ...
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  769. If it’s any consolation, they’re not laughing at you in Brazil.
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  770. There’s a lot of truth in that. Everything is a file, every kernel API is a filesystem, and every kernel object can be accessed via a file descriptor. This makes it very easy, for example, to use regular shell commands to poke around /sys to manage the state of your hardware, you don’t need special tools written to special APIs. Sometimes you see signs of “file envy” on the part of Microsoft. Like when Powershell tries to make the Registry API look like a filesystem, only it isn’t, really, because that abstraction doesn’t work outside of Powershell.
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  771. That video ended with a bit of advice that should have been presented up front: use the existing systems that others have put in place. Even if you want to write your own time-conversion code (and I have), use the Olson database!
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  772. Back in the early days of the Macintosh, Alan Kay said a system should be designed so that “simple things are simple, and complex things are possible”. With sysvinit, simple things can be quite fiddly to do. As for complex things ... don’t expect them to work reliably. With systemd, it really is simple to do simple things. And it manages to get complex things working reliably, too.
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  773. You don’t have to “configure” Emacs to start using it. I just started gradually accumulating custom settings over the years I’ve been using it.
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  774. We have proportional represention in New Zealand, and it works great. It has to be properly designed. We looked to Germany for our model, not Israel.
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  775. And here I thought my mind was going...
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  776. People in Western China are on a de-facto later time zone. They start business hours at something like 10am. Take that, Beijing bureaucrats!
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  777. I wonder if Trump believes the Moon landings were real?
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  778. Russian army: 2021: 2nd best in the world. 2022: 2nd best in Ukraine. 2023: 2nd best in Russia!
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  779. Did they ever fix the weird issue with how arguments were passed to functions and subroutines? Namely, if the actual argument was a simple variable or an array element, it would pass the address of that. If it was a more complex expression, then that would be evaluated into a temporary location and the address of the temporary was passed. In other words, the called routine could modify the actual argument in one case, but not another. Imagine you had declared a constant “PI” in your program and set it to π = 3.14... Now imagine that, due to a bug, you passed this to a routine which modified it. Suddenly your “PI” value, that you thought was a constant, is not so constant any more!
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  780. He is one of the least likely characters you would think would turn out to be such an outstanding statesman. If this were a fictional plot, nobody would believe it.
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  781. It’s the name of a world in Frank Herbert’s Dune universe where technically-illegal technologies are practised.
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  782. Targeting Apple users, is he? Because there is a platform that respects the freedoms of its users ...
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  783. If nickel is so good, why don’t they have it on their front as well?
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  784. if Prigozhin is going into exile, then that’s the end of Russia’s only effective fighting force in Ukraine. What now for the invasion?
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  785. 9:42 ... just not on Boeing. ;)
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  786. Digital is robust against errors up to a point, then it completely falls apart. Analog suffers from the slightest error, but the degradation is gradual all the way down from there, rather than falling off a cliff. You pays yer money and you takes yer choice.
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  787. 7:36 A woman was indeed bundled off a Russian street by the OMON thugs for precisely that: holding up a blank sheet of paper.
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  788. “On top of the operating system is the rest of the system software. Here we find the command interpreter (shell), window systems, compilers, editors, and similar application-independent programs. It is important to realize that these programs are definitely not part of the operating system, even though they are typically supplied preinstalled by the computer manufacturer, or in a package with the operating system if it is installed after purchase. This is a crucial, but subtle, point. The operating system is (usually) that portion of the software that runs in kernel mode or supervisor mode. It is protected from user tampering by the hardware ...” -- Tanenbaum & Woodhull, “Operating Systems Design And Implementation”, third edition, page 3 That is the well-known “MINIX Book”, by the way. So you see, by that definition, Linux is very definitely an ”operating system”.
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  789. Political appointments should never be for life. In most countries, judges are not supposed to be political at all.
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  790. This is like “even a stopped clock is right once a day”.
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  791. Poor snowflake. “This country” voted overwhelmingly for Biden.
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  792. Social science is considered a “soft” science. That’s a physicist/mathematician’s way of saying “not a real science”. Remember, this is not just any old “project management” -- this is about the management of software-development projects. If you don’t understand what’s so special about that, you need to read Brooks’ book.
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  793. Keeping your liberty involves paying a price. We paid that price through a lockdown. Now that the virus is mostly under control within our borders, we are free to go out and shop and watch movies and attend festivals with minimal risk. Other countries that were not willing to undergo that kind of sacrifice, who simply insisted on having their liberty without understanding the consequences of that, are also paying the price, but in a more prolonged and painful way.
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  794. 18:43 The book publishers themselves destroyed a lot of the promise of e-books, by trying to impose restrictions on them above and beyond those on physical paper books. And also trying to charge more for them. I can remember all those years of rising paper book prices in the latter 20th century, which the publishers blamed on the rising cost of paper, ink etc. So you don’t think that moving to a purely electronic format, getting rid of those consumables costs, would see a drop in the price. Not a chance.
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  795. 28:43 But interesting that you have some people launching KDE Plasma this way, but none doing so with GNOME.
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  796. 09:35 “Short-term product” that turned out to be the future of Windows. While OS/2 receded from the limelight into a niche, it was the ability to multitask existing DOS programs that really drove the marketplace to embrace Windows. GUI programs specifically written for Windows came later.
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  797. 8:56 One of those “couple of other things” in the Amiga was the Copper. This implemented display lists, which allowed it to do fancy animation effects without actually needing to blit large arrays of pixels around. Now that was impressive.
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  798. Just leave out the “Excel” part.
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  799. 4:52 “1.44” ... Q: is that megabytes or mebibytes? A: Neither.
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  800.  @patsysadowski1546  I wonder how the Conservative lot in the UK are dealing with the fact that their darling, Boris Johnson, owes his life to that epitome of Socialist healthcare, the NHS.
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  801. Spot the Trump supporter, still with the Clinton-sized chip on their shoulder...
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  802. Over 2500 people died in the US today from Covid-19.
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  803. In Windows, the usual answer if some procedure gives you trouble is: “have you tried running it as Administrator?”
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  804.  @一个说话大声的中国人  “...fragments of elementary particles rather than the elementary particles themselves.” If you can get such a thing, then the “elementary” particles were not so “elementary”, were they?
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  805. There are many levels at which you can get involved in Open Source. Coding is one thing, good documentation (including examples of use) is quite another (and often lacking). And of course there is helping out with queries from other users in online discussion forums. Right at the bottom of the chain come those who may or may not use the software, but are always ready to volunteer criticisms of why Open Source will never compete against «insert name of favourite proprietary product/company here». Things get done because people make the effort to do them, not because some armchair critic complains about them. To paraphrase JFK: “Ask not what Open Source can do for you, ask what you can do for Open Source!”
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  806. As somebody with a Master of Science degree, you can understand why I might disagree.
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  807. Cost close to $100,000 per launch.
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  808. The key point not mentioned here is that information content is a statistical concept. The closer your data stream looks like to random noise, the less compressible it is. It is inherent in the design of compression algorithms that they produce a data stream that looks very much like random noise.
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  809. So-called physically-accurate ray-traced renderers like Blender Cycles have a lot of options for telling lies. Like, for example, setting a non-inverse-square falloff on the intensity of a light source, to spread out the light more. You thought Photoshop was a tool of the devil? You should see what 3D software can do.
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  810. It’s a little bit dark now, soon it’ll be less dark, and then the darkness will go away, like magic.
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  811. After the patch is done, you admit it was a fix for a security vulnerability, not before. The Samba project recently went through this. They had a fundamental problem involving symlinks, that took a year or more of rearchitecting the code to fix. Only when the job was done did they admit what the real purpose of those fixes was.
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  812. It’s Hindi.
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  813. Things not to google, #934: “Two girls, one blue jiggly”.
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  814. One of the interesting points about the book is where it discusses improvements in programmer productivity over time. There was an order of magnitude improvement over the decade 1985-1995 (up to the point he did the Anniversary Edition), and he discussed how another order of magnitude might be managed over the subsequent decade. He saw that it was essential to move to ever higher-level languages, which left more of the details to lower layers -- he called this “metaprogramming”. His example of a “metaprogramming” language was AppleScript -- a choice which has not stood the test of time, and one area where the book shows its age. What was more effective at the time was Perl, possibly also Tcl, which have since been joined by others including Ruby, JavaScript/Node, PHP and Python. These are the languages that, in my view, have really made a difference to programming since then.
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  815. Religion is but one variety of ideology.
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  816. One famous name tragically died young--Bui-Tuong Phong. He gave us Phong shading. Who knows what else he might have done ... Also I don’t know if Pierre Bézier and Paul de Casteljau are still alive ...
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  817. Quoth the Lambda: “Servermore” (With apologies to Edgar Allan SaaS.)
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  818. It’s going to be interesting to see if they succumb to popular pressure as a result of this and roll back their draft decision.
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  819. Yeah, but the nations with fewer cases are all Socialist. Hi from NZ. 🐧
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  820.  @michaelmoorrees3585  Yeah, that’s actually the secret to orbiting, not flying.
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  821. 3:11 Not as far as I know. PID 1 is not automatically restarted if it dies; not only that, if PID 1 is ever terminated, your system goes down.
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  822. No coincidence that the Christians use the term “Lucifer” (light-bearer) as a synonym for “devil”. Religious thinking can never stand to have too much light shed on it.
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  823. I like the fact he tried to blame Wally for not bringing up the next cue card, when the next line was very clearly on the same cue card. Seth covering up his own inability to keep a straight face? Never...!!!!!
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  824. He has a very limited way of expressing himself. “Like never before...” “The best ever...” or “The worst ever ...” ... “big, beautiful ... most beautiful ever ...”
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  825. They’re doing it because Microsoft Windows isn’t the cash cow it once was. Windows is getting more and more expensive to maintain, and returning less and less profit as a result.
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  826. 10:41 “This is a certified UNIX® system! I know this!”
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  827. SaaS is not only still here, but Microsoft is phasing out on-prem versions of Office and Windows Server and going all-in on the cloud versions.
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  828. Aeon Flux got its start as a short in another show, Liquid Television . That was fun.
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  829. Seems the right-wing sheeple have gone full 1984 with their “freedom is slavery” concept.
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  830.  @PetraKann  That’s why they published.
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  831. The nice thing about systemd is that it means user files are kept in the user area, instead of being in /var/spool/cron. Much tidier.
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  832. Every country has haters. Yet it is the USA where that hatred translates so readily and so uniquely into violence. What’s different about the USA? The guns.
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  833. If a language reference is that complicated you need to have it handy for daily programming, then take that as a hint that the language is too complicated. I was able to internalize nearly all the core Python language after a few months of use. What I do refer to daily is the standard library docs (and docs for whatever other libraries I might need). Oh, and the page of the language spec listing the special method names.
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  834. The noise of that balloon dying deflating was so horrible and so sad at the same time ...
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  835. 7:33 In 🇲🇾 there is a town called Taiping. I was told it means “peace forever”. Its founding (or at least renaming?) was part of the settlement of a long-running feud between two different groups of Chinese migrants in the area.
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  836. Nothing ridiculous about it. They understand exactly what their customers will let them get away with.
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  837. The very first colour photos from the Viking landers were initially published to show a blue sky. The trouble was, whoever was initially doing the colour correction didn’t bother doing the right calibration, and simply assumed the sky should look the same as on Earth. That was quickly fixed and the photos re-released, of course. This is why you see those coloured disks positioned strategically on the tops of all the rovers/landers--so that the cameras have a calibration target with known colours in it to ensure we are seeing the right colours after any processing of the images here on Earth.
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  838. Because corporations are people ... actually more so than real people ...
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  839. 5:28 “Precisely” ... now there’s a word you didn’t hear much in connection with consumer-quality analog video formats ...
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  840. Some don’t like the idea of being licked by dogs. I just want to point out that all forms of affection are unhygienic. That’s how we mammals show our fondness for each other -- by sharing our germs.
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  841. My first timesharing account as a member of staff was [2, 4]. We didn’t have names in those days; just numbers. Tell that to the kids these days, mumble mumble ...
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  842. When a political party puts its hold on power ahead of the good of the country, then your democracy is in trouble.
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  843. Hello from 🇳🇿 to 🇲🇾, 🇮🇩 and 🇺🇸.
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  844. This is why SQL DBMSes have the “EXPLAIN” command.
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  845.  @alexandermiasoiedov6637  TLS is resistant to MITM attacks, because key-pair encryption ensures that what is encrypted at one end can only be decrypted at the other end.
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  846. Back in 2016, CBS boss Les Moonves said “Trump may not be good for America, but he’s damn good for CBS”. The TV coverage was all about ratings, and TV coverage from all the media (liberal-leaning side included) played a hand in getting Trump elected.
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  847. I wonder, when he was deciding whether to include that or not, it was a toss-up between a Shawshank Rejection and a Shawshank Retention ...
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  848.  @dwayne7356  So basically, humming a tune is OK, doing a beat-box accompaniment is not OK.
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  849. 1:24 /me puts a picture representing the Second Law of Thermodynamics up on a dartboard and proceeds to throw darts at it.
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  850. Socrates had a clever technique for exposing stupidity, just by asking questions. Eventually the stupid’s answers will start contradicting their other answers, and they get very testy and walk off, muttering. It takes patience, though.
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  851. “select *” is not something I would ever use in production code. Always select exactly the fields that you need, no more, no less.
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  852. 🇺🇸 or 🇬🇧 gallon?
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  853. Early ASCII had “↑” which was replaced with “^”, and “←” which was replaced with “_”. DEC’s assemblers for both PDP-10 and PDP-11 families used “@” for indirect addressing modes. The 18-bit and 12-bit machines, being simpler, just put an “I” modifier in the instruction.
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  854. Dave Cutler, the father of Windows NT, came from DEC, which was a hotbed of Unix haters. Still, though, drive letters are a really stupid idea ...
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  855. You are Spike Milligan and I claim my £5.
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  856. 1:24 There was some controversy over describing the original 68000 processor as “32-bit”, since this was seen by some as marketing exaggeration. I think the best way to describe it was as a cut-down 32-bit design. When the first true 32-bit member of the family, the 68020, was released, you could see that the 32-bit extensions were mostly just a matter of filling in gaps in the original implementation. Unlike certain other vendors, whose 32-bit chips involving sticking unsightly architectural bags on the side of their older 16-bit designs.
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  857. Yeah, but which one makes for a better Hollywood-movie plot? Yup, these people really do think of the world in terms of what they see in movies and TV.
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  858. Trump was hired to overturn the 🇺🇸 Constitution??
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  859. 15:16 This was a sore point with other makers of Microsoft*-compatible PCs: IBM had the sole right to sell “OS/2 Extended Edition”, which came with a built-in relational DBMS, which other vendors did not. *Even back then, the standard for compatibility was not any product from IBM, but Microsoft Flight Simulator. So from very early on, it was not IBM that defined what “compatible” meant, but Microsoft.
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  860. But if Trump won in 2020 and is the legitimate current President, then he won’t be eligible to run again in 2024.
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  861. Russia is also topped out in terms of support for the war. Putin has been maintaining an iron grip on the expression of any opinions to the contrary, but that cannot continue to stay watertight for months or years. There have already been frequent leaks, and dissension will inevitably grow. So one way or another, he cannot sustain this for very long. His failure to achieve a quick victory will cost him not just his job, but also his life.
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  862. The main use for archives that I see is not for saving my own data, but for distributing collections of files. And normally when you get one of those you want to extract everything.
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  863. You are free to change your shell to perl, if you want. You can even do it permanently by editing your /etc/passwd entry. You will soon discover why that’s a bad idea.
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  864. 17:09 Which brings us to the phenomenon known as “buffer bloat”, where all kinds of devices between your end of the connection and mine have large buffers built into them, just to make some problems easier to solve. But of course this adds latency for real-time applications. So there are people trying to persuade makers of these devices to reduce their buffer sizes. Which requires them to write better code to deal with the problems that they were papering over with large buffers before.
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  865. “Gave in”. “Gave way”. “Surrendered”.
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  866. 6:18 Worth making something very clear here: the program (call it D, the “deciding program”) that decides whether a given program (call it P, the “problem program”) will terminate for input data I is taking both P and I as input data. In other words, a program is input data to another program! This is a key point about the nature of the Turing machine, and also of all our electronic digital computers: programs and data are both represented using the same set of symbols that can be stored in the memory of the machine. The only difference between the two is, a stream of symbols becomes a “program” only because you point the CPU at the start of that stream and say “run this as a program”.
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  867. 12 seconds means whatever the reflective surface is, it must be about 1.8 kilometres away.
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  868. That case was prosecuted by the same NY Attorney General who is currently suing to disband the NRA. I’m rooting for her.
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  869. They even tried replacing ALIS with the new ODIN system, but that’s just ALIS under a new name, the product of the same old problematic process. For example, if a part is not properly entered into the system, it will neglect to inform you when it’s due for replacement. So it will suddenly and unexpectedly wear out, and suddenly your expensive aircraft cannot fly.
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  870. Why sign up to an agreement in the first place, if you have no intention of honouring it?
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  871. 5:02 Cairo never made it to production quality.
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  872.  @racistpixel1017  If he didn’t have access, then who gave them to him?
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  873.  @harriet-x.x  Like the infamous “NSAKEY”? It was a back door, but it was for the company itself, not for any spooks. The name was obviously an embarrassingly bad joke.
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  874.  @catayloprince4772  ISO 29500 defines “transitional” versus “strict” compliance. Here we are, getting on to 2 decades later, and Microsoft is still stuck on “transitional”, and nobody dares to use “strict” for fear of breaking compatibility with something.
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  875.  @catayloprince4772  The LibreOffice native format is ODF, a.k.a. ISO 26300. Much simpler to understand and easier to implement correctly.
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  876. According to the top500 list, the current fastest supercomputer in the world, RIKEN’s Fugaku, has 7,630,848 cores. Of course, they’re not x86 cores, they’re ARM. And it’s not running Windows, it’s Linux. That might help.
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  877. Sorry, I kept saying SHA-256. In fact Git still uses SHA-1. Though there is a plan in progress to move to something more future-proof.
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  878. 5:01 That “du” command looks like an expensive way to find subdirectories.
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  879. That shake of the head was from the polygraph operator looking at the reading.
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  880. I just hope that will be the last of his superspreader events.
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  881. pid content tracker”. He deliberately avoided very elaborate conflict-merging schemes, preferring to concentrate on narrowing down the points of conflict so the human user has just the info they need to resolve the issue, without needless distractions. He said he wouldn’t trust his code to more complex automatic mechanisms that many others were proposing. Yes, “clay” is exactly the word that has come to my mind, too. Having all your work safely stored away in the commit history gives you the confidence to take more risks, knowing that, if you screw up, you can always go back. ;)
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  882. In fiction, it’s called a “black comedy”. In real life ...
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  883. It’s a dumb idea. It’s all about taking power away from the distro maintainers, and putting it into the hands of certain developers. Why do developers have to care how their software is packaged? They just release the source and let the distros deal with that. The developers that do care are the proprietary developers--the ones who don’t want to release their source code. Those developers also have a poor record of keeping up-to-date with all the dependencies for their products. In other words, is this about improving the user experience? No, it is not.
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  884. Consider that GW Bush made Reagan seem like a moderate, while Trump made GW Bush seem almost normal. So the next Republican Presidential candidate has to be someone who makes Trump seem almost sane.
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  885. “Pulling out all the stops” is when you want maximum sound from an organ.
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  886. Not just editing, but also choreography of Steve’s movements.
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  887. You know the old saying, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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  888. By the time 32-bit OS/2 came out, the Unix systems had been 32-bit for about a decade, and some of them were even 64-bit. Look at “Another Boring Topic”, for a video called “The Fall Of OS/2”: he goes over the whole sorry story of IBM sabotaging its own product.
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  889. Except this is all now Open Source. Remember that Google forked their Blink engine from Apple’s WebKit, which was in turn forked from KDE Konqueror’s KHTML. So we are not seeing (quite) the return to IE6-style Dark Ages of the Web.
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  890. The OP is talking about how spaceships maneouvre in vacuum versus how aircraft fly in an atmosphere. The “Star Wars” fighters banked and turned like aircraft, not spaceships.
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  891. You will notice that the quote said “escalated” under JFK, not “started”.
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  892.  @ChrisJones-rd4wb  The whole concept of “Intellectual Property” actually violates property rights. Think of what it means for the seemingly simple question: “If I buy something, do I own it?”.
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  893. I keep forgetting about setdefault. Must remember to use that more. And here’s another tip: deleting a dictionary entry that might not exist. Where del d[key] will raise KeyError if there is no such entry, d.pop(key, None) will not.
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  894.  @NoNameAtAll2  It can’t work, because opening/closing tags can be nested inside other opening/closing tags, to arbitrary levels. Regexes cannot handle that.
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  895.  @Digger-Nick  It’s the other way round. WSL2 is the first step towards getting rid of the Windows kernel. Unless you’re talking about WSL1, in which case ... I pity you.
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  896. The PHP developers had no idea about Perl. They saw that “$” syntax, but didn’t understand what it meant in context (denotes scalar variables), and decided to use it for all their variables. Now they are looking at Python, and they still have no idea how its features work together. So they are copying ideas like iterators, and screwing them up.
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  897.  @alanking6240  The ones who have the problem are the ones trying to censor her tweet.
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  898. 9:58 “We’re gonna need a bigger wheel-clamp.”
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  899. I must remember that pronunciation of “zoologist” the next time I go to the zo.
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  900. Every time I hear somebody try to play down the intelligence of the human species, I remember that it’s a member of the human species saying that.
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  901. Funny how English has a tense pre-made exactly for expressing thoughts like this. Think about that.
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  902. 5:46 Qing was the ascendancy of the Manchus, when ethnic Han men were required to wear their hair in those long braided queues to indicate their subservient status.
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  903. Even in the US polls seem to show most of the people want to be sensible. It’s just you’ve got this small, yet disproportionately powerful group who prioritize their own welfare over that of the public. In a democracy, they would be outvoted. In the US, on the other hand ...
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  904. But aren’t private military-style groups supposed to be illegal under the 🇷🇺 Constitution?
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  905. It took a giant leap forward, then stood still as other caught up and surpassed it. The Video Toaster was groundbreaking for analog video, but the Amiga never made the transition to digital video. LightWave 3D was (for its time) a powerful 3D tool, but the Amiga hardware was never very good for 3D work.
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  906.  @kyle8952  For example, Amiga apps could not adapt to higher-resolution screens, the way they could on the Mac.
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  907. This guy claimed he was such a good businessman, that made him qualified to run the country. Basically, his resumé was a tissue of lies.
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  908. In 2020, while his TV stations and newspapers were busily downplaying the seriousness of COVID-19 and the need for masking and distancing and all the rest of it, he cancelled his own 89th birthday party because he knew he was in a high-risk group for exposure to the virus.
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  909.  @Celastrous  Python is characterized by a compact core language with a great deal of extensibility. All the rest is library modules building on that. That’s what makes it so powerful.
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  910.  @old_grey_cat  It got too close to a personal attack, and backfired.
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  911. 2:11 That doesn’t look like the same event as camera 1. In camera 1, the glow disappears after the “failure”. Here we see something climbing from the east, i.e. from the direction of Israel. And remember, this is supposed to be from before the launch “failed”.
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  912. zstd is widespread enough that you can consider it portable nowadays. And tar supports it, too.
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  913. “Calm is when Gaza is bombed, villages are invaded, homes are bulldozed, journalists are shot, ambulances are attacked, mosques are vandalized, schools are tear-gassed, and Palestinians are massacred...” “Calm shattered is when Palestinians finally respond.” — Remi Kanazi
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  914. A friend who used to be a roadie taught me the over/under technique for coiling cables, which also works for garden hoses. That means you can deploy it with a simple throw, without it kinking.
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  915. It’s never “Donald” and “Clinton”, is it...
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  916. 7:23 No, the address register is incrementing by 2 each time (note the little gap where the units bit is 0). Machine instructions are multiples of 2 bytes in length, and have to be stored in even addresses.
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  917. That whole “do one thing and do it well” is a half-truth. It relies on those small components running on top of much larger ones, like the shell, the kernel, the X server and so on.
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  918. 21:42 The legendary LightWave!
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  919. A democratic Government needn’t worry. In fact, it is in the interests of democracy for a citizenry to know its rights. Only an autocratic Government would be opposed to that. Hi from 🇳🇿, a nation of secular godless Socialist liberals, where we value freedom and democracy.
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  920. The whole “do one thing, and do it well” is such a canard. Those small pieces never work without some quite big, monolithic pieces under them -- look at the size of a typical shell, the X11 server, the Linux kernel itself. systemd service files typify this: the power of systemd means you can register your service in just a few lines of configuration, as opposed to the lines of boilerplate needed in a sysvinit script.
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  921. And remember, that hardware support comes from the Linux part, not the GNU part.
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  922. There goes his anti-vaxxer vote...
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  923. You have to respect a guy who would sacrifice his life rather than contaminate his body with Socialist medicine.
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  924. Ah, but an anterior pelvic lift is also associated with a posterior pelvic drop, am I right? Basically that whole dorsal-ventral axis is now on an oblique slant. That kind of thing just plays merry he
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  925.  @terri6854  You do your clocks, I do mine.
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  926. GNOME is the one people like to use and complain about. I guess for those who are used to proprietary platforms, this makes them feel at home.
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  927.  @Mtaalas  Luckily, Python’s use of whitespace is pretty much consistent with my formatting conventions anyway. I do still put in “#end” comment lines. If nothing else, it gives Emacs something to jump to, so I can quickly move between the beginning and ending of a block just by looking for lines with the same indentation level.
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  928. Figures that the anti-climate-change shitsters are also anti-vax shitsters... Once you lose track of reality, you lose it completely.
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  929. Mexico has two problems: the USA and the USA. It is US money that is paying for the illicit narcotics that are being smuggled north, and it is also US guns being smuggled south that helps the gangs survive. Dealing with one while ignoring the other will not work.
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  930. MATLAB was originally designed for matrix manipulations. For that, it seems to be fine. However, I once had to use its GUI functions, to build a real-time display and processor for multichannel EEG data. Let’s just say, if it’s a choice between that and being covered in honey and tied down in the hot sun next to an anthill ... maybe the ants aren’t so bad ...
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  931. Checks and balances are an essential part of the rule of law in a free, democratic society.
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  932. Notice their space capsule is clearly inspired by the Russian Soyuz design, rather than the American Apollo one. Soyuz is clever in that, by splitting the habitation area into two parts, and only having one of them need to survive re-entry, you give more space to the crew, while decreasing weight overall. The Chinese also seem to agree that’s a good idea. But the Americans persist in their more cramped/heavy Apollo all-in-one design, where the whole habitable component has to make it back to Earth.
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  933. Hanlon’s Razor: “Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.”
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  934. 0:14 Also worth watching, if you like the dramatization approach, is a BBC TV movie about Turing from 1996, called Breaking The Code . This was based on a stage play from 1986.
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  935. But only the good stuff. Even though the Christian Constitution gave him the power to do anything, none of the bad stuff was his fault.
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  936.  @tomasbickel58  The light reflects from below towards the presenter, not towards the lens.
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  937. Every time I hear about this “secret” stuff, I wonder: why wasn’t it used in Afghanistan? It could have saved thousands of American soldier lives, and civilian lives; was it really worth all those lives to keep such a secret? What is the point of a weapon that can decisively defeat your enemy if you don’t use it?
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  938. Trump managed to do badly in three major elections in a row.
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  939. Putin may have had a point about the expansion of NATO being unnecessarily provocative. But all that has gone out the window now: the world overwhelmingly sees him as a madman and a war criminal. Pro world-leader tip: if you’re trying to argue against the formation of a defence pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening the safety of countries that are thinking of joining that pact. It kind of undermines your whole argument, you know?
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  940. Normally, you defend yourself by saying you are better than those you are being compared to, not that you are just as bad as them.
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  941. Putin: “What are these nucular weppins that the lying-dog Western journalists say we have? Do they make big bang?” Lackey: “Yes, they make big bang, comrade President. Much death and destruction. According to our own non-lying-dog trustworthy agents.” Putin: (rubs hands with glee) "In ... teresting ...”
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  942. The Commander Data of the command line ...
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  943. I remember Linus Torvalds’ scathing response to the idea that “SVN is CVS done right”. As far as he was concerned, there was no way that CVS could be “done right”.
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  944.  @d33rf0rce  More ARM processors ship per year than the entire population of the Earth. But almost none of them run Windows.
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  945. I don’t think legal penalties can be written off as expenses for tax purposes.
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  946. Everybody needs to obey the law. That includes those with the job of enforcing it.
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  947. In some locked-down countries, they give the medical people a round of applause every day. In Brazil, they bang their pots and pans to show how angry they are with Clown-in-Chief Bolsonaro. Maybe the US could adopt both of these ...
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  948. 9:26 That gadget in Enrico’s hand is a slide rule. They had pretty much died out by the 1970s, superseded by the pocket calculator.
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  949. It’s also a very patriotic symbol. Who was it who said “I regret that I have but one asterisk for my country”.
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  950. 6:02 One way to tell whether something is still needed is to move it aside into a separate directory somewhere you call “delete-pending”, or some name to that effect. If after, say, 1 month, 6 months, however long it takes you feel happy, nothing untoward happens, then you can delete the contents of that directory.
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  951.  @andreweisan9613  Obama persevered with it. He managed to get things done, in spite of the Republicans trying to stymie him at every opportunity.
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  952.  @LeScratch89  He still has to try. Playing the blame game is 1) what Trump spent most of his time doing, and 2) exactly what the Republicans want Biden to do.
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  953. Sometimes you need to feed the files to a command one at a time. This works with bash: for i in {1..10}; do echo file${i}.txt; done Sometimes you need leading zeroes on the numbers. This also works with bash: for i in {01..10}; do echo file${i}.txt; done If you are using a more minimal shell (e.g. dash) that doesn’t do “{..}” pattern expansion, there is always the “seq” command: for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo file${i}.txt ; done If you want the leading zeroes, seq won’t do them, so try the “printf” command: for i in $(seq 1 10); do echo file$(printf %02d ${i}).txt ; done
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  954. Hard to believe there was a time when people reflexively looked to IBM for leadership on all things computing-related ... Just a couple of years after this, their introduction of the PS/2 range demonstrated quite clearly the shrinking limits of their market control.
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  955. 25:16 Why not KERMIT? One of the early highly-regarded open-source projects, with implementations of a common file-transfer protocol available for just about every platform under the sun -- for free! (Yes, I was using it to move files between disparate micros as part of my user-support job back then.)
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  956. Doing something supposedly stereotypical just so you can apologize about it is such a passive-aggressive way of being racist, don’t you think ...
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  957. If these games were purely an internal matter, it wouldn’t be so bad. But remember all these funding shenanigans are also hurting 🇺🇸’s international credit rating.
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  958. Sounds like a title of a Mel Brooks movie ...
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  959. 12:42 That whole “will it play on my VCR?” argument from the VHS-C camp was never really convincing. TVs and living-room VCRs both soon added extra AV inputs on the side, to make it easy to plug in your camcorder. And you had to copy to do editing anyway. I think worldwide Video-8 and Hi-8 outsold VHS-C and S-VHS-C. Also the extra recording time didn’t hurt.
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  960. This was also the beginning of the “white box” industry, where companies in various markets would import cheap but good-quality machines from no-name Taiwanese manufacturers and sell them locally under their own brand names.
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  961. 3:44 “Consanguinity in the second degree”. There was this case back in mediæval Europe where some royalty got a marriage annulled on grounds of “consanguinity in the third degree”. Since divorce was officially forbidden back then, they had to come up with some creative excuses to get around it ...
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  962. There was a saying in the old days, “nobody ever got fired for buying IBM”. The obvious update for today is “nobody got fired for buying Microsoft”. But that doesn”t really sound convincing enough. You need something that sounds more reassuring, don’t you? Something that makes it clear how much worse the alternatives can be. How about, “nobody ever got tied to an anthill and smeared with honey for buying Microsoft”. Or, “nobody had their skin flayed off, one little cut at a time, with a blunt razor, for buying Microsoft”. Or, “nobody ever got tied in a tank with a tap dripping on their head, driving them insane before it drowned them, for buying Microsoft”. Do you think that makes Microsoft buyers feel better?
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  963. The command ls -d ~/.[!.]* | wc -l reports that I currently have 251 dot files/directories in my home directory. Also, think of the privacy issues on a multiuser system: even if the files/directories themselves are not readable by others, it is difficult to hide their existence (or nonexistence) from other users.
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  964. 5:34 Other OSes had this concept called “overlays”, where you divided up your (large) program into sections such that only some sections were loaded into memory at once. There were complicated mechanisms such that when a procedure in one section made a call into one in another section, the latter would get automatically loaded. But what happened if there wasn’t enough memory? Then some other section had to be thrown out of memory. If no code was currently executing in a suitable section, then fine. But what if there was? Then it would have to be automatically reloaded when control returned to a procedure in there. Or maybe you disallowed unloading sections which held currently-executing procedures. Yes, it all got very complicated. I never wrote an overlaid program in my life. Luckily the 32-bit era arrived just in time.
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  965. Ivan Toshkov is right, DJ Ware is wrong. Note this part from the linked article: “When orphan processes die, they do not remain as zombie processes; instead, they are waited on by init. The result is that a process that is both a zombie and an orphan will be reaped automatically.” Note that only applies to orphan processes. Non-orphaned zombies cannot be automatically reaped; their parent process must do this.
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  966. People in 🇨🇳 have forgotten, or been made to forget, why Deng Hsiao-Ping introduced term limits in the first place: he saw the disorder and unrest following the death of Mao, which was directly due to the personality cult that had grown up around that one leader. He didn’t want it to happen again. And the way to do that was to ensure that no future leader could ever build up their own personality cult.
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  967. Rebase is OK for private branches. Once you publish a branch, rebase is going to cause those who pull that branch a lot of grief.
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  968. There is one part of the 🇺🇸 Constitution that is sacred to them: the Second Amendment. That part they like, very much. Almost too much. The rest of it can go hang.
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  969. “Confessions of a lapsed particle physicist”. Somehow she makes me feel better about leaving physics behind after getting my BSc, and concentrating on postgrad computer science ...
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  970. 3:40 QEMU also does software emulation of non-native architectures. For example, you can run up virtual ARM, MIPS and a bunch of other architectures for machines on your x86 hardware. Yes, they will be slow because of software-based emulation, but they will run. In fact, for running a native-architecture VM (e.g. x86 on x86), you have to explicitly specify the use of KVM, otherwise it will run its software emulation.
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  971. As opposed to a flower show ... petal to the medal ...
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  972. But what is holding up the turtle?
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  973. You see now the impetus for RMS to start the GNU project, given the increasingly draconian restrictions on AT&T Unix licensing as time went on. They were bad enough to begin with, but after the breakup of the telephone monopoly, with AT&T now free to fully participate in the computer market, suddenly Unix became a whole lot more commercially valuable to them, and so they became less willing to let Universities and others have it, with full source code, at anything resembling a modest price.
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  974. 08:45 Did he just switch it off and on again? Didn’t they have the Programmer’s Switch installed? Just hit reset!
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  975. Strange, isn’t it? I thought they declared a Republic to get away from a King, yet here it turns out they worship a King after all ...
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  976. You know the old saying: “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely”. That’s why checks and balances are so important. One of those is the majority vote. Without that, you could have a situation where, say, 30% of the populace appointed a leader that 70% did not want.
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  977. 6:16 Just a note that splitting things out into separate files will slow down loading, compared to having it all in the same file.
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  978.  @crazyhandshands9028  Since the invention of the electronic digital computer, pretty much https://www.wired.com/2010/11/1104cbs-tv-univac-election/ .
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  979. 0:25 Oooh! Burn! 🔥🚒🛱🎆
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  980. 12:57 When a stronger culture copies from a weaker one, it’s called “cultural appropriation”. When a weaker culture copies from a stronger one, it’s called “colonization”. Either way, you have to wonder if there isn’t some kind of cultural-purity agenda going on ...
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  981. Remember also that when you ask the Linux kernel for more memory, by default it always says “yes”. Because it doesn’t actually need to allocate any RAM until you try to make use of it. This is called “overcommit”. And then, if it turns out you are trying to use too much and the system runs low, the dreaded “OOM Killer” kernel thread wakes up and goes looking for victims to terminate ...
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  982. You do that and you turn into Desi Lydic.
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  983. SystemRescue includes CloneZilla, and a bunch of other volume-management and diagnostic tools as well. At less than a gigabyte in size, it’s worth keeping a bootable stick with it handy.
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  984. 0:38 “Not that quick” as in “a thousand times slower than secret-key encryption such as with AES”.
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  985. The client has a list of CA certs that it trusts, so it will accept any server cert that is signed by one of them. TLS can also be used for two-way authentication. Also for secure communication between different parts of your own organization, you can create your own CA cert and install that at the endpoints so they can trust each other.
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  986. Could work in theory. I remember many years ago Toyota talking about a magnetic air purifier to separate N₂ from O₂ to provide more oxygen-rich air into the car. Or maybe that was just a patent, as opposed to an actual working system...
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  987. Microsoft’s server business is declining. Linux has already won there.
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  988. Rebase is useful for tidying up private branches before making things public. Once a branch is public, rebasing is going to annoy people who try to copy your branches.
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  989. Python, like Linux, became popular entirely through its own merits, not because there was some marketing-behemoth megacorp promoting the hell out of it. All the marketing-behemoth megacorps have done now is notice that these stars are rising while theirs are waning, so they are trying to embrace the new things just in the hope that some of the shine will rub off on them.
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  990. You notice you never see Yevgeny Prigozhin and Pope Francis in the same room together?
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  991. Are you sure it was FEC? I remember being in my uncle’s place years ago (he was a radio ham) and hearing some digital data communication being monitored on his gear: you could distinctly hear the packet being transmitted, followed by the acknowledgement, then another packet etc. Seemed like a waste of bandwidth. I told them they should do a TCP-style sliding-window protocol, to allow multiple packets to be sent before receiving the acknowledgements, to get around the channel latency.
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  992. Because he didn’t bully someone who was just doing their job?
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  993. Trying to blame the insurrection on the other side, now? Seems the Trump supporters have no loyalty to each other. They will happily sell each other out just to save their own skins. Kind of like their leader, really.
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  994. Do you feel that Lukashenko’s position is already precarious, that if he drags your country into the war, that could be the tipping point to rouse people up to get rid of him?
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  995. “Unix” is a trademark. Apple has licensed the trademark, Linux hasn’t. Linux matters more than Unix nowadays, anyway.
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  996. Every computer from about the 1970s/80s onwards supports ASCII, except old IBM mainframes and other mainframes that wanted to be compatible with them. Certainly ASCII support has always been universal among microprocessor-based computers, as well as “minicomputers” from the like of DEC, DG and others. And of course if a computer was going to run a Unix OS, then ASCII support was a requirement.
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  997.  @joshuahillerup4290  The difference between computer science and the branch of maths known as computability theory is that the mathematicians only care whether something is possible or not, while computer scientists actually worry about how efficient it might be to compute. E.g. any encryption algorithm can be cracked in finite time, but if that time is longer than the age of the Universe, then a computer scientist would deem the result to be a useful algorithm, even as the mathematicians would say “meh”.
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  998.  @1969cmp  Trump never conceded, remember.
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  999.  @shallex5744  The GPL doesn’t prevent commercialization by large companies, either. And the FSF is quite happy to include non-copyleft licences under its definition of “Free software”. Apart from that, you are just regurgitating the same old Stallman cant. So what exactly is the problem with “Open Source”, again?
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  1000. What made the hand entry of that initial bootstrap loader a bit more tolerable was that you didn’t need to do it every time you turned the machine on. The magnetic “core” memories of the time were non-volatile and would keep their contents with the power off, so unless you suffered a really bad software bug that overwrote that part of the RAM, the loader would still be there.
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  1001. You just brought together a number of random facts I had picked up here and there about Φ and suddenly made a whole lot more sense of them.
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  1002. Copyright law was created to shore up the monopoly of publishers. It was never about the artists, or any actual sense of “morality”.
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  1003. I have heard it said that French has the second-worst spelling system of any language that claims to be written with an alphabet. Guess which is the worst...
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  1004. 2:59 Not a fan of his? I think the fact she’s wearing a face mask is a clue to that. ;)
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  1005. I did GUI programming in MATLAB once. Let’s just say, a matrix-centric language is not suited to GUI programming.
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  1006. 4:51 Every time something gets called an “atom”, it turns out to be divisible into smaller components. So far this hasn’t happened with primes ...
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  1007. “Why is he wearing a false beard?” “Because he can’t afford a real one.” The above was posted to celebrate “Give An Elderly Joke A Home” week. Thank you for laughing.
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  1008. I wonder why people treat this like some kind of big joke.
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  1009.  @joshallen128  Back then it was the best. Nowadays I think the Linux networking stack is the most advanced. But Microsoft is still stuck with its derivative of the old BSD one.
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  1010. I was looking at some statistics a few years ago on contributions to the Linux kernel. At the time there were something like 1000 active contributors, and 10,000 lines of new/changed code flowing into the kernel each day. Which worked out to 10 lines per contributor per day -- which is a figure straight out of Brooks.
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  1011. Does Java have unsigned integers and typedefs yet? Those are just basic niceties that you get in regular languages.
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  1012.  @andrewstevenson118  Remember, “’Allo ’Allo” was a bit of a spectrum. I take it you weren’t doing Officer Crabtree ...
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  1013. She used her fame and celebrity for good, not for self-indulgence.
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  1014. Are these short forms really worth using, though? Often, when you benchmark things, you find that longer, simpler instruction sequences are faster. Which is why RISC architectures have the performance edge that they do.
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  1015.  @VAXHeadroom  Have you thought of letting Bitsavers make a scan of it?
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  1016. Lua was designed to be an embeddable scripting language for extending apps. Yet somehow Python has taken over that role.
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  1017. He needs to call off his visit. Now is not the time to be seen to be uncritically condoning Israel’s actions.
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  1018. They seem to have great difficulty with the idea that a democracy has to be secular, that it cannot be biased towards any religion or ethnicity or anything like that. It has to look after all its people equally, under the same rule of law.
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  1019. If you think PHP is great, then it sounds like you already are HR-bait. Hey, that rhymes...
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  1020.  @sweetgirlandhercats  Did you see more than 2 empty shelves? You should have complained they were breaking the limit.
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  1021. And don’t forget the buyback scheme to get those banned weapons out of circulation, instead of just driving them underground. That’s a key factor in why the Australian gun-law reform succeeded. And here in NZ, we are following the same example, and hopefully that will lead to the same results. Of course, this absolutely terrifies the gun nuts. The last thing they want is objective evidence that gun control works. And so you see ongoing pressure in Australia to reverse those gun-law reforms.
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  1022.  @RamonAlbertoEscobarUSA  No longer enough for Sweden and Finland. Two centuries of neutrality, abandoned because a certain neighbour has just become too dangerous.
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  1023. 12:10 It can be disconcerting to some that the default convention for command-line tools on Linux/Unix-type systems is not to produce any messages if an operation succeeded. If you want to see messages about what was actually copied, try “cp -v”.
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  1024. 2:43 There is a version of this need for unit conversion still relevant today. And that has to do with angles. Because most of us cope more intuitively with angles measured in degrees (or even fractions of a circle) than in radians, whereas most trigonometric calculations are most naturally done in radians. So it makes sense to store angles internally in radians, while letting the user see (and input) them in a choice of units.
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  1025. This is why I like the term “antiliberal”. Their entire raison d’être is focused on attacking liberals, not on doing anything constructive themselves.
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  1026. On the other hand, why is it that “professional” news networks have such long latency in live connections with reporters in the field, particularly across countries? The anchor says something, the correspondent nods silently for a two or three seconds, then they start speaking. That’s not common with videoconferencing, is it?
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  1027. 2:01 Some people (lucky tetrachromats) get to see four. They seem to be mostly women.
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  1028. Every computer is a “quantum” computer. Transistors wouldn’t work without quantum effects, like tunnelling, for example.
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  1029. Who can forget that address to the 🇺🇳 General Assembly? His type seem incapable of telling when people are laughing at them, not with them ...
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  1030. People remember fiction more than they remember the truth, don’t they.
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  1031. Sorry, I don’t follow GUI fashions. I don’t have the brain cells to waste getting that joke.
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  1032. Parliamentary systems don’t tend to have term limits. My feeling is, they’re a band-aid on a system that’s already broken.
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  1033. 5:37 Assuming the increment of i lies at the bottom of that squiggle somewhere ... otherwise you’ve just written an endless loop.
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  1034. “When the weather gets warmer ... it’s going to disappear, like magic ...”
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  1035. This is why controls are so important in scientific experiments. Just a note for those having difficulty appreciating this point: if you are getting the same results from the control as from cold fusion itself, then wherever the energy is coming from, you don’t actually need cold fusion to produce it.
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  1036. There’s a difference between big companies and small ones. I think your abilities (or lack of them) are more likely to be recognized in a small company.
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  1037. You’re forgetting that Jennifer Saunders wrote the scripts for Absolutely Fabulous , as well as being the foil for Patsy.
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  1038. Anybody else immediately thought of the mathematical definition of a “step function”? AWS seems to use it to mean “some component that performs one step in a workflow”, as opposed to the sense of “a function that changes discontinuously at a point”, like when you integrate the Dirac delta from -∞ to a given value x . Ah, it’s called the “unit step function’.
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  1039. Does anybody else think Trump has been losing his popularity since he got vaccinated?
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  1040. I think the BSDs are held back by their licensing. This allows proprietary companies to come along and take from them without giving back, and this stunts the growth of the ecosystem. Businesses may not like the sharealike requirement of the GPL, but at least it enforces something closer to a level playing field, and a competitive, thriving marketplace.
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  1041. An alternative way is to have the argument default to None. The function checks for this value, and replaces it with the current time (or other dynamically-computed value, as appropriate).
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  1042. The Last Starfighter looked so far ahead of its time because the rendering was done on a multi-million-dollar CRAY-X/MP supercomputer. Even compared to stuff done 10 years later, it still looked pretty good.
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  1043. You don’t have independent media reporting from Russia-occupied areas. You do from the Ukrainian side. That alone is enough to tell people what is really going on.
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  1044. 1:54 Might be a bit difficult, considering that’s not a whole lobster, just the claw. Am I mean and unfeeling for pointing that out?
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  1045. 0:24 “Trying my hardest ... low-effort” ... how to succeed at deadpan humour without really trying ...
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  1046.  @EidosX_  This is why pure-functional programming doesn’t make any sense. The real world is innately procedural.
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  1047. Its everybody’s favourite Thunderbird. Even if the takeoff sequence from Tracy Island doesn’t make any sense.
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  1048. Tell me again, why was copyright law a good idea to begin with? It was originally created as a Government-granted publisher/distributor monopoly, not to favour content creators at all. And today’s mess is simply that concept carried to its logical conclusion.
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  1049. I understand the Swedes look on Danish not so much as a dialect, but a throat deficiency.
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  1050.  @timlong9913  Or better yet, adopt the Unix/Linux approach of abstracting away from device names altogether, and use mount points.
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  1051. And don’t forget ’Oumuamua, our first confirmed interstellar visitor.
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  1052. But the Second Amendment specifically mentions the need for well-organized militias. And this new Supreme Court Judge Barrett is known for being very literal in her interpretation of the Constitution. You think maybe your Constitution is overdue for some kind of revamp, maybe? Naaahhhhh...
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  1053. The Bernoulli effect doesn’t give much lift. Deflecting off the lower surfaces of the wings would give more lift--simple conservation of momentum, really.
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  1054. After you’ve used certain commands and options a few dozen or hundred times, you do automatically memorize them. For the rest, there’s man (among other sources). This is why I’ve started writing man pages for some of my own programs. Nitpick: grammatically, it should be “I wish I had known”, not “I wish I knew”.
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  1055. I should add, mathematicians can use both notations: I believe it’s superscripts for column vectors, and subscripts for row vectors.
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  1056. LibreOffice Base is just a front end to various DBMSes. There is even one for SQLite somewhere. All of them are more powerful than Microsoft Access.
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  1057. Stick it in an RTG and get electricity out of it.
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  1058. Obviously his followers are a little slow to catch on, and that’s what he’s been counting on.
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  1059. Linus Torvalds is an ethnic Swede from Finland. How does he cope?
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  1060. The Unix vendors were willing to (grudgingly) agree to a core common standard. But then went out of their way to build extra proprietary parts on top of that, to try to make it difficult for customers to migrate away from one vendor’s products to another. This is what “fragmentation” means, and it weakened the Unix community collectively, making it easier for Microsoft to sweep in with their Windows NT product and wipe out Unix.
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  1061. It’s worth remembering the context of the time. In the early 1960s, the surfaces of the other planets were a mystery. We have a lot of science fiction up to that time (e.g. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ “Barsoom” and “Amtor” books) which assumed that they were not that different from Earth. NASA’s Mariner Mars fly-by missions in the latter 1960s showed that Mars was quite dry and desolate, and heavily cratered, with no sign of the fabled “canals” or any liquid water. So that put an end to one whole line of sci-fi stories. But Venus, with thick clouds hiding its surface, was another matter. Hence the effort put into finding out whether there was any chance of life on its surface. Before that idea, too, was reluctantly abandoned.
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  1062. 2:45 What are the odds that a vector would be named after someone called “Poynting”? ;)
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  1063. Easy enough for browser to expire their connection IDs and negotiate new ones say, every 15 minutes.
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  1064. “I think you ought to know I’m very depressed. I’ve got this terrible ping time down all the server nodes on the left side of my LAN. I’ve asked for them to be replaced, but no one ever listens.”
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  1065. He wasn’t asking for permission, he was asking to be given one.
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  1066. 16:17 Also he was never able to come up with a mechanism by which organisms could evolve. The nature of genetics (and mutation) was not unravelled until later. Many at the time considered this a weakness in his argument.
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  1067. Partial heart transplants are a thing, you know.
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  1068. 7:29 I had a lecturer at Uni who also had that “NMI” as his middle initial. Of course, in computing, “NMI” more commonly stands for “Non-Maskable Interrupt”.
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  1069. The Toaster was both enabled by the Amiga hardware and held back by it. It was NTSC-only, which made use in international markets difficult. And it came along at what was the tail end of the analog-video era, soon to be replaced by digital operation. Which the Amiga was not good at.
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  1070. A lot of the terminology comes from the researchers who pioneered the subject in the first place. Where these were German speakers, you get German terms like “eigenvector” or “entscheidungsproblem”.
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  1071. You’re not supposed to take them up into space!
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  1072. Remember, Photoshop wasn’t out yet. That came along in 1990, I believe. There were also rivals, like Letraset ImageStudio, and SuperPaint from Silicon Beach — all now extinct.
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  1073. And yet it is more efficient than any OS out there. It is more efficient than Microsoft Windows (OK, so that isn’t saying much). It runs better on vendors’ own hardware than vendors’ own OSes. If you think you can do better, by all means show us. If you are wondering where you went wrong, start by noticing that of all those subdirectories under “arch”, only one is applicable to the architecture you are building for.
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  1074. I only use JavaScript in web pages, not in the back end (my preferred language for that is Python). So far I’ve only needed maybe a couple of hundred lines of JavaScript at most at any one time, and writing it directly has been quite tolerable.
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  1075. “Isn’t he a bit old to be a drug dealer?” “That’s Meth-U-Sell-Ah.”
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  1076. Nature doesn’t divide itself into compartments, after all. The compartments exist only inside our heads.
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  1077. Blender implements DOM (Document Object Model) scriptability with Python -- objects in a Blender document appear as Python objects, and can be manipulated with common Python idioms like attribute access, indexing, iteration etc.
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  1078. Here in 🇳🇿 it wasn’t just Bloomfield, we have our whole coterie of local epidemiologists, like Michael Baker, Siouxsie Wiles and the others, advising the Government and also, don’t forget, giving their own interviews to the media without the Government interfering. In short, I think people were always kept well-informed. We have no media owned by Rupert Murdoch (that I’m aware of), deliberately trying to muddy the waters to push their own ideology.
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  1079. But ... but ... but ... the Second Amendment is sacred, that’s why you have to trample on the First Amendment instead, and restrict people’s rights to play video games. As I’ve said before, the Second Amendment is a wonderful decoy that the Government can use anytime it wants to take away any of your important rights: just make a feint towards that, and while everyone is worked up and distracted and shouting “from my cold, dead hands!”, pass a law to restrict some other freedom instead. All this nonsense of being able to use guns to protect yourself against Government oppression is a complete lie: when your police has access to military-grade weaponry, and all the citizenry has is peashooters by comparison. Yes, you can still do grievous harm to each other with those peashooters, but point them at a representative of the Government, and you will discover what real harm can be like.
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  1080. People keep forgetting that it was the UN that created the state of Israel in the first place.
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  1081. OK, here’s a fun thought: how would you generalize this idea to a base other than 2? For example, base-26, using the letters of the (uppercase, unaccented) English alphabet? The obvious answer is to do arithmetic modulo 26, assigning numerical values like A = 0 ... Z = 25. The symmetry of xor would no longer apply, so you would need separate encryption and decryption blocks: the encryption blocks would use addition in place of xor, while the decryption ones would subtract.
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  1082. Was this the early days of cheap knockoff PostScript clones?
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  1083. Suggestion: look at the ranked-preference (a.k.a. “Single Transferable Vote” or STV) voting system they brought in for their House District election in Alaska. It tends to prioritize individuals over parties, and may be just what you need to break the polarization that seems to be endemic in 🇺🇸 politics.
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  1084. 2:55 Nobody seems to understand how to use the Motorola 68k DBcc instructions: they terminate when the count register reaches -1 rather than 0, and everyone thinks this as a misfeature that you have to work around. But it’s a feature! Here’s how you use it: move.w count, d0 bra loop.end loop: ... body of loop ... loop_end: dbra d0, loop You see how that works? You load the exact count into the D-register, not the count - 1 as people often do. And if the count is initially zero, the dbra simply falls through without executing the loop at all! And you get this behaviour without the need for a separate test for the count being equal to 0. DBcc only directly handles a 16-bit count. But it is easy to implement a 32-bit loop count using two DBcc instructions together with a SWAP.
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  1085. 1:45 I immediately think of the Steve Martin film “LA Story”, and one of the running gags is that Victoria Tennant’s character always drives on the wrong side of the road. Maybe this visitor is from a solar system where they drive on the other side of the, um, space...
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  1086. “Have you tried turning it off and on again?” Or if that fails, reinstall ...
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  1087. In the Ada programming language, you can write integer literals in any base from 2 to 36. Don’t you wish more languages had that feature?
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  1088. 2:27 Yes, it most certainly is true. Remember, userland apps like GNOME are not responsible for managing filesystem cache--that is done by the kernel. So any RAM the apps are using is actual regular application RAM, and if they are using a lot more than other comparable apps, then yes, that counts as “bloat”.
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  1089.  @timothycurnock9162  How does the key know the difference between a “hack” and a “legitimate decrypt”?
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  1090. ~/.fonts is deprecated. I think the recommended per-user location is ~/.local/share/fonts. Help reduce dotfile clutter!
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  1091. The per-process virtual address space was only 16 bits.
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  1092. Another command never to do: kill -9 1
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  1093. If you’re a PHP expert, can you explain what’s going on here: $array1 = [1, 2]; $array2 = [1, 2]; $x = &$array2[1]; $array1a = $array1; $array2a = $array2; $array1a[0] = $array2a[0] = 23; $array1a[1] = $array2a[1] = 22; echo "\$array1 = " . print_r($array1, true) . ", \$array2 = " . print_r($array2, true) . "\n"; Do the two arrays print out the same? Why/why not?
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  1094. 2:09 So only incompressible fluids? That would leave out all gases.
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  1095. Bell Labs was a groundbreaking place ... as long as it was funded by a Government-controlled monopoly. After that monopoly was broken up (during the Reagan era), it lost most of its brilliance.
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  1096. 0:26 “Who is this man, and why is he in your office?” “What man?” (Makes note on pad.)
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  1097. I wonder how it continue to communicate with the control station without being jammed. Can’t the Russians detect the radio emissions?
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  1098. They want to make money from it.
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  1099. Their ultimate aim is to put in place a theocracy.
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  1100. “#include” is such a crude mechanism. Why isn’t Ada-style separation of module interfaces and module bodies more popular? Or look at Python’s module system. The nice thing about both is that they don’t pollute the global namespace without you asking them to.
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  1101. That’s the basis of Kolmogorov complexity. But if you don’t know the process, how do you figure it out? Consider that encrypted data, by design, looks indistinguishable from random noise. But if the plaintext data has low information content, then it would indeed be highly compressible, you just wouldn’t know it from the encrypted version.
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  1102. For me, the moment was seeing “n = n + 1” for the first time.
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  1103. 3:49 That looks like the Lego Duplo of calculators ...
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  1104. One interesting difference in Python’s syntax is the precedence of operators. Java follows C, which means that testing bit masks requires these parentheses: (val & mask) != 0 whereas Python lets you do it without the parentheses: val & mask != 0 You’d think that might cause incompatibility or confusion when trying to move expressions between Python and other languages? Yet lots of people do this all the time, and they don’t even notice the difference.
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  1105. I wonder if he believes that medicine, like all the rest of science and the very fabric of reality itself, is just part of the left-wing liberal hoax conspiracy evil godless atheist socialist domination they-want-to-take-our-guns-away deep-state plan?
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  1106. Absolutely. Just roll them up. Once they’re actually put on the bed, nobody will know the difference.
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  1107. Worth noting that there are probably less than half a dozen BSD variants, yet they are sufficiently incompatible with each other that they cannot even share kernel code (cf the WireGuard débâcle). For comparison, the number of Linux distros is not one, but more like two orders of magnitude greater, yet they all manage to share the same core kernel. People sometimes like to refer to the Linux world as “fragmented”. It is not “fragmented”; BSD is.
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  1108. She won a majority of the popular vote. Because that’s how we do things in 🇳🇿, we don’t have any of that “Electoral College” bullshit.
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  1109. 1:37 Ah, ReadySetGo. I preferred that to PageMaker and QuarkXPress, because of one neat little feature: each tab stop not only had a position, it also had a width. That meant that you just had to tab while typing text, and you automatically got a block of text which had inset margins on both sides. I’ve never seen that in any other package since...
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  1110. 3D is also an interesting combination of artistic concepts and heavily technical ones. Not everybody is good at both.
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  1111. They’re not into Discord or Slack or any of those here-today-gone-tomorrow fads, if that’s what you mean.
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  1112. 0:27 SQLite is the world’s most popular DBMS. Consider that it ships with every smartphone being sold today, so likely you have a copy about your very person right now.
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  1113. 4:06 “perchlorate”? SrClO₄?
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  1114. This is the kind of real-time interactive feedback that is only possible with the technology that is YouValve.
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  1115. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  1116. This is the state that had to bring in refrigerated trucks to hold the overflow of bodies from the morgues, with so many people dying. Yet they seem incapable of learning their lesson.
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  1117. History repeats, doesn’t it?
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  1118. What tickles me is that we finally have a conspiracy theory so loony, even T∗∗∗∗ won’t touch it. He had standards?!!? (Of a sort.) Who knew?
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  1119. Lucasburn!
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  1120. The Vi/vim family is the only group of editors that requires separate commands for inserting text before the current position versus after the current position. All GUI editors (and all normal editors, including Emacs), let you insert text at the current position.
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  1121. By “forever”, do you mean ℵ₀ seconds or something greater, like, say, ℵ₁ seconds?
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  1122. Just look at the numbers she quoted at 0:54 for example. You are right to feel a level of fear in the USA that you don’t have to feel in regular civilized countries with normal gun laws.
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  1123. Visual Studio is really useless for anything other than Windows-specific development. As for “Microsoft Office”, its official name is “Microsoft 365” now. Except it has never yet managed 365 days of continuous uptime.
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  1124. It used to be called “radio”.
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  1125. 2:19 The Klitschko brothers. Both ex-boxers (you can tell); one is mayor of Kyiv, the other I think is in the army. Not really political allies of Zelenskyy, but they know they are all in this fight together for now.
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  1126. I could understand him OK. Maybe his accent is unfamiliar to you.
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  1127. It was. Those were monster mainframes, in specs as well as size.
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  1128. 12:58 There is a chance that could fail. asyncio only holds weak references to the tasks it creates; it relies on the caller (you) to maintain strong references, to stop those tasks from disappearing randomly. Here it executes after the “task” variable holding the reference has gone.
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  1129. But in C you are not allowed to put a “;” after “}” to close a block. But you are required to put one after “}” to terminate a struct definition. Not confusing?
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  1130. 0:51 She does love those “Respect my authoritah!” glasses ...
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  1131. Maybe that’s an argument for using names rather than numbers.
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  1132.  @menachemsalomon  I don’t understand the point of that. It’s just a recipe for needless obfuscation -- and trouble, as you discovered.
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  1133. 8:11 A blank line at that point would have helped. Just sayin’.
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  1134. The relative velocity is so huge, it would be very expensive in fuel. Currently, missions to comets take years to get to their target--it’s like playing a very slow game of rocket-assisted billiards in the solar system, bouncing off planetary gravitational fields here and there, to build up speed in the right direction to get close to the target.
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  1135. They have done things like port PowerShell to Linux. But nobody seems to want to use it.
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  1136.  @theshermantanker7043  Microsoft only called it “Dotnet” because mentioning “Internet” in your marketing materials was pretty trendy back then. Even though the technology wasn’t really useful for that.
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  1137. The other amusing part is Trump supporters demonstrating their total lack of loyalty to one another, by trying to blame the trouble on the other side. They will happily sell each other out, just to save their own skins.
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  1138. 0:22 I recall a break in that blockade when Morsi became the first-ever democratically elected President in Egypt’s history. Of course, that didn’t last.
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  1139. No law should be “set in stone”. Remember, laws do not define what is right and wrong: on the contrary, it is our sense of what is right or wrong that should guide us in our formation of laws. If a law is no longer fit for purpose, when it becomes an active hindrance to the well-being of society, then it is time to get rid of it. It’s that simple.
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  1140. This guy wrote a book some years ago in which he described the eastward expansion of NATO as “needlessly provocative” towards Russia. But all that is water under the bridge now. If Russia wants to discourage countries close to it from joining NATO, it’s not going to achieve that by threatening their security.
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  1141.  @androdeveloper7261  Correct. But: Why do we need to distinguish? Isn’t the name enough?
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  1142. Yeah, but it didn’t have any date evidence, like a picture of the front page of the day’s paper.
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  1143. Emacs is one of those things you can start working with very quickly. Then as you get more familiar with it, you feel the need to add a little customization here and a little bit there. Looking at the Git repo containing my custom Emacs prefs, the first commit was made in 2007. Currently the main file is about 900 lines. I wouldn’t consider myself an Emacs expert, by any means.
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  1144. Solidarity of all the Russian people ... except maybe those in Rostov-on-Don.
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  1145.  @milonisk7380  Wow, you managed to say two completely opposite things in two different postings. Must be a confusing time right now in 🇷🇺 Troll HQ.
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  1146. 11:14 Some of those early colour printers did multipass printing. That meant that the paper had to go through the mechanism 3 or 4 times, once for each colour. To ensure that the separate passes were properly aligned, the paper-feed mechanism had to keep a ferociously tight hold on the paper. This meant that paper jams could be fun. If the paper got caught on some internal obstacle, the feed mechanism would not let leave it behind, but would simply rip it to pieces and continue feeding it through.
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  1147. 6:35 Specifically, linear momentum is a dual to symmetry of the physical laws in position in space. Angular momentum has a different dual: symmetry of physics in orientation in space.
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  1148. Utterly typical of the chronic fragmentation in the Unix world. Basically, every system that licensed the “Unix” trademark is now either dead or dying. Instead of “Unix”, people are now running Linux.
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  1149. You know how a magnifying glass works because a convex lens magnifies the rays of light? Well, he invented the first convex typewriter.
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  1150. 12:35 But you could replace it with a docstring. Which could be dynamically generated, to incorporate the actual limit, and assigned to the ＿＿doc＿＿ property of the function object being returned.
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  1151. Just so long as they get (re)elected, they don’t care. Maybe the US should try democracy.
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  1152. 0:19 “These two things should not be lumped together.” They were not. The Ukraine appropriation was taken out, just for the sake of getting this passed. And he is hopping mad at that.
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  1153. 6:41 Who was it who said “a billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money”?
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  1154. You don’t threaten people with torture for that.
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  1155. Who appointed the head of the DOJ, again? (It wasn’t JRB, was it ...)
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  1156. 2:00 But aren’t conservative types the first to say “Life is unfair, deal with it”?
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  1157. Every time I see one of these armchair commentators saying some open-source project is useless to them because, and then cataloguing a long list of deficiencies, I ask them: why not help sponsor someone to fix it?
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  1158. “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo” will go down as one of the more badass comments of this century.
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  1159. Or that the US knew it might come, but didn’t even tell Israel.
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  1160. 0:23 Should really make that “ls -A”.
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  1161. I have lately started adding man pages to some of my projects. I remember a saying from Jerry Pournelle back in Byte Magazine days: “You can never have too many examples”. I may not agree with some of his politics, but I took that saying to heart. Oh, and writing man pages directly in troff isn’t too hard, either.
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  1162. Hamas simply does not have any missile able to kill 300 people with a single strike. Only Israel and the US have that.
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  1163. 2:19 Shape ... kinda like a loaf of bread ...
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  1164. 8:28 Sorry, have to deduct points for saying “epicentres”. They’re “centres” of infection, not “epicentres”.
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  1165. A diverse ecosystem is valuable. That’s why Linux supports something like two dozen different major processor architectures—more than any other OS in history. And it also supports a wide variety of filesystems, not just NTFS.
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  1166. First Putin vowed to punish the perpetrators. Then he lets the ringleader get off scot-free. Does that sound like a leader still firmly in charge, to you?
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  1167.  @cc1k435  As opposed to the murder of born people? Death sentence, anyone?
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  1168. Same reason my dad told me never to look directly at an oxy-acetylene torch. Or maybe it was an arc welder ... can’t remember now ... Time for another coffee ...
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  1169. Added complication: those channels overlap. For example, with the original 802.11b on 2.4GHz, there are supposed to be 11 channels, but in fact there is only room for 3 entirely separate channels -- 1, 6 and 11. So all the others overlap one of these (and each other) to quite a large extent.
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  1170. If a foetus is entitled to all the rights of a full human being, doesn’t that include citizenship?
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  1171. 6:24 The argument is called “discount_perc”, but its interpretation is as a fraction, not as a percentage. I would say that is bad.
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  1172. 1:17 There were other groundbreaking OSes from around this time--you have already mentioned Multics, let me add also TENEX and ITS. Why is it most people only remember Unix nowadays, and none of the others? It is because Unix was the only one to make the leap to becoming a portable OS. The others were developed on particular hardware architectures; when those died, they died with them. While the original PDP-11 architecture that Unix started on is a museum piece nowadays, the OS architecture itself was sufficiently adaptable to make the jump to 32-bit, and then 64-bit, hardware. And Linux has carried that portability tradition to the next level, being ported to an average of one new major architecture for just about every year of its existence.
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  1173. Remember when Trump wanted to weaken NATO? Aren’t we glad that didn’t happen?
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  1174. Google’s Play Store actually banned an app using this library, supposedly for violating the “Sexual Content and Profanity Policy”.
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  1175. Look at the little details, like how dust behaves in a vacuum. Example: the neat parabolic arcs thrown up by the rover wheels. Another example: look carefully at the exhaust as the LEM lands--how all the dust is being blown radially out in straight lines from directly under the descent rocket. On Earth, in an atmosphere, the dust would form billowing clouds that hang in the air for minutes at least. On the Moon, in a vacuum, it all falls to the ground as quickly as any rock.
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  1176. 5:53 There is also a generalization of this. Whereas !«str» selects the last command beginning with «str», you can use !?«str»? to match the last command containing «str» somewhere in it. You can put spaces in «str», too.
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  1177. Sounds like the way they keep the tea leaves out of the cups in a student flat ...
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  1178. I think with nearly any GUI app, if it becomes really useful, then somebody will want to automate tasks with it. This is a good argument for separating the GUI frontend from the backend engine. So then you can invoke the backend via some kind of script or CLI, independent of the GUI. In fact, you could start your new app by writing it as CLI-only, and adding a GUI later.
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  1179. 3:19 Here’s another name for it: “compiled machine language”.
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  1180. The mathematical theory of how to deal optimally with noisy, imperfect sensors via noisy, imperfect actuators was worked out decades ago as “the Kálmán filter”. Fun fact: the NASA engineers working on the Apollo mission didn’t initially know about Kálmán because, you know, he wasn’t American. So they ended up reinventing a lot of his theory.
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  1181. Always amuses me that the Oath Keepers’ chief clown is a walking, living, breathing testament to the oxymoron that is “gun safety”.
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  1182. Von Neumann understood this perfectly well. The only ones who have forgotten tend to use languages like Java or C#. Oh, and PHP.
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  1183. 4:23 “Kids can understand it” ... while I was doing my MSc degree, I volunteered to help out with informal computer classes for disabled kids at a nearby boys’ high school. Most of the other tutors were seniors from the school, supposedly intimately familiar with the school’s Apple II machines, which were what we were using. But they had only programmed in BASIC. It turned out they also had LOGO boot disks, which the boys had never used. I started up one, and gave a quick intro to the joys of list processing, doing quick-and-dirty word-for-word language translation from English to French with just a few lines of code. They were quite impressed, and agreed that the same sort of thing would be very hard to do in BASIC. And yes, LOGO was designed by Seymour Papert to be easy for kids to understand. And he has done and published the research with actual kids to prove it.
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  1184.  @encycl07pedia-  Either one can. Directories can have dots in their names. such as /etc/fonts/conf.d.
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  1185. 24:28 Interesting. That works because all these different players understand a common protocol called MPRIS, implemented over D-Bus.
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  1186. Until you can recreate every exact detail of the actual Moon landings without actually going to the Moon, you are not going to be able to convince me they were faked. Go on. Convince me.
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  1187. If Abe Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat. But then, that has been true since the Democrats ejected the KKK and other racists, and they went across to the Republican Party.
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  1188. Linux has more man pages than all the rest put together https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ .
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  1189. e by gum. Actually I think he’s from Manchester?
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  1190. I use “|” every day. It’s used to create command pipelines in Linux, and as part of union/disjunction operators in several different programming languages. “`” has a few different uses, like quoting reserved words being used as table/field/variable names in SQL, or indicating TTY output in Markdown. And how many people type “\” when they really mean “/”? I like to call that “DOSlexia”...
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  1191. 5:17 Actually, Stallman was not keen on Linux at all. He was working on his own “Hurd” kernel, which was going to be have a “microkernel” architecture, which would supposedly make it much easier to develop, test and maintain. Better than an old-fashioned “monolithic” kernel, like Linux. Well, here we are, about 30 years later, and we’re still waiting for Hurd to reach production quality. Meanwhile, Linux started becoming popular just a couple of years after that initial announcement, and spread to a whole bunch of non-x86 architectures at the same time.
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  1192. Pro world-leader tip: if you are trying to dissuade your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  1193. Just so long as it’s not your pension fund that invested lost that money ...
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  1194. I don’t understand what exactly Stallman disagrees with. If you look at the Open Source definition, what is there that goes against his philosophy?
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  1195. 8:09 The term is “onionskin”.
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  1196. Remember the Clarke short story The Sentinel , that was part of the basis for 2001: A Space Odyssey ? Maybe this is the real test. Getting to the Moon was child’s play (comparatively), let’s see the fledgeling civilization rendezvous with an object orbiting in completely the wrong direction. Or maybe there’s another test beyond that...
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  1197. 10:35 One important difference, which still remains true to this day, is that on Unix and Linux systems, process creation is carefully designed to be a very low-overhead operation. Thus, a shell script can spawn any number of processes to implement the stages of a pipeline, run concurrent background tasks etc, and do so quickly and easily. Whereas on other common systems, including Windows, process creation remains expensive and complicated. Thus, when software originally developed on Linux is ported to Windows, it tends to work less well and less reliably for this among other reasons. Even the Mac, supposedly a Unix system, has had performance issues with multitasking.
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  1198. 3:41 Why did you need to pass the string source of the function? You could have passed the function itself. That’s perfectly valid Python.
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  1199. Here in NZ I would describe it more as “mutual respect” between Government and people. And both of them respect the science. We have checks and balances in our democracy, and so far they have been holding up.
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  1200. 5:33 There is a YouTube video somewhere that gives you a tour through the POSIX subsystem for Windows NT. Let’s just say it was more of a box-ticking exercise rather than something meant for serious use—it is truly horrible.
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  1201. George Orwell had a word for that: “doublethink”.
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  1202. Remember, this was back when the DOS/Windows world was still struggling with the 640K limit.
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  1203. As Lloyd Austin pointed out, it’s not clear what the point of this is. A warehouse isn’t any more destroyed if it’s hit by a fast missile as opposed to a slow one. Surely Putin must have cheaper ways of achieving the same objective ... unless he doesn’t, and is running out of options. All he can do with these remote weapons is destroy things, not take control of them. For that, you need ground troops. And those are all bogged down, under fire everywhere from brave Ukrainians.
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  1204. Unfortunately, saying that would just be playing their game. So he has to hold his tongue and continue to stay above all the childishness.
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  1205. I think a Jupyter notebook would be far more flexible: each cell can hold as much or as little code as you like, and can produce multiple associated items of rich output — graphics, sound, video, maths, formatted HTML, plus interactive widgets to control same — interspersed with cells containing narrative text so your notebook can be self-documenting. And you can include code in other languages besides Python.
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  1206. Let’s just say they are “Mainstream” and you are not ...
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  1207. Antiliberals demand equal crime! Whatever our guy is accused of, we make the same accusation back! Evidence? Oh yeah, evidence. Well, just take that against our guy, and change the names around, job done.
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  1208. Because a minority of the populace having a stranglehold on the majority of political power is the “American way of life”, isn’t it.
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  1209. Don’t forget the noises ARM Ltd has been making about wanting more money from licensees. And the lawsuit against one of its biggest customers, Qualcomm. That kind of thing makes alternatives, like RISC-V, more attractive.
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  1210. New in the Linux kernel this week: multithreaded console printing, hardware acceleration for fbdev, Rust support gets closer, improved random-number support, network stack enhancements in TCP and BPF. New in Windows this week: dark mode for the Task Manager.
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  1211. 4:49 Fun fact: cucumbers are tastier than avocadoes. Yum!
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  1212. There’s the economic concept of an “externality” -- that is, a cost that a company is responsible for, but they don’t have to pay, because it’s somebody else’s problem. Like when they mess up the environment or poison people. This is why we have regulatory authorities, to ensure that a company very much bears liability, particularly financial liability, for the damage and hurt that it creates. Then hopefully it will think twice before creating new “externalities” in future.
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  1213. Removing that audio jack must have taken some courage. ∗cough∗ While I’m typing this on a lovely new machine in a full-size desktop case that I got a few months ago, I found out its onboard analog audio interfaces would not support my 5.1 surround-sound speakers. It could have been done via the optical interface, I suppose. But I found the easiest solution was to get a separate external USB audio box that does 7.1 out. I’m sure that same box will work fine on the Pi 5. In fact, I think it’s bigger than the Pi 5.
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  1214. If Kildall had lived just a few years longer, he would likely have invested in Linux.
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  1215. 8:13 Have you tried using a Jupyter notebook? It’s good for “scratchpad”-style programming. Which means I can leave the driver object open and incrementally run extra commands against it, instead of having to close and reopen it every time.
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  1216. Just so long as an ED-209 doesn’t turn up ...
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  1217. 3:27 It’s not just themeable. According to the man page, you can create your own UI for it using Athena widgets.
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  1218.  @profdaveb6384  Just don’t go taking part in any duels until then. ;)
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  1219. It’s actually a “directed acyclic graph”. A commit can have a single parent, multiple parents (merge commit) or even no parents at all (like the first commit in a repo). Trivia question: can there be more than one commit in a repo with no parents?
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  1220. The man pages are still the ultimate reference, though. For example, where online will you find an example for doing a keyword search through man pages in a specific section: man -s«n» -k «keyword»
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  1221. One interesting difference is that “{00..10}” automatically expands to 2-digit numbers with leading zeroes, whereas “seq 00 10” does not; you have to use something like “seq -f%02.0f 0 10”.
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  1222. Even today, the Raspberry π does not have an onboard real-time clock chip. Apparently it would add too much to the unit’s two-figure price tag.
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  1223. 9:56 The trouble is that you end up stretching your definition of “ain’t broken”. Turns out it crashes if you press two keys in the wrong order? Well, you learn never to do that. Entering records with a certain value in a certain field will corrupt the database? Never enter that kind of data. So your entire business process becomes convoluted to avoid all the sharp edges. There’s a hidden cost to that, but you never even think of how that might compare to the not-so-hidden cost of replacing the system with a better one.
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  1224. Maybe this virus was a product of the Deep State which they managed to keep secret until now, specifically to damage his re-election campaign, or something. Man, it hurts to try to think like a Republican ...
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  1225. Socialism is a place where kids don’t have to go to school wearing bullet-proof backpacks.
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  1226. That’s their faith, which says the ruler they worship can take credit for all the good things, but no blame for any of the bad things.
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  1227. ... Adobe sits quietly, twiddling thumbs and making “ka-ching” noises ...
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  1228. “Special Political Operation”!
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  1229. Heavens to Murgatroyd! #ShowingMyAge
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  1230. Aren’t there double-microphone designs, where the forward one directly picks up the speaker’s voice, while the one behind picks up the room reverb so it can be subtracted out? I recall Apple had something like this in its “PlainTalk” microphones from the early/mid 1990s. What has happened since then?
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  1231. Helium isn’t laughing gas.
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  1232. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  1233. You know the old saying: everybody is entitled to their own opinion, they aren’t entitled to their own facts.
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  1234. This partisan sickness of putting party before country needs to stop. I’m afraid the USA can never be the same again.
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  1235.  @anthonysvenforsic4760  Greetings to 🇺🇸 from 🇳🇿, where we are not suffering an entire September 11 worth of Covid-19 deaths per day. Where we have a Socialist healthcare system, which is the only kind of healthcare system that works. And which can only be paid for by taxes. Because lives are more important than money.
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  1236. The trouble with an armed insurrection is, when people shoot at the Government, the Government is perfectly entitled to shoot back, regardless of who might be right or wrong. This is why peaceful demonstration is so important: when the Government shoots at an unarmed crowd, they instantly become the bad guys. Interesting that those who are so fond of the Second Amendment seem to have difficulty with this fact ...
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  1237. Somebody should pass a law forcing infectious diseases to obey our Constitutionally-guaranteed freedoms.
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  1238. 2:51 There is a phrase from this era, when companies would routinely send you these cards for you to send back to them: “do not fold, spindle or mutilate”. It was a reference to the fact that your very identity was tied up in these coded cards.
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  1239.  @fletcherrhoden  If he had been given Frankenstein’s brain, then it would have been right to call him “Frankenstein”. If he got Igor’s brain, then he would become “Igor”.
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  1240. He rather conveniently claimed to shut down traffic from China, when the infection was still being spread from Europe, as well as returning US residents from China.
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  1241. JavaScript is the only language you can use for interactive web pages without having to load an entire bunch of framework packages.
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  1242. There should be a plaque there. Point it out to visitors on the White House tour.
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  1243. Swift is owned and controlled by Apple, Python is not. Need I say more?
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  1244. Around about 1990, back when hard drives were a lot smaller and people still used floppies a lot, JPEG was an absolute revelation. The idea that you could take a photorealistic image and reduce the file size by a factor of 10 with no perceptible difference in image quality was stunning.
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  1245. The moon-landing deniers never explain how the Russians were made to go along with the “hoax”. Remember there was this whole big “Cold War” thing going on at the time? Cuban missile crisis, people being shot trying to cross the Berlin Wall, all that kind of thing?
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  1246. 15:58 “six-point-two” I believe meant “LU 6.2”, which was IBM’s standard for peer-to-peer networking. Its overall networking architecture was called “SNA”, and already went back decades by this point. But it had always been hierarchical-based, with a centralized mainframe controlling everything. But everybody else was favouring the peer-to-peer paradigm, to the point where even IBM realized it had to get in on the act.
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  1247. 3:02 I always have to ask: does “media” include Fox News? Or doesn’t that seriously count as “media” in the eyes of right-wingers?
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  1248. If Trump has friends like these, does he need enemies?
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  1249. 7:09 But Goofy is a fictional character. So it is wrong to say “in fact” he is a dog; perhaps more accurately he is a dog “in fict”.
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  1250. Coalition politics is quite common in all the good democracies. “Winner-takes-all” does not seem like a good basis for inclusive Government.
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  1251. Airlines won’t pay those prices.
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  1252. Some GUI applications, particularly open-source ones, are an exception to the “inflexible monolith” paradigm. A good example is Blender, the 3D modelling/animation/rendering app. Look at the Python API for extending its functionality, which is breathtakingly comprehensive -- probably more so than any other, and includes its own purpose-built high-level GUI toolkit. Plus the fact that you can run it in batch mode (with its GUI disabled), and feed it Python code to execute, makes it very versatile for workflow automation.
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  1253. Having to spend tedious hours cutting and splicing magnetic tape together would probably melt anybody’s brain. No surprise they resorted to chemical help. This all became much easier with digital samplers.
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  1254. 6:17 What’s missing is called “dynamic range”. Also note it’s not about large versus small numbers, but large versus small magnitudes of numbers. Remember that negative numbers are smaller than positives ones (and zero).
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  1255. 27:44 Cue much wailing and gnashing of teeth by Adobe. But in fact that never came to pass. Microsoft licensed its newly-acquired PostScript clone to Apple, in return for which it got access to TrueType. One of them turned out to be spectacularly successful, the other was never heard from again. Guess which company got the better deal?
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  1256. Clearly this show is lacking in its credenza credentials.
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  1257.  @sundhaug92  Probably deleted by YouTube’s anti-spam bot. You can never be sure what it will take exception to. One time I couldn’t even post a link to another YouTube video.
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  1258. +1 for a throttle you can turn on and off. Firecrackers are something you light and then stand back. Not climb on top of...
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  1259. Remember, Microsoft made a deal with OEMs over the bundling that they would pay a fee for every machine they sold , regardless of whether it actually included a copy of Windows or not. This and other anti-competitive tactics were later exposed in the DOJ anti-trust trial as findings of fact. While Judge Jackson’s decreed remedies were overturned on appeal, his findings of fact were not.
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  1260. 2:25 Worth pointing out that the device names are “/dev/sda” and “/dev/sdc”, and not something like “/dev/sda1” or “/dev/sdc1”. In other words, he has the entire disk formatted as a filesystem volume, instead of setting up a partition table (even with just one partition) and formatting the partitions. Linux lets you do that. Does your favourite OS let you do that?
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  1261. It does weaken Putin, though: he goes from vowing to punish the perpetrators, to letting the ringleader get away scot-free.
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  1262. He was a refugee from a nest of Unix-haters at DEC. He succumbed to the 1990s fashion of inextricably tying the GUI into the OS kernel, when the *nix systems maintained the GUI as a separate modular, replaceable layer. Think about why Windows still uses single-letter drive names even today, and why Microsoft felt the need to add WSL to try to turn it into Linux.
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  1263. 0:42 For some reason I just remembered a certain Family Guy sequence where Brian and Stewie are passive-aggressively arguing over the pronounciation of “whip” ...
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  1264.  @NoNameAtAll2  Sounds like you have made up a circular definition to try to support your point. Otherwise, tell me where in the HTML spec it defines what “simplest” means.
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  1265. Constitution? Democracy? Rule of law? Who needs it?
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  1266. 2:28 Speed, not velocity. The change in velocity is the whole point.
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  1267. Unfortunately, the “zero-overhead” principle has to be abandoned every time you try to do something actually useful with the language. Like anything involving dynamic memory allocation. Or the first time you discover that a “delete” method has to be explicitly declared virtual to avoid certain unpleasant surprises. Which means your class now has to have a vtable. And you wonder, don’t proper OO languages have tables for all their classes?
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  1268. Remember, GPL isn’t about preventing commercial use, it’s about combating vendor lock-in. A competitive free market is crucially dependent on having a level playing field.
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  1269. In all the best democracies, the ones running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  1270. I was thinking, that joke about an ARM and a LEG could get expensive, and cost you ...
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  1271. I never knew there was such a thing as annual squirrels ...
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  1272. Look at the court verdicts, or the verdicts from the electoral officers, or verdicts from any other impartial observers. There is no ambiguity.
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  1273. The incidence of new cases is already dropping.
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  1274. Python does ORC memory management, Java does not. Python can do function factories and class factories, Java cannot. The Python core language spec is about a quarter the size of the Java one. Can Java really do 4× as much? No it can’t.
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  1275. 23:41 I remember thinking as much at the time (and telling everybody who would listen): when OS/2 finally shipped, it was a 16-bit OS in a world which was already firmly moving to 32-bit hardware. It was too little, too late.
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  1276. 10:07 X clients are the apps, running on the main machine in (at that time) the computer room. The X terminal on the user’s desk ran the X server.
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  1277. Trump has led his followers down the black hole of psychosis. For some, it may be that there is no turning back.
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  1278. 23:53 And then ... there was PageMaker.
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  1279. 1:35 Except when the unklunkiness of alphabets is re-klunkified by the adoption of, shall we say, quaint and idiosyncratic spelling systems ...
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  1280.  @RHTORAS  Somebody should do a video comparing these different service-management systems in more detail, with actual examples. Enough of this hand-waving, particularly when emotions start to run high and rationality goes out the window.
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  1281. 4:23 So are you going to arm them for the fight? Or just let them go in defenceless? In the old days, you had “cannon fodder”. Now it’s “virus fodder”. And all those guns you love to carry around are completely useless in this war.
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  1282. Unix workstations were a big market up until Windows NT came out. Which was interesting because Windows NT “Workstation” was actually crippled in many ways compared to the Unix OSes that those workstations had been running. But it ran on cheaper hardware, and that helped. Even after its workstation business dried up, Sun was able to continue being profitable for a few more years selling servers for this new-fangled “Internet” thing. Until this brash upstart “Linux” thing came along and gobbled up all that business as well.
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  1283. Apropos a comment made by an ancient computer scientist about a different language, but perhaps applicable here: “it’s the language of the future, and always will be”.
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  1284. 30:06 There is (almost) no such thing as a “system time zone” in Linux. The system clock is in UTC, and every process can have its own setting for the “TZ” environment variable. The /etc/localtime setting is just supposed to be a default. So I don’t understand why you have to keep setting the time every time you do an install, unless there’s something wrong with the battery backing up the hardware clock.
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  1285. Windows NT had full multitasking from the beginning. Its main architect, Dave Cutler, had already been responsible for two major multitasking OS architectures--RSX and VMS--for his previous employer, DEC.
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  1286. I can think of something worse: infinitely many mimes.
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  1287. You can do it in colour, too.
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  1288. 11:07 You label it “Not Line”, but what you really mean is “Not Straight”.
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  1289. “Aloe, aloe, aloe, what’s going on ’ere?”
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  1290. When the Government is corrupt and has lost all legitimacy, what are the people to do?
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  1291. And do horses have souls as well? Otherwise, where does the Headless Horseman get his horse from?
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  1292. The paradox of cache-heavy modern architectures: RAM may be cheap, but accessing RAM is expensive.
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  1293. Took many decades, and a lot of international cooperation. And money.
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  1294. The amusing part was watching Putin declare that these areas would be part of Russia “forever”, only for his troops to turn around and run away.
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  1295. Very wide-angle lens?
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  1296. Nice to see a journalist with a basic understanding of science. Seems like she actually read the book before talking about it.
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  1297. Quoth Jamie Zawinski: “A programmer has a problem, and thinks: “I know—I’ll use a regular expression to solve it”. Now they have two problems.”
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  1298. He’s a stable genius, remember he said. What is kept in stables? And what ends up covering the floors of stables?
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  1299. Remember when TFG went up there and got laughed at? And was too thick to realize they were laughing at him, not with him?
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  1300.  @gamingwarrior3195  So to justify the name, having the cow is more important than having the horse?
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  1301. The German proportional-voting system was put in place after WWII to ensure that a dictator could never get power there again. It was considered so good, we here in NZ copied it too. Maybe it’s time for the US to try it?
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  1302. This is why science should not be politicized. Certain groups seem to believe reality itself has a liberal bias. And then they throw a tantrum when Ma Nature herself simply rides roughshod over their precious ideology. There’s probably a Darwin Award in there for them somewhere. Oh wait, they don’t believe in Darwin, either ...
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  1303. There were never “CD+R/RW” formats. You’re thinking of DVD+R/RW.
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  1304. It was a very predatorial smile.
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  1305. Quote from the second Microsoft “Halloween document”: “An important attribute to note which has led to volume drivers is the ease with which you can write drivers for linux, and the relatively powerful debugging infrastructure that linux has. Finding and installing the DDK, and trying to hook up the kernel debugger and do any sort of interaction with user-mode without tearing the NT system to bits is much more challenging than writing the simple device-drivers for linux. Any idiot could write a driver in 2 days with a book like "Linux Device Drivers" — there is no such thing as a 2-day device-driver for NT”
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  1306. 17:54 What seems to have happened is that FORTRAN has evolved to include features to take advantage of vector units and highly-parallel processing.
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  1307. The collision between “Plan To Throw One Away” and “Second-System Effect” was particularly amusing ...
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  1308. 14:03 The ’286 was never (“nominally” or otherwise) a 32-bit chip.
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  1309. He’s not Dua Lipa. 😬
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  1310. 7:38 This is where the fc-match command can come in useful, e.g. fc-match space file family looks for the font which best matches a name like “space”, and lists its full filename and its actual family name.
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  1311. I stopped worrying about this a long time ago. I just use my computer to get things done.
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  1312. I thought that it was in the US Constitution or something that you weren’t supposed to have honorifics.
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  1313. 6:29 What happens if he runs out of Secret Service agents?
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  1314. Meanwhile, Emacs runs rings around them with a scripting language that’s over half a century old.
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  1315.  @hyperduality2838  So what is the dual to the conservation of duality?
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  1316. Cue “møøse bites Kan be pretti nasti” etc ...
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  1317.  @Canada_Dominium  Uncle Rupie is still in charge. So no.
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  1318. You are fine in 🇺🇸 as long as you have your health. Once you get seriously sick, you’ve had it.
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  1319.  @timothycurnock9162  How does the key know who it has been given to?
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  1320. 16:27 Well, considering that the Bible had at least two different, contradictory accounts of the Creation, this shouldn’t have come as a big surprise, should it?
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  1321. Social science is considered a “soft” science. That’s a physicist/mathematician’s way of saying “not a real science”. Remember, this is not just any o ld “project management” -- this is about the management of software-development projects. If you don’t understand what’s so special about that, you need to read Brooks’ book.
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  1322. 10:41 So towers are clearly made out of timber, since you can take them apart log by log. ∗Ahem∗
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  1323. Paging was a tricky thing. When we first installed MACSYMA on our VAX-11/780, it behaved very badly. Then our sysadmin edited the .EXE file, changing the page fault cluster size from its default of 16 down to 1, and that improved things a lot.
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  1324. Meredith’s funeral. Meredith was the former Pewterschmidt nanny, whom Lois was very fond of as a child -- until she suddenly left.
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  1325.  @pabloripoll  Server side needs async and also things like WebSockets now. Which PHP can’t quite manage.
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  1326. 13:01 Probably a good time to mention another useful feature of tab completion, namely if you type a wildcard spec and then press tab once or twice, Bash will show you all the expansions of that wildcard spec, so you can confirm that your command will be acting on what you thought it would be acting on. Another useful trick is to first use the wildcard with something harmless like an “ls” command, to confirm that it only shows the files you want to affect. Then press uparrow to bring the command back, change the “ls” to “rm”, and turn it loose. Because, you know, having suffered the occasional embarrassment of inadvertent deletion or overwriting of files I didn’t mean to over the years, you learn a few tricks for, shall we say, “defensive command-lining” ...
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  1327. As somebody who lives in 🇳🇿, I can say that one of you is right, and it’s not the one trying to put someone down.
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  1328. I don’t understand the point in a special “imager” app. If you want to do a sector copy from an image file to a block device (or in the other direction), just use the standard Linux “dd” command.
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  1329.  @msemakweli133  And the real-time camera footage?
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  1330. Looks like this fun fact has been fan-fuct.
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  1331. Biden has a serious problem: if he becomes President, he will find other countries very reluctant to do any deals with the US. Because they will always be thinking that a Trump Mk II could come along further down the line, and renege on all the deals, just as this one has. In other words, voting out Trump isn’t going to be enough to fix the USA.
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  1332. Remember that Ukraine agreed to give up its nukes in return for security guarantees from Russia among others. Turned out those security “guarantees” were completely worthless.
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  1333. Think of it as “You ass, eh!” and it will make more sense ...
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  1334. If you’ve read anything by Douglas Hofstadter -- particularly his classic Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid -- that law of his starts to make more sense.
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  1335.    And all built on a much nicer core language!
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  1336. 5:12 That guy on the right is Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. He actually seems to be a competent administrator. Russia could do worse than have him replace Putin.
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  1337. 2:35 Tog! Long-time UI guy. Ran the “Ask Tog” column in one of Apple’s developer publications, and I have the book of his compiled columns.
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  1338.  @ER-oj8mo  I have written seven-way joins in SQL. I don’t use triggers; all the business logic is in the application code, and anything repetitive can be put in a suitable function or class. That gives me much more power than SQL itself. Like being able to dynamically include/exclude fields/tables in a query.
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  1339. “Multi computer” would imply entirely separate physical boxes connected by cables. These might be regular LAN interconnects, but custom high-speed ones are also used (e.g. Fibre Channel, I think). One also talks about “tightly coupled” versus “loosely coupled” multiprocessor machines. Typically “loosely coupled” ones don’t share RAM, so they communicate by sending messages over communication channels of some sort. “Tightly coupled” ones share (almost) their entire RAM space, so they can communicate just by reading and writing shared memory. A small step back from full tight coupling would be NUMA (“Non-Uniform Memory Access”), where each processor has some local memory, and can also access memory belonging to other processors, but the latter accesses are slower. So this logically appears just like tight coupling, and is almost as easy to program.
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  1340. And the bullets.
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  1341. 6:51 Boston Dynamics ... the kings of Uncanny Valley.
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  1342. Something worth fighting for?
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  1343. Larry Wall is known for two major accomplishments: he created patch, and he created Perl. Of the two, the concepts of patch have spread to permeate the whole of open-source collaborative development. So that will likely live on in some form forever. Perl? Maybe not so much.
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  1344. There are lots of different news networks operating all over Ukraine. Plus of course footage from camera phones of ordinary people themselves. No need to confine yourself to just one source. Particularly not a 🇷🇺 one.
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  1345. Fun fact: his tax consultants made money from him, he did not.
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  1346. I thought the biological part was called “sex”, not “gender”. At that age, how can you tell what “gender” a baby is going to identify as?
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  1347. The Video Toaster was groundbreaking, but it was analog-only. Within just a few years, video production would move to digital, and leave the Toaster behind. Apple’s QuickTime was pretty cool: from the beginning it was supposed to be a generalized architecture for dealing with time-based data, i.e. not just audio and video. There were options for MIDI and text tracks, and custom media handlers that programmers could create. Unfortunately, the suits decided that they had to monetize this somehow. So the “QuickTime Pro” thing came in, and it all went downhill from there.
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  1348.  @rabidbigdog  We know what happened to the Amiga. Its hardware was ground-breaking, but then it could not progress, because too much of the third-party software was making assumptions about that hardware, and any meaningful enhancements would break them. This is what happens when you lack a software abstraction layer. Remember that Radius was able to build products for the Mac that, for the most part, worked with existing software.
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  1349. 5:31 Fun fact: 🇬🇧 actually tend to have better teeth than 🇺🇸 people. Something about free dental care on the NHS, don’t you know. Yes, Socialist healthcare!
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  1350. The only reason WordPerfect had a “Reveal Codes” function was that it was just about the only word processor that needed one. Other word processors do not use codes embedded in the text stream to define formatting, so there are no “codes” to “reveal”. Surprising how few people know this.
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  1351. That’s what --si is for.
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  1352. 8:07 You can specify the -x option multiple times, if you want to exclude more than one filesystem type from the listing. For example, on my Debian system, I have a filesystem of type “devtmpfs” mounted on /dev.
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  1353. Remember, “America” is supposed to be the name of the land. If you were living on that land, that made you “American”.
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  1354. How could they have “betrayed” someone who never existed?
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  1355. Business-wise, you have to admit he’s currently doing a bit better than Twitter.
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  1356. “When ... demonstrators throw stones at the police in Hong Kong, that’s considered to be heroism in the American press. When in Myanmar, the demonstrators throw slingshots at the ... oppressive army, they’re considered to be heroes in the Western press. When Palestinian kids throw stones at the Israeli soldiers, they’re called terrorists.” — Gabor Maté, Holocaust survivor
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  1357. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  1358. It is very easy to interface existing applications and services to systemd. An example of this sort of thing popped up on the Waikato Linux User Group list a few months ago. I found this systemd service file in an online forum that someone had written to automatically apply a certain charging profile to their laptop battery on boot. The actual command was a single line of shell script; the rest of the dozen or so lines were directives defining when and how to run the command (e.g. specifying that it was “oneshot” invocation, so there would be no ongoing running process after the command had done its job). I reposted it because I thought it was a good example of the simplicity of systemd. Somebody more familiar with sysvinit tried posting an init.d-style script to do the same thing. It came to be about 50% larger, all but one line of which was just boilerplate.
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  1359. South-Park-style.
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  1360. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for. Also, every vote counts equally. And those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  1361. Nothing specific to asyncio there.
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  1362. One important thing that Emacs inherited from that TECO heritage is that a file is just a sequence of characters, not a sequence of lines containing characters. This means you don’t need special movement commands to move across line boundaries, the normal character-movement commands will do that. Also you don’t need special commands to edit line boundaries—again, the usual character-editing commands will deal with newlines just as they deal with any other characters.
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  1363. 4:09 Python enforces indentation, too. But it allows you to use either tabs or spaces, just so long as you are consistent. Forcing you to use only tabs is a step backwards, in my view.
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  1364. They tried, with “Linux is a cancer”, back in Ballmer days. And failed. And they had much more control over the market back then than now.
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  1365. The actor who plays Rupert is brilliant. Says so much without saying anything.
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  1366. They never understood the Internet, though. VoIP was a complete mystery to them.
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  1367. Who was the musician who did either a song or an album entitled “All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes”. Because apparently quite a few of the stunt-riders in Western movies were of East-Asian descent.
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  1368.  @CTimmerman  Who might be running GUI frontends. Or they might not.
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  1369. There will be more charges. Remember the old saying: “It never arraigns, but it pours”.
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  1370. I put up with vi for many years, while the main part of my sysadmin work was on proprietary Unix systems. Once those went extinct and were replaced with Linux, I could now depend on having Emacs available wherever I went, so I switched to that.
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  1371. That’s not his head they’re coming out of.
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  1372. You live in a Parliamentary democracy, so do I. Pity the US isn’t one.
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  1373.  @Delvien  Australia managed to change that. Why not the US?
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  1374. In Windows, mounting a partition to a folder only works with NTFS. In Linux, it works with any filesystem.
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  1375. 8:50 Properties are useful for wrapping getter/setter functions when you are creating a Python wrapper around an external C library using ctypes.
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  1376. It’s a decentralized architecture for building your own social network. You can “federate” with other Mastodon instances (if they will have you), or go off on your own. For example, the Orange One used it as the basis for his Twitter-alike. Development first started in 2017. And they’ve picked up more users in the last couple of months than in the previous five years.
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  1377. Just use Joe Biden’s term for him: “Former Guy”.
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  1378. Anybody else notice the irony in this, that of the movies he could think of that have had their production stopped because of the strike, they are all sequels—every single one.
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  1379. You know that modern browsers compile it to machine code, right?
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  1380. Even the tobacco industry was unable to withstand the tide of science proving them wrong. The gun industry has been much savvier: they were able to block the CDC from investigating the consequences of gun violence, and thereby were able to (partially) stem the tide of scientific evidence from the US. Other countries, however, continue to provide plenty of proof that the gun nuts are talking out their anuses. For example Australia, which brought mass shootings virtually to a halt after legislation passed in 1996.
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  1381. You are a bunch of cowardly loons. All the Government has to do is show up with its own much superior armoury, and you will run away.
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  1382. I, too, thought it must be a deepfake or something like that. He couldn’t be that stupid ...
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  1383. The trouble with a big company like Apple is that there can be different factions. For example, the more savvy engineers likely look on Asahi as a cool project, and would like to unofficially support it as much as they can. But the beancounters and lawyers and basically Tim Cook’s entire inner circle are going to see it as an obstacle on their path towards the move to eventually renting out, rather than selling, Apple hardware and software, so at some point they will likely move in and put a stop to it.
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  1384. What was this guy Cuomo doing during all that time? Giving daily briefings while running a state. Didn’t he know Trump had a whole golf game country to run!
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  1385. This is why there is the LGPL for libraries.
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  1386. Every time I hear “hashtag”, I think “gesundheit”.
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  1387. He’s having so much trouble holding out against NATO, and NATO hasn’t even begun to fight.
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  1388. IBM’s excuse for EBCDIC was that ASCII was almost, but not quite ready for prime-time in 1964.
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  1389. Think of this strike as a hint as to what can happen to Russian ships trying to blockade future grain shipments.
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  1390. 4:57 See, the definition I learnt, many years ago, was that the naturals were 1, 2, 3 ... excluding 0, that if you included 0, you got the whole numbers.
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  1391. I have a Samsung. It has 10 different settings for the water level.
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  1392. Isn’t “biblical history” a contradiction in terms?
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  1393. That’s been a complete trainwreck so far.
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  1394.  @LKRaider  You do realize Emacs can display images directly in the text buffer, right? It’s even shown in the video.
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  1395. Science has a history of surprising those who said it could never answer particular questions.
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  1396. This is why science should not be politicized. Certain groups seem to believe reality itself has a liberal bias. And then they throw a tantrum when Ma Nature herself simply rides roughshod over their precious ideology. There’s probably a Darwin Award in there for them somewhere. Oh wait, they don’t believe in Darwin, either ...
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  1397. The Fox News crowd suffered a lot of jealousy that a man whose job is revealing the truth enjoyed more credibility among the general public than someone trying to push an ideology. That’s why they’ve been trying to tear him down every chance they get.
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  1398. This is what happens when you put Party before Country. US politics is all about power at all costs, even if it means putting someone you know is irresponsible, unfit and downright incompetent, into a position of power. If he’s on your side, then he’s above criticism.
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  1399.  @androdeveloper7261  No, that’s not the reason. After all, methods can return objects, too.
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  1400.  @androdeveloper7261  No, they won’t clash. That’s why “new” is needed: because you can have a class or data field that has the same name as a method, in the same scope .
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  1401. The reason why Debian has so many offshoots, is because it makes it so easy to create those offshoots. All the tools you need to build Debian and its packages come with Debian itself.
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  1402.  @chairmanmaolovesseamenonhi4151  And one thing that’s noticeably lacking in an early-stage foetus is ... working lungs.
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  1403. 22:31 Cyber Promotions — featuring Sanford (“Spamford”) Wallace, the spam king! Yes folks, spam was still a new thing, then. And this guy was not only a pioneer, he pioneered it big. Even after repeated court verdicts and penalties and injunctions against him, he kept popping up again and again, under different names and locations, bombarding the world’s hapless email users with unwanted crap. Seems he just couldn’t give up the spam habit.
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  1404. Are you from the past?
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  1405. If your images use a compression like JPEG, then they already look very much like random noise. In which case further compression isn’t going to work very well.
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  1406. Just someþing to þink about, for ðose wiþ noþing else to do right now ...
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  1407.  @vitalyl1327  Python can do that. I used it in my “Seaskirt” wrapper for the Asterisk telephony engine, to offer both synchronous and asynchronous versions of the main API classes from a common code base.
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  1408. →C64 C64 There was no “time delay” in PAL. It solved the colour problem in a very simple and elegant way, which is why it became the world’s most popular broadcast colour TV system.
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  1409. You are confusing the spec with implementations of the spec. Quoth Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAL>: “Early PAL receivers relied on the human eye to do that cancelling; however, this resulted in a comb-like effect known as Hanover bars on larger phase errors. Thus, most receivers now use a chrominance analog delay line, which stores the received colour information on each line of display; an average of the colour information from the previous line and the current line is then used to drive the picture tube. The effect is that phase errors result in saturation changes, which are less objectionable than the equivalent hue changes of NTSC.”
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  1410. 🇺🇸 has Hollywood to tell itself (and the world) how wonderful it is. It’s the most effective propaganda machine in the world.
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  1411. In civilized countries, we don’t have to worry about buying bulletproof backpacks to try to ensure our children survive their school years.
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  1412. This just shows how fragmented the BSD world is. There are something like half a dozen BSD variants, and maybe 50 times that number of Linux distros. Yet it is easier to switch Linux distros than it is to switch BSD variants.
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  1413. No doubt you will raise the average IQ in both the place you are leaving and the place you go to.
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  1414. A car designed by a Karen. That’s all we need right now ...
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  1415. 0:46 How to list only the hidden ones, excluding the useless “.” and “..” entries: ls -ld ~/.[!.]* bash also accepts the “^” character in place of “!”, but “!” is POSIX-compliant.
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  1416. Helping, actually. For example, Chile commemorates September 11, 1973, when their own democratically elected President, Salvador Allende, was deposed and murdered in a CIA-backed coup. Why? Because he was a Socialist.
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  1417.  @researchplease  Israel is not offering an alternative figure.
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  1418. “UNIX” is officially a trademark which none of the BSDs or Linuxes are licensed to use.
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  1419.  @robbietorkelsonn8509  I thought WSL2 was supposed to be so much better than WSL1 in terms of compatibility. Looks it still falls far short for serious use.
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  1420. 20:34 Chromosaurus is a classic piece of early CG. But like all CG, there are cheats involved. The mirror-reflectiveness of the dinosaurs’ skins looks like it is ray-traced, but it’s not. It’s a simpler (and less CPU-intensive) technique called “environment mapping”. The giveaway is that the reflections only show the surrounding static landscape, the dinosaurs themselves are not reflected in each other. Still, ground-breaking for its time.
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  1421. A palace coup would be like 1917 all over again. And just like then, it would mean pulling out of the external war to concentrate on internal matters.
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  1422. That’s how interrupts are handled in CPUs anyway.
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  1423.  @tommisgr  No, that takes you to your home directory.
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  1424. Worth noting that probably about 30 ARM processors ship for every Intel x86 one. I think RISC-V is already catching up, and has already pushed MIPS into second place.
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  1425. You know those “Calvin and Hobbes” cartoons? Every conversation Calvin had with his father was like that ...
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  1426. 9:47 Worth demonstrating what happens when it cannot find an unambiguous completion: pressing tab the first time will do nothing, pressing it a second time will display available completion candidates. Then you can type some more to narrow the options down, and try again.
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  1427. ZFS is to filesystems as Java is to programming languages. It will happily chew all the RAM on your system if you let it. I always thought it was best suited to special-purpose filesystem appliances, rather than multifunction servers.
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  1428. 6:49 Worth also mentioning: SQUARE PIXELS! Unlike EGA, VGA finally offered a mode where the pixel density was the same in both the X- and Y-directions. So if you drew a circle, it looked like a circle on-screen, not an ellipse.
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  1429. First he declares that they will always be part of Russia, then he runs away because the Ukrainian troops are getting just a little too close for comfort. Way to stoutly defend your own territorial integrity!
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  1430. 1:40 Are people assuming this 🇺🇸 bill somehow applies to the whole world?
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  1431. I hear the traffic capacity has been severely reduced, from 40,000 vehicles per day to only about a hundredth of that.
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  1432. Those IBM mainframes seemed to have amazingly primitive filesystems. Even our little DEC PDP-11s had files that you could grow just by writing to them.
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  1433. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. Remember this is an infectious disease we are talking about. It’s all very well getting yourself sick, but you become a danger to others who never made the choice to put themselves in danger.
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  1434. I once had to do GUI programming in MATLAB. I feel pleased about the fact that I got money for it.
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  1435.  @LiamMayfair  Modern operating systems don’t tie themselves to a particular GUI layer. Microsoft and Apple do, but Linux doesn’t.
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  1436. Unix was never “open source”. https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
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  1437. 22:16 Luckily, that couldn’t happen, because an important restriction feature of MultiFinder is that you could not launch more than one instance of an application at the same time. I forget what happened in pre-System-7 days, if you tried to double-click a document belonging to an already-running application; maybe the Finder just threw up an error message. System 7 added the “AppleEvent” mechanism, and running apps that supported this would get a notification that they were being asked to open another document.
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  1438. I thought you had to confess with your heart, not your mouth.
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  1439. Teletext: such a hack that, if the signal quality degrades, it will be the first thing to go. You know what really was a marvel in the days of analog TV? NICAM digital stereo sound, that’s what.
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  1440. That’s a commentary on whose intelligence, I wonder ...
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  1441. Like taking the guns out of the hands of criminals?
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  1442. Anybody remember Joey and his black Jag in Bread ?
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  1443. Don’t they count as foreign-owned media? After all, Rupert Murdoch is Australian.
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  1444. There might be one in this box. Or there might not. You can’t tell until you open it.
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  1445. Sounds like you are thinking in terms of evolution somehow always making things better. That’s not how it works. Think about how parasites evolve.
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  1446. like Python scriptability, interfacing to MySQL, and a well-defined standard document format.
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  1447.  @locallylocal  Think of how you have been caught in the rentware trap: stop paying the Adobe tax, and you lose control of your own work. That’s just about the worst kind of vendor lock-in.
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  1448. Anybody who was around in the 1980s might remember Judge Greene’s “Modified Final Judgement” on the breakup of AT&T, the old US phone-company monopoly. Just to say, if lawyers and judges can do it, why shouldn’t software developers do it too?
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  1449.  @djp_video  I have never heard of these sorts of problems from any other user of Git. It has a reputation for rock-solidity. Remember how it became popular: it did not have the backing of any big company, no management mandating its use, only a small cadre of smart open-source developers who used it to gain a quantum leap in productivity. No slick, multi-million-dollar advertising campaign: only the first-hand testimony of real users. And its adoption grew from there. But this is all beside the point. If it pains you so much, why do you insist on using it? Maybe you would be better off with something like Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Then at least you can blame Microsoft for your problems.
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  1450. Some 🇺🇦 officials were recently forced to resign because of corruption. So the cleanup continues, and the war is no excuse for letting things slide.
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  1451. Not only did she not go to church, she was also living out of wedlock with the father of her child. And in this country, there’s nothing particularly out of the ordinary about that. Because we don’t conflate religion with morality.
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  1452. 8:20 Surely there must already be some open-source text-scrolling software for Linux or Android. How hard could it be to write?
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  1453. To be called a “civilization”, you have to have 4 things: urbanization, division of labour, metalworking, and writing. The first place in the world where all these came together was in Mesopotamia.
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  1454. Rust seems to be the most logical successor to C. The Linux kernel is starting to accept code written in Rust as an alternative to C. I remember this blog post from the Discord folks some months back. They had been using Go for their backend code, and they did some benchmarks with Rust, and found it offered much better performance. So they are switching their Go code to Rust.
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  1455.  @SkyFly19853  It already has. Look at their ongoing development plans for on-prem Windows Server versus the cloud version, and you will see what I mean.
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  1456. It’s the only video editor with an integrated compositor.
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  1457. Seems like Tzahal is getting cold feet about actually invading Gaza.
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  1458. By the way, it bafffles me how the US was able to ban its Communist Party, yet somehow the KKK got off unscathed.
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  1459. If you want to talk about “liberty” and “slavery”, consider that, in the US, if you carry a gun, you also need to carry a permit. Which law enforcement can demand to see at any time. So as long as you insist on having that gun on you, you can be tracked, wherever you go. In free and civilized societies, we take it for granted that we can go about our daily business without Government agents continually demanding to see our papers. Just thought I would point that out.
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  1460. And that includes Republican-leaning judges, including also ones appointed by Trump himself!
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  1461. What kind of game is it where any attempt to improve your odds of winning is seen as “cheating”?
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  1462. You think that’s bad, look at the last rulers of an independent Egypt, the Ptolemies and Cleopatras -- a line of brother-sister unions over 5 generations!
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  1463. Those drone attacks were on very interesting Moscow targets ...
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  1464.  @lassaut6794  Because as long as it remains a free country, you can go and be a thorn in the side of the whackos.
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  1465. Putin is no longer making such a big noise about “denazification” any more ...
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  1466. 3:48 Spider is thinking “I swear that’s the same guy who tore it down yesterday. I don’t know why he keeps walking there.”
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  1467. In normal civilized countries, parents don’t expect to have to worry about buying bulletproof backpacks for their children to try to help them survive their school years.
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  1468. Linux does not BSOD, because it is lacking the BS part.
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  1469. Like Google’s adoption of Apple’s WebKit gave Apple more control and power? Oh wait, it didn’t.
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  1470.  @gauravshah89  He didn’t want to name it after himself. He wanted to call it “Freax”. He is certainly no “narcissist”, as the quality of his contributions can attest.
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  1471. One handy feature of the journal system is it can show timestamps according to any timezone. This is useful because the timezone of the physical location of the server is probably the least important one--the one where you are located, or where a customer is located, will usually be more important.
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  1472. 5:05 Can you not use uparrow to bring back previous items in the command history? You can in Emacs.
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  1473. aka “Frocks and Fiends”.
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  1474. That neighbour’s dog is a menace. I hope the incident wasn’t left at that.
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  1475. It’s called “lampshading”.
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  1476. 2:04 I don’t have a problem with from-imports. If you search for “my_function”, eventually you will have to encounter either an actual definition or an import. That’s what your editor’s search function is for.
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  1477. 6:25 I feel there was a missed opportunity there. As a minicomputer guy at the time (DEC PDP-11, then VAX), the one revolutionary new thing that the micros brought to the table was being able to access the video memory directly from the CPU. This mean instant full-screen updates, allowing a level of interactivity beyond anything a bigger and more powerful mini could manage by accessing text terminals through anemic serial lines. But there was no hardware-independent way of accessing the video RAM. And when the display hardware became capable of graphics, this hardware dependence grew even worse. Imagine if CP/M had added another layer above the BDOS—call it the “BVOS”, the “Basic Video Output System”—to abstract away the details of the display hardware, allowing full-screen and even graphical apps to be portable across different machines, they could have stolen a big march on the Apple Macintosh.
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  1478. It’s one of those movies that nobody seems to remember. I remember my mum taking me to see it as a child. Then more recently I dug it up again, just to refresh my memory. And yes, it is a gripping plot, with a bunch of big-name actors from the time. Quite watchable. Oh, and no theme music at all.
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  1479. Sampling theory comes into it as well: the ideal digital pixel is a point with zero dimensions*. Which is physically impossible. Because real-world sensors have a nonzero size, this has the effect of lowering the contrast of fine details close to the Nyquist limit. The cure for this is the “unsharp mask” filter, well-known to all users of photomanipulation software. *That’s right, pixels are not “little squares”.
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  1480. The ICC is supposed to serve as backstop when the countries themselves cannot or will not prosecute the perpetrators. Like the 🇺🇸 soldiers who committed those atrocities at Abu Ghraib ...
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  1481. He was a refugee from a nest of Unix-haters at DEC. He succumbed to the 1990s fashion of inextricably tying the GUI into the OS kernel, when the *nix systems maintained the GUI as a separate modular, replaceable layer. Think about why Windows still uses single-letter drive names even today, and why Microsoft felt the need to add WSL to try to turn it into Linux.
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  1482.  @monad_tcp  In Linux, the GUI is a separate modular, replaceable layer. Switching your entire GUI environment is as simple as logging out and logging in again. And of course Linux can run without any GUI at all. Microsoft spent decades conditioning its users to be allergic to the command line. And then it discovered its mistake, and concocted PowerShell. And then added WSL. None of which is really solving the problem.
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  1483. Why are you so NT Windows?
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  1484. I used an ICL 2903 (or was it a 2904) briefly in a summer job over 1979/1980, writing FORTRAN code. You were supposed to submit written coding forms and the data-entry staff would punch your code into cards. I got fed up with their continual typos, so I did it myself. The fact that I could touch-type also helped.
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  1485. A remarkable number of Al Jazeera staffers seem to come from 🇳🇿. It’s amusing to see someone on local news, then they disappear, and a few months later they’re anchoring on Al J or reporting from some suitably exotic foreign location.
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  1486. If they’re out of time, they have to skip their turn. Just to add to the fun, rather than making it a fixed time allocation per topic, make it a total time allocation. Let Trump run off at the mouth and talk over Biden as much as he wants, because you know he will, until he finds out he’s squandered all his time, and has to shut up for the entire rest of the debate, when Biden can talk uninterrupted.
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  1487. People will read their own insecurities into things, won’t they.
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  1488. Was it plugged in at the time?
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  1489. Doesn’t matter what they use, so long as they wash their hands afterwards.
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  1490. 8:57 That so-called “Unix philosophy of do one thing and do it well” is a half-truth. Look at any Unix/Linux system, and you will a mix of large pieces and small pieces. And the small pieces would not work without the help of the large pieces. Consider: * The Linux kernel, currently at over 20 million source lines and counting. Which “one thing” does it do well? It is successful because it does so many things well. * The X server, which was notorious in earlier times for practically being an OS unto itself, with its own drivers reaching deep into the hardware, running with root privileges. Which “one thing” does it do well? (To be fair, it should eventually be replaced with Wayland.) * Good old Bash. I counted over ¾ million lines in its source code. Its man page is over 5000 lines long. I use it every day, and I know lots of other people do, too. What “one thing” does it do well? It’s basically a large monolithic mish-mash of miscellaneous functionality, accreted over the years. But at least it is useful miscellaneous functionality. I could go on. Big pieces make little pieces possible. systemd makes possible the writing of very short config files to manage custom-developed services—unlike the dozens or hundreds of lines of boilerplate commonly needed with sysvinit. So your code can concentrate on “doing one thing, and doing it well”, thanks to systemd!
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  1491. How about “pornae”, plural of “pornus” ... sounds more learned, and also a bit more naughty ...
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  1492. Where’s Orson Welles when you need him?
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  1493. My mum had a little mongrel with that colouring. I always said, it looked like they painted on the black stripes without waiting for the undercoat to dry. He was very sweet-natured. But he was also a very good watchdog, even to the point of risking his life to alert people to danger.
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  1494.  @sweett2185  Someone should tell Fox News to work on their delivery.
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  1495. Threading and multiprocessing are preemptive, coroutines are not. Coroutines and threading are default-share-everything, multiprocessing is default-share-nothing. Coroutines are easier to debug than threads.
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  1496. Actually, the “crikey” expression was invented in NZ. Just like the pavlova.
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  1497. Stallman was responsible for the “POSIX” name, too.
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  1498. Israel had indeed hit that same hospital three days earlier. And they haven’t denied conducting operations in the area.
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  1499. They didn’t try to defend Tricky Dicky at all costs.
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  1500. Remember when TFG went up there and got laughed at? And was too thick to realize they were laughing at him, not with him?
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  1501. Linux distros also include bulk file-level copy tools, like rsync. I have upgraded the hard drives on my systems lots of times, and rsync did the job of moving my OS installations and all the rest of my files onto the new drives just fine. I just had to update my fstab and reinstall the bootloader to account for the changed volume IDs, and that was sufficient to make the new system bootable. Tip: there is a custom Linux distro tailored specifically for performing volume-management tasks, system diagnostics and so on: it’s called SystemRescue. It’s less than a gigabyte in size. Always worth keeping a bootable USB stick with it handy.
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  1502. The BSDs seem so fragmented. They can’t even agree on a common kernel. There are about 50 times as many Linux distros as BSD variants, and yet the Linux distros are so much more seamlessly interoperable by comparison.
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  1503. Could be also Prigozhin is setting up his excuse for failing to take Bakhmut, by blaming Shoigu for not giving him enough ammo.
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  1504. Mel seemed to manage it OK.
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  1505. Yeah, Putin’s brilliant strategy did so well to hold on to Kherson, didn’t it ...
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  1506. The 6502 was pretty ground-breaking, too, and not just technically: you could buy it for $20 in quantities of 1. Name any x86 chip, even today, for which that is true.
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  1507. I suspect that benchmarks will show that simpler instructions are faster.
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  1508. 2:30 No, Emacs is not an IDE. An IDE wants you to group your files into a “project” and use a particular build system for building that project. Emacs doesn’t impose any such restrictions. It can work with any build system and any project organization (or lack of organization) you like.
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  1509. 4:35 I found more details about that “alert” alias here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/423646/use-of-default-alias-alert
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  1510. 2:47 The important point is that the same inputs always produce the same outputs.
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  1511. Fear and loathing at Web3 Berlin ...
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  1512. Pro world-leader tip: if you want to discourage your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  1513. It popularized the idea that “GUI = good, CLI = bad”, which turned out to be an evolutionary dead end. But not before Microsoft had hard-wired it into its own OS.
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  1514. Here in 🇳🇿 the entire country’s health system gets its medicines via a single purchasing agency, called Pharmac. That gives combined bargaining power that allows us to demand lower prices from the drug companies.
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  1515. 13:41 You do realize that many other countries don’t have dollar bills any more, we have dollar coins? While your country is still filling up your citizens’ wallets with thick wads of paper that are worth less and less?
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  1516. How is he supposed to pay child support from in jail?
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  1517. It’s been a while since he went to Tangent Camp, though. Probably because if you do find your way there, they send you home to try again.
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  1518. I have a book from 1996 called The Microsoft Way , by Randall E Stross. He’s a trained historian who was given unfettered access to observe the inside workings at Microsoft, and he documented how they were one of the most agile corporations around at the time. For example, they did a complete rebuild of the Windows source tree every night, and anybody who made a change that broke the build would find out about it the next day and have to fix it before the next night’s build. Nowadays, Microsoft is ruled by accountants and marketing executives. It can take as long as 12 months or more for a feature created by some lowly programmer to percolate its way up the hierarchy to the main Windows source tree. The main emphasis seems to be on GUI looks, rather than actual OS functionality. What’s the difference between Windows 10 and Windows 11? Apart from the GUI theme, not much.
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  1519. At least they cleaned them afterwards ...
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  1520. First they declared those regions would be part of Russia forever! Then they ran away when the Ukrainian forces got just a little too close. Way to defend your “territorial integrity”, don’t you think?
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  1521. It’s being done by some very powerful people with their own separate support bases, that’s the difference.
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  1522.  @heldereduardopintosousavid7474  If MacOS is “real UNIX”, we’ll stick to Linux.
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  1523. It works for his followers. Try to remind them of it, and they immediately distract their own brains by going off on some liberal-hating tangent, have you noticed?
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  1524. There is an old game called “Core Wars”, where you write machine-language programs for a simulated machine, the aim being to destroy other programs running on the same machine. Not as simple as you might think -- a lot of room for trying different strategies and counter-strategies.
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  1525. It was only his first insurrection offence. I’m sure he’s learned his lesson.
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  1526. “Calm is when Gaza is bombed, villages are invaded, homes are bulldozed, journalists are shot, ambulances are attacked, mosques are vandalized, schools are tear-gassed, and Palestinians are massacred...” “Calm shattered is when Palestinians finally respond.” — Remi Kanazi
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  1527. 0:07 You mean “off by 2” if you said “a year early” instead of “a year late”!
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  1528. Fun fact, it was Cecilia Payne who worked out what the stars were made of. Before her, people assumed, just from looking at the spectral data, that they had similar compositions to the planets. She was the one who realized they were predominantly made of hydrogen and helium.
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  1529. 11:48 Bash is not the only program that users GNU readline for user input. There are others as well. For example, Python includes a readline wrapper https://docs.python.org/3/library/readline.html in its standard library.
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  1530. Not far off the truth. There is a thing in physics called the “holographic principle”.
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  1531.  @geoffreylane5606  Only after the Brits lost the USA. That was their prison colony before.
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  1532. The fact that she has about 30 years’ experience. I suspect you don’t even have 30 years’ experience of life on Planet Earth.
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  1533. A brand-new Linux installation only requires one reboot. Last I heard, Windows requires about five.
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  1534. And then there’s the fact that Windows loses its “New-OS smell” after just a few months, and needs reinstalling to get it back. Linux manages to stay fresh for much longer.
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  1535. I love the fact that Putin declares that the annexed parts are “forever a part of Russia”, then next thing you know his troops have turned and run away.
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  1536. That tune somehow takes me back to being at an audio hi-fi store sometime in the 1970s, listening to a demo of this new thing called “quadraphonic” ...
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  1537. Let’s just say, whatever happens, Israel is not going to come out of this looking like a winner.
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  1538. 80% of evangelicals are solidly behind him. If you want proof that religion has nothing to do with morality, that has to be it.
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  1539. 7:35 Worth mentioning at this point the difference between “stackless” and “stackful” coroutines. Python has the “stackless” kind, which is why the await keyword can only be used in the top level of an async-function, not anywhere else.
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  1540.  @mickeydecurious7082  Oh yes they have. They can quote parts that say their god hates gays, for example. And also remember that you will not find any part of their Bible that has anything bad to say about slavery. Certainly the Ten Commandments make no mention of it. So please try not to make the assumption that reading the Christian Bible will somehow make you a better person. It will not.
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  1541. The Japanese were certainly the first to successfully complete a sample-return mission from an asteroid. That was a remarkable story, where just about everything that could go wrong did so, and yet they still managed to get useful science out of it. I think they’ve sent out a second one, haven’t they? Think also of the complicated game of celestial billiards it takes to rendezvous with an asteroid: no mission to date can afford a big enough rocket with enough fuel to go straight to the destination, so they have to slingshot off the gravitational fields of different planets multiple times over many years to get to the right place, and with the right velocity vector, to meet their target.
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  1542. Most Linux users do not use Red Hat, have never used Red Hat, will never use Red Hat. Other distros adopted systemd because it was better than any alternative they could think of. Ubuntu had its own upstart system, which it abandoned because it simply could not keep up with what systemd had achieved. There are distros around that don’t use systemd, whether for purely ideological reasons, or actually for practical ones. So you are free to use what you like. And if none of them seems to suit your needs, start a new one. Hundreds, thousands of people have already done exactly that, so it hardly takes any l33t sk1llz to manage it!
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  1543. She warned about putting party ahead of country. Once a major party does that, that’s the end of your democracy.
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  1544. Let’s see ... who was responsible for appointing this FBI director, again?
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  1545.  @KaitouKaiju  Their word was “elektron”.
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  1546. Algebras that didn’t talk your ear off. You ask them questions, and they only answer in grunts and monosyllables.
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  1547.  @Ericah81  Punishment should be proportional to the seriousness of the offence.
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  1548. As any fule C programmer kno, if you are outputting a literal string that is not a formatting template, you use fputs, not printf.
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  1549. Something I still don’t understand is, why do mammalian testicles need to be kept cooler than the rest of the body, but bird ones don’t? Birds are warm-blooded too.
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  1550. Consider: the world’s most popular DBMS is a relational SQL one: it’s called SQLite. How popular is it? A copy ships with every Android and Apple I-device -- that’s billions of copies, one of which is likely in your pocket or purse right now. Oh, and it’s Open Source.
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  1551. 2:18 This was at the MIT Media Lab. Its director was a guy named Nicholas Negroponte. Among other things, he went on to mastermind the “One Laptop Per Child” project -- you know, the ultracheap, virtually childproof machine that ran Linux, that Microsoft was so determined to kill.
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  1552. 7:13 That’s a questionable conclusion. We don’t know how much PHP they are using. For example, Google might only have it for “legacy” systems which are being phased out.
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  1553. 2:48 Why is your personal scripts folder hidden (having a name beginning with a dot)?
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  1554. The death of Microsoft Internet Explorer has been very liberating, shall we say.
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  1555. Why is it that when people are polled, there is widespread support for so many obviously sensible gun-control measures, yet this can never translate into actual laws being passed by their supposedly elected supposedly representatives? Are lobbyists simply able to override voters like that?
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  1556. 28:24 Interesting to see Emacs used as a window manager, but none of the Vims?
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  1557.  @Kaplouns  Which particular “flood” are you referring to? There have been so many throughout history.
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  1558. 7:38 So really, they were designed for use exclusively in the Northern Hemisphere? /me says hi from New Zealand
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  1559. The non-retired ones are busy doing their jobs.
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  1560. Yeah, helped keep you regular.
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  1561. Covalent bonds = monogamy Hydrogen bonds = swingers Ionic bonds = total promiscuity
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  1562. 8:35 Spoiler alert ... . . . . . Keep an eye on the colour of the Mac’s desktop background.
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  1563. A lot of these are just excuses. They can easily triage the bug reports.
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  1564. My feeling is, if this continues for long enough, the WINE developers will figure out a way to defeat the check.
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  1565.  @saint-nicholas  If they don’t, somebody else will. And publish a patch for it.
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  1566. Rule 34, you mean?
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  1567. Up until about MS-DOS 6.0, when some utilities were rewritten in C. This meant they used more disk and RAM and CPU, without actually adding any important new functionality.
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  1568. I wonder how Nazism would work in Ukraine: can you have Jewish Nazis? Slavic Nazis? You do remember how the Nazis felt about those kinds of people, don’t you?
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  1569. There are 3 well-known ways of representing signed integers using binary notation: sign-magnitude, ones-complement, and twos-complement. Sign-magnitude is probably the first one that anybody would think of: reserve one bit for the sign, and use the rest of the bits to represent the magnitude. Let’s say we have 5-bit integers, for simplicity. After reserving one bit for the sign, we have 4 bits left for the magnitude. If we put the sign bit at the left and use 0 for positive and 1 for negative, then +3 could be represented as 00011 while -3 would be 10011 Addition and subtraction requires complicated logic to extract the sign and magnitude, and do different things with the magnitudes depending on whether the signs are same or different, then deciding what sign to attach to the result. In ones-complement, +3 is represented the same as before, but instead of negating by flipping only the sign bit, we flip all the bits. So -3 becomes 11100 Note that complementing applies to zero as well. Thus, both 00000 and 11111 represent zero. The latter can be considered to be “negative zero”, since its sign bit is 1. When we add +3 and -3: 00011 +11100 =11111 which is indeed one of the representations of zero. Twos-complement gets rid of the redundant representation of zero, by redefining negation to be done by flipping all the bits, then adding 1. Thus, -3 is now represented as 11101 So adding +3 and -3: 00011 +11101 =100000 And throwing away the 1 that has gone into the 6th bit (because we can only represent 5 bits) gives zero, as expected.
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  1570. 2:23 Given that you don’t try to extrapolate back to an initial launch site somewhere in Gaza, there’s nothing to indicate that this object heading west indeed came from Gaza.
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  1571. 20:43 Not long after this, I think it was, one major US university was about to choose to buy a Fujitsu super, until Government pressure made them change their minds and go back to a good old all-American Cray instead.
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  1572. 12:26 “cat /proc/cpuinfo” is such a Linux-geeky thing to do. But try “lscpu” for nicer-looking output.
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  1573. IDEs also require you to use their particular build systems. Text editors are more general than that. And editors like Emacs are more general still. Because they don’t assume that your file consists of a sequence of text lines, they can edit binary files. Because they don’t need special commands for moving/editing across line boundaries--newline is just another byte value in the file.
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  1574. I thought the C++ “<<” output operator was quite neat, until I realized it doesn’t allow easy localization. When you need to be able to reorder the parts of a sentence to fit different language grammars just with template strings, without having to change your code, printf works a lot better.
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  1575. What was it Muldoon said about Kiwi emigrés to Australia raising the IQ on both sides of the Tasman ...
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  1576. @@makebelievearchitect That works both ways, then. If Netanyahu’s Government really reflects the will of the Israeli people, then their systematic campaign of abuses against Palestinians has to be blamed on the entire state of Israel. Do you really want to play that game?
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  1577. The difference between the good guys and the bad guys is that the good guys don’t behave like bad guys, even under provocation. Sinking to their level just gives an undeserved validity to their position.
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  1578. NFS was designed to be “stateless”, which caused no end of problems for Unix software that was expecting a baseline of sane behaviour from the filesystem -- ironic for a Unix-centric company, don’t you think?
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  1579. 4:27 “Arabicadabra” ... heh-heh.
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  1580. Handcuffs are too good for him. Use zip-ties.
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  1581. The Alien vs Predator of data interchange formats!
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  1582. 10:05 Or worse still, both config and cache mixed together!
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  1583. 12:45 A line between the Sun and the planet traces out equal areas in equal times. Or, in other words, angular momentum is conserved. That wasn’t so hard, was it?
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  1584. 1:48 Debian includes standard packages for python3-selenium, chromium-driver and phantomjs. Both the latter two are listed as dependencies for the first one.
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  1585. 0:45 Audacity! (Open-source audio-editing software.)
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  1586. That meaning is from pipe-organ technology, from a few centuries before photography. #LanguageGeek #PunSpoilSport
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  1587.  @cromptank  I agree, that would be a better basis for setting the origin of a calendar than some fictitious birth date of some deity.
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  1588. Pro world-leader tip: if you’re trying to argue against the setting up of a security pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening the security of countries thinking of joining that pact.
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  1589. That Zelenskyy quote from the beginning: “I don’t need a ride, I need ammo” will resonate down through the ages. We all saw footage of Ukrainian citizen volunteers training in the leadup to the Russian invasion, and I’m sure we all doubted it would be enough. And yet, they managed to give Putin a bloody nose. They stopped him in his tracks. (Literally -- remember that long line of tanks waiting to invade Kyiv -- the invasion that never happened?) So he picks on easy targets, destroying infrastructure and massacring civilians instead. But the more Ukrainian civilians he kills, the more determined they become to resist him. Because when you are deliberately massacring innocent people, all your claims about “rooting out Nazism” and and “fighting genocide” all the rest of it ring just a little ... hollow.
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  1590. IBM POWER was already doing multiple instructions per clock cycle (“superscalar”) in 1990.
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  1591. They follow a god who claims credit for all the good things but shirks blame for all the bad things. Is it any surprise they tend to support leaders who behave the same?
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  1592. 0:28 AlJ is reporting that more world leaders have congratulated Biden on his victory than Republicans that have done so.
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  1593. To those of us who live in countries with consumer-protection agencies that have actual teeth, we look at the USA and think that outfits like the FTC seem deliberately set up with loopholes big enough to drive a bus through.
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  1594. Nobody uses Dotnet for anything important, not even Microsoft.
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  1595. One difference between 🇳🇿 and other countries that might be represented here is that we do not have major media owned by Rupert Murdoch (Fox News, Sky News etc). That may be a factor in why our politics has been more liberal and secular, some might say more left-leaning, than some other countries.
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  1596. Before the Registry, there were .INI config files. Unfortunately, DOS/Windows never had the equivalent of the Unix /etc directory as a standard place to put these config files. So they were scattered all over the place. The Registry was created as a centralized repository for config information. So now you have random config information and other app data scattered all over hundreds, thousands of different Registry keys.
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  1597. I just realized the other day, there are two ways one can pronounce “Xorg”. There is the official way, “Ecks-org”, referring to the display server software we all know and love . And then there is “Xorg” pronounced like “Zorg”, the alien planet where the mighty starship armada ... ... never mind.
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  1598. Somehow I have a feeling his “intimate events” are going to get even more “intimate” as time goes on ...
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  1599. George’s questions are focusing on two main points: one is that the online services were notorious at the time for being overloaded and slow to respond at peak times, and the other is the bewildering inconsistency of command and navigation conventions between different services. I don’t think they really solved either problem. Before another ten years were up, they were rendered obsolete by the Internet and its “killer apps”: email and the World Wide Web.
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  1600. Ardern has been doing her bit on Facebook, to help support Labour.
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  1601. That would require quantum computers to show some success in number-theoretic problems (e.g. integer factorization). So far, the progress on that front has been precisely zero.
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  1602. 7:08 Tell your colleague that rust isn’t magnetic.
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  1603. 2:17 I defined a custom “make-shell-buffer” command in my Emacs prefs https://github.com/ldo/emacs-prefs which gives me an interactive window where I can execute arbitrary shell commands and get back their output as editable text in the buffer.
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  1604. Joe Walsh just said that the entire House Republican conference has gone MAGA-loony.
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  1605.  @avitallichtenfeld813  Back in those days, military conquest was a legitimate way of taking territory from other peoples. It’s documented in your own holy books -- the same ones you are trying to use to justify stealing land from the Palestinians.
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  1606.  @Danny-sj6es  It cannot be used in any expression. Unlike in C, chained assignment is made a special syntactic case.
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  1607. The ideal reconstruction involves plotting something called a “sinc function” centred at each sample, then adding up all these curves. The trouble with this ideal is that the sinc function has an infinite extent and only slowly fades to zero as you get further from the centre.
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  1608. If Lukashenko gets militarily involved, he might find himself even less popular among his own people than he is already. And maybe his circle of protection against potential rivals is not as impregnable as Putin’s ...
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  1609. Think of this as Python+Jupyter+Pandas+etc embracing and extending Excel. Guess what happens next ...
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  1610. 13:54 Even as its workstation sales disappeared, Sun continued to be highly profitable selling servers for this whole new “Internet” thing. They still had a reputation for high performance and reliability. Meanwhile, a few do-it-yourself cheapskates were experimenting with running this free Linux OS on cheap x86-based hardware, and finding they could achieve a little bit lower performance and reliability at much less cost. This took a few years to have an impact, but eventually it ate away whatever was left of Sun’s ability to make a profit.
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  1611. Having anybody in control of nukes is scary.
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  1612. Even if you did, I wonder how the rays would get to them, given they’re in some kind of ... cover.
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  1613. She did a Spock.
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  1614. Given the weaponry at the Government’s disposal, that’s easy enough to arrange.
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  1615. Also, beware Muphry’s Law.
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  1616. PowerPC was quite an efficient chip when it came out. The best Intel could do in 1993/1994 was the Pentium 60/66, which came in a huge package the size of a VHS videocassette. By about 1995/1996, though I think Intel had moved to a new process, so the newer-generation Pentium 75 and Pentium 90 were much more performance-competitive, and also power-consumption-competitive even against the new PowerPC 603 and 604 chips. I said at the time, they were probably spending 10× as much on their chip designs as Apple-IBM-Motorola were spending on PowerPC ones, but then, Intel were selling into a market 10× the size, so they could afford more complex chip designs. Nowadays, PowerPC has been subsumed back into IBM’s POWER architecture. And it still offers good price/performance. You will see several POWER-based machines near the top of the list of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.
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  1617.  @marcilk7534  Republicans accusing other Republicans of being traitors? Just sit back and enjoy the spectacle as their party implodes ...
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  1618. 21:44 Which is what happened: in the latter 80s, the Unix workstation makers moved en masse to RISC architectures, and they found quite a profitable market for about another decade in the scientific/technical/CG area ... until Windows NT came along and wiped them out.
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  1619. There are many levels on which community members can contribute. Code is good, documentation is also needed, as are tutorials, or simply participating on online discussion forums and helping out users with problems. Yes, and financial contributions can be helpful, too.
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  1620. I’m wondering whether it’ll be handcuffs or a straitjacket ...
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  1621. I wonder which Pharaoh that was. Because the Egyptians kept good records about all the tribes they subjugated, and they never brought any of them into Egypt itself.
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  1622. 4:50 “OK, that’s enough rioting for today. What’s for dinner?”
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  1623. What about the Iraqis, who were dying at the rate of about 1,000 a month for quite a while, as I recall. They called Saddam a “brutal dictator”, but even he did not manage to massacre his people at quite that kind of sustained rate.
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  1624. 3:15 To me, “network transparency” means, if you disconnect your network connection, it doesn’t kill the GUI session. You can reconnect at some later point, and all the apps are still running. X does not manage this on its own. Something like RDP or VNC or X2Go is needed. But given they exist, there is no need for the X brand of “network transparency”.
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  1625. 15:01 QuickDraw 3D -- anybody still remember that?
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  1626. I picked up a jar of stir-fry crab paste in a fruit+vege place the other day, not noticing its expiry date. The proprietor was nice enough to point out it was nine months past expiry, and let me have it for free. I made one meal with it so far. Tasted fine. The next three days were kind of a blur ...
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  1627. Ironically, the reason why the Pennsylvania vote has taken so long is because a Republican-controlled state legislature insisted that early mail-in votes could not be counted before election day. Otherwise the whole count would be done and dusted by now.
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  1628. 17:49 That’s assuming you know what command(s) are installed by a package. To see what was actually installed as part of a package, try “dpkg-query -L «package-name»”.
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  1629. One common reason I’ve found for videos failing to play on other platforms is that the pix_fmt defaults to yuv444p, which is unnecessarily high quality. Change this to yuv422p or even yuv420p, and most decoders should be fine.
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  1630. 12:49 With X.25, it wasn’t time, the charge was per data packet. Something like a few cents per 64K as I recall. That can add up to big bucks pretty quickly.
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  1631.  @21nickik  Linux wasn’t the problem, it was the solution. The problem was the fragmentation of proprietary Unix.
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  1632. Fox testified in court, under oath, that he could not be trusted to tell the truth. Tell me, who owes whom?
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  1633. Linux does Mandatory Access Control, which is a non-negotiable requirement in Government-grade security.
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  1634. 27:04 Unix workstations were still Motorola-based at this point. I think the RISC revolution really kicked in the following year.
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  1635. TFG: “I want my Empty G” (followed by opening riff from “Money For Nothing”).
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  1636. Worth observing the distinction between “freeware” (proprietary but no charge) and “Free software” (non-proprietary).
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  1637. 1:44 I can’t go funnier, but I can go ickier: demon snot.
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  1638. Why do you refer to bison as “buffalo”?
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  1639. That’s the Israel argument: ignore the abuses we are committing, because that other lot are just as bad. The fact is, the problem is very much worse on one side than the other.
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  1640.  @nextlifeonearth  Only 3?? Luxury! I just counted the occurrences of “if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)” in the build scripts for the Blender source code, and found 24 of them. Oh, and one “if(UNIX AND NOT (APPLE OR HAIKU))”. Yet another almost-but-not-quite-Unix system ... sigh ...
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  1641.  @myguitardidyermom212  Reread what I said: “linguists found little or no use for his mathematical innovation”.
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  1642.  @jameswebb5080  But the apps would not be compatible. Also consider that the Video Toaster, for example, only came in an NTSC version--it never was able to work with PAL. All down to hardware limitations of the Amiga architecture.
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  1643. 0:36 The Linux kernel is a “single point of failure” for your entire system. Should you stop using Linux?
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  1644. It was called the “Bronze Age”.
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  1645. Here: https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-greatest-newspaper-correction-ever-written-49-year-1491590487 -- the editorial was from 1920, basically saying Robert Goddard was an idiot. The retraction was published 49 years later -- the day after Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
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  1646. I have that C++ book. Not as useful as the actual language reference.
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  1647. Nobody would pay that much for Windows 10, is the point being made.
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  1648. 14:28 that should be “ammonium perchlorate”, I think.
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  1649. 11:27 Remember that “Linux” is a whole ecosystem in itself. It encompasses a huge range of actual OSes, running on something like two dozen different major processor architectures -- more than any other OS family in history. Remember what it was like in the 1980s, where even programs written in high-level languages like BASIC were not portable between different vendors’ platforms? The common POSIX-based software architecture does away with that. Look at the list of software you just showed running on Haiku -- didn’t you notice all those KDE apps, which are more commonly found running on Linux systems? And of course LibreOffice. How do you think they are implemented, if not on standard POSIX APIs?
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  1650. Should you bother with a trial?
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  1651. Let the cops arrest, prosecute and deliver the verdict, “Judge Dredd” style?
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  1652.  @busimagen  Whoosh right back atcha.
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  1653. He was a Trump supporter, too. Bashed to death by Trump supporters.
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  1654. I don’t see SUVs as sensible vehicles.
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  1655. In A.D. 2101, War was beginning. Captain: What happen? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It’s you!! CATS: How are you gentlemen!! CATS: All your base are belong to us. CATS: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say!! CATS: You have no chance to survive make your time. CATS: Ha ha ha ha ... Operator: Captain!! Captain: Take off every ‘ZIG’! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move ‘ZIG’. Captain: ... For great justice!
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  1656. What’s cool is things like automatic rotation, and also the fact that the timestamps are timezone-agnostic. So you can display the logs according to any timezone you like.
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  1657. And presumably also roof his house.
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  1658. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  1659.  @kc9scott  Emacs, on the other hand, can go full graphical. You can even have clickable buttons in the middle of a text buffer.
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  1660. I’m curious to know how Texas is coping. Because they stubbornly refused to learn the lessons of their last major freeze.
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  1661.  @pkelly5368  It wasn’t the “people” who elected Trump, it was that that slavery-era institution known as the Electoral College that picked him.
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  1662.  @TMercan31  The lol is a dead giveaway lol
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  1663. Is there an afterlife for clothes? I just wonder where ghosts/spirits/whatever get their clothes from.
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  1664. And if there is an afterlife for clothes, what happens to the originals? Can ghosts only wear clothes where the physical originals have been destroyed?
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  1665. Imagine people realizing that the net flow across the 🇺🇸-🇲🇽 border is southwards.
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  1666. Socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works.
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  1667.  @bonnierobinson5917  Satire. As in “it would be funny, if it weren’t true”.
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  1668. I think PHP is the ur-example of a language designed by people who have no degrees, only “experience and a solid portfolio”.
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  1669. You need a national medicine-buying monopsony. We have one in NZ, called Pharmac, which does the buying for the entire national health system. The international pharma companies hate it, and would like to see it dismantled, or at least watered down. But public opinion is very firmly in favour of keeping it. “Public opinion” is a cool thing. In a democracy, the Government has to pay close attention to it, especially when it gets really worked up about something. You should try it in your country.
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  1670. 0:14 Another world map without 🇳🇿 ... sigh ... 0:37 Mentioning that he wants to ping Auckland just doubles the irony ... 0:44 ... OK, that’s a better map!
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  1671. Science is about confronting the tough questions, not about shying away from them. Is the Universe too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  1672. Antiliberals: “I know you are but what am I?”
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  1673. There is no “market”. He’s not selling anything.
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  1674. 4:11 Just checked the man page, and there is no option for a twenty-four-hour analog display. For shame! :(
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  1675. Busloads of 🇺🇸 “medical tourists” go to 🇨🇦. Not only is it cheaper, but Government regulation does wonders for quality control, as well.
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  1676. Emacs does one thing and does it well. Just like systemd.
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  1677. Maybe he should have declassified them with his mind ...
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  1678. Putting a roof on America’s head since 1776...
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  1679. It’s an African proverb, if that helps.
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  1680. There’s another, even wackier formalism, called λ-calculus, where everything is a function. It’s often quite useful in computer science.
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  1681. I wonder if any anti-vaxxers are still Trump supporters? How do they reconcile their love of him with his campaigning for vaccines? I’m thinking that would make their head explode. Why did I suddenly think that Rudy might be an anti-vaxxer?
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  1682. 3:57 Notice the switch numbers up to 21? (The other end starts at 0.) The 11/70, while it was a 16-bit machine with a 16-bit “virtual” address space, had 22-bit physical addresses. It think it could handle up to 2MiB of RAM, not 4MiB--the other half of the address space was for accessing I/O devices. But the software couldn’t access the entire address space directly — it had to keep fiddling memory-mapping registers to map various 8kiB blocks of the virtual space to desired blocks of the physical space.
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  1683. Latvia is giving a third of its defence budget to Ukraine. That’s not some grand, generous gesture. Russia is completely out of control, right on their border, and it scares them.
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  1684. Now he’s off to Minsk!
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  1685. 6:16 But then, if you are always filling rectangular areas rather than plotting individual points, then you will always be specifying the bounds of the areas to be filled. Thus, filling the whole playing field would mean filling a rectangle with corners (0, 0), and (width, height), not (0, 0) and (width - 1, height - 1). In other words, stop thinking of pixels as little squares. You want squares, think in terms of squares, not pixels.
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  1686. “LED” = “woke lightbulbs”.
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  1687. 3:36 Shouldn’t that be “Ecks-Arr-and-arr”?
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  1688.  @stand_alone_complex5620  Why is Communist China able to make a bigger profit?
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  1689.  David Tao  But when you talk about hard work paying off -- isn’t that how Capitalism is supposed to work? How come Communist China is able to out-Capitalist the Capitalists?
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  1690. Excel spreadsheets are notoriously hard to debug. What’s worse is that most of its userbase has no idea about debugging techniques anyway, since that requires programming knowledge, and they use Excel because they hate programming. There have been many embarrassing cases of wrong data being published because of Excel spreadsheet bugs -- even in scientific research papers. When other researchers want to replicate those results, they ask for the original spreadsheets, only to discover that their formula ranges are incorrect, that kind of thing. The most depressing case I heard of is that geneticists are changing the names of some genes, because when they import info into Excel, it wants to interpret those names as dates.
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  1691. 3:58 LEDs always need a resistor to stop them exploding, because they are prone to an effect known as “thermal runaway”. Most substances exhibit higher electrical resistance as their temperature rises. So as current flows through them and heats them up, this increases the resistance and acts as an automatic limit on how much more current can flow. LEDs exhibit the opposite behaviour: their resistance goes down as they heat up. Thus, if you put too much current through them, they heat up, lowering their resistance, and this means even more current flowing through, until they blow up, die etc.
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  1692. 4:00 What it actually means is that you don’t need a kernel module to implement the filesystem. These take a special kind of chops to develop, as mistakes can screw up your kernel, cause crashes etc. FUSE lets you write the filesystem code to run in an ordinary user process. So any mistakes should only mean that process dies, and your system can continue running.
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  1693. Some people want to be misled.
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  1694. Orwell’s future was built on fear. For some reason fewer people remember Aldous Huxley’s alternative vision in Brave New World , where the people were conditioned to enjoy their status in life. Seems to me you would have much less chance of social unrest that way.
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  1695. 9:11 There was one hardware difference between the CM AGC and the LM AGC: in the Command Module, there were two separate DSKYs. The second one was located in the space behind the main control panel, where the navigator stood while taking sightings through the telescope (and also I think where the crew had to go through to get to the docking hatch).
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  1696. Could it be because the camera operator never came close? They could have tried making friends first, before shooting.
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  1697. 1:07 It is quite possible to do differential signalling over copper, with isolation at each end to block the ground loops. Venerable old MIDI works this way—optoisolators at each end are a mandatory part of the standard.
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  1698. I think the felony factor arises from claiming them as a tax deduction. Otherwise, simply misclassifying his payments would have been a misdemeanour.
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  1699. 11:34 You didn’t mention PS0. Yes, that exists as well.
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  1700. Interesting that those who try to point to religious people who were scientists always overlook the fact that their scientific discoveries were invariably achieved in spite of, not because of, their religious beliefs.
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  1701. 6:08 Those are “RESPECT MY AUTHORATAH!” shades ... !
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  1702. Arabs are Semites, too.
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  1703. I recall seeing some comparative benchmarks from one of the developers of the alternative C runtimes. One measure that stood out for me was malloc/free speed, which is important for memory-intensive programs (and which programs aren’t memory-intensive these days?): GNU libc was the fastest of the ones tested.
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  1704. 3:47 “Duck tape”, sometimes changed to “duct tape”. Also “gaffer tape”, because the “gaffer” was the fix-it person on a movie set, who used liberal amounts of said tape to fix things.
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  1705. Unless Trump-Pence pulls a Nixon-Ford maneouvre: Trump resigns, handing the Presidency over to Pence, who issues him a full pardon for any prosecutions that haven’t even been started yet. And so the Lügenführer goes riding, scot-free, off into the sunset.
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  1706. If Christians did not fear the light, then why would they treat the name “light-bearer”⸸ as a label for hate and fear? ⸸“Lucifer”
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  1707. Actually, MS-DOS 2.0 and later was a poor attempt to bring some of the power of the Unix command line to Microsoft’s platform. You know, the one that is still bogged down by the whole drive-letter concept even today? And the one where you have to do low-level Registry edits to customize your system? The one where Microsoft has belatedly discovered the usefulness of the command line, and has tried to introduce this whole “PowerShell” thing as a lame attempt to compete with Linux? In short, even Microsoft itself is leaving behind outdated attitudes like yours. Time to wake up and smell the coffee!
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  1708. If you’d done that, you could make a fortune from the eggs right now.
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  1709. She’s pressing the wrong button and complaining it’s not putting out enough water.
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  1710.  @balung  Well, maybe South Island Kiwis. (North Islander talking here.)
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  1711. There was this guy in an online forum once who told us his wife was from the Philippians.
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  1712. You want bash aliases? I’ll give you some of mine: export PAGER='less -iX -x4' alias more="$PAGER" because less is way more capable than more. Also a handy one for opening any file in the Emacs instance I always have running, just by typing “e «file»”: alias e='emacsclient -n' And something to ensure my custom ~/.XCompose is recognized by the major GUI toolkits: export GTK_IM_MODULE=xim export QT_IM_MODULE=xim What, you don’t know about the Compose key? http://wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey
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  1713. It’s Franken’s time, you think?
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  1714. I see the poor Trump snowflakes are throwing a tanty. Pro tip: don’t invite him to speak at your wedding.
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  1715. Pascal was such a (relatively) small language, there were loads of compilers available, including ones you had to pay for and ones that you got for free. ALGOL 68, on the other hand, was much larger and more complex, so in our little neck of the woods, we never saw a compiler for it.
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  1716.  @deadname...  Lol of course it was lol rofl lmao lmao shoo-bop doo-wah diddy.
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  1717. I think General John Kelly is the last remnant of adult supervision in the White House now. Once he goes, it’s going to be daily food fights...
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  1718. 3:15 12,000 in 1927 units? How many would that be in 2019 numbers? (Well, had to get back at you for that “playing records upside-down” dig ...)
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  1719. 11:20 That was the theory. Right from the beginning, Ethernet would attract criticism for its collision-based approach. To most communications engineers, it just sounded wrong--too lackadaisical, too quick-and-dirty. Something with an explicit TDM schedule like Token-Ring just has to be more efficient right? And yet, in the real world, the price/performance of Ethernet beat the competition every time. Around this time (the mid-1980s), big manufacturing corporations like General Motors and Boeing put their marketing muscle behind a protocol called “MAP” (“Manufacturing Automation Protocol”) which was built on IEEE 802.4 Token Bus connections (Token Ring was standardized as 802.5). Yet that never went into widespread production, as even its own biggest backers found that 802.3 (Ethernet) gave perfectly acceptable performance in the very situations where they said they needed absolutely predictable latencies.
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  1720. Yeah, I would say Intel had trouble keeping up with PowerPC machines throughout much of the 1990s. Its architecture was simply not as efficient.
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  1721. A “nautical mile” is no longer defined in terms of latitude/longitude angles, since that was never very accurate. Since about 1976, it has been defined as exactly 1852 metres. See--everything comes back to SI units!
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  1722. We are also proud of our Socialist healthcare. And the fact that we are a godless secular Liberal state.
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  1723.  @ekki1993  “descriptions of reality are not reality” ... isn’t that just your description of reality?
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  1724. All the compute-intensive stuff is done in lower-level toolkits like NumPy, which are written in C or other such fast, compiled languages. So for example if you have an array of a million data points, you would not process them one by one in Python, you would let the lower-level toolkit perform some operation on them in bulk.
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  1725. But then again, maybe she’s well aware of that, but knows her audience won’t be. Cynical? Moi?
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  1726.  @CdrRogue  Yeah! Some features which were originally deprecated are no longer deprecated! Can any other language claim that kind of progress?
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  1727. So, do you think she will edge out Trump to be the Republican Presidential candidate for 2024? Just what the GOP needs is to depart even further from reality out into la-la land.
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  1728. I don’t know why the conspiracy theorists are so fixated on just Covid-19. Think about it: all infectious diseases are clearly designed to demonstrate the efficacy of Socialist healthcare systems over Capitalist ones.
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  1729. It has to start now: get rid of the Electoral College and rampant gerrymandering, for a start.
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  1730. It takes practice and patience. Not very popular things to mention nowadays ...
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  1731. I keep hearing about this “woke” thing. But nobody seems able to tell me what it is. Can you help?
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  1732. USENET was like that. The World-Wide Web has moved in the opposite direction. And since that seems to be the Internet’s “killer app”, its centralization now dominates how we think about things.
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  1733. It’s hilarious that just because his financial statements—you know, those legally-binding documents you’re supposed to submit to the Government—contain disclaimers saying they’re not to be trusted, that somehow gives him carte blanche to lie.
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  1734. Companies too often will repeatedly deny things, and then suddenly admit that they are true.
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  1735. 16:22 The Venetians used telescopes as a strategic weapon. Whoever was first to identify approaching ships coming back with trade goods from overseas ports had an advantage in bidding for those goods. This advantage translated into real money.
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  1736. Emacs is not an IDE, it’s an editor. IDEs tie you into particular build systems, whereas Emacs is build-system-agnostic. Notice I said “editor”, not “text editor”. I have successfully used Emacs to edit binary files. That’s one benefit of a paradigm where a newline is just another character in the file, you don’t need special commands to navigate past them, or to edit them.
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  1737. Smart people get better lawyers than that. Trouble is, failing to pay your bills is not smart.
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  1738. NY Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit to break up the NRA. This is the same AG that won a substantial settlement out of Trump’s fraudulent charity activities, so I have hope.
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  1739. Multiple desktops were actually invented in the early 1990s as part of CDE (“Common Desktop Environment”), part of the OSF/1 initiative between a bunch of Unix vendors (basically, everybody except AT&T and Sun). So yeah, it was a *nix thing, and still works best on *nix OSes.
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  1740. Did it ever occur to you that some of those fixes were for problems that shouldn’t be happening in the first place? Like filesystem defraggers, for example.
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  1741. Funny about “pro-lifers”. They tend to be in favour of the death penalty. And they are also among the ones saying let’s go back to gathering and living and working as normal, and let the virus kill whom it will.
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  1742. It’s like agile blockchain meets extreme waterfall.
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  1743. Another difficulty is, a lot of big companies don’t realize anybody in their organization is using any open-source software.
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  1744. All these worries about voter fraud are completely overblown. It’s easy enough to pick them up at tallying time, without having to make voters jump through hoops to try to catch them up front. Other countries can manage it, why not the US?
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  1745. Consider that the world’s two biggest movie industries—India and Nigeria—are thriving on product that is made for a fraction of your typical Hollywood movie budget. Maybe learn some lessons there?
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  1746. That’s a backwards reverb. You should be able to do that with Audacity.
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  1747. Closing the sky means shooting at any Russian jets that are up there. What does “shooting at the enemy” mean? It means “war”.
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  1748. I remember when the Raspberry π first came out, there was no good OS for it. You could run a version of Debian for ARM, but that was not optimized for the particular combination of an older version of the ARM instruction set, combined with hardware floating-point, that was implemented on the Broadcom processor used in the π. So a couple of guys set out to rebuild the whole of Debian just for that hardware. As I recall, it took them about six weeks. And remember, all this building had to be done on the Raspberry π itself--the original single-processor model. The result was called “Raspbian”, but these days I believe the Raspberry π Foundation have taken it over and officially dubbed it the “Raspberry π OS”. So that’s an example of the kind of work it takes to create your own distro.
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  1749.  @liquidmobius  That’s FreeBSD-based. Why not mention MINIX? That is a “true” microkernel design.
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  1750.  @liquidmobius  Worth mentioning, then Intel’s use of MINIX as the OS on its “Integrated Management Engine” included in many of its processors. Remember you claimed it was “far superior” in terms of “security”? Well, it turned out the IME had some rather glaring security holes. And given that the subsystem has total control over the CPU, and can totally bypass any privilege protections of the OS running on there, the consequences have been rather ... unfortunate.
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  1751. SGI was a different company.
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  1752. I can understand why Microsoft fired you, given that they themselves are offering Ubuntu to their “average” users now.
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  1753. 10:35 Another kind of SIMD was introduced back in in the 1970s with the Cray machines. These had instructions which could act, element-by-element, on arrays of up to 64 elements with a single invocation. However, the operations were not performed simultaneously on every element, but were pipelined so that, after the initial instruction setup, the result elements would be churned out in succession very quickly. Contrast this with PowerPC Altivec (which I think predates Intel’s initially rubbish MMX), where operations are performed on all elements of the operand vector simultaneously. Note also that these vectors tend to be shorter than the Cray ones: a maximum of 4 elements (maybe 8 for small integers) is typical.
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  1754. When I see two Ts, my instinct is to say “Italian” rather than “Latin”. But what do I know ...
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  1755. There doesn’t seem to be such a thing as a “NoSQL” DBMS any more. Even nonrelational DBMSes are adopting a form of SQL for their query language.
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  1756. 24:55 Lotus cosies up with IBM, just as the latter is starting to slide from its peak in control of the market. So it goes on to create 1-2-3/M (I think it was called) for IBM’s mainframes, and also 1-2-3/G, the version with the GUI, but for OS/2, not for Windows. This leaves the Windows market, when it starts to take off not long after this, wide open for Microsoft to dominate.
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  1757.  @BruceHoult  Ho yus! He was the one who violated the terms of the “Don’t Make Larry Unhappy” licence!
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  1758. Fun fact: the guy who discovered the anæsthetic properties of cocaine was ... Sigmund Freud.
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  1759. 23:43 Remember, these were the days before PDF became wildly popular. It seems Farallon’s DiskPaper never made it out of beta. Soon after, Apple introduced its own proprietary DocViewer format, which I remember being used heavily for developer docs for some years. And then, of course, PDF took over everything.
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  1760. 2:57 That “one-one” is actually “eleven”. Yes, there really are more than ten protocol subfamilies under the IEEE802 umbrella, each with its own integer suffix. Eight-oh-two-dot-eleven is where all the varieties of wi-fi protocol are defined, each with their own letter suffixes. And then they ended up with more than 26 of those, so they had to go to two letters. And so it goes.
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  1761. It’s bamboo-detectin’ time!
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  1762. 31:30 You haven’t explained how these equilateral triangles arise. They come about from dividing the angle by 3: you can add or subtract any number of complete circles (2π radians) to/from the original angle and it is still the same, but when those complete circles are divided by 3, they offset the resulting angle by ±2π/3 or ±120°, giving you the 3 vertices of the equilateral triangle.
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  1763. 2:20 Unfortunately not “real” Windows. So it’s not even a “real” version of a “not real” OS. ;)
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  1764. “Gun safety” is an oxymoron, anyway. “Accidental” shootings happen all the time. After all, when a gun is causing damage, injury and death, it is only working as designed.
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  1765. Great stuff. Very informative on real-world experience with open-source software. Thanks.
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  1766. Emacs isn’t just a text editor, it’s an editor . I have successfully used it to directly edit binary files. Emacs is not an IDE. IDEs require you to use particular build systems, and sometimes even particular version-control systems. Emacs will happily work with any build system, and any version-control system. Emacs is infinitely customizable. Most editors have commands to let you jump between matching bracket symbols (e.g. between “{” and the matching ”}”). Does your editor let you jump between matching indentation levels? (E.g. in my Python code I close an “if” with a line containing a correspondingly-indented “#end if” comment). Emacs didn’t, until I added commands to make it do so.
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  1767. 0:46 Anybody from the London area is immediately thinking “that has to be rhyming slang”.
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  1768. But we were visited, not that long ago, by exactly such an emissary from another star, in the form of ’Oumuamua. If an undirected, uncontrolled body can make its way between stellar systems, why would a controlled one with an active propulsion system, under the control of an active intelligence, not be able to make the journey?
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  1769. There are several problems with the living-in-a-simulation idea. Here is one: * Mathematicians seem to have become afraid of self-reference. Because whenever a mathematical theory is capable of self-reference, it tends to introduce paradoxes (e.g. Russell’s Paradox). So they prefer it when each theory is kept in its own watertight compartment, limited to its own particular set of axioms, because connections between theories can be a back-door for reintroducing self-reference. * However, when scientists study reality, they find it it does not divide itself up into compartments. Everything that is real is part of an interconnected reality. And connections between what started out as separate scientific theories happen all the time. * Therefore, it follows from the first two propositions that no single mathematical theory is capable of modelling all of reality. * But if our “reality” is indeed such a simulation, then it must be built on some such mathematical theory (as embodied in a computer program, if you want to be specific about it). And that theory must be able to model our entire “reality/simulation”, without introducing any paradoxes. * Given that no such mathematical theory can exist in our “reality/simulation”, it follows that what we live in must be reality itself, not a simulation. How’s that?
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  1770. You say “Roots” like it’s a bad thing.
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  1771. The Raspberry Pi was developed in direct recognition of the fact that most “personal” computers nowadays are far less welcoming of fiddling and poking under the hood than systems of those days. It encourages both software and hardware experimentation: the lower hardware cost makes hardware-type mistakes (like blowing up components on the motherboard) somewhat less expensive. ;)
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  1772. I don’t like the traditional way of writing LISP code with “parenthesis pileup”. I find that putting openers and closers on matching indentation levels makes it easier to see the structure of the code. Example: (defun convert-to-region-codes (beg end) "converts alphabetic characters in the selection to “region indicator symbols”." (interactive "*r") (unless (use-region-p) (ding) (keyboard-quit) ) ; unless (let ( deactivate-mark (intext (delete-and-extract-region beg end)) c ) (dotimes (i (- end beg)) (setq c (elt intext i)) (cond ((and (>= c ?A) (<= c ?Z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?A) #x1F1E6)) ) ((and (>= c ?a) (<= c ?z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?a) #x1F1E6)) ) ) ; cond (insert-char c) ) ; dotimes ) ; let ) ; convert-to-region-codes
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  1773. 3:17 “Is that an ionic charge imbalance in your pocket, or are you just pleased to see me?”
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  1774. You certainly exude credibility from every pore ... OK, you get the secretes.
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  1775. 7:57 Talking of reality, I just recognized that name “Shepard Smith”. He’s the guy who left Fox News after the whole doctrinaire shtick got too much for him there.
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  1776. I remember something involving eggs and garlic microwaved together until they blended.
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  1777. Their slogan was “a land without a people, for a people without a land”. Just imagine that: “a land without a people”.
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  1778.  @DavesGarage  Yeah, having trouble with deliberate, vendor-imposed limitations of one proprietary platform, why not trade them for the deliberate, vendor-imposed limitations of another proprietary platform.
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  1779. 2:09 Hill Valley ... was that near Canyon Mountain?
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  1780. 9:42 DOS 3.3 was the version where the disk error prompt was changed from “Abort, Retry, Ignore?” to “Abort, Retry, Fail?”. PC Magazine adopted the new prompt as the title of their column of tales about hilarious screwups involving computers.
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  1781. Been done. I think it was the legendary Fabrice Bellard who implemented an x86 emulator in JavaScript, then got a Linux kernel to boot in the browser.
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  1782.  @rgwak  I wonder how much capacity his followers have for basic critical thinking. Calling it a “hoax” on the one hand, and making a big deal about an upcoming vaccine on the other hand?
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  1783. In civilized countries, it is not considered acceptable to have armed militias of any stripe roaming the countryside at will.
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  1784. 6:09 Actually that was done using fixed-point (scaled-integer) calculations. Which were quite a pain to work with, but saved on floating-point hardware. As the hardware cost dropped, eventually it got to the point where the saving from leaving floating point out was negligible compared to the cost of programming without it. This was about the early-to-mid-1990s.
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  1785.  @alexxx4434  Microsoft already tried “extinguish” -- remember the old cry of “Linux is a cancer”? That failed miserably. “Extend” isn’t going so well, either--I can’t think of a single contribution they’ve made to Open Source that has been successful. For an example of the quality of their work, consider this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23/your_wget_is_broken_and_should_die_powershellers_tell_microsoft/ . So yeah, they’re doing “embrace” now. Because it’s the only option they have left.
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  1786.  @rafaelmacaraeg6768  Azure is more than Linux-compatible; Microsoft are actually running more Linux than Windows instances on Azure. That’s what their customers are demanding.
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  1787. Emacs has built-in help to ease this sort of thing. Type CTRL/H, then for example A (“apropos”) to find commands matching a keyword, C to look up the meaning of a keystroke, etc. “?” gives you a list.
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  1788. Nobody can do anything about Albanian.
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  1789. I would have to say, [citation needed].
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  1790. At least you know which packages to remove to fix things--they came from the problem repo, so just remove those.
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  1791. Emacs isn’t just a text editor, it is an editor . I have successfully used it to patch binary files.
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  1792.  @percivalpenncoloring  Input delay?? I’m a fast typist, and I have noticed no such thing on any Linux or Unix boxes where I have used it. Are you running it on Windows, by any chance?
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  1793. Have you noticed Putin is careful not to stand too close to any windows?
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  1794. I wonder why we don’t say at some point “OK, memory is now big enough, we can afford to go back to static RAMs now”. For example, you can easily pack in something like 64GiB of DRAM in a modern machine. If the same amount of circuitry can only amount to 16GiB of SRAM, that would still be very useful for many purposes. Also. SRAMs are faster to access, which is why they are used for high-speed caches. And think of the power saving!
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  1795. 1:11 “Official” moon landings ... so were there “unofficial” moon landings?
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  1796. This is why we rely on the Olson zoneinfo database to manage all those headaches for us. Use standard library routines and let them worry about it.
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  1797. Put RFID tags on them, and have those anti-shoplifting detectors at every door. “Beep-beep-beep-beep!” “OK, turn out your pockets. And your briefcases. And your purses”
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  1798. What was in the box?
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  1799.  @felyxmillicent6538  Let me guess: the fortune was “you can’t always get what you want, but you find sometimes, you get what you need”?
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  1800. So, can we describe the Principia mod as a ... Fat-Earther Kit? Meow...
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  1801. I know a friend of a friend who’s blind. He doesn’t try to use GUI apps on his Linux systems at all; he does everything through the command line.
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  1802. I like the empty file idea. Remember, I want to track changes from default settings. If I wanted more versioning than that, I could use a VCS.
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  1803. Nowadays you can run any language in the browser, just by compiling it to WebAssembly.
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  1804. Here in Mathland, quaternions break into you.
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  1805. 21:00 One reason for using the terminal is if you switch between distros a lot. Each distro will likely provide its own GUI tools for performing various admin/config tasks, but they will all be different. But behind the scenes, they are all managing the same common config files, system processes etc. In fact, they are very likely generating command-line sequences to perform their actions. So at the command-line layer, a lot of the differences between distros disappear, and you have common ways of performing common tasks.
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  1806.  @kneonspace  Which open-source projects have Microsoft managed to extinguish?
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  1807.  @Laufeyson_Loki  How did they get the dust to fall in neat parabolic arcs?
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  1808. Funny how Biden’s approval ratings remain much higher than the former guy was ever able to achieve. The fact that he is seen as caring for all the American people, not just those who voted for him, would only be seen as “destabilizing” by those whose positions of power and privilege he threatens.
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  1809. Well, at least you joined the ranks of those giants of the MS-DOS world like Lotus and WordPerfect, who also bet on OS/2 and were completely blindsided when the customers went with Windows instead, and with Microsoft’s products for Windows instead of their own.
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  1810. Why sign up to an agreement in the first place, if you have no intention of honouring it?
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  1811.  @gj8550  This is not just some arbitrary and capricious accusation. The Prosecutor has already amassed a bunch of evidence, and a judge has agreed that he has a case to answer. That is why the arrest warrant was issued. This is how a Court of Law works.
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  1812. The alternative is free and fair elections, where every vote counts equally, and those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  1813. That’s OK, he got the last word, remember. ;)
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  1814. I can imagine Trump being interested, just because their name has “golf” in it.
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  1815. Trivia question: what’s the difference between Smalltalk metaclasses and Python metaclasses?
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  1816. I wonder where in the 🇺🇸 Constitution it says that elections have to be free and fair, or that the judiciary must remain independent. In other words, where does it actually say that it is supposed to be a democracy under the rule of law?
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  1817. Both Fallon and Meyers can do the voice, Colbert can’t. That’s why he needs the prop.
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  1818.  @wordzmyth  I think to the US, much of the world looks “Socialist”. ;) And yes, we take it for granted that politicians will put the good of the country before the good of their party. Isn’t that just how they’re supposed to behave?
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  1819. 8:56 I thought the archery-related gesture involved two fingers, not one. Because it took both those fingers to pull the bowstring. If you want to know the gesture I mean, try watching old episodes of Last of the Summer Wine . As I recall, Compo used it frequently.
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  1820. The irony is that anti-vaxxers are most likely using computers which have implanted into them the operating system from that company founded by Bill Gates!
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  1821. Somebody is having geography trouble. Did you think this was the funeral of the Queen of DC?
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  1822. 6:20 There is another way to write a command-line program, and that is to get its inputs from command-line arguments. Options passed by keyword can typically be specified in any order. This is typically more flexible than asking the user to type input lines.
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  1823. BSD development has a whole different culture around it -- more centralized, less adaptable. I doubt it could have filled the gap.
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  1824. Can we call it “language apartheid” yet? If a word is not all right, it’s not all right. It shouldn’t depend on the colour of your skin.
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  1825. And their supporters are so childish with their “I know you are but what am I?” responses, aren’t they.
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  1826. 0:13 Or ... I’d go for “be-warm-fuzzied” ...
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  1827. In GUIs (0, 0) is typically at the top-left, anything touched by 3D graphics tends to put it at the bottom-left. It’s one of those minor annoyances, like the ordering of keys on the numeric keypad on computer keyboards versus telephones. Stick in the appropriate y-inverting scaling matrix somewhere and then just forget about it.
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  1828. This is the baby version. Grown-up adults use sheepda calculus.
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  1829. Which perhaps is why mainstream development is moving away from Windows. And why Microsoft is trying so hard to turn it into Linux.
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  1830. 6:29 The default in readline is to use Emacs key bindings. So rather than switching to Vim key bindings, you can use Alt-B to move back a word, or Alt-F to move forward a word. Unfortunately this doesn’t work so well with GNOME terminal, because Alt-F there brings up the File menu. Other terminal apps don’t seem to have this problem.
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  1831. Where do you hear these “behind the scenes”? Do your sources send actual reporters to these events? Or do they just make things up on their shows?
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  1832. No ear protection! The guy has probably already gone deaf. PS: He’s the gunner, by the way.
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  1833. Remember, GPL isn’t about preventing commercial use, it’s about combating vendor lock-in. A competitive free market is crucially dependent on having a level playing field.
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  1834. 0:53 Fun fact: “Renegade” was Barack’s Secret Service codename. Michelle was “Renaissance”.
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  1835. 4:20 The evidence that there was no fraud is the certification by officials whose job it was to know, that the outcome was correct. If you don’t accept that, then you don’t accept that those officials know how to do their job. Fine. Then you need to offer evidence that they weren’t doing their job. Maybe going right back to who appointed them?
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  1836. 8:01 Or offer the raw data for download somewhere, so people can do their own analyses.
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  1837.    I recall that. Tridge just Telnetted into the BitKeeper server, typed “help”, and it told him a lot of what he needed to know. Also, reverse-engineering is explicitly permitted under 🇪🇺 law.
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  1838. “Atom” is like a jinxed word. It literally means “cannot be cut”. Yet every time that name has been applied to something, it has turned out be made of smaller pieces.
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  1839. The mistake lies in thinking that there is a “left” and “right” in memory. There isn’t, any more than there is a “top” or “bottom”. There are only numbers for bytes/words, and numbers for bits within a word. Spatial arrangement only applies when a human looks at a diagram. The usual reading order for English (or any other language using some variation of the Roman, Greek or Cyrillic alphabets) is left-to-right, top-to-bottom. If the bit numbers within a word should be in decreasing order from left to right, then, for consistency, shouldn’t we have word addresses decreasing from top to bottom?
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  1840. Unix was the model for Linux, which today totally dominates the computing world. Once it became commercialized, Unix unfortunately became the field for a tussling match between a whole bunch of different vendors each trying to lock customers into their own proprietary variant. This fragmentation ultimately destroyed Unix. But oddly enough, at the same time, Unix was also the core nursery for the Free Software/Open Source movement, among other things the GNU project for creating a Free operating system. This is where Linux began. So Unix was very much the launching pad for what became the heart and soul of the computing world today. Its spirit lives on.
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  1841. I don’t know why his supporters get so worked up about such things. If they can claim their man totally dominated the debate in spite of these tricks from the other side, wouldn’t that make him look even better? No, they were just looking for excuses for why Trump would look bad. But at the same time, denying that he was looking bad at all. Maybe we need a term for this: “Fox News Logic”.
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  1842. Ingrained into the German mentality is respect, even some sort of reverence, for the Allies who defeated them and destroyed Nazism. That includes Russia. So the idea of antagonizing any of these Allies is very hard for them, even today.
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  1843.  @IgorRockt  Mine is a top-loader.
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  1844. Asterisk is fun. I set it up for a client quite a few years ago, and even did some custom programming for it. That was an audio-only application, to replace analog phone calls.
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  1845. grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo
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  1846. Do you read the fine print in EULAs? Then you might rethink your use of the term “insane” ...
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  1847. Have you looked at shell functions? They are even more powerful than aliases, because they can take arguments. They’re like mini-shell-scripts, except they don’t live in separate files or run in separate shell instances.
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  1848. 4:09 Both Cosmos docos were 13 parts. And both very yummy indeed.
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  1849. 9:32 Solar panel? Note that very little solar radiation actually makes it to the surface of Venus, owing to the thickness of the atmosphere. But that same thickness retains what does get through, which is why after so many millions of years, the surface has become so hot.
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  1850. 2:42 That’s pronounced “mah-teh”. I think it comes from “yerba mate”.
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  1851. I don’t use TypeScript. Looking at those examples in the video, it really looks like Microsoft has brought C++ to JavaScript.
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  1852. 9:00 “Sheer speed” of IBM’s hardware!? Somewhere, Seymour Cray is going “HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!”
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  1853. Ada was designed in the 1980s specifically for embedded and safety-critical systems. For example, the life-support system on the International Space Station is written in Ada. Now there is a project, called SPARK, to create a provably memory-safe subset of Ada, with the intention to bring in more of the Ada language over time. Nvidia has been making use of this.
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  1854. Appropriate for somebody in the “Cranial Correction” industry, don’t you think ...
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  1855. 14:19 Worth noting that distros nowadays seem to configure ls by default to quote/escape names with special characters in them (e.g. the filenames with spaces in your example). This allows these names to be copied and pasted directly into a Bash command as is, without worrying that they will be interpreted in strange ways instead of being taken literally.
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  1856. He got $4½ million or something out of this, for essentially no work at all. The fact that his followers got stiffed ... well, they’re used to it by now.
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  1857. And here I thought it was founded by someone proud of their beach side property. In other words, someone with a sandy ego ...
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  1858.  @dixonmopar2129  I would go for that expiry date...
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  1859. HandBrake is just a GUI layer on top of FFmpeg. You can build FFmpeg with a whole range of different options, that’s up to you.
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  1860. SGI were the king of 3D, right into the 1990s. Their gear was also fantastically expensive. Re The Last Starfighter -- that was made in the days before the coming of RISC, when there was still this massive gap in power between “big” computers and “little” ones. The computer time on the Cray took a third of the production budget. Which I suppose was fitting, because the CG scenes took up a third of the running time of the final movie. Those scenes looked so good, they would still stand up to stuff being done 10 years later.
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  1861. Don’t worry, everybody says it. ;)
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  1862. Agree with those who see this comparison as offensive to dung beetles. Particularly since I wear an Ancient-Egypt-themed avatar.
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  1863.  @Creativethinker12  The beginnings of systematic curiosity about the world (what we would describe as “science”) originated in pagan Greece. And were ignored and pretty much forgotten when Christianity took over. Instead, the Greek teachings were continued by the Islamic world, and were only rediscovered in Europe after Europe realized that there was more to the world than Christianity would allow.
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  1864.  @fredball4894  “But when I see or hear of things like this I can only tell you what I know. It is real.” If it is real, it can be studied scientifically. Science is, by definition, the study of what is real. And one of the things we discover in science is that reality does not divide itself into compartments, like “natural” and “supernatural”. There is just one reality.
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  1865. OS/360 (the troubles with which started off The Mythical Man Month ) was written in assembler, but that didn’t stop it being complicated, buggy and slow.
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  1866. You mean, she could figure out how to access it via Tor? Right wingers don’t really understand technology, do they ...
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  1867.  @gutter1  Yet you find it hard to believe it really could be CGI ...
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  1868.  @gutter1  You said it yourself.
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  1869.  @gregoryfenn1462  I think the OP is referring to the thought processes, not something superficial like the accent.
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  1870. But he himself gave those low valuations to the IRS, did he not?
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  1871. If you are not convincing enough, there is this nice open window that Putin would like to show you. Come closer, what are you afraid of?
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  1872. 6:09 “easy” “costly”. The licensing charges IBM was demanding for Micro Channel were best described as “punitive”. This was IBM’s last-gasp attempt to reclaim some dominance over the PC world. It partially succeeded, but in a way it also hastened their decline.
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  1873. 7:25 “Beyond anything that’s been done so far” ... beyond the ban on semiautomatics that was brought in under Clinton? Or its repeal by GW Bush?
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  1874. Knoppix was designed as a “live CD”, to run off an optical disc without requiring installation. Used to be great for those wanting to try Linux out without messing with their hard drive. Not sure if it’s so unique in that regard nowadays.
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  1875. Groklaw did reveal their true pro-IBM colours later, in the TurboHercules case.
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  1876.  @christinebenson518  That wasn’t a different letter, it was a contextual form of the letter s, not used at the ends of words. Many current OpenType fonts offer it as a feature you can enable, with the right software. For example, Inkscape.
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  1877. If you said “two-watch” fast enough, it sounds like ... “twatch”. Yeah, Rudy is a twatch.
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  1878. An essential part of free-market capitalism is that the barriers to the entry of newcomers to the market should not be too high. That keeps the existing players honest, but it takes ongoing Government regulation to maintain such a situation. A free market doesn’t maintain itself. So the idea that “the fewer rules the market has, the better” tends to come, not from those who care about market competition, but from those who are friends of big, established players who like to keep the market to themselves.
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  1879. Let me get this straight: there was no violence committed on Jan 6, it was perfectly peaceful breaking and entering and smashing of windows and fittings, instigated by Antifa and the FBI and Nancy Pelosi, who did nothing wrong. And Trump wants to pardon these Antifa/FBI people and Nancy Pelosi, who did nothing wrong. Did I get that right?
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  1880. 8:44 If you want a ready-made empty file to demonstrate your point, try /dev/null.
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  1881. Remember Trump claimed there were 3 million fraudulent votes? And he set up some kind of fake commission or something to supposedly investigate the fake issue. But they couldn’t find any fake evidence. What happened to the fake evidence Trump had? Why didn’t he give it to his own fake commission? Bad Trump! Fake Trump!
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  1882. I doubt he’s doing their tyres any good ...
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  1883. What was it Robin Williams said about 🇨🇦: like living in a really nice apartment over a meth lab.
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  1884. LNOL ... Laughing Not Out Loud ... that’s a good thing, right??
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  1885. Does the phrase “cultural appropriation” mean anything to you? 🇮🇹
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  1886. Your own local branches are quite separate from remote branches, and you can have any number of each. “git branch -r” show remote branches, while “git branch” shows local ones. Remote branches are copies of other people’s public branches.
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  1887. C♯ is really just a Java wannabe, and still carries around that 1990s baggage.
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  1888. 2:32 Just from the density distribution of the air-cooling fins, you can tell which way it spins.
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  1889. I thought it was what was in your heart that was important, not mere words you say with your mouth.
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  1890. Coalitions are also a form of checks and balances. It makes explicit that you need to have give and take between different groups to get things done.
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  1891. Apple’s marketing department could never figure it out. It didn’t fit into any conventional software categories. That kind of thing makes certain management types nervous.
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  1892. Louis ... is this some new family member?
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  1893. I don’t know why people assume that Linux distros have to act like proprietary companies, that some company can force them all to do something.
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  1894.  @DeviantOllam  I remember Watch Mr Wizard being on t’telly when I were a wee lad back in the old country. I remember very few details about the episodes, except the one where he demonstrated an atomic chain reaction using an aquarium full of ping-pong balls sitting on armed mousetraps. Incidentally, Jim Al-Khalili did the same demo.
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  1895.  @quangtung2912  What is the relevance of “precomputed” to what I said,. exactly?
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  1896. Python > VBA.
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  1897. 5:17 One of the luminaries from the Islamic Golden Age, back when Europe was still in the Dark Ages.
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  1898.  @mhall801  We’ve seen their missile blasts in Israel. Not a single one managed that level of damage.
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  1899.  @PattyManatty  How does that answer my point?
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  1900.  @PattyManatty  But it can only show that when the mapping has been completed. Which takes an infinite number of steps. Conversely, adding the new number to the list only takes one step.
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  1901. 1989 was the “big bang” when most of the Unix workstation vendors switched away from the old Motorola 68K processor family and adopted RISC architectures. This made a massive difference to the sorts of things that became possible, in CG and other areas.
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  1902. Before X, there was W (which ran on the V OS). Then X was created as its successor, and went through all these major version bumps until it got to 11. So then the major version stopped, but we kept seeing revisions--X11R2 etc, up until X11R7. And then the major R number stopped incrementing too, and now we have decimal points, up to X11R7.7.
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  1903.  @microcolonel  WSL2 is actually running a Microsoft-munged Linux kernel, not a genuine standard kernel. Which is why it doesn’t quite work properly.
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  1904. 3:18 Presumably there are additional checks somewhere to ensure the packet length is sane. Otherwise you could fiddle those first four bytes to some random bizarre values and cause mischief that way. Because remember the MAC at the end has to be found via the packet length, so you can’t verify that until you are sure of the packet length!
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  1905. Yeah, but mail that you pay for is fee-mail, right?
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  1906. Copyright was never about benefiting content creators, but about enforcing publisher monopolies.
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  1907. And all the victims who come down with it and get sick, and some who die ... they will all be “crisis actors”. Now there is a phrase that shows just how insanely out of touch with reality some people can be ...
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  1908. In one interpretation, you hit the bottom, but in the other interpretation, Einstein’s Soviet Gravity, bottom hits you.
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  1909. TLS elbow-bump FTW!
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  1910. 3:13 The key difference between “su” and “sudo”, as far as I’m concerned, is that “su” prompts for the root password, while “sudo” prompts for your password. “su” lets you become any user for which you know the password, not just root. It also allows the root user to become any user without knowing their password. “sudo” gives you more fine-grained control over what users are allowed to do. Many admins prefer it because it doesn’t require the root user to have a valid password. Linux faux pas I see too often: people using sudo to run su. Tisk.
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  1911. The way I see it, most of those predictions from, say, the 1950s/1960s or so, were predicated on having large mounts of power available--personal jet packs, holidays on the Moon and so on. Where was this power going to come from? Obviously, nuclear energy. But we took a wrong turn on that, concentrating on nuclear reactors that could produce material for nuclear bombs and required complex safety systems, instead of investing in designs (e.g. thorium-based) that were primarily peaceful and inherently safer. And so, the promised power that was “too cheap to meter” never eventuated. What we got instead was improvements in technologies for handling information--which was something that hardly anybody predicted (except perhaps Vannevar Bush). Hence the whole range of computer-centric technologies, with lots of processing power, large amounts of storage, and also fast transmission of information around the world. These did not take much power to run. But as the computers get more and more powerful, their power requirements are also increasing. Already, the single largest expense in running a data centre is not the high-tech hardware, but the electricity bill. And so we are approaching the power limit that we previously dodged, and we will have to deal with it at some point.
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  1912. Average the two. And as a bonus, you also have an estimate of the accuracy of the result. #Science
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  1913.  @lele_l  Certainly tutes can only be an adjunct to the docs, never a replacement for them. What I have in my browser bookmark list is not tutes, but reference docs.
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  1914. Very edgy. Did you get the point?
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  1915. In an authoritarian regime, open dissent is a sign of weakness. That’s why it is (normally) never tolerated. The fact that this guy gets away with it is not a good sign for Putin’s continued rule.
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  1916. 7:28 ... top of building disappears into clouds ...
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  1917. ZFS on Linux is a case in point. The Linux kernel includes a filesystem cache, which is part of the common architecture across all its filesystem support. But ZFS doesn’t use that common cache, it insists on implementing its own, which needs to be managed separately. This has implications. The Linux filesystem cache has lower priority than regular applications trying to make use of RAM; this means that, if apps need RAM, parts of the cache will be dumped as necessary to make room. This is why, in the “free” and “top” commands, the amount of available RAM has to be taken as the sum of both the “free” and “cache” amounts, so don’t worry if the former looks low, if the latter is high--that’s just your system working efficiently. ZFS doesn’t play nicely with this. Which is why I would not recommend using it on a general-purpose machine.
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  1918. 29:36 I thought 43xx was more of a midrange. The high-end mainframes were the 308x machines, then later 3090.
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  1919. He’s like an American Cliff Richard.
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  1920. Pro world-leader tip: if you’re trying to argue against a security pact being set up against you, you don’t do it by threatening the security of countries thinking of joining that pact.
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  1921. I looked it up. Nothing very exciting, I’m afraid. It was “Mogul”.
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  1922. Remember that teacher shot by the 6-year-old kid? Should she have shot back, do you think?
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  1923.  @johnfrancisdoe1563  Ðat’s what I þought.
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  1924. If a child is entitled to citizenship from the beginning of its existence, then, for example, visitors to the USA who become pregnant while visiting would be entitled to claim that their foetuses are US citizens.
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  1925.  @sblack48  It’s called “nuance”. It’s the antiliberals’ worst enemy.
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  1926. We have contributed to that. As a result of our timely prevention of the worst of the outbreak, we don’t need to resort to emergency measures.
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  1927. This is why we have cameras now.
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  1928. I wonder how they made dust move in parabolic arcs ...
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  1929. It’s called “decriminalization”, which is not the same as “legalization”.
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  1930. 4:23 I think people discovered the consequences of changing the Fifth Postulate before Lobachevsky and Bolyai, but they were seen as “absurd” (really just “counter-intuitive”), and that was sufficient excuse to not pursue the matter further. What L&B did was stick to the courage of their convictions, and say that, since alternatives to the Fifth Postulate did not create any (new) contradictions in the mathematical theory, they must be considered to be just as valid as Euclid’s version. In other words, this was a change in the meaning of mathematics, from thinking about things that had to be “intuitive”, to things that had to be “logical”.
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  1931. It brought Boris Johnson back from the dead. Like it or not, that took quality, professional work.
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  1932. 11:57 Aw come on, if he were really a Yorkshireman, he’d have a name like “Walkinshaw” or “Otterthwaite”, not “Pinderberry”. #CulturalPlausibility #LastOfTheSummerWine
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  1933. If you understand quantum theory, that means it wasn’t explained properly.
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  1934. And then the leftover stock was buried in landfill. One reason why they’re so rare nowadays.
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  1935. Pro world-leader tip: if you want to dissuade your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  1936. Not many different directions he can fly around without passing over an ICC signatory country. Remember how that exiled Belarussian journalist was snared by Lukashenko with the help of a bogus “bomb scare”? Well, two can play at that game ...
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  1937. 10:05 Yes, you could move directories to other partitions. I wouldn’t advise doing it to important OS directories while that OS is running, though. This is why SystemRescueCD was created. Keep a USB stick handy with a copy of it around.
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  1938. CD-R brands varied widely in longevity, in my experience; Verbatim, Sony and TDK were good, Imation was crap.
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  1939. The Motorola 68K family was very popular among Unix workstation vendors in the 1980s, until it got supplanted by higher-performance RISC CPUs from about 1989 onwards.
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  1940. Back then, “workstation” meant something in terms of superior hardware for networking and graphics, high-performance interconnect busses and so on. Nowadays that meaning has gone. But I think it still means something in terms of software. Consider that the Unix workstations had something of both desktop-style and server-style functionality in a single package. Microsoft’s Windows NT “Workstation” actually did away with this, with any server-like functionality carefully crippled, making customers pay extra for a separate “Windows NT Server” product to get that capability back. Nowadays, the only OS in widespread use with this workstation-style mindset is Linux.
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  1941. Warning: Using TFS or Visual SourceSafe can be seriously harmful to your programmers’ productivity.
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  1942. 7:41 UCSD Pascal was very influential. Most of the PC-based implementations were clearly inspired by it (e.g. variable-length strings, “univ” pointers).
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  1943. One command I have used a fair bit is mmv. That does its own recognition of shell-style wildcards, substituting them into the output pattern. E.g. mmv -v '*.TXT' '#1.txt' renames files ending with .TXT to corresponding .txt, telling you what it’s renaming as it goes. It also provides the “-n” option, where it shows you what it would do without doing it.
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  1944. Every new discovery raises new questions. Look what happened when New Horizons sent that data back from Pluto. Who was expecting just another cold, dead rock? (Puts hand up.) Yet we were surprised to discover active glaciation and remodelling of the surface in progress. James Webb will give us our closest look at yet the earliest formation of stars and galaxies. We think we have some good ideas about that, but there will be surprises, you can lay money on it.
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  1945. Back in 1984 when IBM introduced the PC/AT, it promised that it would release an OS to take advantage of the protected-mode capabilities of the 80286 processor. By the time OS/2 came out in 1987, the Microsoft*-compatible world was already moving to 32-bit 80386 processors, and nobody really cared about a major new OS for the 80286 any more. Nevertheless, that initial version of OS/2 was very much 16-bit, not 32-bit. That was probably a fatal mistake. *because it was Microsoft software (specifically, Flight Simulator) that set the standard for compatibility, not anything from IBM.
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  1946. And don’t forget the Lafayette Flying Corps in WWI. One of whom was a Black American, who would never be allowed into his own country’s armed forces.
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  1947. Umm, expand on the nature of these emissions? Perhaps shed more light than heat on the issue?
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  1948. 20:24 One area where I think the PostScript clones were still at a disadvantage at this point was over font rendering. Adobe was still keeping its Type 1 font format a secret, along with its special hinting algorithms for minimizing irregularities in glyph placement and shaping at typical resolutions like 300dpi and lower. The clones wouldn’t catch up to that for a few more years.
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  1949.  @marcossidoruk8033  Microsoft Windows user?
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  1950. I always render individual image frames out of Blender. Then I can experiment with different encoding options (fast), without having to re-render (slow).
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  1951. Just think: NT could have been designed a lot differently if Cutler hadn’t been a Unix hater ...
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  1952. I suspect he’s more likely to be a perpetrator than a victim of that sort of thing.
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  1953. The 1980s superminis and Unix workstations were certainly way ahead of MS-DOS and CP/M: multitasking, memory protection and advanced memory-management capabilities, networking, linear 32-bit address spaces, and no silly single-character device names.
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  1954. All of them, except the big four, are essentially tiny rocks -- asteroids, captured by Jupiter over the aeons.
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  1955. Every little rock in space looks like a giant space potato. What shape is a potato, anyway?
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  1956.  @sloppyprogrammer4373  I used Photoshop back since version 3.0. I don’t bother with it any more. It has fallen behind in many ways. For example, GIMP has full native support for 32-bit floating-point pixel components, thanks to its GEGL pixel-engine technology. Photoshop can just about manage 16-bit pixel components. And GIMP’s Python API is so much more advanced, too.
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  1957. ​ @Sweet Bytez In a competitive market, a company will rise or fall on the quality of its products. Now, which do you think has better prospects of survival in the long term: a company which is chained to paying the Adobe tax, regardless of whether its software gets improved or not, or one which is not? A company which is locked to a proprietary platform which pretends that competition doesn’t exist, or one which is free to choose from a range of powerful, versatile, interoperable products?
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  1958. If, say, just 100 people took the money they would have paid Adobe, and contributed it towards development of GIMP, that would pay for a lot of improvements.
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  1959. You should ask yourself: is your project as large and complex as the Linux kernel? Over 20 million lines of code, thousands of new and changed code flowing in each day from over a thousand active contributors, with a new major, stable release coming out about every three months. And they manage it all with Git. I’m guessing that your particular project is a lot smaller than that. So if they can be so productive with Git, and you cannot, guess where I suspect the problem lies?
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  1960. Winner-takes-all is such an undemocratic way to govern.
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  1961. Another hotbed of CG development in the 1970s was the New York Institute of Technology. They somehow acquired a rich benefactor who would gift them with lots of expensive hardware. For example, there was this new thing called a “frame buffer”. It had 64KB of RAM, which was just about enough to hold an entire greyscale video frame. The computer arts department asked their patron if he could get them one. He came back with three. And so they had the world’s first full-colour RGB frame buffer.
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  1962. I think each frame buffer might have been 256kiB of RAM ...
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  1963. Funny how they called him a “liar” when he mentioned policies that they are already on public record as advocating.
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  1964. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  1965. I see all the firearms experts have come here to tell us why they have nothing to do with the gun crime endemic in the USA.
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  1966.  @feedyourmind6713  Certainly. But journalists were not arrested for reporting on it.
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  1967.  @feedyourmind6713  Says the one who obviously never heard about the Pentagon Papers.
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  1968. “When ... demonstrators throw stones at the police in Hong Kong, that’s considered to be heroism in the American press. When in Myanmar, the demonstrators throw slingshots at the ... oppressive army, they’re considered to be heroes in the Western press. When Palestinian kids throw stones at the Israeli solders, they’re called terrorists.” — Gabor Maté, Holocaust survivor
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  1969. I think there was some village in Iran that had something like 120 times the recommended fluoride level in their water. They had lots of brown spots on their teeth (fluorosis), but ... no cavities!
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  1970. “Pro bono” (“for the good”) immediately raises the question “cui bono?” (“whose good?”). The full phrase is supposed to be “pro bono publico” (“for the good of the public”).
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  1971. 0:59 Anybody else tried to burn dual-layer 9.4GB discs? I did try sending a few to friends, but they were never able to read them. And the fact that they cost more than 2 single-layer discs meant they were never very popular.
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  1972.  @maxwelsh6121  From the country that has the La Brea Tar Pits? Hint: look up what “La Brea” means ...
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  1973. Here, have a heapin’ helpin’
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  1974. of goo
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  1975. Unless you have coins in your pocket made of actual gold or silver, the cash you have is also “completely made up” (by the Government). There’s a reason it’s called “fiat currency”, and it’s not because it comes from a car company in Turin ...
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  1976. Anybody else notice you never see Prigozhin and Pope Francis in the same room together?
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  1977. C++ certainly still has some fans. But even those fans admit it has accumulated a load of baggage over the decades that needs to be jettisoned. Google created a new language called “Carbon”, which seems positioned as a more modern successor to C++.
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  1978.  @SkyFly19853  In case you didn’t realize, they are slowing development of on-prem Windows Server to concentrate more on the cloud version. Basically, they are conceding the on-prem market to Linux. Trouble is, the cloud is already dominated by Linux--and that is also true of Microsoft’s cloud. So all in all, the future of Windows Server does not look bright.
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  1979.  @SkyFly19853  That’s for Bing search. Which is just reinforcing the trend away from Windows itself.
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  1980.  @CnCDune  Maybe time for you to start looking at non-proprietary alternatives? Because it’s clear Windows has passed its peak — it is getting more and more expensive for Microsoft to maintain, while returning less and less profit. Which is why Microsoft is resorting to tricks like inserting ads everywhere on the Windows desktop it can.
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  1981. 3:00 Consider that the Unix kernels were themselves written in C. So a userland C program calling printf would pass control through the runtime library into the kernel, which would then do ... what? It can’t be language builtins all the way down, at some point there has to be actual reusable code to implement I/O.
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  1982. What is this “our money” of which you speak?
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  1983.  @SeaJay_Oceans  The first Amiga came out in 1985, and did not significantly improve from that.
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  1984. If any Republican disagrees with this characterization, just point out what Lincoln fought for, versus what they believe today.
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  1985. Surely any seasoned IT admin would ensure they have offsite backups. So a bunch of gear gets destroyed, worst case you are down until you can get new gear running and reload all the necessary software, and you only lost data since the last backup. Have they heard of the concept of “hot spares”?
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  1986. I don’t actually recall it ever being mentioned in the 🇳🇿 local news (not TV, anyway). It’s been on several of the 🇺🇸 satire shows over the past few months.
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  1987. HYPOCRISY IS GOOD!!! VOTE FOR HYPOCRITES!!!
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  1988. 2:15 And the irony is, the IME runs its own OS based on MINIX, which is Open-Source!
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  1989. If only. Unfortunately, it’s little more than some kind of tentative suggestion to the Electoral College.
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  1990. Can’t handle regextion? 😅
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  1991. There is failyr standard lambda-calculus notation, e.g. f = λx.x But I agree, that Haskell notation doesn’t make any sense to someone who doesn’t know Haskell.
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  1992. The Greeks used letters as the digits of their number notation.
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  1993. The only example I could think of where Pöttering and mates blamed other people’s mistakes was to do with the fstab issue, where some distros would allow booting to continue with missing volumes. There are “noauto” and “nofail” options that you are supposed to use to make these volumes optional, which they were not using. So along comes systemd and enforces the requirement for these long-documented options, and suddenly incorrect configurations that were successfully booting before would now hang. And so systemd got the blame.
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  1994. CDs were designed for audio first, and general data files (CD-ROM) later. DVDs were designed to be a computer data format from the beginning, with a proper computer file system (actually two, ISO-9660 and UDF), with all the actual applications (DVD-Video, DVD-Audio etc) being done basically as file formats on top of that.
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  1995. There’s another term for that: “personality cult”. Another thing the American Fascist and the German Fascist have in common is they are both officially devout Christians.
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  1996. Linux has a history of running better on Apple’s hardware than Apple’s own OS.
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  1997. I like what Stephen Colbert said: “You don’t acquit Jeffrey Dahmer just because he’s full.”
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  1998. Not is grammatical.
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  1999. No matter how bad he is, he is the Republicans’ only hope, so they will cling on to him like grim death, and continue to make excuses as they slide all the way down the plughole. In all the good democracies, voters have a realistic choice of more than two parties to pick from, and the prospect of such a nomination would not be taken anywhere near as seriously.
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  2000.  @georgewashington6772  This was a civil case.
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  2001. Open-source tools have existed for longer than any surviving proprietary product. Ones like SPICE have undergone decades of real-world use and refinement.
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  2002. I was trying to think about how relieved Aussies are about Murdoch no longer living there, and I think it might be comparable to how relieved Kiwis are that Russell Crowe no longer lives here. Am I close? BTW, Seth’s Murdoch impersonation is already becoming a staple of the show ...
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  2003.  @hewlettwilliam4650  I gather his hold on Aussie media is weakening, given he wasn’t able to stop the election of Labor and Albanese.
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  2004. But ... but ... without the Electoral College, it’s likely a Republican will never occupy the White House again. 💸
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  2005. It was never a reality because the US was never an honest broker like it claimed. Well, now the truth is out, and we can all finally, officially, admit to something that was blindingly obvious from the beginning. Well, the US was not a complete waste of time. Obama, to his credit, let Security Council resolution 2334 pass. That identifies the single biggest obstacle to peace between Israel and Palestine, and that is the Zionists’ continual stealing of Palestinian land. If we can put a stop to that, things might have a chance of progressing.
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  2006. Let’s face it: Fauci did what he did in the face of non-cooperation and downright hostility from Trump. This network itself has played its part in trying to discredit his credentials; now you are annoyed that he is claiming credit for what he managed to achieve regardless? To borrow a phrase which your lot like to use: HOW DARE YOU!
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  2007. /me pulls string on Talking Barbie Doll “Math is hard!” Moral: don’t get life lessons from a Talking Barbie Doll.
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  2008. 2:58 Kenny Everett once used this to comedic effect, with some UK police Rover cars playing a certain riff from Somewhere Over The Rainbow on their horns. ;)
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  2009. How did they get the dust to fall in parabolic arcs?
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  2010. I bought a Mindstorms kit, but I never used any of the proprietary software. I found the open-source NBC/NXC compiler, and built my code with that. I also wrote some of my own tools (in Python) to encode/decode the custom sound and graphics formats.
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  2011. Einstein’s definition of insanity: trying the same thing over and over, hoping for a different outcome this time. Repeating the same old lies does not make them true.
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  2012. 0:31 There were some in-between steps, like Autocode.
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  2013. The Captain probably knows some demon seamen ...
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  2014. 2:35 I would argue that network transparency is better handled through mechanisms like VNC. Consider that X11’s idea of “network transparency” means that, if the network connection goes down, all your GUI apps get errors trying to communicate with the display server and die. Whereas with VNC, you can disconnect from a running GUI session and reconnect, and everything is still there, and didn’t even notice you were gone. That, in my view, is the proper meaning of “transparency”.
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  2015. The reason for that should be obvious: it’s because Emacs was originally doing “windowing” on text terminals, before GUIs became commonplace. Rather than change their terminology, they simply added another nonstandard term, “frames”.
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  2016. I remember that picture of Yeltsin standing on the tank, when he and the others went to rescue Gorbachev from being detained by the coup plotters. He stood for freedom back then. Later, something changed.
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  2017. 8:08 Back in the time of Napoleon III, aluminium was such a novelty (and expensive to produce) that he had a special cutlery set made out of it. Everybody else who was anybody in Europe had silver cutlery, but only he had aluminium!
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  2018. It’s a threat they created themselves. Israel thought that, by building up Hamas, they would weaken the bargaining position of the PLO. That has rather spectacularly backfired on them, wouldn’t you say?
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  2019. No need to allocate any data clusters if the data is zero-length. Just the inode would be enough.
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  2020. Maybe you’re looking in the wrong place. The canonical package for processing “raw” image files is dcraw https://packages.debian.org/buster/dcraw , which is the basis for a bunch of other packages, including a GIMP plugin. And like all good open-source packages, it is available on all supported architectures, including ARM. Other well-known image-processing tools like ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick are also available.
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  2021. Never do this: 10 PRINT "BOLLOCKS" 20 GOTO 10 Oh wait, wrong platform ...
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  2022. 11:07 I think the mathematical term for this is “gimbal lock”. It’s a well-known hazard of working with Euler angles. Hmmm ... could you use quaternions as an angular coordinate system instead?
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  2023. It’s actually quite a pain to get a usable desktop out of FreeBSD. From https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-distro-review-freebsd-12-1-release/ : With all of that said, let's get back to the hilarious masochism involved in installing a FreeBSD desktop. And it goes downhill from there...
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  2024. 1:52 Ha! You called it “gravitational lensing”!
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  2025. Windows is an absolute mess. This is why you need special tools to migrate app installations from one system to another. On Linux, you don’t.
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  2026. 1:11 It’s actually unnecessary to use the PulseAudio-specific commands, if you want a script that works both ways. The Alsa amixer command still works under PulseAudio.
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  2027. Speaking as somebody with part-Indian ancestry, let me just point out that there is only one kind of Indian. End of.
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  2028. Blame it on Columbus for hijacking the term.
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  2029. Seth Meyers is the conscience of the USA right now.
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  2030.    Every name in Python is a variable. That means its value can vary, by assigning a new value. That’s what “variable” means.
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  2031. Remember that episode when he was fired, his first question was “For how long?”.
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  2032. I think also Apple will stick with ARM a while longer, if only because of the sunk-cost fallacy.
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  2033. Remember he said, if he lost to Biden, he’d be so embarrassed he’d have to leave the country? STILL WAITING!!
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  2034. Remember that macOS is a “Unix” system primarily in legal, not technical terms. They have licensed the “Unix” trademark, but that doesn’t mean that they work quite the way that people expect of a traditional “Unix” system. If you want that, you go to Linux or the BSDs.
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  2035.  @BrodieRobertson  Yes, there is some aspect of technical terms, yes. But it doesn’t really cover all the things that are traditionally thought of as “Unix”.
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  2036. You can tell they’re the Government, because they’ve got more weapons than you.
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  2037. There are no examples of English spelling that could shed any light on “Taoiseach”, “Niamh” or “Fionn mac Cumhaill”, so don’t try to blame English for any of this.
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  2038. Emacs well smart! Score: 99.
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  2039. Also worth contrasting how video-game developers now spend a lot of time dirtying their models up, with grime, scratches, dents, dust, rust and so on, while the architectural renders still look preternaturally clean. Do you think crap renders will ever become the fashion in archviz? ;)
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  2040. Here’s the kind of stuff I have written, from my Python wrapper qahirah_xcffib, for keeping track of initialized X11 extensions: self._ext_inited = dict \ ( (key, {"query" : def_query_version(key, args), "done" : False}) for key, args in ( (xfixes.key, (xfixes.MAJOR_VERSION, xfixes.MINOR_VERSION)), (xrender.key, (xrender.MAJOR_VERSION, xrender.MINOR_VERSION)), (xshape.key, ()), ) )
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  2041. I saw one survey that predicted that: Donnie > Hillary, Bernie > Donnie, and yet Hillary > Bernie. A real rock-paper-scissors situation, in other words.
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  2042. Putin proclaimed those parts as “forever a part of Russia”, and next thing you know his troops have run away.
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  2043. I got that joke too. The trick to surviving PHP is to cleanse your palette with a bit of code in some other language afterwards.
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  2044. Remember, VS Code is built on Electron. So if you don’t consider it “slow” and “bloated”, I shudder to think what you are comparing it to ...
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  2045.  @AndersJackson  ISO 8601 FTW! Also the national standard in Japan. For all their quirks, that’s one thing they did that makes sense.
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  2046. Pro world-leader tip: if you want to discourage neighbouring countries from joining a defence alliance against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  2047. Where does he get all that tractor-feed paper from? There’s nobody still making it, is there?
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  2048. And for exactly the same reason.
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  2049. In all the good democracies, we take it for granted that boundaries would be drawn, and elections run, by an independent Electoral Commission, free from political interference.
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  2050. To “consolidate” it, they have to capture it first. How long before the Russian troops mutiny? Probably not long.
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  2051. Orwell’s party didn’t seem to have this capacity for projection that the right-wingers have: everything that they are doing wrong, they somehow see as the fault of the other side.
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  2052. I’d celebrate, but where do you get the ground hog, and is it finely or coarsely ground?
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  2053. It was probably efficient taking the cost of the hardware into account. As in, with the technology available at the time, there was no way to increase the utilization efficiency by much without spending disproportionate amounts of money.
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  2054. If you have read/write properties on a class, specifying slots is a very good idea.
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  2055. How much you want to bet?
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  2056. Remember that all his obnoxious twat characters get their comeuppance. Which clearly shows where his sympathies lie. ;)
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  2057. Linux is the most versatile development environment. Even if the target system will not be running Linux, you can still use it for your cross-development platform.
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  2058. Concerted global action, including sanctions, was able to help bring an end to apartheid in 🇿🇦. It can do the same in 🇮🇱.
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  2059. 7:36 But part of the terms of service for these sites to run code on my machine is that I get to inspect and reverse-engineer the code, and possibly hack it as well. If they don’t like that, they are free not to run code on my machine.
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  2060. 24:44 Not at USD2495, though. While an improvement on the Lisa, it was still seen as a rather pricey machine. John Sculley discussed this in his book; if it had bee priced at USD1995, it would have had a lot more impact.
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  2061. 1:32 Maybe worth looking beyond the assumption of 1:1 equivalence, and consider bringing other Free Software tools into the mix. For example, look at a combination of Gimp, Inkscape, Krita, Blender, G’MIC etc and see how the power available goes beyond anything in Photoshop.
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  2062. I wonder how long before WSL 2 becomes a mandatory part of a Windows install. Then, to cut ongoing development costs, Microsoft starts relying more and more on the Linux kernel for hardware drivers. Then the Windows kernel eventually withers away, leaving just an API layer on top of Linux ... think of it as WINE with Microsoft branding.
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  2063. Republicans demand equal crime! Anything their guy gets charged with, the same accusation must be levelled at the other side!
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  2064. He promoted himself as such a clever and successful businessman, that made him qualified to run the entire country. That turned out to be a whole lot of lies.
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  2065. 11:49 The legendary Seymour Cray had a simple solution to the problem of divide operations taking longer than multiplies in his supercomputer designs: he didn’t have a divide instruction at all. Instead, you had to multiply by the reciprocal of the divisor. He provided a special instruction for computing the reciprocal; the first execution of this instruction produced an approximate result which was lacking accuracy in the last few bits, so you had to execute it a second time on the output from the first time, to get the fully-accurate result. The assumption, I guess, was that you would tend to do a lot of divisions by the same divisor. Also you could skip the second iteration if you didn’t need the full accuracy in the result.
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  2066.  @AntonioPetrelli  The nice thing about an intermediate representation is that it greatly reduces the porting burden. Consider the problem of implement M different languages for N different processor architectures. If you had to write every compiler to directly generate code for every architecture, that means writing M × N different compilers. But if you write M different language front ends to generate IR, and N different back ends to translate IR to processor-specific machine code, then the work required is on the order of M + N.
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  2067. Vi/Vim is the only editor family that has separate commands for inserting before the current position versus inserting after the current position. Because normal editors (including all GUI ones) do their insertion at the current position.
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  2068. 0:59 PHP started out by trying to copy Perl without really understanding how it worked. These days, they’ve moved on to trying to copy Python, again without really understanding how it works.
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  2069. One good thing is, you don’t have to do “using namespace «ns»” to bring everything in, you can individually import names into the current namespace with “using «ns»::«name»”, e.g. “using std::cout” etc.
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  2070.  @inkednpierced4u53  “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” -- TFG
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  2071. Weren’t you insulted when Peter said the murderers were from “Italy”, rather than specifically “southern Italy”?
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  2072. Lenin lost an election and took power anyway. There are some nowadays who would wish to emulate him ...
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  2073. 4:15 “...as far as I know, all the normal distributions set things up with swap partitions, not files, because honestly, swapfiles tend to be slower and have various other complexity issues.” -- Linus Torvalds https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/psa-linux-folks-stay-away-from-the-5-12-rc1-kernel/
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  2074. One thing to consider is the difference between raw capture quality and final delivery quality. If you are going to mess around with the sound (filter it, apply other effects, mix it down), then you want the final result to make full use of the capacity of human hearing. Since all the processing will involve some kind of degradation, it makes sense to start with raw quality higher than human hearing, to give you room to play around. The same reasoning applies to “lossless” versus “lossy” image encoding, and the use of depths greater than 8 bits per pixel component.
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  2075. They were so worried about getting a “king” ... did they have the concept of a “dictator” at the time? Seems they forgot to look out for that one.
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  2076. Yeah, McConnell is not toeing the official Trump line that the President deserves 10/10 for his handling of the crisis so far.
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  2077. He said “strike”, then changed it to “target”.
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  2078. Speaking of Germany, it’s worth pointing out that the German proportional-representation voting system was put in place by the Allies after WWII to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. Have you wondered that the US had a hand in crafting it, yet it looks nothing like the US system? And in fact, it has worked so well that we here in NZ copied it for our own system as well. Do you think maybe the US should give it a try?
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  2079.  @Vim_Tim  But that doesn’t say that large values should overflow.
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  2080. There is no “business model”; this is a nonprofit. His aim is to produce the software and give it away.
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  2081. Now that I know you cannot get a Minkowski bobblehead, I suddenly feel the need for one.
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  2082. I found an online example where someone needed to run a single-line shell command at boot time to enable a particular battery-saving mode in the kernel. The systemd unit file was just 12 lines, including options for controlling when the command should be executed. Someone else tried to do a sysvinit version, but that was 17 nonblank lines, nearly all of which was the same old boilerplate you see in every sysvinit script.
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  2083.  @ABaumstumpf  RISC absolutely has a performance advantage. Look at the current list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers: you don’t see anything x86 until 5th place.
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  2084.  @ABaumstumpf  ARM and POWER and the Chinese machine are all RISC. Like I said, the highest that x86 could get was 5th place.
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  2085. Prisoners planning their escape right under the noses of the prison guards. Remind you of any war movies?
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  2086. Pai certainly lied about the “DDos attack” on the FCC site.
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  2087. Without all that lovely lethal 🇺🇸 military aid, it is quite likely that 🇮🇱 would be somewhat more accommodating.
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  2088. Blender is still a smaller download than any proprietary CG app, or any proprietary video editor, or any proprietary compositor for that matter.
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  2089. Like I said, my condolences.
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  2090. 5:31 Slight irony in IBM’s dominance, though: the most popular programming language for commercial applications was COBOL, which IBM wasn’t really keen on. It kept trying to push its customers to use its own “Commercial Translator”, but they kept pushing back and insisting on COBOL. So finally it had to give way. COBOL was also one of the first “portable” (or at least, largely portable) languages. So a nice side effect of its dominance was that it weakened vendors’ lock-in of their customers.
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  2091. 20:56 The cost is actually very low. Remember that most of these efforts are run by very small teams. Don’t be misled by the fact that, when proprietary companies try to do something similar, it ends up costing them lots. That’s a key difference between proprietary and Free software, which extends to all levels of the platform stack.
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  2092. Device drivers were one of the topics mentioned in the infamous “Halloween documents”. If you remember, the comment from one Microsoft engineer was that, on Linux, any idiot could write a device driver in two days with the help of a book like Linux Device Drivers . But on Windows, there was no such thing as a two-day device driver.
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  2093. In a democracy, that would matter. Is that enough to really endanger the Republican support base? Probably not ... yet.
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  2094. It’s like Java for the 2020s.
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  2095. Remember the old analog computers? Back in the early 20th Century, analog computers could solve certain problems faster than digital machines, but with less precision. They fell out of favour as digital computers became able to match them in speed while maintaining greater precision. Also they were never any good at number-theoretic problems (e.g. factorization, code-cracking). Quantum computers are basically a reboot of the old analog-computer idea. The kinds of problems they can solve are in the same class -- physical simulations and optimization -- where speed is more important than precision. And they are similarly useless at number-theoretic problems.
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  2096. The supposed advantages of Token-Ring over Ethernet turned out to be more theoretical than practical. Ethernet won the price/performance battle every time.
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  2097.  @AndrewBlucher  Turtle graphics was part of the LOGO programming language from 1967.
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  2098. You wonder why these “Liberal” channels are the first choice for right-leaning leaders and pundits to come to and make themselves heard. Aren’t there any services that subscribe to their values, that would be a better home for them? That would offer just as good, or better, quality of service, without Government help?
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  2099. Once you follow him down the black hole of psychosis, there is no turning back.
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  2100. Every country has that intolerance. Yet it is the USA where that intolerance translates so readily and so uniquely into violence. What’s different about the USA? The guns.
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  2101. Other countries have all those same issues. Yet other countries do not have the gun crime problem. What’s different about the USA? The guns.
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  2102. 10:06 I would have used Inkscape for the graphics. It’s a better design tool.
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  2103.  @mickeydecurious7082  On the contrary, the Christian god is precisely an example of the sort of thing I described. Remember most of Trump’s supporters are very much devout followers of such a god. That’s what got us into this mess.
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  2104. Endorphins ... natural high.
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  2105. If you want the ultimate in “stable”, how about Horsedung Linux! (“Stable” ... geddit?)
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  2106.  @jilogarcia5979  And he’s still doing better than any Republican.
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  2107. VSCode is built on the mass of bloat that is Electron ...
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  2108.  @CristiNeagu  As in using half a gigabyte of RAM just to get started. For comparison, Emacs doesn’t even register in the top 20 processes on my system.
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  2109. Seems like this breakdown will take nearly twice as long to fix as the previous one.
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  2110. You know the old saying: “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade.” Well, when Seth’s writers hand him bad jokes, he makes ... Surprise Inspection!!
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  2111. 12:54 lolcat: https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat
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  2112. You need a political system which more accurately reflects the wishes of the voters, then that might happen.
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  2113.  @RamonAlbertoEscobarUSA  Sweden and the rest of NATO will find a way, with or without Türkiye. Like I said, If Putin is really doing his best to promote world peace, he’s going about it in completely the wrong way.
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  2114.  @RamonAlbertoEscobarUSA  “Paranoia” or not, that is the fact, like it or not. If it was just one or two countries, you could say it was them, not you. But when it is every single neighbour, then maybe you should look at yourself.
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  2115. Fun fact: the German proportional voting system was put in place by the Allies after WWII precisely to prevent the likelihood of a dictator gaining power ever again. And they ended up with a system completely different from the US one. What is that telling you, I wonder?
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  2116. 1:03 “Canada discontinues undercover mounted police unit” ... and now the horse gangs can get away scot-free ...
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  2117. I thought your type made a virtue of going armed? Yet here you are celebrating someone who confronted the Government without a weapon to defend themselves? Is there some moral advantage in not carrying a gun?
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  2118. Let’s face it: how important is the stuff going to be, that the Vice-President gets access to it?
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  2119. Do you get the feeling that Bash syntax has, shall we say, evolved by accretion over time? ;)
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  2120. 21:27 Cough “fragile-base-class problem” cough
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  2121. It’s like they can hear a joke that you can’t.
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  2122. 10:37 “Committee” or not, ALGOL 60 was actually considered a major advance on languages that had gone before. The spec was remarkably small, and only partly because it left out important stuff like I/O and if-then-else nesting rules ;). It had nice ideas like recursion and local variables (and of course call-by-name), which were sufficiently challenging to implement that they were a major driver of advances in compiler technology for some years to come.
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  2123. Fun fact: all the astronauts who went to the moon (and crossed the Van Allen belts) developed cataracts.
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  2124.    I have started writing man pages for some of my programs, directly in troff.
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  2125. I ended up in A&E several years ago, owing to getting extremely nauseous and passing out during retinal laser eye surgery. The pupil on that eye had been dilated with some drops. So what happens when an A&E doctor sees a patient with unequal pupils? They immediately suspect a head injury. So I got asked a few questions about where I thought I was. I think I got them right. Well, I’m here, aren’t I. It’s nice here. I wouldn’t want to leave.
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  2126. Ya just gotta tweak ya weltanschauung ta be more sympatico wid da zeitgeist, na’mean?
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  2127. 6:26 Not just an odd number, but a prime number: 7. One that cannot be evenly divided up into anything else! Before byte addressability became de rigueur , computers had word lengths like 24 bits, 36 bits, 60 bits -- all numbers with lots of integer divisors including powers of 2 and 3, even 5, so they could be divided up into equal-sized portions in many different ways. But with byte addressability, the basic unit is 8 bits, and the natural machine word length (so far) is 2, 4 or 8 times this. So the only factors you have are powers of 2, which limits the ways you can divide them up.
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  2128. Note that stdint.h defines types which are explicitly known to be 1, 2, 4, 8 bytes long.
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  2129. You say “interesting physical consideration”, I say “analog quality compromise”. Aren’t you glad all that has gone away with digital encoding?
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  2130. I had a German colleague many years ago who used to enjoy ”’Allo ’Allo” ...
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  2131. Yup ... that Wagner.
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  2132. The proportional-voting system in Germany, where every vote counts equally, was put in place precisely to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. It has worked so well, we copied it here in NZ. Perhaps it’s time for the US to give it a try?
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  2133. and you want to see how much space is being used just by the current source code, not including the version history. If you do du -ks .git . then it shows you the space used by the .git subdirectory, and then it subtracts that from the usage it shows for the “.” directory. Because it knows the earlier directory is contained within the later one!
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  2134. Actually, every computer is “quantum”. Consider that the behaviour of the transistor (charges tunnelling across an energy barrier, “holes” (missing electrons) behaving just like positively-charged electrons) can only be explained in terms of quantum theory.
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  2135. Do folks from your country and Jamaica ever get together and trade puns?
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  2136. The best way to double your productivity, regardless of what particular editors/IDEs/toolsets you use, is to learn to touch-type.
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  2137.  @philippusviridi6527  The gun nuts like to mention Illinois, they don’t like to mention Massachusetts and Hawaii, which also have sensible gun laws that work.
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  2138.  @mikapeltokorpi7671  Not sure why that’s relevant.
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  2139. People seem to be very afraid of the various forms of injection attacks. In fact, they are quite easy to avoid.
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  2140. And he has the patent to prove it!
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  2141. Jupyter is Open Source, VS Code is not. Also, the overhead of Jupyter is a tiny fraction of that of VS Code. It’s small enough I can leave Jupyter running on my machine all the time.
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  2142. The idea of tying the GUI into the OS kernel is one that belongs in a museum nowadays.
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  2143. Spoken like a true telephone engineer. A retired one.
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  2144. So who was the one who came up with the idea that 26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody?
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  2145. Try “ls -lA «dir»” to check that it really is empty.
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  2146. All kinds of shenanigans have gone on. Back when we in 🇳🇿 went into lockdown, a group chartered a flight to 🇨🇳 to get a shipment of PPE. They had to put armed guards on the shipment, to prevent agents from other countries from hijacking it. Guess which other country in particular?
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  2147. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  2148. One technique I have used involves asking awkward questions about obvious consequences of their beliefs, that they have difficulty answering. Basically it is doing what scientists do anyway, as part of their job, in finding testable consequences of their theories. Instead of telling them they’re wrong, try leading them to that conclusion themselves. It takes patience, though. Sometimes they find creative ways to dig themselves in deeper.
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  2149. The Blitter was fast, but limited. It couldn’t do rounded-corner rectangles. The Macintosh UI, for example, had rounded-corner windows and rounded-corner buttons. On the Mac, it was all done in software, which was slower but more flexible.
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  2150. 0:17 There was an HTTP/0.9, which left out some of the header structure. I think it was very quickly replaced with HTTP/1.0, which regularized the whole request/response structure.
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  2151. 3:11 The word that comes to mind is not “smoothie”, but “slurry”.
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  2152. It was a performance issue. Those complex instructions were too hard to make fast.
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  2153. Who said any of them are bad? Only you did.
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  2154. Fine. If you find a system made only out of small, single-function pieces, by all means stick to it. While the entire rest of the computing world continues to embrace Linux.
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  2155. “26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody.”
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  2156. 4:59 “By the Ethiopians ... with Portuguese assistance.” 7:44 “Selassie received backing from the United States.” Seems the “colonialists” are never far from the surface ...
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  2157. From the audience perspective “stage right” is called “house left” and “stage left” is “house right”, as I recall.
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  2158. The RetroBytes channel did a retrospective on ARCnet just a couple of months ago.
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  2159.  @mheermance  RISC was very much about turning traditional assumptions on their heads. That’s where a lot of speed came from.
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  2160. Lots more tropical fruits: starfruit, jackfruit, cempedak, papaya, rambutan, guava, mangosteen (jambu batu) as well as something called a “rose apple” (jambu air), durian (if you must) ...
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  2161. Having to go to 🇲🇽 for that ... eerily prescient.
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  2162. Many in the US did sympathize with Hitler. This included the US Ambassador to the UK, Joseph Kennedy. You know, the father of JFK, RFK etc.
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  2163. You’re assuming that 🇺🇸 is somehow superior to 🇬🇧 for having broken away from the latter. When you remember that the secession allowed 🇺🇸 to hang on to its slaves for over half a century longer than the 🇬🇧 empire, maybe you see things in a different light. But yes, that, too, is a parallel to how evolution really works.
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  2164. Let not the Stable Genius boast of the Stability of his Genius!
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  2165. 9:49 Basically, there are no “revisions” or “second editions” of RFCs. Instead, they get replaced with entirely new RFCs with different numbers.
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  2166. 6:25 Maybe he should up the ante a bit, and throw in some “whereas” and “notwithstanding”. Maybe even a ... gulp ... “heretofore”.
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  2167. 5:33 I believe there is a society which has the toast “To mathematics! And may it be of no damn use to anybody!” Of course, “pure” maths often turns out to have surprising applications...
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  2168. 22:38 You shouldn’t have bothered with functools.partial. Just do with_default_logging = with_logging(logger)
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  2169. 0:56 Just a note that bashrc is only automatically invoked by non-login shells, so it’s either-or: either the new shell will run the profile, or the rc, not both. I find this annoying, so the best thing perhaps is to have the profile do little or nothing apart from automatically sourcing the rc, so you get the same definitions available either way.
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  2170. There are quite a few other history substitutions, e.g. “!!” to substitute the last command “!«n»” to substitute command number «n» from your history “!«prefix»” to substitute the last command beginning with “«prefix»” “!?«substr»?” to substitute the last command containing “«substr»”.
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  2171. Remember Abu Ghraib?
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  2172. By coincidence, “Phosphorus” was one of the Greek names for Venus (“morning star”), the other name being “Hesperus” (“evening star”), depending on the time of day when it was visible. Not sure when they realized the two were one and the same ...
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  2173. XP was a total botchup of the original multiuser, multiarchitecture foundation of Windows NT. Think of why Vista had to add UAC, when NT was already supposed to have a proper system for protecting files and keeping processes contained—that whole mechanism had been compromised for the sake of producing a “consumer-level” OS.
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  2174. If morality comes from a god, do different gods define different moralities?
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  2175.  @robperlic1071  This is why we don’t accept the Bible as an accurate history of anything in particular.
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  2176. 5:05 Yes, but he’s got the police union covering his back. They will make sure he never suffers.
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  2177. 2:14 Yeah, but they might also have a gun. Hence the shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality.
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  2178. 6:52 No, ASCII 1 actually (the “SOH” character). Off-by-one error... I think a NUL (ASCII 0) is done with CTRL-SHIFT-@.
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  2179. 4:06 Gödel’s name sounds more like “guh-del” then “goo-del”.
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  2180. pid content tracker”. He wouldn’t trust his code to the elaborate conflict-resolution schemes that some people were coming up with .So Git provides the tools to narrow things down to just the relevant places needing fixing up, with a minimum of irrelevant detail, and leaves you to sort it out.
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  2181. That’s because it’s not a traditional Unix command. It’s part of the “util-linux” package, along with other useful things like hwclock, ionice, lscpu and lsmem, which are Linux-specific.
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  2182. How many shots did Eugene Goodman have to fire to catch those Trumper rioters? Not a single one.
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  2183. How about LBRY? Vimeo? Dailymotion?
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  2184. 8:07 Just checked the man page, and “+” means “greater than”, not “at least”. Similarly “-” means “less than”, not “at most”. Also k is kibibytes, not kilobytes, and M is mebibytes, not megabytes. And the sizes are rounded to the specified unit. Thus, “-10M” will only match files up to 9 × 1048576 = 9437184 bytes in size, not 10 × 1048576 - 1 = 10485759 bytes as you might have been expecting.
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  2185. 8:02 DBMSes themselves usually provide some kind of introspection facilities, though this varies a lot. For example, SQLite provides enough information that you should be able to programmatically derive the entire database schema without having to parse actual SQL, while MySQL/MariaDB is a bit more limited. The question is: do ORMs make use of this? Doesn’t seem like it.
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  2186. “Comments are disabled for this video” ... tells you everything you need to know about the content.
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  2187.  @mitchelvalentino1569  Gee, I wonder why ...
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  2188. The phrase is “deer caught in the headlights”.
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  2189. Fun fact: if you create a ~/.xsessionrc file, this completely overrides any choice of desktop environment you may try to make in a display manager login. And if you further make that ~/.xsessionrc file, and the home directory it’s in, non-writeable and non-owned by the user, then that provides a simple mechanism for creating a captive GUI account.
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  2190. FreeBSD are adopting the Linux Netlink API, though (RFC 3549).
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  2191. He and Zelenskyy didn’t really get along before. But since the invasion started, they’re all on the same side now.
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  2192. I would say, there doesn’t need to be. The only parts of VMS that users still care about would be DCL command procedures and user-mode code. You can dump all the super/exec/kernel-mode stuff, and implement the remaining needed APIs as an emulation layer on top of a modern Linux kernel. That would be the most cost-effective approach.
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  2193. I think it’s just the longest word he’s ever learned to pronounce. So if he doesn’t keep saying it, he will forget how.
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  2194. If you need fractions, try using fixed-point numbers (scaled integers). Can be fiddly to work with, but faster than floats.
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  2195. Except he hates the term “Open Source”. So that is not something he wants to be associated with.
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  2196. So fine. We have the trade deal. Shouldn’t the wall money already be coming in?
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  2197. The Mexicans were supposed to pay for it!
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  2198. They are endangered, because it’s becoming harder to find migrating trees.
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  2199. Somehow I don’t think his followers could competently manage an armed insurrection. Once the shooting gets under way, the first time they run out of ammo, they’ll run down to the local Walmarts to restock, only to find it closed (along with the rest of the shops) on account of the war ... and they won’t know what to do.
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  2200. He was told he was wrong, and he was given evidence he was wrong, but he refused to back down. That’s wilful.
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  2201. I’m not so sure. That AI only exists because of training sets. What happens when there are no more training sets?
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  2202. Republicans can abstain by saying “present”. That, too, could help push Jeffries over the threshold.
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  2203. Worth looking at Germany, where a proportional-representation system, where every vote counts equally, was brought in after World War II precisely to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. As a result, it now counts among the top countries in the world Democracy Index. Time for the US to give it a try?
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  2204. Not just one person, one vote, but every vote counts equally. Though that does tend to lead to coalition politics. But that need not be an obstacle to stable government, as examples like 🇩🇪 show.
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  2205. Funny how she was spoken of as “soft on crime” and “authoritarian” in the same breath.
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  2206. Is that a bad thing?
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  2207. But we keep getting told that no living thing can survive passage through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting through?
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  2208. When I first looked at PHP, I got the impression that its designer was trying to copy Perl, but didn’t actually understand what they were copying. (Why “$” on the front of variable names, but not on anything else?) Nowadays, it looks like PHP is trying to copy Python. But again, they still don’t understand what they are copying. So for example they try to have iterators, but they are awkward to use compared to Python iterators.
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  2209. Or you could line up your view first, then hit CTRL-ALT-NUM0 to align the camera to that view.
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  2210.  @ashleighsparkle8810  It kept us from suffering American-scale rates of deaths.
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  2211. 13:31 I’m impressed that you can continue to do screen captures while it’s playing content protected with WideVine. I thought that would be blocked.
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  2212. Worth contrasting the telephone system, based on 19th century technology where you have to remember someone’s telephone number (or maintain a directory on your phone), versus the Internet, developed in the 20th century, where the network itself takes care of finding the numbers for you, you just have to remember their names. The mobile phone in your pocket is such an advanced piece of technology, yet when you make a call or send an SMS to someone, it still falls back to this 19th-century way of finding them through the network--by a number instead of a name.
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  2213. “Transparency” would mean making the raw footage available to more than one independent investigator.
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  2214. I have used operator functions with functools.reduce(). Fun fact: reduce() was a built-in function in Python 2, demoted to being part of the functools module in Python 3.
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  2215. Does your idea of “individual rights” include the right to subject yourself to a dangerous infectious disease? OK, fine. Does your idea of “individual rights” include the right to subject others, who didn’t make that choice, to that same dangerous infectious disease? Not so fine.
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  2216. 6:00 It was going to run on a variety of platforms. But most of that was soon abandoned. Proprietary software finds it very difficult (and expensive) to be portable.
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  2217. 5:44 Emacs is able to use those keys without your having to disable their special tty meaning. I think it uses something called “raw” mode. Perhaps the vi developers should learn about this?
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  2218. “When will they care more about their children than their guns?”
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  2219. “Heated” ... heh. #SecondLawShoutout
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  2220.  @ImTouchkv2  Microsoft Office, just for example.
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  2221. @Josh Allen Which you don’t need Windows to run.
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  2222. “A speaker has been elected ... NOT!” “Well, one thing we certainly didn’t do just now was elect a speaker.” “And we just had another object lesson in how not to elect a speaker.” “If you think we just elected a speaker ... how can I say this ...”
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  2223. I think that’s a hazard of the traditional “parenthesis pileup” way of laying out LISP code. I would recommend avoiding that. Do it like this instead: (defun convert-to-region-codes (beg end) "converts alphabetic characters in the selection to “region indicator symbols”." (interactive "*r") (unless (use-region-p) (ding) (keyboard-quit) ) ; unless (let ( deactivate-mark (intext (delete-and-extract-region beg end)) c ) (dotimes (i (- end beg)) (setq c (elt intext i)) (cond ((and (>= c ?A) (<= c ?Z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?A) #x1F1E6)) ) ((and (>= c ?a) (<= c ?z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?a) #x1F1E6)) ) ) ; cond (insert-char c) ) ; dotimes ) ; let ) ; convert-to-region-codes
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  2224. Either get the vaccine or stay in quarantine. Those are your choices. You don’t have the choice to endanger others.
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  2225. Here in NZ we changed to a proportional-voting system in 1996. Before that, I used to live in a marginal electorate. That meant my vote counted for more than someone living in a “safe seat”. Now things are much more equal, since it is the nationwide party vote that determines how many seats each party gets in Parliament.
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  2226. The law does not define what is right and wrong. Rather, it is our sense of what is right and wrong that should inform the passage of laws. If a law is causing harm to society, then get rid of it. That applies to the 🇺🇸 Constitution.
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  2227. How about repurposing some well-worn slogans: “If abortion is criminalized, only criminals will have abortions.” “Abortions don’t kill people, people kill people.”
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  2228. 1:16 You could have scrolled that screen down just a bit, to give more content and less ambush ad.
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  2229. Pro world-leader tip: if you are trying to dissuade your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  2230. Not really worth mentioning proprietary languages.
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  2231. GMT is actually not well defined. If you look at the legal definition, it’s not clear whether they’re referring to UT1 or UTC. Since the two could differ by up to 0.9 seconds, you can see where a problem comes in.
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  2232. 7:50 It allows the shared library to be updated separately from your executable. For example, a newer version with newer features, bug fixes etc ... so long as it remains backward compatible, you don’t need to recompile or relink your executable to take advantage of it.
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  2233.  @misterdoctor9693  Re the musical equivalent of stubbing your toe ... how would you describe that David Bowie line “the-e-e dance floor”?
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  2234. A proper supercar, not a tractor.
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  2235. Is anybody still using Windows for serious work? Other than games?
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  2236.  @johnwellbelove148  None of which is relevant to the issue of IDEs and compilers that you initially raised. Whatever you are developing for, Linux is a more versatile development platform than Windows. And this scares Microsoft, which is why it is putting so much effort into WSL.
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  2237. Next, are you going to talk about FM? ;)
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  2238.  @bngr_bngr  Is there some kind of point-scoring system for who is allowed to call themselves a “Holocaust survivor”? He lost his grandparents and most of his extended family. How much more did he have to suffer?
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  2239. You keep saying “velocity” when you mean “speed”. Speed is a scalar, while velocity has a direction.
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  2240. Interestingly, it didn’t seem to rate a mention on Al Jazeera English, which we get on Freeview in NZ. They did note the death of SF/fantasy writer Ursula K Le Guin (several of whose books I have read), but the debut of a new spacefaring nation didn’t seem newsworthy enough. The only time they’ve mentioned NZ recently was when it rained heavily enough to cause flooding.
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  2241.  @danilooliveira6580  There’s another problem, and that is the latency. The probe isn’t going to delete data from its transmit buffers until it’s received an acknowledgement from here on Earth that that data has been successfully received. Multiply the time it takes for the data to cross the gap by the data rate, and you will see how large the transmit buffers are going to have to be.
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  2242. Yeah, 1932 would have been more like it.
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  2243. 4:19 “Longevity Commander” ... yummm. ;)
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  2244. I remember coming across a site which tried to give you access to a certain number of free articles per month. Of course they kept track of whether they’d seen you before by setting cookies on your browser. Which you could defeat by using private-browsing mode. Which they then tried to detect by noticing that things like the JavaScript local-storage API didn’t quite work the same in private-browsing mode. But, coincidentally (or not), there happens to be a Firefox addon that fakes out the local-storage API, to make it appear to be working as though in non-private-browsing mode.
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  2245.  @MegaLokopo  You were the one who brought it up. In any case, Windows 10 IoT Edition is irrelevant to the issue of a replaceable GUI layer.
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  2246.  @steven631764  What’s happening is Windows is bringing in less and less revenue, while the cost of maintaining its increasingly complex and buggy code keeps going up and up.
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  2247.  @MegaLokopo  I made a relevant comparison. You didn’t like that? Maybe you have some personal stake in Windows IoT, and it made you feel embarrassed? You know what you can do.
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  2248. When I heard “object with [some geometric shape] with strings dangling”, I immediately thought “kite”.
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  2249. Does she have a choice? ;)
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  2250. People in Moscow are certainly feeling a little nervous...
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  2251. Then the Reagan administration sold weapons to Iran to fund the Contras. Back in my day ...
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  2252. It has been done. There was a university in Paris that moved to using Krita for its arts courses. The open-source tools do exist, and have their own useful features. Like GIMP can deal natively with EXR files with deep pixels, without having to go through import/export steps and downsampling and all the rest of it. And Inkscape uses SVG as its native file format, that being the standard format for displaying vector graphics online. In fact, the entire VFX industry doesn’t seem to be making much use of Adobe products. Their machine installations are primarily running Linux nowadays, and Linux doesn’t run Adobe products.
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  2253. Phased arrays allow a spread-out collection of antennas to act like one big antenna. Radio astronomers also use the same idea ... spread out over a large fraction of the Earth’s surface (see “Square Kilometre Array”).
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  2254. Is “Chaitin” named for “Gregory Chaitin”, by any chance? I remember seeing a lecture he gave some time ago where he discussed his project of reworking physics to get rid of the real numbers, and only use computable ones.
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  2255.  @wellokayyes1266  “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution” -- TFG
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  2256.  @pranze3484  Now you are doing it too.
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  2257.  @pranze3484  Saying “you might as well throw the constitution” is not exactly showing respect for the Constitution, is it?
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  2258.  @lynk2975  That is from the original quote.
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  2259. That’s still true in the Free Software world.
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  2260. 14:33 The trouble with that technique is that it returns true even if the pulseaudio server is running for a different user.
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  2261. Our Luna can beat up your Pluto.
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  2262. “If I don’t steal your land, somebody else will.”
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  2263. 10:26 1989 was just about the “Big Bang” year for RISC. All the Unix workstation vendors, previously so fond of Motorola’s 68k architecture, were moving to new RISC-based designs around this time.
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  2264. 7:08 Ah, listen to the sound of those old single-density floppy drives. Much more musical than the “uh-uh-uh” of the double-density ones that replaced them the following year...
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  2265. For program-specific definitions, put them in a wrapper script.
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  2266. ALGOL-W was also known as “Wirth-Hoare ALGOL”. Think of it as a prototype of ideas that Wirth would later embody in Pascal.
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  2267. Russia’s sabre-rattling towards Japan ... all I have to say is “1905”.
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  2268. 9:18 “Social science” is a term used by hard scientists (like physicists) to make fun of those who want to call their field of endeavour “science”, but cannot measure up to basic scientific standards of repeatable, controlled experiments with measurable results. Social scientists like to plot data points on a graph, try to fit a curve through them, and then cut out points that don’t fit so well just because they’re “outliers”. In science, we call this “circular reasoning”.
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  2269. The essence of the fraud verdict hinges on the fact that he himself gave a high valuation to the banks and others for the purposes of loans, insurance etc, and a low valuation to the IRS for tax purposes. You can’t get a more clear-cut case of wrongdoing than that.
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  2270. UI fads come and go. For example, have you seen the new Microsoft 365 branding? Seems that is reintroducing gradients and shadows and the whole faux-3D thing. So will the actual look-and-feel of the software leave its “flat” look behind to follow suit? Or will there be this disconnect between the offscreen and the onscreen product experience? Microsoft’s Ribbon was already looking pretty dated, but this design churn will just add to the mess.
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  2271. That’s a good question, worthy of someone who cares about the Palestinians, and has no wish to exterminate them and steal their land, don’t you think?
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  2272. So, is the NAACP going to change its name?
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  2273. 4:06 In the 1970s and early 1980s, you had programmable calculators. All that went away with the coming of the PC. But now you have the odd situation where somebody has a powerful computer in front of them, and yet will still resort to a separate calculator device to work out some numbers.
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  2274. And the Asahi install has to leave 38GB free for macOS, otherwise the poor Apple OS is no longer able to update itself.
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  2275. I hear you have a wøndërful telephøne system.
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  2276. Think of it as Evolution’s attempt to make sense of the world around us. The beginnings of intelligence are in trying to spot the patterns that drive the world; Nature is powerful and yet hostile, full of forces that do wonderful things for us, or make our lives miserable, seemingly at a whim. So we started out by trying to anthropomorphize these forces, and seeing them as gods that need to be placated. I don’t see this as a problem with religion. The problem comes in when you start to see gods as moral forces, telling you what is right and wrong and how to live your life. That is where the seeds of religious intolerance come from. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” — Arthur C Clarke
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  2277. Ask her how come the Russians didn’t expose the hoax. Last time I asked about this, someone tried to suggest the whole Cold War was a fake. But being your mum is from Germany, she would know about the very real people who were shot and killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall, so I wonder what excuse she would offer.
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  2278.  @RCAvhstape  And the only way down from there is to conclude that everybody else in the universe is in on the conspiracy, except for you. When people dig in their heels, that’s how they dig themselves into a hole: a little bit at a time.
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  2279.  @brycemw  In other words, these clever CISC-isms are a complete waste of time. This is why we have RISC.
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  2280. Bitbucket started out as an online repo service only for Mercurial. It got forced into providing Git as an alternative, by popular demand. And then the popularity of Mercurial diminished to the point where it wasn’t worth supporting any more. So that is now gone.
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  2281. The USA must be the only country in the world where words like “progressive” and “liberal” seem to be treated as marks of shame.
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  2282. 0:51 That’s practically a cube!
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  2283. 12:45 Ward Christensen — created XMODEM, and it seems also the first BBS.
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  2284. Any love for “Thunderbird 5”? Yes, we had electricity back then, too.
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  2285. It wasn’t Apple’s fault for coming up with a situation that C cannot handle gracefully.
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  2286. Dang, beat me to it. So what do you think of these young whippersnappers, eh? They don’t know they’re born...
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  2287. Another thing that helps is getting a USB cable that only has the power wires connected.
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  2288. They like to say “only a theory” as though a theory is the same as a hypothesis. It’s not. Our “theory of evolution” is the scientific framework we construct to explain the empirical facts of biological evolution. Such as the fact that, while dinosaur remains are so pervasive that they are found on every continent, and prehistoric human ones similarly widespread on every continent but one, they never seem to have run into one another. Clearly the one had disappeared by the time the other came along.
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  2289. If we humans did not evolve from fish, then why would we have gills? (Yes, we do have gills, during part of our development.)
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  2290. As I recall, one reason why a lot of that simplicity had to go away was because shell scripts and subprocesses do not work well under Microsoft Windows. I think this was about the time Mozilla were looking to move to one of these newfangled distributed VCS things (likely they were using Subversion before). But one important criterion was that it had to work well under Windows. Sadly, that ruled out Git (at the time). So they went with Mercurial instead.
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  2291. Fight against whom?
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  2292. 24:24 Well, the bombshell PS/2 line would appear a few short months later. Or, it would turn out to be a bombshell for the market in some ways, less so in other ways.
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  2293. All these Rashisti look alike to me.
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  2294.  @skipfred  You mean special method names like _add_ or __getitem__? They allow custom operator overloads much more simply than C++ can manage. Even Java, which was supposed to be simpler than C++, cannot offer such a feature.
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  2295. Democracies must be secular. They have to look after the concerns of all their citizens, regardless of religion, ethnicity or whatever.
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  2296. The Russian military is already overstretched. They were supposed to keep the peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but they’ve had to neglect that in order to concentrate on Ukraine. Dealing with an internal rebellion will just weaken them further.
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  2297. 2:15 Originally, a “spline” was an actual rod made of some flexible material, that a draughtsperson would use to draw curves on paper with a pencil. Then the term was carried over to mathematical operations for doing the same sort of thing.
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  2298. 12:51 Kepler’s Third Law is just a restatement of the inverse-square law of the gravitational force.
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  2299. 1:20 No it isn’t -- only if the copies are unauthorized. This kind of fudging of the truth is typical of all the “piracy” hysteria.
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  2300. So, this is the “What, Me Worry?” dog ...
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  2301. ORMs are a waste of time. When they try to map more advanced DBMS features, they just end up creating a new syntax that is no simpler than the underlying SQL.
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  2302. So ... Lara Clips, my old nemesis! We meet again!
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  2303. Dijkstra called it “the language of tomorrow to solve the problems of yesterday”.
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  2304. Remember when TFG went up there and got laughed at? And was too thick to realize they were laughing at him, not with him?
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  2305. There’s supposed to be a limit of $250,000 on insurance of deposits, as I recall. There is some talk of that limit being lifted here.
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  2306.  @scottmanley  I sense another video coming on. ;)
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  2307. I heard “Seamus the Drinking-Gin”.
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  2308. Sociopaths have this uncanny ability to get ahead.
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  2309. 12:07 There’s 10 seconds of my life I’ll never have back ...
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  2310. I love the fact that even a legal firm is finding Trump’s lies too much to stomach https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/11/13/law-firm-withdraws-from-trump-election-suit-in , and is withdrawing from work for him.
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  2311. Because Socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works.
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  2312.  @generallyunimportant  I made it with uuidgen(1).
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  2313. Looks like Uncle Rupie’s power is weakening, even in 🇦🇺. He wasn’t able to stop Albanese from being elected, was he? We in 🇳🇿 continue to be grateful he was never able to establish a foothold here.
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  2314. And yet Russia still cannot win this war.
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  2315. 19:37 These flashy effects became the hallmark of the amateur video maker. Professionals would essentially never use them.
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  2316. BeOS ties the GUI into the OS kernel, which is not something you expect in a modern platform.
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  2317. That $750 tax bill .. either it’s tax fraud ... or maybe he’s not such a good businessman as he claims.
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  2318.  @flyball1788  You don’t just want to be able to diff(1) them you also want to be able to patch(1) them and be able to do merges on them. If you have a tool that can convert them to/from a text format, why not store that text format in the repo, and convert it to binary as part of the build process?
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  2319. +Ike Okereke “Democracies” don’t have an “Electoral College”.
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  2320.  @HighestRank  Current macOS/OS X is officially “Unix”. Apple are a licensee of the trademark.
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  2321. If you want to know what the future will be like, imagine Donald Trump as President, for ever ... and ever.
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  2322. Polio is a bit tricky, because they have to switch to a different vaccine as the cases dwindle. And of course, the whole effort was dealt a major damaging blow when the CIA ran that fake “vaccination” operation to get hold of DNA from Osama Bin Laden’s relatives. The mistrust of polio vaccination efforts remains deep-rooted in Pakistan to this day.
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  2323.  @jamesf791  It’s stationed in space, isn’t it? And it doesn’t go anywhere.
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  2324.  @jamesf791  Only if you don’t change them!
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  2325. Who says open source cannot be “commercial”? Free software means “free of restrictions”, you can still make money from it.
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  2326. ImageMagick and command-line tools in general are all about getting the computer to perform repetitive tasks, so you don’t have to.
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  2327. 1:01 TOO LATE! Gentoo now does systemd!
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  2328. Sometimes these shows are repeated, except that the “Random Access” news section gets replaced.
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  2329. 6:39: So what about noon and midight--are they “AM” or “PM”? The answer is “neither”. Noon is “12 M”, the M standing for “meridiem”, of course. Midnight, I’m not so sure... This is why I prefer 24-hour numbering: then you know “12:00” means noon, and nothing else. Midnight can be either “00:00” or “24:00”, depending on whether you are referencing it to the start of the day, or the end of it. Either way, there is no ambiguity about what you mean.
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  2330. @Knobcore Considering I said “hardware limitations”, not “software” ...
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  2331. I recall Bill Atkinson saying he had an agreement with Apple that, if it ever stopped offering HyperCard, the rights would revert back to him. Because some people were nervous right from the beginning about committing resources to it, if Apple should decide to give up and discontinue it. I wonder what happened with that agreement ...
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  2332. 23:53 parser generators are not something we use much nowadays. LR(k) parsers are all very interesting, but we find it simplest to stick to grammars that can be handled with an LL(1) parser. More than that, we find that hand-coded parsers and lexical analyzers are faster than automatically-generated ones. Since our compilers spend a lot of time in this code, we find it worthwhile to avoid the automatic tools for creating it.
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  2333. One bright spot is, there aren’t actually enough right-wingers sufficiently dedicated to watch both Fox News and this lot. So they will split the ratings between them, and hurt the profits of both.
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  2334. It is also possible to stimulate the nerves into seeing colour intensities that do not correspond to any real light input.
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  2335. For some reason I want to read “ß” with that really bad Daffy Duck-style lisp. As in: “You’re deßßßßpicable!”
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  2336. “WPF In C# 2010” ... I sincerely hope that is not being used much any more ...
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  2337. 6:08: I’ve been reading some NASA docs on experiments with artificial gravity. The conclusion seems to be that anything below about 0.3g is not perceived as “gravity” as such. This means lunar gravity is below the threshold. This is why the Apollo 11 LM crew didn’t notice the 4° slant at which they had landed. It just didn’t bother them.
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  2338. Yeah, bring back ESDI, AGP, ST506, ST412, and the S-100 bus while you’re at it!
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  2339. 8:11 Why is vaccination not a matter for individual choice? Because vaccines do not protect individuals so much as they protect society as a whole. Their whole point is to make it hard for these diseases to take hold and spread. The vaccination rate does not need to hit 100% in order for this effect to work. Depending on the disease, the proportion of vaccinated people can be a little bit lower. In this situation, those who are unvaccinated are still protected by being surrounded by people who are. The unvaccinated ones are essentially freeloaders. But if the proportion of vaccinated people drops too low, then the whole of society is put at risk.
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  2340. What do you call it when, to prop up a failing argument, you have to bring in more and more unsubstantiated assumptions? In science, we call it “circular reasoning”.
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  2341. If it really were only 1%, Microsoft would not be working so feverishly to add a Linux interface to Windows.
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  2342. Some supers today use programmable GPUs, too. How high do you think your gaming rig would score on a list of the world's top supers https://www.top500.org/ ? Wouldn’t make it anywhere near the list...
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  2343. 0:34 Is systemd monolithic? Or is it made up of pieces you can choose to use or not? Let us hear from someone who has actually used it...
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  2344. Government regulation with no due process?
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  2345.  @busimagen  Figured out what “whoosh” means, yet?
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  2346. One thing I noticed is that youtube-dl has no option to download just part of a video. However, the command “youtube-dl -g” shows you the full download URLs. With this, I can use ffmpeg to download any selected part of the streams, by specifying the start time and duration. Don’t forget “-c copy” to copy the streams to the output file without trying to re-encode them!
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  2347. A representative of the most powerful military force in the world, armed with the most expensive state-of-the-art classified sensory equipment ... and they are baffled by a few lights in the sky.
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  2348.  @blackout.X  How did he know it was a “force field”? Did he take any mass readings?
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  2349. 13:59 “Environment map” -- term used but not explained. Should perhaps have said “picture of the surroundings”.
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  2350. Yes, worth talking about Lanczos. Also worth talking about the general principle of image/signal reconstruction using the sinc function, because all resampling techniques are basically shortcuts to avoid the high computational expense of sinc.
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  2351.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Logrotate is a clumsy fudge. Any seasoned sysadmin would have encountered this: the customer will report that a problem happened at a particular time in their timezone. This might not be the same as your timezone. And the timezone in which the server is located is the least important of all. So it’s nice to be able to match up events to the time that the customer reported.
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  2352. But can you be sure it is the true Satan? People talk about true gods and false gods, can you have true satans and false satans as well?
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  2353. Think of education as an investment in the future.
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  2354. 8:05 Rendering is a classic application that runs more efficiently and robustly on Linux.
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  2355.  @ExplainingComputers  Maybe it’s time you moved away from LightWave.
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  2356. “We” presumably meaning TempleOS users ... all two of them?
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  2357. Microsoft Office macros are a well-known security risk. Nobody should be blindly accepting them from unknown sources.
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  2358. 4:23 That’s what a compiler for a high-level language does. The original name for this concept, from the 1950s, was “automatic programming”. At that time, the high-level language source was not considered the “program”: that name was reserved for the actual machine code that the computer could interpret.
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  2359. 9:01 Hang on, though. That means the Universe we actually measure can only be assigned an energy proportional to the probability of its occurrence. Which is vanishingly small. And which is not conserved, because it decreases by some huge factor every time there is another branching point. So the only “energy” being conserved would be “total energy of all the Universes”, which is something we can never measure, and therefore seems meaningless.
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  2360. I think General John Kelly is the last remnant of adult supervision in the White House now. Once he goes, it’s going to be daily food fights...
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  2361. I wonder, though: some aspects of the tools can’t possibly make sense to someone who doesn’t appreciate the mathematical structures involved. Like the fact that the Git version-control system structures the commit history as a directed acyclic graph.
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  2362.  @kc9scott  This is why I have an Emacs window always open. The scratch buffer is a handy place to compose long command lines before turning them loose on bash.
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  2363. 7:35 It was Arthur C Clarke who first pointed out the usefulness of goestationary orbits.
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  2364.  @allthingsbing1295  He was also a science writer, and an actual engineer during World War II (worked on radar).
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  2365. I wish the ALGOL line had been more influential. In particular, it introduced the “:=” operator for assignment, leaving “=” with its mathematical meaning of equality comparison. Whereas every language in current use has adopted the C convention of “=” for assignment, and this peculiar “==” thing for equality comparison. So tell me, if “==” is for equality, why is the inequality operator not “!==”?
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  2366. Absolutely. “man” is usually my first resort when trying to figure out a new or unfamiliar command.
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  2367. “Quantum” is like magic pixie dust you can sprinkle on anything to make it sound better. In my specialty, Comp Sci, there is all too much of this. Just for fun, go look up the “wave function collapse” algorithm for creating nondeterministic patterns/textures from simple elements. There’s nothing "wave function” about it: if you want to use analogies with physical concepts, more appropriate ones would be “phase change” and “symmetry breaking”.
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  2368. 7:30 Back when reading and writing were first invented, no doubt there were similar discussions about the usefulness of that. Initially it was a specialist field in its own right (you learned to be qualified as a “scribe”). Then it became a universal skill. That was the first “information technology” -- it gave us the ability to keep track of large amounts of information, beyond the quantities we could keep in our heads. Computing is the second “information technology” -- it gives us the ability to process large amounts of information, beyond the capabilities built into our heads.
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  2369. In the analog realm, you have this thing called “generation loss”, where the quality degrades through repeated copying and processing. A similar thing happens even in the digital world, though to a lesser extent, because while straight copying is effectively 100% perfect, actual processing and filtering involves finite-precision computer arithmetic, which is subject to rounding errors. So yes, it helps to start with a higher-quality set of raw samples, to give yourself more headroom to play around.
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  2370. Because GUI file managers are all different, whereas du will always work the same.
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  2371. We already have thousands. Unless you meant natural moons.
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  2372.  @KateBond642  Republicans have this weird idea that the rest of the world is in deep pain and suffering because it’s not the USA.
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  2373. Baha’iism came later, though, didn’t it. As did Mormonism.
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  2374. I keep envisioning the downvoters with bloodstains on their hands.
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  2375. The Python REPL may be useful for trying out one or two lines at a time, but beyond that it gets unwieldy. A nicer “scratchpad” that gives you a Mathematica-style notebook interface is Jupyter https://jupyter.org/ . Each notebook cell can contain any number of lines of code (e.g. complete function/class definitions) and can be individually executed, which makes it easy to edit things and try again. Output from a cell can be text, graphics, audio or even video. This was originally developed just for Python (under the name “IPython”), but now you can use it for other languages as well.
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  2376. There are ways to hide VPN connections. The only way to block them completely is to block all connections completely.
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  2377. Python+Jupyter+NumPy+SciPy+Matplotlib gives you a few more possibilities.
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  2378. 11:39 That’s great, but you’ve completely defeated the point of multithreading in this example. Now only one thread is computing at a time.
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  2379. What about chimneys reaching into the stratosphere, to break through the inversion layer? The convection could even be used to generate energy.
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  2380. Rust is already infiltrating the Linux kernel, arguably the most successful and productive software project of all time.
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  2381. 0:19 “These two things should not be lumped together.” They were not. The Ukraine appropriation was taken out, just for the sake of getting this passed. And he is hopping mad at that.
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  2382.  @wheezvonklaw284  Well, he got his wish.
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  2383. They’re busy forgetting that they were ever Trump supporters.
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  2384. Putin needs to do to Prigozhin what Khrushchev did to Beria.
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  2385.  @mr.bigfacecat4980  Nicotine is addictive--one of the most addictive substances on Earth. Do you call cigarettes “poison” and ban them as well?
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  2386.  @LyubomirIko  is that a yes or a no?
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  2387.  @LyubomirIko  Science is also about not accepting mumbo-jumbo as an answer.
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  2388. So your answer is “yes”, that the universe is too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  2389. Probably the most interesting guy ever to be named Claude. ;)
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  2390.  @greglinwood  You need to do a YouTube video on it.
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  2391. Yeah, the original version of that skit had the characters named “Bob” and “Robert”, but they thought it was less confusing this way.
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  2392. Remember that JavaScript tries to hide the distinction between “integer” and “floating-point”, calling both just “number”. It would be a logical consequence of this to not overflow values that don’t fit within some limited integer range, if your intention is to hide the fact from your users that there are even such things as integers.
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  2393. What really baffles me, watching/hearing/reading records of the Apollo missions, is how they randomly switch between different units, such as mph versus knots versus miles per second. Couldn’t they at least forego the nautical miles and stick to statute miles?
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  2394. In the movies, they often get away with that by bribing the guards.
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  2395. 16:16 I had a DVD-HDD recorder. It could play/record DVDs and also had a hard drive. This way, I could collect a whole set of episodes of a series, go through them, snipping out the ads, then burn the completed collection to a disc (or set of discs). Much tidier than trying to find free space somewhere on a random collection of discs (or tapes, for those who remember VHS).
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  2396. If Islam came from Christianity, why is there still Christianity?
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  2397. On Linux you have the EGD (Entropy Gathering Daemon), which collects bits from sources which are supposed to be truly random. The trouble is, while quantum theory says certain phenomena are truly random, you can never quite prove that your instrument for collecting this randomness is working correctly.
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  2398. 6:51 He doesn’t need reading glasses. Has no-one noticed?!?
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  2399. C has no “smart pointers”, but you can manage memory more reliably using structured programming and avoiding gotos. https://github.com/ldo/a_structured_discipline_of_programming
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  2400. They went after Google for using open-source Java.
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  2401. Is that true in 🇺🇸? Countries with decent healthcare offer longer life expectancies than that.
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  2402.  @bee5440  So where are the cattle?
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  2403. A standard has to be open, so that others can copy it. The Amiga hardware took a giant leap forward, then stood still as others caught up, and then overtook it. It never had a good software layer, like the Macintosh, that was capable of adapting to newer hardware.
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  2404. Perhaps that’s why Trump hated him.
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  2405.  @jonasp6043  Trump is gone, but his followers -- the whole Fox News crowd -- are still active, still trying to tear Fauci and the other scientists down, here and elsewhere.
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  2406. How would you do it? With text files, you can narrow it down to lines which have changed, and show those lines to a human user. What would the equivalent be for binary files?
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  2407. Superscalar architecture: multiple instructions per clock cycle.
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  2408.  @keenanschouten2582  Fire extinguishers extinguish fires, they don’t create them. Unlike guns.
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  2409. And for their next trick,  @keenanschouten2582  is going to argue that gasoline makes a very effective fire extinguisher.
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  2410. As the saying goes: “Playmobil Or It Didn’t Happen”.
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  2411. Things to consider: * There is a book called JavaScript: The Good Parts . There is no book called PHP: The Good Parts . * PHP has a “===” operator (and so does JavaScript). Python doesn’t have one, doesn’t need one. * PHP has no module system. You have to “include” source files, so everything gets defined in a common namespace. Python has no “include”; instead you “import” separate modules, and their contents stay in their own namespaces. Even JavaScript has figured out modules now.
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  2412. And it was only NTSC analog video editing. It couldn’t cope with PAL, for example. And the digital transition pretty much left it behind.
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  2413. True, this is an omission in his video. Quantization artifacts are more prominent for simple tones than for complex mixtures of sound. Dithering helps, because the random-sounding noise is less noticeable than repeating distortion.
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  2414. The fact that variables are global by default is a definite misfeature. Even JavaScript fixes that in “strict” mode. I think Perl has a strict mode too, but I don’t really use it any more, so I can’t be bothered to find out. Trivia question: before Perl had “my”, it had “local”. Why wasn’t that good enough? Why was “my” added?
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  2415.  @zxuiji  The problem with locking is it slows down development and makes things awkward, like when you find that somebody has locked something they didn’t need to, and you have to ask them to unlock it so you can work on it. That’s why locking was done away with. That’s why productivity is so much greater with modern VCSes than those older, locking-based ones.
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  2416. Let every vote count equally? Proportional representation?
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  2417. 19:41 Me too, matey.
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  2418. Been using it for years.
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  2419. 6:49 Actually, computers have unit-calculation apps available -- at least in all the self-respecting OSes -- that can cope with such common tasks. Such as this one https://www.gnu.org/software/units/ .
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  2420. It would compile OK, it just wouldn’t run. It works in Python versions 3.9 or later (just tested).
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  2421. The reality of US politics is everything centres around an either/or choice. In real democracies, you have a choice of more than 2 parties to vote for. For example, here in NZ we currently have 5 parties in Parliament, 3 of which are actually part of the Government.
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  2422. My office has always been Windows-free, since I bought my first computer in about 1991.
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  2423. Utterly pointless.
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  2424. 11:40 Apt new verb: “I Giuliani’d myself.”
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  2425. Wonder where China is getting all that money from ...
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  2426.  @stand_alone_complex5620  Why do they keep giving their money to China?
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  2427. IBM has also been losing money for years, as its mainframe business is just about dead and its consulting business is circling the plughole. And they are spending so much on quantum computing. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  2428. Here in 🇳🇿 we mainly use the US keyboard. But on Linux I can define a Compose key, which gives me access to hundreds of extra characters via mnemonic multi-key sequences. E.g. compose-lessthan-doublequote and compose-greaterthan-double quote for “ and ” characters, compose-l-slash for £, compose-slash-equals for ≠ and so on.
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  2429. 5:33 After he said at 2:38 that such cutting and rejoining was something that “mathematicians would never do” ...
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  2430. How is that supposed to rhyme, though?
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  2431. Because it covers less than 12 facets!?
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  2432. But aren’t “hear no evil” and “see no evil” also supposed to go with “speak no evil”?
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  2433.  @badbiker666  I’m told that all nouns are capitalized in German.
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  2434. Marketing reasons. Back around Windows NT 3.51 I think it was, somebody discovered that a “Workstation” installation could have “Server” features enabled just by editing a Registry key. I’m sure Microsoft was determined that that would never happen again.
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  2435. 1:16 Unquoted brackets!
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  2436. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  2437. 3:20 Yes, there was an internal 64KiB ROM, which included much of the OS. But the boot disk provided patches and fixes to this, as well as localized system messages that were not built into the ROM.
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  2438. 7:56 Just to point out, the late, great Jacob Bronowski had to speak all his lines without a teleprompter. Yeah, go and watch that classic 1971 doco The Ascent Of Man again. And admire his brilliance and erudition. And ability to explain things simply. And being on first-name terms with several members of the Manhattan Project ... ummm, where was I?
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  2439. 3:10 You did say “number”, not “integer”, though.
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  2440. Why do you need the word “call”? Why not just have that line as addition(sum, 1, 2) as in other languages? Because there are no reserved words in FORTRAN!
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  2441. 9:58 Or rather, for McConnell to refuse to admit any of the testimony or evidence into the hearing.
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  2442. The trick with Emacs is to have it always running, and use emacsclient to tell it to open files for editing. In my ~/.bashrc I have the line alias e='emacsclient -n' Then in any terminal window, I just have to type e «filename» to open that file in my Emacs session.
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  2443. If he thought he won, then why does he think he can run again?
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  2444. 7:10 If you want to use regexes to match file names, you can do so with the “find” command. That’s a very useful command, by the way; worth doing an episode on, I think.
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  2445. If using PHP is like having a tooth pulled without anaesthetic, then using a JavaScript framework is like having a tooth pulled without anaesthetic, and having a leg broken at the same time.
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  2446. The power that online social networks have is too much to leave unregulated in private hands.
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  2447. Every sport is always about artificial limitations to stop one team from permanently wiping out the competition.
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  2448. Actually, it was the Arabs that kept learning alive during the Dark Ages in the Christian world. You know, back when Christians were still burning people at the stake for trying to claim that the Earth was not the centre of the Universe?
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  2449. Maybe try a wired connection next time. Less prone to RF interference, you know?
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  2450.  @2011blueman  Testing is when you make progress from both launches that explode and ones that don’t.
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  2451. 6:40 Netware Lite ... at this point I don’t think Microsoft Windows had built-in peer-to-peer file sharing. Apple’s System 7 (introduced earlier this same year) did.
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  2452. Thank you, Scott. Question: does a very old comet, which has lost all its volatiles, perhaps from passing too close to stars, look like an asteroid?
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  2453. But he is required by law to have an ADS-B transponder on his aircraft. And the tracking information recorded from that is public, again by law.
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  2454. Comprehension problems or gullibility? Possibly both.
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  2455. People think Emacs is old, but they forget that it was built by a whole bunch of smart hackers who lived and breathed coding, knew what they were doing, and were not beholden to marketing managers at any company. For example, they used an advanced programming language (LISP), which can still scare the pants off the Java/C♯/PHP crowd today. Does the automation language in your favourite editor understand closures and lexical binding? (Interestingly, the sort of concepts discussed in this very video.)
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  2456. lsblk is I think Linux-specific, while df is a more traditional command which should be available on, for example, the BSDs. They output different info: df will only show mounted volumes, while lsblk can show all your block devices, mounted or not.
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  2457. Mexico has two problems: the USA and the USA. It is the USA that is the source of all this money funding the drug cartels. And it also the USA that is the source of all the guns they use to fight off law enforcement. Addressing just one side of the problem isn’t going to solve it. You need to fix both sides.
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  2458. This guy just oozes integrity from every pore.
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  2459. grep is useful, but I never bothered with awk. I learned Perl first, and that does everything that awk can do, just as concisely, and more.
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  2460. The Wokey-Blokey.
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  2461. But the only things packaged up in these snaps is major apps already available in distros anyway.
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  2462. 3:24 I think plumbers use PTFE as a tape to seal joints nicely.
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  2463. Why are the scoping rules so arbitrary and capricious? Consider $var = «val»; is scoped to the current function body, but define('notvar', «val»); is always global scope, even if it occurs in a function body! Even stranger, function example_init() { class MyClass { ... } /*MyClass*/; } /*example_init*/ defines MyClass globally too! And I thought that “using” clauses is just PHP’s way of implementing lexical binding. But it turns out they’re not. Even JavaScript can figure that out.
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  2464. 1:01 “You ass, eh! You ass, eh! You ass, eh!"
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  2465. 1:44 Projectile baptism! What next ... projectile suckling?
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  2466. @Live united Die united The firearm nuts are on his side, though.
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  2467. I once tried to use the “Reflection” API in Java. It’s a whole bunch of classes and methods, with various complicated calling sequences to make use of them (because functions and classes are not first-class objects). In Python, the equivalent is maybe half-a-dozen built-in functions, and that’s it.
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  2468. The whole point of the automatic memory management was supposedly to do away with memory leaks. Yet, when I started learning Android, I found you still had to watch out for memory leaks!
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  2469. Why does he need to run? Don’t his followers believe he is still the President anyway?
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  2470. 10:28 You can also enable more than one of those selection types at once. The effect can be quite useful.
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  2471. The context for that comment was I think the phenomenon that people who have just discovered regexes tend to (over)use them for everything. One horrendous example was a regex for parsing e-mail addresses.
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  2472. Reminds me of an old lawyer saying: “if the law is against you, argue the facts; if the facts are against you, argue the law; and if both are against you, bang the table”. Guess which one Mr “Four Seasons” Man is doing ...
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  2473.  Paolo G  Aye, the old saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” works in both directions. ;)
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  2474. Whatever god he worshipped had no problem with committing crimes against humanity like slavery.
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  2475. 5:33 Why is the π struggling to play a YouTube stream? Seems like it is not engaging the hardware h.264 decode. Or maybe it is using too much CPU somewhere else in the pipeline.
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  2476. Also, we normally pronounce SCO as though it were a word: “sco”.
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  2477. People are getting de-interested in that kind of distinction ...
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  2478. There have been Windows source leaks in the past. The code is not pretty to look at ...
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  2479. I’m sure his supporters will see to it that history is appropriately rewritten: “something something Deep State something something Fake News something something Never Trumpers something something ... #ButButHillary!”
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  2480. Trivia question: in what base does “9 × 6 = 42” come out correct?
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  2481. 1:43 You’ve introduced the term “clusters” without explaining what they are.
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  2482. Wonder why Trump didn’t do this to begin with, instead of wasting so much time on that Liberal bastion called Twitter? Because, let’s face it, a Conservative-based social network was, and still is, a poor second choice.
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  2483. Those who remember BASIC also remember the immediacy of being able to type a statement and have it executed right away, versus sticking a line number in front of it to add it to the in-memory program. That was very convenient for experimenting, and for developing a program incrementally. You can do something analogous, I would say nicer, with Jupyter. You can type any number of lines of code (in Python or other supported languages) in a cell, and execute that cell with shift-enter. And so you can incrementally build up your code across multiple cells. And there is never a need to do the equivalent of a SAVE command, because the notebook system is regularly autosaving for you.
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  2484. Or maybe it should be “Bilge E Gates”.
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  2485. Remember what John Kerry said, when he was Obama’s Secretary of State: if you have one state, it can either be a democratic state, or it can be a Jewish state, but it cannot be both. He also said it could never be at peace, but I think if it was democratic, that could be done. I would say, in general, you cannot have a democratic state founded on anything other than secular values.
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  2486. The proportional-voting system put in place in 🇩🇪 after WWII was designed to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. As one of the Occupying Powers, the US had to sign off on that. It was such a good system, we in 🇳🇿 copied it. Don’t you think it’s worth the 🇺🇸 giving it a try?
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  2487. Sketchup seems to be in decline these days. Avoid.
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  2488. 3:37 Telling a creature with no lips to go suck something is so ... beakist!
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  2489. 8:31 Here https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/30/key-fact-checks-from-the-first-presidential-debate is one summary of fact checks from the debate. The only relevant instances of voting fraud were actually votes for Democrats being changed to Republican.
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  2490.  @Natashahoneypot  Ah, the old jazz cabbage ...
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  2491.  @hyperduality2838  So instances of non-duality--the violation of the duality principle--exist?
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  2492.  @hyperduality2838  Any example of non-duality would be a violation of the principle of duality. But if there are no examples of such, then there can be no principle of non-duality, can there?
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  2493.  @hyperduality2838  If there are no instances of non-duality, then there can be no principle of non-duality, can there? In which case, the principle of duality has no dual. QED.
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  2494.  @lucjannastalek9978  There is no “conservation of torque”. Otherwise levers and gearboxes wouldn’t work.
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  2495.  @terryturner3050  And a circular argument isn’t an argument. Those “weak minded people” were supposed to be on Trump’s side!
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  2496. 7:21 fsck has nothing to do with checking for bad blocks. That’s only a filesystem consistency check. fsck still exists, though it needs to run less often now that journalling has become commonplace.
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  2497.  @jimuicker4731  There are countries where proportional representation seems to work well (e.g. Germany, NZ, no doubt other European countries), and ones that seem to have trouble (Italy, Israel). All I can say is, learn what to do from the good ones, what not to do from the bad ones!
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  2498. He’s become like the tech world’s equivalent of D∗∗∗∗d T∗∗∗p.
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  2499. Worth comparing this interview to his one with Erin Burnett. Erin at least seemed to have understood more of the basic facts about the asteroid. Maybe she did some science in school?
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  2500. 24:11 I knew it would get mentioned at some point.
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  2501. He’s just a numberizer and a philnumberer.
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  2502.  @killaken2000  fontfonfig is moving away from that, though.
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  2503. 5:20 Doesn’t matter whether the child does an exec(2) call or not. It still remains a child of its parent.
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  2504. Pro world-leader tip: if you are trying to dissuade your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  2505. Hmm, makes sense that spark plugs wouldn’t work for RP-1, given that it is kerosene, which is thicker than diesel, which doesn’t light well with spark plugs either.
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  2506.  @kahlzun  Nobody is quite sure. GMT could be UT1, or it could be UTC. That’s why we don’t use GMT any more.
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  2507. YouTube goes up to 4K, 60fps, all the trimmins’. How high does your TV go?
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  2508. “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  2509. That means having to use Windows, though.
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  2510. There is another problem with JPEG, and that is if you push the compression too hard even on images without sharp edges in them, it ends up looking blocky. There is another compression technique, known as “JPEG-2000”, that uses wavelets instead of DCT. Here when you push things too hard, it gets fuzzy rather than blocky, which many people feel is less objectionable.
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  2511. This Chip Chapman is no chump, chirping cheaply to no point: he’s a chipper chap, truly a champ whom you should listen to chop-chop!
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  2512. Can’t think of any important open-source contributions that they have made. Anybody?
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  2513. Microsoft used to be very different. I have a book called The Microsoft Way , written in 1996 by Randall E Stross, who was a trained historian. Somehow Microsoft gave him free reign to wander about the company with a “No Escort Required” ID badge, and talk to whomever he wanted, and then publish the results without getting their OK on anything he wrote. Back then, the company was big, but it still had the hunger of a small company. Stross describes how the entire Windows code base would be rebuilt every night. And if the build aborted due to some bug, the developer who caused that bug would fix it pronto, before the next night’s build. The company is not like that today. Nowadays, it can take a year or more for a new feature request to bubble up from the developer who proposes it, to the higher levels of management to approve it, and then back down to the build team to include the code.
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  2514. Some countries do this already.
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  2515.  @ekki1993  Are numbers only one fiction? Or are they more than one? In other words, which “fictitious” number describes the reality of what you claim?
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  2516.  @ekki1993  “Literal wooden chair” is just another concept, though.
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  2517.  @ekki1993  But that’s just your concept.
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  2518.  @ekki1993  “Obtuseness” is just an other concept, though.
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  2519.  @ekki1993  It means the concepts in your discussion are just fiction.
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  2520.  @ekki1993  You were the one trying to claim numbers were fictitious; you tell me.
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  2521.  @ekki1993  “If you go too far into their definitions you'll find nonsense, not because the universe is intrinsically nonsensical (it may be, but for other reasons), but because your initial axioms made that nonsensical behaviour appear.” Does that apply to the axioms of your argument as well?
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  2522.  @skyjack1  Reductio ad absurdum -- if the assumption someone is making leads to a contradiction, that must mean the assumption is wrong.
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  2523.  @nadarith1044  So if you cannot find something in reality that intrinsically represents the reality of reality, then does that mean reality is not real?
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  2524. Vox Boti, Vox Dei.
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  2525. 2:14 “Is he out of his mind?” 2:19 “Yes, he is.”
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  2526. Do they all have accounts on Pravda Social? (Fun fact: “Pravda” means “Truth” in Russian.)
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  2527. Remember that teacher who was shot by a six-year-old? What was she supposed to do--shoot back? The idea that schools should be run like high-security military installations is just ... crazy.
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  2528. Dare I say, that’s a sign of competent Government?
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  2529. I remember reading about a study some years back that said the wear and tear on roads was proportional to the sixth power of the axle loading. So a big truck with, say, twice the weight on each axle compared to a passenger car, would be doing 64 times the damage to the road.
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  2530. I expect you charge suitably eye-watering sums to make up for such short-sightedness ... ;)
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  2531. Their journalistic side does apparently have some semblance of integrity (e.g. the Chris Wallace interview of Trump). It’s their prime-time pundits you have to watch out for. Remember, it was Fox News who first predicted that Arizona would go for Biden.
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  2532. Russia doesn’t have enough troops to take Kiev, and they’re having trouble getting into position close enough to Odesa, either. Mariupol is going to have to be taken street by street, house by house, with no quarter given. It’s going to be a race between the last inch of ground taken, or a mutiny from Putin’s exhausted and demoralized troops before then.
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  2533. ... cigarette holders might help?
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  2534. 3:41 Remember that modern CPUs have a lot of power-saving features. So a more highly-loaded CPU is going to consume more power than a less-loaded one, and this will translate into electricity bills, for example. So it is not necessarily the case that an unused CPU is a wasted CPU.
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  2535. A better answer would be to ask “what exactly is using all the CPU?” and use tools like top to answer that question. That will tell you whether the load makes sense for the client’s usage, or not.
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  2536. 1:36 The name is Mango, but the colour is passionfruit.
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  2537. Constructing entities which are difficult or impossible to detect seems to be a general characteristic of religion.
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  2538. What if you wrote it this way: “bi😤tch”.
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  2539. “The tyranny of the equals sign = one of physics’ biggest problems” Get rid of it, and “The tyranny of the equals sign ≠ one of physics’ biggest problems” Problem solved.
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  2540.  @Tod_oMal  So what would you call it when it is a “true need of social justice”?
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  2541. Just to add to the fun, one of Nigeria’s states is called “Niger”.
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  2542. 19:49 Correct layout of mathematical equations is a solved problem, surely. Consider that even HTML-based Jupyter notebooks can include correctly-rendered maths formulas, thanks to MathJax.
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  2543.  @RCAvhstape  Those flat-panel screens were just rear-projection screens. They were all fixed in place.
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  2544. I thought there’s a clause in the 🇺🇸 Constitution against the use of honorific titles.
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  2545. You need the lamp. The Grue only eats people in the dark.
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  2546. 10:30 Eh? Is that a Fox News report saying that Trump rolled back protections that Obama put in place?!?
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  2547. The older distribution upgrades will still be available, on some kind of archive site. So you should have that option available pretty much indefinitely.
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  2548. Countries with state-funded healthcare can do it for half the cost of what people in 🇺🇸 are paying in health insurance. Some people like to go on about “Government inefficiency”, but this is a clear case where Governments are doing more efficiently what corporates cannot. Certainly what 🇺🇸 corporates cannot.
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  2549. The term for that is “software piracy”.
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  2550. The trouble with Euler is, people start using his name even for things he didn’t invent. Like “Euler operators” for mesh construction in computer graphics -- he had nothing to do with those.
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  2551. 17:55 MultiFinder was very useful, but it was such a hack. Windows belonging to different applications were kept in separate “layers”, and only those belonging to the foreground application could be moved/resized/interacted with. The ones in the background were effectively just painted onto the desktop, not real windows at all. Interestingly, this “layer” concept seemed to carry over to some extent to OS X, which you’d think, being a true multitasking OS, wouldn’t be bound by such obsolete restrictions. While OS X let you interleave windows belonging to different applications, it had this weird quirk where, when you closed the frontmost window, the next window to come to the front would come from the same application (if there was such a window), in preference to one from another application, even if the latter was next in stacking order. I think this limitation still exists in OS X/macOS today.
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  2552. The majority of voters want what the Democrats are offering. Want to regain your electoral majorities? Why not try offering the voters some more popular policies, like the Democrats are doing?
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  2553. 2:39 “Xilinx” is pronounced “zai-linx”, not “zillinx”.
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  2554. Windows is not that popular with developers. Why do you think Microsoft is trying to add a Linux layer to it?
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  2555. Regarding tribalism, users of proprietary software tend to be particularly touchy, because they are never sure how long their favourite software will remain top of the heap. We’ve seen such products come and go, as some small company comes up with an innovative new idea, then gets acquired by a bigger company that goes on to completely stuff things up. Ultimately they are just passive users, with little or no control on the direction that the company takes. Free Software, on the other hand, is totally and absolutely dependent on the community to keep it alive. It takes its direction from the community. Many people come from proprietary platforms like Microsoft or Apple, and expect that they can just be passive users like they were before, and then they wonder why nobody takes them seriously when they complain that “Linux needs to be more like Windows” or “LibreOffice needs to be more like Microsoft Office” or whatever other tedious refrain we have all heard far too many times. Don’t just talk about it-- do it!
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  2556. Even the witnesses have no idea about this supposed “evidence”.
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  2557.  @iwant2tryhard337  Those who want to get the most out of their Raspberry π do.
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  2558. You can make it an application template.
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  2559.  @hrgwea  File fragmentation is in fact avoidable. Notice that Windows filesystems need defraggers, while Linux ones do not?
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  2560.  @hrgwea  We know about automatic defragging in Windows. That was introduced in Vista -- previous versions didn’t have it. This was before SSDs became popular, if you remember. And suddenly SSD buyers were discovering that the Vista defragger was wearing their drives out! So Windows 7 introduced a check on the type of drive, turning off the defragger on SSDs. Linux has never had this problem.
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  2561. There are question marks over the practicality of the Abrams. Sure, their engines run on jet fuel. But jet fuel is just kerosene. Presumably being military-spec, the tanks should not be as fussy about the purity of their fuel as a passenger jetliner would be.
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  2562. VNC can tunnel over an SSH connection. X2Go can do that as well.
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  2563. Interesting to hear about supposedly “bloated” GNU utilities. Somebody tried to criticize the “true” and “false” commands, which are built from a common source file which mostly consists of a large amount of copyright header and other comments, and very little actual code. They compared this with the BSD version of “true”, for example, which was just an empty shell script (that exited with a success status). Except, the GNU utilities compiled to very small code and ran very quickly, while the BSD version had to launch an entire new shell process, with all the overhead that that entailed.
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  2564. “killall vim”
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  2565. If a fertilized embryo is entitled to all the rights of a full human being, does that include citizenship?
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  2566. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” — Arthur C Clarke
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  2567. True network transparency means you can addi it on as a separate layer or take it off, and none of the existing apps will even notice.
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  2568. Where I come from, “Vim” is a brand of abrasive household cleaner.
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  2569. youtube-dl is still available.
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  2570. I have only so far used type annotations in Python as a documentation aid. None of my individual Python projects has gone much over 10,000 lines so far.
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  2571.  @elliotts5574  It’s MINIX. MINIX is a microkernel -- there is no “confusion” about that.
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  2572.  @dand337  Is there an example of theming done right?
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  2573. Is that why all these Fox News people were whining about how they’ve lost so many Twitter followers lately?
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  2574. How does Russia get out of this without it looking like a completely humiliating backdown?
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  2575. If they were using Microsoft Team Foundation Server, you can understand why anything would be seen as an improvement on that ...
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  2576.  @danielalibreros4096  Your only source for that is your Lügenführer.
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  2577. What is really pointless is having these “.” and “..” entries in every directory. The kernel has to have special handling for these anyway, so why bother cluttering up every directory with them, and have the kernel interpret their meaning directly?
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  2578. Windows has a monolithic GUI tied into its OS kernel. So, no chance.
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  2579. As the video explains, progress towards executing Shor’s algorithm on a real quantum computer has been, so far, precisely zero.
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  2580. Only if you ignore languages which let you say “n = n + 1” ...
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  2581. Microsoft’s own software cannot handle Microsoft’s own software’s new version number. Anybody left still entrusting their mission-critical business functions to ClownOS? Yeah, I’m a smug git who uses and recommends Linux software. What of it?
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  2582. Apple stuck with Motorola right through to the 68040, which was a very capable chip (for its time). But then the 68k line just ran out of steam.
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  2583. Imperial units don’t actually exist as such any more. They are all defined in terms of equivalent SI units. E.g. 1 inch = exactly 0.0254m, 1 pound = exactly 0.45359237kg etc. I really wonder how NASA’s space program was able to work as well as it did. If you listen to the flight transcripts, you can hear them talking about “miles” at one point and “nautical miles” at another, and similarly speeds in “miles per hour” at one point and “knots” at another. Pick a consistent set of units and stick to it! Oh, and forget °F and °C, I think all temperatures should be measured in K. Zero should mean zero!
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  2584. I would include an exception traceback as part of “some response our customer can send us”. Your subsystem writes logfiles, doesn’t it? Any exception crash should end up in there; tell them to send those.
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  2585. I use Linux. I have used a range of languages with Linux. Before I used Linux, I used a range of languages on a bunch of other platforms. I not only understand what a “curried function” is, I have used them in real-world situations. Would you like a “so what?” lecture? I could give you one.
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  2586. Fun fact: Functional programming is older than OO.
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  2587. If the US military has all these amazing sci-fi technologies at its disposal, why does it keep getting its arse whipped, in places like Vietnam, Somalia and now Syria?
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  2588.  @Procrastinater  What a load of nonsense.
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  2589. The find executable on my 64-bit system is just about 300K in size. What do you not consider “bloated”?
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  2590.    So what features would you remove from find, and where else can you find them?
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  2591. 1:23 Fun fact: there was no universal rotary-dial layout. For example, here in 🇳🇿, the numbers increased clockwise, with the 1 down at the bottom next to the 0. Further fun fact: This meant that the number of pulses generated for each digit no longer matched up with the digit.
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  2592. The idea of tying the GUI inextricably into the OS kernel needs to have been left behind in the 1990s.
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  2593. @Michael Hansen I think the earlier ILLIAC IV research machine was also SIMD, with four processors executing the same instruction set on four data streams. Seymour Cray looked at the difficulty of programming that before creating his architecture for the Cray-1.
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  2594. 8:24 The trouble with the hardware blitters in the Amiga and Atari ST is that they were never as powerful or flexible as software. The Macintosh had its QuickDraw graphics routines, which implemented sophisticated drawing modes and nonrectangular clipping. When you tried to build similar functionality on top of a more limited hardware blitter, the performance would often end up worse than if it was all done in software.
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  2595. The one who let it happen on his watch?
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  2596. Anybody tries to diss you for that, just remind them of the old saying: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
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  2597. The guy who shot himself in the face in the name of “gun safety”.
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  2598. Imagine doing the maths -- and running the tests -- to ensure that those flames are never quite going to catch up and burn that rocket with three men on top ...
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  2599. LibreOffice offers a Python scripting API. Python is a bit more advanced than VBA.
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  2600. How about man systemd-analyze just as a starting point ...
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  2601. Cheeses cries!
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  2602. Shell functions are more powerful than aliases.
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  2603.  @oalfodr  I would add the “-z” option to the git command. Just in case.
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  2604.  @oalfodr  I have this thing about ensuring that my scripts can deal with arbitrary file names. Remember that spaces and newlines can occur in filenames.
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  2605. Janus -- two-faced god Epimetheus -- god of hindsight. (The god of foresight was Prometheus. Remember what happened to him?)
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  2606. A spider’s not a “bug”. They’re on our side. I have a jar I use to trap them in and put them outside.
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  2607. Modula-2.
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  2608. CDs (and DVDs) use lasers. As did good old “laserdisc” (hence the name).
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  2609. 12:51 Yeah, but starting daylight saving is the easy transition to handle; what about ending daylight saving, when 3 a.m. occurs twice?
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  2610. If you look at the size of the language references, Python is about 25% or less the complexity of Java. Yet Python manages to include features that Java does not, like defining your own operator overloads, metaclasses, properties, and import-as. Just compare the conciseness of the Python “select” module with the monstrosity collection of classes and methods that is the whole “Selector” mechanism in Java, and you might see what I mean.
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  2611. It is possible because those man pages are part of common packages available across just about all distros. Only man pages for distro-specific commands need to be distro-specific. For example, the man pages for bash, iproute2, coreutils, util-linux etc will be the same across all distros. As for apache, the apachectl command is the same across all distros, and it has a man page.
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  2612. No mention of KiCad? I gather
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  2613. CERN has been sponsoring its development.
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  2614. 13:56 So you needed two separate command runs, one to put quotes at the starts of the lines, the other to put them at the ends, rather than being able to put them into a single keystroke macro. #TheEmacsWay
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  2615. Al Jazeera’s John Holman did an exposé on the gun-smuggling issue a few years ago. Search for “mexican cartel reveals ease of smuggling guns from US” to find the videos.
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  2616. I recall a colleague, a former IBMer, mentioning how some of those pages went beyond the usual “THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK” business. Instead, they said “DESTROY THIS PAGE”.
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  2617. One difference worth mentioning is the info that is in the TLS cert. When you go through a conventional CA, they verify your identity (e.g. company name), and that info is shown in the cert when a user asks for details from the browser. Since Let’s Encrypt does not validate this information (or even ask for it), it can show nothing in the cert apart from your domain name. So all one of their certs is actually certifying is that the site you are connecting to is the actual owner of the domain name, nothing more or less.
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  2618.  Dr Deuteron  Since the fact that no force propagates faster than light.
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  2619.  Carlostherocker Ol Skool Fool  That’s assuming that black holes as predicted by general relativity actually exist. What I am pointing out is that quantum theory says they can’t exist.
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  2620.  Dr Deuteron  I think you are reading things into Feynman diagrams that they don’t say.
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  2621.  Dr Deuteron  You were the one trying to suggest that particles of any kind could travel faster than light, not me.
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  2622.  Carlostherocker Ol Skool Fool  I would say it’s not the one that says nothing can exceed the speed of light.
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  2623. That McIlroy quote was only ever a half-truth. Look at any Linux system, and you will see big pieces without which the small ones would never work: the kernel, the X server, bash, even glibc, just to name a few.
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  2624. If you look at the three different kinds of address numbering needed for memory, they are * byte addresses within memory (call this number B) * bit numbers within a byte for masking (call this number b) * bit numbers within a byte for integer digit values (call this number a) In all little-endian architectures, we have a = b and B = int(b / 8) which is very simple and straightforward. But in big-endian architectures, the situation is more complicated. Also, another peculiarity of big-endian architectures is that CPU registers are still effectively little-endian! For example, consider an instruction sequence like move_word a → b move_byte b → c Does c end up with the high or low byte of a? In little-endian architectures, it is always the low byte. In big-endian architectures, it is the high byte if b is in memory, but the low byte if b is a register! Thus, the only truly consistent byte/bit layout is little-endian.
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  2625. People tend to overuse spreadsheets. For example, back in 2020, Public Health England was using an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of Covid-19 cases. Unfortunately, they didn’t notice when Excel ran out of rows to hold the data, until a few months later. So they were underreporting cases during that time. What was the fix? Load the data into two spreadsheets. We have other, more advanced toolkits for doing analytics, like Pandas. Combine this with a charting package like Matplotlib, and you can produce higher-quality output than antyhing Excel can manage. And it’s all built around Python and Free software.
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  2626. 8:41 There is a unit called the “poundal” for force/weight, distinct from “pound” for mass.
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  2627. 0:40 On my main machine, running Debian Unstable: ldo@theon:~> dpkg-query -l | grep -c ^ii 6846 Yup, that’s 6846 packages currently installed.
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  2628. 0:37 Blur ... focused ... heh-heh.
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  2629. Does PHP/Laravel do async yet? How do you handle WebSockets?
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  2630. So you are a bit of an ... em-bezel-ler?
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  2631. That’s an analog definition. And what about higher-order filters?
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  2632. Remember that the seeds of the emergence of Europe from the Dark Ages came from Arabic learning, which in turn started from classical Greek texts that the Europeans had forgotten. Of course, the Islamic Golden Age came to an end once the fundamentalists got the upper hand ...
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  2633. Technically, “symmetric” encryption is where the encryption and decryption algorithms are the same (e.g. exclusive-or stream ciphers). Here we have ones where the algorithms are different (inverses of each other), but the key is the same. Ones where the same key is used for both are called “secret-key” encryption, where “secret” is used in the sense of “knowledge that is carefully controlled”. I like to refer to RSA and similar algorithms as “key-pair” encryption, since that is less unwieldy than “public-private key pair”. Key-pair encryption is typically about 1000 times slower than secret-key encryption. SSL/TLS (the encryption protocol used by HTTPS, but not exclusively by it) negotiates the secret session key using something called Diffie-Hellman key exchange. This has the interesting property of offering “forward secrecy”: even if someone had full access to the decrypted session-key-negotiation packet exchange, they would be unable to work out what the session key was.
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  2634. It could be a literary device for identifying an unsympathetic character.
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  2635. Could be also Prigozhin is setting up his excuse for failing to take Bakhmut, by blaming Shoigu for not giving him enough ammo.
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  2636. I worry that several of those “find” examples include complex piping and substitution that will look like black magic to those who are not au fait with shell syntax. Combine that with cavalier use of dangerous commands like “rm”, and I sense an accident or two just waiting to happen. Also, no love for GNU info? ;)
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  2637.  @artisanconcrete1212  Who is “they”?
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  2638. It was so endearing to see a grown man get so much childish joy out of a simple sound effect. And it wasn’t even a rude one ...
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  2639. They say it’s the same god, yet he says different things. Each one also believes that everybody else’s gods are false gods.
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  2640. Hate the Government, not the people.
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  2641. Like a “Minions”, look, perchance?
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  2642.  @BurnleyNuts  I taught my elderly mum how to program her own video recorder, back in the day. I never understood all those jokes about how hard it was.
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  2643. The trouble with randomness is, while you can prove nonrandomness, you can never really prove randomness.
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  2644. Fred Brooks, in his classic The Mythical Man Month from a few decades ago, made the point that the only way forward to significantly improve programmer productivity was to move to higher- and higher-level languages, which abstracted away more and more of the lower-level details -- what he called “metaprogramming”. His example, AppleScript, unfortunately has not stood the test of time, but others, like Perl, PHP and Python, certainly prove the point. Look at the huge accumulation of toolkits around these languages, and how much work they save you. Python is easily the best example, simply because its core language is so small, yet so versatile, that the kinds of things you can do with library code is just amazing.
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  2645. Phosphoric acid dissolves your teeth!
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  2646. 4:30 “Number One”? Fox News?!? So is it part of the “mainstream media” now? You know, the part that the right-wingers are always complaining about being biased?
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  2647. That flag is also filing a lawsuit for mental cruelty.
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  2648. 4:31 Marketing travesty generator! Is there a copy of that text anywhere? ;)
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  2649. It is Linux that is assimilating Microsoft. It is Windows that is becoming more like Linux, not the other way round.
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  2650. What “strings” do you think they are able to pull?
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  2651. Microsoft already tried “extinguish” -- remember their “get the facts” campaign? “Linux is a cancer”? It failed miserably. All they have left is to try to turn Windows into Linux. People may not be installing “Linux”, but it will be Linux -- it’ll just be named “Windows”.
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  2652.  @RobertMilesAI  Fun fact: Python allows semicolons, so you can put multiple (simple) statements on one line! Its rule for omitting semicolons is a bit saner than the one in JavaScript.
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  2653.  @jmreeves1982  The cries of all those dead children killed by weapons belonging to their own families says otherwise.
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  2654. When you start believing that reality is a Democrat hoax, then you are no longer a functioning human being.
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  2655. Down with the Coup Plots Plans!
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  2656.  @jimmypenrose1401  Zelenskyy knows how to draw the right parallels. When he started quoting Winston Churchill, that struck a massive chord with the Brits.
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  2657. Is YouTube still blocking comments about Trump’s lying? Edit: No it isn’t!
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  2658. Just a thought: “lucifer” means “light-bearer”. What kind of ideology would be afraid of a little light?
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  2659. He did so well with Windows Phone, Windows RT and the Kin, didn’t he.
    2
  2660.  @BrodieRobertson  So what did he win?
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  2661.  @BrodieRobertson  Did he introduce that?
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  2662. 6:24 The other “axioms” are more about definitions of terms. If you change them, I guess you don’t end up with geometry at all. Instead, you probably create something more like topology.
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  2663.  @theParticleGod  There are no “embedded codes” in Word or any other current WYSIWYG word processor.
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  2664. Science is about confronting the tough questions, not shying away from them. If the Earth is flat, are the other planets flat, too? If so, why do they look round?* If not, why is the Earth special? Remember, Galileo was the first human to see other planets (apart from the Moon) as round disks through his telescope, as opposed to dots* with the naked eye. ** Though I think Venus, when it gets close enough to us, gives a hint of being something more than a dot, in its crescent phases.
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  2665. Somebody here still living with their parents ... ?
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  2666. Which could lead to its own mistakes. There was a story about code for a space probe where the line DO 10 I = 1,10 became instead DO 10 I = 1.10 What’s the difference? The first is the beginning of a DO-loop, the second is a simple assignment of the value 1.10 to a variable called “DO10I”. No compiler error, but the program behaves entirely differently.
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  2667. Containers really only work well on Linux.
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  2668. The main factor is, they haven’t got a clue what’s waiting for them.
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  2669. “You’re doing to Palestinians what the Na
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  2670. zis did to me” — Marika Sherwood, another holocaust survivor.
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  2671. Just been watching a clip by Gabor Maté. He points out that some, at least, of the Palestinians, would be the descendants of Jews who converted to Islam.
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  2672. Isn’t there such a thing as an echo-cancellation microphone? The front one picks up your voice, the back one picks up the room reverb, and by subtracting the latter from the former, you get a much clearer, less boomy recording.
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  2673. Maybe wait until he piques your interest instead ...
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  2674. But will they help him find the Golden Fleece?
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  2675. These breeds are giants. Like human giants, they tend to have bone problems, muscle problems, heart problems ... everything life-shortening.
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  2676. “Speak softly, and carry a big stick.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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  2677. What do you call someone who fervently believes everything their leader says? Even when it contradicts something else their leader says? And does so over the entire apparatus of law and order and the Constitution and appointed judges and other officials whose duty it is to act with due process, according to those laws and that Constitution? The word “sheeple” doesn’t even begin to describe it...
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  2678. Someone who has been impeached shall always be called “Mr Impeached”.
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  2679. 11:21 Is that including the price of Windows?
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  2680. Jesus sacrificed his weekend for your sins!
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  2681. Daylight saving fades your curtains! (Yes, somebody did claim that.)
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  2682. 2:15 Whaddaya know, today having multiple phone companies is the norm, but the ability to talk to people regardless of which network they (or you) are on is taken for granted, thanks to something called “common standards”. That’s not something that private companies like to adopt on their own, they need Government regulators to push them.
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  2683. Does he wear a Casio Gaoiseach?
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  2684. What I fear is, a year from now, people reminiscing about when it was “only” 225,000 dead ...
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  2685.  @marloelefant7500  How many network shares does desktop Windows allow? Last I checked, it was 4 for the regular version, or 10 if you paid extra for Windows Pro. Samba is a standard package on most Linux distros, fully compatible with Windows SMB file service. That has no inbuilt limit on how many shares clients can mount: the only limit is what your hardware can stand. It can even act as a domain controller, if you want.
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  2686.  @marloelefant7500  Linux/BSD/Unix systems could run Samba, which is a full-featured SMB-compatible server with no restrictions. Where was there the equivalent of Samba for Windows?
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  2687.  @marloelefant7500  It doesn’t exist because it can’t. Samba came into existence because there was an incentive to bypass Microsoft’s revenue model; it was implemented for *nix systems because they can handle it. Another workstation feature Windows doesn’t support is multiuser remote shell access.
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  2688. That’s one aspect of the books that has not aged well. Basically the entire field of computer architecture has undergone some major winnowing since then. Decimal-centric architectures are gone, and byte addressability is king.
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  2689. What you call the “radical left” helped vote him in, remember. The fact that there are more “radical left” than “radical right” voters is tough for you. Deal with it. That’s democracy.
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  2690. Well, he didn’t say he didn’t shoplift anything else, did he?
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  2691. I caught it.
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  2692. 0:55 Ixnay with the iggernay.
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  2693.  @6Planet  Here in 🇳🇿 we have proportional representation. That means every vote counts equally, and we don’t really attach much importance to “marginal electorates” (or “swing districts/states” as in 🇺🇸). I think all the good democracies are like that.
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  2694.  @6Planet  Alaska brought in ranked-choice voting recently for its House representative. You know, that was the election where Palin lost to Peltola. While preference-based voting is not technically “proportional representation”, it does achieve a very similar effect. Also it tends to favour individuals over parties, which may suit the US situation better.
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  2695. Every name in Python is a variable. Every value is an object. Every object is an instance of a class. Functions and classes are also objects. Logical conclusion: classes are also instances of classes.
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  2696.  @beeble2003  Using the grammar of some arbitrary human language as the basis for designing a programming language doesn’t seem like a wise choice. Look at what happened to Strachey’s CPL.
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  2697. No, it’s really the opposite of antialiasing.
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  2698. I am mildly surprised the Democrats agreed to roll him. I would think that getting the funding bill passed with bipartisan support would be an example of the Speaker actually doing his job properly.
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  2699. One of the bigger jokes about Vista was the much-vaunted 3D effects of “Aero Glass”. Remember, that only worked on high-end hardware. This when my humble little Asus Eee 701 with its single-core 900MHz Celeron could run KDE 4 and manage perfectly smooth 3D effects. On Linux! Anybody remember the lawsuits over the meaning of “Vista-capable” versus “Vista-ready”?
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  2700. 1:24 Someone who has no recollection of Life Before Linux ...
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  2701. Luckily, there are Open Source alternatives that are much more modern, like R, Octave, and of course Jupyter notebooks using Python with Matplotlib.
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  2702. 9:24 By “good” you don’t mean its quality, you mean “upbeat”. Because Dick’s stuff was good, well-written, quality stuff. Unnerving and disturbing and liable to make you question reality, but good. By the way, I just finished reading Ubik night before last. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  2703. The First World War was about rival empires, nothing more. Nothing about “fighting for freedom”, or “countering aggression”, just who wanted the most control over the world. The Second World War was about cleaning up the mess left by the First World War.
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  2704.  @lachdananx7686  So why did that cause all those countries to be dragged into a war?
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  2705. Or how about this: ‌>>> a = 9999 >>> b = 3 >>> a + b is b + a False
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  2706. So su me.
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  2707. Only, what, 300-odd deployment steps to go ... ?
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  2708. Mask or face shield, to me it looks like a table-tennis bat for spittle.
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  2709. No, the GUI does not make the command line redundant. In fact, it offers new capabilities to the command line, like copy and paste, which you don’t get on a command-line-only machine. Remember, GUIs are designed for human users. This is all well and good, but it makes it impossible to automate tasks that can only be performed through a GUI, since the user has to go through all the mouse clicks and keystrokes etc every time. The command line, on the other hand, is purpose-built for automating complex and repetitive tasks. Use both → win-win.
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  2710. “WE captured Soldar!” “No! WE captured Soledar!”
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  2711. People complaining about Free Software projects somehow “forcing” them into certain things is just hilarious. Sad, but hilarious.
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  2712.  @adriantrummer6126  You invited me to change your mind, now you are saying it is closed anyway.
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  2713.  @TrueThanny  Yes, address books are precisely my point. Why do we have to do the lookup of the number, and then have to dial that number? Why not have the computer do the lookup for us? That’s how the DNS works -- it’s like an address book that automatically keeps itself up-to-date!
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  2714. Evolution is a real phenomenon: otherwise, why are human bones and dinosaur bones never found together? Quantum physics is real: otherwise, why does the double-split experiment behave the way it does? If those aren’t “particles” leaving their traces in the detectors, then what are they? Our theories about these real physical phenomena may vary over time. That is because we keep uncovering new physical phenomena. For example, if we ever discover rabbit bones in Precambrian strata, that would (quite literally) turn evolution on its head. But our current predictions say that will never happen. Scientists are never satisfied with existing theories, though. They keep trying to find new data, just to see if that agrees with the theories, or not. That’s the difference between science, which is the study of reality, and ideology, which insists that reality conform to some preconceived ideas.
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  2715. Ostriches are flightless birds. If you are going to be a bird, what’s the point if you can’t fly?
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  2716. The X/MP was a derivative of the original Cray-1 architecture. Seymour Cray didn’t care that much for backward compatibility, so his Cray-2 would have required users to recompile all their code to take advantage of it. So Cray Research spun him off into a new subsidiary, Cray Computer, to work on the Cray-2 (and the later Cray-3 and Cray-4), while the parent company concentrated on producing new machines, like the X/MP and Y/MP, that kept backward compatibility, under the leadership of Steve Chen.
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  2717.  @Richardincancale  I’m sure there were smart researchers at IBM, but somehow their shipping products rarely reflected that -- they were clunky, resource-hungry and overcomplicated compared to, say, DEC and Unix systems.
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  2718. The libraries can demonstrate the strengths and weaknesses of the language. For example, look at Python: quite a compact core language, with a remarkable variety of libraries built on top. Many of them could rightfully be described as full-on DSLs (domain-specific languages), which shows the power of the core language.
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  2719. In the last edition of The Mythical Man Month (from 1995), Fred Brooks discussed how the next major advance in programmer productivity would have to come from techniques like “metaprogramming” -- the use of very high-level languages to orchestrate toolkits written in lower-level languages. That is indeed how things are commonly done these days. And one of the most popular of those high-level languages is Python.
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  2720.  @kamertonaudiophileplayer847  I’m sure Python is playing a significant part in planning of interplanetary missions. It’s become a staple of scientific-quality data analysis, after all.
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  2721.  @kamertonaudiophileplayer847  Now that, there is no such thing.
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  2722. Why do they have certs?
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  2723. He wanted to call it “Walterland”, but had to go for “Disneyland” because Walter Lantz would have sued.
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  2724.  @Harry-lu7hj  C# does it all for you ... on only one platform. “26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody!”
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  2725. 16:37 “Business applications” which nowadays involve access to SQL databases, for example. Which means having good string facilities for dynamically generating SQL statements. Which COBOL is lousy at.
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  2726. She’s Swiss.
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  2727. Here we have Bunnings and Mitre 10, and they know their stuff.
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  2728.  @toozzzy396  Does it make a difference to the loudness and deadliness of the bangs?
    2
  2729. SoftWindows was an x86 emulator that ran on a range of RISC Unix workstations. Gave you your full range of Microsoft Windows apps.
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  2730. If software freedom is not an aspect of social justice, what is it?
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  2731. Yeah, but Turing’s tape was erasable.
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  2732. He’s truly demonstrating a Trumpian business sense -- managing to destroy stock value in two companies at once!
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  2733. Funny story: the Windows defragger was introduced in Vista, and not long after that, SSDs became popular. Then users discovered that the defragger was shortening the lives of their SSDs, by creating all this extra write traffic. So Windows 7 had to add an extra check to ensure the block device was actually a hard disk and not an SSD, before running the defragger on it. Meanwhile, over in Linux land, the developers had long figured out how to create filesystems that didn’t require defragging...
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  2734. Java doesn’t “ban” pointers, it only obscures them. As a consequence, it suffers from the aliasing problem, e.g. a = b; a.field = «value»; System.out.println(b.field); /* what does this print? */
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  2735. Does Fox News count as “Media” now?
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  2736. Because you like to copy-lot.
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  2737. She was all prepared to give up Star Trek after the first series, until she met Martin Luther King. I have seen interviews where she complained for years after that that the secondary characters were almost never given much more to do than their usual formulaic lines. All the character development, it seems, was reserved for Shatner, Nimoy and Kelley. And Shatner, in particular, had this tendency to sabotage scenes where the secondary characters had too much of a part to play. But she stayed on, for the sake of King.
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  2738.  @shaunpatrick8345  What “monolithic Linux installation” is this? I thought SLS disappeared back in the 1990s.
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  2739. So which “one thing” does tar do? It was originally about saving files to tape, but that function is essentially obsolescent now.
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  2740. Said in a Carter Pewterschmidt voice ...
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  2741. If your business is crucially dependent on obsolete, unsupported software, then it is just one crash away from bankruptcy.
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  2742. One drawback with DNS A records, in particular, is that they only give you an IP address, not a port number. So they are not sufficient to identify a service, only a machine which might provide that service. This was remedied later with the introduction of SRV records, but they are not heavily used.
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  2743. Only humans can throw. Not even apes can do it as effectively as we can. There are some invertebrates with specialized catapult parts, but nothing like the human arm with its overarm movement.
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  2744. 26:50 A follow-on to their previous outliner, called “ThinkTank” if I recall rightly. Nobody seems to use outliners any more. At one point their function was rolled into some word processors. But I think even that has disappeared.
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  2745. The US could do with a proportional-voting system. That way, every vote counts equally. Here in NZ we used to have the UK-style first-past-the-post voting for electorate MPs, and there were a couple of times where the party that got the most seats in Parliament actually had fewer votes than the opposition. Since we adopted the German style of proportional voting, that can’t happen any more. The German system was also designed to ensure that a dictator could never get power in that country again. That’s one reason we liked it in NZ. Maybe the US should try it?
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  2746. 4:34 Wait ... a Fox News presenter referred to Trump as the “Former President”? Did she get sacked afterwards?
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  2747. New distros get created for many reasons. Consider how Raspbian came about: when the first model of Raspberry π came out, it could run regular Debian, but was a bit of an odd fish because while it had hardware floating point, the core ARM instruction set was an older version, and there was no Debian build optimized for this combination--the one for the older ARM instruction set made no use of hardware floating point. So a couple of guys took it upon themselves to rebuild the whole of Debian just for the π. It had to be done on the π itself, and the bulk of it was done in six weeks.
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  2748. The world needs more dorables.
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  2749. They were already going out of fashion when I started my Comp Sci degree in 1979. I’m not really sure they help with program comprehensibility or reliability in any way. Look at 15:25, for example, those arctangent functions: even by that time, FORTRAN had in its maths library a function called ATAN2, with separate X and Y arguments (instead of passing their combined ratio) so you could use their respective signs to uniquely determine the result angle over a full circle. That is missing here. Just because it looks pretty, doesn’t mean it’s actually correct.
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  2750. So where is there a non-Linux, non-sucky UI? Looking at the complaints every time Microsoft and Apple do something new, it seems like having a platform with a choice of UI is preferable to one where the UI is welded in.
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  2751. His new motto is “Five Shots, One Kill”. He just fired over 70 missiles into Ukraine as reprisals for the Kerch Bridge, and managed to kill 14 people. And with all the bribes to the oligarchs, those missiles don’t come cheap. Or accurate, either.
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  2752. This is for static type checking, which some people prefer to use.
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  2753. I use spaces in file names all the time. In POSIX shell scripts, just remember to quote the variables containing the names, and everything will be fine.
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  2754. 10:39 Also my experience with CD-RW discs is they were highly unreliable. I used them for a while to transport files between my office and a client’s place (in the days before USB sticks), but I never depended on them for backups. CD-R was the way to go for those.
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  2755. 0:49 Sorry, I have to deduct points for not knowing that you can save the seeds and steam them, and eat them too.
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  2756. @Owen Amos You don’t have to believe her. Just check her sources.
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  2757. It’s easy not to see something if you don’t look.
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  2758.  @Sniggitysnail  When you don’t show proof of ownership of the house before turning up, and the house is a highly secure area, the guards are right to turn you away.
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  2759. 12:12 I think something more important than onboard wi-fi is an onboard battery-backed-up clock. You’ll note that none of the Raspberry π models have this.
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  2760. Interlacing should die already.
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  2761. I find the mmv command quite convenient for this sort of thing: https://packages.debian.org/buster/mmv
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  2762. 3:55 Man, the kerning on that is so tight. #TypographyGeek
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  2763.  @poofygoof  I wonder why the BSDs can’t agree on a common kernel architecture? Now that Microsoft is adding a Linux kernel to Windows with WSL2, I think the logical next step is to let the existing Windows kernel atrophy away, leaving just a GUI layer on top of Linux.
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  2764.  @muhamednourezzeddin2784  The whole point with comments is that they’re not part of the “data structure” (or indeed any semantic content).
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  2765. 7:38 As soon as you said it uses subclassing, I immediately thought “there must be a metaclass involved”. Had a look at the source code, and yes, that is how it works.
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  2766.  @TrumpAmerica-2024  I think you got some figures the wrong way round, there. Nice try, though.
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  2767.  @kimleger8824  Why should there be a “border crisis”? Isn’t Trump’s wall working?
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  2768. Beware of somebody mixing up THD, quantization noise and aliasing, and then claiming to be an “actual signal processing engineer”.
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  2769. Yeah, particularly when Copilot can create your bugs for you!
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  2770. Funny how she was spoken of as “soft on crime” and “authoritarian” in the same breath.
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  2771. Occam’s Razor applies. The assumption is that there is nothing special about our little corner of the Universe, so the same laws that apply here also apply elsewhere. The fact that the results we get continue to be (mostly) self-consistent is itself confirmation that the assumption holds true. I say “mostly” because there are some odd things that don’t quite fit. Though nobody has (as yet) come up with a new, yet self-consistent way of explaining them.
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  2772.  @DraconicA5  You’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel, aren’t you? Annoyed that x86 has been pushed into fourth place in the architecture popularity stakes by RISC-V?
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  2773. I don’t think he wants to bring that up any more. Every time someone mentions it, it just highlights how the Mexicans are not putting a single centavo towards the wall.
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  2774.  @Carewolf  No, that’s not error diffusion. Error diffusion involves keeping track of the error between the true pixel value and what you have actually displayed, and accumulating (“diffusing”) that into subsequent pixels. Hence the name.
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  2775.  @Carewolf  Floyd-Steinberg is one of many algorithms under the category of “error-diffusion”. It’s not the only one.
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  2776. Typically you press both buttons at once for middle click.
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  2777. No no no, “orange with context”.
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  2778. 10:50 Ah, I remember that Adobe Illustrator demo disk, with the Brandenburg 6th soundtrack ... and my first exposure to interactive Bézier curves ...
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  2779. 8:53 He’s doing a “Thorn-Birds-Alikes: Greatest Hits”, isn’t he.
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  2780.  @andrewollmann304  Oh, that’s a point. Another reason to settle out of court, eh?
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  2781. Let me also mention SystemRescueCd -- this one isn’t really useful when installed to a hard drive (unless it’s an external one), but it is very handy when running off an optical disc or USB stick. You can use it to fix up problems with your drives or repartition them, moves files around etc. Can also read and write Windows NTFS volumes, for fixing Windows. (I was going to say “Windows problems”, then I realized I was repeating myself...)
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  2782. 20:50 What’s the bet the encryption services were provided by Crypto AG, with secret backdoors under the control of the 🇺🇸CIA and the 🇩🇪FIS?
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  2783. There is a term for the deniers of the Trump defeat I discovered a few weeks ago: “Voteflake”.
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  2784.  @bluemoon6380  Sorry, looks like I was trying to refute the wrong side. ;)
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  2785. 🇨🇳 has a weird system, where the Ministers are not the most senior leaders. Qin Gang was Foreign Minister, and in other countries that would be the title held by the most senior diplomat. But above the Ministers are a set of five State Councillors, and one of them is Wang Yi, who is the most senior diplomat. Why is it like this? Who knows ...
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  2786.  @Heels_Up_Harris  I live in a free, democratic, civilized society that abides by the rule of law.
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  2787. It never will, because it depends too much on Linux-specific functionality.
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  2788. I thought go tos were considered harmful?
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  2789. 4:14 Putting “buyer beware” on your financial statements is not carte blanche to lie to the Government.
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  2790. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  2791. 0:39 Two places where it’s not used: SSH and VPN connections. They have their own encryption handshake protocols. Make that three: wi-fi also has its own security system(s). Bluetooth? Four. Among the places where it is not used ... nobody expects the encryption inquisition!
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  2792. Mustn’t give taxpayers’ money back to them. Only liberals would do that!
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  2793. Symmetry is a very appealing concept. Particularly since it could also explain why our Universe is mostly matter, with little or no antimatter.
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  2794. KDE Konqueror has inbuilt support for viewing “man://” and “info://” URLs, among others.
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  2795. Colbert can’t do Biden without that. Seth can.
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  2796. That story about “beheading” seems to getting somewhat shaky ...
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  2797. The Second Amendment is a wonderful red herring. While the gun nuts are so jealously guarding it, the Government is free to take away citizens’ important rights. This idea of defending yourself against a “tyrannical Government” is sheer fantasy -- the weapons that private citizens are allowed to own are mere pea-shooters compared to what the authorities have at their disposal. https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=police+militarization
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  2798.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I’m sure this will become relevant the day you can show us a microcontroller running an appimage.
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  2799. I used TECO, back in the early days. Just about every character you can type is a command. Emacs left its TECO roots and embraced LISP a long while ago. But it still bears some traces of those beginnings. For example, using CTRL/G as the cancel character: that came from TECO. No other software has that convention!
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  2800. 0:04 These days I use a microwave. Set the right power and time, works great. For example, 880W for 15 minutes for one 160ml cup, makes about two servings.
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  2801. The FSF site has a detailed comparison of different licences.
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  2802. “UNIX” is officially a trademark, which none of the BSDs and Linuxes are licensed to use.
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  2803. 5:25 Tom Hanks can never show his face around an Apollo celebration again ...
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  2804. Remember when Trump promised to make it easier to sue journalists for defamation?
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  2805. 11:29 Please don’t say “epicentre”, like it’s some kind of scientifico-techno-synonym of “centre”. Just say “centre”.
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  2806. This is fixed by isolation at each end and differential signalling. For example, the MIDI spec (also from the early 1980s) mandated optoisolators for this reason. So even back then people were perfectly aware of how to deal with this.
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  2807. 4:38 In other words, the whole stupid Star Wars program took money away from Hubble and just threw it away. Well, it did finally get into space a few years later ... only for us to discover that infamous mirror problem.
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  2808. By the way, while I agree that Debian Stable is pretty boring on the desktop (great on mission-critical servers, of course), there are ways to spice it up without switching to a different distro. Simply move to the Testing or even Unstable repos, and you can have as much excitement as you want. ;)
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  2809. That’s called “key management”. It’s an entirely separate issue. Perhaps you do it by turning up in person at the registration centre with suitable ID.
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  2810. 6:38 FYI Sign changes like that are not minor.
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  2811.  @BrodieRobertson  Getting the sign wrong on a term in a formula may be simple to fix, but it could have quite major consequences.
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  2812. Except these commands let you do things that DOS/Windows has never heard of.
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  2813. Try changing the channel.
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  2814.  @rizon72  None of which is relevant to this channel. Go try another one.
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  2815.  @larrybarela8676  Which “God”, though? Each religion says their god is the only true god, all the other gods are false. They can’t all be right on the first point, they can all be right on the second.
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  2816.  @larrybarela8676  Not only can we prove them, you yourself betray by your actions that you believe them, too. When you put your finger on an electrical switch, you literally trust your life to Science, that the electricity will behave according to known scientific laws, and will not suddenly leap out of the circuit and kill you. Even your faith in your god is not that strong.
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  2817. There is a more fundamental aspect of the “laziness” principle not mentioned here, and that is that a computer is a _universal machine_, capable of being programmed to perform any kind of tedious and repetitive task you can describe to it. Consider the number of people who use GUI tools to perform repetitive tasks, for example, when a command-line tool could be scripted to perform the same thing automatically, leaving the human free for more interesting tasks. GUIs have their uses, but they cannot be automated.
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  2818. 4:09 Ah, the joys of Baudot code ... Baudot gave his name to the unit “baud” ... which is another term you don’t hear used much any more ...
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  2819. Trump is like the movie villain, surrounded by incompetent henchmen. They were all his picks, yet when they testify against him, suddenly they turn out to be useless. It’s his fault they were on his team to begin with.
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  2820. 4:59 District 9 -- made in South Africa, just like Trevor. ;)
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  2821. 12:20 In space, the stars cannot tell you where you are, only which way you are facing. Doppler radar is important, and also measuring the apparent sizes of the planets, and possibly also the Sun.
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  2822. That was my guess, too. Those spiky bits are probably not rigid. Wonder if they would bend or break? Or both?
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  2823. 2:02 The I/O problem mostly went away of its own accord. Once punch cards, paper tapes, magtapes, line printers and all the rest of it went away, everybody pretty much settled on something Unix/POSIX compatible (stdio). Writing to that gives you a nice, portable common denominator.
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  2824.  @MoCa5545  Well, one way to lie subtly is to conflate “testing positive for viral DNA” with “being sick’ ...
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  2825. I can’t imagine being allergic to oranges. To me, citrus fruit are such happy fruit.
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  2826. The talented one finds it easier to mimic the talentless one, than the other way round.
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  2827.  @heavysystemsinc.  Ending gerrymandering -- why would that be considered politlcally controversial? Having an electoral commission that is not politicized could only be seen as a step forward by all sides, surely.
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  2828. Newton’s BDSM law: to every whip action, there is a chain reaction.
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  2829. One aspect of PHP from their early, Perl-copying phase: they rightly tried to avoid the feature of Perl where, if a variable was not explicitly declared local, it must be global. So they added the requirement to declare a variable global. But then they needed to add a bunch of exceptions for built-in variables that became the “superglobals”. Python went at this a different way: you could refer to globals/nonlocals without having to declare them, but you could not assign to them without declaring them as coming from an outer scope first. Otherwise the assignment always creates a local variable (unless there is already a reference to the same-named variable from an outer scope, in which case the assignment is an error). This may seem like an unwieldy rule, but I think it works well in practice.
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  2830. 6:55 That efficiency comes at a cost, namely less robustness. Assuming the same characteristics storage/transmission medium, a block of 247 bits is 247/7 times more likely to have errors in it than a block of 7 bits. But you only have 8/3 times the parity bits to protect it.
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  2831. The Debian emacs-common package is just about 95MB.
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  2832. Well, there was this one TV series that called him “Herman Munster” ...
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  2833. 2:58 What kind of programmer computes an absolute value from the square root of a square? Must be a maths major.
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  2834. So, a plug for Spark. . . . Spark ... plug ... geddit?
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  2835. Writing your C code structured according to Nassi-Shneiderman diagrams (which means avoiding gotos) helps a lot.
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  2836. ... busy turning Kinzhal into brinjal ...
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  2837. Putting “.” at the end doesn’t protect against, say, accidentally invoking a malicious command whose name is a common typo of a real command. That’s why it was considered too dangerous to have it in the $PATH at all.
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  2838. “Chance” ... heh-heh. Maybe it’s not a machine you control, so you don’t know who else has been given access. Or you are just one of the administrators of an installation for a large company. Maybe a user account has been compromised. Maybe it’s your job to find out! There is a certain charming naïveté among those who only have experience with Microsoft Windows ...
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  2839. “The cupboard was bare.” 3 years to fill it not enough?
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  2840. I knew Gary Larson was good for something ...
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  2841. Is this technology good enough to let living creatures cross the Van Allen radiation belts and get to the Moon and back safely?
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  2842. I can’t even see anything in standard SQL that allows columns to be referenced by numbers, only names. Not in the SQL 2003 spec, anyway.
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  2843. Back in the day, surgery was done, not by doctors, but by barbers. #FunFactsYouWontBelieve
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  2844. Anybody else bemused by the French-style door locks? Where you pull them up to lock, and push down to unlock?
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  2845. All the companies that used to use Windows for serious work are moving to the cloud (largely at Microsoft’s bidding). And the cloud is dominated by Linux.
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  2846. Yes, but weapon safety is for wimps. You never see Hollywood movies spend a lot of time worrying about weapon safety, do you? They just get to the crunch, bang-bang, end of the bad guy, go home and live happily ever after.
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  2847. The private key never leaves your custody.
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  2848. Remember, the atmosphere is just an obstacle to a rocket. Less atmosphere → less of an obstacle. Therefore higher air temperature → thinner air → win.
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  2849. Trouble is, Windows is getting more and more expensive for Microsoft to continue maintaining, while the profits from it are getting less and less. Nobody wants to pay for an OS any more. And so you see corners being cut in Windows QA, and the introduction of WSL. I think at some point WSL will go from being an optional to a mandatory install. And then you will see the Windows kernel shrink away, until Windows itself becomes nothing more than a GUI skin on top of Linux.
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  2850. If every vote were to count equally, then you would have proportional representation.
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  2851. Don’t you have home units in the USA? I’ve always had a combination microwave/convection/grill unit. A bit more expensive, but I think a lot more flexible.
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  2852. I notice you only talked about function decorators, not class decorators. They have their uses, too. I think the most extensive use I have made of custom decorators so far has been in my DBussy package, a pure-Python wrapper for libdbus. The information defining the D-Bus interface to a Python class is specified via a function decorator on each Python method implementing a D-Bus interface method, with a class decorator to tie it all together. Then when you register your class to receive messages, the dispatch mechanism knows how to decode incoming D-Bus method calls, convert the arguments and dispatch to the appropriate Python method. As a bonus, this same information is used to automatically generate the D-Bus XML introspection format, when another D-Bus peer sends you the introspection message. And conversely, when you introspect another D-Bus peer, this info is used to dynamically generate a “proxy interface class” -- a Python class whose methods simply send the appropriate D-Bus messages and return the responses.
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  2853. You mean there was a whole millisecond of silence at the start?!? UNACCEPTABLE !!
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  2854.  @shawnpitman876  Considering that most of our knowledge of the surface of Venus came, not from NASA, but from the USSR, kind of weakens your appeal-to-authority argument somewhat.
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  2855.  @shawnpitman876  Once you resort to name-calling, that means you lose the argument.
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  2856. Sonic screwdriver!
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  2857.  @kurt7020  Here’s a function which works in all cases: def sql_string_list(the_list) : "returns a list containing the quoted items of the_list, suitable" \ " for use in an “in” clause⋅" return \ "(" + ", "⋅join([sql_string(s) for s in the_list]) + ")" ♯end sql_string_list Another situation is: what about LIKE clauses?
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  2858. A common use of a LIKE clause is to allow partial matches on user input, by bracketing it with “%” wildcard symbols. But consider, you want whatever the user types to be matched exactly, even if it happens to contain wildcard symbols.
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  2859. But we keep getting told that no living thing can survive passage through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting through?
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  2860.  @SeanBZA  When did you do that? I look at something like SiFive, and they claim they can put together a chip implementation for you within weeks.
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  2861. Fermi was the one who pointed out that, almost regardless of what numbers you plugged into the Drake Equation, over a very wide range of assumptions, if it was possible for just one or two civilizations in our galaxy to achieve interstellar travel, they would likely be all over the galaxy by now.
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  2862. Much lower overhead. Also simplicity.
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  2863. Actually, there are quite a few architectures in common use. Your wi-fi router is probably running a MIPS processor. SiFive is gathering momentum. And if you look at the world’s fastest supercomputers, you’ll see a few POWER machines near the top. What do these processors have in common? They all run Linux.
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  2864.  @John.0z  Sorry, yes, I meant RISC-V. SiFive is just one of many companies embracing that architecture.
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  2865. Gnome Boxes is just a GUI on top of libvirt.
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  2866. That dialogue clearly dates from a time when non-digital pictures were still a thing.
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  2867. Windows Server, at least the on-prem edition, isn’t being developed that heavily any more. Most of that market segment is moving to the cloud, which is dominated by Linux.
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  2868. 12:53 Not only founded SETI, he also created the (in)famous Drake Equation.
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  2869. One end still has to own both halves of each public/private-key pair.
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  2870. It’s got real medical uses. I was supposed to be hooked up to a painkiller IV feed after a certain op, with a button I could use to get an extra boost if need be -- of course, the machine was programmed with strict limits on how many times I could push the button for that boost. You should have heard the nurse swearing as he tried to get the machine working, over several hours. By the time he did, I didn’t need it any more.
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  2871. Ted Nelson has been working on his “Project Xanadu” for decades. I don’t think it’s reached production quality yet.
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  2872. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  2873. Annotations would presumably be like in Python, where the compiler simply collects the information, attaches it to the constructed object, but otherwise ignores it. It is left to additional lint-type tools (e.g. MyPy) to do the actual static type checking.
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  2874. 14:48 Ah, the Poseion Adventure ...
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  2875. According to this https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12370027 , somebody in his risk group has a 35% chance of hospitalization, 11% of needing intensive care, and 8% of death. I should add, it says being white lowers the risk, but there’s no mention of being orange.
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  2876. This is what happens when they uncritically follow a deity who wants to claim all the credit for the good things, and none of the blame for the bad; of course their leaders will act the same way.
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  2877. If you want a Linux distro built around that philosophy, you know what you can do.
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  2878. I know a couple from Mumbai who reckon that’s quite a nice city. Nicer than Delhi, anyway.
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  2879.  K.D.P. Ross  Because pure-functional languages tend to be awkward to use. Procedural languages which allow functional constructs (like Python does) tend to work better.
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  2880. Now imagine that the ref is actually part of your team. That’s how 🇺🇸 elections are run.
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  2881. I am old enough to remember “Banned in Boston”. I guess those days are gone, and we have a new, shall we say, benchmark for anti-intellectualism these days ...
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  2882. 1:34 Well, by “completely changed” you mean that somewhere around 50% of the bits in the hash flip to different values. You don’t want them all to flip (or flip according to any discernible pattern), otherwise that’s no longer quite so random.
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  2883. IBM’s OSes were never “open source”. Source code may have been available to customers, but under restrictions.
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  2884.  @danielrhouck  Initially IBM made its software available to customers free of charge. But this was seen as unfair to independent developers who wanted to create a software industry. So as a result of the 1956 “Consent Decree”, I think it was, IBM were forced to “unbundle” -- charge extra for the OS etc.
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  2885. 1:45 Would it be bad taste to call that the “JFK Head-Shot Effect”? #TooSoon?
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  2886. I, too, used to be a disbeliever. Until I saw this ... https://www.bit-tech.net/reviews/modding/orac3_part5/1/
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  2887. Unfortunately, the insurmountable barrier for the “mainstream” hardware makers trying to go downwards is Microsoft Windows. That is simply too power-hungry to run on an ARM chip. And if you give up the ARM chip and put an Intel one in there, you lose the price/performance advantage.
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  2888. 17:08 So, you have discovered the secret recipe for the Dalek sound. Now we must ex-termi-nate!
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  2889. But if it’s written in Rust, isn’t that violating Atwood’s Law?
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  2890. 9:43 Still, it could be worse: it could be Java. I was doing some date/time conversions in an Android app some years ago, and it took me a while to realize that while every single method in a class might be deprecated, the class itself was still required elsewhere!
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  2891. 12:42 Unlike the original Beetle, which located the gearbox right under the gearshift, and ran driveshafts forward and back again, one within the other.
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  2892.  @thomasqsa  Sounds like HandBrake is built wrong, then. It’s generally a bad idea to fork an upstream project as active as FFmpeg, unless you want to take it in a different direction. Which they clearly didn’t.
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  2893. The system needs to change, to ensure a dictator like him can never take power again.
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  2894. It’s not something that ordinary users will notice. It makes a difference to sysadmins and developers of more complex subsystems. sysvinit is basically an old collection of hacks from the early days of Unix. Most people agree that it is past its use-by date. Where they disagree is what to replace it with. systemd is simply the most sophisticated of the replacements.
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  2895. To paraphrase JFK, “ask not what Open Source can do for you, ask what you can do for Open Source”. Xorg is dying because nobody cares about it any more. If you want to get together a band of like-minded enthusiasts to keep it going, nobody is stopping you.
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  2896.  @SimonWoodburyForget  Note that Python handles this same issue without the “new” keyword. And C++ lets method calls work the same way, regardless of whether the object was created with “new” or not. None of which you address in your so-called explanation. This issue has already been explained further above. Read my posting on that before digging yourself in further.
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  2897. Didn’t they tell them not to draw up the tanks in lines?
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  2898. I think Al Jazeera has more local people on the ground in these places.
    2
  2899. I wrote a Python script to manage it years ago. You give it the text and font, it measures the block and properly centres it both horizontally and vertically on the page.
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  2900. Another thing that united Newton fans was their hatred of Robert Hooke. Newton himself certainly couldn’t believe that Leibnitz could have independently invented calculus. What convinces me he did is he came up with an entirely different notation for it.
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  2901. “Enforced”, he said. As though they’re police or something.
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  2902. No, C++ and Python do not let you define new operators, they only let you overload existing ones. ALGOL 68 did allow you to come up with new operators. But you couldn’t use non-alphabetic/numeric characters for them.
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  2903. Assuming he comes back out of that closet ...
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  2904. With 4K, you might still see nose hairs from across the street.
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  2905.  @renakunisaki  Hey, this is YouTube, not broadcast TV. ;)
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  2906. Real mathematicians call it the “hexahedron”. Definitely not the “sexahedron”, though. And never put it in the “Large Hedron Collider”, nooooooo ...
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  2907. Windows is an albatross around the neck of Microsoft. Even they are having trouble keeping it viable.
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  2908. 6:55 Hey, I’m old enough to remember, back in the day, when Caltex would advertise that they had “Boron” in the petrol they sold. This was before I discovered it was an element. Never found out whether it was the actual element they put in, or it was just a brand name for some proprietary additive or other.
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  2909. Just one of many failed attempts at running Windows on ARM chips.
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  2910.  @nutzeeer  Microsoft is staying well away from those now.
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  2911.  @ecec4642  No, circular reasoning is using an assumption that your prejudices are correct in order to argue that they are correct. For example, if your “supernatural” phenomenon does not have to follow any scientific laws, then there is no reason why it has to confine itself to one small corner of reality. The fact that it is so confined indicates that it does follow laws, which can be studied scientifically. In other words, in a universe where miracles are possible, then everything has to be a miracle.
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  2912.  @SilverAura  So many things about biology like that. The electrical action in a nerve happens across the nerve, not along it, and so the signal propagation along the nerve happens at sedate speeds on the order of 300 km/h (I think it might be slower for some nerves, like pain nerves). Another one: the raw light information picked up by your retinas is on the order of gigapixels. But there is no way your optic nerves can handle anything close to that bandwidth. So much of what you see is thrown away before it gets to your brain. And another one: your eyes continually saccade (move rapidly) from one viewpoint to another. This happens about once a second, and takes about a quarter second. But you never consciously see the world spinning around you: instead, one moment you are looking on one direction, next moment you are looking in another direction, with no memory of any viewpoint in-between. In other words, you are spending about a quarter of your waking hours effectively blind.
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  2913. Hah ... I thought I could find one you missed: sending a signal, e.g. with the kill(1) command, to PID 1 (the “init” process). The systemd version of init(1) installs a bunch of signal handlers for SIGRTMIN+«n» that you can use to trigger reboot, poweroff and other useful functions.
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  2914.  @justsomeguy6133  That would seem to be a good fit for the USA. It tends to strengthen individuals over parties, but maybe that’s exactly what you want.
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  2915. If you want to develop modelling skills, it’s worth going through the introductory series of tutes posted on Grant Abbitt’s channel. He takes you through various basic mesh-modelling techniques step by step.
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  2916. 12:37 Surely the bumps would form pits (cavities), not lands.
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  2917.  @gutter1  Ooh, likening me to a flat-earther. That really totally wins you the argument.
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  2918. 4:59 Is it wrong to be a trader? I thought 🇺🇸 was built on trade.
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  2919.  @keris3920  But C++ doesn’t do λ-calculus, does it? Actually Python does a better job of implementing that than C++ does.
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  2920. 15:15 Where’s the video controller on that board? Oh wait, it’s the Pi Pico doing it all.
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  2921. That’s 🇩🇴, as opposed to 🇩🇲? Hello back from 🇳🇿.
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  2922. He is a prophet. He may not be nice to know personally, but he has been right about the dangers of proprietary computer systems more than once.
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  2923.  @bazoo513  Companies like Microsoft were always going to badmouth anything that they saw as a threat to their business model, even if someone like Stallman did not exist. There were those who even claimed that Free software was “communist”!
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  2924. The crazy thing is this parameter controls the number of separate vm areas your process can have, not the size of an area. The Linux kernel docs mentions the example of a malloc debugging tool which creates a new area for every single memory object your program creates -- now there’s a way to chew through your vm-area limit quickly ...
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  2925. But what should the pun-ishment be?
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  2926. As I understand US history, the Republicans arose out of the ashes of the Whig party, which self-destructed over the slavery issue. Back when the Democrats were pro-slavery, the Republican party was founded with the idea of getting rid of it. Now I think we are seeing the Republican party itself disintegrating, over whether to go along with Donald Trump’s dictatorial tendencies or not. Maybe a new party can arise out of the ashes ...
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  2927. Ah, the questino ... the little question. Like the neutrino is the little neutron.
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  2928. Didn’t Trump say he would be so embarrassed to lose to Biden, he would leave the country? We’re still waiting ...
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  2929. Those birds you hear in the morning? Deepfakes.
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  2930. Let me offer some of my own utilities: Creating a full font chart of any font, showing the Unicode coverage and any unmapped glyphs: https://github.com/ldo/python_freetype_examples/blob/master/font_chart . For really large fonts, trying outputting the chart as multipage PDF or PostScript files rather than PNG. Generating samples of any number of fonts using the traditional “lorem ipsum” text: https://github.com/ldo/qahirah_examples/blob/master/bulk_font_sample . You can also pass it .zip files (e.g. downloaded from the usual font sites), and it will generate samples of any included font files. Try going through hundreds or thousands of fonts with a GUI, and you will soon appreciate the value of command-line utilities... Collecting information on OpenType font features into an SQLite database, that you can query to see which fonts you have that support which features: https://github.com/ldo/python_fontconfig_examples/blob/master/collect_opentype_fonts . Oh, and for a bonus, here https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/art/Region-Flags-861126407 is a display of all the national/regional flag symbols in the Noto Color Emoji font.
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  2931. I don’t understand what you mean by “dog whistle”, unless you are trying to virtue-signal or something. It’s pretty obvious where this will lead, regardless of whether it’s Microsoft’s conscious plan or not.
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  2932. 8:18 Which are no longer able to fit in any reasonably-sized case.
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  2933. It’s the part of the head between the temple and the pate.
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  2934.  @GSBarlev  This is why people post their config files on GitH
    2
  2935.  @GSBarlev  ub. So on a new machine, your custom setup is never further than a git-clone away.
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  2936. A lot of them are also deliberately aiming for a fulfilment of their “end times” prophecy.
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  2937.  @redmed10  “They may say one thing in a poll but another when it comes to elections.” True enough. But why? It’s because the 🇺🇸 electoral system is so biased against free and fair elections. The ones running for election should not be the ones running the election. Basic common sense.
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  2938. Sounds like you’re practically swimming in pools.
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  2939. This “Pamela Jones” described herself as a “paralegal”. There is some doubt as to whether such a person actually existed. Certainly Groklaw appeared very knowledgeable and well-researched, so there could have been an entire legal team behind that name. Funded by IBM, of course.
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  2940. Their alternate-reality news networks are painting this as another glorious step on the march forward. How many countries do you know of where this happens? (∗cough∗ 🇺🇸🇰🇵 ∗cough∗)
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  2941. 6:09 Idea: why not let the robot loose with that idea, and see what solution it comes up with? This is how we give birth to the evil robot overlords, isn’t it?
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  2942. He gets a participation prize.
    2
  2943. Let the Olsen Database worry about it for you.
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  2944. The 486 had built-in floating point. Then Intel got the bright idea of getting some extra revenue out of 486 chips that had defective floating-point units, that would have been rejected, by selling them as “486SX” chips. Machines with these had an extra empty socket where you could put in a “487SX”, which was a variant of a full-function 486 that disabled the defective onboard 486SX and became your replacement CPU.
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  2945. ARM Windows only runs on Qualcomm chips. This is an Apple-proprietary chip.
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  2946. A Spiderman, maybe?
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  2947. Most 🇺🇸ans don’t even realize there is a US$2 bill.
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  2948. It’s called “faith”. Their religion values belief not just in the lack of evidence, but directly counter to the evidence. Is it any wonder they can believe this nonsense, given all the other nonsense they already believe?
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  2949. Still, the retaking of Snake Island and the destruction of the Moskva were fun ...
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  2950. 4:22 Interesting that the graphics chip, not the CPU, is the one that gets the heat-spreader.
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  2951. LISP can be a great language for a mathematician, or at least a mathematically-inclined computer scientist. Go through the Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs book, and tell me if you agree.
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  2952. The hostname can come from your SSH config, so you can map it to an IP address there if you want. It can also specify a nonstandard port, plus port forwarding etc.
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  2953. 0:45 Worth also mentioning that there is another terminal emulator, built right into the Linux kernel itself. This offers up to 8 different text consoles, and if you don’t have a GUI running, you will normally see one of these anyway. You can switch between them using CTRL-F1 .. CTRL-F8. If you are already in a GUI, you can suspend it and switch to a text console with CTRL-ALT-F1, CTRL-ALT-F2 etc. (Once you are in a text console, you can leave off the ALT for subsequent switches.) The GUI takes over one of the text consoles, so you switch back to it with the corresponding CTRL-Fn keystroke—for example, CTRL-F7 works on my Debian system.
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  2954. Hitler and Stalin had Christian upbringings, too. So no, don’t expect that to happen.
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  2955. Funny, the GW Bush administration tried to claim the same sort of thing. As you may recall, that didn’t turn out well.
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  2956. 7:11 The colours are arbitrary and likely to vary between distros anyway. If you want a brief listing (briefer than “ls -l”) that still gives you some info about types of directory entries, let me suggest “ls -F”.
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  2957. What do you think of Jimmy Kimmel’s suggestion for a nominee: Anita Hill.
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  2958. But the Christians seem to be overwhelmingly on Trump’s side. Maybe Biden is more an example of what it means to be a true human being, in spite of being a Christian?
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  2959.  @visitor4253  Much of which was his fault.
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  2960. It’s already Friday afternoon here in 🇳🇿, and I would say I am done for the day.
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  2961. @spirals 73 And he couldn’t have done it without the help of those righteous Christian evangelicals ...
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  2962.  @MrR2WW  Strange, isn’t it. Your President is a Republican, yet he doesn’t seem able to be the President for the whole USA, only for the parts that voted for him. The rest can go to hell.
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  2963. Microsoft’s attempt to stem the haemorrhage of developers away from the Windows platform. Too little, too late.
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  2964. Many implementations did “lazy buffering” to get around this. For example, DEC’s VMS compiler (which I liked because of its system-programming extensions).
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  2965. 5:35 Just as he talks about “room-sized” machines, up on the screen flashes a picture of a PDP-1, the first machine from a new company called Digital Equipment Corporation, pioneering this new computing concept called “interactive time-sharing”, where the computer spent its time waiting for you, rather than the other way round. Oh, and DEC made machines that were cheap enough for this to be a very productive way of working.
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  2966. 11:54 Yup, all the Free Software desktop environments can agree on common standards as prescribed by freedesktop.org, I think is the main place where these things are discussed. They’re not out to wrest control of the marketplace from each other. So your choice of DE doesn’t even have to dictate your choice of what apps you can run.
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  2967.  @danmcgriff1421  Except over here in real life, it isn’t MSNBC saying it.
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  2968. ... and yet another anecdote to add to the confirmation bias regarding superstitions around the number 13 ...
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  2969. Still, it’s better than figuring out hex Registry edits, isn’t it.
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  2970. 3:59 In their explanation accompanying their map, they claimed the rocket launch site was directly behind the hospital.
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  2971. Remember that Microsoft is doing this because it has to, not out of the goodness of its heart. The only reason it has to pay attention to Python is because it is dominating the professional-quality data-analytics industry, and leaving the noddy Excel jocks in the dust. This is a way to make those Excel jocks feel they are still somehow relevant, and also pay Microsoft for the privilege.
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  2972. Nevar! (That’s “raven” spelled backwards.)
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  2973. They had Paul de Casteljau working for them. He pioneered techniques for mathematical rendering of curves for use in computer graphics. Though, oddly, another guy working at Renault got his name on those curves. Pierre somebody.
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  2974. 0:21 I’m thinking that wasp is a “she”, unless it was a drone.
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  2975. We had an Australian come to our country and massacre 51 people. He has had his day in court, and will spend the rest of his life in jail. That is considered justice done. Some of the survivors even say they forgive him. Because that’s what we are like.
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  2976. 9:50 So Haiti was the first true democracy in the Western hemisphere?
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  2977. Macs are the ultimate example of how something can officially license the “Unix” name, yet work nothing like people expect a traditional “Unix” system to work.
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  2978. 1:55 What happens when you associate with loony conspiracy believers, and keep egging them on? At some point their brains implode, and they start to think everybody is part of the conspiracy, even their own side!
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  2979. This is science! Remember, science is the process, not the product.
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  2980. He’s so far down the rabbit hole, he probably has trouble distinguishing the truth from his ideology even on a good day.
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  2981. 11:20 Yeah, but “quality” and “vinyl” ... what kind of person would put both in the same sentence? I rest my case.
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  2982. Look at countries that rate more highly than the USA in adherence to democratic principles, and see how it’s done.
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  2983.  @BrodieRobertson  Why, though?
    2
  2984.  @JoeBot21  Why did they feel the need to introduce gratuitous incompatibilities into their different kernels?
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  2985. Seems like games are the only thing left. Isn’t anybody doing serious work on Windows any more? . . . (Crickets)
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  2986. Somebody is having trouble distinguishing between “median” and “arithmetic mean” ...
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  2987. Most of the 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers did. You know that part about “all men are created equal”? Clearly they either thought their slaves didn’t count as human, or they were lying through their teeth.
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  2988. “JCL” was an IBM thing.
    2
  2989.  @PhotoArtBrussels  You could have been thinking of “DCL”. That was originally only on VAX/VMS, but DEC brought a version of it to some of its PDP-11 operating systems as well. Was this in the early 1980s, by any chance?
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  2990.  @PhotoArtBrussels  That would have been about the right time for DCL.
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  2991. Biological evolution is dumb, and the organic materials it has to work with are pretty crap, too. Just consider how many raw megapixels you have with the rods and cones in each eye, and then see how it’s just impossible to get all that bandwidth through the optic nerves into the brain, at any realistic frame rate. Most of what you see gets thrown away in the eye before your brain can even process it!
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  2992. This is a standard part of the pace of the show. It could be because they wanted to minimize the need to shoot unused footage to keep costs down. This was not exactly a big-budget production.
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  2993. Since you ask an off-topic question, let me give an off-topic answer: Have you tried turning it off and on again?
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  2994. Doesn’t “FOIA” rhyme with “lawyer”? Except you aren’t allowed to shout “FOIA” in a crowded courtroom ...
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  2995. After all this time, his kids still make him laugh.
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  2996. Perspective foreshortening, aka 1990s music video styleeee ...
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  2997. Semicolons: yes or no? Once you understand the statement-continuation rule, you can do without!
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  2998. It’s called “having a sense of humour”. Something that continues to baffle antiliberals ...
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  2999. You don’t really want to make a bomb out of tough armour. Shrapnel, yes, armour that withstands explosions, no.
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  3000. In terms of countable versus uncountable infinity, I think the usual proof of this, Cantor’s famous diagonal construction, has a flaw in it: the numbers that his construction produces all seem to belong to the set of computable numbers. But the cardinality of the computable numbers is known to be the same as that of the integers. So how does that prove the existence of a set with a larger cardinality?
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  3001. Go look up the definition of a “computable number”, and you should see what I mean.
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  3002.  @PattyManatty  Show how the Cantor construction encompasses all real numbers, then.
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  3003. It takes an infinite number of steps to construct that number. It is possible to make up the list so that, after the first n steps of the Cantor construction to produce the first n digits of the number, the result will always provably lie within the first 10**n elements of the list. So you can never actually come up with a number not on the list!
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  3004. No way those additional things will be needed for the Linux kernel. Just as the C code does not require glibc, the Rust part will have to be just as self-contained.
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  3005. An 11/70 was the main campus machine when I started my Comp Sci degree (1979). I learnt a lot from messing around on it--stuff that wasn’t even taught in lectures. Several of the lecturers seemed to have expertise elsewhere. For example, one handed out notes on how to do system service calls on a UNIVAC machine, because that’s all he knew. Which was completely useless, given we had no access to such a machine. Nobody gave a lecture on how to do service calls on RSTS/E — what a wasted opportunity, when there was an actual living, breathing machine running that very OS just outside the lecture hall, that the students could have run actual exercises on.
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  3006. Yes, they do talk to ordinary nobody clients like you or me. In fact, a lot of their traffic is completely unnecessary, coming from misconfigured clients that should be sending their queries elsewhere. But they can’t block it.
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  3007. Debian Stable for servers, Unstable for workstations. I keep my Unstable upgrades down to once a month. Wondering what will break next helps to keep me on my toes. ;)
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  3008. 0:54 The constituents, and also how they are put together. There is an old engineering adage that, in any system, complexity derives not so much from the number of components, as in how they interact with one another. So when designing a system, the “KISS Principle” is more about keeping those interactions under strict control, than simply minimizing the number of components.
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  3009. Remember what Putin helped Assad do in Syria: reduce resisting cities to rubble, make the lives of their inhabitants an intolerable hell of unimaginable suffering, until they simply give up resisting. I think he has tried to do something similar in places like Kharkiv (and of course in Bucha and environs before he was kicked out). So far it hasn’t been quite as effective.
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  3010. I put up with vi for many years back in the days of Unix. Now that everything is Linux, I know that Emacs is going to be available.
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  3011. 8:50 Check your licence. Post-XP versions of Windows did not allow virtualization, at least in the “Home” versions.
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  3012. 0:56 I notice that you have the window manager by the side of the display server. Really it belongs in the graphical interface level, as another client of the display server.
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  3013. 4:55 Lothrings! You won’t believe how full the NZ media was of the whole thing while it was being lensed. Lothrings Fellowshring! Lothrings T-t-towers! Lothrings Returnking! Lothrings! Lothrings! Lothrings!
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  3014. Antiliberals can give you lessons in how to notice people who are laughing at you and assume they are laughing with you.
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  3015. Is it simple to install a new package with just a “click and drag” in Windows?
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  3016.  @SecretAgentPaul  So, tell me, where do you click to install glmark2?
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  3017.  @SecretAgentPaul  Because that was the example that was shown in the video, that you were claiming could be done so much more easily on Windows. Are you backing off that claim now?
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  3018. Ah, is that why the limit.
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  3019. “OS” and “kernel” are pretty much synonymous.
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  3020. There was rather more than just 32 or 36. There were also 24-bit, 48-bit, and 60-bit machines, just to mention a few.
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  3021. 7:30 Uncanny: I had a graduate CS lecturer who reported the exact same experience.
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  3022. BSD is one of those “great projects, if your time is not worth so much” things https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/not-actually-linux-distro-review-deux-ghostbsd/ .
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  3023. 9:37 On-board flash instead of an SD card -- now that sounds interesting. Nice to see it still has the SD-card slot, though. Makes up for not really being an SBC any more. ;)
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  3024. 5:17 So now instead of dotfile clutter, you have environment clutter instead.
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  3025. “Comorbidity” ... you sound like you got thet thar book learnin’. We don’t like no smart-uppity book learnin’ in this hyah adminis--adminis--gummint. We shoots from thuh hip, just like our Glorious Leader.
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  3026. 0:52 How hard is it to find Ukraine? It’s the part attached to the Crimean peninsula. You know, the sizeable bit that sticks out into the Black Sea, and which Russia has occupied?
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  3027. I would have scanned the form, used a typewriter font to overlay the text, then printed it back out again. How would they know?
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  3028. Some of the brains behind the Skia graphics engine originally worked for Apple, where they created the QuickDraw GX graphics engine in the early 1990s. Back then, it would have been a major advance on the old QuickDraw, with integer-only coordinates, that the Macintosh was using for its interactive graphics, and I was a big fan. Unfortunately, it died.
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  3029. I wonder why? Is it because he sounds convincing? Does he ever fact-check anything?
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  3030. You couldn’t use VScode to edit binary files, though.
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  3031. You wonder how conservative Christians could stand to eat hot dogs ... doesn’t the shape of those sausages remind them of something?
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  3032. I saw an item on their channel, but it had comments turned off. I wonder what they’re afraid of?
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  3033. Is “Eris” taken? (She’s the goddess of discord, by the way.)
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  3034. SSH client bug? How would the client even know which part of the output was from wall versus your program?
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  3035. You wonder why they didn’t do that already.
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  3036. The trouble with “it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is when it does break, you find you don’t know how to fix it. The idea of having essential mission-critical business functions depend on obsolete, unsupported software ... especially at a bank ...
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  3037. I think his screwup was in not properly configuring the change in volume layout.
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  3038. IBM boss Thomas Watson Jr was notoriously livid when CDC brought out their legendary 6600 machine, which at one leap became the world’s most powerful supercomputer. A memo he wrote said “I understand that in the laboratory developing this system there are only 34 people, including the janitor”. And yet all the massed might of IBM’s thousands of engineers could not match that achievement.
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  3039. Pity you don’t have a choice of filesystems.
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  3040. Yes, it could very well happen again. People will get lazy again and forget what happened last time. Remember, it’s not a millennium bug, it’s a century bug.
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  3041. I wonder if he’s realized yet that there is a Linux system literally within his arm’s reach? (That PiDP-11 system over his right shoulder, with the toggles and the lights.)
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  3042. Cloudflare also offers 1.1.1.1, in case you want to have an alternative to Google.
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  3043. Because rsync is a much more robust tool that can resume interrupted copy operations, and can be used to verify the copy after it completes. Also it works very efficiently over a network.
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  3044. Actually the “we’re all gonna die” started in 1963 with Dr Strangelove . Stanley Kubrick invented the first black comedy about nuclear war, and techno-optimism has never been the same since.
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  3045. Yes, it is definitely becoming more popular. Blender has removed the option for gzip compression when saving its documents (though it can still read existing gzip-compressed ones) in favour of zstd.
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  3046. 2:04 Your .bashrc has an unnecessary “#!/bin/bash” at the top. That could be useful in other shell scripts, but not in this one.
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  3047. Holding on to power has become everything. Nothing else seems to matter any more. Reality doesn’t matter any more. Humanity doesn’t matter any more.
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  3048. Or, better still, get rid of the Microsoft part and run the Python+NumPy+Jupyter+Pandas+Matplotlib+etc part directly. For free.
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  3049. 150 miles is as close.
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  3050. 08:40 Don’t be scared about running GNOME apps under KDE. Lots of people do it (and the other way round).
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  3051. And of course Russia is nowhere close to running out of men. That’s why they are recruiting convicts to fight--because that’s the cream of the crop as far as warrior skills in Russia are concerned!
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  3052. So what you’re saying is, they would dress more like Doctor Who?
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  3053. The company that owns what’s left of the MIPS IP is now called Imagination Technologies. They’ve gone all-in on RISC-V now.
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  3054. 3:12 By “letter” do you include everything in Unicode classes Ll and Lu? Because, you know, we don’t live in an ASCII-centric world any more...
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  3055. What happens when your audio/video is being received by more than one other conference participant? Does multicasting work in practice, so a single copy of the data is transmitted from your machine, and received by multiple recipients? Or do you have to send out multiple copies, one to each recipient?
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  3056. The reality, at least in the US, is that the gun is far more likely to hurt you, or someone you care about, than it is to successfully protect you against somebody else. This is why, in civilized countries, we don’t buy that sort of argument.
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  3057. Your country, the USA, is the one with more gun crime than us.
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  3058. If an unborn foetus is supposed to have all the rights of a full human being, shouldn’t that include the right to citizenship?
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  3059. One strenuously denied it and stonewalled for months. Hence the need for the raid. Which uncovered even more offending. The other didn’t.
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  3060. I don’t believe that story about it being an inadvertent bug for a moment. The programmers concerned were much too smart for that.
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  3061. 7:27 Nathan Myhrvold is perhaps best known as the founder of Intellectual Ventures, which has basically tried to turn patent trolling into a viable business. After over a decade of trying, it looks like the idea has been a failure. For which we can all give thanks.
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  3062. One of the handy things I have done in Emacs is define custom commands to jump to the next or previous line with the same indentation level as the present one. This is handy for Python programming, since as you may know, Python doesn’t have statement brackets that you could target with the standard jump-to-matching-opening/closing bracketing-symbol commands.
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  3063. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  3064. Here in 🇳🇿, registering is easy. And I even get a notification letter a few months before an election, confirming my current details and telling me that, if they haven’t changed, I don’t need to do anything. And just before the election, they send each of us an “Easy-Vote” card, which we can use in place of some form of ID when we turn up to vote. It’s just a piece of card you tear out of the letter--nothing fancy. Yes, we have protections against voter fraud. I have seen the occasional prosecution for it. But it’s so rare, that all these massive bogeyman scares that certain 🇺🇸 parties like to raise are clearly overblown.
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  3065. 5:21 Worth mentioning that this is entirely a shading trick, called “Phong shading”. It makes no difference to the geometry at all.
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  3066. Sherlock Holmes’s older brother.
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  3067. Another case of Microsoft trying to copy a Unix feature and getting it wrong. On Unix/Linux, every directory that is searched has to be explicitly included in in the $PATH list; leave out “.”, and it will not be searched. Microsoft thought it would be extra helpful and hardcoded “.” into the search algorithm, whether it appears in $PATH or not. And so we are left with yet another unfixable Windows security hole.
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  3068. 2:37 I don’t know why being a “trader” is such a crime. I thought he was a really good businessman, wasn’t he?
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  3069. 8:05 The Trump echo chamber has closed in on itself. Instead of being quoted on Fox News, and then tweeting back what they were saying, he has now imploded on himself and is simply believing everything that comes out of his own mouth.
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  3070. He quit DEC in a huff because management had cancelled his project to create a successor to the VAX and VMS. WNT may be “VMS + 1”, but VMS never had single-letter drive names. Somehow Windows NT kept that (mis)feature from MS-DOS and CP/M.
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  3071. Microsoft is too busy implementing flat icons in Windows 10.
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  3072. If you look in the Top500 supercomputer list, you will see machines based on IBM’s POWER architecture — another RISC-class system. Also China has its home-grown high-performance “Loongarch”, which some say is reminiscent of MIPS — also RISC.
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  3073. 12:53 At least until digital came along and threw everything else out the window.
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  3074. That’s how they spell it in Kzetchoslovakia.
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  3075. Ran Kochav, Israeli military spokesman, is on record as admitting that a Palestinian with a camera is considered just as much of a “terrorist” as a Palestinian with a gun.
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  3076.  @jursamaj  Now you begin to understand why Git became popular, in spite of the dominance of older, big-name products: it’s because it makes the merge problem actually bearable. With prior VCSes, merging was fraught with difficulties and opportunities to screw things up. With Git, it it actually becomes something you can perform as a routine task.
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  3077. 0:01 Kurt Gödel says hi.
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  3078. The way PHP copied iterators from Python -- and screwed them up -- is just another episode of PHP sadness, in my view.
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  3079. I don’t understand the bit about the developer having control over quality-control groups. Sounds like a hint at something that happens within Meta or some other large organization.
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  3080. Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse.
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  3081. Iron Dome ... a gift from the US Government. Does that do anything for your trust in it?
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  3082.  @Soren_Marodoren  It still manages to affect your system. That’s Windows for you.
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  3083. But there’s atmosphere outside their galaxy. How are their airspacecraft going to bank and turn?
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  3084. He should meet our city’s traffic engineer. Hamilton⸸ is full of roundabouts, including lots of little ones. And yes, they work quite well. ⸸Hamilton, NZ, not Hamilton, Canada.
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  3085. Kind of begs the question: if their tests showed this layout was better than the calculator layout, why did calculators adopt the calculator layout?
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  3086.  @marcossidoruk8033  Sounds like a typical Microsoft Windows problem.
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  3087. Just had a check of a more recent COBOL spec. In the section on numeric literals, for fixed-point ones it says “the implementor shall allow for fixed-point numeric literals of 1 through 31 digits in length”. For floating-point, it says “the significand shall be from 1 to 36 digits in length”, while the exponent has a maximum of 4 digits. So there are your official language limits for literals in COBOL.
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  3088. 7:40 Thorn-bird infection spreading to other books!
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  3089. Ah, the clip art: black-and-white or grainy it was, yet it had a definite style about it.
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  3090.  @gblargg  That’s why I wrote GrainyPy, so you can experiment with different dithering algorithms (pattern dither, diffusion dither), in black-and-white and colour.
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  3091.  @hbm293  And you ended up with drive letters.
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  3092. Electoral College + 2-party Tweedledum-vs-Tweedledee system.
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  3093. Of course, that’s why they are having to recruit convicts to try to replace all their combat losses. Because Russian jails are the best training ground for loyal, skilled and effective troops!
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  3094. That would be a side-effect ...
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  3095.  @hachikiina  Not lost https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/science-in-a-golden-age/
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  3096. Triple meaning. “Current”!
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  3097. Wash your mouth out.
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  3098. Here in NZ we looked at various possibilities in the early 1990s. Ireland uses a ranked-choice system. That is good for individuals, not so good for parties. We decided to go for the German-style MMP system, which fits in with party-focused politics.
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  3099. There is only one “pound sign”, and it’s “£”.
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  3100.  @mattwo7  Pound signs not really relevant to the subject of pound signs?!?
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  3101.  @stanrogers5613  I thought there was no Windows 9 because Germany said no.
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  3102. Windows and Mac are for nerds, Linux is for geeks. What’s the difference? A geek has a life.
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  3103. And here I thought the name was either from Flash Gordon , or Blazing Saddles . “Mongo only pawn in game of life.”
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  3104. offers more sophisticated functionality,
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  3105. LibreOffice offers
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  3106.  @thinkpositive3667  On the contrary. Open-source products are famous for adhering to standards, and for working as part of an ecosystem. For example, being able to use their Python APIs and command-line invocation to automate complex operations as part of an integrated workflow.
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  3107. I wonder how many “professional” people run mission-critical business operations on obsolete, outdated, unsupported software ...
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  3108.  @Bubajumba  Marketing is absolutely the key. Proprietary companies like Adobe can afford to spend millions on telling everybody how wonderful they are; open-source software can be just as good or better, but that information can only spread by word-of-mouth. As for support, just think of this: put some of the money you’re not paying Adobe towards supporting the developers who are creating the open-source software; reward those who fix the bugs and create the features you need. Use open-source software to reduce your costs and increase your flexibility, but don’t be a complete freeloader!
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  3109. the old US phone-company monopoly.
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  3110. I watch Al Jazeera. They have local correspondents all over the world.
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  3111. In that case, you haven’t got a hope against your Government. Law enforcement always wins.
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  3112. You can solve that the same way it’s done in TCP -- by putting sequence numbers on the packets.
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  3113. CG folk understand things like linear algebra and quaternions and vector algebra. And the difference between metallic and non-metallic specularity. How do you make fun of people like that?
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  3114.  @stephenbailey9969  People like to go blah-blah on many things, spouting on as though they understand what they’re talking about. Maybe it’s a need to feel important, or get attention, or distract from the issue at hand, or just because they like the sound of their own voice. Maybe it’s a substitute for thinking.
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  3115. To be honest, none of that sounds really bad. That thing about bicycles -- is that a dig at people in LA? 🐧
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  3116. 2:13 Ubuntu may be the one with the biggest mindshare. But even that may be questionable, given the popularity of user-friendly alternatives like Linux Mint. Just because it’s got the biggest marketing budget behind it doesn’t mean it’s got the most users.
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  3117.  @DistroTube  Because it can be freely redistributed at no extra cost to them.
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  3118.  @DistroTube  So you disapprove of Distrowatch basing its popularity ratings on search figures. And all you can offer to counter that is Google’s search figures.
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  3119.  @DistroTube  Do I detect the scent of circular reasoning? Claiming that ubuntu.com being “large, popular and respected” (particularly in the eyes of a company that only exists to sell advertising) somehow correlates to popularity of the distro is exactly the sort of claim I was pointing out as dubious. Mindshare ≠ market share.
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  3120. One political party has completely abandoned any pretense of playing by the rules, and is just out for a naked power grab, at whatever cost, democracy and rule of law be damned.
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  3121. 5:55 Do Americans have trouble distinguishing between a “parity check” and a “parody check”? Otherwise you couldn’t be sure if someone was making fun of you ... even if it was done in an odd way ... or, oddly, if it was being done evenly ...
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  3122. You should be able to have XWayland running all the time as part of your desktop session, for compatibility with apps that need it. That seems to be the default on my Debian Unstable systems (using KDE/Plasma).
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  3123. Official Unicode name for the “-” character: U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS. Note there is no “dash” in its name. Looking for dashes, I find U+2012 FIGURE DASH and U+2013 EN DASH, among others (clearly you don’t mean U+2014 EM DASH). Searching for minus signs, there is U+2212 MINUS SIGN and some others. And, just for fun, there are also other hyphens, such as U+2010 HYPHEN. So in short, “-” is a hyphen and a minus, but not a dash.
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  3124.  @AlienPsyTing1  This is why I normally use rsync to do a file-level transfer instead.
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  3125. 19:01 They do look more colourful and more appealing than the stodgy old IBM gear, you have to admit.
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  3126. And that’s why the USA has suffered more deaths from Covid-19 than any other country in the world.
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  3127. Is there a special place you can be isolated, so you can get sick and die without infecting others?
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  3128. No they weren’t. Switching from TECO/VTED, I found EDT pretty horrible. TPU was better, and I had fun customizing it, but its regex searches had limitations (fixed in later versions). By the way, the earliest versions of Emacs were written in TECO. If you don’t know what that is, imagine what the random characters that appeared on your screen looked like, if your terminal was connected to a serial line at the wrong speed. ;)
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  3129. 14:47 Alternatively, it would be handy to be able to ellipsize the long names on the left rather than the right.
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  3130. The poor Russian grunts know that they are just there to be cannon fodder. No wonder so many want to leave the country.
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  3131. Yeah, because they were never able to conclusively pin those deaths on organic vegetable farming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Germany_E._coli_O104:H4_outbreak .
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  3132.  @lenkacfk7155  Ag-gag is a real thing, believe it or not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag . Yeah, only in the USA would that not be considered a violation of freedom of speech...
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  3133.  @christoferberruzchungata2722  It’s already a large chunk of the code in a single function. Splitting it off doesn’t seem very helpful, when the error message is already supposed to explain what the check is trying to achieve.
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  3134. 5:21 You know the old saying: “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to be technologically-historically-astute” ...
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  3135. 6:55 No, you mean 3 batteries. You already said each one was made of 31 cells.
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  3136. 3:00 Adobe Illustrator was breathtaking when I first saw it in 1988. And the demo disk had Bach’s Sixth Brandenburg on it, which was also pretty cool. However, techno-geek that I am, I soon discovered that it would not let you easily change the type of a control point between a smooth and corner join. When Aldus FreeHand came out soon after, it did have that feature, so I preferred it. Then, sometime in the 1990s, Adobe acquired Aldus, and Macromedia along the way as well. It kept PageMaker and Flash, and possibly also Fontographer, but it got rid of FreeHand. These days, I use Inkscape. Which has all these features, and more. And interoperates nicely with other tools, like GIMP and Blender.
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  3137. FORTH really only belongs in a museum. I don’t see any reason to use it any more. PostScript, on the other hand, had some interesting ideas. Give it proper local variables and lexical binding, maybe even module scoping, and you could have quite a useful programming language. Just dump the obsolete built-in graphics.
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  3138.  @zilog1  I know all that. I understand the difference between YOU FORTH LOVE IF HONK THEN and you PostScript love {honk} if But FORTH’s memory management is still from the Stone Age. Avoid.
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  3139. If only their stupid actions would hurt just themselves, not innocent victims as well ..
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  3140. 10:01 This is really only an issue with coredumps. And you probably don’t bother with those.
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  3141. Not a “Silicon Valley” company as such, but I wonder if anybody has covered CDC. They started out trying to sell business-oriented machines to compete with IBM. But they made the ... “mistake”... of hiring one Seymour Cray as one of their hardware engineers. He was a smart guy, who figured out how to take existing circuit-fabrication technologies and push them to their performance limits. He masterminded the CDC 6000 series, which completely blew away anything that IBM (or any other mainframe vendor) could offer at a comparable price, offering something like 50× the performance of the then-top-end of IBM’s System/360 range -- basically, he created the world’s first production “supercomputer”.
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  3142. Talking of supercomputers, there was an outfit called Convex, from the 1980s. Not sure how successful they were. Also Thinking Machines Corp, who were building massively parallel configurations from around the same era. They were notable for hiring Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman as a consultant. He took a different approach to analyzing the circuit density, that they didn’t quite understand--or trust, at first. But it turned out to be the only way to get a working machine. Then there was the Transputer, from the UK. They were an early attempt at putting massively parallel cores on a single circuit board. They had their own programming language, Occam, based on Tony Hoare’s “Communicating Sequential Processes” concept. Unfortunately, they didn’t last long.
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  3143.  @TheHorseshoePartyUK  Yeah, some plants discovered how to make lignin, which is the basis of wood, allowing them to grow tall into the first trees. But when those trees died, they just lay on the ground until they were buried. It was only later that bacteria evolved that figured out how to eat that lignin and decompose it into something else before it was buried. So all the coal deposits were formed between those two points in time.
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  3144. 11:45 SuSE had a good installer, too. That’s what my biggest Linux-using client was running at the time, so I switched away from Mandrake to that on my own Linux machine. Then I also set up servers with SuSE for this other client that was getting more heavily into Linux.
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  3145. Not just software, but hardware. “Pixar” was short for “Pixel Array”. The company took its name from its one and only hardware product, which it didn’t even sell for that long.
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  3146. Start with an editor that will grow with you. For example, I moved from vi/vim to Emacs about 20 years ago. I started with very minimal customization. But gradually, here and there, I noticed things I was doing repeatedly, that could be done faster with some automation help. So bit by bit I added custom commands to help with those. Currently my main ~/.emacs file is up to about 1200 lines.
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  3147. Beat me, daddy-o, eight to the bar.
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  3148. Is that with or without the 10 seconds you wasted complaining about the 40 seconds?
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  3149. 3:24 Aaah, but why was that interpreted as “00∶30” rather than “12∶30”?
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  3150.  @Proferk  That’s reinforcing my point, not refuting it.
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  3151. Microsoft’s Ribbon was designed before modern widescreen monitors became popular. Note that most text documents are in a portrait orientation, so their visible portion along their long side is limited by the height of the monitor. Which Microsoft wastes by using so much of it to hold the Ribbon. This is why the LibreOffice Sidebar is more efficient, since by taking up space along the long dimension of your monitor, it leaves more room for you to see your actual document.
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  3152. Futhark!
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  3153. But we keep getting told that no living things can survive passage through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting through?
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  3154. 20:46 You could apply the background colour in the compositor. If you experiment a lot with test renders, having to redo manual compositing in a photo-manipulation program gets very quickly tiresome, so it’s easier to let Blender do it automatically.
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  3155. I think we just found the Phantom Aunt-Down-A-Well-Thrower ...
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  3156. 6:08 zsh is the default shell in SystemRescueCD, and I discovered that it has one irritating habit: stripping off the trailing ”/” from a directory name after you have typed it. This causes problems when trying to do an rsync, since the behaviour is slightly different depending on whether the source directory ends with a “/” or not.
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  3157. This was running straight off the SystemRescueCD image, so I couldn’t have set any options if I wanted to.
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  3158. Why wasn’t Trump able to appoint any “honest” judges who wouldn’t be “paid off by the left”? Nudge-nudge wink-wink?
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  3159. Diapers?? #TooMuchInformation
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  3160.  @encycl07pedia-  Rather common, actually, particularly among system directories. On my Debian system, the command find /etc -type d -name \*.\* | wc -l finds 216 of them.
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  3161.  @encycl07pedia-  First you were trying to say they were “far less common”, now you are trying to say “not a place from which users are likely to copy”. What has “copying” got to do with it, exactly? Would you like to back up some more?
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  3162.  @encycl07pedia-  I was talking about directory syntax. What were you talking about?
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  3163. It we have somehow entered an alternate reality, aren’t there supposed to be airships? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ZeppelinsFromAnotherWorld There must be something to make this Bizarro World bearable -- otherwise why would people live here?
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  3164. 10:22 Methinks ’tis time to make a backup of the backup!
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  3165. I had to go back and take a look after you said that.
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  3166. There was an extra spec called CD-TEXT, that added track title/artist information using the “P” and “Q” subcode fields. My car stereo can display this, so my CD-burning script includes the info in the control file for cdrdao.
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  3167. You’re not unwrong.
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  3168. 0:24 Basically, before a computer can start loading and executing a program, it needs to load and execute a program. See the parallel with “lifting yourself up by your own bootstraps”?
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  3169.  @nickd7935  Apple isn’t the only vendor where this happens with Linux. I think the vendors do only as much work as they need to, to look good. Plus they always want to add extra stuff for their own purposes, that you didn’t ask for. Whereas the Linux hackers see performance bottlenecks as things that they just have to hunt down and eliminate, wherever they are.
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  3170. This is how he lost 2020.
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  3171. Now there was a guy to be respected. He was considered for James Bond, but rejected the role because he didn’t approve of the character. Instead, he did the Danger Man series, featuring a secret agent who got by with his wits and his charm, and never blew anything up.
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  3172. It’s a kind of penguin. Are you surprised?
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  3173. His name sounds like “Mitt Schmuck-Connell”.
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  3174. Most of them actually fit inside your head.
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  3175.  @RCAvhstape  Would you entrust mission-critical functions to an OS that can only handle 26 drive letters?
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  3176.  @rucker69  My 1970s-vintage TI-58C could show 12 digits, and actually calculated internally to a bit more than that.
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  3177.  @rucker69  My 1970s-vintage TI-58C could show 12 digits, and actually calculated internally to a bit more than that.
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  3178. Certain computer OSes try to hide the fact that you are using a computer at all. Stay away from them, and there is still plenty of fun to be had.
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  3179. She doesn’t seem to have achieved very much. The Special Master she appointed is not quite the lapdog the Trump team were hoping for.
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  3180. Lincoln, maybe, was the least tarnished of them all. Washington was a slave owner, and it turns out FDR’s “New Deal” was not for black people.
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  3181. Definitely «suitable answer».
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  3182. I don’t think there’s such a thing as “NoSQL” any more. Even the non-relational DBMSes are adopting forms of SQL for their query languages.
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  3183. 4:40 The first computer ever to be given away free on the cover of a magazine!
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  3184. It’s not a scowl, it’s a pout. Ten seconds after that photo was taken, he tried to hold his breath until he turned blue. . . . Then he remembered that blue is the Democrats’ colour.
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  3185. Running your own social network would be a massive money sink. Particularly if potential advertisers stay away in droves, scared off by the sheer looniness of your constituency.
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  3186. And the current spat between ARM and Qualcomm is not helping matters.
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  3187. Which was possibly why they had no problems with publishing all their hardware schematics, and letting other companies make copies. Nowadays the company lawyers would be on you like a ton of bricks.
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  3188. 25:15 “Juggler” was the code name. It was based on technology licensed from, and originally developed by Apple luminary Andy Hertzeld, which he released as “Servant”. When the Apple product finally shipped, it had the much less spicy (and more confusing) name of “MultiFinder”. It wasn’t a new OS, it was an addon to the OS.
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  3189. 8:16 Case in point: the Atari Falcon had a Motorola 56001 DSP, because in those days general-purpose CPUs were not fast enough to do processing of CD-quality sound data in real time. Nowadays we don’t see DSPs much in regular PCs (except maybe embedded inside a controller for some peripheral). But new, more compute-intensive tasks have become popular, which is why we now have programmable GPUs, for example. Will the wheel turn again? Yes, I think it is possible.
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  3190. Remember the rule: never use a .0 version of anything. Wait for 0.1.0.
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  3191. Non-rectangular clipping regions are your friend.
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  3192. 8:34 Access to OpenGL and Vulkan might one.
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  3193.  @UKprl  X2go is very easy to get going.
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  3194. Diddums Putin, war not going the way you expected? Crimea river.
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  3195. beta, eta, theta, zeta ... they all rhyme.
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  3196. “...and that’s what the flashing light is for.”
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  3197. Because it was PROPRIETARY .
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  3198. The gods help those who help themselves.
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  3199. That was one game I managed to complete. I drew up a map by hand as I went through it. Figuring out the “twisty little passages, all different” was fun ;). In the end I remember I could complete it in about 40 minutes.
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  3200. An IDE is more for developing complete apps. Jupyter is more for exploration of programs and data. If a cell generates audio or video output, Jupyter will automatically provide controller widgets so the user can control playback of that output.
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  3201. Or, you know, get out of that 1990s idea that the GUI should be tied inextricably into the kernel, instead of being a modular, replaceable layer ...
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  3202. Arabs are Semites, too.
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  3203. But then, think about the flak the cops got for killing that woman who was trying to break into the House, if the rioters were armed and got killed in the shootout, nobody would be mourning them. Nobody would be questioning the cops for shooting in self defence.
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  3204. The car I’ve been driving lately (newer than my own) has no CD player, but it does have Bluetooth and USB ports.
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  3205.  @gauravshah89  You “may as well be a lie”. You like BSD, fine. Don’t try demonizing Linux, or Linus.
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  3206.  @gauravshah89  You are seriously out of touch.
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  3207. There are “gaps” in the border?? Didn’t Trump manage to build a proper wall? After all the billions he spent on it! Where did that money go, anyway? And when is Mexico going to reimburse it? All you lot who believe Trump is still your President -- why not make him do his job for a change, by fulfilling that part of his promise?
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  3208. All that (Ana)Conda/Homebrew business is for Windows and Mac platforms, where package management is not quite as advanced as Linux.
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  3209. He and Amy Hoggart together.
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  3210. I still have an old Asus Eee 701 literally within arm’s reach.
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  3211. Some called Fonda “Communist”, didn’t they, because of her opposition to the Vietnam War.
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  3212. 0:48 I find the main Microsoft haters are Windows users. You hear them complain loudly about how terrible it is, yet they still keep on using it. Me? I don’t hate it, I don’t use it. End of story.
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  3213. 0:53 I used CD/DVD rewritables occasionally to carry data between my office and a client’s location. They were not trustworthy enough for longer-term use, but they were OK for such basic data transfer needs. This was back in the day when USB sticks were only a fraction of the capacity of optical discs.
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  3214. It’s because USians can’t pronounce “maths”.
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  3215. This is why we have democracies, built with the rule of law and checks and balances -- because we can never fully trust our leadership. But that makes those checks and balances even more precious. We all need to be on guard against attempts to weaken them.
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  3216. 4:50 Not just “short-term” in the server space. Linux is the reason Windows Server, at least the on-prem version, is no longer getting the love it once was. It’s the reason why the HPC version and Windows Home Server both died a quick death.
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  3217. Then you can putt, not drive.
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  3218. 17:35 Is there a connection with Nöther’s Theorem here as well? The symmetry of the laws of physics with respect to position in space has a mathematical dual in the law of conservation of momentum, while their symmetry with respect to time has conservation of energy as its dual. And doesn’t energy correlate to frequency?
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  3219. 22:36 Even today, page-layout apps still exist as a category separate from word processors. Beyond that, the markup-based systems (troff/groff, Tex/Latex) which were supposed to be obsoleted by the WYSIWYG revolution still exist and still thrive today.
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  3220. Science is about confronting the tough questions, not running away from them. Is life too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  3221. 2:08 Here's a logical question for you: if the “bad” guy having a gun is not a deterrent to the “good” guy taking him on, why would the “good” guy having a gun be a deterrent to the “bad” guy taking him on?
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  3222. Ah, but then, he said “atomsphere”, not “atmosphere”. ;)
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  3223. 8:03 Just a note that “ls -A” is more useful than “ls -a”. This is because the latter includes the useless “.” and “..” entries in every directory.
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  3224. 7:32 You mean ... entering the Twilight Zone is actually a good thing?
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  3225. You have to, for compatibility. Because that’s how Windows works.
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  3226. This is YouTube. Use the playback controls, Luke!
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  3227. An Australian named Blair Case has just entered the chat.
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  3228. @gilkesisking Obviously it’s intended as a pun. ;)
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  3229.  @monad_tcp  It’s still there, in the command line and all the filesystem APIs.
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  3230. So it takes two shots instead of one. Not sure why that’s an improvement.
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  3231. But if a crucial part of Trump’s defence is that he is still the sitting President, then the 🇺🇸 Constitution absolutely does allow him to be put on trial in the Senate.
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  3232. Which brings us back to the point: Trump himself is still claiming to be the sitting President. And the sitting President can be impeached and tried, no doubt about that.
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  3233.  Bryan James  He himself says he is still the President. You’re not saying he’s lying, are you?
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  3234.  Bryan James  What a bunch of snowflakes you lot are.
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  3235.  @susanfaris4695  That still leaves 230 million Americans who don’t. You do know how “democracy” works, don’t you?
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  3236. There’s nothing it does that KDE Konsole doesn’t already do better. It’s really kind of sad to see Microsoft behaving like someone trying to act trendy like the cool command-line geeks.
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  3237. There are notes for a proposed “X12”, which you will find on the xorg site somewhere. That’s been knocking around for years ... decades. The trouble is, X is full of legacy baggage (like graphics rendering calls) that needs to be dumped. At one time it even provided a font server, but luckily they were able to get rid of that. Once you remove this stuff, you realize the basic architecture of X, which allowed for having such things in the first place, is over-complicated.
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  3238. Polite and civil. Everybody was allowed to finish their questions, and get complete answers. No cutting somebody off in favour of somebody else.
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  3239. The whole “Unix philosophy” bit is such a red herring. The example small components they mention invariably depend on much larger monolithic components underneath (e.g. the shell, the kernel, the X server). But they never want to mention that. Similarly, systemd may be a large piece of software, but it also lets you write small components -- service files can be very small.
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  3240. One side uses reaction to their provocations as an excuse to exterminate the other side and steal their land.
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  3241. Given the way the US system works, the Republicans have to support him, else the Democrats’ hand is strengthened. Party is more important than country, don’t you know. Think of Trump as fulfilling historical destiny, hastening the end of the ascendancy of the USA and leaving room for the dominance of new players on the world stage, like China, India, Russia, Brazil and others.
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  3242. She’s spent more time in Russia than some commenters here have been on planet Earth.
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  3243. The high and low notes on the vibraphone were coming from the wrong ends. Yes, I’m actually more insufferable than any friend of Jack Kerouac.
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  3244. Is it up to them? Or to the voters?
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  3245. Proving randomness means proving the absence of information about what comes next. Which seems in general impossible to do. (Not the same thing as “you can’t prove a negative”, which is a nonsensical statement, by the way.)
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  3246. We had entire buildings cabled with PhoneNet, using a VAX/VMS machine to offer AppleTalk AFP (AppleShare-compatible) file sharing and printer access via AppleTalk PAP (Printer Access Protocol). The Mac clients also had TCP/IP access via MacTCP over the same cabling. This was when Ethernet was still too expensive to run to every desktop.
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  3247.    If you are objecting to the way Python is designed, take it up with the Python designers. I am merely pointing out how it actually works.
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  3248. NT was supposed to be a multiuser, multitasking, multiplatform and multipersonality OS. Of those, I think only the “multitasking” bit still remains. The whole “multiuser” protection architecture was compromised for the sake of Windows XP (which is why UAC had to be introduced to patch things up in Vista); as for “multiplatform”, every non-x86 port turned out to be a failure, and even today Microsoft is struggling to port Windows to ARM. And as for “multipersonality”, they tried adding a Linux personality with WSL1, but simply could not get that working properly, so had to give up and bring in an actual Linux kernel with WSL2.
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  3249.  @tibbydudeza  The whole point with userland “personalities” is precisely so that they can be accurate enough for production use. Otherwise, why bother?
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  3250. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  3251. Elden Ring was the one that initially had some trouble on Windows, back in February. But Valve was able to offer a fix that worked on the Steam Deck, so it worked fine there.
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  3252. Previous manned rockets were sometimes referred to as “firecrackers”, but a solid-fuelled rocket is very literally one.
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  3253. Did you skip a “Long March 10”? If the Chinese were to omit a number, I would expect it to be 14.
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  3254. Stuart on his own. Gary busy, George and Jan not available to stand in for him? Or Jan deciding she’d had enough of being, not second fiddle, but third fiddle?
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  3255. Yes, there is truth in science. Truth is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
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  3256.  @mskiptr  Trouble is, that “stability” has been rocked a bit by the ARM-versus-Qualcomm suit.
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  3257. 1:33 When we in NZ were under Level-4 lockdown, we had to socially-distance in the supermarkets. They carefully controlled entry and exit, and had markers on the floor to space out the checkout queues. There was never a requirement to wear masks here, though some people did.
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  3258. 5:20 That “which implies” part has not actually been proven. It’s called the “Church-Turing thesis”, and the mathematical term for it is a “conjecture”. It seems to be true, as far as we can tell, in all the examples so far, but, as for the general case, we can’t be sure either way.
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  3259. Rest In Peace, John.
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  3260. On Linux you can have a compose key which works across apps, whether Emacs or Vim or LibreOffice or Firefox or whatever. http://wiki.wlug.org.nz/ComposeKey On Emacs you have an additional feature, CTRL-X-8-RET, which lets you enter the Unicode name. Or you can enter just part of the name, and it will bring up a list of likely candidates you can choose from.
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  3261. Tao is each? Who makes up these speoailing rules, anyway?
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  3262. That sounds like an OS protocol stack limitation.
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  3263. The Ukraine invasion is Putin’s “Operation Barbarossa”.
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  3264. Those languages can’t do function factories and class factories though, can they.
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  3265. The cleverest dictators know exactly when to appear humiliated and weakened, don’t they.
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  3266. 1:51 Notice all those gaps next to the border wall? That’s to stay out of the range of Israeli gunfire.
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  3267. The current standard computer character code is Unicode, but the first 128 characters still embed the old ASCII code that was common before then. And of those, the first 32 are still called “control characters”, most of which have lost their function. But they still include control codes for both “horizontal tab” and “vertical tab”.
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  3268. Fun fact: “tear gas” aka “pepper spray” is a banned chemical weapon under international treaties.
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  3269. 12:50 I deal with that in one of two ways: * For some projects, there will be a schema file containing the requisite CREATE TABLE statements, included in the source tree and version-controlled along with everything else. * For other projects, particularly ones using SQLite, the program itself will automatically create the necessary tables each time it is asked to create a new database, so the CREATE TABLE statements will be in the program source code.
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  3270. 11:40 Funny, he exerted the same level of tight control over his movie-making patents. But since there was no rival technology on offer as an alternative to his, the US movie industry responded by relocating away from where it started -- in New York -- to the other end of the country to get away from him and his lawyers.
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  3271. Yeah, imagine not retorting in kind when they are called names, like primary schoolers would do.
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  3272. This is an opportunity for Microsoft to squeeze a bit of revenue out of those too dumb to realize that they can drop the Excel part—indeed, the entire Microsoft part—and run this entire advanced Python-based analytics stack for free.
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  3273. You could say that Groklaw was on the side of the Good Guys in the SCO lawsuit. In the TurboHercules one, on the other hand, they were pretty firmly on the side of IBM.
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  3274. “Now is not the time ... to ask me that question.”
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  3275. More classic entertainment from the guy whose own employer had to testify in court that he could not be trusted to speak the truth.
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  3276. 11:43 But do all of these other instances form infinite regressions of gaps that cannot be completely plugged, as in Gödel’s original construction?
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  3277. The Vatniki were willing to put up with him in return for him guaranteeing their comfort and safety. Now that he can no longer do that, they have nothing to lose by overthrowing him.
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  3278. We were laughing at him, not with him, during that 🇺🇳 General Assembly speech. But he’s not funny any more. He’s just sad.
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  3279. Dijkstra called APL “the language of tomorrow to solve the problems of yesterday”.
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  3280. LibreOffice and those other Free packages include Python support, which is more advanced than VBA-style scripting features that you get with Microsoft products.
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  3281. Sounds like you need similar gloves to those falconers use. Except maybe longer, covering your entire forearms? Or more?
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  3282. Back in the day when Windows Vista was about to come out, I bought a little Asus Eee 701 PC. You may remember that brief era of the “Linux netbook” -- this was one of the better-known ones. Small (7” screen), cheap, low-powered (900MHz single-core Celeron), little (4GiB) SSD instead of a hard drive. KDE 4 was still in its early days at that time, but I booted it up off an SD card, and enjoyed the full 3D effects, transparency, rotating desktops, wobbly windows and all the rest of it, running nicely in real time. If you remember, the “Aero Glass” effects in Vista would not run on anything but the highest end machines at the time. In fact, this limitation led to the infamous lawsuits over the meaning of “Vista capable” versus “Vista ready”, and whether consumers were misled into thinking they were getting capabilities that they were not.
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  3283. 16:32 It’s not a question of being more “modern”. The man page for apt(8) itself states that it “is intended as an end user interface and enables some options better suited for interactive usage by default compared to more specialized APT tools like apt-get(8) and apt-cache(8)”. So it was never intended to replace any of the latter, and does not include all the options available with the latter.
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  3284.  Mike Luke  1993 was the year of the election with the “hung Parliament”. Almost like the first MMP election, though that wasn’t officially until 1996. That was an interesting time to come to NZ. ;)
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  3285. 7:11 So IBM was doing the whole patent-protection racket before Microsoft: claim that your patents are being infringed, but never say which ones. Naturally any legal settlements will also keep this information secret.
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  3286. They didn’t call it “tweeting” back then. It was more “cooing”, because it was done via carrier pigeons (go look up RFC 2549 -- it’s on the list of Internet protocol specs).
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  3287. ub of an algorithm rather grandiosely called “wave-function collapse”. It’s basically a fun way to create random tilings of given pattern components according to a given set of adjacency rules. Somehow they got the idea that, until you decide which component goes in a cell, that cell exists in a “superposition of states”. Which it doesn’t; its contents are merely “undetermined”. As its neighbours are filled in, the adjacency rules may progressively rule out possibilities for its contents, until just one is left (or maybe even none). And so the probabilities of the different alternatives may change. But a probability is not a wave function!
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  3288. 09:13 That crash happened just six weeks before Apollo 11 took off, I believe. Also, the LLTV, or “Flying Bedstead”, was such a beast to fly, that you needed a fair bit of training before you were allowed to train in it.
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  3289. Conway’s Law: every engineering endeavour reflects the organizational structure that produced it. CORBA was produced by a committee of representatives from Big, Important companies who thought they owned the computing industry. Need I say more?
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  3290. Funny how they make a big deal about the shooting of an unarmed person. I thought they made a virtue out of going around armed?
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  3291. 6:28 Do you think cross-Channel duty-free might come back after Brexit? #AlwaysLookOnTheBrightSide
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  3292.  @donjones4719  GMT is deprecated because it is unclear what it means. The wording of the official definition could make it equal to either UT1 or UTC. But given that those two could differ by up to 0.9 seconds, you can see why a space mission, in particular, would find it unwise to use such a reference.
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  3293. 5:19 So this one was “Navier” ... was the other one “Stokes”?
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  3294. Actually printf is an interesting case, because it shows up the drawbacks of trying to do everything as a library routine within the limited type system offered by C. The trouble is that printf needs to be polymorphic -- accept arguments of any mixture of different types -- which C really cannot handle. So it simply gives up and doesn’t bother checking the argument types. There is another approach, which is illustrated by the memory-allocation API in Modula-2. The language defines built-in “NEW” and “DISPOSE” routines, which are fully type-safe, because they are constructs known to the compiler. But the language itself doesn’t define any memory-allocation routines. Instead, these constructs are translated to lower-level calls to routines named “ALLOCATE” and “FREE”, which are type-unsafe, and not defined anywhere in the language. Instead, they have to be provided somewhere in the program, or imported from some library. This way you get the best of both worlds -- type-checking at the high level, but full versatility of implementation at the low level. Imagine if something similar could be done on a more general scale, for I/O and possibly for other things. C++ uses a similar idea for its memory-allocation mechanism, but unfortunately its “<<” and “>>” I/O operators are a bit rubbish. And its printf support is just as unsafe as in C. GCC tries to do some type-checking of printf format strings. But this cannot work if the string is dynamic, since that requires the argument type information to be available at run-time.
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  3295. vim is just designed wrong. Every other text editor (for example, every GUI text editor) places the current position between characters (or before the first character or after the last character); vi/vim places it on a character. That’s why you need separate “insert-before” and “insert-after” commands. (In other editors, the command is just “insert here”.) And it insists on treating line endings as some kind of special boundary where character-movement commands stop working, so you need different commands to move to different lines. In Emacs and most other editors, moving by characters works across line endings as well.
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  3296. 15:39 If you kept your user files on a separate partition, then you could reformat and reinstall the OS partition without touching them.
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  3297. Here’s a more imaginative answer: 101 (prime) as the difference of two squares: 101 = 10² - i² Or in other words, the factors are 101 = (10 + i)(10 - i) Are these called “Gaussian integers”?
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  3298. Do you also plan to talk at some point about another use for a BFO, for decoding SSB audio? Who would pass up a chance to sound like the Cybermen? ;)
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  3299. In Korea and Japan, there is this long-standing culture of wearing masks if you happen to have a common cold or flu or anything like that. That’s one reason why Covid-19 found it a bit harder to spread in those places.
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  3300. midevil is better than urdevil.
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  3301. Remember what happened to Florida last time. Just in time to decide they couldn’t hold the RNC with in-person crowds of thousands after all ...
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  3302. 16:56 What “update” is actually doing is refreshing your local listing (cache) of available packages, including information like their versions, descriptions and dependencies.
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  3303.  @SimonClarkstone  It had a name: “Jensen’s Device”.
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  3304. One thing experience teaches you is to hold off on optimization until you get the code actually working correctly. I revisited a personal command-line script of mine a few days ago. It was taking about 6 seconds to start each time. I soon discovered a couple of things: * Importing matplotlib is quite slow. So if I defer that to the actual plotting function, so it only gets imported if I use that function, that speeds up the invocation of other functions. * When computing stats over a particular sampling interval, my database query was iterating through all the samples and discarding ones outside the range, because I couldn’t be bothered narrowing things down within the query itself. That made sense at the time, but now I have accumulated over 150,000 sample records, it was time to revisit this decision. So I added a couple of extra queries to determine more appropriate time bounds for the actual query for samples. As a result, displaying accumulated counts over the last 30 days went from 6 seconds down to about 1 second.
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  3305. He has the patience of J.O’B.
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  3306. @A Rogue FBI Agent Alexei Sayle’s recipe for the Great British Night Out was 93 pints and a chicken vindaloo.
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  3307. That’s the easy part: you just fall, and when you find you can’t fall any more, that must be the ground. Or did you mean, find the ground and stay in one piece ... ?
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  3308.  @rdfox76  But wouldn’t that take a whole lot more memory? Since there are an awful lot more places where it isn’t than where it is?
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  3309. The whole “Unix philosophy” bit is such a red herring. The example small components they mention invariably depend on much larger monolithic components underneath (e.g. the shell, the kernel, the X server). But they never want to mention that. Similarly, systemd may be a large piece of software, but it also lets you write small components -- service files can be very small.
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  3310. Further fun fact: the German system was brought in after World War II precisely to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. And it has worked so well, we in NZ copied it. Time for the US to give it a try?
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  3311. God isn’t fixing this. Remember what a wise man once said: “The gods help those who help themselves”.
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  3312. Apple machines only seem to get their performance by tying everything together into a monolithic mass, so you can’t upgrade anything. Basically all their machines now are glorified laptops.
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  3313. That seems to be the sum total of everything the Republican movement stands for these days: try to obstruct the Democrats from doing anything, even if it is good for the country and is popular with voters.
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  3314.  @thekaiser4333  Obviously posting an approximately factual news item was too much of a strain for them, so they had to go and lie down for a while.
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  3315. But remember, this is not a system that Israel can operate on its own. At close to $100,000 per missile, it needs ongoing support from the USA to keep the system operational. Meanwhile, Hamas is launching rockets en masse slapped together on a shoestring, from ordinary household ingredients, in somebody’s Gaza backyard.
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  3316. Yes, but probing, logic-based questions are disrespectful of ideology, don’t you know! That’s how religious people are taught to think.
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  3317. 24:08 I run Firefox, but I don’t feel the need for a hotkey for it. I just start it once after booting/logging in, and then leave it running all the time.
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  3318. Can they do it without US help?
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  3319. Next step: edible insects!
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  3320. Funny how the US was able to ban its Communist Party, yet the KKK gets off scot-free. Which is the bigger threat to American values?
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  3321. Poe’s Law is never far away ...
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  3322. 4:20 But ... but ... trickle-down!?! Reagan said it would be so! Did he LIE to us?
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  3323. 15:09 You should be looking for the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on the machine you’re connecting to . That will contain the public keys that are authorized to get into that machine without a password.
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  3324. Fun fact: Python allows semicolons in places like that.
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  3325. The Russian bullets don’t know the difference. As far the Rashisti are concerned, they’re all combatants.
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  3326. Neither side wants to provoke the other into deploying nuclear weapons. Because nuclear deterrence works.
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  3327. I worry a bit about which way National might go. Their leader is an admitted anti-abortionist, and he has just re-promoted a former leader who is an admitted MAGA fan.
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  3328. Multiple CPUs, yes. What’s the difference between a “CPU” and a “core”?
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  3329.  @Bob-of-Zoid  GPU ≠ CPU.
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  3330.  @Bob-of-Zoid  Quote: “some have GPUs”.
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  3331.  @Bob-of-Zoid  CPUs and GPUs are different kinds of PUs.
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  3332. In Fred Brooks’ The Mythical Man Month ‡, he discussed the possibility of a piece of code getting so complex that nobody could really understand it any more, and any attempt to fix a bug would only introduce a new one. Looking at some of Microsoft’s recent patches, which too often had to be followed by patches to the patches, it seems clear that Windows has reached that point. ‡Coincidentally, a video about this book appeared on the Computerphile channel just a couple of days ago.
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  3333. It’s the bad old chicken-and-egg problem: vendors won’t port their proprietary software to the new platform, because they don’t see customers demanding it. And customers won’t buy it, because the proprietary software isn’t available for it. Ironically, the Linux stack (WSL) offers a full suite of 64-bit native apps. So a machine built specifically by Microsoft to run Windows, ends up demonstrating why Linux is such a superior OS.
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  3334.  @bradavon  That would lose the power efficiency benefits of ARM.
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  3335. You are Fuad and I claim my £5.
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  3336.  PhoenixRising  This would be a great way of reducing the bloat.
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  3337. That time they hadn’t yet come up with the “sarcastic” excuse ...
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  3338.  @jessepollard7132  From the Cray-1 Hardware Reference Manual (published 1977), page 3-28: “The division algorithm that computes S₁/S₂ to full precision requires four operations: 1. S₃ = 1 / S₂ -- Reciprocal approximation 2. S₄ = (2 - S₃ * S₂) -- Reciprocal iteration 3. S₅ = S₁ * S₃ -- Numerator * approximation 4. S₆ = S₄ * S₅ -- Half-precision quotient * correction factor The approximation is based on Newton’s method. The reciprocal approximation at step 1 is correct to 30 bits. The additional Newton iteration at step 2 increases this accuracy to 47 bits.”
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  3339.  @StevePemberton2  If you’re interested, look up the Friden calculators from the 1940s/50s. They could do multiplications and divisions by repeated addition/subtraction. Later models were electrically-driven.
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  3340. Very make-laugh at such undeciding.
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  3341.  @MrRedstonefreedom  It’s not how GUI editors work--notice the insertion indicator is a thin line that goes between or before/after characters, not on top of them. And it’s not how Emacs works. And Emacs arguably has a more sophisticated command language than any vi/vim derivative.
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  3342. You know, it’s only supposed to be in fiction that the chief villain is cursed with comically incompetent underlings. But when you look at Trump and Giuliani ...
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  3343. 6:32 Interlacing is completely unnecessary with modern digital video transmission.
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  3344. And yet it persists!
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  3345. It seems pretty clear (to me at least) that Newton and Leibnitz came up with it independently, because they invented completely different notations for it. And Leibnitz’ notation is actually superior.
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  3346.  @stefanluginger3682  IDEs tend to be inflexible in their support for different build systems. In Open Source software, there are a great variety of build systems in use. That’s why I avoid IDEs, and just use a powerful editor like Emacs. That way, it can drive any build system that the project might be using.
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  3347. Cryptographic hashes are fast enough to run, say, millions of times per second. For password hashes, you want to slow that down to something more like a thousand times per second. That still makes no perceptible difference to a human user logging in, but it will throw a real spanner in the works of brute-force password-guessing systems. By the way, password hashing is useless if you want to do shared-secret authentication, where it’s not just the client authenticating to the server, but the server is also authenticating to the client. For that, you cannot avoid storing plain-text passwords on the server.
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  3348. I’m sure you can do it from within vim—I think it’s “!emacs”, isn’t it—but why not bypass vim and launch it more directly?
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  3349. What did he state that wasn’t fact? Nobody has denied that Trump has indeed called for the overthrow of the 🇺🇸 Constitution. Is there some other side they should have given weight to? That other than being an insurrectionist, he’s a good family man and supporter of the community or something?
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  3350. KDE Konsole has an “Open File Manager” command for this precise purpose.
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  3351. “Neat, tidy pile of GOTOs” ... that has to be seen to be believed. Sounds like a “neat, tidy pile of worms”.
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  3352.  @italianduded1161  I was thinking that the Mafia is more a Southern/Sicilian thing, isn’t it.
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  3353. RSG was the only program I came across where tab stops had a width. That meant you could you could tab to create a paragraph that was indented on both sides.
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  3354. He was supposed to be down there for three days and three nights. He lied.
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  3355. How do you know they were reading glasses?
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  3356.  @rhondah1587  All the time. Just like a short-sighted person.
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  3357. He used to be a good guy. He was Mayor of New York during 2001/9/11.
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  3358. It doesn’t need to be cue cards, it could be a teleprompter, you know.
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  3359. Kids don’t know how lucky they are these days ... In my time all we had was Thunderbird 2 taking off from that short inclined ramp without falling off the end.
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  3360. 7:27 Does the file navigator follow what is called the “spatial” paradigm? That means, if you try to open a folder for which a window is already open, it will bring the existing window to the front, instead of opening a new one? This is what GNOME’s Nautilus does. Some people find it very annoying.
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  3361. Gatwick Airport, Christmas 2018: repeated reports of some drone buzzing about brings all airline flights to a complete halt for several days. A couple are arrested, but later released for lack of evidence. In the end, nothing was found. Nobody even succeeded in getting good pictures of whatever it was. Did everybody imagine it? Answers on a postcard, please ...
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  3362. You are trying to produce a quality result at the final delivery sample rate and bit depth. You have to leave room for processing degradation so you don’t end up producing a worse result than that. Consider the multiply-add operation that is heavily used in FFT and convolution computations. In modern hardware, it is common to have an instruction that can perform it with one rounding error, instead of separate ones for the multiply and the add. So that cuts the rounding errors in half, but it still does not reduce them to zero. And remember you typically have to perform thousands of these operations for each sample.
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  3363. 9:16 Substances were used that are banned under international chemical weapons conventions. That’s right, tear gas is illegal to use in war, fine to use in peace.
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  3364. 1:56 And don’t forget the massacre of Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in 1982 by the Phalangist allies of Israel. That kind of thing tends to leave a bad taste in the mouth.
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  3365. Remember, they’re covered in armour, which is designed to resist explosions. Not exactly an optimal design for a bomb casing.
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  3366. No, in the shell, an exit status of 0 is read as “true” and nonzero as “false”. This is because 0 normally denotes success and nonzero indicates failure of some kind.
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  3367. Greetings from 🇳🇿. Yes, lockdowns work.
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  3368. Electrical/electronics engineering uses “j” to avoid confusion with “I” for current, I believe. By the way, Python also uses “j”, but you have to use it as a suffix on a numeric literal:
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  3369. What is the reason for that?
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  3370. Java adds the twist of a class whose entire set of methods is deprecated, yet the class itself is still needed elsewhere.
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  3371. Railways already exist. They cost four times as much as transport by ship.
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  3372. For testing a drive, I use the “badblocks” utility that comes standard with Linux. It can do read tests and write tests, and also keep repeating the tests as long as new errors keep showing up. And it’s not vendor-specific--it works with all drives. SMART is a waste of time.
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  3373. 9:12 DEC were able to do the same sort of thing, a little bit later, at a fraction of the cost: the PDP-11 was their first byte-addressable machine.
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  3374. When I first heard the “Universal” bit of the name, my immediate reaction was “But, but, Einstein!”.
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  3375. There is a class of user that likes to complain about stuff they use, yet keep using it anyway. Microsoft appeals directly to that crowd.
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  3376. 1:55 This is why I always have a separate root terminal session open somewhere. On top of, you know, the 2 dozen or so terminal sessions I have open under my own user.
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  3377.  @MatthewStinar  COBOL was designed to be highly portable. Hence the specification in the standard that arithmetic always use 18 decimal digits, regardless of the platform. The vendors who were putting together the standard decided that 18 digits was equally inconvenient for all of them!
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  3378. It’s true, antiliberals really cannot tell when someone is laughing at them rather than with them.
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  3379. 10:38 “... or one of its other littermates.” Every good writer will tell you, never miss the opportunity for a bad pun.
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  3380. 4:43 You could get rid of most of the options in that ex() function and replace them with unar instead.
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  3381. Something to think about: the Linux kernel, probably the most productive software project in history, is written in C, not C++.
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  3382. Let me add somebody else to that list: Jacob Bronowski.
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  3383.  @marcasrealaccount  Show me the “using” equivalent, and explain why it’s better.
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  3384. FM is a very inefficient encoding. Consider that it takes up about 10× the bandwidth of an AM signal, but does it really sound 10× better? I don’t think so. DAB is capable of squeezing FM quality into similar bandwidth to an AM signal. And be just as robust to noise.
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  3385. Certainly the insides of the Enigma were considered a closely-guarded secret.
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  3386. If nobody else could figure out how to fit equivalent functionality into the available resources, then Mel did absolutely the right thing.
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  3387. 27:12 LA traffic burn?!?
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  3388. Their religion says they can live forever, so why can’t their leader be President forever?
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  3389.  @rrbaggett7  And no doubt his Liberal policies are actually Conservative ones with similar plastic surgery performed on them to disguise them. Hey, if they want to believe that every subsequent President is just Trump in disguise, and the real Trump is some kind of dummy, why disabuse them of that notion?
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  3390. 5:00 actually gibibytes. You need “-H” for decimal multiples, “-h” for binary.
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  3391.  @leftblank5315  Precisely. If you are after a “seamless” experience, then you have to avoid Windows.
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  3392. 2:42 I did not start by writing my own text editor in Emacs. I started with the defaults, and then gradually added one or two customizations as I found them useful. Hmm, OK, seems my “one or two customizations” have grown a bit over the years, to about 800 lines of elisp currently https://github.com/ldo/emacs-prefs ...
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  3393. There is the definition of a “fanatic” I read somewhere as “someone who has lost sight of their original goal”.
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  3394. If voter turnout was decent, the loonies would never get in. Make every vote count!
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  3395. I thought it was a condition of nonprofit status that you were barred from political lobbying.
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  3396. Years of training, and I think also they had to follow written checklists, and of course Mission Control was always on the line. 90% of their training was how to deal with things going wrong.
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  3397. The Noachian Flood never happened. The creators of the myth forgot about food for the animals, and also that they had to preserve the plants as well. And the salt-water fish in the sea, given that rain is fresh water.
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  3398. “Turnipseed” is a real name. I looked her up online, found a small handful of computer game credits from the early 1990s, that was it.
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  3399. 0:55 They put items about the shootings on their YouTube channel, but turn off comments. What are they afraid of?
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  3400. Some say everybody is entitled to their own opinion. My opinion is, this is false.
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  3401. GIMP’s internal architecture is already structured that way. If you look at the plugin API, you see this thing called the “PDB” (procedure database) -- this is a registry of all GIMP’s operations, both builtin and provided by plugins. Not only can you invoke these operations from a plugin (that includes calling operations in one plugin from another plugin!), you can also type commands directly into the scripting console. Another nice thing is, this is scripting-language-independent. GIMP 2 provided an API for Python 2, but Python 2 is dead now. But I found a way to rewrap the API in Python 3 (see my pylibgimp2 project), and GIMP itself neithers knows or cares about the difference.
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  3402. od”, then you know they are inching their way towards a theocracy.
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  3403. Base 30 seems a better compromise: it has the same prime factors 2, 3 and 5, so it can express all the same numbers as base-60 in terms of exact ratios.
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  3404. An effective speaker has still not been elected.
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  3405. Lots of airlines offer in-flight wi-fi. It’s a thing now.
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  3406. Rich Tennant was the artist behind the “5th Wave” cartoons. These tended to be more computer-oriented, as I recall, rather than looking at physics or cosmology.
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  3407. I used islice() in a presentation I was giving on continued fractions. This was because I couldn’t be bothered putting a termination condition in the generator functions that were producing the coefficients, so islice() had the job of cutting an infinite series down to a finite length.
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  3408. In Python, functions are first-class objects. So yes, they can be part of the state of an object.
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  3409. Customers still wanted them. Even given the close architectural relationship between VAX and PDP-11, there were still people who found it easier to stick to the 16-bit platform.
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  3410. “Frankenstein Jr”?
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  3411.  @yokowasis  We have proper command-line tools and scripting APIs to do automation, we don’t have to struggle to pull puppet-strings through a GUI.
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  3412. If you cannot understand the connection between your own actions and their consequences, you are doomed to conclude that reality itself must be a liberal plot.
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  3413. 0:02 What does he mean “wartime”? Officially there is no “war”, this is a “special military operation”, remember?
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  3414. The next logical thing to talk about after this would be Porter-Duff operators.
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  3415.  @missmary2877  Not at all. Christianity, like all the monotheistic religions, doesn’t have anything bad to say about slavery.
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  3416. It can also help prevent typos.
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  3417. 3:06 I thought the term was “stewed”.
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  3418. 8:47 Slash in an email address? That’s one funky URL ...
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  3419. 46:32 Perpetuating the all-too-common myth that a bit is somehow an indivisible “atom” of information. There is no such thing: it is perfectly possible to have fractional bits of information. If you don’t believe this, then just think about how data compression works. How do you pack a data file of N bits down into M < N bits? It’s possible because the informational content of the original file was in fact no more than M bits. Was this done by looking at the original N bits for those N-M bits that held no information, and simply removing them? No, because the information content is typically spread across all the N bits. Which means each of those original (uncompressed) bits was holding less than 1 full bit of real information. QED.
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  3420. 8:13 I think Konsole has all the same scripting capability.
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  3421. Had they been trying to get hold of them the whole time?
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  3422. Just put a bright light at one end, and the light that leaks through will be dimmer the further the curve is away from it.
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  3423. Linux is everywhere. Here is a long-time Unix hater, and you had to put him literally within arm’s reach of a Linux box.
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  3424.  @paulschulte1064  I live in a democracy which already offers a wide choice.
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  3425.  @paulschulte1064  The whole world has a stake in US politics. That’s why we would like you to get it right.
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  3426.  @paulschulte1064  I see my role as trying to fan the flames of anger that some Americans feel towards the terrible state of their democracy. Maybe if enough people get worked up about it, change might happen. Certainly too many in the US seem to see themselves as the pinnacle of democracy, so if things are bad there, they must naturally be worse everywhere else. They are not.
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  3427. If Pluto, then Eris, too. Eris is bigger than Pluto. But there are another 200-odd objects just like these two. So we call them all “planets”. Then what?
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  3428. Even Ceres, when it was discovered, was initially classified as a “planet”. Then it was realized that here was the first in an entirely new category of objects.
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  3429. s/“Windows Phone that really work”/“Pig that can really fly”/
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  3430. Is there some other site that does a better job of watching all the Linux distros?
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  3431. In a Parliamentary democracy, Parliament is dissolved once an election is called. That means no new laws can be passed. Also I think it means the outgoing Government is put into a caretaker role (limiting the kinds of things they can do) until the new one can be sworn in. More and more it is looking to someone like me here in 🇳🇿 that the US Presidential-versus-Congress system simply does not work as well as a Parliamentary democracy.
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  3432. Not quite $100,000 per launch. Going up against improvised weaponry essentially put together on a shoestring in Palestinian back yards.
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  3433.  @mickeydecurious7082  I don’t think you realize this “Christ” business is a big factor in how Trump got to be President in the first place. We don’t need that again.
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  3434.  @negrildoc  The US didn’t have the technology. That’s why the Japanese were able to do it first.
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  3435. Excel 1.x was Mac-only. The first Windows version was 2.2, if I recall rightly. Microsoft had a longtime habit of screwing up something somewhere. The 1.x versions of Excel only used the bottom 20 bits of each address--I think they used the leftover 12 bits for some odd purposes internal to the application. This caused problems on Macs with multiple megabytes of RAM, where more than one app was loaded under MultiFinder: Apple had to include special code to check for Excel, and ensure it was always loaded at the bottom of RAM.
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  3436. I don’t care, I think it’s fantastic from all angles. The Japanese term “wabi-sabi” might be relevant here. Hats off to Citroën, at the time the maddest car company on the planet. We shall never see their like again.
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  3437. 7:28 The wobble is not about speed, it’s about tracking. In order to ensure the laser is correctly focused on the groove, you can do a comparison of focus error on opposite sides of the sensor; if one is further out, you know which way you have to move the focusing mechanism to bring things back into alignment again. The problem is, the comparison system could develop an offset error over time, from mechanical misalignment, contamination or whatever other cause. To work around this, instead of a steady tracking, you do an oscillating system instead. So now instead of measuring an error signal, you measure the wobble in the readout signal itself, which is more resistant to static offset error. Sony invented a clever system in their MD disc where, instead of the mechanism implementing the wobble, it was built into the shape of the grooves instead. This is the same wobbly-groove idea you are seeing here. (Source: The Art Of Digital Audio , 2nd ed, by John Watkinson, page 577 or thereabouts.)
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  3438.  @Appletank8  Except this aircraft is no longer “new”. That ALIS software was up to version 27 or more.
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  3439. Remember, this aircraft has been in production for over a decade. And with all the hundreds of millions spent, you’d think they would have a decent quality software platform. But no: the interface computer they use for loading software updates and diagnostics is running ... Microsoft Internet Explorer! Yup, they are not only using a control platform based on a web browser, they are using a web browser whose own maker has given up trying to plug all the holes in it. And this is supposed to be a mil-spec system, able to withstand the rigours of hostile enemy attack.
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  3440. Interesting that that Chinese “spy” balloon was just shot down by a missile from an F-22. Wonder why the F-35 couldn’t do the job?
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  3441. I come from 🇲🇾, which is on the other side of 🇹🇭 from 🇲🇲. Is 🇮🇩 closer or further? I suppose it’s closer by sea.
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  3442. Turning wood into sawdust is such a crime. Eat it whole, I say.
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  3443. It seemed to have a reputation for not keeping your source safe ...
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  3444. As a lover of dairy products, the more butter or cream, the better.
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  3445. “UNIX” is officially a trademark which none of the BSDs or Linuxes are licensed to use.
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  3446. 19:33 KDE Konsole has keyboard shortcuts for copy/paste. Since CTRL/C and CTRL/V are legitimate control characters that you may want to enter into the terminal, it uses CTRL/SHIFT/C and CTRL/SHIFT/V as shortcuts for copy and paste instead. Trivia question: what is typing CTRL/V at the command line useful for?
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  3447.  @jilogarcia5979  He’s still more popular than ny Republican. Does that fail to meet the bar for “popular”? You be the judge.
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  3448. Hey, it was a chance to use the old “you should see the other guy” joke ...
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  3449. But we keep getting told that no living thing can pass through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting here?
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  3450. What Trevor said: if there’s one thing Cheneys are committed to, it’s regime change.
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  3451. 7:41 Until the punters find out how much it costs. There is no way to put any kind of meaningful Windows OS into a device that is price/performance-competitive with a Raspberry π. This territory belongs entirely to Linux.
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  3452. Pro world-leader tip: if you are trying to dissuade your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  3453.  @afitlife  I don’t think there is an overall coherent plan. Our leaders may have a rough strategy, but mostly they are reacting to circumstances as they change. That, too, is quite typical of war.
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  3454. Vietnam War logic lives again: “We have to destroy the Constitution in order to save it!”
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  3455. On the contrary, these new features are increasingly tied into CSS.
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  3456.  @jonathanvanier  You have to admit, the whole idea of tying the GUI inextricably into the OS kernel is one that should have been left behind in the 1990s.
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  3457. I think that was brought in (along with “one nation under god”) in the 1950s, under the pretext of the Red Scare.
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  3458. Pro tip: if you’re trying to discourage your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  3459.  @RamonAlbertoEscobarUSA  “Coexist” with neighbours who increasingly see you as a threat. Why would that be, I wonder?
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  3460. Allow me to interrupt for a moment. What you call the “GNU Linux operating system” in fact consists of the Linux operating system (aka “kernel”), with GNU providing the userland. Userland is not the operating system. This is explained quite clearly in Andrew Tanenbaum’s classic textbook on operating systems, otherwise known as the “MINIX Book”. MINIX, if you remember, was a major impetus towards Torvalds’ creation of Linux.
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  3461.  @jfm148  The part which specified what the level of classification was.
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  3462.  @kennyparis8742  Had the FBI been chasing him all that time?
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  3463.  @acidlab9586  Quote: “... in 1993, Trump signed a "use agreement" with the town of Palm Beach, Florida, that changed Mar-a-Lago's designation from a single-family residence to a private club and specified that guests, including Trump, could not stay there more than three non-consecutive weeks per year”. Trump’s excuse for living there is that he is an “employee” of the resort.
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  3464. The Cybers were from CDC, which was Seymour Cray’s former employer. That company was just set up to sell business-type machines to compete with IBM, but they made the “mistake” of hiring Cray, who designed a machine for them that was about 50 times faster than anything comparable from IBM.
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  3465. 16:08 Premiere was originally called “ReelTime”. It was written by Randy Ubillos at SuperMac, and bundled with the VideoSpigot as you see here. Then SuperMac transferred ownership (and the developer) to Adobe, who renamed the product Premiere. I had the version of the VideoSpigot for the Mac LC. I think it could capture 160×120 resolution at about 15fps, Ah, in those days we could only dream of 320×240 resolution ...
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  3466. VS Code is an Electron app. So that means it’s never going to be as slim and fast as proper native Linux code.
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  3467. Funnily enough, Al’s Geek Lab did a feature on Xenix just a few days ago.
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  3468. Another fun thing about the origins of “television” is the name, along of course with all the predictions that it would mean the end of society as we knew it. I remember a quote about it (which a quick search says came from someone named C P Scott): “The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.”
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  3469.  @Spongman  You may care, but that’s no guarantee it will survive. You know how capricious Microsoft can be: look at all the ideas they have promoted over time, only to abandon them. Dotnet Core is not their first attempt to replace Dotnet -- remember what happened to Silverlight?
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  3470. Over 80% of evangelical Christians support Trump, and as far as I know they still do. So be careful with that “God” stuff --- they might sue you for Intellectual Property Infringement.
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  3471. Trouble is, Newsmax thinks Sidney Powell is sane. And Trump already repudiated her. So look for the fractured pieces of the Republican Party to fracture even further.
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  3472. Let me guess: Microsoft Windows users?
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  3473. Flying birds are in general not dumb. It takes brains to navigate in three dimensions. In real time.
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  3474. Do you mean number zero or digit zero? Digit zero came from India.
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  3475.  @VA-gu1jq  They evolved warm-bloodedness independently, that is true.
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  3476.  @docescete3672  Also, bats have exposed testicles (I looked it up).
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  3477. Further thought: cetaceans are one class of mammals that, I’m pretty sure, manage to keep their testicles in their bodies. I wonder how they manage that?
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  3478. Just use the “dd” command. It does sector-level copies between volume-image files and actual storage devices. Actually it does other things as well, but that’s a common application.
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  3479.  @johnstath9666  Just be careful. They don’t nickname it the “data destroyer” for nothing. 😈
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  3480. They tried to trademark that symbol, as I recall.
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  3481. Now they are including a Linux kernel in Windows with WSL. Currently it’s an optional install, but it’s only a matter of time before it becomes mandatory, and more and more critical Windows functionality (including hardware support, networking, filesystems, process control etc) will depend on it. Then, the existing Windows kernel (and Dave Cutler’s work) will eventually wither away, leaving only a GUI layer on top of the Linux kernel.
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  3482.  @hye181  Might not help lol, but might help Microsoft.
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  3483. The fact is, the USA has already suffered a credit downgrade once because of this sort of nonsense. It can’t afford to do so again.
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  3484. Sky News is part of a “globalist media movement”. The same corp also owns Fox News and various newspapers in the US. Say hello to Rupert Murdoch!
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  3485.  @t65bx25  Not sure what that sequence is supposed to do. In my terminal: CTRL-A -- go to beginning of line CTRL-C -- send interrupt CTRL-V -- escape next control character What kind of OS do you think we would use?
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  3486. “I’m having a Windows problem—” “Run as administrator!” Please don’t ...
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  3487. And the ARM architecture created by Acorn went on to become the most popular CPU architecture in the world.
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  3488. The Thin Blue Line did that joke, when some upper-class oik, trying to get off being arrested for being drunk and disorderly, asked desk-sergeant Patricia that question. Her response was “I’m sorry, I can’t help you there. Have you tried asking your mother?”
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  3489. I believe successive Tory governments have tried to water down the NHS, too. But the current ur-Tory, Mr Johnson, now owes his life to the NHS. Wonder if that will colour his thinking any ...
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  3490. The Web didn’t exist back then.
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  3491. By the way, fun tip about the “du” command: if you type something like du -ks . that shows you how much disk space is being used by the current directory and its contents. Suppose it contains a .git subdirectory,
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  3492. 24:50 Reference to John Sculley moving from Pepsi to boss of Apple.
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  3493.  @llearch  I’m not sure I would put up with working at such a place.
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  3494. 17:57 Alvy Ray Smith — one of the grand old pioneers of computer graphics. Quote: “a pixel is not a little square”.
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  3495. Amazing. Meanwhile, other Trump supporters are claiming these rioters are not associated with Trump at all, they are “Antifa” or something. Seems like his supporters have no loyalty to one another. They will happily sell each other out to save their own skins. Is this a movement built to last? Seems like it falls apart at the first real test.
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  3496. Does a “free market” mean you don’t pay for things? And yet that is the essence of Capitalism.
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  3497. I think there are several GUI desktop apps that could do with a bit more help. GIMP 3, for example, has been very slow in coming. I think Inkscape could also benefit from more contributors. And also various video editor projects. Just some off the top of my head.
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  3498. Fly-by-wire can totally change the handling characteristics into anything you like.
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  3499.  @ruprectmorales  To add to your list: Chile, getting a new Constitution after protests against the Pinochet-era one they’ve had until now.
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  3500. I used to run Gentoo, but I found myself spending too much time rebuilding everything from source on every update. So I decided to switch to a distro with prebuilt binaries, but still reasonably cutting-edge. Currently this means Debian Unstable. And for a handful of things where even this is not cutting-edge enough (e.g. FFmpeg, Blender), I build those from source.
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  3501. I would expect that people in the region find both pronunciations equally wrong.
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  3502. Netware may have been a complex and fiddly product to set up, but I think its performance and reliability (and the third-party ecosystem that developed around it) made all that worthwhile. Which is why it took Microsoft several attempts to dethrone it from market dominance. Interesting to see people point to WSL and remind us of “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish”. My response is to look back at the Ballmer days and say that Microsoft already tried “Extinguish”, with every resource at its disposal, and failed miserably.
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  3503. Looking at some of the GitHub users who fork my repositories, I might dispute your inference.
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  3504. Microsoft is increasingly providing patches that either don’t properly fix the problem, or cause new problems requiring further patches. Basically, the strategy of “wait for Microsoft to fix it” is getting harder to reconcile with the needs of mission-critical production systems.
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  3505. I don’t mind the rain. It’ll help fill Auckland’s reservoirs. And I don’t even live in Auckland ...
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  3506. 1:14 But the sound accompanying that impact was a whoosh as of a powered strike, not some passively falling object. Look back at 0:58, and you see the exhaust trail, practically arrow-straight, of a rocket being propelled at the ground.
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  3507. If parallel worlds exist, does that mean there is a parallel world where parallel worlds do not exist?
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  3508. Wot, no “ice pi”? Yes, that‘s “ice pi” with a little i ...
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  3509. 5:39 Oh yes, there is one part of the US Constitution that is absolutely sacred to them. That is, the Second Amendment. All the rest of it can go hang.
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  3510.  @jcbritobr  Jupyter gives each cell its own associated output/interaction area next to the cell, rather than forcing all output into a single area.
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  3511. Given the age distribution of the stars in our galaxy, any other species we encounter would be overwhelmingly likely to be way more advanced than us. Not a few centuries more advanced and flying UFO-style spaceships like in those old movies of invaders from other planets, but millions or hundreds of millions of years more advanced, with technologies almost completely beyond our comprehension.
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  3512. Social commentary ... in a box!
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  3513. Was that the Jesus who was in the “heart of the earth” for three days and three nights, or the one who got out early?
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  3514. Nope. He is nothing resembling a “journalist”. There was a defamation lawsuit filed against him, and his own employer, Fox News, testified in court, under oath, that no reasonable person would believe a word he says.
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  3515.  @mattb4721  Yeah, rice must never be allowed to spend much time at room temperature. It must either be hot or chilled.
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  3516. I see Russia’s favourite commentator is at it again.
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  3517. Imagine running out of space in ... space.
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  3518. The CDC 6600 was a supercomputer. It could do computations about 50 times faster than anything else around. CDC was actually set up to sell business machines. But they made the mistake of hiring Seymour Cray as their hardware guru, and he just wanted to build the world’s fastest computers. And the company had no real idea how to sell them.
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  3519. Sounds similar to how “$” was used in DEC’s DCL. A program could read from standard input, but if that happened to be a batch file, then when it hit a line beginning with “$”, it would normally get an EOF indication instead of reading that line, which would remain for the command interpreter to read once the program had exited. There was a “$DECK” command that could be used to change this behaviour; its presence meant that EOF only happened on a line that said “$EOD” rather than just beginning with “$”. Also you could specify some other prefix character than “$” if you wanted. Interestingly, DCL used “@«filename»” as the command for “read batch commands from «filename»”.
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  3520. So how is it we Internet users can afford to interconnect using lower-latency landlines, and the news networks cannot?
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  3521.  @SeventhPow3r  Heh-heh.
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  3522.  @virginiatyree6705  Worth pointing out, for those who are worried about Big Pharma’s motives -- they tend not to like cures for diseases, and preventatives (like vaccines) even less. The main profit lies in lifetime treatments for incurable conditions.
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  3523. But Linux has no 16-bit ABI. How do you write a “16-bit binary” that runs under it?
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  3524.  @CraigHaydock  Which is the opposite of what you do if you want to promote greater use of a product.
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  3525. 8:09 OK, here’s something to take a bet on: how many seconds of his speech will Former Guy be able to get out before reverting to complaining about how the election was stolen from him? He managed about 5 seconds at that Georgia Senate runoff rally. Will this time be better or worse?
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  3526. 9:09 I think those particular examples would be handled sufficiently by a good frequency response. The extra that’s needed is preservation of the relative phase of the different frequencies: this means accurate reproduction of transients (e.g. percussive sounds, and also the initial “attack” on the notes produced by many musical instruments).
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  3527. Sounds like Linux kexec.
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  3528. There is already an XDG standard, the .desktop file. This lets you define menu items, icons, even document templates. All the major open-source GUIs understand them. They even share common standards for letting you customize things. That’s why you can switch GUIs on a Linux distro and see all the same apps, icons, everything.
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  3529. RSX (and RT-11) could do async interrupt-driven I/O, unlike RSTS where all I/O calls blocked the process until completion. Only having access to a RSTS machine, I felt jealous. Until VAX/VMS came along ...
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  3530.  @JustChuck1982  If you engage in political lobbying, you cannot consider yourself a non-political organization any more. In a secular democracy, that would be grounds for losing any kind of charitable status.
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  3531. One or two machines running Windows HPC did appear on the Top 500 list at one point, but quickly disappeared.
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  3532. Linux runs on more major processor architectures than NetBSD.
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  3533. Still, MS-DOS was not a fast OS. Floppy access was slow; printing was slow; screen drawing was slow; serial port comms was slow.
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  3534. Did you know that more people in the USA get their news from comedy talk shows like this one, than from “serious” news programs? Feel free to rethink your “spit upwards” remark in these terms.
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  3535. Isn’t the Azov battalion all that’s standing between Mariupol and a total Russian massacre? Pro world-leader tip: if you are really trying to argue that the Ukrainians are bad guys, you don’t do it by slaughtering their innocent civilians. That kind of thing tends to make the world suspect your good intentions, you know?
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  3536. The whole cron concept is showing its age.
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  3537. systemd is much more versatile. And it puts user files in the user area, instead of in /var somewhere.
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  3538. That hoary old “do one thing, and do it well” was always a half-truth. It never applied to the Linux kernel itself, or to the X server, or even to glibc. Have you looked at bash? Did you notice its man page alone is over 5000 lines? In order for the small pieces to work well together, the big pieces are essential.
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  3539. systemd is just as modular as the Linux kernel. bash is not modular. And you admit that the X server and glibc are large monoliths. So why do you pick on systemd?
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  3540. 20:50 Oops, the player software has failed to keep the video overlay aligned with the GUI window ...
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  3541. You know the old saying: “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”.
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  3542. Lack of a hardware-imposed stack is not necessarily a disadvantage. Even POWER/PowerPC does not dedicate any register as a stack pointer; that is purely an ABI convention. And that’s about as modern an architecture as they come.
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  3543.  @mheermance  On PowerPC Apple Macs, R1 was dedicated as the stack pointer. I think this might have been IBM’s usage as well.
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  3544.  @mheermance  There’s even a note in the PowerPC documentation that load-with-update (i.e. stack pop) might be slower than doing separate load and add-to-stack-pointer-register instructions.
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  3545.  @Harlem55  No, the problem is entirely yours.
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  3546. 9:09 You’ve already said that the registers seen by the OS kernel are not the same as those seen in user mode, even though they have the same names. So presumably the OS has access to special instructions for accessing the user-mode registers, in order to do this save/restore (and no doubt other purposes like obtaining arguments and returning results for SWI calls)?
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  3547. No, the registers have the same names, but kernel mode has its own separate registers. This avoids having to save/restore registers when switching modes.
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  3548. 12:54pm: Cop: “We just had protestors at Peace Circle breach the line! We need backup!” 1:37pm: Cop: “We’re going to give prior warning. We’re gonna try and get compliance, but this is now effectively a riot.” 1:49pm: Dispatcher: “One-forty-nine hours. Declaring it a riot.” 2:13pm: (As rioters smash through the windows and enter the Capitol) “... Fifty, we have a breach on the Capitol! Breach on the Capitol! On the upper level!” 2:13 pm: Dispatcher: “... east side, they’re requesting additional resources on the east side as they’ve ... broken into that window as they’ve tried to kick it in.”
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  3549. I set up Gitolite for a client a while back. It was easy enough for their staff to use to share in-house code.
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  3550. Occasionally, you do see concepts for futuristic clothing. Basically, the productions that had fashion designers involved looked pretty different from the ones that didn’t. One early example is the movie Things To Come from 1936. That has some characters wearing clothing styles that we would now recognize as stereotypically futuristic. Maybe that’s where that style originated ... For another example, some of us were fans from childhood of the TV series UFO , created by Gerry & Sylvia Anderson back in 1969/1970. Sylvia was responsible for the costumes, and as a result, the show looked like nothing else, before or since.
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  3551. 0:29 Is that a PiDP-11 behind him? The brain of which is a Raspberry Pi, running Linux?
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  3552. Itunes seems designed to prevent you from doing things, instead of enabling you to do them. For example, many years ago, when my mother had an Ipod, I put a bunch of stuff on it that my nephew had asked her to ask me for. The Free software I had available let me freely move audio and video clips between my Linux PC and the Ipod (at least that earlier model, anyway). But when she went back home, there was no way Itunes would let him get those songs off the Ipod onto his Windows machine, so he had to lose them when it did a sync.
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  3553. Wonder why the Forever-Trumpers never put their fraud allegations to a judge. They talk big outside the courtroom, then mysteriously go quiet when they actually get in front a judge. Why are they so afraid of judges and the forces of law and order? They’re not trying to hide anything, are they?
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  3554. Note that title of that book, Starry Messenger , is the same title as Galileo’s book—you know, the one that got him in trouble with the religious authorities.
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  3555. In order to save democracy, we have to destroy it! In other news, war is peace, and freedom is slavery.
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  3556. 10:00 I don’t think HP even got as far as shipping a DDL-speaking printer. They caved to the industry trend towards PostScript, I think not long after this.
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  3557. “Levitating” window manager ...
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  3558. No, they did not. They left their users exposed and vulnerable for about a week before responding and admitting there was a problem.
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  3559.  @fernie6299  You need a system that encourages that.
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  3560. I recall a story from Carl Sagan that the very first pictures from the Viking landers were accidentally “colour-corrected” to make the sky blue. Then when they were fixed later, this naturally fed some conspiracy theorists’ paranoid fantasies, that the landers had never actually left the Earth... But yes, I think all probes (or at least all landers) sent out with cameras also have calibration plates that the cameras can be pointed at for reference. That way they know what kind of colour correction to apply.
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  3561. Did Windows ever figure out the pass-process-context-to-the-new-userspace thing?
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  3562. Travelling faster than light inevitably leads to time travel.
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  3563. Needing to do arithmetic to hundreds or thousands of digits.
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  3564. Not to mention it was the other way round compared to the others.
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  3565. Such a person would never get elected under the US two-party system. That’s why all the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  3566. I heard the inside of the Apollo capsule described as similar in size to a “station wagon”. So nothing from NASA (from that era) could be described as an “apartment building”, by any stretch. Except maybe the inside of Skylab ... Why the Americans never adopted a Soyuz-style design (like the Chinese did), with more room available to the crew in space while still weighing less overall, I’ll never understand ... Trivia question: why did Gemini have ejection seats? Both Mercury and Apollo had that abort rocket on top of the capsule, to get the crew away in case of a booster failure, while Gemini did not. Why?
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  3567. 6:47 You are actually spawning a new bash, the old one is still running. Maybe try “exec bash” to have a new instance of bash replace the old one in the same process?
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  3568. 7:56 And now you have 3 bash processes running.
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  3569. It’s no coincidence that the sound is so similar to that made by telephone modems, since they are both trying to solve nearly identical problems, namely how to use a medium designed for audio to transfer digital data. The obvious differences being: * Modems can ask for a retransmit when they hit an error, whereas the cassette player cannot be stopped and rewound to replay a section under computer control (unlike the tape drives on the bigger computers of the time, for example). * But on the other hand, even cheap audiocassette machines would be capable of better frequency response than the 4kHz standard bandwidth for telephone lines. Another thing is, modem coding technology continued to progress a lot after the days of using audiocassettes for data, reaching a peak of a 33.6kb/s transfer rate in either direction before being eclipsed by broadband technologies like ADSL. If similar trellis-coding techniques were retrofitted onto cassette encoding, it should be possible to load a program of, say, 128kB size in a matter of seconds rather than minutes. Or would that take more processing power than an authentic 8-bit machine could manage? And another thing to look at might be the incorporation of robust error-correction codes, like that on CDs and DVDs. But again, maybe this would require too much additional hardware or processing power to fit within the authentic 8-bit experience ...
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  3570.  @lillywansa5478  It’s up to five people. Seems a cop has died of injuries as well.
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  3571.  @pjschuster61  Oh well, that’s one (relatively) bright spot among the darkness, anyway.
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  3572. Those delay lines would only have been needed on the French SECAM system. The Germans came up with a much simpler solution to NTSC’s colour problems (besides its inability to spell “colour”).
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  3573. “Jacques de Molay, thou art avenged!”
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  3574.  @the_hanged_clown  Classical Latin “C” and greek “K” are both pronounced like “K” in English. For a long time, English speakers seem to have had some trouble pronouncing words from other languages and peoples, so they would “anglicize” them. Nowadays, since English speakers themselves are from so many other languages and peoples, you’d think this effect would have lessened somewhat.
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  3575. I never understood that whole pronunciation preciousness thing. Knuth tried to claim that the “X” (eks) was actually “Χ” (chi), and that the “e” (ee) was actually subscript “Έ” (epsilon), and so on. But the Unix/Linux commands are written “tex” and “latex”, so why continue to pretend they should be pronounced otherwise?
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  3576. 13:13 Was there a character like that in Mars Attacks! ?
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  3577. Slaveowner was a fool. Maybe he didn’t appreciate that the Government always has more and bigger guns than ordinary citizens. And if you shoot at them, they will blow you away and nobody will accuse them of overrreacting.
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  3578. 9:43 Looks like Blender Workspaces. Except Blender Workspaces are customizable.
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  3579.  @wlockuz4467  I have NFI what that means.
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  3580.  @spir5102  Yes, but intellectual perspicacity is seen by their target audience as a liability rather than an asset.
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  3581. The card punch I used might have been an IBM 129. It stored the entire line in memory, with no display (other than a column number) until you pressed a key to punch the card. Make a typo? Hold down a key to advance the column number (preserving the existing contents of the line prior to that) to the point where you need to make the correct, press the correct key, then advance past that to the end (again preserving the existing contents of those columns), and punch a new card.
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  3582. It was better than getting the data-entry people to input the programs. They made so many typos -- confusing “O” and “0” and “1” and “I”, for example. I just found it quicker to input the programs myself.
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  3583. He’s threatening to issue an executive order something something Twitter censorship something something. But if he shuts down Twitter, where is he going to post his bile propaganda lies public service announcements?
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  3584. I did some work on another solution: wrap the GIMP 2 libraries in my own Python 3 wrapper.
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  3585. Doesn’t that mean the Apollo Moon landings were real? Because if the US Government has access to alien technology capable of crossing the light-years, sending a few men to the Moon would be a piece of cake.
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  3586. You know, the guy who actually sent that Elton John song into space, and his car with it.
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  3587. “JOVIAL” = “Jules’ Own Version of the International Algorithmic Language”. That “International Algorithmic Language” being one of the names for ALGOL-58.
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  3588. I thought it would be worthwhile to back up the partition tables on my disks, just on the off chance they get corrupted somehow. I use “sfdisk -d” for this. This can be restored without overwriting the boot loader. Do the other partitioning tools offer similar functionality? I remember being scared off parted some years ago because it could not accurately restore partition locations. I think that might be fixed now.
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  3589. On Vimeo you can re-upload.
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  3590. Yawn How is what you prefer relevant to this video?
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  3591. 23:01 Presumably you are backgrounding the command so it doesn’t block waiting for Emacs to close the window. Another way is to add the “-n” option to emacsclient. That tells it to exit immediately, without waiting for the window to be closed.
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  3592.  @walterhwhite1392  What an omgubuntu thing to say...
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  3593. 6:10 “Looking fine right now” ... shows messages with 4 lines saying “Failed”, 1 saying “Error”, and the remaining 3 showing “Loss”.
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  3594. You must hate Unicode.
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  3595. They sent up a lot more unmanned rockets before the first one with people on board. And they managed to kill one entire crew on the ground. And at least two of the actual Moon missions (12 and 13) could have ended as badly. Apollo 8 wasn’t even part of the original plan. The LEM was running behind schedule, and spy satellite photos suggested that the Soviets were about to try and launch a big rocket. So to try and score a point in the propaganda war, the US opted to send a mission that would just orbit the Moon. And test that the Service Module engine would actually fire up again, in Lunar orbit, after being shut down. What would have happened if it hadn’t fired ... well, we’ll never know.
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  3596. Arabs are Semites too.
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  3597.  @wickednwyld  Yeah! Or claim he couldn’t hear the question over the sound of the engines.
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  3598. NFTs are specially attested on the blockchain or something, so nobody else can claim to have the exact same version as you.
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  3599. Have you ever met anyone with tetrachromatic vision?
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  3600. 11:08 Fun fact: if you want a real-life “Doctor WHO”, how about the Doctor who is head of the WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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  3601. 4:16 But watch out for the security implications of this, if the code you generate was based on input from a potentially malicious user. Unfortunately, I think this is the fatal flaw in the whole concept. This is why it is better to build your own interpreter on top of the base language -- as you could, for example, in Python -- and then generate code for this interpreter from the data. That way you get more control over what exactly the code can do.
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  3602. Conflict resolution is one area where Git is a major advance on what came before. Linus Torvalds himself describes Git as the “stu
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  3603. I prefer to render to separate image files in PNG or EXR format. That way I can experiment with different settings for video encoding in FFmpeg, without having to go back and rerender it all again.
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  3604. Emacs didn’t get GUI support until it had already been around for about 20 years. That was in the 1990s.
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  3605. I don’t memorize (much). I keep a link to the online docs in my browser bookmarks.
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  3606. Likely a stupid question, but has the time factor been taken into account? When that book falls into the black hole, the fall actually takes an infinite time. So the gravitational waves, as weak as they are, could accumulate enough information content over a suitably vast span of time to match that of the book.
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  3607. Prigozhin and Kadyrov are openly mocking the incompetence of the Russian military. And Putin’s repeated reshuffling of the military leadership isn’t helping.
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  3608. Funny, no sign of any Trump supporters to try changing the subject yet.
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  3609. 0:46 Arabs are Semites too.
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  3610. A football coach who uses SI units ... sounds more like football football than what 🇺🇸ans call football?
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  3611. 11:58 Unfortunately, CD-Text only seems to have very limited character-set support. Unicode? Hahahahaha!!!
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  3612. 6:32 Hence Icarus’ immortal retort back to his father: “None of your beeswax!”.
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  3613. 0:41 “\” instead of “/” -- yet another case of DOSlexia.
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  3614. The other thing about Art Nouveau is that it came around the same time as the development of full-colour photolithographic printing. Art is always driven by technology, isn’t it?
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  3615. You have to admit, Poland has suffered a bit lately at the hands of Ukraine, what with that accidental missile attack and also the gift of the grenade launcher that wasn’t supported to be working.
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  3616. In Computer Science we learn about “abstract syntax trees” (ASTs), which are an intermediate representation when parsing a programming language which just represents the structure of the code, getting rid of layout details. Think of LISP as a language that is already in AST form -- I think the term for this is “homoiconic”. Since language constructs can be directly represented in terms of data structures in the language itself, this makes all kinds of powerful manipulations possible. For example, have you ever tried to use “♯define” macros in C or similar? These macros work by string substitution, and that is notorious for being fiddly and troublesome, and prone to mysterious bugs. In LISP, on the other hand, the macro facility works at the syntax level. This lets you do many useful things very conveniently and with much less trouble.
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  3617. Yes, Fuad. That is very funny.
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  3618. 26:14 I had one of those—or a very similar model. I originally bought it to work with an Apple Mac, and was gratified to find it had good Linux driver support, too. On second thoughts, I think mine was the 900, not the 980. It certainly didn’t have double-sided printing capability.
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  3619. Arabs are Semites, too.
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  3620. It’s also way too easy to smuggle guns across the borders to the USA’s neighbours. The gun companies must know about this, since it’s been going on for years, decades. Yet they turn a blind eye.
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  3621. Variable reference: $var Function call: func() Instance variable reference: $ins->var Instance method call: $ins->func() Why isn’t the instance variable reference “$ins->$var”? Why can’t you “identify variables quickly” in that situation?
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  3622.  @haljco  Have a look at the “1420” channel right here on YouTube. Actual on-the-street conversations with ordinary people in Moscow.
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  3623. I wonder if baited breath will catch any halitosifish ...
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  3624. There is also a certain gravy train involving a continual requirement for new editions of books, to discourage a market in second-hand books. Another of those instances of “soft corruption” in 🇺🇸, if you like.
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  3625. 1:57 Dm7!
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  3626. 7:55 Emacs has built-in online help, available from CTRL-H. For example, CTRL-H followed by A is “apropos”, where you can find relevant functions by keyword, CTRL-H C lets you get information about key bindings, etc.
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  3627. Absolutely he will find some way to blame the Democrats. Maybe for not being serious about it, when he himself accused them of a “hoax”.
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  3628.  @PabloTheThinker  He was part of that meeting.
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  3629. It is common to have function-alike Free fonts with identical metrics to proprietary ones. This should stop unwanted reformatting, at any rate. But this can happen even with Microsoft 365† on its own, just moving between different installations on different machines. †Yes, Microsoft is getting rid of the “Office” part of the name.
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  3630. That was the one part of the Apollo program with probably the most women involved.
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  3631. CD-RWs worked by a phase-change method. I think this meant that the material changed its refractive index, and that is how it generated the same interference pattern you got with the pits and lands on a pressed CD.
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  3632. 12:30 Copy-and-paste, he has heard of it.
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  3633.  @lucylillypad1512  I think carbon tablets help.
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  3634. The 1980s called, they want their geek jokes back.
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  3635. This is the well-known base-rate effect. As a computing sysadmin, I see it most often in people’s preconceptions about the (un)reliability of hard disks. Hard disks (at least, all the ones made this century, as far as I’m aware) have this inbuilt self-monitoring system called “SMART”. One of the things it’s supposed to do is predict the probability that the drive is going to fail. I don’t bother with it, because of the base-rate effect.
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  3636. How many shots did Eugene Goodman have to fire to catch those Trumper rioters? Not a single one.
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  3637. Many years ago, I read a book called The Microsoft Way by Randall E Stross. He was a professional historian, who was given pretty much free access to talk to people all round the company. The book was published in 1996, and Microsoft was very different then: big and powerful as it already was, it still retained the capability to react very quickly (and aggressively) to changes in the market, like the rise of the Internet. For example, the Microsoft Windows build server would produce a new development build every night. If the devs came in the next morning and found that the build had failed, they would very quickly pinpoint who was responsible, and that person would very quickly fix the problem. Nowadays it is even bigger and more powerful, but it no longer has that agility.
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  3638. Speak for yourself. My computers are perfectly usable without connections to particular websites. No, I don’t use Microsoft. Why do you ask?
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  3639. 5:15 “No” is the correct answer. Actually the idea of “graphical” programming goes back decades -- an early example was ProGraph on the Macintosh, back in the 1990s, and they have never really been able to make progress beyond that. Besides the objection that bwk points out, another major problem is that you can’t do version control on graphical program blocks. How do you diff two branches, and how do you merge them? We can do that with text code. Look at the massive popularity of Git nowadays, and the major difference that has made to our productivity. Nobody wants to abandon that.
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  3640. We have Unicode now. Why shouldn’t modern programming languages accept “≠” as an operator?
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  3641. The BSDs are the classic illustration of the principle that the success of an open-source project doesn’t depend on numbers of users, but on the strength of the contributions from the community.
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  3642. 9:30 What makes the intervals regular? Doesn’t that depend on what causes the bumps?
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  3643. Just a note that, to get the most out of FFmpeg, you have to build it yourself. This lets you enable certain options together that have incompatible licences (e.g. non-free + GPL), so the result ends up as “unredistributable”.
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  3644. Close to $100,000 per launch.
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  3645. Maybe not quite so “Master” any more ...
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  3646. wget can do recursive downloads of linked web pages. I can’t see any option for that in curl.
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  3647.  @Digger-Nick  If she said it “wrong” then she wasn’t stating “facts” ... unless they were “wrong facts”? Like the border wall would somehow stop people coming in through airports? Hint: Even Fox News wouldn’t accept them as “facts”.
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  3648.  @Digger-Nick  Did you know the net flow across the US-Mexico border is southwards, not northwards? And as you have conceded, there is no “national security” issue or “crisis” with regard to those going into the US illegally anyway -- nothing to justify the total crippling of the US Government as Trump has done. There are already procedures available under US law for dealing with such arrivals, and they don’t require separating children from parents, or treating people in general like criminals. You want these people to obey your laws, yet your own law enforcement doesn’t seem willing to do the same.
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  3649.  @jimbarino2  I remember an article which mentioned the apparent challenge of designing such a fuel pump ... until you realize that it only has an operating life of 10 minutes.
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  3650. Not sure why I would want to use custom structured data types in a DBMS. That breaks normalization.
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  3651.  @mockingbird3099  Do you think they could go on to create the next Google, Apple or Amazon? Only, you know, with Conservative values?
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  3652. It’s like a tiny version of Europa.
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  3653.  @dustinmorrow8184  Makes you wonder why he changed his name to “Herman Munster” ...
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  3654. Remember what John Kerry said: you can either have a Jewish state, or you can have a democratic state. You can’t have both.
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  3655. I think I was the first to put that in writing, but yeah, feel free to post it around. ;)
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  3656. 4:31 Marketing travesty generator! Is there a copy of that text anywhere? ;)
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  3657. 3:03 Which part of Italy, though? There’s the North, there’s the South, and there’s Sicily ...
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  3658. Where did it touch you?
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  3659. That smile was certainly continuing beyond the point of comfort ...
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  3660. Only yobs say “yub nub”. Yobs named “Yentob”.
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  3661. “in democrat party” ... commenter english very praiseworthy, Trump man give big raise.
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  3662.  @praesidio3496  You don’t hear the left claiming the media is the “enemy”. That seems to be a uniquely right-wing obsession.
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  3663. Let’s see your tail-recursive version of Ackermann’s Function.
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  3664. 5:11 What is the point of having all or part of the name “Python” in the name of a Python module? Don’t you already know you are using Python?
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  3665. 1:43 Fred Brooks: The Mythical Man Month . The “Anniversary Edition” dates from 1995, and shows its age in some parts (suggesting AppleScript as a good example of a language category which would have been better served by Perl and TCL at that time, at least, and is best exemplified by Python now), but otherwise still worth reading.
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  3666. 5:00 Those same video games are available in other countries. Yet it is the USA that has the mass killings. What’s different about the USA? The guns.
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  3667. Worth pointing out what Microsoft did with PowerShell. Not only does it represent a major backdown from the formerly GUI-centric philosophy of Windows system management, one of its features is that it lets you look at the Windows Registry as though it were a filesystem, with key entries appearing as files and directories. In other words, Microsoft has admitted by its actions, not just that a CLI offers superior opportunities for process automation, but furthermore that the Unix/Linux tradition of text-based files grouped by subsystem in the /etc directory is also a better way of configuring the system.
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  3668. 7:18 Linux distros can do updates without requiring more and more resources from your computer. Why is it Windows does?
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  3669. Fractals seem like a very convincing illustration of infinity within a finite space.
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  3670. 2:43 It looks like their scripting language is Haskell.
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  3671. 6:40 “Who’s going to break first” ... the amusing thing is that Trump doesn’t count.
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  3672. Yeah, she has to lose points for not knowing about the seeds. Try steaming them.
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  3673. Not apt?
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  3674. It will work for companies that haven’t evolved themselves into a corner. As always in a competitive market, some (who were able to make wiser longer-term decisions) will survive and others (who went for short-term gain) will go to the wall.
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  3675. In all the good democracies, those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  3676. And what a worthy name, for something right out on the edge ...
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  3677. “¬” (U+00AC NOT SIGN) was used for logical negation in PL/I. Being an IBM-designed language, of course it was going to depend on the EBCDIC character set.
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  3678. I wonder what such people think of Microsoft’s increasing reliance on Open Source.
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  3679.  @Buleril1  “Porous borders” ... what happened with that wall he promised, then?
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  3680.  @Scott__C  They seem to be full of excuses why they got it so bad -- blame everybody but themselves, just like their Great Leader of the time. Thankfully that time is over.
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  3681. Yeah, I wondered about that. Did Fermat simply hypothesize that refraction was down to changes in the speed of light, without being able to measure it? Rømer’s discovery was a wonderful accident. He was just trying to figure out why the eclipses of the moons of Jupiter kept varying in time, over about a 13-month cycle. Then he realized that that cycle was down to the relative positions of Earth and Jupiter, and the variation in the distance between them. He didn’t get quite the right answer, but at 200,000km/s, it was well within the ballpark, and a massive advance on any guesses that previous researchers had tried to come up with.
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  3682. Actually “l.clear()” would be more equivalent to “l[:] = []”
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  3683. 4:55 For those who are interested, there are some DEC internal memos discussing PRISM and MICA among the Bitsavers collection.
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  3684.  @gg5115  Microsoft is currently in the same stage as Apple or Oracle: making more and more money out of fewer and fewer customers. And Google doesn’t “own the Internet”, given that, to many people, “Internet” is synonymous with “Facebook”. And yes, OpenGL is used on more devices than DirectX.
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  3685. The cross-your-fingers part isn’t over yet.
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  3686.  @jonathanalonso6492  Point-and-click maybe OK for one-off tasks, not so good for things you need to do a hundred times a day. Then you discover that GUIs cannot be automated.
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  3687. Nobody uses Dotnet for anything important. Microsoft itself won’t use it in anything worthwhile, like Office. Even when they were developing VSCode, they decided to go for, of all things, Electron with JavaScript/TypeScript, instead of DotNet.
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  3688. “Boundary conditions” is a good general term, because you might be solving the equations under a variety of scenarios. For example, instead of starting at an initial time and extrapolating forwards, you might have observations at a given time (e.g. the present) and are trying to extrapolate backwards into the past. “Boundary” is a more general term than “initial” or “final”. And yes, it can also include spatial boundaries as well.
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  3689. Caffeine is a drug, too.
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  3690. Even by Indians themselves. Given the Aryans hadn’t got to India by that point, the Indus people were more likely related to modern Dravidians.
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  3691. 21:18 Remember, he’s talking Pentium 60/66, which were pretty bad. However, the following year, I think it was, the Pentium 90 came out, with much better performance and much lower power consumption, and that completely changed the game.
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  3692. So where does it put the entire Universe, exactly? Given that “Universe” means “everything there is”, where is the machine located whose state represents all these Universes?
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  3693. 5:47 A better example might be a page fault. Here the process is trying to access something that it thinks is in memory, but in fact is not. The access is valid, the operating system simply has to suspend the process until the appropriate virtual page has been loaded into some available piece of physical memory before resuming the process, whereupon it retries the instruction that caused the fault the previous time, which now can execute successfully.
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  3694. “Royal” was Apple’s code-name for TrueType.
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  3695. 7:31 The DEC Alpha was a 64-bit processor. But NT could only run it with 32-bit addresses (“TASO” mode). The only full 64-bit OSes to run on the Alpha were DEC’s own Unix, and Linux.
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  3696. wget does bulk downloads better, curl does form uploads better. curl also implements a whole load of unnecessary protocols.
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  3697. And she has been a supporter of the Palestinians against Zionist Israel.
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  3698. 19:17 The delay between the camera operator’s instructions and the camera responding meant that, in all the previous liftoffs from the Moon, the camera looked up too late, and failed to track the ascent stage properly. This was the last chance. The operator had to work out how many seconds in advance to issue the elevate-camera command, and hope that it would coincide with the actual liftoff. This time, it did.
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  3699. Exchanging jokes about the name of his city? “What is Bristol known for exactly?”
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  3700. Has there been any engineering in the opposite direction? That is, ideas in fuel injectors being used to design better showerheads?
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  3701. If Oracle prevails in Oracle v Google , Microsoft will be able to claim copyright on the Windows APIs and shut ReactOS down.
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  3702. 9:46 Chimneys to channel hot air from the vacuum tubes. Funny I can’t recall seeing anything similar for other vacuum-tube computers from that era. Something to do with Italy’s warmer climate?
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  3703. Restricting the video games (and movies) would mean trampling on the First Amendment. But this is typical of the gun nuts: they will happily sell the entire rest of the US Constitution down the river just to hang on to their precious “right to bear arms”.
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  3704. There’s been quite a lot of unrest over the past few days over Putin’s callup. So not everyone in 🇷🇺 is a complete sheep.
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  3705. Pro world-leader tip: If you’re trying to persuade your neighbours not to join a security pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  3706. I don’t. I still take multiple steps: “git add -u”, check with “git diff --cached”, and then commit. Better to be safe ...
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  3707. If the Universe were cyclic, does that mean that circumnavigating it in space at the right speed (< c) would not only bring you back to your original location, but also back to your original time as well?
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  3708. Very effective. He was off for all of ten seconds. Long enough to effect their cunning Master Plan!
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  3709. A lot of that happening in South America right now. While 🇺🇸 looks to be moving in the opposite direction ...
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  3710. JavaScript/TypeScript for that!
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  3711.  @armincal9834  You tell me. Why doesn’t Microsoft use it in VS Code or Microsoft Office, for example? Actually, I know why. Trying to build core parts in Dotnet was a key reason for the problems in Windows Vista.
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  3712. 🇮🇱 is to 🇺🇸 as 🇰🇵 is to 🇨🇳.
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  3713. Windows backwards-compatibility support is pretty terrible. Drivers and apps break all the time. That’s why so many users hate to upgrade, and stubbornly insist on running older versions.
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  3714. Giving to the satirists, but also unfortunately taking from the voters.
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  3715. I still think Kathy Burke’s finest moments were as part of “The Slobs” on Harry Enfield ...
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  3716. It’s going to be interesting to see how they use their ARM chips in a Mac Pro replacement. The everything-integrated-and-unupgradeable approach worked fine for laptops, but in the higher-end “workstation” market, the ability to upgrade and customize the configuration is very important. But a key factor in the performance of Apple’s ARM machines is the tight integration and doing away with expansion capabilities.
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  3717.  @hbm293  The reality is, they are an important part of the Windows ecosystem.
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  3718. It was so “object-oriented”, that the Win32 APIs are defined in terms of straight C, not even C++. Then later, an object-oriented “Dotnet” layer was created, but never integrated. The one attempt to rearchitect the whole OS in object-oriented terms (Vista before the “Longhorn Reset”) ended in ignominious failure.
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  3719. @Deluded Retrumplicans Everywhere: stand up and tell that to a judge in a courtroom, then I will take you seriously. But not before then.
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  3720. 2:15 Not as diverse as Linux. Windows NT was originally supposed to be a portable OS (running also on Alpha, PowerPC, MIPS and Itanium) but most of that had to be abandoned as just too complex and expensive to maintain. And look at their more recent laughable attempts to run on ARM devices. I hear they’re going to try yet again...
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  3721.  @LikelyToBeEatenByAGrue  Did you buy them?
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  3722.  @LikelyToBeEatenByAGrue  Relevance to my point being?
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  3723.  @LikelyToBeEatenByAGrue  So what were you asking me, again?
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  3724. 18:20 The “Get The Facts” campaign also put out an ad in the form of a fictitious newspaper titled “The Highly Reliable Times”, touting the site-wide installation of Windows NT at the London Stock Exchange. They were not quite so self-congratulatory a little while later when the system suffered a complete meltdown which Microsoft tried to blame on “network issues”. A little while after that, the LSE ripped out their Windows NT servers and replaced them with Linux.
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  3725. Shooting brakes are very versatile cars.
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  3726.  @anon_y_mousse  Don’t forget the alien reptilian overlords of the Xorg/Zorg Foundation ...
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  3727. Keith Packard, “Mr X11”. Also created Fontconfig.
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  3728. The whole idea of tying a GUI inextricably into the OS kernel should have been left behind in the 1990s.
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  3729. 2:11 I should point out that the biggest chip on that board is not the ARM CPU, but the Broadcom graphics chip. It also is the one that controls the CPU, not the other way round.
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  3730. Basically, Dominion, too, are out for themselves. Plus, it turns out they’re not a US-based company anyway.
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  3731. 24:13 Very possibly the PowerBook 100? Very well received, unfortunately had to be discontinued due to some serious miscommunication between Sony and Apple over manufacturing cost ...
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  3732.  @dagda825  It’s part of LLVM. If you haven’t heard of that ...
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  3733. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  3734. Linux system logfiles used to use some idea of a “system” timezone for timestamps. Luckily, systemd does away with this: internally timestamps are stored as UTC, but you can display entries in any timezone you like, by setting your TZ variable in the usual way.
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  3735. Do you really want to entrust mission-critical business functions to obsolete and unsupported versions of software, though?
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  3736.  @yeahaddigirl  Then you don’t want to rely on outdated PPAs, do you?
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  3737. 3:07 procfs was turning into a dumping ground for every little bit of functionality that driver developers wanted to expose to userland. Torvalds gave them a telling off, and sysfs was created as a result.
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  3738. “Each time the Republicans lose the presidency, there are internal reviews that say they need to broaden their base. In practice, they swing further right. So much so, that what had been the loony fringe at the start of the process becomes their centre. By the time of the 2016 primaries, virtually all their candidates had gone full Tea Party. The next step – with Trump already shuffling toward it – is full Q-Anon.” -- Larry Beinhart
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  3739. 09:15 “Data-handling” and “file-manipulating” firmly built around the concepts of fixed-length fields and records, and ISAM files. These days “data-handling” and “file-manipulation” are more descriptive of what you might do in Perl or Python. They mainly involve free-format lines and text-heavy data, where you have to recognize patterns and delimiters rather than count columns.
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  3740. This is not really parallelism. There is only one thread of execution. It simply gives you a way to respond to outside events nondeterministically.
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  3741. As opposed to the President who opposed wearing masks right to the end.
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  3742. Wonder what’s happened to Rudy? Didn’t he come back from his dirt-digging expedition to Ukraine with “more than you can imagine”? Why haven’t we heard anything more? Has he been switched off and stowed in a cupboard somewhere for the duration?
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  3743. ProRes uses DCT compression, just like JPEG. Why not use wavelet-based compression instead?
    2
  3744. Each su command creates a new process. Just exit the su shell to go back to the previous one. Or if you don’t want to keep the previous one around, do “exec su” each time.
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  3745. I worry too, but on the bright side, so far his supporters have shown themselves to be spineless cowards, quite willing to sell out their co-conspirators to save their own hides.
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  3746. I wonder how he would have coped with multithreading?
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  3747. 0:29 I think those are only DVD-DL discs. I don’t see the two-halves thing on any of the DVD-R discs on this spindle on the shelf.
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  3748. “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is all very well until it breaks and you discover you don’t have the ability to fix it ...
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  3749. 18:54 In a democracy, you get to not vote for sociopaths. In the USA, on the other hand ...
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  3750.  @Bdub1952  Hey, as somebody out in the middle of the Pacific, we’d appreciate it if you kept him to yourselves, thanks.
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  3751. Donald Trump is urging his followers to boycott Coca-Cola over their opposition to Georgia’s voter-suppression attempts. But he himself continues to drink it. Hypocrisy, much?
    2
  3752. Either they have term limits, or they should be apolitical. You can’t have political appointees given a job for life.
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  3753. 11:58 Actually mebibytes. And unlike the df command, you add “--si” to ask for decimal units. (Calling them “SI” units is misleading, since the binary multipliers are also defined by SI.)
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  3754. “When Hong Kong demonstrators throw stones at the police in Hong Kong, that’s considered to be heroism in the American press. When in Myanmar, the demonstrators throw slingshots at the ... oppressive army, they’re considered to be heroes in the Western press. When Palestinian kids throw stones at the Israeli solders, they’re called terrorists.” — Gabor Maté, Holocaust survivor
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  3755.  @bngr_bngr  You don’t count loss of family members, and separation from parents, as “suffering”? What’s the minimum score to count as a “Holocaust survivor” these days?
    2
  3756. Does your editor’s extension language understand closures and lexical binding? Emacs’ Elisp does.
    2
  3757. Antiliberals: “I know you are but what am I?”
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  3758. To be fair, it’s at the emptier end of the North Island. /me says hi from just about the centre of population of the entire country.
    2
  3759. Yes, there are places in the Universe with worse service than Comcast ...
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  3760. Every major religion says their god is the only true god, all the other gods are false. They can’t all be right on the first point, they can all be right on the second point.
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  3761. Maybe it could have been implemented faster if more developers had contributed to it.
    2
  3762. All computers are already “quantum” computers. Transistors (and vacuum tubes before them) would not work without quantum effects.
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  3763.  @MegaLokopo  Maybe you shouldn’t have mentioned Windows 10 IoT in this context, then.
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  3764.  @JohnDlugosz  It was true. That gave a performance boost on the hardware back then. Unix systems, with the X11 server as a user process, were at a disadvantage. But those days are over. Hardware is now much more powerful than in the 1990s. Linux can manage GUIs just as responsive, still with the X11 server (or Wayland compositor) running as a user process. And it maintains the advantage of modularity.
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  3765. Macdonalds has gone, but they still have Burger King!?
    2
  3766. Except the Trojan War was from the Bronze Age, while Pythagoras was from Classical Greek Times.
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  3767. SIMH does all the PDPs, I would say. (Except the oddball ones which weren’t really computers.)
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  3768. I wonder what happened to “innocent until proven guilty” ...
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  3769. Verdict: 10/10. Would squeee again.
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  3770. Do you have place names that trip people up? Here in 🇳🇿 we have “Feilding” and “Manfeild”, and yes, they are spelled that way. Also there is “Hanmer Springs”, which I frequently hear pronounced as “Hamner”.
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  3771. Remember the term “crisis actors” ... invented on this network, as I recall. You folks still enjoy using that phrase?
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  3772.  @GSBarlev  Bruce Perens (original creator of BusyBox) has pointed out that getting such approval is not such a daunting task as it seems. The opposition of the kernel developers to GPLv3 never made much sense to me.
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  3773. 15:06 “Custard Pie”? “ZX-81”? ;)
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  3774. Watch out for the predictable antiliberal response that cannot rise above the “I know you are, but what am I?” level.
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  3775. It’s not clear what the future of Dontnet is these days. Didn’t Microsoft try to replace it with Silverlight? Then WinRT? Then UWP? And now (almost) full circle back to Dotnet Core? Proprietary platforms do not have a long shelf life.
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  3776. Microsoft can see for itself that there is no Windows code in there. I was going to say you can, too. But you don’t know how to look at code, do you?
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  3777. One odd thing is, Jim Blinn described bump maps in a paper published in 1978. Yet you don’t see the technique used, even into the 1990s. For example, there was a PC-based CG program called “KPT Bryce” that was very popular in the 1990s, and was used to produce a great many characteristically surreal landscapes/seascapes with strange shapes, bright colours and elaborately-patterned surfaces. Yet all that elaborate patterning didn’t change the fact that the surfaces remained completely smooth. It wasn’t until, say, the latter 1990s/early 2000s that the software started to support bump maps to try to add some texture to surfaces.
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  3778. 6:56 A “milliard” could also be a “sesquillion”, couldn’t it -- a million to the power 1½.
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  3779. Until somebody at accounting goes: “Crafting ... is that the new secret code for something?”
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  3780. They are the smart ones who don’t get taken in by a big company’s ad campaigns into somehow believing that it does favours for its customers. Above all, they believe that, if you buy something, you own it. That’s not an attitude that Apple is comfortable with these days.
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  3781. If this is normal, you can look forward to two more years of it.
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  3782. 3:17 And the reasons why the NSA came out with SHA-1 to replace the earlier SHA-0 (or just plain “SHA”) were not revealed publicly. But the weaknesses in the original SHA were discovered independently a few years later. This was part of a sequence of evidence indicating that the gap between public, unclassified crypto technology and what the NSA has was narrowing, and may not be significant any more.
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  3783. “gala” and “gala” are actually two different words. Don’t mix them up.
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  3784. Never mind the sock, use a spade.
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  3785. I suppose it works just as well as uninstalling things on Windows usually does ...
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  3786. 1:00 Interesting to see one of their advertisers was 3CX. They sell a proprietary PBX product which I think was originally Windows-only. They now advertise it for Linux as well. I suspect they were forced into that because their business has been severely undercut by Free Software offerings based on Asterisk and the like.
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  3787. Talking of 3CX ... have you heard that somebody got into their build systems over a week ago and compromised the distribution of a desktop client app of theirs by bundling malware into it. An antimalware product was sounding the alarm all this time, but it took this long for the company itself to admit it had been pwned. And its arrogance goes as far as banning people from its support forums who have been getting upset over its tardiness in dealing with this.
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  3788. 10:16 No mention that that was an interview with Mehdi Hasan on Al Jazeera? Journalistic credit, they have heard of it ...
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  3789. Certainly the traditional “parenthesis pileup” way of writing LISP code just looks ugly to me. Here is how I write my code: (defun convert-to-region-codes (beg end) "converts alphabetic characters in the selection to “region indicator symbols”." (interactive "*r") (unless (use-region-p) (ding) (keyboard-quit) ) ; unless (let ( deactivate-mark (intext (delete-and-extract-region beg end)) c ) (dotimes (i (- end beg)) (setq c (elt intext i)) (cond ((and (>= c ?A) (<= c ?Z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?A) #x1F1E6)) ) ((and (>= c ?a) (<= c ?z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?a) #x1F1E6)) ) ) ; cond (insert-char c) ) ; dotimes ) ; let ) ; convert-to-region-codes
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  3790. There is a reference Wayland implementation called “Weston”.
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  3791.  @ItsN1key  Trying to equate regular expressions with non-regular grammars is, shall we say, mathematically disingenuous, is it not?
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  3792. “Unix” is a trademark, that you have to pay a fee to license. Basically, all the platforms that can legitimately call themselves “Unix” nowadays are either dead or dying. What matters is not “Unix” any more, it is very specifically “Linux”.
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  3793.  @PythonPlusPlus  This works for me: return \ {kw : _kw_indexes for kw in keywords for _kw_indexes in (find_occurrences(document, kw),) }
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  3794. The way I check is, after 30 seconds, I try opening a link to my comment in a new private-browsing window (no cookies). If I can’t see it, I know it’s gone.
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  3795. That “surveillance” can be conveniently found to be missing when appropriate. Like during the Nemtsov assassination.
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  3796. “She’s not poppin’ her Ps!”
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  3797. Didn’t the prophecy say “He shall be called Emmanuel”? Only he never was. Or at least this claimed “messiah” never was.
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  3798.  @tyeman3039  Sounds like a cross between “Mosaic” and “Prozac” ...
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  3799. Only somebody who grew up on a proprietary platform would complain about “too much choice” ...
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  3800.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Which commands are you referring to? They are all there for a purpose.
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  3801.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Sorry, I didn’t read your comment any further.
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  3802. xev is a handy program for demonstrating this. ;)
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  3803. 6:04 Quirky PageMaker feature: when you have something selected that the text tool applies to, then any settings changes you make apply to that text. If you have nothing appropriate selected, then you are changing the text defaults!
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  3804. The big problem that struck me with quantum computing from the beginning was the claim that, for a linear increase in the number of processing components, you somehow got an exponential increase in processing power. This seemed to me as clear-cut a case of “getting something for nothing” as you could have. And we all know how well that works out in physics ...
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  3805. None of this has any point, unless the US is actually prepared to use these forces. Who are they going to attack? Do they really want to get embroiled in the Israel-Hamas war?
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  3806. 3:44 I use a scratch notebook for this. But really, the whole concept of a notebook is about scratchpad programming and exploration.
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  3807. I thought golfing pants were called “plus fours”. Also: the Government controls TV in 🇺🇸? And nobody told Trump!!!
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  3808.  @brycemw  I doubt Linus Torvalds said any such thing. x86 backward compatibility was basically an albatross around the neck of Intel. If it had “focused on what mattered the most”, it would never have gone down the Itanium dead end, and left the door open for AMD to take the lead with AMD64. I just checked some (early) AMD64 docs, and the REPxx prefixes are listed in the “legacy” category -- not something you would use in new code.
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  3809. 28:52 I have this memory of reading about this machine when I were a wee lad, in an issue of Reader’s Digest that must have come out shortly afterwards. One thing I remember was that it had 500 transistors in it.
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  3810. I just wonder where ghosts get their clothes from. Is there an afterlife for clothes, as well?
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  3811. Somebody misspelled “Trump Fever”. Which is a great name for it, and also one of the symptoms.
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  3812. “Crushing Excel” isn’t really saying much, though.
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  3813. He was NASA director at the time of the fire that killed Apollo astronauts Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee. He took responsibility and resigned. For bonus points: why did Blue Origin name a rocket “New Shepard” (after the first American in space) and another “New Glenn” (after the third American in space) but none “New Grissom” (after the second American in space)?
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  3814. Remember he said if he lost to someone like Joe Biden, he’d be so embarrassed he’d have to leave the country? STILL WAITING!!
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  3815. Instead of “idempotent”, it should be described as a “makefile for distributed configuration”.
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  3816. rsync is so cool. You know Andrew Tridgell developed it for his PhD thesis?
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  3817. Rotorua always smells like that. ;)
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  3818. Another fun fact: the Democrats have won the popular vote in every 🇺🇸 Presidential election since 1992. Or, to put it another way, if the President was elected by a popular vote in which every vote counted equally, a Republican will likely never occupy the White House again. Now do you see why Republicans hate democracy?
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  3819. Got reminded of this item from The Onion : “Prague's Kafka International Named Most Alienating Airport”.
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  3820. 15:26 Let me recommend using “unar” instead of “unzip”. “unar” is more of a universal unarchiver, that can decode .zip, .7z, .rar and .tar formats, among others. Also comes with a companion command “lsar”, for showing what’s in all these archives. https://packages.debian.org/buster/unar
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  3821.  @marcilk7534  Unity involves getting everybody thinking the same way. I doubt the human species will ever become like that. This is why we have “freedom” and “democracy”, to let everybody have their say. Then try to work out some kind of compromise deal. As Winston Churchill said, “democracy is the worst system in the world ... apart from all the others”. It does require all groups to put the good of the country ahead of their party.
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  3822. It was a key revenue generator for the company that originally created it. So it had to work well.
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  3823. Because Republicans have no sympathy for those who are tough on crime ...
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  3824. Emacs is an editor, not (just) a text editor. I have successfully used it to edit binary files. Because, you see, Emacs doesn’t assume a file is split up into lines. So it doesn’t require special commands for moving/editing across line boundaries versus within a line--it’s all the same.
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  3825. There is something called “seal script” which is very old. But I saw it used on a box of oranges imported for Chinese New Year festivities.
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  3826. The password was something you could set in the source code.
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  3827. Neither -- it was all FORTRAN.
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  3828. Where do you think Latins came from? That’s right: Italy.
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  3829. The only famous Tallulah I know of is Tallulah Bankhead.
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  3830. Those CDC machines were the world’s first supercomputers. The boss of IBM sent out a very bad-tempered internal memo, wondering why his thousands of engineers could not match the achievements of some small upstart team that consisted of something like 14 people, including the janitor. Of course, one of those 14 people was Seymour Cray.
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  3831. CVS tracked changes on a per-file basis. So if you refactored your code and moved a function from one file to another, that had to be recorded as two separate commits. The problem with this is that, in principle, you have a state of your repo in-between those two commits, where the code is in an inconsistent state. SVN improved on this by allowing the recording of changes to multiple files as a single commit.
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  3832. It would be nice to make parts of the plumbing more declarative. For example, I share Arjan’s distaste for carrying around large amounts of XML. Why not define a Pythonic representation for that XML info? This is what I did in DBussy, my pure-Python wrapper for libdbus.
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  3833. They were deadly rivals, and yet they were willing to be co-conspirators to help each other look good. Because that’s how world domination works?
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  3834. 22:25 <blink> ... twitch
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  3835. 0:44 No, 32 possible codes. The number of different characters that the Baudot code could actually transmit was 52.
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  3836. You mean you don’t post your .emacs on GitHub, where you can easily clone it onto any machine?
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  3837. 10:30 I think in your case you just needed to add an entry to /etc/fstab so it knew where to mount /usr from, and you would probably have been all right. But why was the SSD partitioned into separate volumes in the first place?
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  3838. It was only his first insurrection offence. I think he’s learned his lesson.
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  3839. The 6502 family (which includes the 6510) was a highly-respected chip in its day. And the Commodore 64 was a pretty respectable machine, at least in the early 1980s, too.
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  3840. LEO ... that’s going way back. Imagine a computer system created by a chain of tea shops! Because their chief statistician saw it as a great way to improve their business, and nobody else had a suitable solution, so they came up with their own.
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  3841. 11:44 Probably there was no clipping as such, it simply chose whether to render each polygon in its entirety or completely omit it.
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  3842. Prigozhin and Kadyrov are openly mocking the Russian military. And Putin is not helping matters by repeatedly reshuffling the military leadership. Far from projecting an impression of competence and a clear plan, he just seems to be randomly chucking different things at the wall in the hope that one of them will stick.
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  3843.  @skipfred  I think Python is great. I have written—and maintained—much larger programs than that.
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  3844. One of the first things seasoned Unix admins used to do when setting up a new system, was install the GNU utilities. Because they invariably worked better than the vendor’s own versions. These days, of course, everything that can legally call itself “Unix” is extinct, so the problem has solved itself another way.
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  3845.  @petitio_principii  Most 1980s-vintage graphics chips were fairly simple-minded: their job was to convert the state of bits in video RAM to an analog video signal that could be fed to a CRT monitor. All the real graphics rendering was done by the CPU. The one notable exception was of course the Amiga.
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  3846. Of course it does. If a platform runs Linux, it has to have gcc to compile Linux.
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  3847. Message from  @Notfunnysam  says one thing, handle says another.
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  3848. @Andrew Simone Does “media” include “Fox News”?
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  3849. A Government shutdown would have hurt everybody in the USA. That’s what he was aiming for, and now he’s upset it was averted with bipartisan help.
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  3850. That’s what a spacecraft orbit looks like on a map projection, if it’s not exactly in the plane of the equator.
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  3851. Both! It’s a tag team of high-powered multiprocessors and low-powered ones.
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  3852.  @altrogeruvah  You make it sound like nobody else could have taken up the development.
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  3853.  @altrogeruvah  Find some like-minded people and start your own project.
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  3854. As if SELinux from the NSA couldn’t already have done that ...
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  3855. 7:11 “Frezznell” and “Yoo-ler” ... tisk-tisk.
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  3856. It was a product of its era: Knuth was trying to be as architecture-agnostic as he could, because “decimal” computers were still a thing. I think in the later editions he threw all that rigmarole away.
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  3857. As a programmer, my instinct is to keep project source code in a plain-text format. This makes it easier for version control, to compare difference between versions, and merge changes from multiple different contributors. This is particularly important for larger documents. Hence using plain-text-plus-markup is preferable to a format where the document is stored as a binary blob. LATEX is one popular markup format with a long history, but there are others. You can, of course, generate the binary document blob as part of the “build” process, for others to consume.
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  3858. That’s two of 🇷🇺’s major Black Sea warships down, two to go.
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  3859. If you want to go back to the First Gulf War to justify invading Iraq, remember that did not arise in a vacuum. Before then, Saddam was seen to be on the side of the West, as a bulwark against Iran. He attacked Iran in a proxy war on behalf of the West, which Iran survived, but which destroyed the economy of Iraq. So then he figured he would take over Kuwait to use its resources to shore himself up. Before that First Gulf War, Saddam massacred thousands of his own Kurdish population with poison gas in Halabja, yet nobody in positions of power in the US or anywhere else in the West described him as a “brutal dictator” for that. It was, you know, a minor peccadillo of an important ally, or something like that.
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  3860. 4:07 Why not use the Decimal type?
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  3861. People are not willing to pay for an OS. This is why Windows profits are declining, even as the code itself gets more and more complicated and expensive for Microsoft to maintain. This is why you see them cutting corners on QA and putting in more and more intrusive ads. The whole Windows business model is dying. WSL2 has introduced a Linux kernel into the Windows installation. The path of least resistance would be to make that mandatory, and rely on it more and more for drivers, network stacks, filesystems and other low-level stuff. Then the antiquated Windows kernel itself can just wither away, until nothing is left but a GUI layer on top of Linux.
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  3862. Edward Tufte would like to have a word ...
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  3863. Feel free to show us how it’s done.
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  3864. 6:07 kthreadd has nothing to do with any of this: it’s purely an internal kernel housekeeping mechanism. Remember, the semantics of userland processes is laid down by the POSIX spec, to which Linux adheres closely. systemd really makes no difference to this.
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  3865. Callable objects seem useful where you have a lot of state to hold. And perhaps you want to provide additional caller-visible methods to manage that state. Otherwise it would be simpler to use a closure.
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  3866. GNOME is easily the most bloated UI out there. And yet it is the least flexible. They keep chopping and changing things around between versions, to the great annoyance of many users. As far as GUI apps are concerned, I think the Unix philosophy stops at the display server. Because that’s as far as you can go with “mechanism, not policy”. Everything above that is specific to some particular policy, it isn’t just mechanism any more.
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  3867. The common factor in all of these variants is ... Linux. Hence the name.
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  3868. What about the block-level interface? Conventional hard drives present an interface where the OS can reliably read and write numbered blocks in an arbitrary order, and build a conventional disk-based filesystem on top of that. Flash storage, on the other hand needs wear-levelling to try to reduce the chance of blocks going bad, and also prefers to do writes in larger chunks. SSD controllers go to a lot of trouble to hide these peculiarities, and present an interface to the OS that looks just like a disk. However, some OSes (like Linux) have purpose-built filesystems that are designed to deal with the characteristics of flash storage, including explicitly taking wear-levelling into account. That means they don’t need the SSD controller providing that disk-emulation layer, which just adds overhead and gets in the way. Are there “bare bones” flash drives, if you like, that do away with the disk emulation, and offer a simpler, more direct controller interface? Would they offer better performance when used with such filesystems?
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  3869. What’s another name for these “Constitutional Sheriffs” that they are proposing? How about “Commissar”?
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  3870. Metropolis is certainly a classic. It’s one movie from the silent era still worth watching. See how actors had to convey emotion with much more dramatic facial expressions and bodily gestures, back when you couldn’t hear them speak.
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  3871. Meanwhile, the repercussions from that superspreader fustercluck that was the Barrett nomination ceremony continue to roll on outwards. Wouldn’t it be fun if it takes out enough Republican Senators that the confirmation hearing has to be postponed? Poetic justice, indeed ...
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  3872.  @hanelyp1  Shared-secret authentication does depend on only the right parties, and nobody else, sharing the secret. How else would it work?
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  3873.  @GSBarlev  He also gave up his post as Python BDFL. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  3874. It does work, every now and then. Various Jewish terrorist groups played their murderous part in winning the independence of Israel, after all. The IRA’s campaign of bombings and assassinations help to get them their place at the negotiating table in Northern Ireland. Nelson Mandela, too, was officially a “terrorist”.
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  3875. 23:35 cgi-bin in the URL ... those were the days ...
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  3876. He would have liked that.
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  3877. Web-scraping is better done with a toolkit such as the Python-based BeautifulSoup.
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  3878. @jdavidgea No, Linux allows the BIOS clock to be either in UTC or local time. UTC is preferable, but some people have to dual-boot with Windows, which insists on interpreting it as local time, so Linux allows for that for compatibility. The Linux system clock is maintained entirely within the running kernel, and is quite separate from the BIOS clock aka “hardware clock”. https://linux.die.net/man/8/hwclock
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  3879. I use .gitignore to ignore files that everybody is likely to see, like build products. I use .git/info/exclude to ignore stuff that only matters to me, like my private “test” subfolder.
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  3880. 4:16 systemd manages its dependencies based on relationships like “wants” and “wantedby”, not based on arbitrary numbering.
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  3881. Fun fact: that joke is funnier in Imperial gallons than US ones.
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  3882. 7:35 Presenter points finger at one of an array of a dozen nondescript-looking chips. Audience nods sagely.
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  3883. The kinds of things I need JavaScript for, a few dozen lines of code directly in a page, without any external libraries or frameworks, does the job just fine. I feel pleased because I figured out how to use “<script type="module">” inserting some code directly in a web page, so that it could be accessed elsewhere on the page, as though imported from a real external module.
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  3884. Microsoft’s fundamental problem is that their GUI is too tightly coupled to the OS, instead of being a separate modular layer like on Linux. This is why you can get such a wide choice of GUIs on Linux, from the full power of KDE, the world’s most advanced and configurable GUI, down to more minimalistic, low-overhead options that can run smoothly on a Raspberry π, all the way to no GUI at all, just a bunch of text-only consoles. And you can get all these options on the same OS installation!
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  3885. Games seem to be the only real reason to continue using Windows. Which leads to the question: is anybody still doing serious work on Microsoft’s platform?
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  3886.  @roastxbeefx7744  Is Dotnet still part of UWP? Or Project Reunion? Or whatever new grand scheme Microsoft is pushing this week?
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  3887. Fun fact: none of the official standard specs for “Unix” say anything about init systems. That’s why, for example, Apple’s MacOS can run its own proprietary launchd and still be officially called “Unix”.
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  3888. Certainly text files are preferable to binary. A key point about version control is about being to diff two different states of the tree to see what has changed. With a text file, you can see changes line by line; with a binary file, you can’t.
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  3889. Well, cluck you too.
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  3890. “Enterprise” drives are a waste of money. Says who? Says a company which makes its livelihood from safeguarding other people’s data: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/01/8tb-hgst-disks-show-top-reliability-racking-up-45-years-without-failure/
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  3891. The difference between science and religion is that science still works, even if you don’t believe in it. That’s how you know it’s true.
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  3892. I think so, too. The resemblance is more superficial than deep. And BNF is a more powerful notation than DTDs. DTDs are not very useful with XML anyway.
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  3893. 5:24 Must have been a Democrat-dominated Congress. Republicans would never have agreed on a Federal standard--gotta respect “States’ Rights”, you know!
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  3894. “It happens sometimes. People just explode.”
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  3895. He’s like Steve Bannon, then--the guy behind Trump. All he needs is his own Trump to be a frontman, and he’ll be in.
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  3896. In Python you can use a generator function to emit the successive candidate positions for each queen. And make it a recursive generator to handle the remaining queens. On modern machines, even a “slow” language like Python can find all the solutions very quickly.
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  3897. Back then, there were about 10 companies making mainframe computers worldwide. Today, all the the others are out of that business, and even IBM isn’t making much money out of them any more. It keeps shrinking and laying off swathe after swathe of staff, and I’m not sure it has had a single profitable year this century.
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  3898.  @jamesf791  Leaves don’t float for very long. Space stations are built to stay in space for a long time, and Dyson spheres just as much so.
    1
  3899.  @jamesf791  Duhhh ... the fact that it’s an artificial structure, stationed in space?
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  3900.  @jamesf791  Are space stations not stationed in space?
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  3901.  @jamesf791  You live on the structure. The structure offers millions of times the surface area of any planet, so there’s plenty of room to live in.
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  3902. 14:11 “A lot of people can’t tell the difference” Says it all...
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  3903. After you casually throw in that remark about slowing down at the end ... never more has your signoff phrase “fly safe” been more apt, I think ...
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  3904.  @gloverelaxis  “There is no such thing as "objective" or "unbiased" when it comes to information presented by humans. Everything contains bias.” Is that an unbiased comment?
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  3905. You didn’t mention ullage—how to (re)start a rocket engine in zero gravity. But yeah, very informative. Great work.
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  3906. I suppose I should clarify that the problem only happens with liquid-fuelled engines. Gas-fuelled ones will start just fine.
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  3907. Blender modelling is amazing. Animation is amazing. Physical simulation is amazing. Renderer is so amazing, proprietary programs are copying it. Python scripting leaves all proprietary apps in the dust.
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  3908. 4:38 I never (that I recall) was told that Galileo invented the telescope as such. Instead, he was told that such a thing had been invented in the Netherlands. Just from the second-hand description, he grasped the principle of the device, and created his own--which happened to be several times better than the original anyway.
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  3909. Galileo’s telescope was immensely valuable to the Venetians he was living among at the time, not for military purposes, but for commercial ones--remember, they were just about the foremost trading nation in the world at the time. Being able to see ships coming to port from further away was a massive advantage in terms of figuring out which trading expeditions were about to discharge their cargoes. Timeliness is money!
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  3910. 0:52 Newton’s third law ($F_{action} + F_{reaction} = 0$). The second law says $F = ma$.
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  3911. The “Random Access” section at the end is not a repeat.
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  3912. Actually even back in the days of 32-bit machines, language compilers would offer software support for 64-bit integers.
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  3913. Apple once tried to get away with MD4.
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  3914. Neat series. Will watch more.
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  3915. Fox ... wasn’t that the network that questioned whether Trump was really a Republican? I wonder which shoe is laughing on the other side of the foot now...
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  3916. “Down” as in “less”, because for example -3 < -2, and if you want to talk about small numbers, -1000000 is much smaller than zero.
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  3917. Lovely stuff. :thumbsup:
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  3918. John McCarthy, the father of LI
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  3919. SP, relates how he tried to suggest to mathematicians that functional LI
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  3920. SP notation would be a less clumsy way of reasoning about computability theory, rather than the traditional Turing machine model with a print head and an infinite tape.
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  3921. Apparently that viewpoint was not popular at the time.
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  3922. 4:12 900 km/s --- just to give you an idea of how much that is, I think galactic escape velocity is on the order of thousands of km/s.
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  3923. Did you know SVG is an application of XML?
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  3924. 0:17 You are Carl Sagan and I claim my £5.
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  3925. The only successful current quantum computer designs seem to be more along the lines of analog computers, rather than digital ones.
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  3926. 12 parsecs ... too long for the Kessel run, then. ;)
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  3927. Don’t believe the hype. Rbola.
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  3928. On most filesystems, space for files has to be allocated in whole units of some minimum amount, commonly called the “cluster size” (1KB on your particular volume). So even if the data occupies just 1 byte, you still need to allocate one whole cluster to the file. Some filesystems add a concept called “tail packing”, where these small sequences of leftover bytes at the ends of different files are stored in a common shared cluster.
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  3929. We’re talking analog Toasters, right? Not digital “Toaster Flyers” or such? Strictly NTSC-only.
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  3930. @Knobcore Precisely my point.
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  3931. “Power-sliding off the launch pad” shall be my phrase of the week. ;)
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  3932. There is a very real chance that measles will soon become widespread in the US again <https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/study-us-is-slipping-toward-measles-being-endemic-once-again/>
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  3933. Remember when Trump addressed the NRA convention and said he was going to abolish gun-free zones? That is, prevent people from prohibiting guns in places like schools? What was funny was the sign outside the convention centre saying “NO WEAPONS ALLOWED”. That’s right—the NRA convention was itself a gun-free zone!
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  3934. Good explanation of the “1202 alarm” and “1201 alarm” that happened during the Apollo 11 moon landing here: https://arstechnica.com/science/2015/07/no-a-checklist-error-did-not-almost-derail-the-first-moon-landing/
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  3935. You should see the scene where Diane Keaton acts Jewish to pretend to be Woody Allen’s mother, to try to jog him into regaining his memories.
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  3936. 4:24 aw come on ... orangeface!? That’s got to be an insult to Trump’s race ... whatever that is ...
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  3937. And B&W TV worked so well because the eye is more sensitive to brightness/lightness than it is to colour.
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  3938. No other word processor had a “Reveal Codes” function because no other word processor used embedded codes for formatting.
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  3939. Only in the US is the voting system itself so heavily politicized. In more rational democracies, issues like electorate boundaries and voter registration are put in the hands of independent, impartial, non-political bodies that operate transparently, open to public scrutiny. This, I think, is why you see such a high degree of cynicism about democracy in the US. That and the fact that your whole political system was founded on slavery.
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  3940. 12:27 It isn’t, but then some people won’t accept any proof at all. 12:53 OK, that was a clever way to turn it around. :)
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  3941. 0:48 Nothing “complicated” about settlements. They should just get rid of them. End of story.
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  3942. Greetings from just about the opposite side of the North Island from Mahia Spaceport. ;) How small can you get? Could you have a (figuratively) pocket-sized rocket launch something weighing a few grams into Earth orbit? Or even further, send it to the Moon? Beyond? Seems to me the square-cube law would work in your favour here.
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  3943. Trouble is it’s only a slave OS that expects you to control it from a computer running “real” Windows. Whereas Linux for the π is a full OS that can host its own development tools and other apps.
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  3944. 1:10 What are you saying??? That Star Wars is FAKE!?!?! Say it ain’t so!
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  3945. A bit earlier than that, they published an (in)famous editorial arguing that rockets would never work in space, because there was “nothing to push against”. They didn’t retract it until much later.
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  3946. He’s too busy conquering the entire computing world with Linux.
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  3947. 19:08 In order for something to be “theoretical”, you have to have some actual theory to base your claim on. He has none.
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  3948. Ah, but they didn’t specify the rotation axis, did they? That meant they were only thinking in 2 dimensions.
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  3949. The LVDC was made of hard-wired logic gates, so it wasn’t a programmable computer as such. And it worked in conjunction with an analog computer, which handled the low-level stuff (like adjusting the rocket nozzle gimbals) and could respond much faster.
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  3950. After many years’ experience, most of us have come to the conclusion that lex/flex and yacc/bison are not really worth using. Yes, you can generate automatic parsers for full LR(k) grammars, but we usually find we can get by just fine with LL(1) grammars, which can be handled quite easily with recursive-descent parsers. And hand-coding parsers and lexers makes them faster anyway.
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  3951. Linux desktops are more configurable than that. And it’s all done without needing an “object-oriented” kernel.
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  3952. No, mayonnaise an island.
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  3953. A lot of the generation loss copying between consumer VCRs was not so much actual degradation of the video signal, but poor timebase sync. There were gadgets you could buy (I have one) that would clean up the sync and give you much better copies. Would that have made a difference to the comparison?
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  3954. Linux rubs Windows 10 all right ... into the dust. ;)
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  3955. When you said “cretin”, it became clear that you use personal attacks as a smokescreen to cover up a failing argument.
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  3956. 3:19 No it is not the rotation of the Earth that is irregular (not to the extent of 16 minutes, anyway): that discrepancy arises from two facts: 1) that the Earth’s orbit is an ellipse, and 2) the Earth’s rotation axis is inclined to the plane of its orbit. Put these two together, and you get the periodic variation in the apparent motion of the Sun across the sky, which is called the “Equation of Time” (sounds like something out of “Doctor Who”, doesn’t it?). Averaging this out over the year gives you ”Mean Solar Time” at any particular point.
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  3957. Haynes Saturn V manual? I can just see some bloke spending his weekend underneath the third stage with a spanner, before uttering that immortal cry to his mate: “Give ’er a kick in the guts, Trev!”
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  3958. Yes it is. Because reductio ad absurdum (look it up).
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  3959. >Morley later refuted the data points Is that a TrumpFact™?
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  3960. 3:49 perhaps the wildly different temperatures also had something to do with it.
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  3961. He could have been the James Joyce of his time ...
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  3962. 0 is 0, not positive. If you are encoding a signal as a signed integer, you would typically ignore the extra negative value, so that the positive and negative limits are the same. Otherwise your signal would end up with a DC offset.
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  3963. 5:13 Not even with a straight face...
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  3964. /me wishes for actual examples within a complete sentence, rather than stuck on as a hashtag. #GrammarIsSoUnfashionableTheseDays
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  3965. SFTP and SCP are both services that are normally available automatically as part of SSH. You can use whichever you want. Also many GUI file managers on Linux can give you remote access to filesystems on other machines via SFTP. You can then drag and drop files between machines, and this can work across a room or across the world. And it’s all done securely.
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  3966. The original 128KiB Mac could have its RAM upgraded to 512KiB. On top of that, some imaginative third parties found ways to push it even further. The “Monster Mac” upgrade pushed the RAM to 2MiB. It also modified the ROM so the smiling Mac that you saw on a successful initiation of boot had little fangs. ;)
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  3967. The original 128KiB Mac could have its RAM upgraded to 512KiB. On top of that, some imaginative third parties found ways to push it even further. The “Monster Mac” upgrade pushed the RAM to 2MiB. It also modified the ROM so the smiling Mac that you saw on a successful initiation of boot had little fangs. ;)
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  3968. You mean, we should elect leaders who “speak their mind”? That’s how Duterte and Trump got in in the first place.
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  3969. That is right. It was just a name born out of frustration, not anything more profound than that.
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  3970. Wonderful explanation. ;) Just a note about black holes ripping you apart--that depends on the size of the black holes. Very large ones (like I think the ones at centres of galaxies) have very weak tidal forces, so you could fall in without even realizing it.
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  3971. Actually, that was never in doubt. Simple thought experiment: 1) Is the Universe too complex to have arisen by itself? 2) If so, something or someone had to have created it. 3) Was this something or someone more complex than the Universe? 4) If so, how could it have arisen by itself? Doesn’t really matter whether you answer “yes” or “no” at step 3, you still end up with the conclusion that “yes, no matter how complex it is, the Universe could indeed have arisen by itself”.
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  3972. Unfortunately it’s not really “Windows 10 on ARM”, it’s only “Windows 10 on certain Qualcomm ARM chipsets”. If you want an OS that lets you have a choice of chipsets and hardware configurations, Windows doesn’t cut it; only Linux does.
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  3973. Guilty until proven innocent?
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  3974. No need for a judge to decide?
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  3975. Or maybe even dispense with cops, let self-elected vigilantes, security guards and the like, take the law into their own hands?
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  3976. Should airlines be free to decide who does or does not get to travel by air?
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  3977.  @busimagen  Some people see everything in choler ...
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  3978.  @busimagen  Yes, Fuad. That is the reason why it is funny.
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  3979. @Vatsal Uppal gedit is no longer supported.
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  3980. Actually in 🇳🇿 we pronounce it “crik-ey”. Would I lie to you?
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  3981. They’ve blockaded Gaza for over a decade now. And this is all they’ve achieved.
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  3982. Meanwhile, the Conservative Political Action Conference is censoring one of its speakers.
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  3983. Yeah, look at how badly that party did in the midterms.
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  3984. May not be so hypothetical, if nothing is done to put a stop to it now. That was his point.
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  3985.  @bill6960  11.7 km/l? My Auris hatch does better than that around town. Actually I commonly see it expressed in the motoring reviews as litres per 100 km. Which is more concisely expressed as cl/km.
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  3986. The US is now considered a “backsliding” democracy. Not that it was scoring very well before. A lot of work needs to be done to bring it into the top tier. But certain powerful forces continue to oppose that.
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  3987. 15:22 It would have helped that Carson also had a science background.
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  3988. 7:24 Don’t you love the metaphor “smoking gun” applied to the impact of a projectile with a whack bigger than the biggest gun* humans have ever made? ;) *Or bomb, for that matter.
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  3989. The Kraken has been unleashed. Do not mess with people’s voting rights.
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  3990. You notice that Python effectively already has full generics, since function objects and class objects are constructed at runtime?
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  3991. 2:29 The anointed solution for separating structure from presentation turned out to be CSS. That, like HTML itself, continues to be a work in progress. But it gets more powerful over time. It can even do animations now.
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  3992.  @ExplainingComputers  Blender can import LightWave .lwo files. So you should be able to bring across your existing assets. As well as have access to lots of new ones. It also has a library system so you can link to objects instead of having to copy them into a scene. Plus more modern rendering, compositing, scripting etc.
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  3993. 1:24 And yet, at the same time as this secret cabal is running out of control, Biden himself still manages to be some kind of dictator riding roughshod over Americans’ rights. Consistency? They have heard of it.
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  3994. There’s nothing special at the hardware level to distinguish modifier from non-modifier keys--this is just a software convention. For example, in Blender 2.79, you can hold the D key down to draw with the Grease Pencil, or the K key and drag to cut with the knife tool.
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  3995. I bet she took the shells off, as well.
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  3996. They say “you can’t prove our god doesn’t exist”. But we can prove that their god is no more or less real than the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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  3997. I just realized the, ahem, connection with Burke’s “Connections” series. Thanks for pointing it out.
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  3998. I find there’s a high crossover between believers in one conspiracy theory and believers in another. Does your uncle also believe a real alien spacecraft crash-landed at Roswell? In which case, if the 🇺🇸 Government has access to advanced technology that can cross the light-years, taking a few men to a little rock that is just a hop, skip and jump away from Earth by comparison would have been child’s play.
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  3999. You mean, highlighting the contradictions could push them deeper into psychosis? That viewpoint gets no sympathy from me.
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  4000.  @RitchieDiamond  Did you try assigning a suitably unique ＿name＿ to your lambda, to see if that helped with pickling? Presumably the problem is that pickling doesn’t actually include the code of the function, just some way to tie the recreation of the function object back to the original program code -- which almost certainly means the function name.
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  4001. Seems like the US is trying to have it both ways: on the one hand, it is claiming the right to do what it wants as a “sovereign nation”. But on the other, it is claiming it can still be an honest, neutral broker in Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. And it is quite surprised and angry to discover that just about the entire rest of the world does not see things that way. It looks like the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel was taken to satisfy internal US political lobby groups. Fine. But don’t expect that such actions will be free of consequences for your international reputation.
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  4002. 7:21 Why jumble up the data? Because there was an expectation that a scratch on the disc, for example, could destroy a whole lot of bits in a row. But because of the shuffling, these destroyed bits end up spread out among a bunch of other good bits, lessening the impact of the run of errors.
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  4003. 7:49 OK, you mentioned that point. ;)
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  4004. 3:52 And change his name to Alfred. Alfred E New Man ... geddit? #OldEnoughToRememberMadMagazine
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  4005. He said he would be “in the heart of the earth” for three days and three nights. He lied.
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  4006.  @keinunvergebenesaliasgefunden  Regular Emacs does all that just fine.
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  4007. Looping the loop, relying entirely on centrifugal force to keep the car on the track ...
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  4008. The “s” in “maths” is not silent: mathS!
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  4009.  @matteopascoli  Ho yes. Only needed in languages which buggered up their interpretation of “==”, but still ...
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  4010. You mean DRAM is like fine wine, and actually improves with age...?
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  4011. What?? Getting cold feet already? Do you think you can “dismantle” Hamas by remote control? No war was ever won through air strikes alone. Either go in, or pack up and go home.
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  4012. You know that reservoir in Florida that’s in danger of bursting right now? The one that the Republican Governor insists is absolutely no danger to the public? (Yeah, right.) That’s the kind of thing this infrastructure spend is intended to fix.
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  4013. It seems he is the conscience of the 🇺🇸 nation at this point.
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  4014. True, I don’t like having a “return” statement. But the trouble with allowing the function name as a variable on the RHS is: how do you express recursion? I prefer the alternative of having an explicit name for the result variable, e.g. function factorial(n : integer) → result : integer is begin result := 1; for i from 2 to n do result := result * i end (*factorial*)
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  4015. The Army Secretary was the one who gave the authorization to the Maryland Governor to send in the National Guard. Technically he had no authority to do so. But the Governor had already been waiting about 2 hours for somebody to give the go-ahead, only nobody at the White House would return his calls. Trump was busy watching the riot unfold on TV, and didn’t lift a finger to do anything to stop it. Those who claim he didn’t explicitly tell his supporters to do what they did, should note this fact.
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  4016. To a gun nut, every question is ”loaded”. Also, looks like some people are overdue for their covfefe injections.
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  4017. Basically, force the transmission into lower ratios. I wonder, was he doing the test drive with “Sport” mode engaged? That would explain the engine revving so much.
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  4018.  @conradharcourt8263  Did those engines last very long?
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  4019. Do any of his reasons make sense?
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  4020. Trump is angry because he had to open a dictionary TWICE to find out what that phrase meant! Who am I kidding? Of course he wouldn’t touch a dictionary. He would get a lackey to do it. An unpaid lackey.
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  4021. Why is it that being against Biden’s tax increases is not winning friends on Wall Street?
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  4022. 4:03 Clever idea: why couldn’t they have run the record slower? Instead of 45rpm, how about, I don’t know, just picking a figure off the top of my head here, 33⅓rpm?
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  4023. Meanwhile, Emacs can still run rings around it with a scripting language that is over half a century old.
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  4024. Remember what “car” meant in 1886 ...
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  4025. By “extreme gun control” they mean “gun laws comparable to those in regular civilized countries”. You know, civilized countries where it is not considered normal to have to worry about buying your kids bulletproof backpacks to try to ensure they will survive their school years?
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  4026. I do that sort of thing all the time. In C you can conveniently write “for (;;)” for an endless loop.
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  4027. 2:44 No such variable -- only error I can see so far.
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  4028. Being an upside-down delta, It could be a Southern Hemisphere Greek letter. You know, Greek from Australia.
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  4029.  @ythehunter755  There were several varieties of Ancient Greek. Consider Classical Greek versus Cretan Linear B Greek.
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  4030. 5:14 Every other creature that can climb a tree is smart enough to know how to get down again. Except cats.
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  4031. Then in India they have “lakh” and “crore”.
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  4032. PENCILS WORK IN SPACE?!? WOAAHHH ... BRAIN OVERLOAD!!!
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  4033. Every major Linux distro will have packages available in the standard repos for common stuff like pygame. I think Elementary is a Debian, or more specifically Ubuntu, derivative, am I right? If so, “apt-cache search pygame” will show you the right package names.
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  4034.  J K  “ In the UK people are dying in long waiting lines despite the fact that more and more money has been invested into the NHS.” I had to look it up: the UK ranks slightly better than the USA in terms of life expectancy; enough to put it 10 places higher in this table https://www.infoplease.com/world/health-and-social-statistics/life-expectancy-countries-0
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  4035.  J K  It’s hard to see why you claim that. Look at that life expectancy chart, and see how well the Cubans do. Not only that, but their health professionals are performing sterling service the world over -- that’s how good they are.
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  4036.  J K  Even if the cancer survival rate is better in US hospitals, how many of your people can afford the treatment? In other words, how many are actually surviving? And yes, guns are a big problem in the US, too -- at least you have the honesty to admit that.
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  4037.  J K  Their hospitals are in fact very good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Cuba
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  4038.  J K  Healthcare has to be Goverrnment-run. People in the US pay something like twice as much as those in the UK for similar treatment. Obama tried to fix that with his Affordable Care Act, yet some are ideologically opposed even to the idea that such improvements are possible.
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  4039.  J K  Where does it say it’s worse than the US?
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  4040.  J K  On the contrary, the Government abrogating its responsibilities is precisely what got the US into its healthcare mess in the first place. Other countries with better Government oversight have better-run healthcare systems. Healthcare is not one of those places where a competitive free market works.
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  4041.  J K  Strange you should say that Government involvement has made things worse, since the Congressional Budget Office itself said that rolling back Obamacare would make things worse. You know, that’s the body that’s supposed to give objective, impartial, non-partisan advice to all members of Congress?
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  4042.  J K  Why is it alway Republicans who disagree with objective evidence? Do you really believe reality has a liberal bias?
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  4043. 4:25 Mass shooting into a Conservative crowd ... some of whom were armed. Why didn’t they shoot back? Oh yeah, the perp was up on the 32nd floor ... looks like the laws of physics are somewhat against your idea that “having more guns makes people safer”.
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  4044. “My machine is supposed to be fast. Why is my code so slow?” “Do you understand the locality principle?”
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  4045. 23:57 It was never going to work with Windows, put it that way.
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  4046. Even with SRP, anybody who gains unauthorized access to the hashed password on the server will be able to impersonate the server.
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  4047.  @tobiasb6200  The server has to have some information to allow it to authenticate itself to the user. Anybody getting hold of that information can impersonate the server. QED.
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  4048.  @tobiasb6200  How does your user know they’re connecting to the right server?
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  4049.  @MachiavellisThePrince  Actually, there are quite a few depictions of him, in some Turkish frescoes, as I recall.
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  4050. The gods help those who help themselves.
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  4051. It’s only about a 40kB executable on AMD64. Feel free to offer us a more efficient version, along with benchmarks showing why your version is better.
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  4052. 1:25 So “re-entry” has become the established term, even though the spacecraft did not originate from the planet it is “re-entering” the atmosphere of?
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  4053. 2:33 Presumably they could have used other hydroxides, e.g. Ca(OH)₂. Did they use lithium because it’s the lightest element that will form a suitable hydroxide?
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  4054. 7:23 But isn’t gravity more and more influential on larger and larger scales? I just note that the escape velocity of our Sun is something like 70 km/s, while that of our galaxy is more like 1000 km/s. Would that of a cluster of galaxies be even greater? How does that impact the effect of expanding space on the configuration of such masses?
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  4055. I always felt that original fixed-function-pipeline OpenGL was the easiest to learn. As they got rid of the fixed functions and replaced them with custom shaders, things got a lot more powerful, but also harder for beginners.
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  4056. I wonder if we will see a suitable number of arrests and prosecutions from this. Particularly since a lot of the worst rioters did little or nothing to cover their tracks https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/insurrectionists-social-media-presence-gives-feds-an-easy-way-to-id-them/ .
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  4057. 2:42 Oh wow. Now Trump supporters won’t even believe Trump!? I knew he was leading them down a black hole of psychosis, but ... now they’re never going to come out.
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  4058. 15:45 The IBM computer that controlled the Saturn V was a hybrid digital/analog design: the digital part wasn’t fast enough to make corrections to thrust magnitude/direction etc in real time, so that was left to the analog part, while the digital part just computed the direction the rocket needed to go. (I think it could only come up with new numbers once a second, or something of that order.)
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  4059. 10:46 Just noticed, that’s not a widescreen monitor. Is that a 4:3 ratio? I have both an 8:5 and 5:4 monitor within arm’s reach, and no matter how I lean to the side, I can’t make either of them look quite like that shape.
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  4060. Republican politicans are powerless against the growing tide of companies pushing back against voter-suppression laws. Why are the companies doing this? Because their customers, who are voters after all, are demanding it. Ultimately, what companies do will stand or fall on the effect on their business. As long as the effect remains positive, they will do it. Moral: don’t mess with voters’ rights! They will make you hurt for it.
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  4061. According to this guy, the vast majority of the US population would be considered “far left”. Tell me how a democracy is supposed to work again?
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  4062. Big-G seems like a very tricky constant to measure accurately. There have been significant discrepancies between different experiments.
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  4063. Largest city in Nigeria?
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  4064. Maybe they were thinking “constitutional monarchy” after the manner of Charles I. Remember what happened to him ...
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  4065. The trouble with the AGPL is its infringement on Freedom 0 (the freedom to use the software as you wish). This is why I think of it as a non-Free licence.
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  4066.  @Sekhatt  That’s a restriction on how the software is used, is it not?
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  4067. Can org mode matchi this https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/3.x/examples/IPython%20Kernel/Rich%20Output.ipynb ?
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  4068. How about something as simple as mask = qah.ImageSurface.create \ ( format = CAIRO.FORMAT_A8, dimensions = resolution * raster_frac.denominator ) because I can never remember whether the format arg comes first, or the dimensions?
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  4069. Best described as a “makefile for distributed configuration”.
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  4070. Like so many 🇺🇸 place names, a colonial copy from 🇬🇧.
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  4071. If Git is not installed on your production machine, why are you putting Git repos there? You just want the production version of the code, nothing more.
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  4072. Yeah, that’s what I thought. Python has full support for functions as first-class objects.
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  4073. 9:40 Spinning on its short axis? So was Discovery in 2010 . /me adds more confuse-fact-with-fiction fuel to the conspiracy-believers fire...
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  4074. Hmmm ... agent 44 in the movie, agent 13 in the TV series?
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  4075. Is there such a thing as overuse? For example, instead of if download_limit != None and bytes_downloaded >= download_limit : break I could write if None != download_limit <= bytes_downloaded : break But should I?
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  4076. Mnjöpe.
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  4077. Don’t worry about it. It’s from a country where they call a game “football” which doesn’t actually involve the ball coming into contact with the foot.
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  4078. But legal drugs are OK?
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  4079.  @mr.bigfacecat4980  Marijuana should be fine, then.
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  4080.  @mr.bigfacecat4980  Why should a less harmful drug be illegal when a more harmful one is not?
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  4081.  @mr.bigfacecat4980  But in your country it is still illegal. Why?
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  4082.  @mr.bigfacecat4980  Who says it is?
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  4083.  @Yun_InfiniteCloud  Does that include medicinal drugs as well?
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  4084. No doubt the Russians are believing everything they say ...
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  4085.  @LyubomirIko  You were the one spouting mumbo-jumbo, I was the one not accepting that as an answer. QED.
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  4086.  @LyubomirIko  Complexity of what, if not the arising?
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  4087.  @LyubomirIko  No “miracle”, then?
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  4088. If yes, then something, or someone must have created it.
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  4089. If so, that someone, or something, must have been more complex than the Universe, must it not?
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  4090. Unless you accept that the Universe could have been created by some entity less complex than itself.
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  4091. Because if that someone, or something, was more complex than the Universe, then how could that someone, or something, have arisen by itself?
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  4092. So you see, even if you want to insist that something as complex as the Universe could not have arisen by itself, trying to posit the existence of some prior creator entity, or indeed supernatural intervention of any sort, does not get you out of the difficulty!
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  4093. Face it: reality has a liberal bias. The only way antiliberal channels can find anything to say is by making it up.
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  4094. I would say “my condolences”, but DEC is gone, too...
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  4095. 7:28 Look at all the 10.* addresses up to step 7. That’s a lot of ISP-internal routing going on!
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  4096. 11:45 But not every point on the circle. Because the number of rational points on the circle is countably infinite, but the total number of points is *un*countably infinite. Heh-heh...
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  4097. Trump’s wall was supposed to keep them out, but it doesn’t seem to be working very well. What happened to the billions he siphoned away to spend on it? And what happened about getting the Mexicans to pay for it?
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  4098. His supporters were armed, remember.
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  4099. Poor Republican snowflakes ... unable to withstand a little bit of media scrutiny. Nawty Wiberal Media hurt your feewings? Diddums!
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  4100. GPL is Free software. The only thing about the GPL is that it forbids you from taking away the freedom of others.
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  4101.  @Mortlupo  Spacecraft most certainly do not use knots. Remember, nearly all such missions are international nowadays, and it’s all metric out there. And there are places even within our atmosphere where aircraft are controlled using SI units.
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  4102. Just make sure your zoneinfo is up to date. Changes happen several times a year.
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  4103. It makes clear the woeful state of US democracy, when a politician who tries to do the right thing for her country is effectively committing political suicide.
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  4104. The logging module just gives you more control over message output, that’s all. If you use sys.stderr.write, then you have to do your own implementation of verbosity levels, for example. The standard Python module has already pre-invented this whole wheel (and much else besides), so you don’t have to.
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  4105. They didn’t show his time! Wasn’t he the slowest?
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  4106. If you are doing “scratchpad”-style programming (a few lines of code to calculate something), I would recommend using Jupyter notebooks with Python code. Makes it very easy to try things out. You can even get graphical plots and other rich output. And basic widgets for simple interaction.
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  4107. They used to be better. Now they can only attract comments like these.
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  4108. 1:25 See, even Russians are suffering under DT, too.
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  4109. I can only see tiny thumbnails, with no option to make them bigger.
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  4110.  @vitiok78  It’s not either/or.
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  4111. 5:11 We only observe shadows? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave
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  4112. Yeah, but things were much worse then.
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  4113. So Python code that uses Mojo reserved words (like “struct”) as names would not be a strict subset of Mojo, since it would fail to compile with syntax errors.
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  4114. 17:37 What’s that black disk?
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  4115. Oh, I see -- planet night side.
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  4116. Thought those little lights were stars in a stargate... ... as in “My god! It’s full of stars!”
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  4117. Oh, the poor Republican snowflakes ...
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  4118. 6:28 Is it possible to eyeroll and facepalm at the same time?
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  4119. In 2021, 🇺🇸 was downgraded to a “backsliding” democracy in the Democracy Index. And it wasn’t exactly in the top tier before ...
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  4120. Adobe doesn’t really matter that much any more. There was a survey done of the VFX industry about a year ago, and 60% of their machines run Linux. So the lack of Adobe support isn’t stopping this share from growing.
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  4121.  @carlosnava1471  There are quite a few graphic design channels here on YouTube that focus on Free software. E.g. Davies Media Design, Logos by Nick. These are professionals making a living from the tools they use. And finding the time to teach others about them.
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  4122. Consider that byte-addressability was touted as a big advantage back in the days of ASCII and other 7/8-bit character sets. Now that Unicode is becoming pretty much universal, is that still so important?
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  4123. I’m not so sure about the “gravity does not neutralize” bit. I don’t think it’s been confirmed, for example, that antiparticles fall in the gravitational field of the Earth just like their normal-matter counterparts do -- it could be that particles and antiparticles repel gravitationally. And yes, this is hard to test precisely because the effect would be swamped by the strength of all the other forces.
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  4124. The amusing thing about that leader of the Oath Keepers idiots is that he’s a living, walking, talking testament to what an oxymoron “gun safety” is.
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  4125. Curl is just unnecessarily complex. Most of the protocols it implements already have their own perfectly good clients. It should stick to HTTP/HTTPS.
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  4126.  @Fs3i  Like I said, most of the complexity is unnecessary. There is no need to support protocols that already have their own purpose-built clients.
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  4127. I had a look at the source code. Counting up the number of lines in files in subdirectories called “lib” and “src” for both projects, curl comes in at about 190,000 lines, while wget is only slightly smaller at about 180,000 lines. So while wget handles fewer protocols, it has more functions for working with them. Like in order to do recursive mirroring of a website, it has to do some HTML parsing. I would say, all the other protocols that curl implements, that wget does not, are unnecessary. For example, media streaming: what is the point, when ffmpeg is purpose-built not only for handling the connections, but also the necessary media packaging? Why bother with SCP/SFTP, when SSH clients already include that? Or SMB, when you have smbclient? And Telnet, of all things--what is the point with that?
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  4128.  @Fs3i  I use those other protocols too, so don’t say I don’t. I just prefer the more advanced forms supported by their native tools, not the jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none versions in curl.
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  4129.  @Fs3i  That’s why I don’t see the point in duplicating their functionality in curl.
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  4130. Fun fact: her name is “Ivana”, named for her mother. She’s “Ivana Jr”, just like her brother is “Donald Jr”.
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  4131. 5:06 The Roomba Administration ... I like it!
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  4132. Putin can never trust the people of Rostov again. Without them, how will he supply his Ukraine invasion?
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  4133. So what choice of icon sets do you get with Microsoft?
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  4134.  @nielsroetert  Microsoft is not about giving you a choice.
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  4135.  @nielsroetert  A point worth remembering and repeating: Free software is all about choice.
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  4136.  @rizmut  Hey, that’s cool. It’s worth tooting your own horn a bit, and pointing out that you offer a choice that Microsoft does not give to users of any its products.
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  4137. 6:04 Graphical programming languages sound like a neat idea ... until you try to manage patches for your code and do version control.
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  4138. Remember that Special Relativity didn’t actually predict any new effects that were not already experimentally known (e.g. time dilation, Fitzgerald-Lorentz contraction). It just made a whole more sense out of them.
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  4139.  @SimGunther  That’s not about cache locality, it’s about correctness.
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  4140. 7:58 Basically, trump is Nicolas Maduro at this point.
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  4141. What @sporqist  said! One end or the other has to initiate the broadcast so the other can find it. Better for it to be the access point than your mobile device. Otherwise your device will be broadcasting the name of your home network wherever you take it. There was this peculiar thing called the “Free Public Wi-Fi” bug, back in the days of Windows XP, as I recall; all these devices were going around trying to connect to a network with that name, and nobody could figure out why. As one device broadcast that name, others would pick it up and try to connect to it too, and so the “infection” would spread.
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  4142. I thought the way “clean-room” worked was that those who had seen the proprietary code were limited to creating functional specs for the actual coders to work from. Surely this could be extended to offering advice as well, just so long as they didn’t write any actual code.
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  4143. 3:25 A quick ferret around the dub-dub-dubs for “jvc rx-222” suggests late 1980s-vintage. Which would be consistent with my Sony VCR from 1989, which has similarly pretty displays.
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  4144. Is it time to finally admit that Trump has lost the election?
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  4145. Having trouble telling your 🇳🇬 from your 🇿🇦? Greetings from 🇳🇿!
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  4146. Need more books: “Thorn Birds 4: Return To Thornycroft Manor” “Thorn Birds 5, aka ‘The Flying Porcupines’” “Thorn Birds 6: What’s A Little Prick Between Friends?”
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  4147. Funny how 🇨🇦 “full price” is so much less than 🇺🇸 “full price” ...
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  4148. Tip to prospective Git
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  4149. Hub users: learn how to use Git first. Some people seem to be under the impression that they should do a “fork” of a Git
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  4150. Hub repo just to have their own copy of the code. I remember one guy who forked several of my repos, over and over as I made updates, over several weeks. I think finally he gave up. Me, I make copies with “git clone” to my own PC. I also use Git
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  4151. Hub to host copies of some custom Emacs and login shell setups. This way I can easily use “git clone” at a customer’s place to put them on a machine that I am to work on there.
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  4152. I never knew that about schmaltz. I only came across its colloquial usage, and based on that, I guessed it had to be something sickly sweet.
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  4153.  @monikak7327  Sounds horribly bad for you. Why is my mouth watering?
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  4154. XHTML was a failure. It was basically HTML reformulated with the strictness of XML syntax, which nobody could be bothered to follow -- not for web pages, anyway.
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  4155. I have done “clever” things. In one recent Python project, I wanted to support both synchronous and asynchronous versions of the main API classes. So I implemented a mechanism involving processing the parsed ASTs for those class definitions to generate two versions of each. That way I could write all the common code just once. The final size of the module was about 2500 lines. The code for implementing the macro-processing mechanism is about 160 lines (including comments explaining in detail how it works). If I wrote out all the expanded code by hand, it would add about 1000 lines to the code size. Less of course the macro processor, so the net gain is say 840 lines. Less code means less effort to write, and less effort to maintain, and less chance for bugs to get in. In my view, a net gain. And quite a significant one.
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  4156. Motherboards of non-Microsoft-compatible PCs were quite interesting, too, at least into the 1990s. Worth looking at Apple Macs from that era, for example. Your 1999-vintage Gigabyte board had one measly little USB connector head, but the Apple iMac G3, the first mass-market machine where the only expansion available was via USB, had already been available for about a year. And now, we have new architectures like the Raspberry π, which are making the non-Microsoft-compatibles interesting again.
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  4157. 16:05 Actually, I think there is a technical difference between the definitions of GMT and UTC. Basically, the official definition of GMT is actually ambiguous as to whether it agrees with UTC or UT1.
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  4158.  @TheRonster1957  You mean, it gets awarded just because somebody does something medical?
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  4159. “w” seems to give more info than “who”.
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  4160.  @Mat-gf7nj  Well, since I don’t see any cows, the description “some guys on a horse” would fit just as well. Except I don’t see any horses, either.
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  4161.  @dvdjhp  “dont got no job” ... I see we have a long-time student of the grammar in our midst.
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  4162. Basically, he got State-funded, Socialist healthcare. The kind that Republicans keep saying is so harmful ...
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  4163. Are you sure it was hay, rather than silage?
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  4164. 18:09 They’re using an address in the 3/8 block. I think that was originally assigned to General Electric.
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  4165. 3:29 Cigarette smoke + electronics = euugghh.
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  4166. The key is the word “lapse”.
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  4167. The font name is one of the least useful things to use to give a sample of the font.
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  4168. Power corrupts. That is why you need checks and balances.
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  4169. Constitution and rule of law, Trump’s supporters have heard of it!
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  4170. It dispenses mint-flavoured treats! No?
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  4171. Israel has already killed so many Palestinians, demolished so many Palestinian houses, stolen so much of their land, fragmented their communities with so many walls and checkpoints, spied on them with so many cameras, subjected so many of them to arbitrary arrest and detention, declared so many support organizations to have associations with “terrorists”, raided them and shut them down ... if you treat people like animals, what have they got to lose?
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  4172. Massachusetts is a great example. If Illinois could control its borders, it, too, could achieve the same success. And yes, New York has long shed the reputation for violence it had back in, say, the 1970s.
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  4173.  @helge000  2.7?? That will drop out of support in less than a year https://pythonclock.org/
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  4174. Israel already bombed the Rafah crossing once, they could do it again, at any time.
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  4175. Regular expressions are useful, but every language has them now. Python is one that has them, and combines them nicely with its other features. E.g. re.finditer() to iterate over matches.
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  4176. Reed-Solomon has never been improved upon. ;)
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  4177. In a democracy, you get more choice than that.
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  4178. Proper democracies offer voters a realistic choice of more than two political parties. Here in 🇳🇿, we currently have 5 parties in Parliament. And yes, they manage to get things done, without so much of the “deadlock” that seems to happen so frequently in the 🇺🇸 Congress.
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  4179. I wonder why a function like this isn’t built into JavaScript: function escape_html(s) { return s .replaceAll("&", "&") /* always do first, rest can be in any order */ .replaceAll("\"", """) .replaceAll("<", "<") .replaceAll(">", ">") .replaceAll("\t", " ") .replaceAll("\n", " ") } /*escape_html*/
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  4180. So he’s considered “black”? We don’t call that “black” in the Home Country. I have blood relatives who are darker than that.
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  4181. All the controls were designed for that.
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  4182. Here’s a tip for him, from all the professional journalists: don’t do something that will get you sued for defamation, to the point where your only defence is to claim that nobody believes you are telling the truth anyway. Also, your old pal Sidney Powell is trying the same defence. Something tells me she won’t get away with it ...
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  4183. “The appeaser is the one who feeds the crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.” -- Winston Churchill
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  4184. Not necessarily accurate -- see my comment on pdfinfo.
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  4185. 9:17 In all the good democracies, the ones running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  4186. Israel seems to have no gratitude towards its creator. If you hate those who are responsible for your very existence, then you are just hating yourself.
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  4187. Because of all the well-known problems with X11.
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  4188. 3:40 I don’t understand the point of “-H” (halt). If I want to shut down rather than restart, I use “-h” (poweroff).
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  4189. Don’t worry. None of Putin’s sheeple followers trust US mainstream media, anyway. That’s why they’ll never find out.
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  4190. 🎝 Somebody is looking forward to creating their own neighbourhood war zone ... 🎝
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  4191. She is no “beast”. She is just a giant furbaby.
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  4192. The “good” news for today is, the US is no longer tops in the world for deaths from Covid-19. That “honour” has gone to Brazil. Which makes me wonder: why is the US moving to ban travel from Brazil, given that President Bolsonaro seems to be, if anything, even a bigger denialist over the seriousness of the issue than Trump?
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  4193. Neither: for (...) { ... } /*for*/ In C++ code, I have written things like for ( vector<DocTemplate::FieldDef>::const_iterator ThisField = Context.CertTemplate->Fields.begin(); ThisField != Context.CertTemplate->Fields.end(); ++ThisField ) { ... } /*for*/
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  4194. 16:27 But according to quantum theory, gravity must be a force. Otherwise there are only three fundamental forces in nature, not four. And if gravity is not a force, then what would be the point of a theory of quantum gravity?
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  4195. He didn’t have to do it, but the De vil mocrats made him do it!
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  4196. 2:37 Speaking of trade negotiations, I heard an analyst in Beijing yesterday say that the Chinese government prefers to deal with Trump, since they figure they will get a better deal out of him than any likely Democrat successor. Not that I’m implying that Trump is a soft touch, but you got to wonder, right?
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  4197. Why does his voice remind me of Ardal O’Hanlon? “Oh, right, Ted!”
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  4198. 1:20 iostreams turned out to be a poor idea. When writing localized messages, you may need to rearrange the variable parts to cater to different language grammars: printf-style formatting has support for this, iostreams does not.
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  4199. 4:14 They went on to create the Free University Compiler Kit. When Richard Stallman was just starting his GNU project, he asked about using their code to build his GNU C compiler. They somewhat facetiously replied that, while the University might be Free, the Compiler Kit certainly wasn’t. So Stallman had to go off and create his own codebase for GCC from scratch. And the rest, as they say, is history. Does anybody still remember the Free University Compiler Kit?
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  4200. 🏆💯👏 What disappoints me about this video is he completely fails to mention them!
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  4201. 15:44 Arthur C Clarke worked in radar, too, I recall. Did he work with Wilkes?
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  4202. Not very representative, either.
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  4203. 18:11 In other words ... a load of old cobblers?
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  4204. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  4205. 6:53 That’s mono audio. The hi-fi stereo audio is recorded (I think) by extra heads also on the spinning drum, along the same tracks as the video. How do they keep from interfering? Through a magical feature known as “depth multiplexing”. The audio is recorded first, and because its frequencies are lower, the magnetization penetrates deeper into the tape. Then the video is recorded, which erases the audio close to the surface, but leaves the deeper part alone. During playback, each layer can be picked up by heads attuned to its particular range of frequencies. Yes, it all really is insanely clever...
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  4206. 14:59 Conversely, Sony’s Video-8 format for camcorders decisively wiped the floor with its VHS-C competitor. The latter was a kind of hacky adaptation of VHS to a smaller cassette, with consequently shorter recording time, while the former was designed specifically to maintaining a higher time/quality tradeoff in the smaller format. Even the much-hyped ability of VHS-C tapes to be played in a VHS VCR (by putting them in a kind of adapter that mimicked the larger standard VHS case) failed to tip the balance.
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  4207. For long function/method calls, put the arguments one to a line, and give the whole expression a two-dimensional layout, e .g.:     aqsis_output = ReasonablePerms.subprocess.check_output \       (         args = ["aqsis"] + extra + [self._filename],         stdin = subprocess.DEVNULL,         stderr = subprocess.STDOUT,         universal_newlines = True,         cwd = self._parent._workdir,         timeout = self._parent.timeout       )
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  4208. Another fun fact: Prigozhin managed to take more territory in Russia in 8 hours than he managed in Ukraine in 8 months.
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  4209. File locking is how version control used to work back in the 1980s. Because it was thought that, if two people simultaneously made changes to the same file, the world would end or something.
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  4210. Python is dynamically typed, yet also strongly typed. To understand the difference, think about why PHP needs the “===” operator, and Python doesn’t.
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  4211. The Republicans arose out of the ashes of the Whigs because the earlier party couldn’t agree on a common position on slavery. It would be so ironic if the Republicans in their turn came to grief over something as pointless and banal as whether a narcissistic, sociopathic man-child with dictatorial tendencies was fit to be the leader of the country.
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  4212. 6:43 Kickin’ ass ... by a guy named Shoemaker ... fits, somehow.
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  4213. Is winget really a package manager? https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli/discussions/223
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  4214. The New York Times infamously published an editorial in the early part of the Space Age, claiming that space travel couldn’t possibly work because, in a vacuum, the rockets would have “nothing to push against” (Newton’s Third Law of motion notwithstanding). It was several decades, I think long after the Moon landings, before they published a retraction.
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  4215. Emacs has superior automation facilities, since it is built around a dialect of LISP. The various vi/vim derivatives seem to have something lacking in this respect, which is why some of them are trying to adopt Lua. Not sure that’ll help.
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  4216. You sound like a Java programmer.
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  4217. Why not counting Threadrippers?
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  4218.  @jesse7631  Been using custom profiles in Konsole for years.
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  4219. 14:17 “Target object is not grabbed with a grabber” -- have you violated that already?
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  4220. I see, those are not requirements, they are status information.
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  4221. It was experimentally discovered, after having been previously theoretically predicted.
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  4222.  @gawayne1374  That’s just repeating what you said before.
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  4223. 0:15 Yay! Getting rid of the Lügenführer is starting to pay off!
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  4224. 4:10 It could decode and display GIF images in fractions of a second--fast enough to play movies. No other machine could manage that.
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  4225. 11:13 Imagine if such a thing really existed ...
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  4226. Windows doesn’t do add-on filesystems very well. The kernel itself makes too many assumptions about NTFS.
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  4227. You don’t just pull an arrow out like that. You could bleed to death.
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  4228. So, instead of multiplying by 0.3937..., just divide by 2.54.
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  4229. You can do measurements without errors? Or, just stick to rational arithmetic, then.
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  4230.  @CaptainDangeax  Use exact rational arithmetic, if that’s what you want.
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  4231. Don’t understand this “information system” thing. Remember most of the entropy on Earth comes from the Sun, and Mars gets a significant fraction of that, too.
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  4232. It’s amusing to see how desperate his side was to find evidence of fraud, when his own head of Homeland Security declared the election “the most secure ever”! And then watch Trump try to take credit for this being so while still denying that the election was legitimate. And they say right-wingers have no sense of humour!
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  4233. Private military outfits like Wagner are supposed to be illegal under the Russian Constitution.
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  4234. Worth also pointing out that “holism” is not the opposite of “reductionism”, whatever those who like to use the former term may think. You get this particularly with “alternative health” practitioners: they talk about “treating the person as a whole”, which is a pretty nonsensical concept when you realize that “non-alternative” medicine (i.e. “medicine that works”) includes epidemiology, which looks at how diseases spread between people, rather than just treating them in isolation. I don’t think the “alternative” crowd have come up with an “alternative epidemiology” yet; their concept of “holism” hasn’t progressed beyond looking at individuals in isolation.
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  4235. I thought most of the “hot Jupiters” date from the earlier days of planet-hunting, back when they were concentrating on stars more like our Sun. Then they discovered that lots of dwarf stars have planets, too, and a lot of those are within their Goldilocks zones. So maybe that’s that TESS will look for.
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  4236. 0:49 Letitia “Badass” James. She won a hefty settlement out of Trump’s fraudulent “charitable” foundation, and she’s also going after the NRA, filing for their dissolution. Watch this lady. I think she’ll go far.
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  4237. 13:52 In fact, DTDs are a bit of an anachronism with XML nowadays.
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  4238. This is not a kernel issue. Or a “kernal” one, for that matter.
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  4239. 4:50 Sounds like defining key fields in a database record.
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  4240. Other VCSes, like SVN, automatically commit all changes you’ve made. Git doesn’t, because you often work on multiple things at once, and might prefer to split them up into separate commits, with handy commands like “git add -p”. If you forget what you’ve changed, “git status” will remind you.
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  4241. Need ... more ... flyspray ...
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  4242. 0:50 Whatever happened to Microsoft’s ReFS, which was supposed to be the next-generation successor to NTFS? Seems like it is missing in action ...
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  4243. FLAC is good, because it is a) lossless, and b) can include metadata (artist, title etc) that common players like VLC can recognize.
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  4244. The Lord-blessers seem to be more part of the Vladimir Putin fan club. For example, Trump.
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  4245. It’s no surprise that Winston Churchill was voted out after the war was over, wasn’t it. I wonder what he thought of the NHS?
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  4246.  David Tao  So is it at least “socialist”? Because I notice a bunch of other commenters trying to make out that’s a bad thing. Or something.
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  4247.  David Tao  So what do you think the OP who started this thread, and others, are on about?
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  4248. Remember that Microsoft is doing this because it has to, not out of the goodness of its heart. The only reason it has to pay attention to Python is because it is dominating the professional-quality data-analytics industry, and leaving the noddy Excel jocks in the dust. This is a way to make those Excel jocks feel they are still somehow relevant, and also pay Microsoft for the privilege.
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  4249. Wouldn’t it be fun if he ended up serving more jail time for contempt of court, than if he had been found guilty on the crimes he’s actually charged with?
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  4250. The old DEC machines (from the same era) had that “page” bit (to select either “same page as current instruction” or “page 0”) but they also had an “indirect” bit, which meant that the word being addressed could hold in its turn a full indirect address. That seems to be missing here.
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  4251. One political party has completely abandoned any pretense of playing by the rules, and is just out for a naked power grab, at whatever cost, democracy and rule of law be damned.
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  4252. I prefer to do “literate programming” in a Jupyter notebook.
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  4253. Jupyter’s rich output goes beyond anything you can (easily) do in Emacs. Example: https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/3.x/examples/IPython%20Kernel/Rich%20Output.ipynb . Yes, its editor is not up to more than the lightest of tasks. That’s why I like to copy-paste text between Jupyter and Emacs.
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  4254. Hidden files are one thing, how about hidden files within hidden files? Do you store your email in maildir format? This creates a “~/.maildir” directory, and within that your inbox is represented by “cur”, “new” and “tmp” subdirectories, where each mail message is a separate file. If you create any mail folders, you will see them with names beginning with dots. Why?
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  4255. Background music that almost, but not quite, sounds like The Heat Is On . Oh, and why are all those achievements sports-related? Nothing intellectual? Scholarly? Literary? Artistic? Scientific or mathematical, even?
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  4256. 1:59 Nothing does. We don’t do the death penalty in civilized countries.
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  4257. NY AG Letitia James has got a lawsuit going to dismantle the NRA. They’re trying to plead bankruptcy to get out of it. And then reform in another, more gun-friendly State. But what funds are they going to use, if they’re bankrupt? That kind of financial shenanigans is why James is investigating them.
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  4258. 7:10 Had to wait so long for the mini-one-man show to make an appearance ... 👍
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  4259. You couldn’t do YouTube-style commenting, where parts of the page refresh without the whole thing reloading, without AJAX. And you can’t do AJAX without some kind of browser-implemented scriptability. The standard right now is JavaScript. Even if you replace that with WebAssembly, what difference would that make, really?
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  4260. 2:07 Unfortunately, there was this misfeature (or may be it was just an ambiguity in the original language spec) whereby a loop would always iterate at least once, even if the termination condition was true at the start. Not sure if this was ever fixed.
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  4261. Notice I didn’t say anything about “do-while”.
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  4262.  @chri-k  Guess which one I was talking about. Consider the equivalent of for i in range(len(s)) : ... do something with s[i] ... ♯end for where s might be empty in some situations.
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  4263.  @chri-k  CONTINUE was a no-op. Other languages didn’t have this problem.
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  4264.  @chri-k  I noticed.
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  4265. 7:10 Atlanta Olympics? My condolences ...
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  4266. Funny how none of the defence lawyers for the rioters has been stupid enough to try to claim that Pelosi was somehow behind it. All of them are saying that it was Trump’s fault that their clients got into trouble. Maybe your lot should take over their defence, and try pushing your Pelosi claim, and see how well that goes over with the trial judges and juries?
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  4267. Whose idea was it to reuse the MCAS software from the 737 MAX? “Just a little patch or two, it’ll be good,” said the Customer User Experience Delight Optimization Manager ...
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  4268. It seems 🇺🇸 Republicans are now firmly about putting the power of their party above the good of their country.
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  4269. 15:36 I suppose CSS animation features are right out.
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  4270. No doubt someone said something similar to the folks on the Mayflower ...
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  4271. I actually wrote some code many years ago to do Marquadt-Levenburg curve fits.
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  4272. Least-squares is the most common way to optimize a curve fit.
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  4273. So, that well-known American actor is named Mark ... Election-Mountain?
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  4274. 7:58 Google Maps? Isn’t that a Liberal thing?
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  4275. The trouble with Windows is it is too full of legacy stuff that nobody left at the company understands, that tends to break in mysterious ways if it is touched. MinWin was as far as they could go without touching that stuff, which is why it was a failure.
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  4276. 1:49 What is this “yes-yes-aye” of which you speak? In my day, we called it “SCSI”, pronounced “scuzzy”.
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  4277. The gun nuts are really scraping the bottom of the barrel, aren’t they ...
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  4278. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  4279. Surely deployment of the military is under the direction of the Commander-in-Chief ... namely, Trump. Not Pelosi.
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  4280. 0:13 Just to clarify, this was a patch to enhance the in-kernel NTFS driver, which is probably not of interest to many people. For many years we have had NTFS-3g, which is a user-mode driver that installs via FUSE, and that offers seamless read/write access to NTFS volumes. Some people assume that a kernel-mode driver will automatically offer better performance than one running as a user process. But this is NTFS, remember ...
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  4281. Is the Universe too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  4282. If the Universe is too complex to have arisen by itself, then there must have been some precursor agency that created it. But wouldn’t this Creator agency have been even more complex than the Universe?
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  4283. But if the Universe is too complex to have arisen by itself, how could something even more complex have arisen by itself?
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  4284. He got distracted by the woeful state of mathematical typesetting. So he put this project aside to create TEX.
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  4285. @A Tangerine Actually, there were quite a few other printers you could use (e.g. the Star NX-10). All they had to do was output a bitmap, and rely on the Mac itself to generate the image, using the same graphics and font engine that worked for on-screen drawing, just at a higher resolution.
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  4286. Greetings to everyone in 🇺🇸 from 🇳🇿. Watching this reminds me of our own press briefings from our approximate-Fauci-equivalent, Dr Ashley Bloomfield. Both the experts and the politicians trying to answer questions from the press to the best of their ability, everybody acting in a civil fashion, without trying bullshit their way through anything. Only we were having ours last year, right from the beginning of the crisis, with the full weight of the Government behind taking the necessary action. We had a few deaths. We went through a month-long lockdown. That was painful. As were one or two subsequent scares. But so far, our fragile little Covid-free bubble has been mostly holding. We were never at the stage where hospital intensive-care facilities were at breaking point. I mourn with you the 400,000 Americans dead. But now that the adults are back in charge, hopefully things will start to get better.
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  4287. 2:12 Ayup.
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  4288. Private branch? Just rebase.
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  4289. Watch out for the anti-liberal attempts to distract from the issue...
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  4290. You’ll notice the ISS has a “bottom” side that always faces the Earth, and a “top” side that always faces away. So it rotates once per orbit. This could get complicated if you had a spinning section, due to the potential for gyroscopic effects. You could minimize this by arranging for the plane of rotation to be parallel to the plane of the orbit. I’m not sure if this is always achievable, though. A spacecraft in space would most likely need to be able to change its orientation. You could cancel out the gyroscopic effects by having two counter-rotating sections. But you would still need to deal with sideways forces on the bearings.
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  4291. It’s a regular (Type 3) grammar.
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  4292. Remember, most of this testimony is coming from former members of Trump’s own team. After all, the Former Guy was such a good judge of character, wasn’t he?
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  4293. 5:13 Yes, floors, very important. Without them everything would just fall, and where would they end up?
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  4294. 09:15 Actually, their architectures for accomplishing common tasks are shared a lot in common nowadays. E.g. the use of D-Bus as the common high-level IPC mechanism.
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  4295. 1:00 “High frequencies” i.e. image-processing-speak for “sharp edges”.
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  4296. Modern civilized nations do not normally tolerate the prospect of armed militias roaming the countryside willy-nilly.
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  4297. The world’s best-selling computer. Even outsold the IBM PC.
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  4298.  @vincentgoudreault9662  Other languages (like C or Python, even old Pascal) don’t need a keyword to distinguish the two. Why FORTRAN?
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  4299.  @vincentgoudreault9662  Try giving the same name to an array and a subroutine in FORTRAN, and let us know what happens.
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  4300.  @WielkiKaleson  So how does that explain the need for CALL?
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  4301.  @WielkiKaleson  Maybe read the comments before replying next time.
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  4302.  @andresmartinezramos7513  Which doesn’t answer the question I asked, which is why subroutine calls need the word “CALL” in FORTRAN, but not in other languages.
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  4303. It was so that FORTRAN didn’t have any reserved words.
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  4304. Has anybody asked him what version-control system(s) he uses, if any?
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  4305. Very likely he never did. They were just pretend nuclear codes. You think the 🇺🇸 military are stupid?
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  4306. 15:33 Shea-Wilson is fiction. Entertaining fiction, cheerfully leading you down endless rabbit holes and trapping you in wheels within wheels, but fiction, nonetheless. JFK and John Dillinger still alive and working undercover? Nazi zombies resurrected by occult rites taking the guise of a rock music festival? A conspiracy so convoluted, it deliberately creates different factions of itself to contend against each other, just to add to the smokescreen?
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  4307. Why not contribute to making them better?
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  4308. Disabling root login is no biggie. If your system is stuffed, boot from a SystemRescue volume, and fix things that way.
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  4309.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Typically, nowadays, no. Since it would normally be a VM, all you have to do is put an image of something like SystemRescue into its virtual optical drive.
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  4310.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I work in this sort of thing in real life. I know what I’m talking about.
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  4311. I use “find -exec” all the time.
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  4312.  @___9136  That’s for acting on the results of the find. -exec is useful for applying a custom filter.
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  4313. How do you think Apple became a trillion-dollar company?
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  4314. Windows Phone was very much emphasizing form over function. For example, the idea of making those on-screen “tiles” display actual content, rather than just being static icons, seems like a good one, until you see how they implemented it. I remember during a demo by a Nokia exec, you would see things like the email icon dancing around in a distracting way, even when there were no new messages to display. This kind of useless “noise” in the UI is just going to put people off. And there were too many limitations in the actual OS. For example, Windows Phone 7 didn’t allow apps to access the actual file system, whereas you could do this on Android. Windows Phone 8 I think relaxed this restriction, but then the app build process was done in a strange way which involved accessing a Microsoft server, so you couldn’t actually do builds just on your own facilities. There were hardware limitations, too. Windows Phone 7 could only run on a single core, while Windows Phone 8 required dual-core hardware. This when the newest versions of Android were available on devices with anything from one to four cores. Also I remember HTC (the king of the Android heap at the time) brought out it’s “One” series of models, in both Android and Windows Phone versions. The Android versions had hardware features beyond those available in Windows Phone. It’s clear the only reason HTC was bothering with Windows Phone was because Microsoft was paying it to do so.
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  4315. It's integrated in lots of open-source apps, like Blender, Inkscape, GIMP ... basically, it’s become very popular glue for content-creation industries, among others.
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  4316.  @fred.flintstone4099  If it can be integrated into GPL’d software, it can be integrated into anything (open-source).
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  4317. 0:55 Hydroxychloroquine? Boy has Oklahoma got a deal for you https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/27/oklahoma-attempts-to-return-2m-worth-of-anti-malaria-drug ...
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  4318. I’m thinking “standing on a mattress” ...
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  4319. Not sure I would trust Rupert Murdoch’s propaganda news network as far as I can throw it. Just saw a very detailed analysis over on France 24 English.
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  4320. If you want to get tips about procedural modelling, try Chris Prenninger’s channel. It’s his specialty!
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  4321. 9:07 Oo, those “RESPECT MY AUTHORITAH!!” shades ...
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  4322. 9:35 Hah!
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  4323. Seems to me it is only Windows users are still fooled by using OpenOffice. All of us on FOSS platforms have embraced LibreOffice.
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  4324. You know how you look at people in some other country and think “they must be crazy”? But in a zany, quaint kind of way, some kind of goofy national foibles that make you go “ahhhh...”. But when we look at the USA and the Trump followers, the Christians, gun-lovers and all the rest of it, it’s gone beyond crazy-goofy and is now well into crazy-psychotic territory.
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  4325. 0:48 Au contraire ... back in the 19th century there was a certain Percival Lowell, who was convinced that there were canals full of water on the surface of Mars. You may have heard of Edgar Rice Burroughs? Probably most famous as the creator of Tarzan? Only he did a bunch of other fiction series as well. In fact, his first published work was called A Princess Of Mars . Guess where it was set ...
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  4326. It did help the US hang on to its slaves for about another half century.
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  4327. 6:19 But that already applies to the trivial solution, doesn’t it? Since the open interval doesn’t include its endpoints, its length must be strictly less than the distance between those endpoints. Therefore the open interval (0, 1) has a length infinitesimally, yet strictly, less than 1. QED. So what the rest of your construction is doing is proving that the length can be even less than that.
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  4328. There were quite a variety of word lengths in the days before byte-addressability became the standard. DEC’s first machine, the PDP-1 had an 18-bit word length; their very popular PDP-8 range used 12 bits (awkward to program, but cheap for those days); and their big “mainframe-class” PDP-10 had 36-bit words. I think the CDC 6000-series supercomputers, designed by the legendary Seymour Cray, had a 60-bit word length. The guys at AT&T Bell Labs who invented Unix did their first prototype on an old PDP-7, another of DEC’s 18-bit machines, that they had lying around. That proof of concept allowed them to get the funding for a nice new, 16-bit byte-addressable PDP-11. And the rest, as they say, is history.
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  4329.  @jessepollard7132  ECC memory can be done with extra checking bits that are only visible to the hardware, not the software.
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  4330. Speaking of “comprehension”, where exactly in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it say elections have to be free and fair?
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  4331. I just wish C had used ”:=” for assignment, reserving “=” for equality comparison. I think DMR admitted he used “=” for assignment and “==” for equality just to save one character in typing. Also the preprocessor is unbelievably crap. Other than that, yeah, it’s a remarkably versatile language.
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  4332. I never bothered with awk. I found Perl did everything awk could do and more, and do it just as concisely.
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  4333. 1:44 Blame your OS for the misrepresentation. My OS uses the correct units.
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  4334. 19:13 Ecru to you, too! I like the maroons. I think purple, green and maroon would be my three favourite colours. Also, I think there should be more words for different shades of green. Every time I look at a forest by the side of the road, I am struck by how many different colours of leaves there are.
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  4335. This has got to be the most pointless and beautiful thing I’ve seen today. 🏆👏👍
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  4336. Challenger had people in it. This didn’t.
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  4337. Back when he claimed childhood vaccines caused autism?
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  4338. No, Windows didn’t. It wasn’t (yet) an OS, the OS was only DOS.
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  4339. Sure it does. Because all the best democracies in the world spend their time tussling over procedural matters and not getting any work done!
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  4340. Instead of echo «something» | «cmd» how about «cmd» <<EOD «something» EOD (should work with any POSIX-compliant shell), or «cmd» <<<«something» (bash-specific).
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  4341. Christmastime: “Do Yule Of Me?”
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  4342. What do you think that might be? Hint: look at the facts that have been published.
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  4343.  @ClockworkGearhead  Nonsense.
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  4344.  @ClockworkGearhead  He tried to blame it on the journalists. As though tracking his aircraft had anything to do with an attack on his private car.
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  4345. The applications are not just in audio, but in image processing as well. Only here the Fourier is applied in two dimensions. Then you can have volume data (“voxels”), in three dimensions. Or why not add time (animation) to the mix, for a total of four dimensions? All the same basic theory still works.
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  4346. 10:03 Didn’t stop them running a FUD campaign against CDC, though. “Just wait for the 360/90,” they kept telling prospective customers. “It’ll leave the CDC 6600 in the dust. When’s it coming out? Soon.” Only it was two years late and completely failed to deliver the promised performance.
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  4347. 6:53 sudo echo -- didn’t they have a big hit with “Funky Town”?
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  4348. 4:47 As I recall, the BBC were experimenting with video recording onto steel tape in, I don’t know, the 1950s or so. The reels were huge and heavy. And the tape had to move at a very high speed to cope with the video signal bandwidth. The result of all this was moving parts with a lot of kinetic energy in them — dangerously so. And the edges of the tape were sharp ...
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  4349. I must remember that. The next time I need to do such a thing, I need to resist the temptation to do it with “grep -v” (which can operate on arbitrary-sized files) and use vim instead.
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  4350. Count the #uuoc instances: 6:21 7:56 8:43 Did I miss any?
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  4351. This is why Microsoft is trying so hard, with WSL, the new Windows Terminal, PowerShell and all the rest of it, to turn Windows into something more like Linux. But still, for some reason, they believe that 26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody ...
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  4352. The Copper chip was far more innovative than the Blitter. It was the Copper that allowed the multiple vertically-sliding “screens” with different graphics modes. They could only be partitioned vertically, because the Copper chip could only change mode between scan lines, not in the middle of a scan line. But being able to dynamically rebuild a display list was (in those days) much quicker than having to copy entire screenfuls of pixels around.
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  4353. All the caffeine, I suppose ...
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  4354. Have you posted it online? Did anybody else see it?
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  4355.  @GenuineUFOs6833  If it really was a huge craft, high up, lots of people should have seen it.
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  4356.  @GenuineUFOs6833  It was probably smaller and closer than you thought.
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  4357. UK politicians are only doctrinaire, not completely psychotic.
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  4358. There can’t be much else to talk about. Unless there is an afterlife for old TV shows ...
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  4359. Another one worth mentioning is The Thirteenth Floor , about a company that creates a simulated reality. Then discover that they themselves are part of a simulation. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0139809/
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  4360. 3:26 So I take it he doesn’t agree with Dijkstra’s proclamation that “computer science is as much about programming as astronomy is about telescopes” (if I recall rightly). As if programming is somehow merely part of the flooring of the subject, rather than lying at its heart. (I don’t agree with Dijkstra either.)
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  4361. rsync can do versioning. I set up a system for doing exactly that for a client. It kept two backups a day going back about a week. Each was done incrementally, but thanks to the deduping magic of --link-dest, each snapshot looked like a full backup for restoration purposes.
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  4362. 2:40 I normally delete that “lost+found” directory. If an fsck run ever finds anything to put in it, it will automatically recreate it.
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  4363. 4:21 36% for Trump? So he’s a shoo-in for reelection, then. Biden doesn’t stand a chance with those numbers.
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  4364. No big surprise, considering its lineage.
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  4365. 12:04 Maths needs more picture symbols! It already suffers massively from too many meanings of alphabetical symbols from a small number of alphabets. OK, so there is the question of how you pronounce the new things...
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  4366. Longitude ! Yes!
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  4367.  @johnjohnny6971  That usage was popularized by the Nazis.
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  4368. Why is it they prize the Second Amendment, but not the First Amendment?
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  4369. 3:47 Did the workers putting on the asbestos have any idea about the exposure risks?
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  4370. 0:40 Every time I see repetitive code, I think “why don’t you refactor that into another function?”.
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  4371. None of the haters would have even been born when Emacs was created.
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  4372. And also more expensive. Proprietary OSes, and the proprietary server-side apps that run on them, tend to be licensed based on the number of CPU sockets in your machine. A special exemption was made for multiple CPUs in the same socket, just for the sake of keeping the customers happy, because such a thing was unknown in the 1990s.
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  4373. Also, it’s late afternoon in this part of the world.
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  4374. All Linux filesystems can use RAM for caching. The key is that the kernel recognizes that these RAM blocks are cache, which is considered a low-priority use, and quickly dump them as necessary when an app needs the memory for more regular uses. ZFS, on the other hand, wants to play by its own rules, and not use the standard kernel caching system. This is where performance problems come in.
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  4375. I don’t use Anaconda. Is that a Windows thing?
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  4376. Emacs particularly, because it is built around a programming language like nothing else on Earth.
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  4377. Quoting from the Info-ZIP zip(1) man page: “Unicode. Though the zip standard requires storing paths in an archive using a specific character set, in practice zips have stored paths in archives in whatever the local character set is. This creates problems when an archive is created or updated on a system using one character set and then extracted on another system using a different character set. When compiled with Unicode support enabled on platforms that support wide characters, zip now stores, in addition to the standard local path for backward compatibility, the UTF-8 translation of the path. This provides a common universal character set for storing paths that allows these paths to be fully extracted on other systems that support Unicode and to match as close as possible on systems that don't.” So you see, whatever the original spec might have said, Unicode has managed to worm its way in anyway.
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  4378. Forget all these utilities for “caring” for hard drives. Do backups instead. I recommend the standard Linux utility rsync, which I use heavily for myself and my clients. It works out the most efficient way to mirror one directory to another over the network. Also has clever features like creating incremental backups that behave like full backups. All without playing fast and loose with the integrity of your file system.
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  4379. In 🇺🇸, there seems to be a faith in polygraph tests that borders on the religious.
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  4380. I can remember writing a program on VAX/VMS (this was the 1980s) to implement “pushd” and “popd” commands (save the current directory to switch to another one, then restore where you were before). The initial executable was just 10 blocks (5kiB) in size as I recall, but it took an appreciable fraction of a second to run each time, which I felt was too slow. But the VMS linker gave you the option of linking against a static version of the system library, instead of the dynamic one. I tried this, and the executable size went up to 50 blocks (25kiB). But it launched a lot faster. These days, on Linux, I really couldn’t notice the difference.
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  4381. Not really. The original PDP-11 Unix system didn’t have dynamic libraries, and that had to fit within a 64KiB address space. VAX/VMS, by contrast, had a huge address space available, and typically ran on systems with memory measured in MiB. But that had shared libraries right from the beginning. These were not common on Unix systems until a few years later.
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  4382. If you buy something, do you own it? Not if “intellectual property” is involved. Considering the inherent conflict between “intellectual property” and actual property rights, don’t you think the term “intellectual property” is an oxymoron?
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  4383. Not only that, but it has a stupid and counterintuitive convention for positioning the cursor.
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  4384. Are you working on making sure Trump fulfils his promises? Like building that wall, and making Mexico pay for it?
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  4385. Technically, “dithering” is any kind of variation around a true value. Thus, addition of noise would be best described as “noise-based dithering”.
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  4386. The warning sign was when he said “United Shaysh”. ... oh, wait, wrong guy.
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  4387. The context for that comment was I think the phenomenon that people who have just discovered regexes tend to (over)use them for everything. One horrendous example was a regex for parsing e-mail addresses.
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  4388. 2:55 Have you looked at apsw? I prefer that to the standard Python sqlite module.
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  4389. In Unicode, I can find “≈” (U+2248
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  4390. ALMOST EQUAL TO),
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  4391. “≃”
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  4392. (U+2243 ASYMPTOTICALLY EQUAL TO) and
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  4393. “≅” (U+2245 APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO), among others.
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  4394. Trouble is, he said that before the rise of very-high-level languages like Perl and Python. Also he probably never used LISP.
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  4395. Who says he “never looked at the sky himself”?
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  4396. Wait -- I thought you were against lockdowns? Violating your liberties and all that? Are they suddenly desirable now? What would Trump think?
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  4397. This guy sounds disloyal to the whole Antiliberal cause.
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  4398. I guess that means even Christians can be good people too.
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  4399. 7:00 Church: the lambda-calculus man! Never mind trying to work with functions of numbers, imagine the whole concept of computation reformulated so that numbers themselves are functions! Ever wondered where the term “lambda” came from for a function defined at point of use without a name? It’s all his fault!
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  4400. I think you get there little by little. Start with small lies, and gradually build up to big ones. Then you are so far removed from reality that any admission of this would be just too humiliating. And so you dig your heels in.
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  4401. The pro-gun lobby works on fear. So you buy a gun to try to assuage that fear. Now you have a gun, but the fear doesn’t go away. So the least unexpected thing happens, and you jump to the conclusion that firing the gun will solve the problem. But it doesn’t: it just leads to tragedy.
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  4402. Think of this as Python+Jupyter+Pandas+etc embracing and extending Excel. Guess what happens next ...
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  4403. Hint: everything that Excel does can be done much more nicely by those other tools.
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  4404. I assume that, in Ruby, function/method definitions and class definitions are declarative, as they are in conventional languages. Remember in Python, these are just special forms of assignment statement, and the function names and class names are just variables that are assigned those objects. (Yes, functions and classes are objects.)
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  4405. So, more “Kerniğan”, like “Erdoğan”?
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  4406. Maybe Wayland is assuming a linear colour space. So the only need for colour calibration is at the physical display end (the Wayland server, e.g. Weston) and at the image input ends (image capture, scanners, cameras etc), and of course interpreting colour profiles attached to image data received from elsewhere (e.g. sRGB files). That seems to me to be the simplest way to think about things.
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  4407. Yeah, I was wondering what a meta-analysis of all those results would show ...
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  4408. I think she said “fogged”.
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  4409. So close! The part of the border they were heading for would have had its bit of wall built before they got there! Now they can just walk through, without even having to cut a hole!
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  4410. Mexico has two big problems: the USA, and the USA. The USA is the source of huge amounts of money to buy those powerful drugs that cause so much harm. And it is also the source of the mountains of guns the drug cartels use to enforce their power over that drug industry.
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  4411. Neat stuff. The circuit breakers I remember seeing as a child back in the Old Country had a “test” button -- I get the feeling they produced a short directly inside the breaker. Also there was no special reset action--just turn the switch back on. Of course, if the short was still in effect, it would refuse to come on.
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  4412. Could be worse. Could be moondust. Go ask any of the surviving moonwalkers what that was like.
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  4413. 5:13 Badger badger badger badger mushroom, mushroom ...
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  4414. Java on mobile phones had no security separation -- all the apps ran on a single JVM. Also Oracle were charging an arm and a leg for J2ME licensing. Google basically outmaneouvred Sun/Oracle by using the open-source J2SE as one of the pieces for the Android development/deployment stack. And the Oracle vs Google lawsuit was Ellison’s revenge.
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  4415. 2:27 Democrats lost the election but still hold power?!? See? DEEP STATE!!!!
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  4416. Quote from the preface: “When DEK taught Concrete Mathematics at Stanford for the first time, he explained the somewhat strange title by saying that it was his attempt to teach a math course that was hard instead of soft. He announced that, contrary to the expectations of some of his colleagues, he was not going to teach the Theory of Aggregates, nor Stone’s Embedding Theorem, nor even the Stone-Tech compactification. (Several students from the civil engineering department got up and quietly left the room.)”
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  4417. Now Emacs has graphical overlays, which let you totally customize the appearance of selected parts of your buffer.
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  4418. Winget has been in development way too long. Last I checked, it was little more than a wrapper around your existing software installers, and didn’t even handle library packages. What’s the bet Microsoft will lose interest and give up, as it has so many times before?
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  4419. 2:36 Why do I have trouble telling them apart? Or is that just Trump’s taste in mistresses?
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  4420. You have to type “sudo”?? You mean you don’t have a root terminal session already doing somewhere? Me, I always keep a couple going, in among the two dozen or so ordinary-user terminal sessions.
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  4421.  @PixelPhobiac  Those terminal windows have a different theme with a bright yellow background, to remind me to take extra care with everything I do there.
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  4422. Jews have been discriminated against in Europe for centuries, climaxing in the Holocaust. I suppose letting them leave to form their own homeland, not too close by, was a form of expiation of that guilt. And never mind there were already people living there, they were not European and didn’t follow any widely-practised European religion, so they didn’t count.
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  4423. It seems to be more and more Wagner claiming successes, not the actual Russian military. So is Prigozhin strengthening his position at the expense of Putin? Because he and Kadyrov are now openly laughing at the ineptness of the Russian military. Putin needs to do to Prigozhin what Krushchev did to Beria.
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  4424.  @vigilante8374  “Assuming” ... yeah, right.
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  4425. 7:51 The capsule seems aligned with its heat shield exactly perpendicular to the trajectory. I thought it would be at a slight angle (as with Apollo), to allow for aerodynamic control to adjust its path as necessary. This maneouvrability gives a wider available reentry window, and hence a wider safety margin.
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  4426. 4:04 You mean lines were numbered from 1, not 0? Wasn’t this code written in C?
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  4427. To ensure that the server you are connecting to is really who they say they are.
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  4428. Trans-Tasman joke: under the Sydney Harbour Bridge, somebody had spray-painted: NEW ZEALAND SUX Underneath, someone else had added: AUSTRALIA NIL
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  4429. Trying to say that every vote must count equally is so ... so unAmerican. Of course Republican votes should count for more than Democrat votes!
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  4430. Windows doesn’t support more than a single letter.
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  4431. They’ve denied having a hand in taking down Prigozhin. That means that there is some other group with access to military-grade weaponry, operating within Russian territory, seemingly with impunity. And Putin is powerless to stop them.
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  4432. The Ukraine invasion is Putin’s “Operation Barbarossa”.
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  4433. You can encrypt arbitrary long messages with any decent encryption algorithm using any key.
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  4434.  @vishalmishra3046  Consider that there is no limit on the length of a TLS certificate.
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  4435. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  4436. Talk to me about Web2.71828 ... the e-conomy.
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  4437. Not such a surprise on a platform where the GUI is a modular, replaceable layer. Only a surprise if you are accustomed to platforms where the GUI is bound into the OS as an inseparable monolith.
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  4438. 0:28 While “International Earth Rotation Service” remains a cool name, I don’t think they officially use that any more.
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  4439.  @gimcrack555  Rust seems to be better than Go: https://blog.discordapp.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f
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  4440. Oh, the poor widdle snowflakes. Cannot abide by the same laws as everybody else? Diddums!
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  4441. And in Celsius, too ...
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  4442.  @notbobbobby  The fact that you can customize Emacs with just a few lines of code, rather than having to download and install a whole “plugin”, makes the barrier to entry quite low.
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  4443. For example, setting up a custom character table for Python identifiers, which can include any Unicode characters that are classed as “letters”: (defvar identchars (make-char-table nil)) (map-char-table (lambda (key value) ; include all uppercase and lowercase letters (when (or (eq value 'Lu) (eq value 'Ll)) (set-char-table-range identchars key t) ) ; when ) ; lambda unicode-category-table ) (set-char-table-range identchars '(?0 . ?9) t) (set-char-table-range identchars ?_ t)
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  4444. It's only a few light-hours away. Light-years take you to other stars.
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  4445. Unfortunately the version of bash on Mac is old. Apple doesn’t seem to like the newer versions.
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  4446.  @thyssenFILMS  All that takes extra fiddling, maintenance, handholding. On Linux, it Just Works™.
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  4447. Have you looked at BigBlueButton? We used it for our local Linux and Python user groups to conduct meetings during lockdown, and even continued after that, for those who couldn’t be bothered to turn up in person ;). Does video, audio, screen sharing and messaging, all in one. Entirely browser-based and Open Source, but you do have to set up your own server.
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  4448.  @lucjannastalek9978  Where is there such a “principle of conservation of moment of momentum”? Sounds like gibberish to me (as to anybody with a physics background).
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  4449. async-for needs the additional ‗‗aiter‗‗ mechanism in order to work, ‗‗await‗‗ on its own isn’t enough. I haven’t found async-for to be all that useful. So far, anyway.
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  4450. 3:32 Carriage return is done with the left hand. Unless you’re writing right-to-left ...
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  4451. 60 court cases lost by Trump and his idiot lawyer Giuliani prove I’m right.
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  4452. So, when is Trump’s inauguration, then?
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  4453. All that nonsense has been laughed out of court ... multiple times.
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  4454.  @rachelgarcia4301  The God Almighty followers were the reason Trump got elected in the first place.
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  4455.  @billybob6469  And yet his approval rating is higher than Trump was able to manage throughout his entire Presidency.
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  4456.  @davidward8468  None of your nonsensical claims held up in court. Not even under judges appointed by Trump. Not a single one.
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  4457.  @davidward8468  Rule of law is one of the pillars of democracy. Without that, you have an existence that is “nasty, brutish and short”.
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  4458.  @billybob6469  Americans.
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  4459. 1:35 But ... but ... it’s the worst deal ever!
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  4460. 6:15 I think it was basically a power glitch. The SCE got hit by transients that put it into a strange state, and switching power supplies fixed this. Maybe just turning it off and on again would have worked as well ... (Hmmm ... didn’t they do that to something on Apollo 10?)
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  4461. 7:57 Unfortunately, it seems computer graphics people can’t decide whether y should increase up or down: in 3D graphics it usually increases upwards, but in on-screen interactive 2D graphics, it more commonly goes downwards. Sigh...
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  4462. You mean ... Megan Kelly had him sussed??
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  4463.  @havable  It took some years to bring the MMP system in. There was a Royal Commission back in the 1980s. Then there was a campaign to act on the recommendations of the Commission. That was resisted by many powerful figures, as you can imagine. Finally the politicians agreed to hold a referendum on it (actually two referenda, one on whether to switch and the other on what to switch to). The powerful figures made many dire predictions of instability and doom and gloom and all the rest of it. But the public went for the switch anyway. And here we are.
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  4464. In this case, maybe “survivors” ...
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  4465. 4:34 Face it, the main reason ExFAT exists is as a licensing revenue stream for Microsoft.
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  4466. Maybe he should just go back to Cancun ...
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  4467. This was a frequently-commented-on drawback of CDs, that they had less room for that lovely album cover art.
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  4468. That grandma joke really got a full-throated groan. The audience knew what was expected of them, and they didn’t hold back. And then they laughed and applauded anyway. That’s what Seth manages to pull off.
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  4469. He actually misheard the question. He thought it was about “Yahtzee”, not “Nazi”. You won’t hear this on Mainstream Media, but I have it on good authority that 🇨🇦 is a hotbed of cheats and abusers of this noble game, who must be stopped!
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  4470. The genetic code is self-replicating, if you consider the rest of the cell as some kind of general-purpose manufacturing machine.
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  4471. 9:35 They are now, but did Maxwell derive them that way?
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  4472. Some 🇺🇸ans are still sore that the only “planet” any of their people ever discovered is now no longer classed as such. Science is an international endeavour. Deal with it.
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  4473. PipeWire also depends on systemd for process management. Without that, I think you lose some features.
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  4474. We already are using 64 bits.
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  4475. “Pyro” for the Mac might have been the first.
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  4476.  @Gummibrandur  It’s a lousy way to do image compression, though.
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  4477.  @shawn2736  That’s not “dithering”. That’s “screening”.
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  4478. Here’s to all of humanity, regardless of gender, ethnicity, whatever. And all non-moralistic creeds are welcome, too!
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  4479. I have experimented with using melt. This lets you create an XML control file that defines all the edits. It uses FFmpeg underneath anyway.
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  4480. That’s what Biden has promised--that the investors will not be covered for their losses, it is only the bank customers who are being protected.
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  4481. 0:45 If you take up arms against the Government, that gives them carte blanche to shoot back, and nobody will accuse them of overreacting. And remember that the Government has more, bigger and better weapons than any private citizen. Particularly with the increasing adoption of military-style hardware by the police.
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  4482. Remember the significance of the “Asterisk” name: it’s named for the shell wildcard “*” character, which matches any filename. This is to denote that Asterisk is so versatile, it can assume any kind of telephony-based role you can imagine. It’s a scriptable engine, that you can use to build your own applications using Python or other languages. Last time I looked at 3CX, even they are offering Asterisk-based solutions now. That’s how dominant it has become.
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  4483. Next he’s killing off all the third-party Twitter apps.
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  4484. Viruses seem to be the ultimate form of parasite: descended from a regular living thing which gave up every capability for independent existence -- even its own metabolism -- in favour of preying on other living creatures.
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  4485. We have Jupyter notebooks, which let you type a few lines of Python to do interesting things — “scratchpad” programming, if you like.
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  4486. KDE was always highly customizable. That was the whole point of the ”Plasma” concept from 4.x onwards. You can choose and combine widget components to give the style of desktop you want. There is even a widget that gives you a Mac-style dock. (Try doing that on Windows.)
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  4487. Political appointments should not be for life. If their appointments are political, they should be term-limited.
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  4488. At least it’s not losing money and haemorrhaging staff, like Twitter. It’s been around for six years. I heard someone say once “it can take years to become an overnight success”.
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  4489. And why only in the US? Dozens of other countries have managed the same 5G rollout without any drama.
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  4490. 20:06 And you also reduce clutter by deleting workspaces you don’t need. For example, I doubt you are using Sculpting and Texture-Paint functions in a CAD application. And you can add more custom ones as needed. For example, I have a workspace that shows the preferences settings, so I can easily switch to them as needed.
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  4491. 11:15 Not sure what you mean by “pure-electrical”. Do you mean ones using rechargeable batteries?
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  4492. Do you get Al Jazeera in your area? Now there is a truly international network.
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  4493. I thought it was supposed to be the “word of God”. But clearly not...
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  4494. Grosch’s Law probably comes into it at some point as well.
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  4495.  @williamshaw5388  Is that a military pact?
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  4496. 3:24 That power of flight is very energy-intensive for something the size of a pigeon. Compare a sparrow, which is so small it is actually more efficient for it to hop than walk, and will take flight just to get from one end of a metre-long wall to the other. Thus endeth your biophysics lesson for today.
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  4497. Meanwhile, our own little city has decided to take down a statue of its founder https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12339287 , and some are suggesting we should change the name of the city to the original name of this area under Māori settlement https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12339393 . Got to admit, “Kirikiriroa” would be pretty unique, compared to the number of places in the world named “Hamilton” ...
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  4498. Isn’t it odd that a London werewolf would be able to find Kent, but could never make it to Basingstoke?
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  4499. 5:59 That first term is in fact 1 ÷ 0!
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  4500. 4:35 Hey, that’s close to the classic “Xerox PARC” look. ;)
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  4501. I see my comment got “held for review” because it had the world “o
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  4502. ld” in it. I can never tell whether a comment is “held for review” or just deleted, so I will leave both versions up.
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  4503. 6:06 Convolutions are commonly used in digital signal processing. Interesting to see them pop up in epidemiology as well. What next -- Fourier transforms? (The mathematics of time series is a slippery slope...)
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  4504. Some unscrupulous resellers were selling those discs as though they were additional copies of Windows. Which is why Microsoft put an end to the practice of supplying them.
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  4505. Quantum mechanics doesn’t include gravity, though. Therefore it is still reductionist, and this Mr Böhm doesn’t really have a clue.
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  4506.  @robertherndon4351  If you want to include that, call it more like 18.6 bits. Oh, and I never said it did.
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  4507.  @okie9025  GitHub is not open-source.
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  4508. I heard a quote somewhere: the Solar System consists of the Sun, Jupiter ... and assorted debris.
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  4509. But Putin is claiming that Ukrainians are Russians, and have no right to an independent state!
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  4510. But what if each component of the quaternion was not a real number, but a complex number? In other words, introduce a second level of complexification, if you like, where you could have real/complex/quaternion/etc at each level, independently. What properties would the resulting numbers have? And then, of course, what happens if you have 3 or more levels?
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  4511. Trump supporters: “Now is not the time to talk about wearing masks.” I’m sure we all send our thoughts and prayers to the Lügenführer ...
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  4512.  @FrankHarwald  That one was no coincidence.
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  4513.  @FrankHarwald  No, the one I mentioned was indeed a (near) coincidence.
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  4514.  @luchi.el.zorrito  Let’s say it goes further than Obamacare.
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  4515. 4:26 Lothrings Fellowshring! Back when the bloody film was being made here in 🇳🇿, it was every bloody where. The level of people going “Squee!” was just sickening.
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  4516.  @ekki1993  A concept less real than the numbers which you said were “fiction”?
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  4517.  @ekki1993  Are you conceding that point, then? Because the second paragraph depends on it.
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  4518.  @ekki1993  There is a number of such concepts, though. Is that number a fiction, or not?
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  4519.  @nadarith1044  Go look up reductio ad absurdum , and maybe you will understand the point I was making.
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  4520.  @nadarith1044  But you were the one who introduced that phrase, not me. Therefore it is your argument that is at fault, not mine.
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  4521.  @nadarith1044  Like I said, you were the one trying to make that argument, not me. So any deficiency in it is a deficiency in your argument, not mine.
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  4522.  @nadarith1044  You were trying to make an argument about the unreality of numbers. I merely pointed out how vacuous that was, by showing that your argument could be used to prove the unreality of your argument itself.
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  4523.  @nadarith1044  No “other guy” brought in the term “intrinsically represents”, it was you. And it was you who then said the term was an “oxymoron”. But since it was part of your challenge to me, it therefore follows that your challenge falls flat on its face. QED.
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  4524. Here’s hoping that, finally, this lot can make a difference. They’re up against powerful, well-funded and well-organized opponents who will resort to anything -- character assassination, misrepresentation, distraction, outlight lying -- to stop them. These young people will have to be incredibly bloody-minded and persistent to get anywhere. The fact that they’re still in the news (in a good way), a month and a half after the shooting, is itself a hopeful sign.
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  4525. man bash is the full Bash manual—all 5000 or so lines of it. It’s also available to read online at https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/bash/manual/bash.html
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  4526. GNOME is easily the most resource-hungry of all the open-source GUI desktop environments.
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  4527. 2:29 O RLY? More Americans voted for Clinton than for Trump, remember.
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  4528. 10:59 Say it after me: SCHADENFREUDE Roll it around your tongue SCHADENFREUDE , and savour the taste of satisfaction at the cracks showing in the support of the Lügenführer: SCHADENFREUDE SCHADENFREUDE SCHADENFREUDE
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  4529. That jumped-up new-fangled vinyl never sounded as good as authentic shellac.
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  4530.  @mmarie1131  Should people be prohibited from carrying weapons? What happened to the NRA mantra that “more guns make people safer”?
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  4531. 10:36 “Attributable to”. No, I’m not a tax consultant. I just play one in the YouTube comments. 🐧
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  4532. In other news, those who refuse to wear masks in Indonesia are being punished by being forced to dig graves for those who die from Covid-19 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12365108 . Do you think a “law-and-order” leader would object to such an apt punishment?
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  4533. Just a note that 🇺🇸 doesn’t score all that well according to the RSF press-freedom index.
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  4534.  @pabloripoll  Do PHP programmers use references in any “real project scenario”, then?
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  4535.  @sudeshryan8707  Hint: try the code and see what it actually prints.
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  4536. It’s just you.
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  4537. People are always surprised to discover that loyalty to a soulless, faceless, profit-driven megacorporation is never reciprocated.
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  4538. Windows can’t even run properly on ARM, even after decades of trying, RISC-V is more than Microsoft can manage. A multi-architecture future will be centred around Linux, possibly also the open-source BSDs, but not Windows.
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  4539. Putin can never conquer Ukraine. But he can reduce large swathes of it to rubble. What the point is of doing that, I don’t know. Maybe he likes ruling rubble heaps.
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  4540. Remember the OP said “multi-chip”, not “multi-core”.
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  4541.  @BrunodeSouzaLino  You said “chiplet”, we said “chip”.
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  4542. 11:33 One of the options in the popup menu for that tool is called “Extrude Manifold”, which might be familiar (under a different name) to SketchUp users (or ex-SketchUp users) ...
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  4543. It’s called “homogeneous coordinates”. Sometimes the extra component isn’t a 1; a value of 0 can be used to represent a “point at infinity” (having a direction but no actual position).
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  4544.  @aarondavis5386  It means that all linear transformations in n dimensions can be expressed uniformly as multiplications between vectors of (n + 1) components and matrices of (n + 1) × (n + 1) components (e.g. 4×4 matrices and 4-vectors for 3D graphics). If you try to use n-vectors and n×n matrices, then rotation, scaling etc are represented by multiplications, but translation (change of location) has to be done by addition.
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  4545. Those cops refused to let Floyd be resuscitated. That proves they wanted him dead.
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  4546. Judge Alsup made a point of teaching himself programming so that he could rule in an informed way on the case. He concluded that APIs could not be copyrighted, and carefully wrote up his reasoning in his verdict. Unfortunately, the appeal went to the Court of Appeals of the Federal Circuit, which is a notoriously copyright/patent-friendly body. So they simply disregarded his verdict, directed him to find that APIs could be copyrighted, and told him to take another look. And then the jury came back and said OK, if APIs are copyrightable, then this was fair use anyway, so the copying was all right.
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  4547. 1:26 No chance you could get that exact answer with logs to only 4 decimal places.
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  4548. I like to use the xscreensaver package: https://packages.debian.org/buster/xscreensaver
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  4549. And who like to complain when the new version changes some behaviour they were used to.
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  4550. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  4551. You mean Covid is not a Democrat hoax?
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  4552.  @Ohio_Against_The_World  So, have you been able to convince your fellow Trumpers of the reality of the virus? Or do they believe you’re part of the hoax?
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  4553.  @Ohio_Against_The_World  The “logical point” has to do with whether the Republican Party lets 🇺🇸 have nice things. Does it?
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  4554.  @Ohio_Against_The_World  You were the one trying to deflect, by mentioning COVID-19, which your last President’s totally inept mishandling of is the reason why you are suffering a particular dearth of nice things right now. Like the freedom to be able to go about your business without getting sick and dying.
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  4555. Those “undocumented immigrants” are coming from a country with fewer COVID-19 infections, remember. They are actually putting themselves in greater risk of getting infected by going to the US.
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  4556. #BoomerIsOK
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  4557. 6:43 No doubt that “expert analysis” will include the priceless contributions of a certain Dr Shiva Ayyadurai https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aokNwKx7gM8 ...
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  4558. Blender only uses as much RAM as it needs for the complexity of your model. I’ve had it running for the last 5 days on this machine, and it’s currently using just about 6% of the 16GiB available (according to top).
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  4559.  @SkyFly19853  Windows issue, maybe? I run it on Linux.
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  4560.  @SkyFly19853  Blender is known to run more efficiently on Linux.
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  4561.  @SkyFly19853  It’s actually a very compact, efficient piece of software--at least on Linux. Just compare its size to that of proprietary 3D apps. And it manages to cover more DCC roles than they do! Stop with the sour grapes and Linux-envy already.
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  4562.  @SkyFly19853  Lots of other people are in fact successfully using it for that and many, many other things. So the problem seems to be entirely yours.
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  4563.  @SkyFly19853  They certainly are finding it harder to get revenue. Notice how they are all moving to rentware, so they can keep squeezing their customers for more and more money? All except Blender.
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  4564. Absolutely true. Microwaving any part of your anatomy is not a good idea.
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  4565. What’s fun is watching the MAGA gullibles continue to deny what is going on under their very noses.
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  4566. Laravel doesn’t do async though, does it. Python frameworks do async with ASGI and asyncio.
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  4567. It’s only your epidermis that’s black, or brown, or whatever, anyway. Everybody’s dermis is pink. Think of blackface, or whiteface, or redface, or whatever makeup you put on, as just an epi-epidermis.
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  4568. If only Gene Roddenberry had been appointed NASA Director ...
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  4569. 6:49 Does each snap contain its own copy of all the standard themes?
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  4570.  @Doriandotslash  But your demo showed the snapped apps changing theme in synchrony with your system setting -- at least as far as they were able.
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  4571. So, has MBS taken the place of Putin as Right-Wing Dictator the Anti-Liberals Would Most Like To Sleep With?
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  4572. In 1987, Compaq brought out a 32-bit PC. In 1988, IBM brought out OS/2, a 16-bit OS. I think Linux was indeed the first proper 32-bit OS for 386-based Microsoft-compatible machines. It came out in 1991 or so, while Microsoft’s Windows NT wasn’t ready until 1993.
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  4573. 5:06 So, the common bracketing symbols for “floor” and “ceiling” were invented by the APL guy. Why am I not surprised?
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  4574. 2 bytes per sample × 2 channels × 44100 Hz sampling rate = 176.4 KB/s = 1411.2 Kb/s
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  4575. 11:00 Regardless of how thinly matter is distributed, gravity is still nonzero, so the clumping tendency will still act, unless there is something opposing it. But what?
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  4576. 2:38 Maybe they shouldn’t be called “heaters”, they should be called “less-colders”. ;)
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  4577.  @211212112  Actually more molecular.
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  4578. 20:54 Yes, the light amplifiers have to be active devices. They need external power in order to amplify, after all. The pumping is just how lasers work. Remember what the “A” stands for in “LASER”? That’s right — “amplification”. And the “SE” is “Stimulated Emission”, aka “pumping”.
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  4579. I only drink pH-free water. Does your water have any pH in it? Don’t contaminate your body with artificial so-called “scientific” chemical concepts!
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  4580. Removing that audio jack must have taken some courage ...
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  4581. Who did the whistle sound, though?
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  4582. What’s the bet that was the same colour as he was already wearing? Never underestimate the power of Facebook...
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  4583. 8:09 Yes, but he would say it in an accent that would have everybody immediately shouting and pointing “vampire!”.
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  4584.  @bluenetmarketing  “Attempting to put different things on opposite sides of a fence and calling them equal, = unnatural.” Hey, you are the one who can’t get away from equating things to other things ...
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  4585. The audit may mean he has to adjust his tax payments, but it doesn’t change the fact of how much he has paid so far. That can’t be under dispute, surely. Unless his accountants are incompetent ...
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  4586. I wonder why Google didn’t use SCTP for HTTP/3 ... is it because too many existing internet routers only understand TCP and UDP, and nothing else? By the way, no one seems to have mentioned that the original name for HTTP/2 was “SPDY” ... ”SPDY”, then “QUIC” ... geddit?
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  4587. Cool. I think I actually understood that. ;)
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  4588.  @Tod_oMal  Is it something worth fighting for?
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  4589. Here’s an example of commented code that I write: my_wait_avail = asyncio.get_running_loop().create_future() if self.wait_avail != None : # somebody else using this socket -- wait till they’re done await self.wait_avail ♯end if assert self.wait_avail == None self.wait_avail = my_wait_avail # claim ownership of socket Now, would you suggest getting rid of those comments, or not?
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  4590.  @hamm8934  Show us how you would do it, then.
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  4591. I thought “Blue Lives Matter” to them ...
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  4592. Ronnie Corbett made an art form out of this. Only his monologues actually, eventually, found their way back to the start, and you discovered that the whole rambling story actually had a point. I think also Billy Connolly did this sometimes.
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  4593. All the best artists seem to get that way through suffering.
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  4594. Ah, I see the Trumpian Sarcasm Committee has arrived.
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  4595. 49' ... I’m surprised you have an office that big.
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  4596. 3:07 But the Mexicans were going to pay for it!
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  4597. Why is it always Liberals who have access to this advanced technology, never Conservatives? Does Science itself have a Liberal bias?
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  4598. Arabs are Semites, too.
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  4599. It seems the Russian military has no NCO class--no Corporals or Sergeants. They have the men, and they have the officers, and that’s it. This is why their strategies lack flexibility, and why the Ukrainians can run rings around them.
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  4600. 9:45 Spot the fine-structure constant!
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  4601. 2:05 OK, how about “Why are you Kojak?”
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  4602. 8:47 Tetanus?
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  4603. The Mac II had a full 32-bit NuBus.
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  4604. What exactly does he mean “digital exclusive”? Aren’t TV broadcasts digital yet in 🇺🇸?
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  4605. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  4606. Arduino can do microsecond-level response times, Raspberry π cannot. That’s the difference between a full computer running a full OS, and a bare-bones one running just the code you compile for it and nothing more. Each has their uses.
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  4607. @VoidField101x The π Pico, with its programmable I/O channels, is purpose-built for that. There is a demonstration somewhere of it doing real-time emulation of the video interface on the old BBC Micro.
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  4608. Or Swedish?
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  4609. Someday we will return to the big blue room. Be patient.
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  4610. 5:51 For more details on the Wilmington, NC incident, watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVQomlXMeek .
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  4611. 11:58 I have a sudden vision of a time a few decades from now where giving unlicensed advice like this will be deemed illegal ...
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  4612. If you don’t want your country to be a free democracy, just say so.
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  4613.  @joshlight6892  My definition includes a system where everybody’s vote counts the same, and the ones in charge of the elections are not the ones running for office.
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  4614.  @joshlight6892  That’s why you need an independent Electoral Commission to draw up boundaries, register voters and run the elections. That’s how all the best democracies work.
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  4615. 9:14 Why does it look like beer? That’s just not a champagne colour, for some reason ...
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  4616. There is a saying: “the gods help those who help themselves”.
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  4617. In the spirit of clouds with a silver lining, suppose the next pandemic was some infectious eye disease, and everybody had to go round wearing domino masks over their eyes for protection, instead of these mouth/nose ones. Wouldn’t that at least look cooler?
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  4618. I thought Biden was supposed to be some kind of autocratic dictator. Are you telling me he’s not? That he actually has a whole support base working on his side?
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  4619. The whole quantum computing business seems to depend very heavily on the many-worlds interpretation. Their idea is that you can somehow access those many-worlds states to perform parallel simultaneous computations. The problem I see is that this is supposed to give you an exponential increase in computing power for a linear increase in the number of processing elements—which sounds like “something for nothing” in my book.
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  4620. He can see us, even though we can’t see him ...
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  4621. How much money do you think they spent on it?
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  4622. 3:17 Who gave his name to De Morgan’s Theorems, an important part of the theory of computer logic. Or indeed, logic in general.
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  4623.  @iamme659  Because setting the {253f01e9-
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  4624.  @iamme659  043c-485f-8af8-
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  4625.  @iamme659  797} registry key to {a913e8b6-
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  4626.  @iamme659  6f37-4605-9117-1303bf
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  4627.  @iamme659  } is considered normal for Windows users, isn’t it.
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  4628.  @JobBouwman  So far 5 people have disagreed with you. Likely more, except YouTube doesn’t show downvotes.
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  4629.  @JobBouwman  Up to 8 and counting.
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  4630.  @JobBouwman  Maybe you should just delete your comments and move on.
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  4631.  @JobBouwman  Comments on what? Try considering that question before hitting that keyboard again.
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  4632.  @JobBouwman  So you made an irrelevant comment on something you thought was an irrelevant comment? Remember, it’s not too late to delete your comments.
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  4633. You mean “°”? I type that with compose-o-o.
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  4634.  @dalen.tenney5210  The compose key is a standard *nix thing.
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  4635. 3:13 That magnifying glass with a wire on it ... what purpose does that wire serve?
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  4636.  @msemakweli133  How is it getting back to the control station?
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  4637. 9:40 “LNWSM TEAM Presents A CLOSER LOOK FILM” ... hard to read the rest ...
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  4638. 0:14 It was a Republican-controlled legislature in Pennsylvania that insisted that early votes could not be counted until election day. Otherwise the count would have been all done and dusted by then.
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  4639. “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” -- Philip K Dick When you stop believing in maths, does it go away?
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  4640. I think the FSF and others have made the point that the Apache licence gives stronger protections against patent trolls than MIT or BSD do.
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  4641. PIP and drive letters were among the features Gary Kildall copied from DEC. He adapted cut-down versions of those ideas (e.g. only single-letter drive names, as opposed to multi-character ones on DEC OSes) to fit his 8-bit hardware. Then a certain other company copied those ideas, but neglected to scale them back up as the hardware grew more powerful. With the result that that company still believes that 26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody.
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  4642.  @hrgwea  I actually use and manage Linux systems on a day-to-day basis. None of our installations have ever needed defragging. Microsoft NTFS is a really antiquated filesystem in this regard. Wonder why Microsoft doesn’t take tips from the Linux filesystem designers?
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  4643. Congratulations to Donald Trump for having been White-House-free for two years now.
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  4644.  @floydjohnson7888  To be fair, VNC and SSH would not have existed back in the (earlier) 1990s.
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  4645. Count yourself a Clever Groveland!
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  4646. 15:07 the CDC 6000 series were designed by computer hardware genius Seymour Cray. The company was set up to sell conventional business machines, and really had no idea what to do with the fastest computers in the world that he had created for them. Competitor IBM also hated them and tried to kill the company. Today, it appears there is just one 6000-series machine still operating in the whole world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zt03YsMyW4 Cray later left CDC to form his own company to concentrate on making supercomputers. You may have heard of it ... what was it called again ...
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  4647. You know all that fuss about hydroxychloroquine being such a miracle drug? Yeah, not so much https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/1/27/oklahoma-attempts-to-return-2m-worth-of-anti-malaria-drug ...
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  4648. Why?
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  4649. Aw, seachs ...
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  4650. Remember they’re not really that “hidden”. On a multiuser system, the existence of a file with a particular name in your home directory betrays the fact that you have used a particular app. That’s a potential invasion of privacy.
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  4651.  @mikeonthecomputer  You have to have execute access at least, if you want to share stuff with others. That’s all that’s needed to take a good guess.
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  4652. “Tao is each”. See, it’s not hard.
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  4653. The original 32-Bit Color QuickDraw from 1988 or 1989 implemented high-quality, but slow, dithering. Then QuickTime added a faster pattern dither for playing back an approximation of full-colour movies on limited-colour displays.
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  4654. I wonder how that hydroxychloroquine “regimen” ends. What happens if you get infected afterwards? Or is it supposed to convey permanent immunity?
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  4655. @Deluded Retrumplicans Everywhere: stand up and tell that to a judge in a courtroom, then I will take you seriously. But not before then.
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  4656. Correction: Trump tried to cheat. But he couldn’t even manage that competently.
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  4657. 2:06 Or there would be, if your hardware implemented “n-key rollover”, which means it can distinguish every possible combination of keys being pressed at once. Not sure if current keyboard hardware actually supports that.
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  4658. Each religions says their god is the only true god, all other gods are false. They can’t all be right on the first point, they can all be right on the second.
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  4659.  @elcobra0215  Judaism came before both. And Buddhism and Hinduism are even older.
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  4660.  @elcobra0215  In that case, the truest religion of all must be animism. Everything else is false.
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  4661.  @ArjanCodes  That could be done if you could define your own custom operators, like “=>”.
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  4662. Remember why he left the US? It’s because your lot couldn’t stomach his stance on gun control.
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  4663. You are a very patient man, all things considered. ;)
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  4664. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  4665. I’m thinking, give the Ukrainians the hardware that they need, then leave them to get on with it. No need to send US troops. Because, you know, the US hasn’t been able to win a war in over half a century.
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  4666. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  4667. Because they are the most assiduous in paying their taxes, aren’t they.
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  4668. I remember, back when I did an Ubuntu install, turning it into Kubuntu was as easy as “apt-get install kubuntu-desktop”.
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  4669. Microkernels are pretty much a relic of history at this stage. ∗cough∗ GNU Hurd ∗cough∗
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  4670.  @liquidmobius  Nobody has got one working properly to production quality. Nobody. FreeBSD I think has the vestiges of a microkernel at its heart, but that had to be bastardized somewhat in the name of performance.
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  4671.  @liquidmobius  I wonder why you say that such characteristics of the software have nothing to do with the software itself. That’s a very dubious assertion to make. The objective facts are that the IME runs MINIX, and it has vulnerabilities.
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  4672.  @liquidmobius  Sounds like you are trying to argue in circles: first claiming that microkernels are more “secure”, then, when faced with evidence to the contrary, trying to claim that those vulnerabilities don’t count. If serious vulnerabilities don’t count, then which ones do?
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  4673.  @trollerjakthetrollinggod-e7761  If a microkernel cannot safely run in a “privileged state”, then how is it supposed to be used?
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  4674. Pass a law to ban it?
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  4675. I don’t understand why a proprietary vendor-specific feature like “Intellisense” is grounds for declaring that a cross-platform standard is somehow deficient. Clearly the deficiency lies in the proprietary product.
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  4676.  @blazinghellwheels  If you don’t want to have the option of NULL values, you don’t have to. I have found them quite useful myself. Even on fields that aren’t supposed to have NULL values.
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  4677.  @blazinghellwheels  The reason why I mention NULL values in fields that aren’t supposed to have them is they can occur when doing something like a left join: a NULL in what is supposed to be the primary key of a joined table, for example, indicates that the whole record is absent. How would you represent such a situation without NULL?
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  4678. ObaMAGAte has MAGA in it! Is that good or bad?
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  4679. Extreme UML Waterfall will be the new hawtness. Get in on the ground floor now.
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  4680. A man who put country ahead of party. Something that civilized, democratic countries around the world take for granted.
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  4681. Actually, it was said before, and it was the Ukrainians that time, too. Because they figured nothing could be worse than the Holodomor. The German Army was welcomed with bread and salt, and they were OK -- honourable fighting force, obeying the laws of military occupation, and all that. But then the actual Nazis (SS, Gestapo) came in, and suddenly maybe the horrors of Stalin didn’t seem so bad after all. Yeah, history is complicated.
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  4682. 3:21 Is he willing to testify to that under oath?
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  4683. You mean, not letting the guy finish answering a question before trying to hit him with another? That’s the tactic of someone who is trying to push an agenda rather than uncovering the truth. Is he afraid of hearing the answers to his own questions?
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  4684. 5:46 Portrayal of these crime-ridden urban districts would be more realistic if they looked at actual present-day examples like the slums of Mumbai or the favelas of Rio De Janeiro. You will see that, far from living completely hopeless lives, there is a lot of, shall we say, “informal” economic activity going on. Yes, there is crime and there are gangs. And a lot of the violence in Rio, for example, comes from police storming in and engaging in shooting matches with the gangs. In short, a lot of these situations could not exist if the police truly were competent, honest and above-board.
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  4685. C was hardly the first. At that point we had over a decade of experience with building large systems -- for example, IBM had already created PL/I by this point, and that was used for implementing MULTICS, which Bell Labs participated in for a while before pulling out and creating their own UNIX. And there was an even earlier language called JOVIAL, quite popular among the US military, which had the COMPOOL concept -- an early form of system library -- for storing common reusable definitions.
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  4686. They took large numbers of programmers, working for years, to develop.
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  4687. I haven’t bothered with SpamAssassin. The one thing that keeps 95% of the spam away is greylisting. So I run sqlgrey.
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  4688. 3:44 Or maybe they just use it in an ironic way ...
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  4689. ldo@theon:~> type kill kill is a shell builtin
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  4690. 0:55 People kept mistaking him for one. “I am not a Crookes Radiometer!”
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  4691. Eeeeuuhhhh ... ... but then again, crabs do that. Also, I just recently noticed there were 3 blue ones and 1 brown one.
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  4692. He’s like a movie villain, surrounded by incompetent henchmen. When they testify against him, suddenly he tells everyone how useless they were, it was like he was doing them a favour by hiring them. He doesn’t realize that his choice of them is a reflection on his own incompetence!
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  4693. The doublethink in the election deniers has to be seen to be believed. You have people like Rudy Giuliani and Mike Lindell and Alex Jones insist they have “proof”, until they get into the courtroom and admit to the judge that they have nothing of the sort. Then they come out, after the case has been dismissed, and go back to insisting they have the “proof” after all.
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  4694. Maybe he should try choosing a cow, and leave the horses to the horseboys.
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  4695. Composting ... for those with a sense of humus.
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  4696.    So what about options to find files by size, timestamps and permissions, for example--how would you implement those? What about ranges for size and timestamps? Really, you don’t know what find does, and yet you feel qualified to describe it as “bloat”?
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  4697. This is Linux, not Windows.
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  4698. 4:20 Who does the cooking and cleaning?
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  4699. We got our PPE gear from China, though we needed armed guards to prevent certain other countries trying to hijack the shipments. Not that I’m naming names ...
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  4700. “Horse hockey.” -- Colonel Potter
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  4701. 11:03 Kind of like the intellectual equivalent of the Imperial Stormtrooper School of Marksmanship ...
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  4702. Hearing is a sense. If you are not “hearing” it, then what “sense” are you using?
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  4703.  @eddievhfan1984  The server doesn’t need any tickets; only the client does.
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  4704. A never gets that key. It only gets tickets encrypted with that key.
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  4705. Why don’t you write one?
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  4706. In all the good democracies, the ones running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  4707.  @Gnaritas42  Let’s compare actual code, then. Here’s the level-break example I posted in another comment: out․write("<TABLE>\n") out․write("<TR><TH>Planet<∕TH><TH>Moon<∕TH><∕TR>\n") items_iter = db_iter \ ( db, "select planets․name, moons․name" " from planets left join moons on planets․id = moons․parent" " order by planets․name, moons․name" ) cur_planet = None while True ∶ item = next(items_iter, None) if item == None or cur_planet != None and item[0] != cur_planet ∶ if cur_planet != None ∶ out․write \ ( "<TR><TD><I>Count∶<∕I><∕TD><TD>%d<∕TD><∕TR>\n" % count ) cur_planet = None ♯end if if item == None ∶ break ♯end if out․write("<TR><TD>") if cur_planet == None ∶ ♯ first moon for next planet cur_planet = item[0] count = 0 out․write("<B>" + html․escape(item[0]) + "<∕B>") else ∶ ♯ second or subsequent moon, don’t repeat planet name out․write(" ") ♯end if out․write("<∕TD><TD>") if item[1] != None ∶ ♯ there is a moon out․write(html․escape(item[1])) count += 1 else ∶ ♯ that’s no moon out․write("<I>(none)<∕I>") ♯end if out․write("<∕TD><∕TR>\n") ♯end while out․write("<∕TABLE>\n") Show us how an ORM will make that simpler.
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  4708. Let’s compare actual code, then. Here’s the level-break example I posted in another comment: out․write("<TABLE>\n") out․write("<TR><TH>Planet<∕TH><TH>Moon<∕TH><∕TR>\n") items_iter = db_iter \ ( db, "select planets․name, moons․name" " from planets left join moons on planets․id = moons․parent" " order by planets․name, moons․name" ) cur_planet = None while True ∶ item = next(items_iter, None)
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  4709. if item == None or cur_planet != None and item[0] != cur_planet ∶ if cur_planet != None ∶ out․write \ ( "<TR><TD><I>Count∶<∕I><∕TD><TD>%d<∕TD><∕TR>\n" % count ) cur_planet = None ♯end if if item == None ∶ break ♯end if
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  4710. if item == None or cur_planet != None and item[0] != cur_planet ∶ if cur_planet != None ∶ out․write \ ( "<TR><TD><I>Count∶<∕I><∕TD><TD>%d<∕TD><∕TR>\n" % count
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  4711. ) cur_planet = None ♯end if if item == None ∶ break ♯end if
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  4712. out․write("<TR><TD>") if cur_planet == None ∶ ♯ first moon for next planet cur_planet = item[0] count = 0 out․write("<B>" + html․escape(item[0]) + "<∕B>") else ∶ ♯ second or subsequent moon, don’t repeat planet name out․write(" ") ♯end if
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  4713. out․write("<∕TD><TD>") if item[1] != None ∶ ♯ there is a moon out․write(html․escape(item[1])) count += 1 else ∶ ♯ that’s no moon out․write("<I>(none)<∕I>") ♯end if out․write("<∕TD><∕TR>\n") ♯end while out․write("<∕TABLE>\n") Show us how an ORM will make that simpler.
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  4714.  @Gnaritas42  Show your output.
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  4715. Code taken from here: aHR0cHM6Ly9naXRodWIuY29tL2xkby9weXRob25fdG9waWNzX25vdGVib29rcy9ibG9iL21hc3Rlci9EYXRhYmFzZXMlMkMlMjBJdGVyYXRvcnMlMjAlMjYlMjBMb29waW5nLmlweW5i
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  4716. Down with the Coup Plots Plansmen!
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  4717. I think it’s worth reading Larry Beinhart’s analysis https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/13/even-without-the-senate-democrats-can-get-a-lot-done/ . Note this bit: “Each time the Republicans lose the presidency, there are internal reviews that say they need to broaden their base. In practice, they swing further right. So much so, that what had been the loony fringe at the start of the process becomes their centre. By the time of the 2016 primaries, virtually all their candidates had gone full Tea Party. The next step – with Trump already shuffling toward it – is full Q-Anon.” It seems like they gave up the idea of actually representing voters a long time ago. Now it’s all about holding onto power. And they have told so many lies in the service of this aim that they can no longer tell what is real any more. And neither can those who are still following them.
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  4718. 11:54 That’s hair-dye running down the side of his face. Rudy is melting!
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  4719. Satchmo! “Oh when the saints ... !”
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  4720. I would assume “whatever is currently supported”. At the moment this would be 3.7 or later.
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  4721.  @tmseth1  Such as?
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  4722.  @_DRMR_  I’m sure he has, but most of us like to, indeed have to, deploy on stable platforms.
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  4723. Uparrow works. CTRL/A is a line-editing character for “go to beginning of line”, while CTRL/E is “go to end of line” (the Home and End keys also work). Those keystrokes are copied from Emacs, by the way. Oh, and you may have trouble specifically on the GNOME terminal app, because one of those keystrokes (might be CTRL/A) is interpreted a shortcut for bringing up a menu, which I find very annoying. Luckily there are better terminal apps out there...
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  4724. So in higher dimensions, the regular polytopes consist of the simplexes, the hypercubes, and the duals of the hypercubes. Q: Why not the duals of the simplexes as well? A: Brpnhfr gur fvzcyrkrf ner gurve bja qhnyf.
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  4725. They’re going to reveal that the Moon landings were real after all.
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  4726. Possibly ALGOL 68. Type VOID in there has only a single value, called EMPTY. So it was actually permissible to return a VOID value (i.e. EMPTY) from an expression.
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  4727. I use different licences. I’ve even been using CC licences for Python/shell scripts.
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  4728. 5:54 But the trouble with C# is that you are then stuck on Windows. Not the best choice for portable code.
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  4729. Shouldn’t they be blaming Trump? He was the one who built the wall that was supposed to keep them out. What good is it if they can simply climb over? Ask him what he did with all those billions he spent! And when is he going to get the money back from Mexico?
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  4730. 9:28 One would hope that a police force would be all civilians. Because they are not supposed to be military, after all.
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  4731. 1:12 Seems Native Americans have their own problems with DNA tests. Are they anti-science as well?
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  4732. Unlike Colbert, he can do it without a prop.
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  4733. 6:35 You realize that continual polling of the volume setting is quite unnecessary? For example, on KDE, I get D-Bus signals broadcast to all listeners on the per-user session bus to notify them of useful things like volume changes. So interested processes can simply listen for the relevant signals.
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  4734. 12:33 Guess what “pintle” means. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pintle
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  4735. The curvature of the Earth is always visible when the horizon is visible. Because the horizon is a circle right around you.
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  4736. 4:28 Also on inheritance, which you didn’t actually bother with here. Python’s duck typing to the fore!
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  4737.  @EwanMarshall  On the contrary, rounding happens all the time. With currency conversions and compound interest, it is unavoidable. There is no such thing as arbitrary-precision fractional arithmetic.
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  4738. No, these are just type annotations. They don’t actually make a difference to the compiler.
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  4739. They wanted a wider choice of landing sites (namely secure ones) in the case of unexpected weather problems, for when they were carrying classified payloads. That capability was never used.
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  4740. I used to use the tab key, but only in editors where you could customize it to go in steps of four columns. This still caused problems looking at the text in other programs which did not have such an option. So I switched to spaces. Now I know my formatting will look the same regardless of what program is displaying it. For backward compatibility, I still have Emacs configured to sniff the file on opening; if it detects tabs, then the tab key generates tabs in that buffer, otherwise pressing tab inserts spaces.
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  4741. It still lives on as open source. Why don’t you keep using it?
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  4742. 12:32 So if the aliens ever invent a Heart Of Gold starship with its Infinite Improbability Drive, their running into one of these probes is a virtual cert, then.
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  4743. When I was little, back in the old country with the UK-style plugs, I used to be confused by the word “FUSED” embossed into their cases. Because adult relatives only used the word “fused” to mean “the fuse has blown”!
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  4744. 1:25 The sprocket holes were also punched as the data holes were being punched. So the tape did not have to be manufactured with the sprocket holes (synchronization track) pre-punched.
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  4745. 5:46 That’s “dissipate”.
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  4746. One problem is they have to give time to the proprietary computer operating system vendors, namely Microsoft and Apple, to issue software patches. Remember what happened in 2007 or so, the last time daylight saving changes happened in the US? And all the problems people had with their computers as a result? On Linux, we use something called the Olsen database, which is just a bunch of data files that can be updated without patching any software. I was just looking at the data for South America, and boy is that full of tweak after tweak from year to year. I remember one year, the Parliament of one country voted to extend daylight saving with just about two weeks to go before it would have ended. The maintainers of the Olsen database got an amendment out within a few days.
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  4747. He was supposed to be such a successful businessman, he claimed that made him qualified for being able to run the country. Basically, his resumé was a tissue of lies.
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  4748. C23 finally drops compatibility with pre-ANSI function declarations! The writing is on the wall, K&R fanatics ...
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  4749. 2:04 Because the Brits had abolished slavery by this time. Something a certain set of former colonies continued to cling desperately to.
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  4750. I wonder what bait you could use for a trap. “Here, virus virus ...”
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  4751. You can tell the Republicans are getting mighty scared of this gentle little black woman ... and she doesn’t even carry a gun ...
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  4752. Ah, quoting his words back at him, yet another sneaky tactic of the Radical Liberal Left. Don’t you know logic has a Liberal bias? That science and the laws of the Universe are all just part of the satanic godless Democrat hoax conspiracy deception?
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  4753. And anybody who links to pages about that guy who set up the aircraft-tracking apps.
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  4754. I wonder what Neil Diamond uses?
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  4755. The fr
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  4756. dom aspect of HTML, HT
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  4757. TP and the W
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  4758. WW was not popular with the established big companies.
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  4759. When they saw this thing becoming popular, they kept trying to come out with alternative proprietary products to draw users away from the open standard: think of Quark Immedia, and Microsoft’s own “Project Blackbird” (and what MSN was initially going to be), just for examples.
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  4760. They all died because they simply could not offer the kind of connectivity that the WW
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  4761. W and the Internet already had built-in.
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  4762. 0:46 In the immortal words of June Whitfield: “Just the one, dear?”
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  4763. Why doesn’t it work on 3.12? Language incompatibility? Build incompatibility?
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  4764. Didn’t most of the original English-speaking colonists come from the West Country?
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  4765. The US needs a political system that can offer a realistic choice of more than two political parties. A normal democracy, in other words.
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  4766. There is a saying: “If you are not paying for the product, then you are the product”. If you don’t like the service Google is offering you, go use something else.
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  4767. 14:17 Your red looks orangey. In the right context, it could even be brown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU .
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  4768. 6:17 Presumably while that screen was up, you could still switch to a text console with CTRL-ALT-Fn. If so, it should have been possible to get a screen capture that way, using a command-line tool like scrot.
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  4769. His name is Captain Sea. And he sails in the good old SS Ess.
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  4770. 9:43 Maybe repeated humiliation and having his face thoroughly rubbed in it is the only way this person will learn. And the same goes for all his followers.
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  4771. 1:09 The vowls are not what they seem ...
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  4772. Not sure whether Clang can compile the Linux kernel yet.
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  4773. When you’re learning computer graphics, and just trying to figure out how to pose your model, a DeSantis is one of the first things you come up with.
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  4774. And Trump wants to pardon them!
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  4775. Why isn’t Fox considered part of “mainstream media” yet? Aren’t there enough Conservatives watching it? Or are too many of them watching Liberal media and driving up their ratings instead?
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  4776. That’s pretty cool. Do you have a stationery storeroom or cupboard? Something like 50 reams pf paper would have 1000 times as many sheets as that, and that would be how much you would need to print a billion digits. Still not too big to exceed the school’s entire paper supply, I would imagine. ;)
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  4777. Arabs are Semites, too.
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  4778. This was about the year the Acorn Archimedes came out. Remember that had an ARM chip in it which, at 8MHz and RISC-based, ran rings performance-wise around anything else in its price range. Its misfortune was that it was non-IBM-compatible ... and British.
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  4779. The Internet is officially #MittenSmitten.
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  4780. DJVU format deals with this by storing searchable text objects which are not rendered, separate from the actual page rendering. I think PDF allows this also.
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  4781. To be fair, those users are a fairly independent-minded bunch, capable of taking care of themselves, without some “nanny” to run to every time they click on something and it doesn’t work.
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  4782. Even with higher taxes, socialist-style (i.e. Government-provided) healthcare still only has about half the cost per capita of US-style medical insurance.
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  4783. Moral: gravity may be a weakling, but it holds a grudge.
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  4784. A glitch in the maglitch in the matrixtrix?
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  4785. Remember “This generation shall not pass from the Earth”? Only they passed a long time ago.
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  4786. Fun fact: fax machines connect via phone lines.
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  4787. But cloud is where the profit is. How else are Microsoft going to make a profit? Certainly not from desktop Windows alone, any more.
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  4788. Centralizing power in the hands of politicians is the opposite of “checks and balances”.
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  4789. 18:51 He meant “chaotic”.
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  4790. I would say it was his personal enthusiasm for the subject matter. Remember besides DRI, he was running a startup called KnowledgeSet, to take advantage of this new CD-ROM technology (they were profiled in another Computer Chronicles episode). Hence his interest here.
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  4791. Why would you want an induction range? When the old electric oven in my house finally gave up the ghost, I got a nice ceramic cooktop.
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  4792. It’s clear one of the design goals for PDF was that it would be easy to print on PostScript printers -- basically you prefix a PostScript prelude to define those one- or two-character PDF operators as synonyms for their direct PostScript equivalents, then send the contents of the page as is, end with a “showpage”, and out it comes. It seems in the beginning they couldn’t quite decide whether PDF would be a text or a binary format. They soon realized, of course, that conversions between differing OS-specific line-ending conventions would corrupt the object table if a PDF file was treated as text, so they added a recommendation (which might still be in the spec) that PDF generators include some random binary garbage near the start of the file, to stop format sniffers from concluding that they were dealing with a text file.
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  4793. 1¢, 2¢ and 5¢ coins all gone here in NZ .. nothing left smaller than 10¢. Mind you, we’re very heavily an EFTPOS nation now. Amounts get rounded if you’re paying cash, otherwise your card still gets charged the exact amount down to 1¢.
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  4794. Strange. When Trump tried to mobilize the military to suppress the opinion that the election was legit, they point-blank refused to follow such an order. You’re not trying to suggest that the military has somehow been stacked with Democrat sympathizers now, are you? The same military you expect to save you from those godless heathens you fear might invade?
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  4795. 26:26 “1-800-PYX-IX-IX”. Sorry, best I could do ...
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  4796. I’ve heard people pronounce it “hwite”. What’s with that?
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  4797. Mexico has two problems: the USA and the USA. It is the USA that is the source of all this money funding the drug cartels. And it also the USA that is the source of all the guns they use to fight off law enforcement. Addressing just one side of the problem isn’t going to solve it. You need to fix both sides.
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  4798. I am aware of some of the nuances in the Ukraine situation. Like the dubious provenance of the Azov battalion (likely the excuse for Putin’s claim that Ukraine is somehow overrun with “Nazis”). And some of the stories of mistreatment of non-Ukrainians (e.g. ones from Africa) trying to flee to the Polish border. But the fact remains, it is Russia that invaded and started the war, while continuing to claim it did not “invade” and that there is no “war”. And it is Russia that is causing untold suffering to the civilian population, while again insisting that it is doing no such thing. The evidence is plain to see, from people on the ground.
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  4799. I love that name “Philo T Farnsworth”. It sounds so ... American. Can you think of another famous American with the initials “P T”? Another fun thing Philo Farnsworth was involved in was nuclear fusion. Imagine a nuclear fusion reactor simple and cheap enough to build in your home (though it won’t produce output power worth a darn). Look up “Farnsworth Fusor” to find out more.
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  4800. So you end up predefining your queries statically in the ORM, rather than being able to construct them dynamically at run-time. Not sure that’s an advantage.
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  4801. Anything involving boiling water coming into contact with coffee is a bad idea.
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  4802. I keep an Emacs session running all the time, and use the following alias to edit files: alias e='emacsclient -n' That lets me type, in any terminal window e «filename› to open «filename» in my Emacs session.
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  4803.  @johningham1880  But is it really an illusion, or is that just the way it looks?
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  4804. 6:29 Did you try comparing performance with 720p in Chromium?
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  4805. Is there a missing conservation law? Consider: Symmetry of position ⇔ Conservation of linear momentum Symmetry of orientation ⇔ Conservation of angular momentum Symmetry of time ⇔ Conservation of energy But there is one more: symmetry with respect to linear velocity, aka “inertial frames of reference”. What conservation law is the dual of this?
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  4806. Except he’s talking about Anzible instead of Ansible.
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  4807.  Dr Deuteron  t-channel is time, not space.
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  4808. Political appointments should never be for life.
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  4809. I’m sure they are all doing well with their own shows.
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  4810. Those over-complicated, bloated, borderline-useless and paywalled tools are targeted at Windows users who have no idea about command lines.
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  4811. Here in 🇳🇿 we got rid of all coins smaller than 10¢ years ago. It didn’t lead to any extra inflation. Prices are still given to the nearest 1¢, but if you pay cash, then Swedish rounding normally gets applied to the total at the till. But most of us pay by EFTPOS, in which case what we pay is the price shown.
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  4812. 12:15 No checking for errors from the pthread_mutex_lock call?
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  4813. Wait -- you mean Trump’s wall is not keeping them out?!? BUT HE PROMISED!!!!!
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  4814. Clarke’s First Law: “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, they are almost certainly right. When they state that something is impossible, they are very probably wrong.” OK, so Jim isn’t elderly, but ...
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  4815. I remember Linus Torvalds’ scathing response to the idea that “SVN is CVS done right”. As far as he was concerned, there was no way that CVS could be “done right”.
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  4816. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  4817. 4:11 Due process ... don’t run a civilization without it!
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  4818. 8:12 Certs are not normally tied to IP addresses. Not sure if Let’s Encrypt even allows that.
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  4819. By the way, anybody else notice the “Influencer-Free Zone” T-shirt?
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  4820. Apollo in many ways put nationalistic politics first, and as a result it squandered much of the scientific opportunity. They didn’t even put a trained geologist on board until Apollo 15 or 16. So the whole program just got repetitive and boring before it was cut short. That kind of short-term thinking seems ingrained into the 🇺🇸 psyche. I think it’s a result of watching too many Hollywood movies, and believing that that’s how things work in real life.
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  4821. If the US was a democracy, they would not have been able to achieve the level of power they have today.
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  4822. I detect a PHP programmer ... or maybe Java. . . . . . VBA?
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  4823. Democracies must be secular. They have to look after all their citizens equally.
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  4824. Well, Russia seems to be intent on the destruction bit, anyway. They are basically turning Eastern Ukraine into an empire of rubble.
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  4825. 0:52 Wait ... “more guns” is a bad thing now???
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  4826.  @DistroTube  No, I just like to try lots of things. ;)
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  4827. Worth mentioning that “operating system” seems to be essentially synonymous with “kernel” -- at least according to Andrew Tanenbaum, the author of the MINIX Book. So the GNU project was (and still remains) a userland in search of an OS.
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  4828. At least it wasn’t humpbacked any more.
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  4829. 4:42 Portable Digital Documents!? That was a QuickDraw GX thing. (A moment of silence, please, for the next-generation graphics architecture that might have been...)
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  4830. It’s always after Labor Day though, isn’t it?
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  4831. I could never quite figure out what a “Visual” was supposed to be. I think it’s a screen configuration.
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  4832. 9:12 The Wile E Coyote guide to drying a Klein Bottle.
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  4833. Which Linux-compatible systems don’t have /bin/bash?
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  4834.  @brlin  Would /usr/bin/env bash work there?
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  4835. A lot of tools use FFmpeg behind the scenes, without you realizing it.
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  4836. You think maybe Government should pass rules telling private companies how to run their businesses?
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  4837.  @MK-bs3dq  is Swoole compatible with Laravel?
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  4838. Marie Curie of course everyone has heard of. But what about Lise Meitner, Cecilia Payne, Annie Jump Cannon, Henrietta Swan Levitt ...
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  4839. You use it on Windows!? Poor you.
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  4840. Digital filters are quite capable of implementing a “brick wall” cutoff.
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  4841. Autocomplete is the one thing that makes long file names bearable. ;)
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  4842. Windows has the same MS-DOS/CP-M drive letter limit. That’s why you don’t use it as the OS for your NAS.
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  4843.  @trueriver1950  What can you do with it before then?
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  4844.  @sabrinanova949  Go tell Prigozhin he’s got nothing to worry about, and that Russia’s last, great military hope is just spouting hot air. And don’t get too close to any open windows along the way.
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  4845. What’s the closest thing we have to a standard on-screen graphics API? For 3D, it’s probably OpenGL. But Microsoft doesn’t seem to like OpenGL, it keeps trying to push people to use its proprietary Direct3D instead. And then Apple is now promoting its own Metal API, while the rest of the world is embracing Vulkan. For on-screen 2D, X11 has long been popular, but it mashes together windowing and graphics rendering functions which should really be separate. So now we have Wayland, which concentrates on on-screen compositing and doesn’t try to be a full graphics API, instead leaving that to other components, like Cairo. Fun fact: there has been an effort for some years to make an adaptation of Cairo a standard part of the C++ library. Unfortunately it seems they are leaving out all the text functions.
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  4846. To make it more relevant to the younger kids nowadays, how about: Sony → Apple IPhone VHS → Android
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  4847. It was pretty obvious during Trump’s entire term that the only part of the 🇺🇸 Constitution he and his cronies cared about was the Second Amendment. The entire rest of it could go hang.
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  4848. Those hundreds of Linux distros are more compatible with each other than, say, OpenBSD and FreeBSD. I mention WireGuard because that illustrates the fragmentation problems. Once WireGuard was put into Linux, it was available to every Linux distro. It was also implemented for OpenBSD. But moving that code to FreeBSD opened a whole host of problems, documented in an Ars Technica article.
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  4849.  @Sumire973  Which is exactly why I said: the BSDs are fragmented in a way that Linux is not.
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  4850. So who in Vegas was able to defend themselves?
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  4851. “They are us.”
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  4852. 11:44 Unfortunately, Sun abandoned NeWS when X11 was standardized for Unix systems. So, from “level of confidence” to “left in the lurch” ...
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  4853. I wonder what the error estimate on that statement is.
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  4854. Guess what? The US is no longer number one in daily Covid-19 deaths. All because Trump is gone, but Fauci and Birx are still here.
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  4855. That “degraded” indication was because one service failed to start. They use systemd because it is very efficient, and doesn’t need to spawn full shells to run every init script.
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  4856.  @一个说话大声的中国人  You were the one who used that word.
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  4857. She is hated for being such a success with secular liberal policies. And with negotiating the treacherous shoals of COVID-19, where some much larger, more powerful, and certainly noisier, nations came a cropper.
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  4858. I would like to know more about its daddy CPL, which was never quite implemented. BCPL is like a cut-down version.
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  4859. 5:40 Massachusetts and Hawaii have effective gun laws. If Illinois could control its borders with states with lax gun laws, it, too, could have effective gun restrictions.
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  4860. How would you do that without border checks?
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  4861. Most of the Earth’s surface is not controlled by the US Government. Aliens, if they exist, can land anywhere they choose.
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  4862.  @Dodgevair  Any aliens would be so far in advance of our technology that no Government on Earth could cover them up, if they didn’t want to be covered up.
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  4863.  @Dodgevair  You think they would have come all this way only to crash?
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  4864. 09:18 Actually, the real reason for EFM encoding is to reduce the frequency bandwidth of the signal that the circuitry has to cope with. Remember that each 1 represents a waveform transition. So two successive 1s in a row represent a frequency of 14 bits per encoded byte × 2352 bytes per sector × 75 sectors per second ÷ 2 transitions per cycle = 1234800Hz. By insisting on at least 3 0s between each pair of 1s, this is reduced to a quarter of that. At the bottom end of the frequency range, the maximum number of 0s you can have in a row is dependent on how stable you can maintain your clock sync.
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  4865. Sorry, since it’s a minimum of 2 0s in a row, that’s a third of that frequency, not a quarter. The number of combinations of 14 bits that satisfy these constraints is 267, just slightly more than the 256 needed to encode 8 bits of data. (Which explains why 14 bits are used, and not 13 or 15, say.) Some are used for special marker purposes. There is also a 3-bit “packing period” between each of these 14-bit words, which can contain an extra 1-bit as necessary to even out the total numbers of 1s and 0s to avoid the overall signal having a DC offset. Source: John Watkinson, The Art Of Digital Audio , of which I have the 2nd edition from 1994.
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  4866. Is that a Microsoft thing? I use Emacs, which doesn’t do squiggles (though there is probably a module for it somewhere). I don’t even have syntax colouring enabled.
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  4867. 10:05 With Linux, was that measured in a GUI window (which GUI?) or in a text console?
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  4868. In other words, Active Directory is less secure than true Kerberos?
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  4869.  @thehoeslaper  Which country was this? I was paying NZD80 for a box of 5 DVD-R discs for use with the “Superdrive” in my 2002-vintage G4 Imac, and never had to “show ID”.
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  4870. I can remember when her works were all over the newsagents. You know, back when you bought things on paper ...
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  4871. That is absolutely true. Germany is possibly the classic example: the proportional-representation system was put in place to ensure that a dictator could never take power there again. Yet it’s not quite the same as the system in Britain. Certainly I feel it’s a system the US could learn from, especially in the light of current events.
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  4872.  @Solaire_au_Frohmage  That’s what dictatorships, not democracies, are for.
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  4873.  @Solaire_au_Frohmage  You are not trying to suggest that Germany, and other countries near the top of the Democracy Index, are actually “dictatorships”, are you?
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  4874. There are certain definite characteristics underlying democracies, that preclude the domination of dictators. It’s inherent in the definition of “democracy”, after all.
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  4875. I do hand-coded database schemas and queries. And I often make changes to them, with the need for corresponding changes to the code. “Missed issues” will manifest themselves with SQL errors, so they won’t stay “missed”.
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  4876.  @ipadista  Same reasoning applies to ORMs.
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  4877.  @ipadista  I’ve never used code completion. I learned how to touch-type long before I ever got my hands on a computer. Have a look at that level-break example I posted in another comment, and see how your ORM would deal with that.
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  4878. 18:10 Or, just plug your camcorder into the TV and let it play the tape directly. A Video-8 camcorder is also a VCR, after all.
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  4879. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  4880.  @maccsguitar  You have to learn to treat comments as an essential part of the code, not some optional extra.
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  4881.  @rumfordc  No, they are not “optional”, “extra” or “redundant”. They are vital.
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  4882.  @rumfordc  That’s what I mean by “vital”. Imagine trying to get the program functional without understanding what it does. For non-trivial code, that can be come an impossible task.
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  4883. Remember when Trump said it would be so embarrassing to lose to someone like him? That he might have to leave the country?
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  4884. With Git, it’s “commit early and often”. 😎
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  4885. 1:40 “You seems to have an ad blocker on” ... how’s that for an ad?
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  4886. Coming initially from the DEC minicomputer world, I immediately appreciated the one unique feature of the little PCs, namely that direct memory-addressable frame buffer. Trying to do on-screen drawing by sending data down a serial line simply could not compare for speed and interactivity. But those early PC OSes never implemented a decent abstraction layer to allow apps to have some independence from the underlying video/graphics hardware. Instead, they just tried to be cut-down versions of big-machine OSes. Opportunity lost, I thought.
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  4887. Fun fact: “Y-combinator” is a mathematical concept from λ-calculus. It’s a function for creating recursive functions.
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  4888. That’s why Apple charges so much.
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  4889. 4:40 Dang. That’s the whole legitimacy of the Celtic succession destroyed at a stroke.
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  4890. Add one more and make it a perfect square. Number OCD strikes again ...
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  4891. Isn’t this channel normally part of the Vladimir Putin fan club? Rupert Murdoch, Fox News and all that, after all. No more nice things to say about him?
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  4892.  @mrkitty777  You mean people are leaving Microsoft, and Windows 10 is so complex that every attempt to fix a bug only seems to create a new one? Because Linux has no shortage of developers, and its development continues to thrive. Nobody can stop that.
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  4893.  @mrkitty777  Relevance to Linux being ... ?
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  4894. Jupyter does rich output and interactive widgets. And you can run your code incrementally, cell by cell.
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  4895. Sounds like Microsoft is trying really hard with its Jupyter-wannabe. Nevertheless, I think I will continue to stick with the real thing.
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  4896.  @eadweard.  Just think of Microsoft’s track record for software quality.
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  4897.  @eadweard.  And also the question of whether Microsoft will still be putting resources into it a year or two from now, or whether it will have abandoned it in favour of yet another new idea, just like so many of its past abandoned projects.
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  4898.  @eadweard.  There has already been one attempt to remove a feature (“Hot Reload”) from VS Code that was there already, only rolled back after widespread protest.
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  4899.  @eadweard.  For now, anyway. Look at what happened to PowerShell.
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  4900. The PowerShell issue I was referring to was regarding their Linux port. Someone filed a bug report pointing out that their built-in implementations of “curl” and “wget” were broken, and worse than that, were blocking access to the full-function Linux versions. The bug report was rejected, on the grounds that they had to maintain backward compatibility with Windows brain-damage.
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  4901.  @jondreauxlaing  In Python, both functions and classes are first-class objects.
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  4902. The prestitial ad keeps showing me this still frame of some woman with a big Play icon across her nose.
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  4903.  @jmreeves1982  You think people aren't already doing that? And yet the carnage continues. It’s just not good enough.
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  4904. Civilized countries don’t consider it normal to have to buy bulletproof backpacks for your children, to try to ensure that they will survive their school years. Civilized countries don’t have regular drills in schools to teach the pupils how to survive an active-shooter situation. Civilized countries don’t try to coin terms like “crisis actors” and try to pretend that real-life tragedies are somehow fabricated just to make a political party look bad.
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  4905.  @johncole2744  Says the one whose side dismisses dead children as “theatrics”.
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  4906.  @johncole2744  So, do dead children count for something? Or are they just “theatrics”?
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  4907.  @johncole2744  And while you keep prevaricating and coming up with ever more creative excuses for why your ideology is correct and reality is at fault, innocents keep dying.
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  4908.  @johncole2744  Civilized countries don’t accept that living like they are in a war zone is normal. Places like Australia show that it is possible to pass measures that massively cut down the incidence of mass shootings. As they say, before you can fix a problem, you have to recognize that there is a problem.
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  4909.  @johncole2744  Massachusetts and Hawaii are better examples, because they are not surrounded by states with weaker gun laws. If a state like Illinois could control its borders, it wouldn’t have such a big gun problem. Australia has been doing fine. If it’s not a good example to follow, why are the gun nuts so scared of it?
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  4910.  @johncole2744  And yet it does work in those places.
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  4911. Do they explain where their name comes from? It sounds a little bit (but not too much) like “Microsoft”, but it’s also the name of Sherlock Holmes’ older and smarter brother.
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  4912. 6:49 C++, not C.
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  4913. 3:32 Pixels are not little squares. You hereby incur the wrath of Alvy Ray Smith.
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  4914. The vatniki accepted Putin’s leadership because he made them feel safe. If he can no longer keep them safe, then they have nothing to lose by getting rid of him.
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  4915. The fact that the cops refused to let Floyd be resuscitated proves that they wanted him to die.
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  4916. Compared to Hamas’ missiles, basically thrown together out of ordinary household ingredients in somebody’s back yard.
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  4917.  @omarionbayley9721  It is that expensive. That’s why, when they run out, they have to go back to the US, cap in hand, to beg ask for more.
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  4918.  @omarionbayley9721  Netanyahu had to do that last time, he’ll have to do it again.
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  4919. I see there is a standard Debian package for it, so Debian derivatives like Ubuntu should have it too.
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  4920. There were many fans of DEC’s big-iron PDP-10 machines from the 1960s and 1970s, who were very unhappy when the company decided to abandon that line and go all-in on the VAX. The ’10 never ran any form of Unix, but it did run another very influential OS, called TENEX.
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  4921. 17:13 Unless the process initiates asynchronous I/O ...
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  4922. Self-flagellation weekly. I can just see these corrections on corrections building up from week to week ...
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  4923. I met C K Haun at an Apple developer conference in the early 1990s. He sampled his wife’s voice for a shareware game he put out. And then somehow somebody else picked up the sample and submitted it for inclusion as one of the standard System 7 beep noises.
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  4924. Nobody is saying that public availability of the information is somehow a “security concern”.
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  4925. It’s getting worse. Twitter has banned the accounts of several journalists who have been filing unfavourable reports on Musk. And now Twitter users are blocked from giving links to any other pages by the guy who created the tracking apps.
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  4926. Have you heard of JP Aerospace? Their aim is to take a craft up to high altitudes, above most of the atmosphere, with a balloon. Then use an ion drive, which as you know is very low-thrust but can run for weeks/months on end, to gradually build up speed in a low-drag environment until it achieves orbital velocity.
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  4927. Aren’t you just glad Trump wasn’t in that room? He would have been a walking, talking diplomatic incident embarrassment.
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  4928. How is it the US was able to ban its Communist Party, yet the KKK gets off scot-free?
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  4929. 2:39 I think you mean “pantograph”, not “polygraph”. #CorrectionsToCorrections
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  4930. ... or is he just trying to get Trump to come back to Twitter?
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  4931.  @boofuu3145  Explain how critique is doxxing?
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  4932. Interesting how some people interpret such arbitrary and capricious behaviour as somehow indicating they are “antiliberal” ...
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  4933. 4:05 Either use “sudo” or “su”, no need to use both.
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  4934. That was a channel actually worth watching.
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  4935. Antiliberals don’t believe in unity.
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  4936. The Amiga could never handle non-rectangular windows, though. The Mac could.
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  4937. Talking about “totalitarian” ... guess which news channel is most trigger-happy about turning off comments on its items ...
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  4938.  @pennyappellatia  Blaming others for your own failings ... how very Trump-like.
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  4939. 12:20 I think they have to be arranged diagonally, not vertically and horizontally. That way, straight horizontal motion can be interpreted as a mono signal (mix of both channels, rather than just one channel), for compatibility with equipment that can’t handle stereo.
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  4940. 12:41 Ah, I see you noticed.
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  4941. Any particular ones you can mention?
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  4942. They managed to decide on PowerPC CPUs for the Mars rovers.
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  4943. Use the GNU “date” command to check: ldo@theon:~> TZ=CET date -d "now" Fri 18 Mar 2022 23:07:59 CET ldo@theon:~> TZ=CET date -d "+ 2 weeks" Sat 02 Apr 2022 00:08:01 CEST
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  4944. There is a whole website devoted to embarrassing mistakes resulting from entrusting important data analyses to Excel jockeys.
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  4945.  @BrodieRobertson  That was the time of Windows Vista, as I recall.
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  4946.  @BrodieRobertson  XP actually (mostly) happened under Gates. Vista was entirely Ballmer’s fault. Do we count that as a success or a failure?
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  4947.  @BrodieRobertson  XP’s death was postponed to head off the threat from the Linux netbooks.
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  4948.  @BrodieRobertson  One of Ballmer’s many messes.
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  4949. 23:35 The origin of your piece coincides with the world origin, so this is OK. Otherwise (like if you have multiple pieces in your scene) I would only apply scale and rotation transformations, and leave the location alone.
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  4950. Nobody has. My philosophy with regard to open-source tools is, I figure out bits of them as I need them. This is how I work with Emacs, Git, Bash, the Python library, CMake, Debian packaging ... everything.
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  4951. I know what TFG and his sheeple ilk would call you: a “RINO”.
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  4952. Actually, reductionism itself can be a key scientific principle, for example in explaining how our brains work. Here’s an example: Uri Geller was a well-known charlatan who claimed the ability to perform feats such as bending spoons with the power of his mind. Johnny Carson was able to show up the emptiness of his “power” by the simple method of denying any of his henchmen access to the props before the show. As a result, Geller was completely unable to bend any of them. And yet that made no difference to the hordes of followers who continued to believe that Geller had some magical power. Why did Carson’s debunking fail to have an impact? It was because biological evolution has given us a brain that is divided into compartments. The part that believes in magic (and religion) is separate from the part that understands logical and scientific arguments. In most people, these parts do not cooperate, they compete. So if the former is dominant, then appealing to the latter is not going to achieve much.
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  4953. 4:52 Has anybody ever seen any 16-RPM discs? Are they in fact 16⅔ RPM, being ½ of 33⅓ RPM?
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  4954. 10:42 OK, you have. It figures. ;)
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  4955. 1:39 So the number of crossings in the not knot is ... nought.
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  4956. Python has the NumPy engine for operating efficiently on large multidimensional arrays, including sparse ones. With custom operator overloads, you can express complex manipulations in a single line of code.
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  4957.  @Migoyan  I don’t see any Fortran code in the NumPy source tree. Can you point me at any?
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  4958.  @vincentgoudreault9662  And not FORTRAN, either.
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  4959.  @vincentgoudreault9662  If they were originally written in FORTRAN, why change to C? Unless perhaps FORTRAN wasn’t good enough.
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  4960.  @vincentgoudreault9662  I wonder why, if FORTRAN is such a good language, you can’t find “people good enough” to work in it.
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  4961.  @vincentgoudreault9662  Why is it not being taught in schools? Does it take more “discipline” to “master” FORTRAN than C?
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  4962.  @vincentgoudreault9662  What is the point of FORTRAN, then, if you can do the same things more easily in C?
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  4963.  @vincentgoudreault9662  Wonder why that old “fast” FORTRAN code was recoded into C, then. Have you looked at the NumPy code? Maybe you could offer to speed it up by rewriting it in FORTRAN.
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  4964.  @vincentgoudreault9662  It is up to you to back up your claim with actual, working code. Otherwise, why bother to make it? We have plenty of such code for C; show us some for FORTRAN, if you can. And if you can’t ...
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  4965. It seems to me there is a line, and that line is being able to draw a direct connection between dollars and votes. Anything as close as you like to that line is considered acceptable, just so long as you don’t (blatantly) cross it. That’s what makes the whole system sick; the idea that you should be above any sort of credible accusations of being less than squeaky clean has gone out the window.
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  4966. Don’t be too fixated on which GUI toolkit an app uses. Remember, any GUI app on Linux can run under any GUI environment.
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  4967. Forgetting the program that interpreted the arcane syntax of all those commands--the shell. And the program that allowed that shell to execute--the Unix kernel. Both quite large and intricate pieces of code. So tell me, which “one thing” did each of those pieces do well?
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  4968. Countries with Socialist-style healthcare systems can do it for half the cost per capita of the US health-insurance boondoggle mess system. Who is benefiting in the US? Because it’s certainly not the voters.
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  4969. It’s like the Right have no ability to stand on their own two feet, without help from Liberals ...
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  4970. 12:43 The answer is stored in a set of flag bits known as the “condition codes”. Conditional instructions can change their behaviour depending on the settings of these flags.
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  4971.  @harrybetteridge7532  Fun fact: Finnegans Wake is where particle physicists got the term “quark” from.
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  4972. Seems like Trump supporters have no loyalty to each other. They won’t even take responsibility for their own actions. Funny, that’s just like their leader.
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  4973. Antiliberals keep dumping on Joe Biden, forgetting that, no matter how bad they make him look, voters still felt he was better than Trump.
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  4974. Windows Server is no longer getting the love it once had. Everything is cloud-based now, and that means ... Linux.
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  4975.  @itsbeyondme5560  Remember when they gave the Palestinians 24 hours to get out of northern Gaza? Quite a long pause ...
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  4976. Gabor Maté: Israel “does not want a just peace. Occupation and creeping annexation, an inhumane blockade, the destruction of olive groves, the arbitrary imprisonment of thousands, torture, daily humiliation of civilians, house demolitions: these are not policies compatible with any desire for a just peace.””
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  4977.  mehran3593  He did indeed say exactly those words.
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  4978. I noticed you said “when he’s gone”, not “if he’s gone” ...
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  4979.  @antonionunez8335  What happens when she’s not “beautiful” any more?
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  4980.  @-TheOracle-  Look at pictures.
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  4981. Long-time SF buffs will know that the speed of light as a speed limit is a pain in the bum. If we are ever to discover some kind of superluminal transport mechanism, it will most likely come out of particle physics. Because what else is there?
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  4982. 3:34 What about “buckling spring”, e.g. Cherry MX switches?
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  4983. 2:56 Rubber Duckie!
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  4984. Mexico has two problems: the USA and the USA. It is the USA that is the source of all this money funding the drug cartels. And it also the USA that is the source of all the guns they use to fight off law enforcement. Addressing just one side of the problem isn’t going to solve it. You need to fix both sides.
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  4985. It doesn’t, though.
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  4986. 10:25 Only true for matte displays, which are the best at reproducing colour. Some people prefer glossy ones, for some reason—maybe because they look prettier, even though their colour reproduction is worse.
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  4987. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  4988. I’m sure he would give up this job happily, unlike Vaughn Meader.
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  4989.  @bobbobberson5627  Amerigo somebody ... ?
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  4990.  @bobbobberson5627  Pakistani ... ?
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  4991. 5:53 Why couldn’t you just put the -1 inside the square brackets? Because then it would be interpreted as a dictionary key of “-1”.
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  4992. 18:50 Consider a Mad Max post-apocalyptic scenario: the iron engine block is going to be easier to keep going in a collapsed civilization than the aluminium one.
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  4993. 0:14 Ah, the notorious “«n» -1” loop count for DBRA on the 68000 family! Did nobody know how to write the loop correctly?
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  4994. Uh-oh. I think the “Tyranny of the Majority” people are here.
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  4995. I used MPW for many years, with a few different languages. I never understood why other programmers preferred those more limited IDE thingies ...
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  4996. 3:10 Aaa-aaa, saviour of the universe!
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  4997. 9:00 Those same movies and video games are available in other countries, yet it is the USA that has the high violent crime rate. What’s different about the USA? The guns.
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  4998. C99 has been a sufficiently major change in so many ways: declarations intermingled with statements, stdint, stdbool, better support for IEEE-754 arithmetic (unheard of back in K&R days), and did you know you also have the option of using C++-style “and/or/not” instead of “&&/||/!” operators? Pity K&R was never updated to mention these. Unfortunately, it has little more than historical value nowadays.
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  4999. Cursor creation and extraction of results is such a common pattern that I like to wrap it up in a generator function, e.g. def db_iter(conn, cmd, values = None, mapfn = lambda x : x) : for item in conn.cursor().execute(cmd, values) : yield mapfn(item) ♯end for ♯end db_iter What is the point of the mapfn arg? When returning a given list of field_names, you can turn the result into a dict with something as simple as mapfn = lambda row : dict(zip(field_names, row))
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  5000. Greetings from 🇳🇿, a godless atheist Socialist liberal democracy. I’m here to tell you that Socialist healthcare is the only kind of healthcare that works!
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  5001. I think it has the trademarked name “Zespri”.
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  5002. 14:26 Only 56°C ... pah. I have driven my own render machine up to 98°C doing 3D renders over several hours. Fans going full blast, of course. If you use the “sensors” and “acpi -V” commands, that should give you some idea of temperature ranges, frequency throttling etc.
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  5003. 6:38 Blender user!
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  5004. I have no idea what you mean. I have used if-constructs in every single programming language I have ever become proficient in, and that includes Bash.
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  5005. Or use a decent filesystem that doesn’t need regular defragging.
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  5006. 11:44 There is only approximate equality between this formula and the construction. Remember the construction consists of a sequence of quarter-circles, so the radius only decreases in discrete steps when going to the next quarter-circle, whereas this formula produces a continuously-decreasing radius of curvature.
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  5007.  @chuckles2040  KDE is actually less resource-hungry than GNOME.
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  5008. That’s called “remote attestation”. It’s impossible to trust a PC that is under the control of someone you don’t trust. Unless it has something like a TPM chip in it. And that gets controversial.
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  5009. Nobody is allowed to grow things on Antarctica, but Mars would be fair game.
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  5010. 1:13 Actually, the reason for the “Haiku” name runs deeper than that: http://8325.org/haiku/
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  5011. 653,000, as said at 0:45.
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  5012. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  5013. I think the Christian God, at least, needs to be kept out of this for his own good. His followers seem overwhelmingly to favour Trump and the rest of these loonies.
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  5014. 80% of those who identify as Evangelical Christians support Trump.
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  5015. Trump’s followers would probably not call those “true” Christians ...
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  5016. I have a suspicion about the timing of the US leaving the British Empire: it was because of the beginnings of anti-slavery sentiment happening there. Britain got rid of its slaves about 1800, while the US clung on to them for over another half century.
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  5017. And you don’t even have to overthink it.
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  5018. 4:17 That’s Clifford Stoll. You know, The Cuckoo’s Egg ? Yeah, that Clifford Stoll.
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  5019. You’ll know when 🇺🇸 gets another international credit rating downgrade.
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  5020. I learned notation (classical training). But yeah, I prefer piano-roll, too.
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  5021. Or about 27.08 Kessel Runs?
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  5022. They are not quite the same.
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  5023.  @seanc.5310  If by “context used in the video” you mean “particular file names occurring in the video” then yes. Otherwise no.
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  5024.  @seanc.5310  I don’t need to look it up—or trust you. I am sitting in front of a Linux system right now. I can easily confirm that “*.*” does not behave the same as “*”, as you claimed.
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  5025. Looks like the hostages Hamas is holding might be sacrificed for the cause ...
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  5026. long double will work. Also, this: #include <stdio.h> typedef _Decimal32 /* also available: _Decimal64, _Decimal128 */ real; typedef long double /* no printf support for decimal types (yet), so convert to binary for printing */ ioreal; int main(void) { const real a = 0.1df; const real b = 0.2df; const real c = a + b; fprintf(stdout, "%.17llf + %.17llf = %.17llf\n", (ioreal)a, (ioreal)b, (ioreal)c); return 0; } /*main*/
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  5027. Oh well ... roll on decimal floats!
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  5028. Actually, even if you use double instead of long double in that program, the output error is still just one unit in the last place, instead of something like 4 units without the use of decimal floats.
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  5029.  @groszak1  That’s in binary. It works in decimal.
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  5030.  @groszak1  It’s been in IEEE754 since 2008.
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  5031.  @groszak1  It will also come to the standards for major languages like C. Software implementations are available for them. Hardware will follow.
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  5032. A “market” is where people trade things with some kind of economic value, e.g. money. People downloading and using Free software does not itself create a “market”, so a phrase like “market share” is meaningless.
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  5033. Quitting Vim is like quitting smoking. It’s so easy, some people have done it hundreds of times.
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  5034. 6:48 The PostScript graphics model was only ever designed to put marks on paper. It didn’t work very well for interactive graphics on a display screen. Also the language, while cleverly designed to be implementable with reasonable efficiency on common hardware of the time, was pretty crap (e.g. no lexical binding).
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  5035. 2:11 Burning bicycles ... man, you know the Dutch are mad ...
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  5036. 2:17 8:17 Actually, no, the Wankel rotor doesn’t need to be a Reuleaux triangle. The curvature of the sides can be shaped to give a particular compression ratio. Remember, the rotor slides around the casing while spinning, it doesn’t roll, so the Reuleaux property is irrelevant. In fact, you can see the discrepancy between the curvatures of the Reuleaux and the actual rotor in that diagram at 2:17.
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  5037. Lots of counter-examples in Europe.
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  5038.  @gholland5840  Are we talking about “equality” or “prosperity”? Because the US is a very unequal country.
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  5039.  Raymond Anderson  It says in one of your 🇺🇸 founding documents, does it not, that all people are created equal? So does that mean that, by your own estimation, you are not supposed to be “free”?
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  5040.  Raymond Anderson  I didn’t say “same”, I said “equal”. That’s the word, isn’t it?
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  5041.  Raymond Anderson  You do know you don’t need an electron microscope to find snowflakes, right?
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  5042.  @gholland5840  Are some animals more equal than others? Interesting that some constitutional monarchies score higher on the democracy index than the USA does ...
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  5043.  @gholland5840  Not in this case. People are unique individuals, yet they can be valued the same. That is the point of political equality. For example, in all the best democracies, every vote counts as of equal value. And the people running in the elections are not the same people running the elections.
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  5044. His victory was inevitable. I remember online discussions where so many people who admitted to distaste for Trump simply didn’t care to vote for Clinton, they would rather not vote at all. And so the orange baboon won.
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  5045. Watch out for the anti-liberals trying to spin their reporting as somehow dishonest. The man’s own words and pictures don’t lie.
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  5046. In other news: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12332946 Science 1; God 0.
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  5047. 14:09 Poor old DOS, struggling with truncated 8-dot-3 views of long filenames ...
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  5048. What difference does OO make?
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  5049. Windows just isn’t profitable for them any more. You can see this because they are putting less investment into it to fix bugs etc. So of course they are looking for ways to cut costs. WSL2 points the way: it seems inevitable that they will replace the old, unwieldy, difficult-to-mainta Windows kernel with a trim, adaptable Linux one at some point.
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  5050. Confess to spamming?
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  5051. 5:10 The IBM PC JX — their attempt at a follow-on to the failed PC Jr. They were sufficiently nervous about its prospects to only release it in Japan and Australasia, where it soon sank without trace.
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  5052. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  5053. 17:12 The X-ray controls are still accessible in X-ray mode for me. Perhaps they have scrolled off to the right of the toolbar for you.
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  5054.  @ExplainingComputers  You can scroll the toolbar.
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  5055. Pascal used a postfix-“^” character to indicate dereferencing. I used one compiler which allowed “@” as a synonym for “^”, which I thought was a good option for a bigger and more easily visible symbol. I think C made a mistake in indicating dereferencing with a prefix instead of a postfix operator. And also in using the symbol for mathematical equality to denote assignment.
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  5056.  @beeble2003  It is just silly. Deciding whether operators should be prefix or postfix based on some grammar wank is just silly.
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  5057.  @beeble2003  This is why, calling a programming notation a “language” is a misnomer, and leads people into traps like you have fallen into.
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  5058.  @beeble2003  Think of the parallels with mathematical notation.
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  5059.  @beeble2003  How little you know.
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  5060.  @davidwuhrer6704  Chomsky’s formal language theory works for computer notations, not for real human languages. That should give you a clue as to the fundamental difference.
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  5061.  @rasz  It was never just about Intel. Unix workstations used quite a wide variety of chips then -- MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC, HP-PA etc.
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  5062. 14:28 Bring back the pristine sound of shellac! That new-fangled vinyl never quite sounded right.
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  5063. At this stage, they’re all just a bunch of “antiliberals”. They stand for nothing positive. Their only position is to hate everything that might be “liberal”.
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  5064. 13:52 Is that what the Martians did, perhaps? Foreseeing a future when they would lose most of their water and atmosphere? Is that a solution to the Fermi paradox -- that everybody is off in their own virtual worlds, and no longer care about space travel?
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  5065. Seth did that joke in another clip.
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  5066. Meanwhile, Tzahal is cooling its heels outside Gaza. Getting cold feet about invading, now? No war was ever won through air strikes alone. Either go in, or give up and go home.
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  5067. 1:54 That’s automatically arranged by tidal forces, though isn’t it.
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  5068. Actually, the record labels have always needed radio and TV more than radio and TV have needed them. That’s why you keep having “Payola” situations.
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  5069. They are also godless atheist secular societies. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  5070. Depends. For example, Arabs are also classed as “white” in the US census, as I recall. Do you mean “anglo”?
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  5071. 7:58 Militarization of the 🇺🇸 police has been an ongoing trend for many decades. Those who think that being allowed to carry guns gives them some kind of protection against Government “tyranny” might want to consider this: the Government has way bigger and shootier guns than the laughable pea shooters you’re allowed to carry.
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  5072. 11:07 The old plasma panels worked in a similar way. I think their problem was they could never make the pixels small. So they were popular in the days of large standard-def screens.
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  5073. Oh heck no. I suspect Nokia is better known--and much missed by many former users, victims of Microsoft’s hamfisted destruction of the company. But yeah, Linux is certainly longer-lived.
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  5074. Unfortunately, the whole “god” concept is basically one giant circular argument, which is impossible to reason with. Best to simply leave it aside and tell people “believe what you like, just don’t use religion as your basis for deciding what is right and wrong”.
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  5075. Christian reference fits. Remember, Christianity is a key part of their rationalization for what they do.
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  5076. Ummm ... who said anything about “==”?
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  5077. Who said I was “confusing” anything with anything?
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  5078. 4:59 And then get into a lift with Lauren Boebert: “It’s OK, it’s only my ammo!”
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  5079. Lighter than the N₂ and O₂?
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  5080. I tried “sudo mkdir ~/limbo”, and it was in my home dir. If sudo executes the command “as would root execute it”, it would be in root’s home dir, not mine. So you must be wrong.
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  5081. 6:36 What they did was add a new type of window, the “XWindow”. Instead of showing a card from a stack, this was totally under the control of an XCMD (which could be written in any external compiled language); the external code could respond to events in that window and draw whatever it liked. So basically they greatly extended the capabilities of HyperCard as a UI toolkit.
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  5082. It was only Trump’s first offence. He should be let off with a warning.
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  5083. No, the GUI does not make the command line redundant. In fact, it offers new capabilities to the command line, like copy and paste, which you don’t get on a command-line-only machine. Remember, GUIs are designed for human users. This is all well and good, but it makes it impossible to automate tasks that can only be performed through a GUI, since the user has to go through all the mouse clicks and keystrokes etc every time. The command line, on the other hand, is purpose-built for automating complex and repetitive tasks. Use both → win-win.
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  5084. 1:01 IBM doesn’t make PCs any more. I think you meant “Microsoft-compatible PC”. After all, Microsoft has been the arbiter of “compatibility” ever since Microsoft Flight Simulator became the original benchmark for this back in the mid-1980s.
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  5085.  @jasondoe2596  That’s the reality of it, though. Nowadays we are seeing other types of PCs, ones that owe nothing to Microsoft, start to become more popular, the obvious example being the Raspberry π family.
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  5086. 12:33 Best to avoid spawning a shell in your subprocess if you can avoid it: spawn the traceroute program directly.
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  5087. 1) Overhead. 2) Special interpretation of shell characters introducing unwanted effects.
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  5088. Don’t worry, the money will be clean when it comes off the presses. At least before it gets into your hands.
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  5089. Russians went in there and filmed a Ukrainian military base!?
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  5090. Would you entrust mission-critical business functions to an OS that can only handle 26 drive letters?
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  5091.  @adriantrummer6126  Or how about basic office functions like reliable printing, or trusting that the system will not suddenly delete all your files? In other words, the sort of areas where Windows has been spectacularly lacking of late?
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  5092.  @adriantrummer6126  It happened to others.
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  5093.  @adriantrummer6126  So you were not really here to argue any kind of objective truth, but merely to bore us with your own personal opinions.
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  5094.  @adriantrummer6126  But you can’t find anybody else who does.
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  5095.  @adriantrummer6126  Aren’t Windows users supposed to be in the majority? Yet you know I’m right.
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  5096. @Adrian Trummer You were the one trying to claim “the majority isn’t always right” ... are you now walking back on that? Yes, they do deliver a better user experience, actually. If only because they are more customizable than the one-size-fits-all Windows interface. You see this in the number of people complaining about limitations of the Windows UI that don’t happen in Linux. And in how Microsoft keeps copying features from Linux.
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  5097. 7:50 Do you have keystroke macros? Here’s an example, when I was creating my Python binding https://github.com/ldo/qahirah for the Cairo graphics library, one of the tasks was to translate the list of operator constants from C: typedef enum _cairo_operator { CAIRO_OPERATOR_CLEAR, CAIRO_OPERATOR_SOURCE, CAIRO_OPERATOR_OVER, CAIRO_OPERATOR_IN, CAIRO_OPERATOR_OUT, CAIRO_OPERATOR_ATOP, ... } cairo_operator_t; into Python: OPERATOR_CLEAR = 0 OPERATOR_SOURCE = 1 OPERATOR_OVER = 2 OPERATOR_IN = 3 OPERATOR_OUT = 4 OPERATOR_ATOP = 5 ... Yes, a lot of repetitive operations were involved. How would you have automated it?
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  5098.  @bri1085  Chromium is not UWP-based. So to move to it, they had to abandon UWP.
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  5099. @Jamie Sharknado UWP is not cross-platform. In order to make Edge cross-platform, Microsoft had to abandon UWP.
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  5100.  @bri1085  Edge has been Windows-10-only, because UWP is Windows-10-only. So to free it from Windows 10, they have to abandon UWP.
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  5101.  @bri1085  The UWP version of Edge is dead -- it is being replaced with a non-UWP version. So yes, Microsoft is abandoning UWP for just about its highest-profile UWP-using app. That’s not a good advertisement for anybody else looking to adopt UWP.
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  5102.  @bri1085  They won’t be left “without a browser”, since there are still third-party options available.
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  5103.  @bri1085  No, Windows 10 will not be running a UWP-based Edge browser any more. https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft-confirms-plans-rebuild-edge-ground-using-chromium-windows-10
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  5104. Since there is no way to open the door from the outside, and it is being monitored all the time, the knock probably wasn’t even necessary.
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  5105.  @tamasdemjen4242  We have technologies like autocomplete. It’s like speed-dial for the 21st century.
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  5106.  @johnfrancisdoe1563  Names can also be matched using heuristics like Soundex, to save typing.
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  5107. Let’s face it, it doesn’t matter how bad his defence is. The Republicans are still going to let him go.
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  5108. 1:07 She must have been zonked out on something to go up and testify like that. A bit of the old Dutch courage, maybe?
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  5109. You mean there were better parts than that? What were they?
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  5110. 8:23 Typo! “--user=username” instead of “-user username”.
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  5111.  @nufosmatic  I seriously doubt that. Their “mission-critical software” was doing things like traffic analysis and code-cracking, for which they want all the computing power they can muster. So running on obsolete hardware isn’t going to cut it.
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  5112. Is there a special day for ladders?
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  5113. 8:27 The Taiwanese baseball teams are also back in action. I wonder if they and the Koreans could get together and, I don’t know, play some kind of series of games with teams from around the world ... I wonder what they should call it ...
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  5114. So the idea that he under-valued his properties was debunked? I guess that’s the AG’s point. Unless “under4” doesn’t mean what I think it means.
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  5115. And then later on, in the 1990s sometime, IBM released a range of home-oriented machines called the “PS/1”. It was just as much a failure as all their other home-oriented efforts.
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  5116. But we keep getting told that no living thing can pass through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting here?
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  5117.  @MrSagerific95  So you think it’s a lie about the Apollo astronauts not being able to get to the Moon?
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  5118.  @MrSagerific95  So how are the aliens doing it, then?
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  5119.  @MrSagerific95  If one can get through, so can the other.
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  5120.  @MrSagerific95  Think about things for yourself, instead of simply regurgitating what others are feeding you.
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  5121. 15:24 Actually, 2km is plenty for decent coverage. You can expect to have lots of towers with spacings less than that. You already do for 4G and 5G.
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  5122. I basically learn stuff as I need to. And keep things like MDN (and of course the Python docs) in my bookmark list!
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  5123. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of the first-born in Egypt.
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  5124. That’s the end of Russia’s only effective fighting force in Ukraine. What now for the invasion?
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  5125. Who else, when they heard “filter”, thought “autocensorbot” ... ?
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  5126. You think maybe the Government should pass some rules to tell these private companies how to run their businesses?
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  5127. He tried 3 times to become President. The only time he was able to win was against ... Donald Trump!
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  5128. 3:09 How do you tell Seth has been to Tangent Camp? Actually, if you do get to Tangent Camp, they send you home and tell you to try again.
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  5129. It was protecting real-mode DOS applications from each other, and that did work. Nobody used 80286 protected mode apart from OS/2. Linux was full 32-bit from the beginning, and also native on 64-bit architectures not long after that.
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  5130. In those days, it was believed you had to lock files when they were checked out, because if two people made changes to the same file, the world would end or something.
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  5131. Australia will save us! Because they would never do anything to hurt us, like send us their criminals or anything.
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  5132. Where did they become criminals?
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  5133. I can’t wait to see hordes of people sharing their food and drink in the line. Massive civil disobedience FTW! Will the Republicans insist the police arrest them all?
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  5134. 2:47 Ms H-S has been taking lessons from Mr Spicer. I wonder if she feels the need to take a shower afterwards?
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  5135. One’s a functional construct, the other is procedural.
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  5136. What “definition” might you be referring to? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming
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  5137. Here’s one: are you still using hex codes to specify colours? Or have you discovered the CSS colour functions yet?
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  5138. In other news, the latest person to use the Tucker Carlson defence to try to escape from a defamation lawsuit is ... Sidney Powell.
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  5139. I see how the closing captions promise “LIVESTEAM” ... owch.
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  5140.  @Harry-lu7hj  Maybe you don’t know what Python is. Its core language definition is a fraction of the size of the C# one, yet it is a more versatile and dynamic language.
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  5141. Relations are always between things.
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  5142.  @dott8775  That is precisely the reason.
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  5143. It wasn’t Russell who recognized that, it was Gödel. Russell tried to evade the issue with his “theory of types”, which was a failure. What we learn from his mistake is that no theory of reality can work without taking self-reference into account.
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  5144. 8:30 And you can also verify n[a], to guard against fraudulent responses.
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  5145. 0:17 Not just notes, but also rhythms. Yes.
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  5146. But one of the key points about COBOL was its portability between completely different machines from completely different manufacturers. So all that goes out the window once SQL comes in?
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  5147. Said standard including no good capabilities for dealing with that standard business requirement called SQL, which was my point.
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  5148. The move to SQL happened right through the 1980s. That’s when Oracle became a big corporation, if you remember. And when IBM brought out DB2. Older-style hierarchical and CODASYL databases rapidly became “legacy technology” at that point. As did COBOL, along with them. “you can't just "lift and shift" a COBOL application into an SQL database and expect everything to work” — precisely the point I was making, that COBOL was a poor fit for this new world.
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  5149.  @wc2195  If it was used in Afghanistan, it wasn’t very effective, was it?
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  5150.  @toozzzy396  Not a “worthy war” to keep sending thousands of American soldiers to their deaths?
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  5151.  @zeroyou3060  If it was used in Afghanistan, then it wasn’t very effective, was it?
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  5152.  @zeroyou3060  Yeah, “leaders”, right. As a result of which, America has completely lost the war and had to pull out and leave the country to the enemy, which doesn’t seem to have been weakened one bit. Unrepentant, unbowed, and now in full control of what they set out to achieve.
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  5153.  @teovu5557  You make it sound good that America was involved in a war that lasted longer than any other it’s been involved in, without achieving a thing. If it really had the capacity to achieve something, why didn’t it deploy it?
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  5154.  @jesuszamora6949  And all for what?
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  5155.  @jesuszamora6949  Well, that’s one way to avoid the question I asked: if 🇺🇸 has all this amazing weaponry, why hasn’t it won a single war in ... over half a century?
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  5156.  @levihermer  Circular reasoning, much?
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  5157.  @IvanIValdez  Can’t have been much of a success, can it?
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  5158.  @kevingil1817  Except the US weapons did not make the Taliban flee.
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  5159.  @kevingil1817  Afghanistan is the counter-evidence to the idea that the US has some wonderful secret weaponry that will be a game-changer in any current war.
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  5160.  @kevingil1817  “Low-intensity” enough to kill thousands of American soldiers ... like they don’t even count.
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  5161.  @kevingil1817  Because they wouldn’t have worked there, either.
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  5162.  @kevingil1817  If these super-advanced, super-secret weapons are useless against “unconventional” military forces, then what good are they?
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  5163.  @kevingil1817  You make it sound like the USA is completely out of touch with modern warfare.
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  5164.  @kevingil1817  So you are just going to pretend Afghanistan never happened? And that Ukraine/Donbas/Crimea/Russia will not turn into another Afghanistan?
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  5165.  @kevingil1817  Just because you haven’t learned the lessons of Afghanistan, doesn’t mean your enemies are going to ignore it as well. You assume that they will play by your rules, not by theirs. Meanwhile, you continue to live back in that past time when the US last had uncontested military superiority, back in World War II or something.
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  5166.  @kevingil1817  Any likely enemy is not going to share your simplistic attitude to warfare.
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  5167. 11:08 I would take out the try-clause, and just leave the WebDriverWait call. If it’s going to raise an exception, it can be instructive for tutorial purposes to see what that might be. Leave the error recovery for a more “production-quality” script.
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  5168. 3:56 It’s not very helpful when people make misleading proclamations like “the download and execution of copyrighted programs is not legal”. What do you think all your Linux distros are, if not copyrighted?
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  5169. You were talking in the context of open-source emulation of game platforms. And those are copyrighted, too. Don’t mash the two together.
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  5170. 10:50 apparently it was a rogue fleck of paint that was throwing off the laser interferometer. Oh, and the company was Perkin-Elmer. They also made minicomputers.
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  5171. Imagine being able to write a code-analysis tool that can detect bugs such as endless loops in your program. This theorem says that such a tool is, in general, impossible. Also in general, it means that code-analysis tools cannot completely figure out what a program does without actually executing it.
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  5172. Just had a look at the report on this on the Fox News channel, and they have comments turned off. Wonder why ... are they afraid of something?
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  5173. Logic is part of the Radical Left conspiracy.
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  5174. 3:36 Actually, there is a way to get some kind of control over most of them, and that is to redefine your $HOME environment variable to point somewhere else.
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  5175. Because there was nobody before him who sounded like him.
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  5176. That only takes 15 seconds. At least if you do it a capella ...
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  5177. Alpha was a 64-bit machine, yet Windows NT only ever ran on it in 32-bit “TASO” mode. There were four main OSes for Alpha that I can recall: from DEC there was OSF/1 (later “Tru64” Unix), OpenVMS and of course Windows NT. And then there was Linux. Of these four, OpenVMS was a 32/64-bit hybrid, and NT was 32-bit only as mentioned; only Tru64 and Linux were fully 64-bit native.
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  5178. 9:26 Except the President himself has indicated he wants to call witnesses. Just not the ones the Democrats want to hear from. Wonder how Graham and McConnell are going to deal with that ...
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  5179. 6:36 “Everything starts with zero”, or in other words, “everything starts with nothing” ... hmm, could be something profound in that ...
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  5180.  @piotrwolski8429  The joke is, it was someone in the first row.
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  5181.  @piotrwolski8429  The joke is, it was someone in the first row.
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  5182. CDE was an OSF/1 thing. Sun’s GUI was called “Open Look”.
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  5183. 25:23 That overlay player window having to always be in front to hide the fact that the video overlay cannot be clipped ...
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  5184. 3:38 Obvious problem at this point is the missing shebang line.
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  5185. My answer is: the purpose of life is to be dissatisfied with any explanation of what the purpose of life is. Does that leave you feeling dissatisfied? I rest my case.
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  5186. Maybe try democracy, for a change? How about a system where every vote counts equally? No Electoral College, no gerrymandering? Electoral boundaries set according to a transparent process with public consultation? Elections conducted by independent, impartial commissions with no political allegiances? Other countries can manage it, why can’t you?
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  5187. A “patriot” would have to be someone who puts country before party. Cheney herself made that same point.
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  5188. 10:31 A moment of silence for the dear departed Cosmos man, please.
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  5189. No simulation. It totally clips off the heart.
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  5190. It was the copyright owners who chose whether or not to publish those books. Are you wanting to take their control over their own intellectual property away from them?
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  5191. Ceramic cooktop for me. Wouldn’t touch induction with a three-metre pole.
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  5192.  @autohmae  What ideas did JavaScript take from AppleScript, pray tell?
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  5193.  @autohmae  I used AppleScript for about a decade from its introduction in 1993. The only “event system” it had during that time was AppleEvents, and JavaScript has never had (or needed) anything like that. AppleScript was slow and made simple things awkward. For example, taking a substring of a string would raise an error if the substring was empty. Any other language would return a zero-length substring, but no, AppleScript required you to check for that situation as a special case.
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  5194.  @autohmae  I used HyperCard for many years, mostly as a GUI framework. I wrote collections of XCMDs and XFCNs for accessing low-level functionality in the Mac OS, like QuickDraw graphics (e.g. drawing colour graphics when HyperCard itself didn’t support colour), sound calls, speech synthesis and quite a few other things. It certainly popularized a variety of ideas, but I don’t think most of them were original. For example, are you thinking of the “on-xxx” handlers in HyperTalk? So that you could attach little sequences of code to buttons, text fields and even an entire card, to respond to user clicks and other events. I would say that idea goes back to Smalltalk in the 1970s. Not only did Xerox PARC pioneer the concept of the GUI, they also invented event-driven programming to go with it.
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  5195. 3:21 Apple Adjustable Keyboard! (In the closed position.)
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  5196. Do snaps come from a single repo? Or do you download and install them from different places, like Windows apps? Because if it’s the latter, then the burden is put on you to keep returning to those places to look for updates, instead of being able to do a single “apt-get update && apt-get upgrade” to keep your entire system up to date. Not to mention having to download an entire new snap every time ... Windows users may be used to multi-gigabyte downloads for minor updates, but Linux users are not going to put up with that ...
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  5197. Truly a comment worthy of someone who cares about Palestinians, and who has no wish to exterminate them and steal their land.
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  5198. Yeah, no biggie, entire cities turn traitor all the time. Just another day in Russia.
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  5199. Tell your profs that ODF is an official ISO standard, ISO 26300.
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  5200.  @bradleyhove4177  LibreOffice can do that.
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  5201.  @bradleyhove4177  Service not up to scratch? Demand your money back.
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  5202. Or how about trying to rationalize that “Debian” = “Deb” + “Ian” is somehow a reason for saying that pronouncing it “Dee-bian” is wrong.
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  5203. Can you use the mouse wheel to turn a knob? That seems like it would be easier than trying to manager a circular drag.
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  5204. Antivaxxer? Get yourself sick, I don’t care, but don’t go infecting others, then you become a menace to society who needs to be stopped.
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  5205. The legendary Fabrice Bellard started the project, though I’m not sure he’s still involved with it.
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  5206. 5:15 Wait ... Romney has the same first name as the Fresh Prince!?
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  5207. Where were the camels then?
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  5208.  @shaunpatrick8345  The OP was describing Windows that way. Unless you were using the term, what’s the word, ironically ...
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  5209.  @shaunpatrick8345  Maybe you should recheck what “contrast” means.
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  5210.  @shaunpatrick8345  That difference is there all right, You still haven’t explained what this “monolithic Linux” you were talking about was.
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  5211.  @shaunpatrick8345  The Linux systems the rest of us use certainly behave very differently. That’s why I’m curious about the one you claim to use -- why won’t you tell us about it?
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  5212.  @shaunpatrick8345  Yes, I have done lots of Linux installs, for myself and my clients. I use it every day, and I make my living from it. That’s why I am completely mystified by your comments. What kind of experience do you have with it?
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  5213.  @shaunpatrick8345  See, that’s what I mean. It’s like you come from a Bizarro world where SLS is still king. Or maybe you are still installing Red Hat (pre-RHEL), when it would install a lot of unneeded stuff by default (they stopped doing that a long time ago). Or maybe Ubuntu is like that (I don’t use Ubuntu, so I can’t say). Not that I’m saying you’re lying, but you’re going to need to be more specific about examples before you can be taken seriously. What exactly is this “monolithic Linux” you keep going on about?
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  5214.  @shaunpatrick8345  You still haven’t answered the question I keep asking. On Debian or a derivative (even Ubuntu), you can tell the package that your perl executable comes from with a command as simple as dpkg-query -S $(type -p perl) From here, you can trace the dependencies back to find out what needs it. Everything is there for a reason, and if you don’t need that reason, you can remove it.
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  5215. One thing I like to do is keep Emacs running all the time. Then when I navigate to a file I want to edit, I use the “emacsclient” command to send that filename to Emacs to open.
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  5216. “Republicant” .. is that like a cross between “Republican” and “replicant”? Only I think their lifetime will be less than 3 years ...
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  5217. sudo offers more control.
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  5218. Has anybody noticed that you never see Mike Lindell and Sidney Powell in the same room together?
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  5219. 5:27 “Are you a bird if you can’t fly?” Even if you are, what exactly is the point?
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  5220.  @elimalinsky7069  But SRAM uses less power, hence it puts out less heat.
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  5221.  @elimalinsky7069  SRAM needs less complex controllers than DRAM. That’s part of the point.
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  5222.  @aoeu256  Tools exist, but they don’t work reliably.
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  5223. At least you know about LibreOffice, instead of hoary old OpenOffice.
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  5224. Don’t worry, there will be more to come.
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  5225. “I just need 11,780 votes.”
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  5226. That description applies to sign-magnitude as well. The difference is, consider 16-bit integers: unsigned they can represent values from 0 to 65535. In twos-complement, you interpret the encodings after 32767 to actually represent that value minus 65536. So the encoding that would be 32768 becomes -32768, 32769 becomes -32767, and so on up to 65535 which now represents -1. The clever thing is, if you add two such numbers as though they were unsigned, you can interpret the result as signed and the answer is correct. Conversely, to subtract two numbers a and b, just add a and -b instead.
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  5227. It doesn’t for me. What OS are you using?
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  5228.    Look at GIMP, for example, for which GTK was originally developed; in filter settings dialogs, there is usually a “preview” button, which lets me see the effect of the settings on the image in the main window. I can move the dialog around, scroll around the image etc and have it update in real time until I do “OK” to confirm the filter application or “Cancel” to restore the previous state of the image.
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  5229. 1:45 Elliptical, not parabolic. Parabolic is eccentricity 1.0.
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  5230. 7:42 I read a description in Starlog magazine about how Paul Verhoeven directs his movies. In the prep for this scene, he took the part of the ED-209 and chased the hapless executive right round the boardroom, making the appropriate shooting noises. That way, the guy knew exactly what to do and where to go. ;)
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  5231. I’ve always wondered ... do Trump supporters believe the Moon landings were real?
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  5232.  @MessLeadingProgramming  If your system maintains an up-to-date copy of the Olson database, then I guess that counts as “doing timezones properly”.
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  5233. 13:07 Other countries have the same idiots. Other countries have the same mentally-disturbed people. Other countries have the same violent movies and video games. Other countries have the same yada-yada-yada-whatever-excuse-you-want-to-offer. But it is the US that has the gun violence. What’s different about the US? The guns.
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  5234.  @karibui494  Software is “proven to be stable” until the day it falls over.
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  5235.  @M1America  No, “-dev” are not “new versions” of packages, they are development packages. For example, to run an app which embeds Python, you need the libpython package. To build an app which embeds Python, you need the libpython-dev package.
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  5236. RISC-V has some interesting ideas. For example, its approach to vector processing is completely different from the SIMD style so popular among Intel, ARM and others, and harks back to the legendary Seymour Cray’s vector supercomputers from the 1970s and 1980s.
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  5237. I wonder if people know there are tools for splitting large files into multiple parts and joining them back together again ...
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  5238. IPv4 or IPv6 makes no difference.
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  5239. If they are political appointees, then they have to pay attention to public opinion.
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  5240. Were there issues with maneouvrability? Namely, how to turn without the wings hitting the water?
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  5241. Liberals respect their supporters. Conservatives fear theirs.
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  5242. MS-DOS 2.0 introduced some unix-like features, like piping and redirection. And of course hierarchical directories. Unfortunately, they decided to use “\” as their path separator, purely because they were already using ”/” for command-line switches. That has been causing Windows users grief ever since.
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  5243. Some advanced concepts are only found in certain languages, though. Python treats functions and classes as first-class objects, which you won’t find in Java, C++ or C#, just for example. Then there is Lisp, which has syntax-level macros ... and this: http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Continuations
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  5244. profiles for computer monitors, printers etc.
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  5245. All the go
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  5246. od image-manipulation apps will understand ICC data attached to images.
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  5247. As for printed images drifting over time, the logical fix to that is to include swatches of known reference colours somewhere in or attached to the image. Then your sensor can simply apply a correction so the reference colours match up with the expected measurements, and you know the rest of the image should follow suit.
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  5248. 19:26 “Sometimes”?
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  5249. Most of us say “Lego”, not “Legos”. Possibly because we don’t see a connection between these bricks and the largest city in Nigeria.
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  5250. They’re not conquering Bakhmut, they pulverizing it into rubble. I don’t think Russia has acquired a single functioning piece of Ukraine. Everything it has taken over, it has first destroyed.
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  5251. Of half a seat.
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  5252. Python has ASGI for Web development. PHP doesn’t seem to have any equivalent.
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  5253. People humiliating a salami!
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  5254. Greetz to all the Microsoft Exchange Server admins out there. Having fun with the fact that Microsoft’s own software cannot handle its own new version number without crashing?
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  5255. If every vote counted equally, a Republican will likely never occupy the White House again.
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  5256.  @joshr.6785  That’s how things would work in a democracy.
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  5257. Other countries in the world score better on democracy, on press freedom, on independence of elections and the judiciary, on lots of counts. Maybe stop pretending you are somehow unique, and look at how you can learn from the rest of the world?
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  5258. 3:12 Never lose your Septemper ...
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  5259.  @VoltisArt  Fish not living there is Tyson’s point: the life that does thrive there is not visible to the naked eye.
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  5260. Speaking of translating Donald Trump ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSQbff_p58
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  5261.  @nicholasleemarks  Overarm. The only way to throw a spear, for example.
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  5262. 0:38 Is “cool bananas” better or worse? Of course, that could be a 🇳🇿 thing ...
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  5263. Possibly 🇦🇺 https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=cool%20bananas ...
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  5264. But he managed to get the interim funding bill passed, with bipartisan support. I would think that that would be an example of the Speaker actually doing his job properly.
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  5265.  @sevenfights  Doesn’t matter what he says, the important thing is what he does.
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  5266. Only if you send us your best people.
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  5267. 0:20 To be fair, The Beatles were a bit of a mixed bunch: “She Loves You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” 👎 “She’s Leaving Home” 👍
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  5268. What spoils the before/after contrast a bit is that, normally, in those photos selling you beauty treatments or whatever, the model is supposed to look glum in the before picture, and happy in the after picture. This one looks so happy in both ;).
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  5269. 12:46 Maybe no wasps, but what book is that at the upper right ... ?
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  5270. This idea that inaudible frequencies can make an audible difference ... the only rational explanation I can come up with involves some non-linearity of response of the ear. Perhaps not an explanation that audiophiles would like ...
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  5271. 9:20 Interesting coincidence that cranking up the gain of a digital sensor increases the noise, which also manifests as a form of grain. Or is it?
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  5272. Has that table off to the side, behind him, had one of its legs sawn off?
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  5273. Re the up-and-down versus side-to-side motion: stereo records make use of both: motion along one axis gives you one channel, along the perpendicular axis gives you the other channel. I think they’re actually oriented diagonally, so each channel gets both vertical and horizonal motion.
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  5274. As I remember it, it was MIT engineering students who did the calculations on Ringworld and discovered it would be unstable to perturbations in the plane of the ring.
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  5275. Does the racoon species have races?
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  5276. Perhaps because the god books are full of nonsense like π = 3.
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  5277. Absolutely no difference, except that what Biden did was WORSE. Never mind that, as VP, he wouldn’t have had access to anything important anyway. WHAT TRUMP DID AS PRESIDENT WAS NO WORSE. Therefore, BIDEN MUST BE TREATED WORSE. Trump obviously thought the documents he stole took and kept lying around securely were not THAT classified, therefore BIDEN MUST BE PUNISHED AS THOUGH ALL THE DOCUMENTS WERE OF THE HIGHEST IMPORTANCE. Anything less is obviously LIBERAL RADICAL-LEFT FAVOURITISM.
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  5278. Ah, the CDC 6000-series, the first family of computers to be worthy of the name “supercomputer”. They were a massive jump--about 50 times faster--over anything else out there (particularly IBM). Designed by the legendary Seymour Cray.
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  5279. Case in point: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.python/PtrE5Ysco0U/L8va25RkAgAJ
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  5280. 12:48 Interesting that the issue of “digital” versus “analog” seems to have fallen by the wayside by this point. I wonder how long it will take the “quantum computing” folks to realize that they have reinvented “analog” computers ...
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  5281. Depends on the error.
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  5282.  @ahasibrifat7568  Start by describing exactly what the error is.
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  5283.  @ahasibrifat7568  “unable to get local issuer certificate” sounds like something you should look into.
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  5284. If it has, it’s because mainstream America has shifted left. “Socialist” is no longer a dirty word, and Bernie Sanders can point out the benefits of Socialist Healthcare without people going “la-la-la I can’t hear you”.
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  5285. A cop has died from injuries from the riot. That’s the 5th death connected to it.
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  5286. One woman was shot by cops. The other three were “medical events” that took place during it.
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  5287.  @Hackanhacker  Hard to see how it is supposed to cope with revisions to the program code. Say somebody sends you a patch in the usual “diff -u” format: how are you supposed to apply that to the flowchart?
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  5288. Plus ça change ...
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  5289. Not the ones gassed in DC for the photo-op. They were completely peaceful.
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  5290.  @DeanJohnson-s8x  If static type checking becomes compulsory, then it is no longer a dynamic language.
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  5291. Given the huge variety of ethnicities in Asia, I wonder what Asians are supposed to “look” like.
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  5292. At one time, BSD had the best network stack. Not any more.
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  5293. 13:03 Apple were quite keen on PhotoCD. They built support for it into QuickTime and MacOS, so that when you inserted a PhotoCD disc into the drive, it would automount and the images would appear as files (in a range of resolutions) that you could just drag and drop to your hard drive. I still have the CDs that came bundled with my 1993-vintage Mac Centris 650, one of which is the Kodak PhotoCD sampler disc. But yes, I remember asking a Kodak guy at the time why they didn’t just adopt JPEG compression (which was the hot new thing back then). Their format allowed for a range of resolutions to be encoded into the same file, but that didn’t seem to be important at the time, and it seems even less important now.
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  5294.  @encycl07pedia-  No, this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT100 is an actual terminal.
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  5295. There was a GIMP addon that provided that capability some years before Adobe figured it out.
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  5296.  @ExplainingComputers  That’s why you have %-escapes in URLs.
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  5297. That has already been set up.
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  5298. The cops refused to let Floyd be resuscitated. That proves that they wanted him dead.
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  5299. 0:45 Brain the size of a planet ...
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  5300. It’s not stable. Even with active correction, the orbit is going to wobble all over the place.
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  5301. Did somebody really try to claim the US is a “landlocked” country??
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  5302.  @Delvien  Most of the gun smuggling goes south across that land border. The guns are made in the US, after all.
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  5303.  @Delvien  All the US has to do is stop the smuggling of guns across the border. That would help both countries so much. But no -- restrictions on guns are seen as “anti-freedom” ...
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  5304.  @Delvien  As I recall, they burnt your White House to the ground.
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  5305.  Henry John  Didn’t go so well for Kenneth Walker when he used his gun on intruders, did it? When he was at home in bed, minding his own business, with his girlfriend Breonna Taylor.
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  5306.  @XJessikaXx  Do you have a receipt for what you paid for it?
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  5307.  @Sniggitysnail  The people who are responsible for it.
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  5308.  @XJessikaXx  Sure, just show your receipt. Don’t forget to highlight the part that went to pay for the Capitol building. The part you paid for, that’s the part you’re allowed to visit.
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  5309. That logo looks too close to the X11 logo.
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  5310. 3:10 No, IBM built the hybrid digital/analog computer that controlled the Saturn-V rocket, but the AGCs were created at MIT.
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  5311. By the way, “nouveau” is not pronounced “new-voh”, but more like “noo-voh”.
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  5312. If there really was an alien spacecraft that crashed at Roswell, that the US Government has in its custody, then that must mean the Apollo Moon landings were real. Because if they have access to technology that was capable of crossing the light-years, then surely taking a few men to a little pebble that is just a hop, skip and a jump away by comparison, would be a piece of cake.
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  5313. The gods help those who help themselves.
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  5314. I thought “Howdy” Modi got on great with Trump. They think alike in many ways.
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  5315. Just tell the naysayers: “OK, Doomer”.
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  5316. Maybe a more general one on the meaning of “technical debt” ...
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  5317. JCL was awful. I heard of some IBM people using it as a swearword. Also IBM never really understood interactive timesharing. If you want to learn about the groundbreaking interactive computer systems from about that era, look at MULTICS, TENEX, and of course UNIX.
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  5318. I wonder who he was talking to? In other words, who really had the power to carry out the orders?
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  5319.  @denisebrunson2293  Talking to himself?
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  5320. How would they “extinguish” an open-source project, exactly?
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  5321. So, architects have discovered what real-estate agents have known for decades: wide-angle lens are teh evulz !!
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  5322. Luke 12:47 And that servant, which knew his lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes. But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes.
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  5323. How about the Sirius/Victor 9000 and the Mindset, both which went beyond the concept of plain “IBM compatible”, and suffered and died because of it?
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  5324. Girls are people, bears are not.
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  5325.  @gracelovely3838  Animals are “it”.
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  5326. And also don’t forget that ideal samples should be just dimensionless points. The fact that real image sensors have to average the incoming light intensity over a nonzero area leads to a loss of contrast in the fine detail, as you get closer to the Nyquist limit. This is why you have a filter in image-manipulation programs that compensates for this effect. It’s called “Unsharp Mask” ... you may have heard of it.
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  5327. Is entropy a state of high information or low information? I ask because, say I buy a new hard drive. Initially all the sectors are filled with zeroes. I add it to my system and keep putting files on it. The more files I put on, the less predictable the bits on the disk becomes. This particularly happens with compressed or encrypted information, because the more efficiently computer data is stored, the more it looks like random noise.
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  5328.  @anywallsocket  Does the entropy of a system depend on the presence of a conscious observer, then? Kind of analogous to the “Copenhagen Interpretation” of quantum theory, but for thermodynamics?
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  5329.  @anywallsocket  “As a general principle, all values measured by humans are subjective, and only hold meaning relative to othered measured values ...” -- can that be described as a “measured value”, or is it something different?
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  5330.  @anywallsocket  So what did you mean about measurements being “subjective”, if the models they support do indeed “accurately reflect the world”, i.e. are “objective”?
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  5331.  @anywallsocket  I wonder how you reach that conclusion about science, other than via “empirical studies”.
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  5332.  @anywallsocket  Is that a form of “epistemic philosophy built around empirical studies”? Or is it concocted out of thin air?
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  5333.  @anywallsocket  You say “cling” as though you have some objective basis for playing down the value of the idea?
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  5334.  @anywallsocket  So you admit these are your personal opinions, yet the way you state them suggests you are claiming them as facts.
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  5335. The systems that were officially “Unix” all had some element of proprietary lock-in in them. This fragmented the market, and made them weak against the onslaught of Windows NT. Nowadays, you have Linux and the BSDs—none officially “Unix”, but nevertheless they are the kind of system people think of when they think of “Unix”. There are maybe half a dozen BSD variants, versus about 50 times that number of Linux distros. Yet it is easier to move among Linux distros than it is to move among BSD variants.
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  5336. 1:18 ... cannot ... unsee ...
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  5337. If they were stoners, they might not be so paranoid.
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  5338.  @rumfordc  Iron who?
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  5339.  @rumfordc  I assume this is one of your Hollywood meme things. No idea, sorry.
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  5340. Check out the o
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  5341. ld classic book Mindstorms by Seymour Papert, first published in 1980. This goes into the rationale behind the LOGO programming language, and is full of examples of the fun that kids could have learning to program.
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  5342. Back then, BASIC was the go-to language for budding hackers with their newfangled home computers, but LOGO had list processing, like LIS
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  5343. P! And of course turtle graphics. It was also a clever way to introduce mathematical concepts that some might consider too “advanced” for such young children. For example, drawing a circle as a polygon with lots of sides, something like (can’t remember the exact LOGO syntax): to circle : repeat 360 : forward a small step turn right one degree and you are in fact getting close to the differential-geometry representation of a circle. *Trying to avoid triggering the YouTube autocensorbot, which behaves particularly oddly on this channel
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  5344.  @TheDragShot  What about /sys ?
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  5345. Because Turdmp is running for the Presidency, that’s why. He explained it in his announcement.
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  5346.  @MachiavellisThePrince  Reflected in the fact that he lost the popular vote--twice.
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  5347. There is no way to store a secret on the server in such a way that an attacker who gets hold of that secret is not able to masquerade as that server.
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  5348. You didn’t mention THD? Yes you did.
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  5349. Arabs are Semites too.
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  5350. 8:10 Ah, but what about the thin horizontal line running across the screen about two-thirds of the way up? I think that was a wire that was needed to reinforce the aperture grille. Almost unnoticeable -- until someone points it out to you.
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  5351. 9:16 Ah, you did mention it.
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  5352. Further thought: you put the wire at one third of the way up, whereas I seem to remember with the Apple monitors it was two thirds of the way up. I think Apple felt it would be less noticeable if the tube was flipped upside down.
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  5353.  @alexanderelgert6037  Is it a ratio or does it have units? Just wondering if all code complexity is necessarily cyclomatic ...
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  5354. But on most Linux distros everything is part of a package. The package contains version dependency information and internal code and data, which can include the documentation. And it can have multiple related binaries, if it makes sense to put them together. That way everything gets properly updated at once when a new package version comes out.
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  5355. Python does ORC memory management, Java does not. Python can do function factories and class factories, Java cannot. The Python core language spec is about a quarter the size of the Java one. Can Java really do 4× as much? No it can’t.
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  5356. But he is required by law to have an ADS-B transponder on his aircraft. And the tracking information recorded from that is public, again by law.
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  5357. It’s actually a stylized representation of the Latin word “et”.
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  5358. The recitation of the alphabet would end with “... X, Y, Z and per-se-and”. The “per-se-and” being this symbol. You can see where the name “ampersand” came from.
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  5359. 5:22 It’s just easier to say “two to the sixteen”.
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  5360.  @bobgonzales9680  It applies to all their signatories. So yes, if there was evidence of someone in 🇺🇦 or 🇵🇸 committing war crimes, they could be prosecuted at the ICC as well.
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  5361.  @gj8550  The evidence came from independent sources. Who do you think controls the ICC? It’s supported by over 100 countries.
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  5362. Any app that wants to provide a bulk search/replace function can benefit from regexes. Because you often don’t want to replace the exact same string, you want to replace strings matching a pattern. Also you may want to exclude spurious substring matches, and a regex allows for that, too.
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  5363. If he really thought he won in 2020, then why does he think he can run again?
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  5364. Apple would have controlled it all.
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  5365. Regardless of whoever is responsible, the fact that it happened under Russian control shows that no territory under Russian control is safe.
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  5366. Can FEA benefit from SIMD architectures? Namely, calculations done on a GPU?
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  5367. 1:37 But a metal-detector detector would only detect metal metal detectors. So really it would only be a metal-metal-detector detector. But if a metal detector was metal, wouldn’t it be continually detecting ITSELF!??!? #MindBlown
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  5368. 11:02 “Reading you five by five” might be the apropos phrase at this point.
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  5369. I hated the whole “IBM-compatible” resistance-is-futile-you-will-be-assimilated Borg. I was a Mac man, and I appreciated CPUs with a flat 32-bit address space (Motorola 68000 family, and of course the ARM). I thought Intel x86 with its clunky segmented addressing was crap. But they did finally bring out a decent chip in the 80386.
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  5370. They don’t want to set a precedent. They may want to do it again.
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  5371. ... for only the fifth time ...
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  5372. They tried that with Atom, but got trounced by ARM. Given their current financial situation, they are unlikely to try again.
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  5373.  @fungo6631  But they never made money for Intel. Which is why it gave up.
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  5374. 06:14 “Asparagus staging” ... did you just make that up? ;) /me tries to think of other food metaphors for rocket engineering ...
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  5375. I’m curious to know where there is video footage of rioters being deliberately led into the Capitol. With all the footage they took of themselves committing criminal acts, you’d think they would also record evidence that they could use in their own defence. Yet there is nothing. Only conclusion is: such deliberate admission never happened.
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  5376. I call it esskewell. And its most popular implementation as ess-kew-lite.
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  5377.  @andrewollmann304  On the other hand, would the IRS be willing to make such a fine distinction?
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  5378. Obviously you need to start a new one.
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  5379.  @yanlucasdf  Making proprietary software cross-platform is very expensive and difficult.
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  5380. Those who refuse to listen to Her get whacked upside the head until they do.
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  5381. How exactly are they supposed to “get out”? Where are they supposed to go? The whole Gaza Strip is essentially a gigantic prison camp.
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  5382. Greetz to all the Microsoft Exchange Server admins out there. Having fun with the fact that Microsoft’s own software cannot handle its own new version number without crashing?
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  5383. The whataboutism is strong in this one...
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  5384. 2:51 I think you’ll find the Oval Office has two corners, which go right round the room: one at the top, the other at the bottom.
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  5385. Trouble is, his façade of invincibility, even competence, is already crumbling. Prigozhin and Kadyrov are openly mocking the Russian military. And this is not helped by Putin’s repeated reshuffling of the military leadership. This projects an impression of indecisiveness, of weakness.
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  5386.  @bluemoon6380  Why don’t you offer your services to Trump in place of Rudy Giuliani. Say you’ll do it for half of what he’s charging -- he wants $20,000 a day, you can still get $10,000 a day.
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  5387. @Blaise Carie Do it pro bono, then. Think you can do a better job than Rudy?
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  5388. Have you thought of generalizing the problem to more than 2 dimensions? You just have to define what a “queen move” would be in higher dimensions. The generalization of movements along “rank” and “file” is easy: it just becomes a move parallel to any axis. The generalization of a “diagonal move” I came up with is: all unequal coordinates (there must be at least 2) of the beginning and ending position differ by the same absolute magnitude. Thus, if only two coordinates change by the same absolute amount, you have a diagonal in 2D; if three coordinates change, that’s a 3D diagonal, and so on.
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  5389. The fundamental difference, I think, is that in computing we care about the resources our programs use. In maths, the fact that a 1000-decimal-digit integer can be factorized in finite time is something you take for granted, but in computing, the fact that it might take longer than the age of the observable Universe to determine the factors becomes rather important.
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  5390. Because the “parallel worlds” idea doesn’t really help explain quantum theory.
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  5391. Why parallel worlds is useless: because it just replaces a superposition of states with a superposition of alternative realities. What makes one “plainer” than the other (Which is what “explaining” is supposed to do)?
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  5392. Yup, “quantum” computers are reinventing the idea. They are great at solving physical simulations quickly, but to limited accuracy.
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  5393. 4:42 He was young and needed the money.
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  5394. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  5395. Remember that systemd is more than just “system initialization”. Linux is a very dynamic environment, where services can be started and stopped at times other than system boot. systemd is designed to cope with that.
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  5396. Remember that the 🇺🇸 military answer to the Commander-in-Chief, who is also the head of the Government.
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  5397. It’s all about the ████’s attempt t
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  5398. o ███ the █████ and give them ████ to
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  5399. ██ the ████████.
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  5400. Basically, a ████ load of █████ing █████.
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  5401. That’s not the same TLS.
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  5402. As long as he can still drink a glass of water with one hand, and get down a shallow ramp unaided ... oh yeah, and close an umbrella properly ...
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  5403. You think maybe the Government should do something, and tell the private corporations who own this Intellectual Property how to run their private businesses?
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  5404. Is there a special place you can be isolated, so you can get sick and die without infecting others?
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  5405. Just wait, tomorrow he’ll claim he was just being “sarcastic”.
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  5406. If we had no capacity to take things for granted, we would spend our entire lives being amazed at being born.
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  5407.  @vijek6435  Feel free to point out to me the exact words that were used, that are supposed to mean what I said.
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  5408.  @vijek6435  “Good behaviour” according to whom? That’s not the same as saying they will act “impartially, without fear or favour”. And what about free and fair elections?
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  5409.  @vijek6435  That’s a pretty longwinded say of saying you don’t know ...
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  5410. Waiting for: How to get on, off the Internet.
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  5411. Quantum tunnelling is itself integral to how transistors (and vacuum tubes) work in the first place.
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  5412. Maybe time to upskill to whatever new development platform Microsoft is touting this week?
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  5413. As Cox pointed out, even being limited to sublight speed, the entire galaxy could be colonized in a time on the order of ten million years. There’s been more than enough time for that.
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  5414. You didn’t have 1000 people dying a day 4-5 months ago.
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  5415.  Joe John  Does Fox News count as “media”?
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  5416.  Joe John  So which “sources” are telling you that they lie? The Governor of Texas, perhaps? Who had to call in all those refrigerated trucks, because the morgues were filled to overflowing with bodies?
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  5417. Remember how Trump took money away from the military to pay for his stupid wall?
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  5418. EWD could be a bit of a troll sometimes, as in his comments on programming languages. For example, on BASIC, he said “It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
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  5419. OS/2 Presentation Manager was built on a graphics engine created at IBM’s Hursley labs. I think they were more familiar with the use of graphics for CAD and presentation purposes, not for interactive GUIs.
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  5420. IBM (and Amiga) may have had REXX, but Unix systems had Perl.
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  5421. 0:22 Pigments or dyes. The difference is, pigments are inorganic compounds, dyes are organic. I think.
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  5422. 10:04 Why did they use backslashes? Surely they could have copied SGML, as HTML did.
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  5423. Fun fact: These nutcases are the most fervent bible-followers already.
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  5424. I used Blender’s mathutils.
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  5425. kdtree module in some Python code a few months ago. Made it very easy to do things like create matching faces on mirrored vertices, or create mirrored vertex groups, without having to do it all by hand.
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  5426. 19:21 I can’t get a four-hour difference between San Francisco and New York. How does that happen?
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  5427. Apple may have hit a “sunk-cost fallacy” situation now: having invested so much in ARM, they will be reluctant to move to something else. And their M1/M2 designs were brilliant, but are a bit of an evolutionary dead-end. They achieve performance by tying everything together so it becomes impossible to upgrade--basically, all their machines are now glorified laptops. This may be OK for all-in-one desktops, and actual laptops, but it’s going to cause them trouble coming up with a successor to the workstation-class Mac Pro machines.
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  5428.  @garanceadrosehn9691  The point being how those chips are integrated into a non-modular design. This isn’t going to go down well in the workstation market.
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  5429. 9:26 I wouldn’t worry too much about being on time. Zeppelins were notorious for being late. The one time the pilot tried to make a schedule, come hell or high water ... well, you remember which one happened.
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  5430. 11:06 Bad guy? So no more Mr Na-ice guy? By the way, with all his crowing about vaccines, didn’t he originally have a lot of support from anti-vaxxers? I wonder if they might not be feeling just a little ... abandoned ... at this point ...
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  5431. Actually, Trump lost a lot of money from his businesses as a direct result of his own mismanagement of the Covid-19 epidemic within the USA.
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  5432.  @jjbailey01  But /etc is the standard place to put all systemwide configs.
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  5433.  @jjbailey01  The directories are for files which belong together, e.g. in the same package or related packages. Same with ~/.config for user configs. That’s why I don’t understand why there is a need for this additional /etc/xdg directory.
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  5434.  @jjbailey01  Do you know what a “strawman” is? That’s when you try to refute something that I didn’t even say.
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  5435.  @jjbailey01  “Extrapolating” from something I said to something I didn’t say. Yup, that’s a strawman, all right.
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  5436.  @jjbailey01  How does placing that single file in /etc/xdg instead of /etc help?
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  5437.  @jjbailey01  So I put a single file in /etc/xdg. Why is that more “forward compatible” than putting it in /etc?
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  5438.  @jjbailey01  Says someone who is avoiding answering my question.
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  5439.  @jjbailey01  So you create a config directory /etc/«dir». How is that less “future-proof” than /etc/xdg/«dir»?
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  5440.  @nicolasvillafan  You mean, for something that doesn’t obey the XDG spec? If it doesn”t obey the spec, it won’t pay any attention to those environment variables.
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  5441.  @nicolasvillafan  You could try changing the definition of the HOME environment variable.
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  5442. “Blitzcringe” ... I like that.
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  5443. If I want elaborate scalable graphics accurately laid out on a page, I would use SVG.
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  5444. 3:20 Near as I can tell, Kildall’s PL/M compiler was always a cross-compiler: it never ran native on any 8-bit microprocessor. To use it, you had to have access to a big (and expensive) DEC PDP-10 machine. I think this ran the TOPS-10 OS, which was a pretty typical DEC OS. A filespec consisted of a device name, a directory part, a name part, an extension and a version number. Clearly this was the inspiration for CP/M filespec syntax: the device name (which could be multiple characters) was simplified down to a single character, the directory part and version number were omitted, the name limited to 8 characters, and the extension to 3. And aspects of that syntax were carried over to MS-DOS, and still persist in Windows to this day. Particularly the single-character drive names, which seem pretty ridiculous on modern hardware.
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  5445. Such components already exist -- you’ll find them inside a smartphone. Which, you might notice, is an order of magnitude more expensive than a Raspberry π.
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  5446.  @rizon72  Because you don’t have a choice but to be here, do you?
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  5447.  @D0J0P  Sure it was, but remember open-source OSes were not heavily used back then. So it’s not that people “abandoned” BSD, it simply didn’t grow as fast as Linux. I don’t think AT&T were ever fans of BSD. That’s why you had the AT&T-versus-BSD divide among flavours of proprietary Unix.
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  5448.  @leogama3422  Not a chance. Open-source is about enhancing competition, not killing it.
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  5449. The Noah flood never happened. Those who made up the Bible story forgot to include land plants that would have drowned, as well as the impact on the fish in the sea. Was the flood water supposed to be salty or fresh? Either way, some fish would have been driven to extinction.
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  5450.  @larrybarela8676  Says the one who hasn’t a clue. Start by trying to answer the question: was the flood made of salty water or fresh?
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  5451.  @larrybarela8676  Friendly tip: if you have to resort to making things personal, that’s a sign you’ve already lost the argument. This is a clip about science. That tends to be a magnet for the religious propagandists. But in science, we don’t say “you’re not welcome here”, instead we rebut their fantasies with facts.
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  5452.  @larrybarela8676  In science, you can start with whatever assumptions you like, but you then have to follow the consequences of those assumptions, wherever they may lead. You don’t get to pick and choose and say you will accept these consequences and not those. I asked a question: start by trying to answer that.
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  5453.  @chaseyourtale9647  No offence either. Just watch the response.
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  5454. “Often, religious apologists claim that critics of religion are ignorant of the finer points of theology and doctrine, accusing them of failing to read theology in formulating objections; but they thereby entirely miss the point that when one rejects the premises of a set of views, it is a waste of one’s time to address what is built on those premises.” -- A. C. Grayling
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  5455. The anti-Liberals were making a big deal about how Biden wasn’t doing anything about inflation, weren’t they. Now that the bill is passed, I wonder how they will try to distract from it by shifting to complaining about something else. Something else that the Republicans won’t help pass.
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  5456. But if Iran was involved, then that just magnifies the degree of the intelligence failure on the part of the US and Israel. The sheer number of moving parts that were required to plan this attack, and none of them picked up any inkling whatsoever that this was going on.
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  5457. Having created your edit list, this is the sort of engine you could use to render out the final video.
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  5458. That would require everybody to forget all past grievances and agree to start again from a clean slate. But would that also mean giving up past conquests now seen as unjust?
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  5459. This is all part of Putin’s fiendish plot to destroy the capabilities of the only effective Russian force in Ukraine!
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  5460. What platforms does Processing run on, that don’t have Python available?
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  5461.  @XarlVIIILegion  What makes the testimony so credible is that it comes from trusted members of his own team--like Mike Pence. Remember, Trump was supposed to be such a good judge of character, wasn’t he?
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  5462. 4:39 You could just say it’s a differential equation, and density is the differential of mass.
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  5463. 4:05 Taika Waititi could play him. Think of it as a follow-on to Jojo Rabbit ...
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  5464. 0:32 Actually, both are transducers. And any transducer can work to some degree in either direction -- the two physical systems that are coupled (air versus wood/bone/electricity/whatever) can exchange energy either way.
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  5465. MTV Europe was quite good. We had it briefly in NZ in about the late 1990s. Good music shows, good music. More EDM/Techno, less of that college-rock stuff.
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  5466. Don’t you stand on your heads over there? Maybe you could slap his knees ...
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  5467. “Go away, kid. You bother me.”
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  5468. 4:21 Dunkin’ Don’t-nuts!
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  5469. Trump watched it all unfold live on TV, and refused to let anything be done to stop it. He knew what he was doing.
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  5470. People in the US believe those movies, too.
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  5471. 0:20 Even-More-Ice-Land.
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  5472. Or, if a more appropriate name for Iceland is Fire-And-Ice-Land, then Greenland could become No-Fire-Just-Ice-Land.
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  5473. 1:05 Obviously the Secret Service training didn’t work. They were supposed to watch out at his rallies for any drops of snot or spittle heading his way, and jump in front of them. No good.
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  5474. There is the VisionFive 2 from StarFive, which is an SBC very similar to a Raspberry π in price, performance and form factor.
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  5475. As I recall, both Republican and Democrat congresspeople were cowering under their seats. Can’t a bullet tell what your politics are?
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  5476. Demand your money back.
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  5477. And who probably, shall we say, “tweaked” his evidence just a little bit.
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  5478. What do you think the big enterprises like Facebook, Google and Backblaze are using?
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  5479. Is a Supreme Court appointment a political appointment or not? Since when are political appointments made for life? You have the convention, do you not, that when there is a change of leadership in the White House, then political appointees associated with the previous leader (e.g. ambassadorships) are terminated and replaced. Why should the Supreme Court be a special case?
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  5480. He’s also blocking anybody who links to pages about that guy who set up the aircraft-tracking apps.
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  5481. 12:48 Syd Mead’s brief as concept artist was to picture a future where most people couldn’t afford to build or buy new, so they had to make do with what they had, repurpose, reuse, cannibalize and adapt parts, tack newer bits onto older ones, and generally improvise. So you end up with this amazing combination of advanced technology (antigravity vehicles) and general shabbiness.
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  5482. Microsoft itself won’t use it for anything important. For example, VS Code is built on Electron with TypeScript/JavaScript.
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  5483. She’s Swiss.
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  5484. My first non-Apple machine was a Shuttle that came with a copy of Mandrake 9.1 “Discovery Edition” in the box. “Discovery Edition” meant it was missing the third CD with the developer tools on it. So my first exercise in Linux hacking was figuring out how to download and install the developer tools packages from the Mandrake repos.
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  5485. 14:28 Threads are separate execution entities that share a common process context. It’s not the only way to parallelize a program: there are also programs that run multiple separate processes in parallel. In fact, one might argue that threads are about the last form of parallelism you should resort to: look at other solutions first if you can, then fall back to threads if nothing else will do. This is because of their propensity for the most difficult sort of bugs: the ones that are timing-dependent, so attempts to track them down can often cause them to (temporarily) disappear.
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  5486.  @daveturner5305  Why not contribute some resources to getting your software working under WINE? I’m sure the WINE developers could do with help on that.
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  5487.  @daveturner5305  Why not offer help to improve WINE to let them run there? Transferring the licences you have already bought, of course.
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  5488. “Datcord”? “Desafinado”?
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  5489. Some people want to be looked after by a nanny; this is for those who value their freedom to do things their way.
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  5490. The Russian people only put up with Putin as long as he makes them feel safe. Once they no longer feel safe, they will realize they have nothing left to lose in getting rid of him.
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  5491. Talk to sewerage people, they will tell you that only 3 things are ever to be flushed down the toilet. And confidential documents are not one of them. You know how, every now and then, they have to squeeze these enormous, revolting “fatbergs” out of the sewers, created by people disobeying the rule? Soon, somebody in DC is going to have to clean out a “Trumpberg”.
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  5492. Yes, but, but ... snowflakes!
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  5493. The “country” didn’t elect him, the slavery-era Electoral College did.
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  5494. 6:48 Something to think about! (Do I agree? Well, I’m not sure I dis agree...)
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  5495. OK, counterargument: imagine you’re lying on an operating table. What would you think if you looked up and saw somebody flipping through “Open Heart Surgery For Dummies”? ;)
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  5496. The rules are to ensure the banks actually have money, not take it away from them.
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  5497.  @nickcellini5609  This bank was exempted from the rule as a result of Trump’s action, and look what happened.
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  5498.  @nickcellini5609  How many collapses would you have deemed acceptable?
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  5499. The latest-generation Raspberry Pi 5 has been launched.
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  5500. Most of these religion myths only posit a single creation event, though.
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  5501.  @jbbeiser983  But the science is pointing toward multiple big bangs.
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  5502. They got a patent on the QuickDraw region structure, and wouldn’t let anybody else use it until it expired in about the 200x’s.
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  5503. 2:46 Forgetting to mention its key characteristic: the box marked “STORE” is used for both instructions and data. And how do you tell whether a memory word contains an “instruction” or “data”? Actually, you can’t: it all depends on how it’s used!
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  5504. 7:44 “Doesn’t quite recall the conversation the same way”. How many words does it take to say “pants on fire”?
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  5505. 8:57 But ... but ... God created all the viruses sometime in those first six days of creation, didn’t he? So where are all these new ones coming from? Is Tucker Carlson talking infidel talk!?
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  5506. To me, the app includes both client and server.
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  5507. They’re not the type who would read instructions.
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  5508. That must mean he has more supporters than Trump already. Look at all the people making fun of the Lügenführer, and his useless Storm-In-A-Teacup Troopers haven’t been able to make anyone feel a mosquito bite.
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  5509. Here’s an idea: all Senators who have already expressed an opinion about Trump’s innocence or guilt should recuse themselves from the trial. After all, we need an impartial jury, don’t we? I have no idea what kind of balance of his supporters that would leave. It could quite likely remove nearly all of them.
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  5510.  @choosewisely7994  What’s different about bird testicles?
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  5511. Actually, Python won’t let that happen. It disallows inconsistent mixes of tabs and spaces.
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  5512.  @abram7547  Sure, I just tried it. A simple four-line script I called “space_test”: if True : print("hi!") print("hi!") #end if (That’s four spaces at the start of the first print, a tab at the start of the second one). Then when I tried running it: ldo@theon:~> python3 space_test File "space_test", line 3 print("hi!") ^ TabError: inconsistent use of tabs and spaces in indentation So you see, Python does prevent that sort of thing.
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  5513. 7:40 /me suffers attention overload trying to listen to your narration and laugh at the captions ...
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  5514. There is a saying: “every country gets the government it deserves”. If the US wants to become a proper democracy, it will need to reform some of its institutions.
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  5515.  @heavysystemsinc.  Well, I guess that making the rules more fair would disproportionately disadvantage one side ... the side that has been abusing them the most up to now.
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  5516. 11:08 “Respect my authoritah!” glasses.
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  5517. 15:04 My Python-based desk calculator tells me that .406736643 is the sin of 24°, accurate to about 10 figures.
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  5518. Hmmm ... what about the ones who believe that Jan 6 was some kind of FBI plot to make the Republicans look bad? So they staged a “peaceful protest” to make the Republicans look bad?
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  5519. 1:29 And then you have levels above that of individual organisms: “ecology’, how organisms interact with each other; “biophysics”, about how they operate and interrelate to their environment as part of a physical system, subject to the usual physical laws.
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  5520. 9:08 I thought judges were not supposed to be political? Because if they are, then why should they be appointed for life? Other political appointments terminate when there is a change of administration, why should these judges be special?
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  5521. 9:22 But then again, your comparison may not be as dismal as it looks. Comparing just Qplasma of 0.67 for JET in 1997 versus 10 for ITER in whenever, that’s approximately a 15-fold improvement. If you compare Qtotal of 0.01 for JET with 0.5 or so for ITER, that pushes the improvement factor up to 50, over the same time period. So far from making the outlook worse for fusion power, maybe it actually makes it better ... ?
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  5522. Putin needs to do to Prigozhin what Khrushchev did to Beria.
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  5523. Thought: twice the radius with the same density may mean twice the gravity and twice the escape velocity, but it also means four times the surface area, with correspondingly more room for harvesting natural resources, population growth etc. (Remember, the most important resource for any intelligent civilization is its population.) And for spaceports where a dirty great rocket could blow up under testing with minimal impact on everybody. So, adding up all the economic as well as technological factors, yes, it does seem feasible that they could become space-faring. Maybe even more feasible than us.
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  5524. 0:46 We don’t even get flash cards for our vaccine certs here in 🇳🇿. We get emailed a PDF file and we have to print our own.
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  5525. 0:19 “These two things should not be lumped together.” They were not. The Ukraine appropriation was taken out, just for the sake of getting this passed. And he is hopping mad at that.
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  5526. 0:30 Blue USB sockets? In 2005?!? ANACHRONISM!! (or at least time paradox)
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  5527. NATO is supposed to be purely defensive, and only retaliate against an attack against a member state. For it to get involved in Ukraine would be to confirm exactly what Putin has been claiming about the organization all along.
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  5528. Also I discovered that, due to the shape of the Earth’s orbit, summer in the southern hemisphere is 4 days shorter than that in the northern hemisphere. Ah, what a time to be alive in 🇳🇿 ...
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  5529. I regret I have but one asterisk for my country.
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  5530. 1:54 Why am I suddenly hearing accordion noises in my head ...
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  5531. If your tasks are not CPU-bound, then asyncio would make things simpler because it greatly reduces the opportunities for race conditions.
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  5532. 3:56 It would have helped that that stuff was old enough to be out of copyright.
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  5533. Ah, those poor delicate little snowflakes. Why don’t they go to a pro-Trump Internet provider instead? Surely there must be lots of those. Any spare capacity on “Stop The Steal” Cloud Services, Inc?
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  5534. Isn’t that what scientists do?
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  5535. I think the logistics of licensing the “open-source” versions of those other architectures has never been quite as easy as RISC-V has made it.
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  5536. They could pay developers to port their apps. Otherwise it’s not going to happen.
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  5537. For those who think that ARM processors are somehow wimpy, let me just point out that the most powerful computer in the world right now https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2020/06/ runs on ARM. Numbers 2 and 3 are machines based on IBM’s POWER9 architecture, while number 4 is a machine built on either MIPS or Alpha, nobody is quite sure. Intel/AMD doesn’t make an appearance until 5th place.
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  5538. My music teacher had a Traction Avant--this was in the 1970s, so they were already antiques by then. I think he said he got it from “the United Nations”.
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  5539. Sure, if you want to talk about databases, we should start with relational algebra. This is the mathematics of relational databases, and can express things that standard SQL cannot. Because, you see, “relational” ⊃ “SQL”.
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  5540. I can program Emacs to jump between lines with matching indentation. This makes it very easy to navigate around Python code, provided you have end markers for compound statements, e.g.: if ... ... #end if while ... ... #end while These provide the targets to jump to, to take you to the end of each construct. https://ldo17.tumblr.com/post/155087402702/fixing-pythons-greatest-mistake
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  5541. Tell that to Trump. The poor snowflake is still seething over his Twitter ban.
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  5542. Didn’t Trump’s appointees testify under oath to Congress that they would not do such a thing?
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  5543. So what else are they using?
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  5544.  @user-he4ef9br7z  Except they don’t, do they? Is there a non-GPL alternative to the Linux kernel that is as widely used? No.
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  5545.  @user-he4ef9br7z  Worked on by whom?
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  5546. ... uncanny resemblance to an older Richard Ayoade ...
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  5547. Never mind format wars, how about a pronunciation war: “bay-ta” or “bee-ta”?
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  5548. It’s the other way round. There are specific classes of programs that can be shown to halt, but this is undecidable in the general case.
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  5549. Yes, continue with Python. Think of the Excel jocks who get excited by this, until they discover that, to take full advantage of it, they have to learn Python. Or hire someone who knows it. That’s where you come in.
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  5550.  @kira64xyz  Hint: that’s where the “multiuser” part comes in.
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  5551. Gues what: those systemd config files let you run any number of external binaries. That’s what makes them so easy to set up.
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  5552. But gravity does not give up. Just pull that magnet a short way away from the fridge, and gravity will take over.
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  5553. Yeah, how many countries still have cheques??
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  5554. Isn’t Putin constitutionally required to give a state-of-the-nation address about now? Why hasn’t he done so?
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  5555. You think aliens will not have Wal Mart?
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  5556. The late Arthur C Clarke believed that cold fusion was real. I remember an interview where he said one of the two guys (Pons or Fleischmann, can’t remember which) was in a secret lab being funded by Toyota or somebody, to continue working on it. Of course, that was decades ago, and nothing much has come out since.
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  5557. Which had the best cuisine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxX7QCll3oc
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  5558. Can a Windows machine be the control node?
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  5559. Switching Linux distros is easy. Since they all run the same basic apps, you can take all your personal documents with you!
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  5560.  @tristunalekzander5608  The public/private key pair are mathematically related in a way that anything encrypted with one can be decrypted with the other, but anybody in possession of the public key cannot (feasibly) determine the corresponding private key. Thus, the public key can be freely redistributed, without compromising the private key.
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  5561.  @tristunalekzander5608  You use them one way round for confidentiality, the other way round for authenticity (digital signatures). Being able to decrypt something with a given public key guarantees that it had to have been encrypted with the corresponding private key -- in other words, that it came from the only party in possession of that private key.
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  5562. What’s different about the pentagon is that it cannot make a periodic tiling of the plane.
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  5563. But doesn’t Trump love Newsmax? Don’t you want to be loyal to Trump?
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  5564. Is Trump a “left-winger” now?
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  5565. Is somebody accusing Trump of not making sense?
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  5566. Has Trump repudiated Newsmax yet? Doesn’t seem like it.
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  5567. Is there somebody else more trustworthy than Trump?
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  5568. Still no action from Trump? Wonder why not.
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  5569. Sounds like the kind of thing Sean Connery would say.
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  5570. It only came about because the BitKeeper guy got upset with them and cancelled their licence.
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  5571. Emacs is also nice because you can leave it running all the time. Then from a terminal window, use the “emacsclient” command to tell it to open files. I have this alias defined: alias e='emacsclient -n' specifically so that I can type e «filename» in any terminal window to edit files.
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  5572. If you don’t want to buy those products from China, then you will have to learn how to make them yourself. At much greater cost, with no guarantees as to quality. Unless maybe your Government passes laws saying you must buy from specified suppliers, not from their competitors. Free-market Capitalism, have you heard of it?
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  5573. 3:09 That’s the opening to Steven Spielberg’s Amazing Stories -- not that I’ve seen the series, but I recognize it from some of the vintage CG clips here on YouTube.
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  5574. Eating it or drinking it?
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  5575. Definitely Venus. Actually, you can almost see the phases of Venus with the naked eye. When it’s about closest to Earth, and biggest and brightest, it also looks distinctly not-round.
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  5576. I use Jupyter a lot for trying things, and also for presentations. I always test my notebooks before publishing them by using the “clear output and restart kernel” function, then running every cell again. Oh, and also clear all output before committing the notebook to version control.
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  5577. Notice he changed the spelling. Maybe people were mispronouncing “Bich” ...
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  5578. I have an easy way of remembering which is which: “purple” has the same number of syllables as “keyboard”, and “green” has the same number of syllables as “mouse”.
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  5579. 4:32 </goldfish impersonation>
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  5580. There is a pitfall with claiming that “A is as bad as B”. And that is, such a claim is logically equivalent to saying “B is no worse than A”. Do you really want to be saying that humiliating and oppressing people is no worse than using words that animals don’t understand anyway?
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  5581. Gemini launched on hypergolic boosters. So you see hardly any flames there, too. Also it was felt there was just about no explosion risk, so they had ejector seats instead of launch-abort systems like Mercury and Apollo.
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  5582. Look at the LEM descent footage, e.g. Apollo 11. Notice the dust being blown out radially in precise straight lines? What happens to dust normally on Earth?
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  5583.  @marcleblanc3602  Go on, do tell us: what kind of explosion?
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  5584. SVN initially made a big deal out of the idea of “cheap copies”. Prior VCSes made it difficult to create branches, because they had to keep separate copies of files even if they didn’t change. SVN fixed that problem, but it never managed to solve the issue of, having spawned off a new branch, how do you merge them back again? The one thing Git does better than any VCS is merging of branches. I think Mercurial has been trying to emulate Git on this score. Last I heard, they had made about 4 attempts to implement branching, none of them quite up to Git functionality.
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  5585. 11:07 I don’t know why they’re called “turbines”. To me, a “turbine” has to mean a ducted fan, and these things have no ducts. Hence they are just “windmills”.
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  5586. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  5587. 10:28 Not quite equivalent to Bash aliases, looks more like defining a Bash function. Functions do their own processing of the rest of the command line (kind of like in-memory shell scripts), while aliases only do a simple substitution of the command word (first word on the line), nothing more.
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  5588. But we keep getting told that no living thing can pass through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting here?
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  5589. So much for the idea that everybody was “created equal” ...
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  5590. Is there an example of a quantum computer cracking this?
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  5591. 3:50 Why did I think “Digital Computer Sexiness”? I know, I need to get out more...
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  5592. 20:16 That would be true of simple resistive heating. Not so true of, say, heat pumps.
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  5593. One thing I use the combo function for is, microwave to cook the chicken pieces thoroughly on the inside, simultaneously grilling to crisp the outside.
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  5594. Maybe the antiliberals see it as shocking or scandalous or rude or something.
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  5595. 14:00 Apparently Editdroid was not a success. Lucas didn’t even use it himself.
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  5596. It could have been one of those “door-knocker” missiles that Tzahal uses.
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  5597. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  5598. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  5599. What next? Trump and his cronies declare martial law and suspend the 🇺🇸 Constitution, saying they actually want to protect the Constitution and your freedoms? Shut down newspapers and TV stations in the name of free speech? Bring their armed followers onto the streets in the name of preserving the peace? Lock up and beat up their opponents because they want to preserve the rule of law?
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  5600. In my first job outside of University, everybody had a degree, but mine was the only one in Comp Sci.
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  5601. I wonder how Israel feels, knowing that support for their country is just another political football in the USA?
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  5602. The 🇺🇸 Founding Fathers were so obsessed with the fear of kings, they forgot about the possibility of dictators.
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  5603. 3 million extra votes for Hillary Clinton were not enough to keep Trump out last time. What will it take this time?
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  5604. @Jill REICHENBACH It wasn’t enough last time. The Electoral College has to go. That’s the only way to be sure a dictator like Trump can never gain power again.
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  5605. Mahjong solitaire can’t have been a new game, though, even then. The KDE version lets you choose from differently-themed tile sets and different board arrangements. I like the Egyptian-themed tiles.
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  5606. 3:57 Ah, but now try it as though it were being written with a word processor app on a PC, with a nice keyboard with clicky Cherry keys. ∗Chef's Kiss∗
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  5607. Speaking as somebody who currently has about 2 dozen Konsole tabs open, I have to say ... ... whatever do you mean? ;)
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  5608. 13:13 Pigeons are not dumb. They are damn smart birds. Ever seen them ride the subway? And get off at the right station?
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  5609.  @ej_sykes  Not on Debian-based systems any more, which is most of them.
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  5610. 1:58 IBM calls that family the “z/Series” nowadays.
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  5611.  @kerrynball2734  They didn’t invent GUIs.
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  5612. Seems on a par with ancient Cretan writing, don’t you think? That is, primarily for accounting, not for anything literary.
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  5613. Every time I hear “Sednoid” I keep thinking the person has a cold ...
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  5614. 11:02 Regarding the noise ... here in NZ, a couple of hours south of Auckland, I rarely need to run my portable unit at night, so that mitigates the noise issue somewhat. Also I run it most heavily for maybe 3-4 weeks of the year, during the hottest part of summer.
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  5615. If they don’t update their browser, then clearly they are not part of most companies’ target market.
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  5616.  @goldydog1  Companies are only going to pay attention to customers, or potential customers. No point wasting time and money on anybody else.
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  5617.  @goldydog1  It’s not “user data” that matters, it’s “customer data”. If they’re running outdated systems, why should they spend money on your product?
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  5618.  @fuseteam  It apparently has builtin “wget” and “curl” commands, which are limited compared to the real things. Even on Linux, it will use its builtins instead of the real commands. Somebody filed a bug report asking for this to be changed. It was rejected, on the grounds that the Linux port had to remain bug-compatible with the Windows version.
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  5619.  @dsvechnikov  You can understand why Linux users don’t want to put up with Microsoft’s stupidity.
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  5620. Protections on symlinks don’t matter. You aren’t allowed to do anything to them that might be controlled by those protections anyway.
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  5621. If teachers are afraid of being charged with felony crimes just for using unapproved course material, then there is something wrong with the law, no matter how good its intentions might be.
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  5622. 2:34 Great way to learn to type! (Speaking from experience.)
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  5623. I am amused at how these aristocratic and royalistic names are so popular in a country that is not supposed to have such titles.
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  5624. 4:13 CG animation could do a smoother collapse than that. Just sayin’. This is why I find a lot of this Japanese animation barely a step above Hanna-Barbera in quality.
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  5625. 8:00 Nowadays you can do all this for free, via users’ web browsers,
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  5626. with BigBlueButton.
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  5627. Encryption really just adds processing time at the endpoints, which should be minimal overhead on today’s fast CPUs. In terms of protocol bandwidth overhead, it shouldn’t be large.
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  5628. Poor guy just noticed that part of the 🇷🇺 Constitution prohibiting privately-run military organizations ...
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  5629.  justin0ldman303  Bit difficult for Russia’s only effective military force in Ukraine to keep “destroying” the country after it has been disbanded, don’t you think ...
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  5630. Remember why long shots, particularly in spaceship propulsion, are worth pursuing: it’s because space travel with rockets (as at present) is complicated, expensive, and dangerous. That was true half a century ago, it’s still true today. So if some idea, no matter how wacky, promises some short cut to the process, it’s worth at least looking at, because the cost of dismissing it out of hand, should it turn to be right, is so high.
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  5631. I don’t know why people are so scared of SQL injection attacks. Properly escaping values in standard SQL is as easy as def sql_string(s) : "returns an SQL string literal that evaluates to s⋅" if s == None : q = "null" elif isinstance(s, int) : q = "%d" % s elif isinstance(s, (bytes, bytearray)) : q = "X'" + ""⋅join("%02x" % d for d in s) + "'" elif isinstance(s, str) : q = "'" + str(s)⋅replace("'", "''") + "'" else : raise TypeError("can only convert bytes, str, int or None types") ♯end if return q ♯end sql_string
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  5632. How would you use placeholders in, say, a list of values for an IN clause?
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  5633. Wasn’t Trump’s wall supposed to keep them out? What happened to the billions he spent on it? And when is Mexico going to pay it back?
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  5634. For those who want to compare with other countries, just remember that the US is the only country in the world with more guns than people. Just thought I should mention that.
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  5635. We still have custom computer chip designs. You can put together a bunch of building blocks (e.g. a RISC-V CPU core, some RAM, some EPROM, some interrupt lines, maybe a display controller or Ethernet or Wi-Fi or USB or whatever), and a fab will do a run of chips for you. There might be a minimum number of a few thousand units or something like that.
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  5636. “Vector” has a biological meaning. Or two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector
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  5637.  @juliaconnell  Boom-boom. Actually, I prefer badum-tish. Yeah, I’m a badum-tisher. Sue me.
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  5638. And it has worse optics than something he found in the trash ...
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  5639. 21:27 ERSO, the creators of the “ERSO BIOS”, commonly found in these white-box clones.
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  5640. When I were a wee lad and Get Smart was being shown for the first time on local TV, I used to be taken with the clock-hand-style floor indicators outside the lifts. Do any of those still exist?
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  5641. 2:28 #TheEmacsWay Ctrl-Shift-Backspace,Arrow, Ctrl-Y. Use whichever arrow (up or down) depending on whether you are exchanging the current with the previous line or the next line.
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  5642. The old mainframe architecture has been a smaller and smaller part of IBM’s business over the last decade or two. The company itself is in a bit of freefall as well. You may have read the announcement recently that they are going to acquire Red Hat. That might stave off decline a little bit longer.
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  5643. The difference has to do with the deskop environment. My Mint-using friends tell me that “Mate” is derived from GNOME 2, while “Cinnamon” is their own unique DE.
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  5644.  @gerowen  Windows Home Server was Microsoft’s attempt at doing, in a more resource-intensive and less-flexible fashion, what cheap Linux-powered NAS boxes could do much more easily. Basically, every attempt by Microsoft to step away from the 1990s-style x86 desktop has been killed by Linux.
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  5645. Anything with a two-figure price tag?
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  5646. Wasn’t Trump’s wall supposed to keep them out? After all the billions spent on it, it doesn’t seem to have worked very well. And weren’t the Mexicans supposed to pay for that?
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  5647. Nope, no lawsuits. Why would they sue, if the money was coming from the Mexicans? Besides, didn’t he say the Constitution gave him the power to do anything?
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  5648. 10:24 Surprising that the MacDraw family never had the ability to handle Bézier curves, as far as I can remember. Illustrator showed the way, and other tools, including GraphicWorks/ComicWorks and Canvas from Deneba (which I bought a personal copy of) did follow that.
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  5649. Fun question to contemplate: the transistor was an American invention; so why did the Japanese take it and run with it, to produce well-known transistorized appliances (transistor radios and the like) from the 1960s onwards? In the US there was already an established consumer-electronics industry, based on vacuum tubes. The reason was precisely those vacuum tubes. The US industry had a great deal invested in them over many prior decades, which it was reluctant to give up. The Japanese were starting from nothing, so they were free to adopt the new technology. This is an example of a “disruptive technology”, where the existing players will not adopt the new idea because they see it as a threat, either to themselves or their existing customers. And so it is left to new players to come in and take over the market.
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  5650. Common programming languages nowadays let you express numbers in binary, octal, decimal and hex bases, and that’s it. Ada, on the other hand, let you use any base from 2₁₀ to 36₁₀, inclusive. E.g. 9 * 6 = 13#42#
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  5651. 2:40 Right-hand drive!
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  5652. 6:43 You can see both drive-control positions from this angle.
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  5653. 12:08 “Move it away from the O’Ridgin”.”
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  5654. Most mass shootings are committed by people who got their weapons legally.
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  5655. 8:34 I remember an article which said that, because Mars has no satellite the size of our Moon to counteract the effect, it is subject to gravitational tugs from Jupiter which tilt its axis of rotation every which way over time. Whereas our Earth maintains a more stable orientation for its axis of rotation, which is mainly subject to precession.
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  5656.  @scottmanley  No mistake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy_on_Mars#Long-term_variations : “The variation of Mars's axial tilt is much larger than for Earth because it lacks the stabilizing influence of a large moon like Earth's moon.”
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  5657.  @scottmanley  Jupiter and Saturn are major factors in the Milankovitch cycles.
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  5658.  @scottmanley  Nope, the article did specifically mention axial tilt. Spin and orbit are inevitably going to interact.
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  5659. Thought: why not use your family as a studio audience?
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  5660.  Pipe Tunes  That’s a point.
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  5661.  Pipe Tunes  But then again, if this is supposed to be for adults only, why the bleeps?
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  5662. I thought judges were supposed to be non-political? And conversely, that political appointments were not supposed to be for life? For example, ambassadorial appointments are political, and they expire when there is a change of leadership in the White House. Why do politically-appointed judges get to stay on?
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  5663. Different languages do encourage different ways of thinking. Just look at the kinds of people attracted to PHP versus Python, just for example. (Me, I have done both, one for a living, and the other for fun and for a living. Guess which is which.)
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  5664. How would you know it was the same password?
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  5665. Too many Free Software users still have what I call the “user of proprietary software” mentality. They see themselves as passive users of products like those from Microsoft or Apple, rather than members of an active community. Free Software lives and dies by the health of its community, of contributions back to the project, not by the sheer numbers of mere users. This is why Free Software does not need large “market share” in order to be successful. But it does need that community.
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  5666. That seems to be done for Apple’s corporate control purposes, not to safeguard the user.
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  5667. Other platforms can implement security controls without forcing developers to go through a central vetting authority.
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  5668. Automating a GUI is a recipe for despair.
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  5669. 5:47 It’s worth clarifying what the whole point of this “parent/child” relationship, and consequent possibility of “orphan” processes, is about: when a process terminates, it becomes a “zombie”, which means it still takes up a process slot, even though no process is running any more. At this point, it is up to its parent to pick up a notification of the termination of the child, via a call like wait(2) or similar; once it gets this notification, then the zombie process disappears, and that process slot is freed up to hold a new created process. So, if you write a program on Linux or other POSIX-type system, and you spawn lots of processes, then you have to remember this rule to avoid your system running out of process slots: always gobble your zombie children.
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  5670. Time to make #BunkerBoy trending!
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  5671. Seth is on a roll today. How does he find time to breathe? ;)
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  5672. I wonder why they automatically assume that these people coming in, in search of a better life, would never vote Republican. Don’t the Republicans care about offering people a better life?
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  5673. The EU remembers. It’s their anthem.
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  5674. Wasn’t Trump’s border wall supposed to keep them out? How well has that been holding up, then?
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  5675. Defeat a Superhero? Never. Defeat a Supervillain? Now that’s more like it.
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  5676. How can you believe this report?
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  5677. What exactly was supposed to be “dodgy” about regular SSL/TLS certs?
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  5678.  @kenrq63  But it’s still those same CAs issuing the certs. What “extra” diligence were they doing that they weren’t doing before?
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  5679. Think of it as “You ass, eh!” Makes more sense now?
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  5680. But he himself pointed out, they wouldn’t let his contract “expire”.
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  5681. Variables should not be global by default.
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  5682. 14:58 Analog filters cannot have a sharp cutoff (without introducing phase-shift artifacts), but digital filters can. Oversampling can give you a perfectly good cutoff at a 20kHz × 2 = 40kHz sampling rate, or any other rate you want. The reason for the 44.1kHz audio CD sampling rate has to do with the original use of adapted VCR machines for the audio mastering, and the need to able to adapt both PAL and NTSC machines for the purpose. Source: John Watkinson, The Art Of Digital Audio -- I have an old edition of this and his Art Of Digital Video -- both are still well worth reading.
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  5683. 16:03 Ah, you did know at least part of that.
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  5684. Microsoft Office was bundled with tablets running Windows RT. Didn’t stop that from being a flop.
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  5685. 0:55 Countries that have landed on the Moon also include the USSR/Russia, and now China and India. So those using Imperial are already outnumbered there as well.
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  5686. Do you have any Oswald-Mosley-equivalent in Ireland? Here in NZ we have Brian Tamaki. He has his church followers, but he keeps trying to launch political parties (2 or 3 at last count). All have been flops, because thankfully we pride ourselves on being a secular democracy.
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  5687. If the US Government has access to an alien craft that crashed at Roswell, wouldn’t that give them interstellar travel technology? Which means the Apollo Moon landings were real?
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  5688. 1:36 Echoes of λ-calculus! See, the thing with JavaScript is, it’s a mix of really dumb things and really advanced things that only CS majors (and LISP programmers) can appreciate. Compare this with PHP, which is a mix of really dumb things ... and that’s it.
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  5689. Which MTV did you get -- US or Europe?
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  5690.  @swordfish_0219  Perhaps an India-specific MTV channel, then. Judging from other comments, it seems there were many regional MTV channels around the world, and just about all of them were much more successful at being pure music channels than the US one.
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  5691. I used vi/vim for many years while doing admin work on different Unix systems. Once Linux became dominant, I knew I could always install Emacs, so I switched to that instead. And yes, I use its default key bindings. I still have some basic vi commands in my muscle memory, but I’ve been happily using Emacs for years.
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  5692. I tried looking it up, and I may be wrong about what I thought “consanguinity” meant.
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  5693. Georgia, stop trying to duck and dodge the issue. Don’t mess with people’s voting rights, or they will make you suffer! There is a way to make the pain go away: just start treating your citizens with respect.
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  5694. Remember Chris Krebs, Trump’s own chief of Homeland Security, said the 2020 Presidential election was “the most secure ever”. Trump couldn’t resist trying to take credit for that, even though he still claimed in the same breath that the election had been “stolen” from him!
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  5695.  @davidemmet7343  None of that nonsense stood up in court. Not even Trump’s own judges would back him up!
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  5696. Arabs are Semites too.
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  5697. Wonder why Microsoft is trying so hard to turn Windows into Linux, then ...
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  5698. Debian Stable is tough as old boots and just boringly reliable. Great for mission-critical server deployments. On the desktop, though, I like a bit more excitement. That’s why I run Debian Unstable.
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  5699. Funny, a lot of Windows config involves Registry editing and PowerShell commands. Is that supposed to be very “intuitive”?
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  5700. Also there is this thing called “VRAM” (“Video RAM”). From the CPU side, it can be read and written like normal DRAM. But on the other side, there is a read-only port with a shift register that is continually transmitting the bits sequentially from memory. From there they are fed to video circuitry to interpret them as colour and brightness data etc before being output to a display. The point with this design is that the sequential output has low contention with regular CPU access, i.e. neither slows the other down much.
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  5701. 3:01 Airflow separation is a turbulence phenomenon. The loss of lift would have nothing to do with Bernoulli’s Principle. Another term for it is “stalling”.
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  5702. So he’s not really Trump heavily disguised with plastic surgery to carry on the QOnan Plan? Or is this just his way of secretly signalling to his followers?
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  5703. How does Bizarro World know it’s Bizarro World?
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  5704. Yay, I was wondering if you were going to mention Buckaroo Banzai ...
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  5705. In Python functions can take functions as arguments and return them as results. Actually, it’s better than that. Python functions can take classes as arguments, and return classes as results. In Python, everything is a first-class object, and that includes functions and classes.
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  5706. 7:46 Umm, not really. Newton was a heretic.
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  5707. Also very useful together with the “find” command, to do multi-file search. E.g. reporting all occurrences (file names and line numbers) of “collada” in the Blender source tree: find ~/projects/blender -type f -not -path ./.git/\* -exec grep -FiHn collada {} ';'
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  5708. It would have been a reference to Jules Verne, I suspect.
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  5709. Is “seditious conspiracy” close enough?
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  5710. Real hardware is amazing ... for those who can afford the space, and the electricity bills.
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  5711. I suspect a slaveowner’s interpretation of “tyranny” might not correspond to that in a free society ...
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  5712. Yes, Debian derivatives offer the “debsums” tool, that can verify installed files against the package they came from. And of course packages themselves are signed.
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  5713. 15:14 Even using the same forms as for part drawings. Did you notice the section at the bottom right, to do with measurement tolerances etc, which was crossed out?
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  5714. They do under high pressure (e.g. the interiors of stars).
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  5715. People criticize the French for wanting to ban the hijab. Among some, it’s become a symbol of oppression.
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  5716. 4:59 Hey, I laughed at that. I live in a place where people say “most” and it comes out sounding like “moist”.
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  5717.  @danielhill9080  Did they really? Tell us more.
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  5718.  @danielhill9080  And maybe you need to do some research as well.
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  5719.  @danielhill9080  Of course the “warmonger” can’t possibly be Russia, the country that did the actual invading of Ukraine, can it?
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  5720.  @danielhill9080  But you are not supposed to say that Russia “invaded”! It’s supposed to be a “special military operation”, remember? I wonder what Putin will do to you when he finds out ...
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  5721. Does your free democratic right to protest depend on the colour of your skin?
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  5722. He’s the Republicans’ only hold on power. That power is more important to them than the welfare of the country.
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  5723. Favourite bald SCOTTISH YouTuber!
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  5724. Those “foreign TV stars” tend to come from countries with a better idea of how to control their guns. Why shouldn’t they lecture the Dumbfuckistanis on how to do things better? “He who knows, and knows he knows -- he is wise; follow him. He who knows , and knows not he knows -- he is asleep; wake him. He who knows not, and knows he knows not -- he is a child; teach him. He who knows not, and knows not he knows not -- he is a fool; shun him.” -- old Arab proverb
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  5725. My dad had four of them.
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  5726.  @mikeh39  All seasoned punched-card users knew how to deal with that.
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  5727. 1:49 Or an “A” to a “Λ” is a common one. How about changing “u” to “μ”? So it becomes “Bµtternµt”? Or perhaps “u” to “ν”, so “Bνtternνt”? (Not to be confused with “Bvtternvt”.)
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  5728.  @ChristopherCobra  If they can’t keep up with upstream changes, then that’s a “fork”.
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  5729.  @ChristopherCobra  A lot of them are failures, yes. The ones that are not, it is mostly because upstream has gone moribund. Certainly not the case with FFmpeg!
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  5730. But surely it is the site’s own fault for including all that JavaScript bloat -- a lot of which is specifically designed to make such scraping difficult.
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  5731. 1:56 Or could it be “the sai of sapience”?
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  5732. So the Oscan nominee didn’t win ... sad ...
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  5733. Rejects are not necessarily bad people. It’s just that the US has allowed a particular group to gain an unfair ascendancy over the others.
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  5734. She’s no stranger to the Dark Side herself. Remember when she took Marie Kondo a little too much to heart?
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  5735.  @AyrtonGomesz  Java objects are always on the heap.
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  5736.  @gmodrules123456789  It’s already been explained: it’s to specify which namespace the name comes from.
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  5737.  @SimonWoodburyForget  Functions and methods are also objects, with their own memory allocations, in Python. This issue has already been explained, anyway (see above).
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  5738.  @philipp1717  It’s to distinguish between the two namespaces, one for method names and one for field/class names, as already explained.
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  5739. Amazing the number of incorrect answers that continue to crop up, even after the correct one has been given.
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  5740. There is a critique somewhere by Martin Richards written after his experience porting BCPL to the PDP-11. He was pretty scathing of its byte-addressability. BCPL originated before the era of byte-addressability, and did not seem to adapt well to that.
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  5741. Pro world-leader tip: if you’re trying to persuade your neighbours not to join a military defence pact against you, threatening their security will have the opposite effect.
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  5742. Your VM had to do a GC at that point.
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  5743. Warning, warning, attempt at irrelevant (and misogynistic) distraction detected.
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  5744. It’s when you gussy things up just an oontch.
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  5745.  @omegaman7377  And what makes it so easy?
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  5746. String Theory seems like the modern incarnation of the Luminiferous Ether.
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  5747. If you want a rerun, the Government will not be the first to run out of ammo.
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  5748.  Not Your business  Law-abiding people will be happy to do the Government’s work, just as they always have.
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  5749.  B A  Far from it. Militarization of the police is a real thing throughout the USA. And they are just itching to use some of that firepower. You gun nuts don’t stand a chance.
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  5750. I think you could have made a killing short-selling Fox News ...
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  5751. Remember what Putin helped Assad do in Syria: any cities that showed any defiance were ruthlessly reduced to rubble. Civilians, hospitals, children — everything and everybody became a target. That same general that he sent to the Syrians is now in charge of the Ukraine invasion.
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  5752. Just came here to say that, too. For those don’t know, there’s an easy way to tell: monkeys have tails, apes don’t!
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  5753. My company did an internal survey to uncover the extent of lying on resumés. It appears that our staff lied about 105% to 110% of the time. In the end we decided that was well within the margin of error of the survey, and not really worth bothering about. In other news, we are also looking for a new company statistician.
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  5754. Couldn’t they have just sent over a small pin?
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  5755. ctypes FTW!
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  5756. “Each time the Republicans lose the presidency, there are internal reviews that say they need to broaden their base. In practice, they swing further right. So much so, that what had been the loony fringe at the start of the process becomes their centre. By the time of the 2016 primaries, virtually all their candidates had gone full Tea Party. The next step – with Trump already shuffling toward it – is full Q-Anon.” -- Larry Beinhart https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/11/13/even-without-the-senate-democrats-can-get-a-lot-done/
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  5757. The parts of it that are still standing, anyway. Does Russian media show what it looks like in the day time?
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  5758. 16:25 Actually days of the week should numbered from 0, aren’t they?
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  5759. This is why it helps to keep the Python library docs in your bookmark list!
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  5760. And Trump calls himself “democratically elected”.
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  5761.  @schwingedeshaehers  That makes it difficult if you want to share some files with other users.
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  5762. With Python, it’s a very powerful combination. Here’s the sort of dynamic query criterion I have constructed: list ( "%(name)s like %(value)s" % { "name" ∶ field[0], "value" ∶ sqlstring("%" + escape_sql_wild(params․getvalue(field[1])) + "%"), } for field in ( ("make", "search_make"), ("model", "search_model"), ("details", "search_details"), ("serial_nr", "search_serial"), ("inventory_nr", "search_invent"), ("requisition_nr", "search_requis"), ("machine_name", "search_machine_name"), ("os_updates", "search_os"), ) if params․getvalue(field[1]) != "" )
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  5763. Regular expressions are useful, but every language has them now. Python is one that has them, and combines them nicely with its other features. E.g. re.finditer() to iterate over matches.
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  5764. If they didn’t know it at the time, is there any record of it actually happening?
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  5765. If time travel worked that way, there would be absolutely no need for violence at all. Just stop his parents meeting and conceiving him. And nobody need ever know. Every similarly pivotal moment in history, no matter how momentous and far-reaching, could be deflected in a different direction by some similarly small leverage applied at just the right time and place. I don’t know why people always think in terms of violent solutions, even if the problem is one of violence; too much Hollywood, perhaps?
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  5766. Maybe he’d never been conscious during landings before.
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  5767. The Post Office boss is a Trump guy. What does that tell you about Trump people?
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  5768. 1:30 Ya gotta rake the leaves!
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  5769. I remember somebody filed a lawsuit to try to stop the LHC from being turned on, because of this supposed risk. The suit was chucked out.
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  5770. 3:16 Video games don’t use (real) ray-tracing. They mainly use a shortcut called “environment mapping”. NVidia claims to have “real-time ray-tracing” in its RTX cards, but all they can manage is maybe 1 or 2 rays per pixel, with heavy doses of denoising to cover up the limitations. Real high-quality ray-tracing can require hundreds or thousands of rays per pixel. That takes a lot of time, but produces stunning results. Cf any recent CG-heavy movie for examples.
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  5771. Whatever happened to “Blue Lives Matter” ...
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  5772. 21:13 Warhol swung both ways ... Macintosh and Amiga.
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  5773. 8:42 KStars only shows me 5 planets at that time. Could the extra “planet” have been Pluto?
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  5774. CP/M only ran on Z80 and 8080/8085 chips. There were other popular microprocessors out there (like the 6800 and 6502), which it never supported. At this point, Unix was already available on machines with entirely different hardware architectures and instruction sets. So you could say that Unix portability was aiming for a much more ambitious target.
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  5775. 23:42 Does it have a 14th floor? I suspect not.
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  5776. HTTP is an application (layer-7) protocol, TCP is a transport (layer-4) protocol.
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  5777. Best left in a museum.
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  5778.  @ThatOneRobloxDev  Not worth using any more. If you want a stack-based language, PostScript still has some interesting features worth redeeming. FORTH ... none.
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  5779. Does it have a page on TV Tropes yet?
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  5780. A handy one for those doing tutorial videos on various apps is key-mon. This puts up a little floating window that indicates keystrokes and mouse clicks. Stick this in a convenient corner of your screen as you record, and your viewers can see what you are typing or what mouse buttons you are clicking, without your having to spell it out all the time.
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  5781. I am impressed with the language extensions added in Fortran-90 and Fortran-95 for parallelizing complex operations. Quite handy for running on supercomputers. I suppose in C or C++ you use library calls to achieve the same effect.
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  5782.  @nutzeeer  Windows 10/11 on ARM has been shipping for a while now, on devices from Microsoft and others. Still not exactly setting the world on fire.
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  5783.  @milonisk7380  But they were Prigozhin supporters!
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  5784. Yeah, there’s only a September 11 worth of people dying every day in the US. So you need a few refrigerated trucks to hold the overflow from the morgues -- what’s the big deal? It’s not as though those hospital intensive-care beds were needed for anything really important ...
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  5785. If Abraham Lincoln were alive today, he’d be ashamed to have ever had any association with the Republican Party.
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  5786. 3:28 Fourier is not complicated! (The main trouble I have with it is remembering where the π factors come in.) The wonderful symmetry between time/space-domain and frequency-domain representation of signals is just breathtakingly beautiful to behold. So there.
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  5787. 5:15 See, nothing complicated about that, is there? ;)
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  5788. A command line can be automated, a GUI cannot. A GUI is designed for humans to use, but that also means that humans are forced to perform all the necessary actions in a GUI -- methods to automate GUI actions has been tried (mouse/keyboard macros), but they tend to be fiddly and unreliable. Whereas it is easy to package command sequences in a script, to make it easy to execute them repeatedly with minimal work. Case in point: the whole concept of cut/copy/paste originated in GUI apps, yet while you can copy/paste command-line sequences in terminal windows, you cannot copy/paste GUI action sequences. Ironic or not?
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  5789. Unlike Australia, which has never mistreated anybody. “The way a government treats refugees is very instructive because it shows you how they would treat the rest of us if they thought they could get away with it.” -- Tony Benn
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  5790.  @sethhawkins5399  Worse than NZ Māori, that’s for sure.
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  5791. But it came from bats, and they don’t have any bats.
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  5792. It’s not the whole UN General Assembly laughing at him ...
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  5793. That could be just the “ringing” he already alluded to.
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  5794. Speaking of Syria, the people are agitating against Assad again. Last time, he massacred his people in retaliation, and if you remember Putin came to his aid to turn the tide against the Western-backed forces. I think the Russians are a bit preoccupied this time. So maybe a popular rebellion stands a better chance of success ...
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  5795. I thought Trump’s wall was supposed to keep them out? What happened to the billions he spent on it? And when is Mexico going to pay?
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  5796.  @chairmanmaolovesseamenonhi4151  That’s agreeing with my point, isn’t it?
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  5797. So the GUI is inextricably bound into the OS like Windows, instead of being a separate modular layer like Linux?
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  5798. Parliamentary systems tend not to have term limits. That could be because in those systems it’s easier to bring down a Government by passing a vote of no confidence, than it is to go through this “impeachment” rigmarole that you 🇺🇸ians invented for yourselves.
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  5799. I wonder what Trump was hiding while he was President ...
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  5800. You have a very noticeable senpai. What do I win?
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  5801. And for CD-ROMs, there’s an extra layer of error correction on top of that.
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  5802. Quantum tunnelling has also, supposedly, been demonstrated transmitting information faster than the speed of light.
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  5803.  @SabineHossenfelder  As I recall, they were transmitting a Mozart piece across a barrier, and observing a transmission speed of ⩰10c. Correction: turns out the speed observed was 4.7c. The experiment was done by Günter Nimtz at U Köln, using Mozart’s 40th Symphony.
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  5804. 16:07 In fact, it’s the anti-green, the complementary colour to green.
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  5805. Just a further thought, it seems to me the way the brain interprets the stimuli from the different cone types is not simply as addition of scalars, but as basis vectors pointing in different directions in a 2D plane. That’s why stimulation of red+blue is not equivalent to just green.
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  5806. 8:18 I’m thinking that the common cinematic screen aspect ratio of 2.35:1 isn’t too far off the silver ratio.
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  5807. 20:00 Complex numbers FTW!
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  5808. “On top of the operating system is the rest of the system software. Here we find the command interpreter (shell), window systems, compilers, editors, and similar application-independent programs. It is important to realize that these programs are definitely not part of the operating system, even though they are typically supplied preinstalled by the computer manufacturer, or in a package with the operating system if it is installed after purchase. This is a crucial, but subtle, point. The operating system is (usually) that portion of the software that runs in kernel mode or supervisor mode. It is protected from user tampering by the hardware ...” -- Tanenbaum & Woodhull, “Operating Systems Design And Implementation”, third edition, page 3 That is the well-known “MINIX Book”, by the way. So you see, by that definition, Linux is very definitely an ”operating system”.
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  5809. 1:26 And not just any Calvin and Hobbes but the origin Calvin and Hobbes !
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  5810. Many of us do suffer under it. That’s how we know.
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  5811. They were on the torrents a few years ago. Might still be there. From back when she was a he.
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  5812. 7:04 Notice the only kind of recursion allowed is tail recursion—there is nothing after the B that occurs in the substitution for B itself. This can be implemented with simple iteration, without a stack. Otherwise, it would no longer be a Type 3 grammar.
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  5813. 11:44 The situation you’re describing -- accessing an undeclared variable declared in an outer scope, followed by an assignment to it -- is a Python language error. So it cannot lead to “unexpected behaviour”. Python requires you to declare the variable as either “global” or “nonlocal” before it permits this sort of thing.
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  5814. 3:55 No it doesn’t. The substance is still neutral, because the phosphorus nucleus still has that extra proton to counter the charge of the extra electron. The terms “n-type” and “p-type” just say that the “majority charge carriers” (quantum entities that flow to carry the current) are negatively-charged electrons in the one case, and positively-charged “holes” (actually, the absence of an electron) in the other case.
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  5815. You can change the behaviour of assignment when the LHS is an indexing operation or property access. E.g. a[b] = c gets interpreted as a.__setitem__(b, c) Properties are fun, because they depend on a Python concept called “descriptors”. I’m not sure C++ programmers can understand that. ;)
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  5816. Python’s descriptors also make quite a few other things possible. For example, enums are implemented, not as a special built-in language feature as it is in C, C++ or Java, but just as a library module, written in Python itself. This also makes use of the metaclass feature.
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  5817.  @tarashmmurmu8412  In Python 3.5 and later you have the “@” operator to use for the dot product.
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  5818. One quite surprising use of operator overloads with custom Python types is in the “ctypes” standard library module. This is an extensive set of tools for creating “Pythonic” wrappers around shareable libraries that were not written with Python in mind. For example, the ctypes “c_int” type stands for an “int” in the underlying C code. This name can be used as a constructor to wrap a Python integer, to be passed to or returned from C code. But you can also write things like “c_int * 4” to represent an array of 4 ints. This expression returns a new type, which can itself be used as a constructor. Thus, the expression (ctypes.c_int * 4)(1, 2, 3, 4) allocates storage for holding 4 ints, initializes them to the given values, and returns a Python object representing that storage.
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  5819.  @keris3920  C++ doesn’t have the “@” operator.
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  5820. Another thing Python lets you overload is built-in functions like len() and abs(). These also dispatch to special methods within the object, for which you can provide custom implementations. For example, in Qahirah, my pure-Python wrapper for the Cairo 2D graphics library, I defined a Vector type, and defined abs(«vector») to return the magnitude of the vector.
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  5821. Another clever point about defining custom indexing with ‌_‌_‌setitem‌_‌_‌ and ‌_‌_‌getitem‌_‌_‌ is that, combined with tuples and an interesting Python syntactic shortcut, they let you implement multidimensional arrays. Thus, instead of “a[(b, c)]”, where the index is the tuple “(b, c)”, you can leave off the parentheses and just write “a[b, c]”. And so on for any number of dimensions. Of course, this applies even if b and c are not numbers.
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  5822.  @keris3920  In other words, you can’t really achieve all of that in C++.
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  5823.  @keris3920  Don’t get me wrong, C++ has its place. But if Turing-completeness were all there was to it, we would all be programming ... Turing machines.
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  5824.  @keris3920  Yes. And a Turing machine, while it works for a lot of mathematical proofs, is not a particularly practical way of carrying out real-world computations. So saying something is “Turing-complete” doesn’t mean you should use it for actual programming.
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  5825. Another overloadable operator Python has, that C++ does not, is “in”, commonly used for membership tests.
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  5826.  @keris3920  Yeah, it just slows down compiles instead. And it’s awkward to use, and it doesn’t get rid of having to fall back on the further awkwardness of #‌‌define and friends. Python can do everything you can do with your C++-Turing-completeness-at-compile-time, and do it more elegantly. For example, conditional definition of functions and classes: if «cond» : def func() : ... definition 1 for func ... #end func else : def func() : ... definition 2 for func ... #end func #end if where «cond» is the same kind of conditional expression you would write anywhere else.
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  5827.  @keris3920  Python doesn’t need to do it at “compile time”, since the full language facilities are available at run time. So you use the same language to do dynamic construction of class and function objects as you would to make use of them, instead of having to resort to different (and clunkier) sub-languages for “compile time” operations. This is reflected in the relative complexities of the languages: the C++ spec is well over 1000 pages now, and continues to grow with every new revision, whereas the entire Python language definition is about an order of magnitude smaller. All the rest of Python’s capabilities come from library modules, building on the core language.
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  5828.  @keris3920  If “C++ can do everything at runtime too”, then why does it need separate compile-time and preprocessor sublanguages?
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  5829.  @keris3920  Well, you did say “C++ has several Turing complete subsets”. Without the preprocessor, you only have template programming left. What else is there? And adding more and more RTTI is just making C++ more and more like Python, isn’t it? Sure, low-level languages have their place. They implement the CPU-intensive stuff, in a form that a high-level language like Python can make use of. If you look, you see will see where Python is popular in such compute-intensive and data-intensive applications.
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  5830.  @keris3920  Consider a basic λ-calculus expression like f = λx.λy.x + y Python accepts a straight transliteration of this: f = lambda x : lambda y : x + y Just to prove it works: add2 = f(2) add3 = f(3) and now the expression “add2(3)” returns 5, while “add3(4)” returns 7. That only works because Python functions are first-class objects, with lexical binding. C++ has never heard of lexical binding, has it?
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  5831. Python Devs: “And this is how you implement the Y-operator from λ-calculus.” C++ Devs: unintelligible, angry swearing
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  5832. Funny how people assume that anything a big company does will automatically be successful. This extends to assuming that, if they haven’t heard of some product from that big company, then it doesn’t exist.
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  5833. I think EBCDIC was introduced in 1964 with the System/360 machines. Interestingly, ASCII came out the same year. But IBM’s excuse for not adopting it was that it wasn’t ready in time.
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  5834. Microsoft seems to be promoting ReFS less and less these days.
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  5835. gedit is like the punchline to a joke. Geddit?
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  5836. It’s a traditional Unix thing. I normally get rid of it, because if fsck ever has a need for it, it will recreate it anyway. So I feel it’s just clutter.
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  5837. 27:46 Pixar would soon be spun off and sold to Steve Jobs, to raise money for George Lucas’s divorce settlement. The company took its name from its one and only hardware product, which it only sold for a short while. Once it became economical to fit general-purpose computers with multi-megabytes of RAM, the need for special-purpose frame-buffer-type devices disappeared.
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  5838. Besides which, Florida has passed its “don’t say Cay” bill.
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  5839. The Māori Party is the “overhang” party. The more electorate seats they win, the thinner this majority is going to be. Oh, and comparing running a country to running a business does not end well. Look at Donald Trump.
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  5840. If the Government recognizes an unborn foetus as a full human being, how about granting it citizenship rights?
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  5841. 4:58 the term is BINARY -- except that seems to have developed other connotations nowadays ...
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  5842. 7:49 “Tape me to your leader!”
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  5843.  @marcilk7534  Parties seem to be a reality of politics everywhere, there in 🇺🇸, here in 🇳🇿, just about the whole world. Groups of people banding together tend to be more powerful than individuals just trying to speak for themselves. Also good leaders can motivate people to act together to multiply their individual efforts. There is no universal agreement on the ways to solve all our common problems. The rot happens when some people put the good of their particular party ahead of the good of the country. Then your democracy is in trouble.
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  5844.  @marcilk7534  You are not seriously advocating that your country be run as a theocracy, though, are you? There is a reason why we have “separation of church and state”. A democracy cannot be based on religion or ethnicity: it has to look after all its citizens.
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  5845.  @tackcolin6645  It was his lips moving and his voice coming out.
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  5846. That sounds like a defect of Hyper-V. Why not use a better VM system?
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  5847.  @ws_stelzi79  Well, considering that other VM systems (like Xen, and Linux itself) are smarter than that, this clearly points to a problem with Hyper-V.
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  5848. I look at the apt-get(8) man page, and “update” and “upgrade” are right next to each other. It says the first one is to “resynchronize the package index files”, the second one is to “install the newest versions of all packages”. Simple.
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  5849. I wonder which one thing you would say the Linux kernel does well. Remember it’s over 20 million lines of code now.
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  5850. Use either sudo or su, not both.
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  5851.  @satibel  So don’t use su.
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  5852.  @satibel  But that needs the root password, as you pointed out.
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  5853. I wonder why the US managed to ban its Communist party, yet somehow the KKK, arguably the bigger threat to a peaceful society, gets off scot-free.
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  5854. There is no “safe” place to use cluster bombs. What is a war zone today will not be a war zone after the war ends. In peacetime, civilians will inevitably go everywhere and anywhere. So if there are unexploded bombs, a tragedy is going to happen sooner or later.
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  5855. Hate for companies and their products is normally reserved for things that people are forced to use, whether for their jobs, or because of vendor lock-in, or some such. We hear this all the time with proprietary software, but how can any of that apply to Open Source?
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  5856. Yes, that can certainly happen. It’s called a “power glitch”. The usual cure is to unplug from the mains, wait 5-10 seconds, then plug it back in.
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  5857.  @TomStorey96  That’s only if the POST can run.
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  5858. They are Christian. Look at the entire history of Christianity: what are they doing that’s so different?
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  5859. Didn’t you also get used to having to restart long-running services periodically, to free up accumulated memory leaks?
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  5860. And the odd thing, this happened in the middle of anti-Communist hysteria.
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  5861. And they were being promoted by Capitalist corporations.
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  5862. 4:53 If that’s the “epicentre”, then where exactly is the centre? This question was brought to you by the Campaign For Using Plain Words With Plain Meanings Without Random Spurious Techno-Scientific Connotations.
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  5863. Remember those Turkish “Bayraktar” drones were so devastatingly effective, the Ukrainians wrote a song about them.
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  5864. 5:28 Also used in computer monitors, like Apple’s legendary 13" RGB monitor from 1987 -- commonly considered to be the first colour monitor to be good enough to be used in black-and-white!
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  5865. 11:06 Ah, you mentioned that too.
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  5866. Java’s not that fast. Things slow down spectacularly once the garbage collector kicks in. Also it’s a memory hog. Python (or at least CPython) reduces that by doing reference-counting so most objects disappear the moment the last reference to them is forgotten, with full garbage collection only needed in more difficult cases.
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  5867. Didn’t Trump say that the Constitution gave the President the power to do anything?
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  5868. Where in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it say elections have to be free and fair? Or that the judiciary is guaranteed to be independent?
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  5869. Is it just coincidence that last night I saw that Family Guy episode where Lois goes all Marie Kondo and ends up evicting her entire family?
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  5870. Bill Gates doesn’t have to be an expert; he just has to take the advice of experts. Which is something anybody can do.
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  5871.  @troybreedlove4195  G W Bush said the US was a “democracy”. Was he lying?
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  5872. 2:09 And you can do a case-insensitive search with -iname instead of -name. Useful if you have files transferred from other systems that end up with uppercase names (e.g. .TXT instead of .txt).
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  5873. 6:57 Ah, OK.
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  5874. 0:11 My father had a typewriter very much like that, on which I learned to type. Note that there is no “1” key, you have to use either “l” or “I” in its place. Also no “=” character.
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  5875.  @ydnacreynolds5889  You can selectively quote from your “holy books” to claim they are wrong, they can simply say you are quoting “out of context” and therefore they are right, you are wrong. Religious arguments just go round in circles.
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  5876. While his media outlets were busy downplaying the virus last year, he himself cancelled his own birthday party celebrations to be safe. “Courage of your convictions”, he has heard of it!
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  5877. I guess this proves the Earth can’t be flat!?
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  5878. 1:01 Listen to what they are saying to the new Speaker: “You ass, eh!”
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  5879. 0:37 Maybe use the term “secret-key” cryptography instead. “Symmetric” sounds too much like stream-xor, where encryption and decryption are the same algorithm. Just to be clear on terms: “Private” -- something that only you know, and nobody else. “Secret” -- something only known to those who are authorized to know it.
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  5880. Remember that, in Python, functions are objects too.
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  5881. Basically, if you have a choice between a CEO who smokes dope and one who doesn’t ... ?
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  5882. 12:00 Right on.
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  5883. 13:06 Right on, again.
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  5884. Regardless of whoever is responsible, the fact that it happened under Russian control shows that no territory under Russian control is safe.
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  5885. Code is just data to a lower-level processor. What is the lowest-level processor? Is it the laws of physics?
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  5886. There was a rather embarrassing example of this misuse of spreadsheets on a nationwide basis back in 2020, when Public Health England was supposed to be keeping track of monthly COVID-19 case numbers. For about three months, they were underreporting numbers without realizing it, because they were trying to import too many rows into an Excel spreadsheet, and it was quietly dropping the excess. There is a whole website dedicated to collecting instances of these sorts of Excel bugs, they are that numerous. And ongoing.
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  5887. I can’t help thinking, the irony of the blow-up-the-lab argument is that conspiracy theorists will likely miss the point. Instead of proving that you get a lot of energy out, they will likely assume that the lab was deliberately blown up by agents sent by the oil companies or something, to ensure that the experiments are stopped.
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  5888. I still have those effects with KDE.
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  5889.  @zordanxxx  The effects are all there. I know, since I’ve been using them since the early days when they were added to KDE 4.
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  5890. I thought the key point about a fuel cell is that it uses reactants that are able to release their energy by combustion—i.e. a fuel and an oxidizer. Only instead of burning, they are made to react in a low(er)-temperature chemical process that turns the released energy directly into electricity. Why is this useful? Because internal-combustion engines have a theoretical limit on their efficiency (Carnot cycle) of about 30% or so. Whereas fuel cells can (theoretically) achieve more than 90% energy-conversion efficiency.
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  5891. 11:53 Mention of methanol I think reinforces my point.
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  5892. Isn’t there a different meaning of “vacuum energy”, manifesting in the form of the Casimir effect?
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  5893. 3:54 Not necessary to declare “grid” global since there are no assignments to that variable.
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  5894. Obama had to face concerted attempts from McConnell downwards to destroy and discredit him. Yet he managed to survive 2 full terms.
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  5895. Lesson for Republicans: don’t mess with people’s voting rights. Their wrath will make you hurt.
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  5896. 6:30 Prophetic.
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  5897.  @deokspatch8458  I didn’t say he was.
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  5898.  @StephensCrazyHour  That wasn’t what he had to retract, though.
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  5899. Trying to minimize the role of Christianity in persecuting scientists does seem to have undergone a revival, does it not.
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  5900. That old Unix half-truth “do one thing and do it well” would never work without all the large pieces on which to build the small ones: the kernel, the shell, glibc, gcc, the X server, systemd and so on.
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  5901. The name dates from UNIX. Linux inherited a lot of old UNIX culture.
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  5902.  @ЧТуХ  Is Putin beckoning you a little too close to that window?
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  5903.  @ЧТуХ  Or is he offering you a snack? Never mind that it seems to glow slightly in the dark, I’m sure it’s very tasty?
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  5904. He is just totally obsessed with what this other journalist said, as though Jake Tapper was speaking for the Government or something.
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  5905. SNOBOL was a language designed for string processing. It could do some pattern-matching, but not quite to the sophistication of full-on regular expressions. (That I recall from descriptions, anyway; I never encountered it myself.)
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  5906. Isn’t Trump’s wall working? Seems that didn’t last long, even after all the billions spent ...
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  5907.  @CyberGizmo  Yes, there are plenty of complaints from Microsoft and Apple users every time their platform owners make UI changes and move things around from familiar places. GUI tweaker addons, including ones to restore older-style “classic” behaviours, are fairly popular on those platforms, the only thing limiting them is, since the platforms are not designed for such customization, such addons tend to make them unstable. There are no such limitations in the Linux world. That’s why we have so much more choice.
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  5908. You would think, if they took more care of minorities and disadvantaged groups, those people would be less keen to vote Democrat. #SimpleLogicReally
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  5909. It’s great for DSLs. What I find a pity is the lack of ability to define entirely new operators: languages like C++ only allow you to overload existing ones. Smalltalk lets you define new operators using one or two characters from a limited set. Algol 68 also allowed defining new operators according to limited rules. At first sight, Python seems no better. But thanks to the use of descriptors, you can give sense to constructs like v1 .cross* .v2 .cross* v3 which are not only syntactically valid, but also make semantic sense.
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  5910. I thought your type made a virtue of going armed? Yet here you are celebrating someone who confronted the Government without a weapon to defend themselves? Is there some moral advantage in not carrying a gun?
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  5911. 10:20 I understand that verdict has now been reversed, and Brontosaurus is considered a real creature once again.
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  5912. Putin needs to do to Prigozhin what Krushchev did to Beria.
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  5913. 9:01 Hang on--nobody starts murdering anybody until Leslie Nielsen and his crew arrive! Prof Walter Pidgeon and daughter Anne Francis were quite happily minding their own business up to that point. How long has it been since you last saw Forbidden Planet , by the way?
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  5914. There was mention of a “scientific team”. And the mission of the C-57D was to look for survivors and interview them. Morbius mentions that all of the team, except he and his wife, succumbed to some “dark, terrible, incomprehensible force” within a short while of arriving. But that was 20 years earlier. And nobody came to investigate then. So there was no suggestion of any spate of “murders”.
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  5915. I thought we were talking about “murder”.
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  5916. Also of note is a music group called the KLF, which keeps making reference to the Illuminati (actually, to the Shea-Wilson novel about them) in its songs. Even the initials “KLF” stand for “Kallisti Liberation Front”. (All hail to the goddess Eris!)
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  5917. 10:01 Sick of ants? Try wasps instead! ... Sorry, where were we?
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  5918. Feel free to go back to wherever you came from.
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  5919.  @djpomare  You sound thoroughly colonized.
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  5920.  @djpomare  Trying to argue that there is some kind of standard “English”. Next you’ll be trying to claim there is some kind of “standard Māori” ...
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  5921. 12:42 Tracking the positions of stars can only give you your orientation, not your position within the Solar System.
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  5922. I can remember when a DMCA takedown was filed against the youtube-dl source code repository on GitHub. That raised a storm of ire, which rapidly led to forks.
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  5923. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  5924. Given that Ukraine’s entire territory bordering Russia is controlled by pro-Russia separatists, I wonder how Kyiv is getting past them to conduct these operations in Russia ...
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  5925. 28:47 Did they have any network/comms engineers at their company? Let me introduce you to this concept known as “random exponential backoff” ...
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  5926. And that 40% is more than enough to ensure he wins by a landslide.
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  5927. As a cryptographer, you would have learned at some point that encryption and digital signatures are two inseparable sides of the same coin.
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  5928.  @MrFair  You are the one who is not understanding basic things about the maths.
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  5929. Notice the general is describing the attack using SI units? That’s not normal USA.
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  5930. 12:30 Watch out for the ionic discharges. Actually no, you need a darkened room to see those.
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  5931. 3:20 I don’t know where you get the idea that quantum computers are going to have better luck at cracking public/private-key encryption than secret-key encryption. Currently they have proven completely useless at doing anything encryption-related, or indeed anything number-theoretic, at all.
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  5932. Quantum computing is based crucially on the assumption that, for a linear increase in processing elements, you can get an exponential increase in processing power. This seems to come from someone taking too seriously the “many-worlds” mumbo-jumbo (mis)interpretation of quantum mechanics. It’s essentially just “something for nothing” snake oil.
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  5933.  @NyanSten  What has worked, exactly? Has a quantum computer actually performed any number-theoretic calculation?
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  5934. 1:13 Actually XML.
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  5935. Tape backups still exist, and are still being developed. The magnetic technologies that allow us to cram more and more data on hard disks can also mostly work for magnetic tapes.
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  5936. YouTube just showed me a 24-minute ad--that’s over three times longer than the video I wanted to watch. Never mind--I just let it play with the tab muted, while I did something else. That way you still get the ad revenue, right?
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  5937. That’s if you assume the info is correct.
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  5938. 3:08 Vapour cone ... carrying your own personal cloud with you.
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  5939. So Slackware has finally adopted PulseAudio ... just in time to see it superseded by PipeWire. Is he going to adopt that? But while PulseAudio does its own process management, PipeWire doesn’t--it leaves that to systemd. So how will he handle that?
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  5940. Mostly. They did manage to copy some AT&T code, which was only removed after a lawsuit.
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  5941. The past was full of history back then.
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  5942. Are you using versions of Windows that allow virtualization in the EULA?
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  5943. 0:44 ... you mean you were only PRETENDING not to know he was there?!? ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌I’m ... İ'm crushed ...
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  5944. I still enjoy the effects in KDE. I was disappointed to discover the Desktop Cube had been removed some months back, apparently because it was written using old, obsolete OpenGL calls, and needed a rework.
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  5945. Vietnam-War-era non-retraction retraction: “That statement is no longer operative.”
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  5946. Stopping the guns being smuggled south would be a good start.
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  5947. What’s Officer Eugene Goodman doing these days? Now there’s a hero worth remembering.
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  5948. Or try a Jupyter notebook. Each cell can have any number of lines of code, and produce any number of items of associated rich output—graphics, charts, sound, video, mathematical formulas, even arbitrary HTML. And interactive widgets to let the user control that cell output. You can intersperse code cells with narrative text cells, so the notebook becomes self-documenting. And you can use languages besides Python, if you want. Where is there a spreadsheet that comes close?
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  5949. Movies are all about drama and neat plot resolutions: the good guys come in and kick the bad guys’ arses, with plenty of consequence-free and suffering-free shootings and explosions along the way, and then the survivors live happily ever after. Real life isn’t like that.
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  5950. Because of course Trump never tried to pack the court with judges leaning one way, was he? He was totally trying to keep things Fair And Balanced™.
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  5951. Surely those people who were let in would have their own videos of that. Anybody you know?
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  5952. That’s what you get with an OS design that is controlled by the Marketing Department.
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  5953. Which seems kind of pointless, given that all the good Linux-based apps offer more direct automation scriptability anyway.
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  5954. I would look for alternatives to the bad ones. The open-source community tends to weed them out anyway.
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  5955. The magic phrase is “lexical binding”. Any language that incorporates this feature automatically gains coolness points. You only lose a few if you do it in clumsy PHP style.
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  5956. Wasn’t Trump’s wall supposed to keep them out? What happened to the billions he spent on it? And when is Mexico going to pay?
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  5957. The only one who got the voice down exactly was Anthony Atamanuik.
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  5958. Has anybody mentioned that the Brits kept the flaw secret, so they could sell Enigma machines to unsuspecting victims other countries after the war?
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  5959. The largest Python project I built using a DBMS was about 15,000 lines. I’ve never used an ORM.
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  5960.  @marcotroster8247  I still don’t see the need for one. I was looking back at the old code, and it still makes sense to me.
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  5961. I have used both together.
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  5962. 3:18 Presumably there are additional checks somewhere to ensure the packet length is sane. Otherwise you could fiddle those first four bytes to some random bizarre values and cause mischief that way. Because remember the MAC at the end has to be found via the packet length, so you can’t verify that until you are sure of the packet length!
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  5963.  @keilafleischbein59  We don’t do the death penalty in civilized countries.
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  5964.  @keilafleischbein59  The civilized world does not agree.
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  5965.  @keilafleischbein59  Fun fact: the population of those countries that have abolished the death penalty is greater than that of the USA.
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  5966.  @keilafleischbein59  If you choose to be out of step with the Free World, then you can’t claim to be leading it, can you?
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  5967.  @keilafleischbein59  We live in multi-party democracies, where every vote counts equally, and those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  5968.  @crazyice2980  Aren’t you admitting that you are no better than they are?
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  5969. Craft Services supply the food. It’s the Art Department that made the dios.
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  5970. China invented the whole concept of rockets.
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  5971. 8:36 Ah, but the Parker Probe is not flying safe now, is it? ;) How many missions get named for a scientist who is still alive? Parker was the one who first hypothesized the existence of the solar wind. Of course, his fellow scientists pooh-poohed his idea at first. Luckily, he pooh-poohed their pooh-pooh, and the rest, as they say, is history.
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  5972. Of course. Then when some Excel jock discovers they can’t use this new feature without knowing Python, they’ll hire you.
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  5973. 1:57 Mike Brown, legendary Pluto-slayer!
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  5974. Unfortunately, it was getting to the point where someone had to speak to him about it. He has tried to do better since then, with mixed results.
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  5975. 6:22 Make it 2 plane crashes a day. The US death rate is back up to about 1000 a day.
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  5976.  @nebiyelleulkiros  Clearly you don’t live in the same part of Georgia. Which I think was the point.
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  5977. So, which is better: ChienGPT or ChiengGPT?
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  5978. 4:24 But you are not supposed to call it a “war”. It’s a “special military operation”.
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  5979. The “industry standard” is Zoom, not Teams.
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  5980. You probably need more like 100” to get the full benefit from UHD.
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  5981. Yeah, almost as bad as their stablemate, Fox News ...
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  5982. Sky News is part of the same stable as US Fox News.
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  5983. Xenix was running multitasking and multiuser on 8086 chips.
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  5984.  @brothermine2292  Where is there a country with a “politically homogeneous” population? Doesn’t exist. Except maybe North Korea.
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  5985.  @brothermine2292  One thing I find with people in the US is they like to come up with excuses why their system is the best.
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  5986.  @brothermine2292  Lots of us are doing it better than you.
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  5987. WireGuard is supposed to be a lot easier to set up than OpenVPN.
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  5988.  @elenalatici9568  “There would no way to keep such a thing a secret.” You mean Hamas’ invasion plans? That is precisely the point.
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  5989.  @joannewilson6577  Technically I suppose that’s true, since even with CIA help, they still didn’t have a clue.
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  5990. 1:40 which century?
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  5991.  @JoeBot21  You “can’t say for certain”, and then proceed to do exactly that. If the core is “more coherent and better integrated”, isn’t that the exact opposite of being fragmented among the different variants, as it is?
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  5992.  @economicprisoner  I’ve come across incomplete man pages, but never one that said that. Could you point me to an example?
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  5993.  @economicprisoner  Just a note that info is part of GNU, and Latex is, well, Latex. Neither are somehow Linux-specific. Do you get a man page for either on your favourite BSD?
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  5994.  @rishirajsaikia1323  What about DragonFly BSD? Seems that started from FreeBSD, but is no longer compatible with it. And this is true of all the other BSD forks. Why do they do this?
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  5995. Vim is to text editors what PHP is to programming languages.
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  5996.  @anon_y_mousse  If you thought that was high praise for PHP ...
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  5997. The rioters, being Trump supporters, were too stupid to even keep their identities a secret.
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  5998.  【u】【b】【u】【n】【t】【u】  Yup, the NRA’s days are numbered. New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed suit to have them disbanded.
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  5999. May have been true of KDE 3.
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  6000.  @No-mq5lw  You’re not thinking of Windows “Fisher-Price” XP, are you?
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  6001. I still think that.
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  6002.  @Spiritof_76  It is possible for the majority of people to be above the arithmetic mean.
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  6003.  @oregonsbragia  I like to laugh with people, rather than at them.
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  6004. They’re pretty highly motivated, given the existence of their nation is at stake. Putin has already made it clear he wants to exterminate their very identity.
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  6005. But I thought living things could not survive the radiation from the Van Allen Belt. So how are the aliens getting to us?
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  6006.  @xoshelbz  Interestingly, none of those ways needs actual spaceships.
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  6007. I like the service template feature. I currently use it to manage multiple OpenVPN connections into my office. Another nice feature is the randomized delay option on timers. So unlike cron where you have a whole bunch of periodic tasks kicking off at the same time and peaking your system resource usage, you can have them automatically spread themselves around a little, evening out the load.
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  6008. What confuses me is the use of the symbol “S” for action. This is also used for entropy, as in the Boltzman equation “S = k log W”. So here you write “∂S = 0”, but I keep thinking of the second law of thermodynamics “ΔS ≥ 0”. You see the similarity, and yet at the same time the conflict, between the two?
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  6009. The very first machine that Evans & Sutherland put out was called the “LDS-1”. Officially it stood for “Line-Drawing System 1”, but given they were based in Utah ...
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  6010. Linux has the highest-performance and most versatile network stack nowadays.
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  6011.  @franklemanschik_de  Windows basically has a copy of the old BSD stack. Linux developed its own.
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  6012. Destiny Church actually went away for a while, because some of the elements involved in the protests were too right-wing-loony even for them.
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  6013. Python is standard on Linux systems, so they shouldn’t have any problem running your Python code. But then, your Python code might in turn depend on other libraries. If they are common enough to be standard packages in the main Linux distros, then fine. Otherwise it all gets a bit complicated.
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  6014. The trouble with Windows-style installers is, what if two different things you want to install have some dependencies in common? Does one overwrite the other? Or do they share? Or do you end up with multiple copies? How do you update them? This is why Linux distros have package managers, to keep track of the dependencies automatically, on a systemwide basis.
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  6015. 0:53 I would say that depends on the precise 9 that you have used. If that list included Java, C#, PHP, FORTRAN and COBOL but not Python, Perl or LISP, for example, then I would say there is a gap in your experience. Programming languages are more different from each other in that way than racecars are. After all, in a Formula One race, there can be only one winner. But in the programming world, many different languages get to flourish.
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  6016. Should two-foot thick logs make that much difference? Unless their moisture content is a bit high ...
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  6017. Will that always be true?
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  6018. Something very odd: you are not allowed to mention Marika Sherwood.
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  6019. 5:47 Will I scare anybody by mentioning at this point that this is the basis of calculations of physical quantities in quantum theory, too?
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  6020. Have you ever seen a Zenith FTM (Flat-Tension Mask) set? That was a CRT with a truly flat screen. I don’t think they were very successful, though.
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  6021. I never used one, but I read reviews which said that, after years of staring at convex CRT screens, the Zenith gave one the illusion of actually being concave. One benefit from being at least vertically flat (both the Sony Trinitrons and the Zenith FTM) was less reflection from overhead lights in an office.
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  6022. It’s 2020, Microsoft. Why are you still tying the GUI into the kernel?
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  6023. That’s nothing ... try a “zip bomb”.
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  6024. Wasn’t Trump’s wall supposed to keep them out? What happened to all the billions he spent on it? And when is Mexico going to pay?
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  6025.  @bsadewitz  Even the fovea is a compromise: increased detail and colour vision (more cones) means less rods, which means less light sensitivity right in the most important part of our visual field. And then there’s the blind spot ...
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  6026.  @bsadewitz  Saccades actually involve turning off your sight in the brain, so you don’t see everything jump around during the eye movement. Each saccade lasts about a quarter of a second, and there is typically one of these per second. You cannot see during a saccade, but you just don’t notice. So for a quarter of your entire waking life, you are blind without realizing it.
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  6027.  @bsadewitz  “Not seeing” = “blind”.
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  6028. 6:28 I have a book on a bookshelf in this room which defines “civilization” as the achievement of all the following: * Urbanization * Division of labour * Metalworking * Writing The first people in the world to manage this were the Sumerians, or possibly their precursors the Ubaidi.
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  6029. 2:36 “Alsho shows” ... ‌‌hic‌‌
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  6030. And here I thought VIM lost to MAPI decades ago ... https://blog.tomevslin.com/2006/01/how_mapi_beat_v.html
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  6031. Putin has this fiendish new strategy: for every week that Ukraine resists, another Russian general dies. What happens when the Ukrainians run out of enemies to fight, hmm? What will they do then? MWAHAHAHAHA!!!
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  6032. 3:48 Are these “enterprise customers” the ones who made the fuss over Paint versus Paint 3D? Or was that more the “consumer” customers?
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  6033. 5:07 One thing you didn’t explain is: what exactly is “lowmem”?
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  6034. 4:26 Being a test flight, the payload was uninsurable. On the flip side, being a test flight, ESA charged nothing for launching it.
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  6035. 2:54 He said “evolution”. But everybody knows that God created all the viruses in that famous passage in Genesis. And there was plenty of room for microbiota to survive the Flood in Noah’s Ark! He had one Petri dish for all the males, and one for all the females.
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  6036.  @comfuse  So feel free to offer an alternative.
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  6037. Think of coroutines as an alternative to callbacks. Maybe you already have an event loop to handle multiple concurrent requests (pretty much mandatory in GUI programs, for example). Say you have a task which requires several steps, with waiting in-between for other tasks to do their part, and you don’t want to block the whole event loop while waiting. The conventional approach would be to break each step into a separate callback. As each callback ends, it queues the asynchronous request which invokes the next callback when done. This makes it harder to follow the logic between the separate steps. Making the task into a coroutine allows you to keep all the steps together in a single linear sequence.
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  6038.  @zacharythatcher7328  Threads are not an alternative to callbacks. Threaded event loops (in fact, threaded everything) were all the rage in the 1990s, until it was realized that they made the code very hard to debug. That’s why we now stick to single-threaded event loops, select(2)/poll(2)/epoll(2) etc. But then, time-consuming tasks required the use of callbacks to maximize responsiveness, until the old technique of coroutines was revived more recently as a way to make such code more readable. This has required language changes, but a lot of languages (Python included) have adopted those changes. What Arjan is using threads for here, and what I have done with them myself, is to turn blocking calls into non-blocking ones. That’s all. Luckily, in POSIX, “blocking” normally means “thread-blocking”, not “process-blocking”. That’s why we can get away with it. Again, it’s all in the cause of maximizing responsiveness, without getting back into the hell of full-on multithreading.
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  6039. Putin will never be able to trust the people of Rostov-on-Don again. But that’s the logistical hub for the Ukraine invasion. So what is he going to do?
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  6040. 5:41 Don’t you have a calculator app on your phone? I can suggest one.
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  6041. Using a language which needs backslashes in its identifiers? There’s your problem right there.
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  6042. 3:39 “Twice a year” ... actually, Microsoft is struggling to maintain that timetable. Witness the “October” update, with those notorious data-corruption bugs, that still hasn’t made it into general availability yet.
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  6043. On Linux!
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  6044. That’s not what happens in NZ.
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  6045. Buy one of his pillows, and you’ll get 60% off a good night’s sleep.
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  6046. Aren’t you glad Fox News is not “media”?
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  6047. “Democracy is the worst system in the world ... apart from all the others.” -- Winston Churchill
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  6048. That reminds me that there is one form of fusion that our Dr Hossenfelder doesn’t seem to have mentioned, and that is the Farnsworth Fusor. It was accidentally discovered by American inventor Philo T Farnsworth in the process of his pioneering experiments in making colour TV, when he found out that under certain conditions his apparatus was giving off neutrons. I first heard about this some years ago, when a British schoolboy used this technique to break the world record for the youngest person ever to achieve nuclear fusion. I think they evacuated the whole school during his attempt. (Of course it had to be done in careful coordination with the school authorities...) Again, the energy you get out is way, way less than what you put in. But the whole apparatus is small enough, and the power consumption small enough, that you can conduct the whole experiment on a school laboratory benchtop.
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  6049. Yup, that’s the right way to think of it. Say you have a function which evaluates a cubic Bézier curve through given control points p₀, p₁, p₂, p₃ at a point given by a parameter t. Instead of expressing it all as a single function p ← B(p₀, p₁, p₂, p₃, t) you split the function call into two stages p ← B(p₀, p₁, p₂, p₃)(t) so you specialize it once for particular control points B’ ← B(p₀, p₁, p₂, p₃) and then the specialized function can be evaluated repeatedly for the specified parameter values p ← B’(t)
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  6050. I think they’re including Catholicism under that.
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  6051. 4:51 The C category permits non-Free JavaScript, so long as it is not essential for the site to function. The B category prohibits this altogether.
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  6052. Try Dodoid’s channel. Did this years ago.
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  6053. Piston-engined prop planes commonly have variable-pitch propellors, which is equivalent to having a gearbox.
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  6054. Yes, you can compare them. The laws of physics are the same, after all.
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  6055. Unfortunately, Apple’s trashcan design was ... well ... rubbish. Impossible to upgrade in any meaningful way. That’s why it was abandoned.
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  6056. 3:34 Ha! He used “procedural” as a synonym for “imperative”, not (as is the fashion among some hipsters) as an antonym for “object-oriented”. Object-orientation tends to be mostly procedural, after all.
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  6057. Peak USA would have been something like the Marshall Plan, and the Moon landings. And now we have large parts of the US population who have forgotten one and no longer believe in the other.
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  6058. Why do you think Fox News has never been able to get into that coveted club of being “mainstream”?
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  6059. Considering that China is one of the countries showing leadership in how to deal with this crisis right now, while places like Australia and the US sink deeper and deeper into the mire, this just smacks of scapegoating.
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  6060.  @brothermaynard3200  I don’t have to believe what they say, I just have to look at what they are doing in helping the rest of the world right now, as they crank up their manufacturing capacity for essential medical items. Meanwhile, the US just wants to hog all the supplies it can get for itself.
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  6061. Yeah, letting people from Covid-ridden USA escape to less disease-prone countries ought to be a crime against humanity.
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  6062.  @theresasmith3540  Biden already has the situation well in hand. Unlike the former guy.
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  6063. Welcome to the Bank of Woke, led by our esteemed President Wokey McWokeFace, with branches in Wokington, Wokeville and Wokeland. Don’t Be Broke, Be Woke!
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  6064. It runs a full Linux development/deployment stack.
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  6065. Because that represents a massive hit to revenue--oh wait, it doesn’t.
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  6066. Biden has had his chance. He has already worked as many hours as Trump managed during his entire term, and what has he got to show for it? Still over 400,000 dead. When is that going to change? TIME TO IMPEACH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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  6067. It has some other interesting features that one might consider “emerging almost by accident”. Such as the Grease Pencil functionality for combining 2D and 3D animation styles. Look at the work of Dédouze for some examples.
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  6068. I like crust. And I like the regular pieces. It’s the in-between pieces that I’m not fond of.
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  6069. Meanwhile, foiks in Puerto Rico are going “Helloooo ... need some help over here? Anybody?”
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  6070. 3:10 Subtly wrong answer. The length of a string is measured in code points, not characters. Don’t believe me? Try this: from unicodedata import normalize s = "naïve" s1 = normalize("NFC", s) s2 = normalize("NFD", s) print(s1, s2, len(s1), len(s2)) Output: naïve naïve 5 6
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  6071. 5:12 Those f-numbers are the denominator in a fraction of the lens focal length (which is what the “f” stands for). So higher denominators means the fraction is actually smaller: e.g. f/2.8 is less than f/1.4.
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  6072. I wonder whether Hamas can use that “human shields” argument against Israel as well?
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  6073. 7:55 If it’s a pesticide, how come it didn’t kill him? Badum-tish!
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  6074.  @ericp1139  Given that they haven’t been able to grab any more, I would say yes.
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  6075.  @ericp1139  Well, if you count losing land to Ukraine as “impressive gains” ... are you standing very close to any upper-floor windows?
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  6076.  @ericp1139  They’ve gained back similar territory in 5 weeks that it took Russia 5 months to capture. And Prigozhin took more territory in one day in his march to Moscow than the Russia had managed to take in the prior 8 months of war. Would you like a cup of tea? It doesn’t taste funny, honest.
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  6077.  @ericp1139  I’m sure they’ll move you further away from the window for that. Still, speaking of apples, I’d watch out for those, too.
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  6078.  @ericp1139  You haven’t noticed the mysterious accidents befalling certain people in Russia All-American Kansas lately?
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  6079. One question I don’t see addressed is: why Nginx and not Apache? Apache was around before Nginx, and can do much the same things; why is the new guy preferable?
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  6080. You could have that again, if you only had the discipline to pay attention to the science.
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  6081. YouTube is PHP-free!? That might explain a few things ...
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  6082. What she calls “proper time” is what I learned to call “interval” (Lorentzian distance). The “interval” between two points on the path of the same light beam is always zero.
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  6083. The *nix shadow file does exactly that -- the password hash begins with a prefix indicating which algorithm was used.
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  6084. 2:45 Jeremy Clarkson is apparently coming to the defence of Piers Morgan.
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  6085. Somebody described him as “the bald guy with the long hair”.
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  6086. How’s that naked power grab going? Not doing too well, is it? The people have been aroused to action, and they will not be placated by meaningless gestures.
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  6087. 9:51 In other words, you are likely to get native versions of open-source apps like GIMP and Inkscape before Adobe!
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  6088. 1:42 Unfortunately, functions can either be first-class, or be named, but they cannot be both.
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  6089. Just reporting what he’s actually saying.
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  6090. If you care about security, you will use proper encryption.
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  6091. Still, such structures would be large enough to be detectable across astronomical distances. They would be consuming a significant fraction of the energy from their stars, after all.
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  6092.  @NaviciaAbbot  You don’t get the trademark without paying the licence fee. Apple paid the fee for its OS, not for any open-source projects.
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  6093. Just to be clear, there is no “Unix itself”. Trademarks are meant to be used as adjectives, not nouns.
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  6094. Would have been a good expiry date ...
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  6095. Apart from the all the Asians involved, I guess ...
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  6096. It would have fired its thrusters during perihelion.
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  6097. Is electricity not “physical”?
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  6098. But “semantics” means “meaning”. So if you want to ignore the meaning, then why are you saying anything at all?
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  6099. So what does your supposed “audience” classify electricity as, if not “physical”, then? Is it something “spiritual”, perhaps? I’m trying to think non-semantically here, as you suggest.
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  6100. Did the Emacs you write have a LISP core? Emacs without Elisp seems ... incomplete.
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  6101.  @BobFrTube  I had fun with TECO, back in the day. That’s where Emacs gets the odd choice of CTRL/G for cancelling input. Did your LISP have lexical binding and token-based macros? It’s not really LISP otherwise. ;)
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  6102. 5:00 Is quantum theory not compatible with the second law of thermodynamics?
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  6103. But Ethernet was.
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  6104. I don’t really understand all this nonsense. It’s long been a tradition among many European cultures to blacken their faces for ceremonial reasons, just as it’s long been a tradition among many African cultures to whiten their faces for similar reasons. And look at the range of lurid facial colourings used in traditional Chinese opera, just as a further example. In all these cases, it’s to create a contrast with their normal skin colour. Why all the fuss about this nowadays?
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  6105. 1:57 Back in the 1920s, a “computer” was a person who did computation. So the idea of building a machine that could do the work of ten or a hundred or whatever human “computers” would naturally be called a “supercomputer”.
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  6106. 5:05 Beagle captain and also later a Governor of New Zealand. Which is we we have streets in various towns named after him.
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  6107. Human beings are notorious for picking “random” numbers that have patterns in them. There is a Numberphile video where a mathematician makes a bet that the guy making the video cannot pick truly random numbers, and cleans him out.
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  6108. Like all good reference material, it is not to be read in one sitting. It is something you come back to, from time to time. And each time, you learn something new. That being said, I still can’t quite get my head around filtergraphs ...
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  6109. 0:55 Hang on ... wouldn’t that violate conservation of momentum? These are entirely internal reaction wheels, after all, not rockets emitting exhaust.
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  6110. You mean like hammers that hit the ground? No, their reaction wheels are entirely internal.
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  6111. Won’t work. Try it and see. Action + Reaction = 0, remember.
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  6112.  @CitizensBriefing  That’s their job. You do know they’re not claiming to be journalists, right? The fact that comedians get taken more seriously than your journalists is not the fault of the comedians, it’s the fault of the journalists.
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  6113. 2:40 Shouldn’t that be “explosion hypocentre”? “Epicentre” is a term from seismology, where the energy-release event happens underground; here it happens high above ground.
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  6114. Yeah, but monads are only needed for functional programming, which nobody in their right mind would use for anything important.
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  6115. Most Excel spreadsheets tend to have undetected bugs somewhere in them. The UK body tasked with keeping track of COVID-19 infections was underreporting numbers for three months, until somebody discovered that Excel was quietly dropping rows from the imported data because there were too many of them. Excel should be banned from professional-quality data-analysis work.
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  6116. 0:15 >>> import math >>> print(math.isnan(math.inf)) False Python seems to disagree with the notion that infinity is not a number.
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  6117. Doing bulk copies to/from a file server will likely be very slow. A faster way would be to shut down the Windows server and boot it up with a Linux distro like SystemRescue, so that one end of rsync can run on that and access the files as a local volume.
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  6118. What happened to the last person in the US to pull a gun on a representative of the Government? He was shot and killed. How do I know? Because it happens several times a day, every day. The pea-shooters the US Government allows private citizens to have are really only good for massacring other private citizens, not for making a dent against the Government.
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  6119. So whose side are the corporates on -- yours or theirs? Weren’t you trying to claim that Biden’s stimulus cheques were somehow benefiting corporates?
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  6120. 5:31 I think that’s pronounced to rhyme with “pachyderm”. Presumably a portmanteau of “hacky” and that word.
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  6121. The US system is such a terrible one compared to the Parliamentary system. Compare the system in Germany, just for example. Why Germany? Because their system of proportional representation was brought in by the Allies after WWII to ensure that a dictator could never gain power there again. The US had a hand in this, yet it bears no resemblance whatsoever to the US political system. Yes, it works for Germany. It works so well that we here in NZ adopted something very close to it as well. Do you think maybe the US itself should give it a try?
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  6122. BCPL was really a kind of interim bootstrap language for implementing CPL (either “Combined Programming Language” or “Cambridge Plus London”, named for the two universities collaborating on the spec while each producing their own compiler). I can find very little detail online about the actual features of CPL. Think of it as an all-singing, all-dancing 1960s kitchen-sink programming language that would have gone up against PL/I, except with some slightly more advanced computer-science concepts behind it.
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  6123. It’s very bizarre to think that, to this particular group in 🇺🇸, much of the rest of the world would be classified as “Radical Left”. Never mind. We are what we are, and we apologize to nobody for it. Love from 🇳🇿, yet another of those secular socialist godless atheist democracies that these people hate.
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  6124. Emacs is an editor, not an IDE. IDEs tie you to a particular build system, whereas an editor will work with any build system. As IDEs come and go, you have to learn new ways of editing as well as new ways of building your projects. Emacs has been around for half a century, and has already outlasted countless IDEs.
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  6125. Hey, we found an antiliberal! How’s it going for you? Having fun watching your best and brightest implode? Are you for Trump or against him? (We didn’t need to ask that before, but now we do.)
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  6126. Were those before or after “Get Smart”?
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  6127. 0:23 Positive integer ℤ⁺. Aka a natural number ℕ.
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  6128. The largest city in Nigeria just called. They would like ... actually, they have no idea why they called. Never mind.
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  6129. Updating an archive in-place just doesn’t seem that useful any more. I don’t use archives for backups, I use them for distributing files to others. So being able to create an entire archive and extract one in its entirety are quite good enough for that. GNU tar doesn’t bother individually compressing archive members, it just puts the entire archive through your choice of compressor. I see it includes zstd now. Doing the whole archive at once also probably gives you better compression.
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  6130.  @skilletpan5674  As far as I’m concerned, no “serious backup software” uses anything other than straight file copies. Because when it comes time to do a restore, that’s going to be a time of crisis, when mistakes could easily make a bad situation worse. So it helps if that could be done using the same ordinary, familiar file-manipulation commands you use every day. That’s why I build my backup systems on top of rsync, with its robust file-copying engine with built-in deduping facilities. So the issue of archive formats is irrelevant here.
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  6131.  @skilletpan5674  Not sure what you mean by a “raw” format. rsync just does straight file copies, so restoration is just a matter of using the same ordinary, familiar file-manipulation commands you use every day. Compression requires decompression, which is an extra complication you don’t need at times of crisis.
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  6132.  @skilletpan5674  You don’t seem to understand how things are done. You seem to believe that all these features must be part of some brand-name backup product. I pity those who put their trust in brand names. Also note I said nothing about RAID. Next-generation filesystems themselves include data-integrity checks as a matter of course. But it’s not hard to use off-the-shelf tools to provide additional hashes and even digital signatures if you want attestable integrity on top of that. These are all standard components of a Linux distribution.
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  6133.  @skilletpan5674  I was talking about backups right from my first comment, and I do exactly that in rsync. I set up a system for one client where important user files would be backed up three times a day to another machine, using rsync, keeping about the last fourteen days’ worth of backups. (This was in addition to a longer-term tape-based backup provided by centralized IT services.) I used the --link-dest option to do deduping of unchanged files from prior backups. This way, even though each backup was done incrementally, the result looked just like a full backup for restoration purposes. The script was only about 250 lines of Python code.
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  6134.  @skilletpan5674  Well, at the time, it was only about a hundred gigabytes or so in total, with a few gigabytes of new/changed data per day. So yeah, only “small amounts”.
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  6135.  @IkarusKommt  Because tapes could hold orders of magnitude more data than disks. With modern QIC formats, even with today’s multi-terabyte disks, that might still be true.
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  6136. Windows-on-ARM is a complete trainwreck. And now ARM is losing ground to RISC-V. Are you expecting Windows-on-RISC-V? Forget it.
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  6137. “Innocent until proven guilty” applies to private citizens going about their private business. When you are elected to a position of power and responsibility over others, it becomes (or should become) up to you to prove you are squeaky clean to be morally worthy of the role.
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  6138. “Lorem ipsum” is the traditional text. But how about “Corporate ipsum”, e.g. Professionally whiteboard market positioning sprints. Enthusiastically embrace long-term high-impact vortals, then proactively harness ubiquitous technologies, to credibly extend disaggregated manufactured products, to uniquely exploit content-free ideas. Conveniently scale plug-and-play services, then energistically evolve fully tested epicentres of excellence, then enthusiastically evolve premium innovation, then enthusiastically initiate 24/365 clouds, and progressively e-enable high-quality e-commerce. Appropriately benchmark long-term high-impact infrastructures, to rapidiously impact resource-sucking leadership skills, to continually drive open-source human capital, then fungibly scale innovative strategic theme areas. Holisticly promote backward-compatible portals.
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  6139. There are some in Russia who remember the time of Stalin fondly. Ask Ukrainians what they think of Stalin, and they will likely answer with one word: “Holodomor”.
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  6140. 9:49 Of course these current storage sizes are OK for a Linux install, but you’re still not going to get a proper Windows install in there.
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  6141. Chromebooks have been selling well for years. The local shops are full of them.
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  6142. Having free-market competition in your country would be good for this sort of thing.
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  6143. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was fond of pointing out at one point that NASA gets something like half a cent out of each 🇺🇸 federal tax dollar. If that were doubled, to just one cent, it could achieve so much more.
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  6144. Thought: wouldn’t it be neat if you could get the “raw” RGB+infrared data from the scanner? Then you could apply a software-based equivalent of Digital ICE to the image on a PC, that you could interactively tweak by hand (e.g. apply only to certain areas) for the best results, rather than having the scanner do an automatic, not so smart, one-size-fits-all job.
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  6145. 8:57 Reminds me of the line from The Goon Show : “As I swam ashore, I dried myself to save time”. Well, it makes just as much sense ...
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  6146. 13:18 Actually I think the sunlight itself exerts more pressure than the solar wind does.
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  6147. I’m sure they could manage the logic of Pacman just fine. They just couldn’t do the graphical display.
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  6148. Maybe Biden’s achievements with the midterms are a sign that some semblance of sanity might be returning to US politics.
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  6149. People are not willing to pay for an OS. This is why Windows profits are declining, even as the code itself gets more and more complicated and expensive for Microsoft to maintain. This is why you see them cutting corners on QA and putting in more and more intrusive ads. The whole Windows business model is dying. WSL2 has introduced a Linux kernel into the Windows installation. The path of least resistance would be to make that mandatory, and rely on it more and more for drivers, network stacks, filesystems and other low-level stuff. Then the antiquated Windows kernel itself can just wither away, until nothing is left but a GUI layer on top of Linux.
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  6150. “Gun safety” is an oxymoron. To see this, just look at that gun-toting chief clown of that “Oathkeepers” group with his eye-patch -- shot himself in the face while playing with a gun, and he’s still a gun nut!
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  6151.  @gerri577  Saying one thing and doing another is described by a different word.
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  6152. 11:51 "Six-million-dollar-man” ... what?
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  6153. Quote: C grade: “any such code used by an important site function either (1) is free software ... or (2) isn't necessary, so that the function works properly even if JavaScript is disabled in the browser.” B grade: “All code sent to the user's browser must be free software”. Note the “all”. Seems pretty clear; the non-Free JavaScript must be optional at level C, and is not allowed at all at level B.
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  6154. It’s a massive one.
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  6155. I learned it from a book called “The Compleat Cybernaut”. The bio said the author was working in some city (might have been Liverpool) as a blacksmith. She must have led an interesting life ... I devoured that book over a weekend. But in those days, I had no access to an actual computer -- not for another three years.
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  6156. What, no mention of The Day The Earth Stood Still ? (The original 1951 version, of course). The first SF movie where the aliens were not the bad guys, and the giant robot turns out to be a cop?
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  6157. There is a potential issue where you add commits to your copy of a branch, and then try to push it to a common server, and that fails because somebody else has already pushed their own commits onto the head of that same branch.
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  6158. 6:00 I notice that in the Debian repo there are separate packages for “libfuse2” and “libfuse3-3”. Typically this happens because of incompatible ABI changes. Otherwise you should be able to upgrade to a newer version of a package with the same name, and existing code dependent on that should just keep on working. Consider that the transition from “libc5” to “libc6” happened about 2 decades ago, and even with all the new stuff that has gone into GNU libc since then, there is still no “libc7”, and it could be there will never be. That’s because they found ways to keep all the changes so far backward-compatible.
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  6159.  @arinahomuleba4165  I have done, successfully, with Emacs.
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  6160. “On top of the operating system is the rest of the system software. Here we find the command interpreter (shell), window systems, compilers, editors, and similar application-independent programs. It is important to realize that these programs are definitely not part of the operating system, even though they are typically supplied preinstalled by the computer manufacturer, or in a package with the operating system if it is installed after purchase. This is a crucial, but subtle, point. The operating system is (usually) that portion of the software that runs in kernel mode or supervisor mode. It is protected from user tampering by the hardware ...” -- Tanenbaum & Woodhull, “Operating Systems Design And Implementation”, third edition, page 3 That is the well-known “MINIX Book”, by the way. So you see, by that definition, Linux is very definitely an ”operating system”.
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  6161. 19:01 Five Presidential impressions in a row! 👏🏆💯
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  6162. It’s a delaying tactic, of course.
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  6163. If people won’t pay for Windows, how is Microsoft supposed to recoup its investment?
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  6164. If you were doing dumb things, you didn’t need smart processors like ARM. Apple didn’t pioneer using ARM chips for high-performance uses: look at the Top 500 supercomputer list, and you will see more than one ARM-based machine at the top end.
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  6165. There are different kinds of asteroids out there. They aren’t all made out of the same kind of rock.
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  6166. That group is just one of the ways of controlling access to sudo.
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  6167. The amusing thing to me is that many of the same conspiracy theorists who believe the Moon landings were faked also believe that an alien spacecraft landed at Roswell. Now, honestly, if the 🇺🇸 Government has access to alien technology that is capable of spanning the light-years, do you think they would find it much of a challenge to take a few people to a little rock that is just a hop, skip and jump away from Earth?
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  6168. You would store the structure that the binary data represented.
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  6169.  @sharpfang  Encode the chunks.
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  6170.  @sharpfang  Represent the entire structure of the file as JSON structure.
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  6171.  @sharpfang  Luckily, that’s not an issue with PNG.
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  6172. You didn’t know why he was wearing a false moustache? Because he couldn’t afford a real one.
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  6173. This incarnation of ARM Windows will be just as successful as every one of Microsoft’s past attempts to run Windows on non-x86 architectures. That means it will disappear without trace.
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  6174. 23:00 It’s not a Windows phone. Phones did not run Windows, they ran Windows Phone. So it’s a Windows Phone phone.
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  6175. How about a recursive generator? Here’s one that yields all permutations of a given sequence: def permute(seq) : "generator which yields successive permutations of the elements of seq." if len(seq) == 0 : yield () else : for i in range(0, len(seq)) : for rest in permute(seq[:i] + seq[i + 1:]) : yield (seq[i],) + rest ♯end for ♯end for ♯end if ♯end permute Example use: >>> list(permute(("pears", "oranges", "feijoas"))) [('pears', 'oranges', 'feijoas'), ('pears', 'feijoas', 'oranges'), ('oranges', 'pears', 'feijoas'), ('oranges', 'feijoas', 'pears'), ('feijoas', 'pears', 'oranges'), ('feijoas', 'oranges', 'pears')]
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  6176.  @AnastasisGrammenos  Yes, but none of that could “accidentally” be generated by server-side output.
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  6177. Stopping the guns being smuggled south would be a good start.
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  6178. 9:37 I remember VideoWorks, as powerful as it was, was not taken seriously in its early days. Then, MacroMind doubled the price, renamed the product to “Director”, and suddenly it was seen as a professional-quality animation tool.
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  6179. How about “The Book Of Lists”.
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  6180. Did the people who named it the “Salt Sea” also say it was full of “Wet Water”?
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  6181. 3:09 A large Registry on its own shouldn’t slow things down. You said it yourself, it’s supposed to be a “database”. That means it has efficient lookup mechanisms that scale well to large amounts of data. It should have indexes which give access directly to the desired records, skipping over the irrelevant stuff. Does Microsoft actually implement things that way? After a quarter century since the introduction of Windows NT, do you think it has finally figured out how to do fast database lookups? Answers on a postcard, please...
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  6182. I always saw World War II as trying to clean up the mess left by World War I. The Allies contributed to the conditions in Germany that led to the rise of Hitler. Then they turned a blind eye to his slaughtering of his own people, because he was anti-Communist. It was only when he started invading other countries that it became too much. While the US Congress was against getting involved in the new war, FDR was all in favour of it. He just had to find a way to maneouvre the country into it. He and Churchill were in regular communication about how to achieve this. If you remember, Joseph Kennedy (father of JFK, RFK et al ) was the US ambassador to the UK at the time, and he was practically a Nazi sympathizer, seeing the UK as a lost cause. Churchill and Roosevelt completely bypassed him, using a Canadian undercover agent by the name of William Stephenson (code-name “Intrepid”) as their go-between.
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  6183. zstd is the new compression hawtness.
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  6184. Yeah, but you could only be sure the ping time was low if you didn’t measure it.
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  6185. Because godless atheist socialist science is a lapdog of the radical left, don’t you know.
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  6186. 1:23 Look at the grin on her face.
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  6187. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  6188. 2:52 I think the CDC is still suffering a bad case of PTSD: Post-Trump Suppression Disorder.
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  6189. What I’m wondering is, will Twitter continue to give him special treatment after he’s no longer President?
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  6190. 6:20 Not just collisions, but they will also attract each other, won’t they. An N-body problem with a very large N!
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  6191. IBM had a whole lot of different, completely incompatible machine architectures. AS/400 was a descendant of the System/38 line, which had an entirely different instruction set from the System 360/370/3090/zSeries line. System/38 had some unusual ideas, like I think the filesystem was structured like a database.
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  6192. There isn’t one. No matter how high the reliability, even if 99% go off immediately, just 1% left undetonated means hundreds, thousands of the things left behind to kill and maim civilians for years, decades after the war is over.
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  6193. These days, BSD is copying things from Linux. Like WireGuard, for example.
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  6194. If 🇺🇸 ever comes up against an enemy where the different service branches respect each other instead of seeing each other as inferior rivals, you will be toast.
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  6195. That’s a lot of code to do something so simple. Try this: import functools, operator for i in range(11) : print("%d! = %d" % (i, functools.reduce(operator.mul, range(1, i + 1), 1)))
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  6196. 2:55 Actually that should be “equinox”, not “solstice”.
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  6197.  @grmpEqweer  That is right. Logical reasoning does nothing to sway conclusions reached by the more emotional, more animal parts of the brain, since it happens in an entirely different part. You don’t have one brain, you have several brains, all vying for supremacy.
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  6198.  @grmpEqweer  Yeah.
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  6199. And it’s his fault that Microsoft Windows still has antiquated drive letters, even today.
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  6200. And it’s his fault that Microsoft Windows still has antiquated drive letters, even today.
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  6201. 1:07 The command ls -d ~/.[!.]* | wc -l reports that I currently have 220 of these.
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  6202. If Trump won in 2020, then he’s not eligible to run again in 2024, is he?
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  6203.  @Riclmnopp  If you assault a cop, you get hit even harder.
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  6204. Most of those mass shooters got their weapons legally.
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  6205. A distributed phone book that your phone knows how to look up, so you don’t have to. And that is maintained automatically by the network itself, so you don’t have to.
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  6206. I like this one: “Trump 2020 -- it’s not a slogan, it’s an expiry date!”
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  6207. Nowadays, an important contribution to your CV can come from building up an online reputation. Maintain an account on GitHub/GitLab. Publish a few projects of your own. Contribute to a few projects of other people’s. Get your name into the Git commit history of something well-known. All this adds up.
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  6208. No, I do not copy/paste code from StackOverflow. In fact, it’s quite rare that I learn anything useful there https://github.com/ldo/scan_disks/blob/master/scan_disks .
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  6209. It’s against US law for us furriners to try to influence their election. Fun fact.
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  6210.  @randomness8819  There was a wise man who lived a long time ago, and left us many lessons worth following. One of them was “the gods help those who help themselves”. He seems to be a bit out of fashion these days. His name was Aesop.
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  6211.  @randomness8819  No “blasphemy”, just fact. He was a real person, you know.
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  6212. And that no person in their right mind would take him seriously. Tacitly admitting that their own audience are not in their right mind ...
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  6213. I wonder when he’s going to present that long-awaited “evidence” he claims to have, of electoral fraud? He’s like Linus promising the coming of the Great Pumpkin: maybe this year, maybe this year, maybe this year ...
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  6214. And somehow Israel and the US had no idea any of this was coming. Or did they?
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  6215. Try using negative numbers. Unless you think maths is part of the Great Radical-Left Liberal Hoax.
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  6216. Yup. https://vimeo.com/143551882
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  6217. How much rebuilding did the MLPs have to undergo after launches? All those rocket flames must take their toll.
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  6218. See 12:22
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  6219. All keys involving A except the one for initially communicating with S would have to be short-term, generated on the fly.
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  6220. That’s part of the setup of B.
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  6221. All keys not involving A would be long-term.
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  6222. Not quite $100,000 per launch. Going up against improvised weaponry essentially put together on a shoestring in Palestinian back yards.
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  6223.  @travisporco  Israel wouldn’t last 10 minutes without ongoing US military help. If the US were to exert the slightest bit of leverage, just the slightest hint of questions about this ongoing repression of Palestinians, they could very quickly bring Israel to the negotiating table.
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  6224. The concept of relational databases arose from the mathematics of data relations. Remember what came before: there “hierarchical” databases (e.g. IBM’s IMS) and “network” databases, a.k.a. the CODASYL model (which some are now trying to revive in the form of “graph” databases). Both of these were very much tied up with on-disk structures and explicit indexing and linking and all the rest of it. So any changes to your database structures, even just wanting to optimize things a little, required changes to your code. Relational databases abstracted away from all these implementation issues, and helped a lot with decoupling code from low-level on-disk structures.
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  6225. 13-minute ad for a 9-minute item?!?
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  6226. Would you trust mission-critical business functions to an OS that can only handle 26 drive letters?
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  6227. Windows still has that limit.
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  6228. But none of the software will recognize it.
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  6229. Here’s an example of where it falls down: a piece of software wants to install into the C: drive. You try to set up a mount point to use additional space on another volume, and tell the installer to put its stuff there. But the installer only checks for free space at the top level of C:, decides there isn’t enough, and the installation fails. This kind of rubbish is sadly all too common in the Windows world.
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  6230. 1:28 I’m sure there’s a way to write an auto-reconnection script. How much of a Linux geek are you? 🐧
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  6231. Not a chance. The Government has more weaponry than you. Shoot at them, and they will have every moral right to shoot back, and nobody will complain about your “rights” being violated.
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  6232.  @Halal_Dan  Nevertheless, you don’t stand a chance against them. Because you have no idea how to fight like dirt farmers in Afghanistan. Or Vietnam, for that matter.
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  6233. Remember what Stephen Colbert said about the truth having a liberal bias? It sounds ridiculous when you say it out loud, but that effectively is how antiliberal ideology works.
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  6234. 24:53 In 4D, an axis of rotation is actually a plane. Each of the mutually-perpendicular circles lies in the plane of the axis of rotation of the other.
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  6235. If an unborn foetus is a human being, why not grant it citizenship?
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  6236. 1:06 If the format can be decoded by open-source software (e.g. dcraw), then yes, I think the odds are high it will still be accessible 22 years from now.
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  6237. 2:39 Fun fact: the President of North Korea is Kim Il-Sung. Yup, he died decades ago, but nobody else has been considered worthy of the title.
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  6238. One common idiom is feeding a list of files from find to some other command using xargs: find «criteria» -print | xargs «cmd» When feeding file names to another shell command, beware of shell-specials, for example spaces in filenames. Don’t forget you can also have newlines in filenames. The GNU versions of find and xargs have the option to use nulls as pathname separators, which avoids this problem: find «criteria» -print0 | xargs -0 «cmd»
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  6239. Same here. put the application logic in the application language, not the DBMS.
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  6240. He never gets any good viewer comments, either.
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  6241. 3:42 That was true of one of my major clients back when I was still a Linux noob, too. They were running SuSE across their main departmental machines, so that’s what I put on my home box. Then later we decided that Debian was a better choice for servers. But Debian “stable”, while rock-solid for production use by my clients, was just too boring for my tastes. So I decided to configure my personal installation to use the “testing” repositories. Only, due to a slight slipup, I ended up on “unstable” instead. And that’s where I’ve been ever since. (There were also dalliances with Gentoo and Mandrake along the way. But I won’t bore you with those...)
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  6242. 13:03 This is what happens when you have a an OCD presenter catering to an OCD audience. It’s hell in there, I tell you ...
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  6243.  @RealCadde  But even English uses diacritics. For example, “resumé” versus “resume”.
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  6244.  @JanBruunAndersen  Be careful, though. Those sorts of things can be localization-dependent, which is not what we want here.
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  6245. 3:27 Notice we have both “find_elements_by_class_name” and “find_element_by_class_name”. I suspect what you said earlier about only finding the first instance of an element with a specified class applies to the latter call, not to the former; the former one would let you iterate through them all.
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  6246. Suddenly your side is not with the anti-vaxxers any more?
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  6247. If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat.
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  6248. 15:09 There were some vendors that pushed the envelope even further, with 90-minute discs, at least. But the reliability fell off at that point, so things finally stabilized back at 80 minutes.
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  6249. Ah, somebody else who doesn’t understand the difference between a constructive tool and a destructive weapon. What is Free Software good for? Lots of things. It lets you do online banking securely. It lets you create artworks for others to enjoy. It lets you keep track of your business accounts, so you can earn money to feed your loved ones and put a roof over their heads. It provides powerful analysis tools that let you study scientific data and make the world a better place for all humankind. What is a gun good for? It has only one function: blowing holes in things (and people). When it is causing injury, destruction and death, it is only working as designed. What have the two got in common? Nothing. DO NOT USE “FREEDOM” AS AN EXCUSE FOR BRANDISHING DANGEROUS WEAPONRY IN PUBLIC!
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  6250. 15:53 One drawback you may find with tab completion is that some distros, trying to be helpful, define all kinds of rules about what filename extensions are to be permitted in completions for various commands. I find these rules are frequently buggy, and disallow completions that I find perfectly legitimate and that I want to use. So to get rid of all of them, I use the Bash command “complete -r”.
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  6251. Legally speaking macOS is Unix, but practically speaking it’s not.
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  6252. 4:22 But ... but that would be ... DEMOCRATIC! Can’t have that in the USA, can you?
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  6253. They should have replied “science has the power of prophesy”. They have the orbits of the angels all precomputed.
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  6254. Technically, if Trump claims he is still the President, then he won’t be eligible to run again in 2024.
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  6255. The Kevin McCarthy circus is playing out, too.
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  6256. These books are not “pirated”, they are cheap editions put out by the publishers on condition that they are only made available in certain “third-world” markets. There is nothing illegal about reselling them elsewhere.
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  6257.  @edwarddejong8025  You visited there. How wonderful. I lived in Southeast Asia.
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  6258.  @edwarddejong8025  I have seen the kinds of tricks publishers pull, from a viewpoint that maybe you have not. I know what “IP” means to them. It means profit, and more profit.
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  6259. I wonder if she’s found out about the Menendez brothers yet ...
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  6260. 1:54 I’m shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that meteorites have been impacting here. — Your nodules, Captain. — Thank you.
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  6261. She is a product of 🇳🇿 society, just as Donald Trump is a product of 🇺🇸 society.
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  6262. Ssssss!!! You and your National Firearms Agreement! #GunLawsThatActuallyWork
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  6263. When you build it, you get man pages as well.
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  6264.  @OcteractSG  That’s the story I don’t believe.
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  6265. Interesting that some features of PipeWire are only available with systemd.
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  6266. Funny how it’s always the Republican Presidents who run up the record deficits.
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  6267. Xerox your lunch and file it under "sex offenders"!
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  6268. This guy is a disgrace to the Kennedy name.
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  6269. Because that’s the Government’s job.
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  6270. All they can do now is respond like preschool children: “I know you are but what am I?”
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  6271. Yes you can, but you will run into precision and stability problems. I remember going to a talk by a visiting lecturer, not long after the Hubble Space Telescope went up. If you remember, there was a mistake in the grinding of the mirror, which meant that the pictures were of lower resolution than originally expected. This guy explained how they came up with a mathematical model of the lens imperfection, and developed an inverse transformation to improve the quality of the images. They were achieving some quite respectable results. A later Shuttle mission took out one of the modules and replaced it with COSTAR, which fixed the optics to compensate for the mirror problem.
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  6272. But those diggers spend more time digging than moving. The main job of this thing involves moving.
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  6273. I don’t think Putin himself will accept any peace treaty. He will have to be taken outside for a quick bullet to the head, then somebody else a bit more rational makes peace with 🇺🇦 on 🇷🇺’s behalf. One worry is that there are some who are even more hawkish than Putin, with fewer scruples about using nukes. Take him out, and they might come to the fore.
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  6274. Dictionaries follow language, they don’t lead it.
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  6275. “!” being POSIX is more likely to be supported by other shells besides Bash.
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  6276.  @___9136  dash seems to be a good, minimal, POSIX-compliant shell. Nobody should be using tcsh or csh-derivative shells any more.
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  6277. That would mean that every class type would have to provide methods implementing this functionality, whereas with the Python way, it only needs to be implemented once, as a built-in function.
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  6278. I think it would make sense with the upcoming “nogil” changes, and some of the potential backward-compatibility breakage, to start calling that the 4.x series.
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  6279. Anywhere near Orlando, where that boy from Brazil is hiding out?
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  6280. Everybody is calling it “X, Formerly Known As Twitter” right now ... “XFKAT”. Musk is going to backtrack on this name change at some point, just you wait.
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  6281. 🇮🇱🫶🇵🇸
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  6282. Trump supporters have no loyalty to each other. Even the leader of the “Proud Boys” has been quick to throw his own team under the bus to save his own skin https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/27/proud-boys-leader-prolific-snitch-for-law-enforcement-reuters . Trump himself may get off scot-free, but he is rapidly running out of followers he can dupe.
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  6283. The concept helps with code reuse, and hence code maintenance. The less code you have to write, the less work you have to do, and the less chance there is for bugs to get in.
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  6284. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  6285. There seems to be a lack of understanding of the security implications of this. It has to do with a malicious user tricking you into setting your default directory to one that they control. So they put a program in it with the same name as some system command, and when you type the name of that command, you unwittingly run their malicious version instead. This is why, in the Unix world, the dropping of “.” from the default $PATH was first done for root, and only later extended to all users. But of course, the way Microsoft chose to implement it made it impossible to make this simple fix in their OS.
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  6286. It’s quite plain that those who have no experience of multiuser systems would not understand this.
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  6287. What more can I say? If you don’t understand that “another user” means there is more than one user on the same system, and that means it’s a multiuser system, with all that that implies, then how do you make the security issues clear to someone who has never used such a system?
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  6288. 1:16 Rust isn’t magnetic. This is actually Fe₃O₄, I believe.
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  6289. Not so far off. Maybe even more true in 2024 ...
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  6290. 5:42 +1 point for showing a classic original Macintosh. -1 or -2 points for mismatching platinum-coloured buttons with a yellowed beige case.
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  6291. He visits it infrequently even more.
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  6292. Here’s the way I do it: if params != None ∶ if ( isinstance(params, dict) and all(isinstance(k, str) and isinstance(v, (int, str)) for k, v in params․items()) ) ∶ paramsstr = "&"․join \ ( "%s=%s" % (k, quote_url(str(v))) for k, v in params․items() )
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  6293. elif ( isinstance(params, tuple) and all(isinstance(i, tuple) and len(i) == 2 for i in params) and all(isinstance(k, str) and isinstance(v, (int, str)) for k, v in params) ) ∶ paramsstr = "&"․join("%s=%s" % (k, quote_url(str(v))) for k, v in params) else ∶ raise TypeError("params are not a dict or tuple of suitable (key, value) pairs") ♯end if else ∶ paramsstr = "" ♯end if
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  6294. If guns protect people, why does the NRA ban them from their conventions?
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  6295. @fox_fires Yes, I think NZ has more in common with certain European countries than it has with more, shall we say, Anglo-Saxon-dominated ones. ;)
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  6296. Now it can have the full-grown sheepdas as well.
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  6297. Using something in its entirety can indeed be fair use: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090810/1913245833.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120530/17333319132/myths-realities-about-fair-use.shtml
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  6298. But that was all miniatures, no CG.
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  6299.  @antigravityworkshop1436  Oh yeah, that one little bit.
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  6300.  @naughtlocke4516  Your religion, not mine.
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  6301. They could easily declare bankruptcy ... then reincorporate under another name, and get back to the same old business. That kind of thing seems too easy to do under US laws.
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  6302. The tussle between Trump and Fox News will likely tear the Republican Party apart.
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  6303. Put a print expression in a cell.
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  6304. It’s like models of cars, isn’t it? There are way too many to choose from, they will never take over from horses. Why can’t the vendors decide on just one type of car, and put all their marketing efforts into that? Then we can be forced to choose of our own free will to stop riding horses and start driving cars.
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  6305. I don’t understand the point behind snap/flatpak/appimage etc. For some reason they feel that distro maintainers can’t do their job in keeping dependencies up to date, so upstream app vendors should take over this responsibility instead. All I have to say is, look at proprietary platforms like Microsoft and Apple, where there is no package management to speak of, so app vendors have to do exactly this: do you think they do a good job? No. Do you want to be like that? I don’t.
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  6306.  @littlepeon  Ubuntu is not shipping Chrome. Chrome is closed-source from Google -- nobody else gets to make their own builds. Debian has probably the most professional procedure for managing dependencies. That’s why I can have thousands of packages installed on my Debian Unstable system, and have it work.
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  6307.  @littlepeon  Those who can’t cope with Debian Unstable are free not to use it. If you prefer a Microsoft-friendly distro which is angling to be acquired by them in the near future, by all means stick with Ubuntu.
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  6308. 11:21 Sorry, I haven’t a claw.
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  6309. Unix was never “open source”. https://opensource.org/osd-annotated
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  6310. In Blender, you can type numbers for exact measurements. More than that, you can also type Python expressions and it will evaluate them.
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  6311. Just as China gets things under control, the USA is going to turn into Ground Zero for the next blast wave of major infections.
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  6312. 1) Avoid using Microsoft Windows.
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  6313.  Dusty 99  If avoiding unnecessarily complex OSes is “lazy”, I don’t wanna be hardworking!
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  6314.  @WujuStyler  So far the only ones insisting on using Windows are gamers.
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  6315.  @DonaldBiden420  is not the sharpest knife in Putin’s drawer ...
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  6316.  @DonaldBiden420  I am not only able to read, I am able to understand what the words mean. Try working on that bit. And realize that you are implying that Russia launched its invasion without provocation.
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  6317.  @DonaldBiden420  Which “military pact” did you think I was talking about?
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  6318.  @DonaldBiden420  You had no idea what I was talking about, did you?
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  6319. Everybody can talk, not many can do.
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  6320. Echoing acoustics are the new normal. New normal. New normal.
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  6321. 1:20 But if Trump said it happened, it happened! The news is real! It’s the reality that’s fake!
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  6322. Just like he would have handed over those documents if the FBI only asked ... which they had been asking and demanding for months before the raid.
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  6323. It already does. All you have to do is leave out the Microsoft part.
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  6324. The irony is that the Registry was supposed to be a proper database to efficiently manage installation and configuration info. The idea that the Registry itself needs managing to keep your system healthy ... kind of defeats the point, doesn’t it? “Windows: such a great OS ... if your time is worth nothing.”
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  6325.  @therealmccoy7221  ARM already ships more units per year than the entire population of the Earth. I think RISC-V has entered that league as well.
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  6326. 5:29 Hey, where else can you get “Appartments” ... Oh, and “She wholly fat who window extent either formal.” Words to live by, indeed ...
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  6327. Having it both ways, why not?
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  6328. Looking at how the GPIO works, I found a web page which shows how to use simple shell commands to control the pins. It should be easy enough to create a Python wrapper with functions that carry out the same I/O operations--no need for any special drivers at all.
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  6329.  @BruceHoult  One question is, can I use Linux select/poll calls to get notified about changes in inputs?
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  6330. Opticians sell a special cleaner, which works a treat — leaves no deposit, and doesn’t react with delicate coatings. Also works well on computer monitors and phone/tablet/touchscreen displays. The only thing that would work better is an ultrasonic immersion cleaner.
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  6331. No, of course a trained sniper couldn’t have done it ...
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  6332. Did you notice that, on liftoff, the side rockets have a different colour exhaust from the main one? I think the side boosters are hypergolic.
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  6333. And he will (mis)use that money to commit more crimes.
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  6334. Nothing is an “internal matter” any more. The whole world is interconnected, like it or not.
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  6335. Surely there must be some Conservative-leaning phone vendor that offers products just as good as Apple. Because product quality cannot possibly be associated in any way with political leanings, right?
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  6336. And why wasn’t such a product your first choice? Why subscribe to Liberal-leaning products and services in the first place? Why didn’t such a thing find a ready market among conservatives from the get-go? Because surely quality of product has nothing to do with political leanings, right? Right?
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  6337.  @isaiahwelch8066  Weren’t you looking for Conservative-leaning products in the first place? Why were Liberal-leaning ones your first choice? How did the Liberal-leaning ones get to be the biggest in a capitalist free market? Because surely quality of product has nothing to do with political leanings, right?
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  6338.  @isaiahwelch8066  Ducking the question: Why are you continuing to support the Liberal-leaning services and contributing to their dominance, if you can’t stand them?
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  6339.  @isaiahwelch8066  Why was no conservative option available in what is supposed to be a capitalist free market? Aren’t conservatives in favour of capitalism? Were none of them entrepreneurial enough to take on the liberal-leaning competition, and beat them?
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  6340. This is YouTube. You can replay!
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  6341. Once they realize that everything they do in Excel can be done better in Python+NumPy+Jupyter+Pandas+Matplotlib+all the rest of it, then Excel just becomes the shell you start to get to the other stuff. Microsoft will likely make some money off the crowd who are too dumb to realize that they can dump the Excel part and use the rest of it ... for free.
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  6342. He’s from the Government, and he’s here to help you!
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  6343. Doesn’t the “Zen of Python” say that “flat is better than nested”? (Not that I pay attention to the “Zen of Python” anyway...)
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  6344.  @blue_meets_blue  The CS term for that binding of names is the “environment”. In Python terms, “function” (code) + “environment” (data) = “function object” (code + data).
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  6345. Doesn’t matter how advanced a framework is, if it’s built on a crappy language. Example: str_split() doesn’t work properly on empty strings. Yet when I try adding a note about this to the PHP docs, it gets deleted.
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  6346.  @rafadydkiemmacha7543  Python has strict typing. Every object is an instance of a class.
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  6347.  @rafadydkiemmacha7543  It’s a very fundamental feature. Functions and classes are objects. All objects are instances of some class. That means that functions and classes, too, are instances of classes.
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  6348. PHP users have no idea about Python, do they?
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  6349. 3:49 I think people don’t comprehend what the “Unix philosophy” is. You know the old saying, that a half-truth can often be worse than a total lie? Well, “do one thing and do it well” is one of those half-truths. The small pieces that implement this idea only work because they are built on top of much bigger pieces that do many things: look at the shell itself (whichever one you use), the Linux kernel, the glibc library, the X server, systemd ... each of these is a large piece of code that does many useful things, and does them very well. You would have a very poor platform stack indeed, if you tried to do without them.
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  6350. Does Trump believe the moon landings were real?
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  6351. 4:22 So why should they be allowed to download a random Microsoft browser from the Internet? Do you really think Microsoft still has a reputation for software quality at this stage?
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  6352. Ever did any VAX programming?
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  6353.  @RupertReynolds1962  It had a machine instruction that took a table of coefficients and would compute a polynomial for a given argument.
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  6354.  @RupertReynolds1962  There were quite a few complex instructions similar to that. They really went to town in terms of making assembly language look higher-level than FORTRAN in many ways. Much of it turned out to be pointless when it was discovered that these complex instructions were slower than doing the individual steps using a longer sequence of simpler instructions.
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  6355.  @leonardgmiller8924  Iron Dome couldn’t have been done without the USA, and cannot keep going without money from the USA.
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  6356. This is why we have JPEG2000 now. The wavelet compression degrades more gracefully than DCT in old JPEG: it goes fuzzy instead of blocky/ringing.
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  6357. Anyone else notice you never see Yevgeny Prigozhin and Pope Francis in the same room together?
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  6358. But Putin promised he wouldn’t use conscripts in the invasion special military operation!
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  6359. Measles is even more infectious than SARS-CoV-2. Its relative mortality rate may not be high, but it can still kill a lot of people, just by infecting so many.
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  6360. Windows still downloads updates even if you tell it not to.
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  6361. Trump 2016 was a Republican nightmare, too. But he had such overwhelming rank-and-file support, they had no choice. His supporters are still essentially holding the entire Republican party hostage. If the Republican establishment disown him, it will destroy the party.
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  6362. Their attempt to extinguish Linux was a complete failure. The whole “Linux is a cancer” claim and their “Get the Facts” campaign went down like a lead balloon. So now, they are trying to turn Windows into Linux, with WSL, and open-sourcing some of their own tools and porting them to Linux. Meanwhile, the quality of the Windows OS itself continues to go downhill.
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  6363. You are Michael Faraday and I claim my £5.
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  6364. 0:13 The Daystar! AKA the light in the ceiling of that big blue room.
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  6365. No, the POSIX type is “time_t”.
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  6366.  @mateuszsp8ebc691  No. In 64-bit Linux it is 64 bits. from <bits/timesize.h>: #if defined _x86_64_ && defined _ILP32_ /* For x32, time is 64-bit even though word size is 32-bit. */ # define __TIMESIZE 64 #else /* For others, time size is word size. */ # define __TIMESIZE __WORDSIZE #endif from <bits/types.h>: #if __TIMESIZE == 64 # define __time64_t __time_t #else __STD_TYPE __TIME64_T_TYPE __time64_t; /* Seconds since the Epoch. */ #endif
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  6367. Will he spend less time playing golf and more time building that wall this time?
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  6368. 0:51 Sound is pressure waves. It can be transmitted through any matter, not just air: e.g. underwater, or through rock. Or the taut string of a tin-can intercom.
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  6369. All those gaps -- the composite numbers between the bright dots that are the primes ... those are the Dark Side.
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  6370. 1:47 As the point on the handle gets closer to the middle screw, the ellipse gets more and more eccentric, until at the screw, it becomes a line (horizontal in the video). Further along towards the other screw, its eccentricity is reduced until it reaches zero at the midpoint (perfect circle), then increases again, this time the ellipses are squashed the other way, until at the end screw, the shape traced becomes a line that is vertical in the video. Beyond that the eccentricity reduces again, but it won’t reach zero until you get to an infinite distance.
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  6371. 26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody!
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  6372. Pointless to use both. Just use one or the other. Want a root shell? “sudo /bin/bash”, or even “exec sudo /bin/bash”.
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  6373. It’s only Ubuntu that seems to be pushing people towards Snaps. Other distros still support regular package managers.
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  6374. The Government needs to tell people how to make individual decisions for themselves. Australia and the US should do the same.
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  6375. But if you let them loose, where do they go?
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  6376. You were talking about “loosing” them. If you didn’t mean “let them loose”, what did you mean?
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  6377. 8:56 Umm, no. A wider confidence interval means the result is likely less significant, not more. A sharper peak (narrower confidence interval) is better than a flatter one.
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  6378. There was a survey of the VFX industry released a little over a year ago. And 60% of their machines run Linux, and that is expected to increase. So that is one content-creation market that doesn’t seem to care that much about Adobe products--at least, not any more.
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  6379. 0:19 Norgate ... isn’t that in Sussex somewhere?
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  6380.  @JochemKuijpers  Strictly speaking no, because ASCII is only a 7-bit code.
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  6381. 5:18 Answer should be (1000000 × 1000001) ÷ 2 = 500000500000
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  6382. 19:07 Hang on -- what about all these people who keep insisting photons have no mass? Doesn’t General Relativity say that inertial mass and gravitational mass are one and the same? So if you have gravitational pull, you must have gravitational mass, therefore you must have inertial mass!
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  6383.  @extravagantpanda7962  So if one turns into the other, does that mean gravity--and mass--can be turned on and off like a light switch?
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  6384. Israel does have something to lose, and that is the aura of invincibility that Tzahal has enjoyed among potential adversaries up to now. Each time the Palestinians give them a bloody nose, that aura takes another dent. You think Hamas isn’t ready for what’s coming?
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  6385. The one that didn’t produce the Pfizer-Biontech vaccine?
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  6386. 2:11 I wonder if that one instance counted ...
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  6387. 13:59 “Economies of scale to rear their ugly head”, boyo!
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  6388. Socrates made a career out of that. Until the anti-Liberals of the time got fed up of him, accused him of “corrupting the youth”, and sentenced him to die from hemlock.
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  6389. 2:10 Remember what Trump did when his own CISA chief, Chris Krebs, said that 2020 had been “the most secure election in US history”? He immediately tried to take credit for that, while still claiming that the Democrats had somehow stolen it from him! Of course, Krebs didn’t stay in the job much longer after that ...
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  6390.  @hbm293  But still so much software can only install to the C: drive.
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  6391. Many languages have had multi-value return, too. Not to mention Python generators, which can yield an unbounded sequence of values.
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  6392. Binding a function object to its environment is useful in any dynamic language.
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  6393. How widely was this seen, back in the day? It was made in San Mateo County, for one or two TV stations. Was it ever shown across much of the US? Somehow I doubt that.
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  6394. Linux runs on them all.
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  6395. I’m sure the devout Christians are very much on Putin’s side ...
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  6396.  @LTCHenryL  . . . (crickets)
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  6397. ldo@theon:~> man find | wc -l 1277 But it’s handy for looking up things as I need them.
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  6398. Did you suffer badly from the ’rona over in ’zona?
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  6399. Why do I keep reading that as “Luau”?
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  6400. 9:42 Oh, the irony ...
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  6401. 3:51 When I were a stoont, we had blackboards which were wraparound flexible sheets on rollers. So you just pulled on them to roll on to a new section. Eventually you wrapped round again to the part you previously wrote on, of course, so you had to erase it anyway, but in the meantime it could be left visible as reference.
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  6402.  @mattwo7  Yet somehow 🇺🇸 ended up with a smaller gallon than the 🇬🇧 gallon.
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  6403. I think he would have seen the benefit in supporting Linux, too. Even then it would have been clear that this was the only possibility for a real threat to Microsoft.
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  6404. 4:07 Instead of an executable script, you could put the command in a .desktop file. This is the standard XDG format for defining custom GUI commands and icons. This should also avoid the confirmation dialog every time you want to run it.
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  6405. Ah, I see, you did create a .desktop file, linking to your script. But given it was only one line, you could have put the command directly in the .desktop file.
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  6406. GIMP has full native support for image operations on deep pixels, for example EXR files with 32-bit floats, thanks to its integrated GEGL imaging engine. Photoshop still has trouble getting beyond 16-bit integer components. GIMP has a superior Python API to Photoshop. GIMP works with the G’MIC artistic filter set. And on and on.
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  6407.  @gemilangrahmandhika7509  “Pipelines” are made up of software components that are designed to work together, rather than ones that want your universe to revolve around them. Blender has the most advanced Python API of any app you can think of. On Linux, it can use your system-installed Python modules, to access the entire range of functionality available in the Python-compatible ecosystem. You can also run it “headless”, to do batch-mode rendering and other operations on a local or remote machine. Lots of other open-source apps also have similarly powerful Python support. Compare this to the obsolete and outdated APIs you often get with proprietary apps. Just for one example, Maya’s Python API is just a straight transliteration of its clumsy and limited MEL scripting language.
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  6408.  @j12325  Inkscape does SVG natively, which none of Adobe’s products do.
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  6409.  @j12325  It’s the standard for scalable graphics online.
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  6410. 4:22 Interesting artifact of the video deinterlacing? Suddenly the tape seems like it is shredded into transverse ribbons.
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  6411. Anybody who was around in the 1980s might remember Judge Greene’s “Modified Final Judgement”
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  6412. on the breakup of AT&T, the old US phone-company monopoly. Just to say, if lawyers and judges can do it, why shouldn’t software developers do it too?
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  6413. on the breakup of AT&T, the old US phone-company monopoly.
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  6414. on the breakup of AT&T,
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  6415. the old US pho
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  6416. the ol
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  6417. d US phone-company monopoly. Just to say, if lawyers and judges can do it, why shouldn’t software developers do it too?
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  6418.  @Valvex_  My original one did not appear, and I was making no assumption that it was going to appear. I will leave the other ones up.
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  6419. No fundamental difference.
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  6420. Machines, that is to say interpreters of machine language, can be built out of software as well as hardware.
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  6421.  @Spartan322  A “machine language” is anything understood by an appropriate “machine”.
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  6422.  @Spartan322  You’re not saying anything different from me. Particularly when you realize that “machine” doesn’t have to mean “hardware”.
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  6423.  @Spartan322  On the contrary, such a unification is incredibly useful. As you go into later CS courses, you will discover this.
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  6424.  @Caellyan  Why do non-CS people get so angry about this? It’s well-known that the distinction between “hardware” and “software” is pretty vague at the best of times -- if you insist on building a wall, think of concepts like “microcode” and “firmware” and where they fit in.
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  6425. Soon he gonna be singin’ that ol’ Fulton County Jailhouse Blues ...
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  6426. 1:04 “buta-di-ene”
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  6427. 1:03 I have more options than that on my Linux system. Also, unlike Microsoft, Linux doesn’t restrict your options based on whether the device might be removable or not: all filesystem options are available on all devices.
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  6428. 11:19 The aftermarket CD player that I fitted in my previous car would not play discs that had been burned at faster than 8×.
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  6429. I just thought of a drinking game, where you take a drink every time he says something snarky. ‌ Nobody would get through a single video. ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌‌‌ ‌ Without having to go to the toilet. ‌ (Why, what kind of drink did you think I meant?)
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  6430. “BLACK people can VOTE now?!?” Remember, most of them were slave owners.
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  6431. He did—he got the interim spending bill passed, with bipartisan support. Surely that has to be an instance of the Speaker doing his job properly. Ironic that that makes some in his own party hopping mad and demanding his ouster. Which is why I think it’s a mistake the Democrats agreed to go along with it. If they had resisted and let McCarthy stay on, he would be even more beholden to them in future. Which would no doubt enrage the “Freedom Caucus” even more.
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  6432. The core of Python is remarkably small -- the base language spec is not much more than 140 pages, including definitions of the built-in names. Compare Java, which is approaching 1000 pages (without even including what’s in java.lang). And yet it manages to include things like custom operator overloads, which Java could not do.
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  6433. US law enforcement has long had access to massive firepower in the form of military-style weaponry. Basically, your “protection against tyranny” excuse for carrying private weapons is completely laughable.
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  6434.  @tedfox2683  They are there to protect you. Let them do their job. Your well-meaning but fumbling amateurish attempts will only get in the way. And if you are armed with deadly weaponry, that just makes you a danger to everybody.
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  6435.  @oasis67  How would that apply to, say, the Las Vegas shooter situation? He was up on the 32nd floor, where nobody could shoot back at him. Made a complete nonsense of this whole idea that “having more guns around makes people safer”.
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  6436. Are you trying to use it on Microsoft Windows, by any chance?
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  6437. In places like Germany and New Zealand, we have “proportional representation”, where every vote counts equally. I highly recommend that as a voting system. It does almost invariably lead to coalition governments (because no one party can get an overall majority), but I think that’s a Good Thing.
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  6438. If that one directory is “/”, you get the whole server.
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  6439. Do people have a right to be annoyed about what he does?
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  6440.  @stephenbailey9969  Duck the question, why don’t you.
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  6441.  @ocsanik502  tcsh!? My condolences.
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  6442.  @ocsanik502  I remember, many years ago, trying to execute a remote command via SSH. The arguments needed to be double-quoted: once to pass to the “ssh” command on the local machine, the second time for it to pass to the remote shell. There were some tricky characters, and for the life of me I could not figure out the right way to quote things in tcsh. That was the last straw. So I gave up and switched to bash. And very quickly got the command right. And never looked back.
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  6443.  @ocsanik502  It didn’t matter what the syntax was, for tcsh it didn’t seem to be functionally complete.
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  6444. He was always struggling with maths. He needed help from some experts with General Relativity.
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  6445. 6:39 Do you know how to use the du command to track down this excessive disk usage? There’s a trick involving bind mounts on Linux if you have your installation across multiple disks/partitions (as I and a lot of people do), if you only want to check directories on the root filesystem.
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  6446. Because, you know, raking the leaves worked so well, didn’t it.
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  6447. The question is putting limits on the freedom of others who use your software. Speaking of which, consider that the AGPL is the only supposedly-“free” licence I know of that impinges on Freedom 0 (the freedom to use the software as you wish). Does this make it a non-Free licence? I think there is a case.
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  6448. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  6449. Linux has desktop standards the way the car industry has cars. There are way too many of those, don’t you agree? Different size engines, different numbers of seats and doors, different body shapes, different colours -- they can’t even agree on which wheels should be driven by the engine! What the car vendors need to do is agree on one standard configuration. Otherwise these new-fangled vehicles will never take over from the good old horse and carriage.
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  6450.  @DistroTube  If you conflate mindshare with market share, then you really have no idea how the marketplace works. I say that as a former fan of a proprietary company (Apple) that has always enjoyed mindshare way in excess of its actual market share. And as for garages, both Apple and HP were started by guys in garages. Do you really want to be seen to be anti-garage?
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  6451.  @uploadJ  If they’d done the reading, it could have saved them the months spent reinventing, imperfectly, what the pioneer had already achieved.
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  6452.  @uploadJ  They didn’t have the budget to do get copies of some journals, but they had the budget to work it all out themselves?
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  6453.  @uploadJ  Given the budgets that NASA had to work with? Really?
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  6454. And that, ladies and gentlemen, was an object lesson in the saying “better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt”.
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  6455.  @JKa244  Back again, under a different nym?
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  6456.  @JKa244  I sense a commonality in the vacuousness of your arguments.
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  6457. When your whole raison d’être is built around clinging on to power at any cost, and never mind the intellectual inconsistencies between all the arguments you use to get there, eventually the consequences of your own arguments are going to come home to bite you, the only question is when.
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  6458. I thought you people hated masks anyway. Or is John Kerry one of yours now?
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  6459. Shame about the MATLAB...
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  6460. You don’t. You do a password “reset”, which means a new password is assigned.
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  6461. 1:16 Is that the fastest macroscopic man-made object ever produced?
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  6462. The key problem with this kind of tool is there is no Unix/POSIX standard for notification of filesystem events. Linux has its own inotify and fanotify systems, other OSes have different ones or none at all, forcing you to resort to periodic polling to notice changes.
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  6463. 1:09 That’s “sommelier”, not “Somalia”.
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  6464. Further thought: I think XWayland is running all the time, that environment variable setting was purely to force kdenlive to ignore its detection of Wayland and revert to X11. Presumably that works for any KDE app.
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  6465. If the Government is afraid of the people, that’s a sign of a dictatorship.
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  6466. The rioters have promised not to do it again. Not that they admit actually doing it the first time. And anyway, they had a good reason. But it wasn’t them! It was the Former Guy’s fault!
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  6467. 6:18 You forgot to mention: speaking in coherent, complete sentences.
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  6468. Single-level storage was pioneered in the ATLAS project, about two decades earlier. Also a feature of MULTICS.
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  6469. Presumably that applies only to things you do on company time. Anything you do on your own time is yours.
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  6470. 23:05 There is room for multiple companies to compete where you have common standards that avoid vendor lock-in. Bill Gates built his business on vendor lock-in.
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  6471. 10:26 “Upward”? You mean “northward”?
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  6472. Religion ≠ logic.
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  6473. Something about “legal expenses insurance companies”. Companies that offer insurance against legal expenses?
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  6474. My first language was FORTRAN. No, it’s not my favourite. Possibly because just a few months later I found out about POP-2, which totally blew my mind.
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  6475. I sum this up in something I call Van Rossum’s Triangle: https://
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  6486. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  6487.  @nationalsocialist930  We in these democratic countries don’t see it that way. Every country has more than two political factions. They can work together, just so long as they don’t see politics as a zero-sum game.
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  6488. 12:28 Last-modified date is 4 months prior to creation date!?
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  6489. “Sample rate” ≠ “Bit rate”
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  6490. No, that does actually allow you to continue after pressing a key.
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  6491. 4:10 I should point out that Nelson Mandela found civil disobedience useless in his struggle against the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Which, interestingly, is where Mahatma Gandhi started his career. The latter, of course, was rather more successful with this strategy back in India. Both were officially deemed “terrorists”, as I recall.
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  6492. One of the biggest factors in the slowdown of a Windows installation is the Windows NTFS filesystem itself. Why Microsoft’s engineers could not figure out how to design a fragmentation-resistant volume format, like the Linux folks seem able to do, is beyond me. I can remember when the background defragger was introduced in Windows Vista. Remember this was about the time that SSDs started to become popular. Only some users found that Vista was shortening the life of their SSDs, by continually writing to them. It was the defragger, uselessly trying to defrag SSDs that didn’t need it! So in Windows 7, the defragger had to be changed to check if a volume was an SSD, and skip it if so. Linux systems never needed such a solution, because they never had such a problem. Moral: NTFS is way past its replace-by date. But unfortunately the whole design of Windows is very specifically built around NTFS, making it difficult to replace. There doesn’t seem to be a generic VFS layer in Windows like in Linux, which allows easy switching between different volume formats.
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  6493. If Ukrainians are supposed to be no different from Russians, why would Russians be massacring their own?
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  6494. I wonder why Hungary doesn’t just leave the EU, if it doesn’t agree with what it stands for.
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  6495. Think of it as implementing a higher-level abstract machine on top of a lower-level one. Only the lower-level machine is generating the higher-level abstraction on the fly.
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  6496. Emacs is great on Linux. I keep it running all the time. I also have the following alias defined: alias e='emacsclient -n' That way, in any terminal window, I can type e «filename» to immediately open that file in the running Emacs.
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  6497. I think FreeBSD has become tainted somewhat by its association with Netgate. (Look up the WireGuard saga for the latest example of their ineptness.)
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  6498. But I was told that no living thing can pass through the Van Allen radiation belt. So how are they getting here?
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  6499. I don’t object to complex numbers. It’s real numbers I have a problem with. Specifically, every number you can write down (in other words, every number that could possibly arise in physics) is by definition a computable number. But the real numbers consist of both computable and incomputable numbers. So why do we need the latter? They seem to serve no purpose in physical reality.
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  6500. He bears an uncanny resemblance to Pope Francis...
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  6501. 0:37 Says “like totally” with a book titled “Medieval Grammar & Rhetoric” literally at his elbow ...
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  6502. In the same way that VBA is the best programming language!
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  6503.  @feedyourmind6713  Was Biden directing the journalists back in the Vietnam War?
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  6504. There is a common and very old way of doing asynchronous calls without special language syntax, and that is to use callbacks. The drawback with this is it breaks up the logic of your handler into multiple separate pieces, rather than being able to write it all in one block.
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  6505. Python’s asyncio event loop supports both ways of working. It is instructive to compare the two. I did this with a “rocket launcher” example which you can find in the archives of our local Python user group here:
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  6510. /HamPUG/meetings
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  6512. /2017/2017-05-08
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  6513. /ldo-generators
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  6514. -coroutines-asyncio
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  6515. Here’s another tip: use a two-dimensional layout to make the structure of complex expressions clearer. Example:     if (             not isinstance(cmds, (list, tuple))         or             not all(isinstance(elt, (list, tuple)) and len(elt) == 2 for elt in cmds)         or             not all               (                     isinstance(elt[0], str)                 and                     elt[0] in valid_cmds                 and                     isinstance(elt[1], (list, tuple))                 and                     len(elt[1]) == len(steps)                 for elt in cmds               )     ) :         raise TypeError("cmds must be sequence of («cmd», «args_seq»).")     #end if
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  6516.  @christoferberruzchungata2722  It’s already in a function.
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  6517. If you want to see that snippet in context, have a look here https://
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  6518. /ldo/aleqsei , in the method Context.Rib.motion().
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  6520. git
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  6522. By all means, show us the actual code you would write, and we can compare them.
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  6523. So you didn’t actually understand what the code was doing before trying to “improve” it?
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  6524. I find it’s an easy way to scare away the armchair programmers, by asking them to actually write some code.
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  6525. So those anti-π folks who want us to use τ instead -- I wonder what they eat? Do they hate πzza? Do they rather eat τzza?
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  6526. So, you have discovered how to use TWO less-than signs ... have you tried THREE?
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  6527. Hint: instead of echo 2 + 2 | bc try bc <<<'2 + 2'
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  6528.  @d00dEEE  set pct=$(bc <<<
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  6529.  @d00dEEE  "scale=2; $x/$y*100")
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  6530. 5:32 That’s several times larger than galactic escape velocity, just for comparison. By the way, is it “escape velocity” or “escape speed”? “Velocity” is supposed to have both a magnitude and direction. I guess the direction is implicit in both “orbital velocity” (parallel to the surface) and “escape velocity” (perpendicular to the surface) ...
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  6531. Do you program for fun? Do it anyway. ;)
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  6532. The term for this is “scratching an itch”. You feel the itch, the problem that needs solving, you write the software to solve it.
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  6533. d ol’ Poe’s Law.
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  6534.  @666Tomato666  I remember seeing a factor of 3000 times, so you’re not too far off. Also remember you’re not comparing like with like: hardware acceleration for AES versus none for RSA.
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  6535. That John Lennon song begins “Imagine there’s no heaven”, so it’s obviously some liberal lefty godless atheist democratic notion which has no place in a true Christian theocracy.
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  6536. Remember, Microsoft is not extending Linux with any new capabilities, it is (trying to) extend Windows with more Linux-like capabilities. Also, it tried very hard to “extinguish” Linux many years ago, and failed badly. (For some amusement, go look up Microsoft’s old “Get The Facts” campaign, and what happened with the London Stock Exchange switching to Windows NT, with much great fanfare, and then having to abandon that.) So fine, what is the next step after “embracing and extending” Windows? My guess is, Microsoft will realize that continuing to maintain the Windows kernel is just getting too difficult and expensive for too little reward, so that will be abandoned at some point in favour of a Windows compatibility layer on top of the Linux kernel. That would work better than WSL1, which tried to put a Linux compatibility layer on top of the Windows kernel.
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  6537.  @PixLgams  Microsoft cannot “make Linux” do anything. It can only contribute to existing open-source projects like the kernel and WINE.
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  6538. 3:50 Stellar jewel-box. ;)
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  6539.  @keith3761  It’s all described in the GoPro docs.
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  6540. 18:00 The atomic number of beryllium is 4. Its atomic weight is more like 9.
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  6541. Remember “Now Is Not The Time”? As in, after the latest school shooting, “Now Is Not The Time To Talk About Gun Control”? It’s the same sort of thing. When the ugly truth is being pushed in your face, it is absolutely the best time to use everybody’s attention on the issue to talk about it. When a prominent antivaxxer dies from the disease, it is absolutely the best time to talk about all the preventative measures you can take to improve your odds, and that includes vaccines. Use them as a lesson in how not to do things.
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  6542.  @cmaxz817  One common headache with all these stack-based languages is keeping track of what’s on the operand stack at any moment. This is why, in my doodlings around a PostScript derivative, I added operators to manage additional operand stacks. So you temporarily create a new stack, with a known number of items transferred to it from the previous one, which is now temporarily inaccessible. Then when you have finished a calculation sequence, you expect to find a particular number of items remaining, which you transfer back to the previous stack, which becomes the current stack again, getting rid of this one.
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  6543.  @SkyFly19853  Bing is way behind Google. And Google is sufficiently spooked to be trying AI-aided search itself. It could throw the search market wide open again--the opposite of a monopoly.
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  6544.  @CnCDune  Vintage Windows/DOS games tend to run better on Linux than on Windows. The high-end CAD apps originated on Unix systems, back in the day. Going to Linux would be like coming home for them.
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  6545.  @CnCDune  There are open-source CAD programs that rival what’s available on Windows. Old 16-bit Windows software runs better on Linux than it does on current Windows.
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  6546. Have you considered trying different voltages through the klaxon, just to see how the sound changes? That would presumably change the motor speed.
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  6547. 5:30 It’s counterintuitive that video playback is fine while audio is not, given that the former needs far more processing grunt than the latter.
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  6548.  @BruceHoult  So this is the secret to the Dalek sound!
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  6549. 6:18 In all the best democracies, every vote counts equally, and those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  6550. Interesting that Tanenbaum & Woodhull, the well-known textbook on operating systems, says right up front (on page 3) that “operating system” refers to everything below userland—effectively they treat it as a synonym for “kernel”.
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  6551. Interesting that Tanenbaum & Woodhull, the well-known textbook on operating systems, says right up front (on page 3) that “operating system” refers to everything below userland—effectively they treat it as a synonym for “kernel”.
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  6552. Interesting that Tanenbaum & Woodhull, the well-known textbook on operating systems, says right up front (on page 3) that “operating system” refers to everything below userland—effectively they treat it as a synonym for “kernel”.
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  6553. 2:30 Spanish is probably more widely spoken in the US than English at this point. Who’s trying to be nonprejudiced in a prejudiced way?
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  6554. 5:25 I wonder if Dad knows?
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  6555. 0.21 You know what irks me? The “=” sign on his T-shirt in what is clearly a numerical approximation.
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  6556. The trouble with C♯ is that it’s Windows-only. That’s not enough any more.
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  6557.  @Bourn77  In theory. But Microsoft has never given a guarantee that it won’t sue cross-platform users for patent violations.
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  6558.  @firstlast-tf3fq  Maybe you have, but nobody uses C♯/Dotnet for anything important. Even Microsoft won’t use it for something as important as Office.
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  6559. Emacs can do that. (Which is in fact the usual answer whenever anybody asks “Why can’t my editor do that?”)
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  6560. Speaking of Pick -- there’s another one. Dick Pick created this OS he named after himself, built around a (nonrelational) DBMS--I think we’d call it “schemaless”. It also had its own dialect of BASIC, as I recall. He promoted it as perfectly suited for business needs, unlike this Unix thing that some were adopting for the purpose (mid 1980s or so). I think, as machines got more powerful, it became possible to implement the whole Pick system as an application suite on top of Unix or other multiuser OS. Not sure it continued for much longer after that.
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  6561. If you are looking for a Free Software
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  6562. alternative to Painter,
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  6563. try
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  6564. MyPaint.
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  6565. Ford issued a pardon even before Nixon had been accused of anything.
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  6566. What’s happening is, Windows is getting more and more expensive for Microsoft to maintain, while bringing in less and less profit. Nobody wants to pay for an operating system any more. So they have to resort to measures like cutting corners on QA (notice the deteriorating quality of bug fixes), and forcing advertising into more areas of the user experience. I think the introduction of the Linux kernel in WSL shows where things are going: at some point this is going to move from an optional to a mandatory install, and then more and more functions will be delegated to Linux, while the Windows kernel gradually atrophies away.
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  6567. First yakaboo!
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  6568. When would you say was their “time”?
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  6569. Remember he sent the army to stop the Caravan? Well, half of the refugees got in anyway.
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  6570. Lateral thinking FTW!
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  6571.  @frataltay4543  Ah, the old preschooler Fisher-Price interface...
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  6572.  @frataltay4543  No they don’t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHOxUbi0-4M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyz4-KZOzyI
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  6573. Here’s looking forward to Stacey Abrams taking him out.
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  6574. You see how threatening some people find that: all she’s doing is encouraging people to exercise their democratic right to vote. She’s not telling them whom to vote for--that’s their choice. Yet one side of the political divide is absolutely terrified by the prospect of more people doing that.
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  6575. No chance he can be elected, though he will likely win the Republican nomination.
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  6576. Interesting how most democratic countries in the world would be considered by some in 🇺🇸 as “socialist”.
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  6577. 4:19 Yeah! (Thumbs up for getting that point across.)
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  6578. It’s a concurrent version of the sieve, where the array is one of processes. I have a version of it done in bash somewhere.
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  6579. There is the point that that expanding shell of easily-decoded radio and TV transmissions is no longer being added to as it used to. Most of our transmissions have moved to digital technologies with all kinds of compression and encryption. And the ability to work with less power. In short, the more efficiently we use the available bandwidth, the more our transmissions look like background noise. And the same would apply to aliens, who would likely be even further ahead on that curve.
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  6580. Many-worlds is pseudoscientific mumbo-jumbo. It does nothing to explain how a particle’s wave function can interfere with itself, for example: all it does is cast the concept in different, less plausible terms. Many-worlds is also the basis for justifying “quantum” computing. Which so far has completely failed to perform the simplest number-theoretic calculation (e.g. Shor’s algorithm), and shows absolutely no sign of making progress in that direction. Draw your own conclusions.
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  6581. This is how I format my Elisp code: https://github.com/ldo/emacs-prefs/blob/master/dotemacs
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  6582. One good way to keep track of them is if they were registered with the IRS. Remember Obama wanted to make illegal immigrants pay taxes? Which would have added something like 5 million new taxpayers to the revenue pool? Yet Republicans opposed the idea of saving the Federal Government money, for some reason.
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  6583.  @drlukewhite  Or you could define your own macro in LibreOffice to do exactly that.
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  6584. I thought the English term for an estate/station wagon was “brake” as in “shooting brake”.
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  6585. Again, it’s worth pointing out the difference between cars and guns. As the usage of cars has gone up over the years, the injuries and deaths attributable to them has actually gone down. Can the same be said of guns? Nope.
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  6586.  @cyberft  Unfortunately, no. The cases of successful use of guns for self defence is essentially lost in the rounding error. If you get a gun hoping to use it to protect yourself or your loved ones, the odds are overwhelming that it is going to end badly for you or them.
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  6587.  @cyberft  I get them from references that a) practise a credible methodology, and b) cite credible sources.
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  6588.  @cyberft  What a load of nonsense.
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  6589.  @cyberft  You don’t know where to find credible information? Or you just don’t want to know?
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  6590. Hmmm ... do Florida and Texas count as “so-called liberal” states?
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  6591.  @TheGlock30owner  Both are “shall permit” states.
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  6592. The car industry is able to thrive in 🇺🇸 without special Constitutional protection, guns are not. Think about that.
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  6593.  @cyberft  All of which have peaceful, constructive uses. Unlike guns, which are only good for blowing holes in things--and people. And your list doesn’t include cars.
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  6594.  @cyberft  Is that why 🇺🇸 is so “peaceful” compared to other countries? Give me a break.
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  6595. Among civilized nations, we do not consider it necessary to worry about getting bulletproof back-packs for our kids, just to try to ensure that they survive their school years.
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  6596.  @cyberft  Ah, the old “protect yourselves from tyranny” nonsense. Haven’t you noticed yet that your 🇺🇸 Government has way more guns -- and much bigger ones -- than you? Have you never heard of “militarization of the police”, which is rampant across the USA? All they have to do is think that you might be pointing a weapon at them, and they will blow you away. And get away with it, too.
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  6597. Remember when Trump addressed the NRA convention during the 2016 Presidential campaign, and promised to abolish gun-free zones? There were signs all around saying “NO WEAPONS ALLOWED”. That’s right—the NRA convention was itself a gun-free zone!
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  6598. All those are common Linux features, just not part of the “XCP” and “Xen” branding.
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  6599. For me it’s Ben Katz. #ShowingMyAge
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  6600. Let’s put it this way: if they really were from a civilization more technologically advanced than us, capable of interstellar travel, it would have taken rather more than our primitive pea-shooters to knock them down.
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  6601. 5:14 You can also run Xen Orchestra in a VM under XCP-ng itself.
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  6602. 7:50 How about automatically using the “snap list” output to drive the “snap remove” command, e.g. try this first for f in $(snap list | tail -n +1 | cut -f1 -d' '); do echo snap remove "$f" done and when you are sure it is outputting the right commands, take out the “echo” word and run it again.
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  6603. 8:26 OK, that’s actually a bit easier than my idea.
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  6604.  @Doriandotslash  That’s why I had the “echo” in there. It’s a good way to test the logic before actually turning it loose.
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  6605. It’s officially “Unix”, but it is far from working the way normal people expect a “Unix” system to work.
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  6606. By the way, NZ has some small share in this international embarrassment. Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Chris Liddell, is from NZ. Our closest-thing-to-right-leaning parties, National and ACT, have both withdrawn support for his appointment to being boss at the OECD https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/national-reverses-its-position-on-supporting-chris-liddell-for-oecds-secretary-general/3POR6L3VE2TZ4ABE23AYVBHLKE/ .
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  6607. The error made by the founders was in allowing the legal system to become politicized. Since when are political appointments made for life? They should expire when there is a change of leadership in the White House.
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  6608. Ah, good old Chip “Chippy Chappy” Chapman. We were at Sandhurst together, you know.
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  6609.  @motosashi6971  So the Apollo Moon landings were real?
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  6610. “Time dilation in 100 seconds”
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  6611. Climbed it ... from the inside!
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  6612. I wonder, though: if an “epidemic” has now become a “pandemic”, does that mean that “epicentres” have now become “pancentres”?
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  6613. “Epi” in “epicentre” means “above”. As in “the point on the Earth’s surface above the centre of the earthquake”. Its application to disease outbreaks is wholly inappropriate.
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  6614. There are some other pieces of open-source software that are Linux-only, e.g. Asterisk, Docker. Even WireGuard for FreeBSD had its hiccups. I expect this list will only grow over time.
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  6615. There are people who disagree with you. You are free not to use their work.
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  6616. By the way, are you Zarch?
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  6617.  @davidfuentes9957  It’s there, in the menu, down to 144p if you really want to slum it.
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  6618. Artemis was supposed to be based on “proven” Space Shuttle Main Engine technology. Trouble is, instead of the reuse of that technology reducing costs, it is turning out to be extremely expensive.
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  6619.  @gestaltengine6369  How would it work? You’d have to give an example.
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  6620.  @gestaltengine6369  But “multiple instruction” means the instructions can be entirely different.
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  6621. So Megyn Kelly was right? Remember during the Republican debates, she questioned whether Trump was really a Republican or not?
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  6622. 2:10 There are some documents at Bitsavers describing the IBM 2250. Basically it had a CRT calligraphic vector display, with either 4kiB or 8kiB of onboard RAM (oh, the luxury), and a high-speed connection back to the mainframe. Plus a light pen and keyboard. The display was black-and-white only, no colour, not even greyscale, just white lines on a black background.
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  6623. Such interference with your OS will likely become a licence violation.
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  6624. That’s like saying that in the reals you can’t divide.
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  6625.  @aDifferentJT  That’s like saying that in the reals there is no corresponding function that represents division.
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  6626.  @fllthdcrb  Total nonsense, in other words.
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  6627. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  6628.  @OpenGL4ever  386, not 286. The 286 was a stupid chip that only IBM, with its bloated OS/2 offering, cared about.
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  6629.  @OpenGL4ever  That success of Windows 3.0 actually started with its predecessor, Windows 2.1 a.k.a “Windows 386”. The name should give you a clue.
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  6630.  @OpenGL4ever  Just do a search for “Windows 386”. I was there.
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  6631. I don’t understand how that works. IQ is supposed to be defined as “mental age ÷ physical age”. He was 56 years old when he appeared on _Top Gear_. If his IQ was supposed to be 178, does that mean his mental age was more like 100?
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  6632.  @fred.flintstone4099  “Decorative” ... I can imagine your house at Christmas time, festooned with XML hanging from the eaves ...
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  6633. What do you use instead?
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  6634. The only Republican with a conscience strikes again.
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  6635. Their view seems to be that reality itself has become part of the conspiracy to take their man down.
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  6636. KDE is more customizable than it ever was--that was a key point of the Plasma rearchitecting. And there are plenty of other GUI frameworks, if you don’t like those. Or you can run Linux with no GUI whatsoever--it’s your choice.
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  6637. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  6638. The Government really needs to tell these private companies how to run their business.
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  6639. Because they are obligated to give you a free service.
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  6640. Your 🇺🇸 Republic was set up to free you from a King. So of course you must find a new King, not just to obey, but to worship.
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  6641. The nice thing about one-true-gods is there are so many to choose from. Who needs a godless democracy when you can have a theocracy?
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  6642.  Jeremy Two  I have it on good authority from other believers more devout than you that your “true god” is false.
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  6643. What I am currently doing is checking after 60 seconds if the comment is still there.
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  6644. 4:25 I wonder how long this will last, though. Customers will start complaining that Windows is too much of a “moving target”, they want “stability” and “predictable releases”, yada yada yada.
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  6645. C++ templates?
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  6646. Wasn’t Trump’s wall supposed to keep them out? What happened to all the billions he spent on it? And when is Mexico going to pay it back, like he promised?
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  6647. I think you mean “deteriorating”, not “dwindling”. The conditions aren’t getting fewer, they’re getting worse.
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  6648. The GIL is integral to the reference-counting memory management system. Get rid of it, and Python becomes totally garbage-collected, like Java. You wouldn’t want that. Because currently you can write Python programs which run for a long time with reasonable memory requirements; if it became like Java, then you would need to impose a limit on the heap size to keep it from gobbling up all the memory on your system.
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  6649. Countries that have long been lectured by the US on adoption of basic democratic norms like a uniform voter roll, election by direct popular vote and an independent electoral commission are discovering that the US has none of those things.
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  6650. System admin functions require privileged access that is not needed while doing normal user tasks. It is best to keep them separated. In particular, never log into a GUI session as the root user.
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  6651. What happens if the machine already has an SSD? Or, to put it another way, SSDs can only be a partial fix to NTFS fragmentation problems. Sure, you don’t have to worry about seek delays, but if you have to access the same data via separate smaller reads/writes versus one big transfer, the multiple smaller transfers are still going to be slower. And remember, the NTFS defragger had to be disabled on SSDs, because it was shortening their life.
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  6652.  @stephen1r2  If you have to access the same data via separate smaller reads/writes versus one big transfer, the multiple smaller transfers are still going to be slower.
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  6653.  @gblargg  SSDs can also get fragmented at the sector-cluster level.
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  6654.  @gblargg  Fragmentation internal to the SSD can lead to excessive writes, slowing things down and further shortening the life.
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  6655. Oh no, he and his followers are very much of the “Jesus” crowd. If you can believe in “eternal life”, you can believe the vote was stolen. Faith can not only move mountains, it can also rewrite the laws of arithmetic.
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  6656. 11:10 No CG. All those explosions were real. (Though not real bullets, obviously...)
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  6657. Blender is really the only one left that covers it all. All the proprietary apps have become narrow specialists.
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  6658. So he’s really America’s answer to Michael Caine. Not many people know that!
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  6659. They were on a limited budget, and I guess that meant that shooting any extra footage that wasn’t going to appear in the show would add to the cost. Hence the need to keep the segments strictly within time limits.
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  6660. Let’s face it: Fauci did what he did in the face of non-cooperation and downright hostility from Trump. This network itself has played its part in trying to discredit his credentials; now you are annoyed that he is claiming credit for what he managed to achieve regardless? To borrow a phrase which your lot like to use: HOW DARE YOU!
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  6661. 7:29 What? Asking a poll question which also mentions the consequence of the answer?? Obviously a liberal-biased question!
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  6662.  James Sloan  There was a bit more to it than just “trigonometry”. They couldn’t have done it without computers. For reference, go have a look at Buzz “Dr Rendezvous” Aldrin’s PhD thesis, where he went into this in detail: http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/12652
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  6663. He laughed at a Seth Meyers joke?
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  6664. 0:51 George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both slave owners. So yeah, maybe think about that.
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  6665. No “just in case”. Wiping persistent storage isn’t enough, because there is always the possibility of residual bit detection. You need to completely destroy it, either with explosive charges positioned next to the █████ cells, or by heating the ██████████ core ███ unit to ███K for ███seconds.
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  6666. 0:49 What’s the most obscure language on that diagram that you know something about? In my case, it’s probably Algol 68.
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  6667. Try a “man://” URL in Konqueror. “info://” also works.
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  6668.  @halfsourlizard9319  Or better still, use one where the GUI is just a separate modular, replaceable layer, rather than something baked into an inextricable monolith.
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  6669. Proprietary products come and go. And what happens to your valuable data locked up in proprietary data formats?
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  6670. She did come forward a long time ago.
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  6671. 3:02 If all the possible moves are recursively enumerable, then it is still possible to conduct an exhaustive search to any given finite depth. That won’t be enough to prove impossibility, but it could still find a solution if one exists, at least not too far along.
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  6672. Because giving taxpayers back their money is such a Liberal thing to do ...
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  6673. The US is not accustomed to simply participating in world events as just another player. It has to dominate and do things its way. And then, when this fails, as it did in Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq, it goes away, wrings its hands for a while, and then invents its own Hollywood fantasy history of how things should have played out, à la Rambo . And you know that Israel is absolutely not going to do the sensible thing that Fareed recommends. They are going to go into Gaza with all guns blazing, and there will be absolute carnage on both sides. They will kill lots of Palestinians, but they will not exterminate Hamas. And it could be that Tzahal takes the most major hit yet to its aura of invincibility.
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  6674. @@brentmorrison3392 Trump was the one who gave Netanyahu everything he wanted.
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  6675. 5:49 Actually, CU-SeeMe was originally developed at Cornell U (hence the “CU” part — geddit), and then they sold the rights to White Pine. The original codec was monochrome only, to reduce CPU usage and also keep the bandwidth down. Remember, we were talking early-to-mid-90s when that was first developed.
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  6676. 4:17 Oh come on, VT50s were long obsolete by the time the VAXes came along. At least show a VT100, if not a VT220/240 for contemporary consistency.
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  6677. If there is a “Norfolk Southern”, then is there also a “Suffolk Northern”?
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  6678. She has one who promises not to order pizza and orders pizza.
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  6679. Watch out for the projection effect from the anti-Liberals: pretend that the other side suffers from the faults, not them.
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  6680. Imagine if it was really the poor people trying to rule the world ...
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  6681. You only have to worry if the towels start to talk back ...
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  6682. Do those doubled letters represent longer vowels? I gather “a” and “ä” represent different sounds, too, and each one can be doubled.
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  6683. Trump himself keeps insisting he is still the sitting President. And nobody claims that impeaching and trying the sitting President is somehow unConstitutional. So by his own admission, his trial is permissible. QED.
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  6684. Look up “Stop The Steal”.
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  6685.  @davidgoodman6924  He said one thing but did another. He let them run riot for two hours without doing anything to help. That gives the lie to his overt words.
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  6686. I think a decision has to be made soon. Do you want this war of attrition to go on grinding soldiers on both sides into the dust for a few more years? Or do you want to bring a quicker end to it? That is, either pull out and give up on Ukraine, or go all-in and give them what they need to deliver a decisive blow to Russia. Which of those three choices shall it be?
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  6687.  @DavidGao  And even though they can run Linux nowadays, they still have to emulate booting off punch cards.
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  6688. 14:23 Yes, but the Chinese now have something cooler. That will last after this is gone.
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  6689. Trump made a career out of blaming Democrats for his own failings while he was supposed to be the one in charge. Seems like this tradition will be continuing.
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  6690.  @jbcfamily4802  That doesn’t happen anywhere else where the popular vote is used. Why should it happen in the US? Just to add, it looks like there’s nothing in current US Federal law that says the states have to pay any attention to the popular vote when telling their Electoral College delegates whom to pick. It’s only Michigan state law that’s preventing Trump having his way here.
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  6691.  @TDfluffyR  STV is used in Australia and Ireland. That tends to favour individuals over parties. Here in NZ (and in Germany), we have a party-based system for nationwide, which is why we have a Mixed-Member Proportional (MMP) system instead. Various local bodies do use STV for their elections, though.
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  6692.  @jbcfamily4802  But there’s nothing to ensure the Electors reflect the will of the people. Where is your “democracy” then?
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  6693.  @jbcfamily4802  So you trust your Government?
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  6694.  @jbcfamily4802  But the system doesn’t protect against abuses of the Electoral College.
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  6695. 14:04 1858.
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  6696. No doubt you will not resile from that.
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  6697. The First Amendment doesn’t restrict how private companies run their own businesses. This includes the social networks and hosting services. If they want to throw you off, they are perfectly within their rights to do so.
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  6698. They were ROM implemented as core memory. Whereas read/write cores could have their magnetization changed and sensed, these stored bits based on the presence or absence of individual wires. The piles of wires looked like ropes, hence the name, I guess.
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  6699. Must there be limits to everything? Which means no limits on where you put limits?
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  6700. The Republican party arose out of the ashes of the Whig party, which self-destructed over the slavery issue. Is it the turn of the Republican party to self-destruct now, as well? And over an issue which is not nearly as important as slavery, but just over a childish personality cult?
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  6701. Having done one or two sysinit scripts and systemd service files, I find systemd easier.
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  6702. To go with complex numbers, Python has the cmath module, which is the equivalent of the math module but for the complex domain. Python tends to be my first resort for many things right now -- it has about all the high-level features you could want (e.g. functions and classes as first-class objects), short of turning completely into LI
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  6703. SP. I agree using indentation for block structuring turns out to be a mistake;
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  6704. I mitigate it a bit by having “#
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  6705. end” comments to mark the ends of compound statements.
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  6706. I also have custom commands in Emacs to jump between lines with matching indentation, which nicely lets me navigate between the matching beginnings and endings of compound statements.
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  6707. All that does is apply one level of hash to the client-entered password, and store that as the “real” password. Anybody who gets hold of that hash cannot impersonate the client, but they can impersonate the server.
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  6708.  @nicoflaig6749  Diffie-Hellman isn’t an authentication protocol.
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  6709.  @nicoflaig6749  It can’t be “zero knowledge” if you have to know the password, can it?
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  6710.  @nicoflaig6749  So “zero” doesn”t mean “zero”, it actually means “one”? In programming, we call that an “off-by-one error”.
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  6711.  @nicoflaig6749  Don’t know, don’t care about any videos. Instead, I read RFC2945, which is where SRP is defined. I draw your attention to section 3, where it is specified that the host stores the triple “{ <username>, <password verifier>, <salt> }”. That “password verifier” is the hash I was talking about. Anybody who gets hold of that information can impersonate the host.
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  6712. 9:36 At 1800mph, the wind will blow off your hair. And likely your head as well.
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  6713. Democracies need checks and balances, to try to guard against abuses of power. And they need to be secularly-based, with no special place for any religion or race or whatever. Watch out for those who claim to be “one nation under god”.
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  6714. “News is what somebody somewhere does not want published. Everything else is advertising.” -- William Randolph Hearst
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  6715. SELinux was created by the NSA, remember. Windows still doesn’t have anything like it.
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  6716.  @erkinalp  It has nothing like that. It doesn’t even have much of the original multiuser design that was supposed to be in Windows NT. Remember, Microsoft tried to bring Docker (a fairly lightweight isolation mechanism) to Windows, but had to give up.
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  6717. This is all part of Putin’s fiendish plot to destroy the capabilities of the only effective Russian force in Ukraine!
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  6718. Companies and sporting events are deserting Georgia left and right. No matter how much Republicans may huff and puff, people who value democracy see voter suppression for what it is.
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  6719. 4:11 But such a factor of 10¹²⁰ in energy would have a correspondingly huge mass, according to E = mc², would it not? And such a huge mass would have a correspondingly huge gravitational effect. Which we do not observe. That is why the calculated value is considered to be wrong, is it not?
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  6720. 3:51 How many times do I have to tell you, Seth: that’s not a D-pad, that’s their sting!
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  6721. I try to design my cleanup code to never throw an error. So for example if a connection was never opened, then the connection-closing logic should automatically become a noop in this case. That helps to keep things simple.
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  6722. Remember when Trump wanted to make it easier to sue journalists for defamation?
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  6723. I thought Conservatives were fans of being tough on crime?
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  6724. Here’s an example of the woeful state of the USA under Biden: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/27/us-warns-of-more-domestic-extremist-violence-in-months-ahead . It’s all his fault for winning the election! This never happened under Trump (except for that 2019 shooting and maybe a few others).
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  6725. Buy a second-hand car. They depreciate less.
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  6726. Emacs was originally implemented in TECO, which goes back to the 1960s. TECO used basically every ASCII character to mean something, so a TECO script was sometimes described as looking like “transmission line noise”. Fun game: enter your name to a TECO interpreter, and try to guess what it will do as TECO commands. Later Emacs was rewritten using its own custom LISP implementation (I think Stallman had a hand in this). But there are still one or two odd traces of its TECO heritage. For example, the keystroke to cancel a macro definition or other keyboard input is CTRL/G. No other software on Earth used that keystroke for that purpose, apart from TECO.
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  6727. 2:44 The semiconductor crystal on its own doesn’t restrict the conduction of current in one direction, it’s the junction between the crystal and the conducting metal wire.
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  6728. 5:51 No, I think it’s just Bayes’ Theorem.
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  6729. People who appreciate science tend not to be susceptible to Poe’s Law.
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  6730. PKD is worth reading, but I think if you do too much of him at once, you are in danger of becoming like him. He wrote so much, and so insightfully, about the tenuous nature of reality precisely because he himself had such a tenuous hold on reality.
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  6731. I wonder if Trump believes the Moon landings were real ...
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  6732. 5:55 So Scotty’s waxing lyrical over “ion power” was a bit misplaced, then...
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  6733. Why not electromagnetism? Some years ago, I saw an item on TV showing a frog levitating in the presence of a very strong magnetic field. This field would have been even stronger than the one in an NMR machine, and was sufficient to magnetize the frog. Being made of predominantly diamagnetic materials, it was then repelled by the surface below and floated in the air (inside a bell jar). The animal seemed to suffer no ill effects afterwards. But I never heard of any subsequent developments of this experiment.
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  6734. So, are the Fox News crowd still demanding that the Capitol barriers be taken down?
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  6735. I guess they are the “party of faith” in more ways than one ...
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  6736. It’s a way to squeeze some more revenue out of those Excel jocks too dumb to realize that they can leave out the Excel part—indeed, the entire Microsoft part—and run a full professional-quality Python-based data-analytics stack for free.
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  6737. You tried that in Vietnam. How well did that go?
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  6738. Java is what COBOL used to be.
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  6739. 3:23 Bright red exhaust, not much flame ... hypergolic?
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  6740. Are those the real people, playing themselves?
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  6741. I wonder if Prigozhin is being prosecuted for perjury. Remember for many years he filed lawsuits against those accusing him of being involved with the Wagner group. Hasn’t he now admitted he has been lying under oath all along?
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  6742. Lots of people were in jail back then ... for what?
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  6743. The 68000 was best considered as a cut-down 32-bit processor. Moving to the 68020 was mostly a matter of filling in the gaps. Unlike all the contortions Intel had to go through with the evolution of the x86 line.
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  6744. Does screenkey do mouse buttons properly? The old key-mon did. My update of key-mon is here: https://github.com/ldo/key-mon .
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  6745. 5:25 RIP Robert Preston ...
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  6746. “Hollywood accounting” will see to it that it never does.
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  6747. And here I thought pump-n-dump was just a gas station with integrated toilet facilities.
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  6748.  @robertmazurowski5974  Sue for what, exactly?
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  6749. 1.
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  6750. 5:46 Split the difference logarithmically ... very perceptive.
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  6751. 1:48 s/Kotelkinov/Kotelnikov/
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  6752. 4:31 #TonyaHarding -- am I first?
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  6753. The company “Pixar” (from “Pixel Array”, I think) was named for that one hardware product--which they stopped making a long time ago. But they kept the name!
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  6754. The gravitational anomalies in the movements of stars in the outer parts of galaxies are real. “Dark matter” is just one hypothesis to try to explain them-probably the most popular one.
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  6755.  @gnub  Then we would see energy releases from random matter-antimatter collisions. Which are not observed. Remember that even small collisions of this type would produce massive amounts of energy.
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  6756.  @gnub  Just to add, repulsion would weaken gravitational attraction. What we observe is gravitational attraction stronger than it should be.
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  6757.  @gnub  Because opposite charges would still attract. But again, this would have the wrong effect on the strength of gravity.
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  6758.  @gnub  Repulsion is the opposite of attraction.
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  6759.  @gnub  Then you have to explain how the antimatter gets arranged into that ring, and how it avoids interacting with normal matter and emitting lots of energy that way.
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  6760.  @gnub  Then that would not exert a uniform force on the orbiting stars.
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  6761.  @gnub  That would have to be quite a coincidence, that they are somehow uniformly arranged around every normal-matter galaxy.
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  6762.  @gnub  No, the dark matter is distributed through the galaxy. It’s gravitationally attractive, after all.
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  6763. It would be interesting to see a video on the Nokia N9. The development of that started before Elop became boss, so he couldn’t kill it off right away. But he was able to put a stop to further development after the initial release. So this device was released into a limited number of markets, got rave reviews, and then after it was sold out you couldn’t buy any more. Instead, Nokia bet itself on Windows Phone, and lost.
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  6764. MacOS is “official” Unix, but Linux works more like you would expect a Unix system to work.
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  6765. This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zi4baiJMkbY is the only answer to that.
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  6766. 4:06 Interesting. Konsole itself has changed the tab-reordering shortcuts to CTRL-ALT-← and CTRL-ALT-→. This is because CTRL-SHIFT-← and CTRL-SHIFT-→ are now used to move between panes in a split view.
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  6767. 0:52 Is Bolsonaro still in the US? Still afraid to go back to Brazil? While his supporters are openly calling for a military coup to overturn the election?
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  6768. 5:15 And wherever GCC goes, Linux follows ... !
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  6769. @Jose Jaena Mari Ople How would that work, exactly? Would they somehow block Google from maintaining its own source repo?
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  6770. 5:21 The head of the Capitol Police and the Sergeants-at-Arms of both Houses have lost their jobs.
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  6771. Hey, I thought that phrase was entirely appropriate.
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  6772. 1:45 Kind of like a radar for light?
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  6773. “On top of the operating system is the rest of the system software. Here we find the command interpreter (shell), window systems, compilers, editors, and similar application-independent programs. It is important to realize that these programs are definitely not part of the operating system, even though they are typically supplied preinstalled by the computer manufacturer, or in a package with the operating system if it is installed after purchase. This is a crucial, but subtle, point. The operating system is (usually) that portion of the software that runs in kernel mode or supervisor mode. It is protected from user tampering by the hardware ...” -- Tanenbaum & Woodhull, “Operating Systems Design And Implementation”, third edition, page 3 That is the well-known “MINIX Book”, by the way. So you see, by that definition, Linux is very definitely an ”operating system”.
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  6774. Every single excuse that the gun nuts offer for why there is so much gun violence in the USA -- the Internet, video games, movies, TV, far-right politics, mental health -- all these factors occur just as much in other countries, yet they do not have the gun violence that the USA has. What’s different about the USA? The guns.
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  6775. Fun fact: jet fuel is just kerosene.
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  6776.  @AgentSquirrelA  Emacs can even edit non-text files. I successfully used it to apply patches to some proprietary binaries.
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  6777. 1:15 Fun fact: the first Apple Ipods (remember them?) had little Toshiba hard drives in them. Yup, spinning drives (I think 1¼” diameter) in a device that would be moving around a lot, kept in people’s pockets or purses, likely dropped and bumped a few times. And still keep working, without a bunch of engineers back at Mission Control continuously monitoring things. The market window for these tiny drives was brief, before flash memory completely took over from them.
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  6778. 6:08 And now in some households emergency services are only available via Internet. So why shouldn’t universal service provisions apply to that?
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  6779. The religiotypical will never understand those of us who are religiodiverse, will they.
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  6780. Would you consider Facebook to be “enterprise-grade”? They are built on PHP, and also Python.
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  6781. Jupyter does rich output and interactive widgets. It also lets you run your code incrementally, cell by cell.
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  6782. Interaction in notebooks is very useful. You know the old saying: “a picture is worth a thousand words”. Well, a picture that moves, that the user can interact with, is probably worth a hundred times that.
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  6783. Remember what Jupyter is for: it’s for exploration, teaching and “scratchpad” programming. It has these advanced interaction facilities, also including the Notebook API and asyncio support. It’s not an IDE, and it’s certainly not a bloated, inefficient one.
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  6784.  @nunezkant  It’s still not a tool for advanced data analytics, though. There’s a video by Bloomberg Finance, showing how they build custom analysis dashboards in Jupyter for their own experts. Go learn from them.
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  6785.  @nunezkant  And Jupyter also runs the asyncio event loop. That means you can have concurrent tasks managing “live” output on different cells at once. See what I mean about a “dashboard”?
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  6786.  @WalnutSpice  Linux manages to dream--and achieve--bigger.
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  6787. Israel has already killed so many Palestinians, demolished so many Palestinian houses, stolen so much of their land, fragmented their communities with so many walls and checkpoints, spied on them with so many cameras, subjected so many of them to arbitrary arrest and detention, declared so many support organizations to have associations with “terrorists”, raided them and shut them down ... if you treat people like animals, what have they got to lose?
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  6788. If it were Palatine versus Capitoline, I have to say my bet would have to be on Quirinal ...
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  6789. 15:30 Why would retrofitting a radar be out of the question? OK, looks like Arecibo had it included as part of the initial construction. But they were later able to upgrade the gantry structure; perhaps that would be doable for Tianyan as well?
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  6790. Maybe you’re looking in the wrong place. The canonical package for processing “raw” image files is dcraw https://packages.debian.org/buster/dcraw , which is the basis for a bunch of other packages, including a GIMP plugin. And like all good open-source packages, it is available on all supported architectures, including ARM. Other well-known image-processing tools like ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick are also available.
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  6791. Maybe you’re looking in the wrong place. The canonical package for processing “raw” image files is dcraw https://packages.debian.org/buster/dcraw , which is the basis for a bunch of other packages, including a GIMP plugin. And like all good open-source packages, it is available on all supported architectures, including ARM. Other well-known image-processing tools like ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick are also available.
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  6792. The name “Milky Way” is also a bit of a giveaway ...
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  6793. 4:40 Just thinking about that: these Republican-registered voters got to choose the candidates in the Republican primaries, then they didn’t vote for them come the actual election?!? Way to destroy the party from within, people ...
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  6794. There are multiple ethnicities in Burma/Myanmar. As I recall, the dominant one is called “Burman”.
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  6795. If you don’t know about TFS ... you don’t want to know.
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  6796. Put the cell signal emitter on another drone, so it moves around more like a real person carrying a cellphone, less like an obvious decoy. Then the 🇺🇦 drone can lead the 🇷🇺 drone a merry chase.
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  6797. 0:55 Lower tolerances, not higher. They are less tolerant of variations from the spec, not more.
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  6798. 1:29 Looks like those Tangent Camp lessons are paying off. Or maybe not. Tangent Camp is the one where, if you find your way there, they send you home to try again.
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  6799. You know what they say: one side’s “terrorist” is the other side’s “freedom fighter”. Look at the events surrounding the birth of the state of Israel, just for example: the assassinations committed by the Lehi group, just for example. Bombings and assassinations got the IRA a place at the negotiating table in Northern Ireland. And did you know that Nelson Mandela was officially classed as a “terrorist”?
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  6800. What does “stat” mean, anyway?
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  6801. Actually, it’s quite all right for certain special files (e.g. unix sockets) to be mode 777. That just means that the server listening on the socket will accept connections from anybody.
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  6802. They know where the revenue opportunity lies. And that is with Office 365, not Windows.
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  6803. Windows still needs to run a background defragger even today.
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  6804.  @Sir99156  Sorry 🙇. Feel free to correct the name as appropriate. Though I think the sentiment still applies. 😏
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  6805. Call that a GUI? This https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHOxUbi0-4M is a GUI.
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  6806.  @ttaute  How would it be different in other BASICs?
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  6807. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  6808. Don’t worry, things are simply going according to plan. In the first phase of Putin’s plan, for every week that Ukraine resisted, a Russian general would die. But now, in addition to that, facilities inside Russia are going to start to explode. Soon, the Ukrainians will have nobody to fight. And then, they will have no choice but to surrender!
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  6809. I was thinking Cartman.
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  6810. You do know it’s the R³ part I’m talking about, right?
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  6811.  @Eltaurus  You yourself wrote it as a Cartesian product. That means the P and R³ are separable. Do you know what that means?
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  6812. In a democracy where every vote counts equally, and those running for election are not the ones running the election, that would probably be tolerable.
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  6813.  @StillAliveAndKicking_  Also an independent Electoral Commission to set boundaries and run elections is important.
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  6814. Now do the same calculation with 8k video.
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  6815. If an unborn foetus is supposed to have all the rights of a full human being, shouldn’t that include the right to citizenship?
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  6816. If you write server code, creating systemd service files to control them is easier than for any other init system.
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  6817. Users don’t really matter in Open Source. What matters is community contributions. A project with millions of users can die if nobody contributes to keeping it alive. Conversely, a project with a minuscule number of users can survive and thrive, if it has a strong community around it.
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  6818. Think of all the times Republicans have consulted with Democrats over policy. You’d think they would return the favour.
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  6819. 10:57 Before COSTAR went up to fix Hubble’s poor eyesight, I remember going to a presentation by a visiting researcher who was part of the team working on applying deconvolution techniques to sharpen up the Hubble images. Basically, they modelled the effect the aberration was having, and worked out how to apply an inverse transformation on the blurred images. It took a lot of number crunching, and presumably rounding errors would also limit the effectiveness, but they were able to get some quite decent, usable results.
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  6820. ... but who was it who actually carried out that instruction?
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  6821. Just avoid wildcard imports, and you’ll be fine.
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  6822.  @TylerLarson  I hope you’re not trying to offer up YouTube as an example of “perfect” code ...
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  6823.  @TylerLarson  None of which is relevant to the point. And that is, providing a point you can search for, to find the origin of a name. A from-import statement works fine for that, so long as it’s not a wildcard import.
    1
  6824. If Jesus is God, and Jesus is the son of God, does that mean that Jesus is his own grandpa?
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  6825. You could have used GNU Autotools for your build system. That was full of workarounds for quirks in various proprietary Unices that didn’t quite conform to the specs. Also, the first thing any seasoned Unix admin did with a new box was install the GNU userland tools on it anyway. They usually worked a lot better than the vendor-provided proprietary equivalents.
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  6826. Now imagine him playing a comedian in a straight movie -- he was Charlie Chaplin in The Cat’s Meow . It’s about a certain fateful weekend on board William Randolph Hearst’s yacht, where somebody was murdered, yet nobody was ever charged. Why? Because William Randolph Hearst, of course.
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  6827. And of course, you get the antiliberals who, predictably, are incapable of responding on anything other than the level of “I know you are, but what am I?”.
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  6828. More complaints for them to ignore, just like they already ignore existing complaints from their users.
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  6829. Arr, he be annoying in the way he speaks, ’tis true, arr.
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  6830. “GitHub Copy-Lot” FTW!
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  6831. Unfortunately, thanks to Oracle closing it up again, open-source Solaris has to work off an obsolete Solaris code base.
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  6832. Actually, I think they all do. Wasn’t DSA designed as an alternative to RSA that was only useful for signatures, not encryption? And didn’t somebody discover that you could use it for encryption, albeit very clumsily and inefficiently?
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  6833.  @PauxloE  Any maths that can work one way, can work the other way. It may not be efficient or practical, but it’s possible.
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  6834. You’re not running it on Windows, are you?
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  6835. Seems unfair that she should use her political position in this way to -- what, she has no political position, she is just a private citizen exercising her free speech rights? How subversive!
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  6836. I have a problem with the AGPL, in that it is the only purportedly-“free” licence that tries to limit Freedom 0 (the freedom to use the software as you wish). For this reason, I think of it as a non-Free licence.
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  6837. 8:03 I’m actually currently using an ext3 volume for my boot drive. See, Linux is flexible, it gives you choices.
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  6838. It’s not fair to the Republican lifestyle that reality has a liberal bias. We demand equal alternativefacts for all!
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  6839. 4:18 This https://sistemaplastics.com/products/microwave/rice-steamer is what I use now. Nice and simple. Note the anti-splatter lid insert—helps keep the inside of your microwave clean!
    1
  6840. “Responsible gun ownership” is an oxymoron. Why are so many gun injuries self-inflicted?
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  6841. So, Diddums Putin is upset that things are not going his way? Crimea river.
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  6842. There is a concept called the “disruptive technology”. This is where some new technology comes along that the existing players either cannot or will not adopt, perhaps because it runs counter to their business model, or is even antithetical to their existing customers. Windows NT on lower-cost x86 machines was that disruptive technology to the Unix market. Just as Linux is now being disruptive to them both.
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  6843. So what happens after he’s sacked? Do they hold a by-election in his district? And if he wins (which seems likely), he’s right back in again?
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  6844.  @marksharnsky5587  I thought your guy was supposed to be better than the others. Yet here you are defending him by admitting he’s just as bad.
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  6845. Science is about confronting the tough questions, not running away from them. Is life too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  6846.  @RickDelmonico  So you would answer “yes” to my question, then?
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  6847. 7:40 Has he forgotten that Putin intervened in 🇸🇾 on behalf of President Bashar Al-Assad? So whom is he wanting to “denazify”?
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  6848. Which is the one that tortures people?
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  6849. RISC has dominated computing for over 30 years now. x86 is the only non-RISC architecture still in common use, and in terms of popularity, it’s only about number 3 or 4.
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  6850. 11:13 Same with tldr.
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  6851. Here’s a handy one: “\b” for matching word boundaries. For example, using “\bi\b” to search through code for the variable “i” without matching parts of every single word containing the letter “i”.
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  6852. 1:34 Guess what Sirhan Sirhan’s middle name is? Actually, I don’t know.
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  6853. So, how’s the Vladimir Putin fan club doing?
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  6854. I like to use Jupyter these days for scratchpad calculations. More powerful than any handheld calculator.
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  6855. Particularly when you combine it with something like screen or tmux at the other end. It just illustrates what a pathetic excuse for a command line Windows has.
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  6856. There is a thing called Benford’s Law, which is a basic “sniff test” to spot certain types of dodgy numbers right away.
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  6857. A lot of images, e.g. many of those famous Hubble Space Telescope ones, are made at least in part from wavelengths other than visible light. So in these cases, yes, the assigned colours can become somewhat arbitrary.
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  6858. That’s why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.
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  6859. Surely all that is obsolete now. Where are these “training videos” coming from?
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  6860. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  6861. A proper democracy would offer a realistic choice of more than 2 political parties.
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  6862.  @HardHardMaster  Ah, MTV Europe ... we had that for a brief while, here in 🇳🇿. In 🇺🇸, they make jokes about MTV not actually playing music. But the international versions certainly did do a lot of that.
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  6863. @gilkesisking Actually “Bourne Again”. The original Unix “sh” was created by a guy named Bourne.
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  6864. Ah, the infamous caps-lock incident ... poor guy nearly shouted himself hoarse. I can remember back in the last century, when it was only geeks who understood that joke.
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  6865. Nobody should be using such insecure technologies any more.
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  6866. No, it wasn’t disco that did it (though disco did benefit from it), it was FM radio that popularized the 12” single. For example, New Order’s Blue Monday could not be described as a “disco” piece, yet the 12” version was all over the airwaves around the mid-1980s, when FM really hit NZ in a big way.
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  6867. I wonder if he’ll be up for perjury charges as a result of his testimony at this trial. Maybe then he’ll get some jail time.
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  6868. 1:33 Actually, this is what containers (e.g. LXC) already do.
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  6869. So, your number one choice is between one stunning moment of major idiocy, versus the product of a thousand separate acts of minor idiocy--between an acute cockup versus a chronic one, if you like. Worth pointing out a slight cancellation between two of the separate items on your list: if the Shuttle had not existed, it would not have been able to conduct those Hubble repair missions.
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  6870. @Deluded Retrumplicans Everywhere: stand up and tell that to a judge in a courtroom, then I will take you seriously. But not before then.
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  6871. Thankfully this is mainly confined to one country.
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  6872. The reason why Windows is a mess is largely down to the app developers (plus apathy from Microsoft). Back in the pre-Windows-95 days, configuration was done with these text-based .INI files. Which are such a neat idea that some software on Linux still uses them (and there is a standard Python module for parsing them!). But Windows never had a standard place to put the things. So they ended up scattered everywhere. Instead of defined a standard Windows equivalent to the /etc directory, Microsoft decided to make app developers get rid of .INI files, and put their config information in the Registry instead. But that just created a new mess. As for the rest of app installs, if Windows had a standard Linux-style package manage to keep track of where things went, that would make it much easier to reduce conflicts and manage upgrades en masse , as well as do clean uninstalls. Again, Microsoft shows no enthusiasm for the idea.
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  6873.  @lale5767  Ever wondered why a Windows install requires half a dozen reboots?
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  6874.  @lale5767  You tell me what they’re for, then.
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  6875.  @lale5767  Conway’s Law says “Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it”. It is well-known among seasoned Windows users that you can fix 90% of problems (or at least make them go away for a while) by rebooting. You would think that Microsoft itself, with its special insight into the operations of a platform that it created, would have a better answer. But it appears that it does not.
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  6876.  @1969cmp  So you are going against what Trump says?
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  6877.  @debrachowning6470  So, when’s the next court case challenging the election result? Looking forward to seeing all this “evidence” that Giuliani claims to have of fraud being presented to an actual judge.
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  6878.  @debrachowning6470  And who should know but lefty lying liberal media, right? That proves it, then! Take that to the court case! When is Rudy planning the next one?
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  6879. I/O was a really difficult thing back in the day, with such a range of completely different devices with different behaviours--punched cards, punched paper tapes, line printers, magnetic tapes, disks and drums with entirely different filesystems. ALGOL 68 tried to solve the problem comprehensively, and ended up spending about a third of the reference manual just talking about I/O. It was really only the popularity of Unix, with its unified I/O model that vendors of other OSes started emulating, that made the problem finally go away.
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  6880. 6:45 “Crude”? What a way to put down the Soviet space program...
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  6881. 0:17 https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuspiciouslySpecificDenial
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  6882. Bakelite was invented in 1907.
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  6883. Anybody who thinks that, go look up “Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs”. It’s an MIT undergrad course. If you manage to pass it, you might learn something about programming languages.
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  6884. I prefer “git checkout -b «newbranch»” to create a new branch from the current point and switch to it, all in one step.
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  6885. 11:17 That was in the NTSC world. In the PAL world, we just had SP and LP. Tape speeds were slower on PAL VHS tapes, for some reason, so EP wasn’t considered necessary. We had 2- and 3-hour tapes, which could record double that in LP mode.
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  6886. Is there a special place you can be isolated, so you can get sick and die without infecting others?
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  6887. CNN+ was just 32 days from launch to shutdown.
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  6888. Remember that, as far as much of 🇺🇸 is concerned, just about the entire rest of the world qualifies as “Radical Left”!
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  6889. Be careful about putting too much faith in 🇺🇸 intelligences in particular: look how (in)accurate they were about predicting the survival of the 🇦🇫 Government against the Taliban.
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  6890. 0:27 In mitigation, let me compare you to David Attenborough, who takes a whole set of identical shirts on his location shoots. That way, they can cut the footage together in any order, and nobody will be able to point out “hey, why did his shirt change from this to that, and then back to this again, within ten seconds?”.
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  6891. T***p wanted to buy Greenland, didn’t he? That didn’t seem to go down well.
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  6892. Trying to decide whether one particular fragment of mythology should or should not make it into yet another overflowing anthology of mythology ... wow, that’s really important in the scheme of things.
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  6893. Go Bernie!
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  6894. I used to use Perl, before discovering Python. With Perl, I always felt that there were esoteric implications to the constructs I was using, that the Perl masters understood and I did not. With Python, I found it quite clear from the beginning what all the constructs did. Surprises were few.
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  6895. 2:23 I think an early draft of ALGOL-68 very nearly violated that tradition by introducing “::=” as a syntactic symbol. Thankfully this was changed later.
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  6896. 3:32 But why do they have to inflict this backward-compatibility baggage on every Windows user? Why not offer a special support deal to these “legacy” “enterprise” customers, at some suitably high price which, deep-pocketed as they are, you know they can afford to pay. Then they could simplify the OS for everybody else, and reduce their own mainstream support costs at the same time.
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  6897. 2:52 “A minute”? HAH! Here in NZ, I would regularly set the end time 5 or 10 minutes after the scheduled end of the program. And heaven help you if there was any live sport on ...
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  6898. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  6899. You may consider your children to be “abortions” (kind of like your adults, really), we don’t.
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  6900. There are lead isotopes that are radioactive. Come to think of it, every element has isotopes that are radioactive.
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  6901. I just had a new idea for a cat video. Am I bad?
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  6902. “Cortina” would make more sense for something you might put on “windows”, would it not ...
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  6903. But we keep getting told that no living thing can survive passage through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting through?
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  6904. 4:22 Something like a “doorknocker” missile, perhaps?
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  6905. Gary Kildall, the creator of CP/M, did its early development on a DEC PDP-10 machine running the TOPS-10 OS. This had multicharacter device names like “DB0:”, “DB1:”, “DK0:” etc. He simplified that down to one character for CP/M, figuring that was enough for the time. Why did Microsoft feel the need to keep that (mis)feature in a new-generation OS created for the 1990s and beyond?
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  6906.  @KingKong-mp6gj  You can try using mount points, but there is still Windows software that will only install to the C: drive.
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  6907.  @zoomosis  16-bit Windows apps went away; why is it drive letters could not?
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  6908.  @KingKong-mp6gj  So what is the value of mount points, if you can’t actually use them?
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  6909.  @zoomosis  But nobody is using 32-bit Windows any more, are they? And “non-tech” Linux and Mac users seem to be able to manage without drive letters just fine.
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  6910.  @hbm293  They are “core functionality” if software will not work properly without them.
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  6911.  @KingKong-mp6gj  What does “D” stand for? Couldn’t you have given it a more meaningful name, like “Music Library”?
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  6912.  @hbm293  Which one runs the software that users care about, again?
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  6913.  @KingKong-mp6gj  It stands for my name. What does your “D” stand for?
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  6914. One big mystery to me is why Windows NT had NTFS embedded so deeply into its heart. Other OSes, like Linux, added a generic VFS layer so they could handle any number of different filesystems on an equal basis, but in Windows, a lot of features, like mount points, would only work with NTFS.
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  6915. 4:10 No, you are filtering out the high frequencies -- that is what a low-pass filter does. This leaves only the average of the on-off mixture, which is a greyscale.
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  6916.  @shallex5744  You mentioned “large corporations”. What do they have to do with it, if is not “commercial”?
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  6917.  @shallex5744  If you have no problem with “commercial”, what exactly was your objection to “corporations”?
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  6918.  @shallex5744  So in what way does “Open Source” dilute away from that?
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  6919.  @shallex5744  See, there you are, just regurgitating Stallman again.
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  6920. I don’t understand why the USA was able to ban its Communist Party as a threat to society, yet the KKK gets off with impunity.
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  6921. 5:52 Note this is list template expansion, not string template expansion. The input is a list structure, and the output is a list structure. This is also part of the macro facility, which expands program text that is already in AST form (homoiconicity). This is a much more robust and powerful macro facility than the conventional ♯define that does string expansion, that you might be familiar with from C and other languages.
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  6922. Boomer is OK!
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  6923. Because those who would vote against them are discouraged from voting.
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  6924. We call it “hum”. What other word should we use?
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  6925. 10:38 Ah, late 1970s CG. Took quite a lot of effort to produce that, back in the day.
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  6926. Remember, ARM Ltd has been in business for about 30 years. You don’t survive that long without making a comfortable profit. But now the managers are just getting greedy.
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  6927. People work on what they want to work on. If something isn’t to your liking, contribute a patch to fix it. Too many users have been indoctrinated with a mentality more appropriate to proprietary systems, where you cannot actually fix anything, you can only passively complain and hope that somebody is listening (fat hopes).
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  6928.  @mskiptr  And the question marks over the future ownership of ARM.
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  6929. 5:53 Ah, does that hold a clue to why Russia launched that missile at Kyiv while Guterres was visiting? Suggesting that it could do the same if the 🇺🇸 President happened to be a handy target?
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  6930. Don’t forget, all the best security software is FOSS: SELinux, AppArmor, OpenSSH, OpenSSL, OpenVPN, WireGuard ...
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  6931. Somehow I don’t think that anything built on Electron can be considered “lightweight” ...
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  6932. No good for direct viewing as a terrestrial telescope; only two lenses means images will be upside-down.
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  6933. Holland is in the Netherlands, isn’t it?
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  6934. 1:54 One problem with the Windows approach was that every GUI element (every button, menu, possibly even every menu item) was a “window” as far as the OS was concerned. And storage for every “window” was allocated from an area known as the “system resource heap”, which only had a small, finite size. So your machine could have lots of RAM, but if the GUI was too complex (or you had too many of them running at once), you could still run out of system resources!
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  6935. As I understand it, this is still a problem.
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  6936. 6:21 I see what look like Emacs temp files at the top, only they’re dated months prior to the publication date of this video.
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  6937. Yes, I, too, like this Chip Chapman. Quite a chirpy chap.
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  6938. Seems like masks, even cheaply-made non-surgical-grade ones, do help somewhat.
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  6939. It’s not real people commenting. They’re just figments of the Matrix.
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  6940.  @BrodieRobertson  Just looking at the main build script for Blender, for example, I count 11 occurrences of “if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)”. Obvious things that are omitted on the MacOS build include: FreeType, portable build, the man page and X11. Also I’m not sure if FFmpeg is supported.
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  6941.  @BrodieRobertson  That’s what I mean about “traditional” Unix. You wouldn’t imagine running a system without X11 (even Wayland is going to need XWayland for some time yet). Yet that is what Apple offers.
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  6942. The irony is that there is a single section marked “if(UNIX AND NOT (APPLE OR HAIKU))”, to do with X11. So even Haiku manages to include itself in the other “if(UNIX...)” sections, Apple does not.
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  6943. 1:49 I see she still has that face shield ping-pong paddle for spittle ...
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  6944. If it never ends, then it becomes a habit.
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  6945. Linux distros are not for life. You are free to change your mind at any time. And since they all run fundamentally the same apps, you can just take your data with you. You can even multiboot different distros, and have them share the same /home area, to save copying stuff back and forth. Feel free to experiment!
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  6946. Windows on ARM is never going to overcome the chicken-and-egg problem: people aren’t going to buy the machines because they don’t have native apps, and vendors aren’t going to bother to make native apps if nobody is going to buy them.
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  6947. But it doesn’t have PICTUREs or ISAM files, like COBOL! Honestly, how can you say your language addresses business needs better than COBOL?
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  6948.  @maireos  Is Irish a “race” now?
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  6949. Unfortunately Oracle deliberately designed the ZFS licence to prohibit things like that.
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  6950. Dr Dre and Metallica are responsible for killing Napster. Never forget.
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  6951. 0:53 Here’s how to tell them apart: Michelangelo was a sculptor, Leonardo was a painter and would-be engineer. Yeah. So how come a sculptor gets hired to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel? Maybe he was having a slow week ... which stretched out to ten years ...
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  6952. Multi-tasking optimizes response time over throughput. Sometimes you need one, sometimes the other. That’s true of computers, and also of humans, too.
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  6953.  @1h3art_mys3lf-  I don’t understand the distinction without a difference. What are these paths of, if not rays of light?
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  6954. 2:35 One AU is 150 million kilometres or thereabouts.
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  6955. I eat bacon with my mouth.
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  6956. Hopefully not Trump’s god ...
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  6957. 1:24 Yeah! Yeah! And double-yeah! Scrap that slave-era Electoral College crap now!
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  6958. “Special Political Operation”
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  6959. Difference between “review” and “needs investigation”, I guess. Beware of bureaucratic terminology being used to obscure the truth ...
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  6960. This is why an actively-contributing community is more important than millions of passive users.
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  6961. All subatomic particles have a magnetic field. This includes neutrons.
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  6962.  @steeler180  Gravity.
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  6963. 10:39 EGL is a cross-platform API to allow an app to get an OpenGL context tied to a GUI window. Curious: how do things like “Gallium” and “Linux DRI/DRM” fit into this?
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  6964. 0:30 What about mimes?
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  6965. 9:00 It’s all in the mind, you know.
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  6966. Which MP3 encoder do you use? LAME seems to be the best.
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  6967. Does a cagey bee wonder if pri goes in, what comes out?
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  6968. In other news, I can’t wait to see what Seth and others are going to make of the announcement that the New York Attorney General has filed suit to dismantle the NRA for fraud and general misuse of funds. And the Washington DC AG is going after the (ostensibly nonprofit) NRA Foundation because it has been illicitly funnelling donation money to the NRA proper. The NY AG is the same one who successfully shut down Trump’s “charity” shenanigans. So she has a track record for getting the crooks.
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  6969. “Da Vinci” is not a “last name” as such. They didn’t have them then. It just meant “of Vinci”, being the town he came from, in Tuscany.
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  6970. You did say “was”, not “is” ...
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  6971. “Uncanny Valley” is not a concept peculiar to the Computer Age ...
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  6972. 3:01 “Inaugural”.
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  6973. Formula One isn’t about going as fast as possible -- leave that to NASCAR. To most people outside the US, motorsport is about smarts, not going flat out. It’s not about going round and round in circles, it’s about outmanæouvring the opposition. American motorsport is so dangerous that somebody dies every few years. That doesn’t happen in Formula One.
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  6974. Fun fact: its foundation was slavery.
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  6975. To be fair, anything that the laws of physics allow would be fine. Basically, if you can stay up without falling over, you pass.
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  6976. No “magic” to make it disappear. Just hard work. With a competent leadership that understands what’s needed, and how to provide it.
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  6977. 3:49 I just tried this: list(e.get_attribute("name") for e in driver.find_elements_by_class_name("search-field")) and got back ['s']
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  6978. One political party has completely abandoned any pretense of playing by the rules, and is just out for a naked power grab, at whatever cost, democracy and rule of law be damned.
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  6979. It’s got to be done very carefully, with all the evidence nailed down watertight so nobody can accuse them of some kind of “political witch-hunt”. Of course, it helps that so much of the testimony has come from TFG’s own top team. If you want to call them all a bunch of traitors, then what does that say for the top guy’s competence as a judge of character?
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  6980. Impedance mismatch between static-oriented IDE and dynamic language. So sad.
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  6981. Are the video formats proprietary? (Patent-encumbered, that is.) Does the camera come with an EULA restricting what you can do with your footage? So you have to pay extra licence fees for commercial usage, that kind of thing?
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  6982. Funny how, when Russia uses cluster munitions, the US accuses them of war crimes. Yet when the US wants to use them, it’s OK.
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  6983. 2:29 2.54² = 6.4516 cm²
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  6984.  @kc9scott  That is correct. The genius of Steve Wozniak was in coming up with such a hardware-minimal design. And not just that, but one where the software work was done on such a low-powered processor. Engineers would look at the Apple II motherboard and ask “where’s the floppy controller?”. There wasn’t one. Or rather, it was the “RWTS” routine in the ROM.
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  6985. Why do Conservatives care so much about Twitter? They are a private company, right? Entitled to run their business as they see fit, right? Or do Conservatives think that the Government should pass rules regulating how businesses operate?
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  6986. It’s a proprietary OS, so not sure what the point would be.
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  6987. No, it is not Open Source, it says it is “shared source” https://www.riscosopen.org/content/documents/licences For reference, the definition of Open Source: https://opensource.org/osd
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  6988. She certainly doesn’t give any credence to “Jewish Space Lasers” ...
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  6989. Submit a patch.
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  6990. On top of that, ground is often not at ground voltage. You can have these things called “ground loops”. Audio engineers know all about that. When you hear a hum coming through the speakers, when there’s not supposed to be any sound? That’s a ground loop.
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  6991. I thought the C++ “<<” output operator was quite neat, until I realized it doesn’t allow easy localization. When you need to be able to reorder the parts of a sentence to fit different language grammars just with template strings, without having to change your code, printf works a lot better.
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  6992. Poor Rob Lowe ... that’s a raw blow.
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  6993. 9:01 🇨🇳 Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Or should I say, ex- Foreign Minister?
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  6994. Look at the build scripts for cross-platform open-source tools, and count the occurrences of things like “if(UNIX AND NOT APPLE)”.
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  6995. Sigh He was so careful to keep emphasizing “band-limited”, and yet the ill-informed responses are so predictable ...
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  6996. I can think of a few issues more pressing than climate change: * A looming shortage of clean water * Antibiotics losing their effectiveness * The rise of the anti-vaxxers Go on, tell me these are less important...
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  6997. How many classes does it take to implement a regex in Java?
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  6998. 5:01 100,000 times is also a common figure for sector rewritability on flash storage.
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  6999. Java is just way too wordy and convoluted. One example is the whole “Selector” mechanism for managing nondeterministic I/O. It’s something like 4 different classes and I don’t remember how many dozen methods. For comparison, Python sums it all up in its “select” module, where you only need one class with just a few methods.
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  7000.  @CottidaeSEA  So is there some simpler alternative to the “Selector” mechanism now? Enquiring minds would like to know.
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  7001.  @CottidaeSEA  Just look at the APIs I mentioned, and compare them.
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  7002.  @CottidaeSEA  In Python I can wait on a file descriptor with just 3 calls: * Create a poll object * Register my FD * call poll.poll(), with or without a timeout. Try doing the equivalent in Java.
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  7003.  @CottidaeSEA  Show us some code to demonstrate how you do FD selection.
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  7004. Even Microsoft won’t use Dotnet for anything important ...
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  7005. Shellular technology has come a long way.
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  7006.  @Vexxel256  Electron is for lazy programmers who don’t care about their users.
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  7007. 2:58 Ah, that 400K floppy drive whirr ... and listen to the note change as it changes the motor speed for different tracks. The later 800K drives didn’t whirr musically any more ... they just grunted.
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  7008.  @mikaelkjericsson  Glad to hear it!
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  7009. 17:27 How many keys on that keyboard!?
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  7010. Says the guy who walked away from the deal to rein in Iran.
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  7011. The US is seen to be complicit in Israel’s bombing of that hospital. It needs to stop wringing its hands and exert pressure to bring about a ceasefire now.
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  7012. You can make the fan blades spin by parenting them to armature bones. They don’t need to be separate objects, just so long as they are assigned to vertex groups that match the bone names. That’s how character animation works, after all.
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  7013. There would be non-invasive ways of reading out the memory state, with external passive probes or something.
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  7014.  @jan_harald  Given that the newer analytical toolkits are primarily using Python and other Free software, I would say your Microsoft-centric workflow is best described as “legacy technology” nowadays.
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  7015.  @jan_harald  Depends on whether your company thinks of their computing facilities as a strategic asset, or just some unavoidable expense.
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  7016. But if he won in 2020, then he’s not eligible to run again.
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  7017. 2:54 So you nominate for party dude a guy who spent much of his life painting the same mountain over and over. (He also kick-started French Impressionism, so I guess that counts...)
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  7018. Hi from NZ, where today we have moved up an alert level to 2 for all of the country except Auckland, which has gone to level 3.
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  7019. If you think your point is not being addressed by any existing distros, feel free to start your own.
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  7020. It would have been simpler and more reliable to just have a hardware reset button, as most other PCs did.
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  7021. 1:55 What constitutes “detailed nuts and bolts” seems to vary over time, though. When higher-level languages were first invented, to take away the requirement to write in assembler, they were referred to as “automatic programming”, since the “program” was considered to be the actual executable machine code, the source code being a kind of “specification” of how to generate that. HTML still requires you to worry about the “detailed nuts and bolts” of setting up a form and defining its fields and their CSS properties, for example. If you want to go higher level than that, you resort to something like JQuery.
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  7022. Interesting also that he took a left turn up those stairs. Up on the right was the Senate chamber, with Senators still inside. By going left, he was able to lure the rioters away for long enough for the Senators to get away. Who is he? Nobody has named him. Seems that, in the heat of the moment and with his life on the line, he still managed to do his job.
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  7023. I wonder if Rupert Murdoch is still stinging because Trump accused his newspaper of “fake news” when it printed his actual comments about Theresa May.
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  7024. 9:26 I learned this phrase a while back: ”auto-da-fe”. Use it in good health. ;)
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  7025. I hate “quantum-this” and “quantum-that”. A few years back I came across various implementations on GitH
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  7026.  @HeathenHammer80  So is that just like, they made a promise during their election campaign, and broke it afterwards? Just like any politician?
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  7027. Not necessarily accurate -- see my comment on pdfinfo.
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  7028. Putin needs to do to Prigozhin what Krushchev did to Beria.
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  7029. 2:42 WHACK! Some barely-repressed hostility irritation there ...
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  7030. So nice to hear that 🇺🇸 was a beacon of human rights, even back then.
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  7031. This guy is a gun-nut dupe and a fool. Having a gun means the cops have even more chance of killing you and getting away with it. For example, Fernando Castile.
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  7032. 21:38 I have a number of electronic appliances, here in my office and in my living room, with no power switches. Some are even plugged into multipoint adapters with no power switches.
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  7033. GUIs are handy for running lots of terminal and editor windows, and being able to copy and paste between them. 🐧🐧🐧👍
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  7034. 4:41 It seems to be traditional to use the “telinit” command to give these commands to the already-running init process (PID 1), rather than invoke init itself. But hey ...
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  7035. 11:21 Spot the Mel Brooks shoutout.
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  7036. Apparently their journalistic arm does actually have something resembling integrity. It’s their political pundits who are just spouters of hot air. There was a court case involving a lawsuit against something Tucker Carlson said, and the only way he could defend it was to admit that his show wasn’t meant to be taken as factual at all. The judge described it as “non-literal commentary”.
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  7037. Lady Fly-Safe needs her own mic.
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  7038. Military objectives are usually to conquer places, not turn them to rubble. Because a pile of rubble is no use to anybody. Yet that is all the Russian military seems capable of doing--turn cities into rubble piles.
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  7039.  @benlakowsky1701  You make it sound like rubble piles are a worthy military objective.
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  7040.  @brianticas2068  Russia ... the rubble empire.
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  7041. You are not going to get anything x86 new for a two-figure price tag.
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  7042.  @naturalfps  Because this is new.
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  7043. Looking at the state of US politics today, one of the major parties is trying to do what’s good for the majority of citizens, while the other is putting its own greed for power ahead of the good of the country. Which one is claiming that election results that were certified free and fair by officials and by the courts, nevertheless had something wrong with them? Therefore the system needs to be “fixed” to ensure that the majority does not win the vote in future? Which one refuses to support measures introduced by the other party, even when those measures are popular among their own voters? Which one is sinking deeper and deeper into bizarre conspiracy theories that are totally unhinged from reality?
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  7044. CBS deserves a lot of the credit blame for creating the Trump phenomenon in the first place. Remember their boss Moonves said Trump may not be good for America, but he’s damn good for CBS? The media were giving him more air minutes than, really, all the other candidates put together.
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  7045. 9:25 Why did the Internet win out over the proprietary online services? They had the content, but the Internet had the connectivity. So ultimately, the content had to go where the connectivity was. And that was the end of the high-priced online services. See also: Microsoft’s “Project Blackbird” from around this time. The original plan for MSN was that it was going to be a proprietary network, based on proprietary Microsoft tools. Even with Microsoft’s massive marketing clout, that vision completely failed to take off.
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  7046. “Fox News” and “Science” ... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
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  7047. It’s like some kind of infectious disease that has got into their brains. Maybe Trump is the carrier.
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  7048. Those protecting Government officials are cops, and cops can keep their guns. It’s their job to know how to use them to keep us all safe. Because they have to answer to us all for their use of those guns, and that’s what keeps them honest. After all, blue lives matter, don’t they?
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  7049. 12:22 Watch out for the old AN/FSQ-7! Also seen in Sleeper in the android repair workshop.
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  7050. If you want to see how Taiwan might respond to an invasion from you-know-who, just look at Ukraine.
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  7051. WordPress is probably a good example, because it gets developed so rapidly that your distro package is likely to be out of date.
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  7052.  @dkosmari  Correct. “Emulation” in CS doesn’t really mean anything fundamentally different from, say, “implementation”.
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  7053. KDE has a choice of app menu widgets. Which one are you referring to?
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  7054. Poe’s Law strikes again ...
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  7055. Remember who owns Sky. You are getting fed your pablum from a guy who’s older than Joe Biden.
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  7056. Presumably the problem was simplified a bit, over conventional CG ray-tracers, in that you didn’t have to deal with any actual bounces off objects. You just followed each ray from the camera until it hit an object (or exceeded some maximum range), and left it at that. No issues with diffuse versus specular materials, lighting etc.
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  7057. 15:26 You find credit cards scary? You shouldn’t.
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  7058. By the way, the “F” in “PDF” stands for “Format”. There’s no point in my sending you a “Portable Document Format”, but there is in my sending you a file in Portable Document Format. In other words, I don’t send you a PDF, I send you a PDF file.
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  7059. Fun fact: that’s an anagram for “Ewok”.
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  7060. The followers of the Christian sky-fairy are firmly in his camp, never forget that.
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  7061. 13:04 “god particle” was a bowdlerization of “goddamned particle”. As in “goddamned hard to find”, I guess.
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  7062. That’s one of many different error-diffusion algorithms.
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  7063. 6:48 “f over 1.8”.
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  7064. Note the angle of the light: it is shining on the eastern rims of the craters, so the Sun is in the west. It’s late afternoon on the far side, heading towards evening and night. Meanwhile, here on Earth, we see the Moon a little past new.
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  7065. I think they call this “Liberal Envy”...
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  7066. It’s not the show saying he is President.
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  7067.  @LTCHenryL  I’m sure if he had been at the rally, Jake would have talked to him.
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  7068.  @Om_1337  To show that the holy book was wrong!?
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  7069. 7:42 How come medicine bottles know how to merge lanes without getting stuck in a jam? (I was in Auckland traffic this afternoon ... I think I’ll just sit quietly until I stop trembling...)
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  7070. Wasn’t Trump’s wall supposed to keep them out? What happened to all the billions he spent on it? And when is Mexico going to pay?
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  7071. Maybe if he’d spent less time playing golf and more time doing his job, he needn’t have stopped construction.
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  7072. Pointing blame was what the former guy was good at. That was his excuse for not getting things done. When he was not playing golf.
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  7073. Unlike the real thing, that Mammoth Car could really motor.
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  7074. POSIX behaviour is indeed for PID 1 to become the parent of orphaned processes. Linux offers some extra options, in the form of the prctl(2) call, to modify this, if you want. Otherwise the POSIX behaviour is the default.
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  7075. Umm, just to be sure, I rechecked the POSIX spec, and it doesn’t actually say anything specifically about PID 1. All it says is that the parent is initially the process that created the child, and that “After the creator’s lifetime has ended, the parent process ID is the process ID of an implementation-defined system process”.
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  7076. Science is about confronting the tough questions, not running away from them. Is life too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  7077. Suppose the answer is “yes”. If life is too complex to have arisen by itself, then it must have been created by something ... or someone.
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  7078. But surely this entity that created life must be even more complex than life itself.
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  7079. I remember Linus Torvalds’ scathing response to the idea that “SVN is CVS done right”. As far as he was concerned, there was no way that CVS could be “done right”.
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  7080. 5:40 I wonder where people get all these pseudo-mathematical chalkboard scratchings from. What gives it away for me? For one, π is only shown to 3 significant figures. For another, I see an unreduced fraction at the upper right. #mathsgeek
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  7081. 4:56 One problem that I’m not sure has been solved is that any CA can issue a cert for any domain. Thus, one dodgy CA can undermine the whole system by issuing bogus certs for sites that everybody uses.
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  7082.  @philporada5655  How do you validate CAA records?
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  7083. I’m surprised they know about the internet.
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  7084. Remember that audio CDs came out soon after the whole quadraphonic fad went bust. So I think they were concentrating primarily on delivering high-quality 2-channel stereo sound, because that’s what the market clearly wanted. CDs were designed for audio first, and general computer data second. Whereas with DVDs it was the other way round. Thus, it was easier to add new audio and video formats on DVDs, just by adding new file format options.
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  7085. Surround sound is more realistic. I think the problem was that 4 channels wasn’t enough; that’s why you have 5.1, or even 7.1 or more nowadays.
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  7086. The Citizens United case was the one that allowed PACs to be treated legally as people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC , with no limits on how much they could spend.
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  7087. KDE is for people who want their desktop to look the way they want. There’s a tute somewhere that shows how to make it look like MacOS, if you want. You see, on Linux, the GUI is just another replaceable modular layer, it’s not part of the OS, like it is on those more typical 1990s-era operating systems.
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  7088. What’s the alternative? You’re not suggesting multithreading the GUI, are you?
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  7089.  @PaulaJBean  You’re not suggesting we use callbacks instead?
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  7090.  @PaulaJBean  Callbacks require fragmenting your UI logic into discontiguous pieces. This makes it harder to figure out what’s going on.
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  7091.  @PaulaJBean  Who said it did?
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  7092. Fun fact: Python does actually include a module called “array” in its standard library. Guess what it does.
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  7093. 25:05 Looks like that project fell through, and he left Apple that same year to co-found General Magic.
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  7094. Actually tar will automatically recognize the compression format when extracting, so “xvf” should work on all compressed tar archives.
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  7095. Sounds like they copied the idea from Burroughs.
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  7096. The movie OCD is strong in this one.
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  7097. Most download tools and protocols very quickly acquired the ability to resume interrupted transfers, precisely to get around this problem.
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  7098. 4:03 Wrong answer. SSH already gives you secure file transfer. But will Google tell you that?
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  7099. “Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.” -- Corinthians 10:7
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  7100. Sounds like this is why Microsoft created git-lfs.
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  7101. GIMP already uses GEGL for all its pixel manipulations. This copes seamlessly with a whole range of bit depths. This is why GIMP can natively handle EXR files with 32-bit floating-point pixel components, and Photoshop cannot.
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  7102. Not just strings, but any value of a sequence type can be multiplied by an integer to perform replication.
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  7103. I used to read SIGPLAN Notices (the journal of the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages) back when I was doing my Comp Sci degree. It was one of the, shall we say, more opinionated and less formal of the supposedly scholarly journals. I remember one little article suggesting that the ALGOL 68 convention of reversing the spelling of opening-bracket keywords to form the corresponding closing-bracket keywords “should be carried out to the letter, so to speak” -- namely, reversing the actual letters themselves!
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  7104. 15:28 And here’s another feature of using du on multiple directories: what happens when one directory is contained within another? For example, my current directory contains source code for some programming project. It also has a .git subdirectory containing the Git commit history for that project. If I do du -ks .
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  7105. that will show me the total usage for the entire directory. But if I do du -ks .git . now something wonderful happens: it first reports the usage for the .git subdirectory, then it shows the usage for the source directory minus that of the .git subdirectory . So I see just the size of the current source tree, not including the commit history.
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  7106.  @CottidaeSEA  And laziness, too, is one of the three programmer virtues, according to Larry Wall. This is the kind of code I had to add to narrow down the query interval (×2, this one for the lower limit, another similar one for the upper limit): limit = eval_expr \ ( conn, "min(artwork_timestamp) from" " (select max(timestamp) as artwork_timestamp from" " artwork_stats inner join artworks on" " artwork_stats.artwork_url = artworks.artwork_url where" " artworks.artwork_url in (%(artworks)s) and timestamp <= %(since)d" " group by artwork_stats.artwork_url)" # minimum of latest sample for each artwork that is not after since % { "artworks" : ", ".join(sqlite.format_sql_value(a) for a in prev_timestamp), "since" : since, } ) if limit != None : where.append("timestamp >= %d" % limit) ♯end if You can see why I avoided doing it until it became necessary.
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  7107.  @CottidaeSEA  The triply-quoted strings introduce spurious whitespace. Suddenly the query doesn’t look so neat.
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  7108.  @CottidaeSEA  I also consider readability of the query itself.
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  7109.  @CottidaeSEA  You don’t like the way I write my code. So sue me.
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  7110.  @DjoumyDjoums  Code performance generally follows a pareto distribution. Find and speed up the performance bottlenecks, and that improves things overall. As in my example.
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  7111.  @allenantonioheyllatorre5720  Isn’t that what happened in 2016?
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  7112.  @allenantonioheyllatorre5720  Total voter turnout was just 59% in 2016, of which Trump won less than half. That adds up to less than 30% of the populace.
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  7113.  @allenantonioheyllatorre5720  Or maybe they did care. But found neither candidate particularly appealing. Remember that Trump’s popularity rating from the moment he assumed office was already below 50%.
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  7114.  @allenantonioheyllatorre5720  No, the polls were not “proven incorrect”. In both cases, they did reflect the popular vote.
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  7115.  @allenantonioheyllatorre5720  But still they did reflect who won the popular vote.
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  7116.  @allenantonioheyllatorre5720  No I didn’t. He got much less than that. The high point might have been 45%.
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  7117.  @allenantonioheyllatorre5720  You said 50, I didn’t say 50.
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  7118.  @rdfox76  Mine takes some knowledge to understand, you won’t find it in a YouTube search.
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  7119. ll him. “Stand-your-ground” laws, much? This, ladies and gentlemen, is what life is like in a war zone. It’s not how people in civilized societies expect to live.
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  7120.  @adamestrada7610  Still only Python 3.7!? Because the current oldest upstream-supported version of Python is 3.8! Are Microsoft providing their own support for 3.7? (Somehow I doubt it.)
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  7121. 2:12 Apparently it has lost some 50µg of mass since its creation. So yes, there is uncertainty.
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  7122. Fun fact: that door has no way to open it from the outside.
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  7123. 8:50 Jupyter input cell: ‌ %%script sbcl --script (prin1 "Hello, world!") ‌ Output: ‌ "Hello, world!" ‌ SBCL is Steel Bank Common LISP, which is a more complete LISP implementation than ELISP.
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  7124. Here https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/3.x/examples/IPython%20Kernel/Rich%20Output.ipynb and here https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/ipython/ipython/blob/3.x/examples/IPython%20Kernel/Beyond%20Plain%20Python.ipynb are some examples of what is possible with Jupyter+IPython.
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  7125. Don’t bother, watch Mel Brooks’ High Anxiety instead. A whole heaping helping of Hitchcock movies† in one! †Well, homages to them.
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  7126. This from the religion that celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  7127.  @monorail4252  Bland ... lacks salt.
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  7128.  @vettemuziekjes  Aesop.
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  7129. It’s called “Windows”, but it isn’t really “Windows”.
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  7130. At gigahertz clock speeds, it takes a long time for signals to get anywhere.
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  7131. Science is about confronting the tough questions, not running away from them. Is life too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  7132. For those who call it “bloat”, KDE is actually less resource-hungry then XFCE.
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  7133. Cornering is considered a major achievement for 🇺🇸 vehicles.
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  7134. 12:40 “great Wal” ... sounds like “Great Wall” ... Coincidence? You be the judge!
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  7135. Because if Liberals think it’s stupid, there must be something to it.
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  7136. And consider this snowstorm happened so soon after Biden took office. Coincidence? Timed precisely to make Republicans look bad? Or does science itself have a Liberal bias?
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  7137. Or how about a mashup -- a stone-age version of the Jetsons, with flying cars ... made out of stone!
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  7138. 0:18 A book on “Al-Qaeda” to one side, and “Teenagers” on the other. Which is scarier...
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  7139. As I understand it, IQ is supposed to be “mental age” divided by “physical age” and multiplied by 100. How old was your dope dealer? If he had, say, an IQ of 150, and his physical age was 40, did that mean his mental age was 60?
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  7140. Including instil feelings of inadequacy in the Emacs-envious.
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  7141. If Sondland does an Epstein and is found dead in mysterious circumstances ... ... nah, of course that couldn’t possibly happen.
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  7142. What do you use to count them? A comptometer?
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  7143. 1:44 There is some controversy over how you count the capacity of a Wankel Rotary. Some feel you should double Mazda’s capacity rating. So that’s not a 1.3 litre, it’s more like a 2.6 litre.
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  7144. 3:37 “Imagination” is what’s left of the company that used to own the MIPS instruction set, design, patents etc. MIPS CPUs probably still outship x86, but it’s a sign of how little money there is in that business, that the MIPS company itself is now embracing RISC-V.
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  7145. 3:07 “The factories worked ... the plants worked” ... sort of. Queues, empty shop shelves, agricultural failures, inefficiently-run factories ... where keeping up appearances was more important than actual success. With exceptions, of course. The space program was an outstanding achievement ... until Korolev died.
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  7146. Windows developer, still believing that x86 is the (rapidly-shrinking) centre of the world? Compare an open-source OS like Linux, which runs on every major processor architecture for which GCC can generate code — that’s about two dozen of them at the moment. And userland apps that run under Linux are just as portable. Addition of new architectures hasn’t stopped. Consider the new hotness that is RISC-V. Meanwhile, Windows is still struggling to move off x86 onto ARM ...
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  7147. Unfortunately, since the ascendancy of Donald Trump and even before, the Republicans have demonstrated that keeping their hold on power is more important to them than the good of the country.
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  7148. I use different forms of shell interface at different times. A terminal app like Konsole is just one of them--albeit the one I use most heavily. I also have command buffers in Emacs. You can even open terminal windows in Jupyter notebooks.
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  7149. A lot of people are saying, believe me, that’s just what I heard, let’s face it, everybody’s talking about it, in all fairness, the most tremendous thing ever, they are saying it’s tremendous, it’s phenomenal, everybody’s talking about it, likes of which nobody has seen before, to be perfectly honest, people think it’s going to happen. #TalkLikeTrump
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  7150. I was able to do a database dump from old MYD files by starting an instance of a compatible-version MySQL server in a container.
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  7151.  @John.0z  Yup, Windows NT was supposedly designed to be a “portable OS”. It did actually ship on Alpha and Itanic Itanium as well. Not sure if the PowerPC port actually made it to production. All of those non-x86 ports are now dead. Any of those architectures still in use (e.g. POWER/PowerPC, MIPS) are running Linux now.
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  7152. Nevertheless, an IDE still has the “project” concept, and you have to go out of your way not to use it. Emacs doesn’t have that concept at all.
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  7153. The idea still exists today, in the form of the open-source LiveCode.
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  7154. Against 12,000 old, decrepit, Soviet-era Russian tanks? It will make mincemeat of them.
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  7155. That’s what I was afraid of. See my comment about Barrett.
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  7156. But ... but ... didn’t Trump describe the media as the “enemy of the people”?
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  7157. Dependency issues are solved by integrating package management into the OS. That’s how we do things on Linux.
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  7158. Bloomberg Finance did a presentation at a Python conference a few years ago, where they demonstrated how they create quite amazing-looking custom dashboards for their users inside Jupyter notebooks. They even open-sourced the add-on toolkit they use to do it.
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  7159. Pro world-leader tip: if you are trying to dissuade your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  7160.  @cc1k435  Because those big pharmaceutical businesses are big contributors to the politicians’ election campaigns.
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  7161.  @Valentino-mx5wd  Even a company that has a patent monopoly would rather sell to a market of 5 million than not sell.
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  7162. That was the gavel slam at the end of the actual removal vote. McHenry is pro-tem Speaker now, and yeah, he was clearly upset about the whole business.
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  7163. My previous car CD player couldn’t cope with zero pregaps. The current one can, though.
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  7164. Poe’s Law rules OK.
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  7165. I have about 20 terminal sessions open under KDE. The nice thing about using terminals and text editors under a GUI is being able to copy/paste between them. GUIs on their own do not support copy/pasting sequences of actions.
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  7166.  @Flying_GC  Yeah, we saw how the anti-abortionists in the US said they wouldn’t change the law either ... until they got in.
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  7167. He can’t even fake figures convincingly. Maybe his fraud consultants should have read up a bit on Benford’s Law.
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  7168. To avoid appending the default domain.
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  7169. Is there something about shaving products we don’t know?
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  7170. 2:07 That depends on which country you’re in. When I came here to NZ, I was surprised to discover that the digits 1-9 were arranged the opposite way, so dialling 1 produced 9 pulses, and dialling 9 produced just one. Correspondingly, whereas the emergency number in the Old Country was 999, here it is 111.
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  7171. Just for added entertainment, consider that you can indeed run AMD64 binaries on this machine—through one of the family of “qemu” emulator packages that come with Linux. Yes, it would be slow. But it would be better than trying to do it through the native ARM Windows, which doesn’t work at all.
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  7172. “On top of the operating system is the rest of the system software. Here we find the command interpreter (shell), window systems, compilers, editors, and similar application-independent programs. It is important to realize that these programs are definitely not part of the operating system, even though they are typically supplied preinstalled by the computer manufacturer, or in a package with the operating system if it is installed after purchase. This is a crucial, but subtle, point. The operating system is (usually) that portion of the software that runs in kernel mode or supervisor mode. It is protected from user tampering by the hardware ...” -- Tanenbaum & Woodhull, “Operating Systems Design And Implementation”, third edition, page 3 That is the well-known “MINIX Book”, by the way. So you see, by that definition, Linux is very definitely an ”operating system”.
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  7173. Just curious: where exactly in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it say elections have to be free and fair?
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  7174.  @mbjasniewski  That’s one way to avoid answering the question ...
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  7175.  @mbjasniewski  ... still waiting for an answer ...
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  7176.  @mbjasniewski  You tell me. Where in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it guarantee such?
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  7177.  @mbjasniewski  You can’t actually answer the question, can you?
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  7178.  Buck Rothschild  Isn’t that an admission that the answer is “nowhere”?
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  7179. Looks like somebody is trying to concede I have a point, that they never knew about, in the most passive-aggressive way possible ...
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  7180. And for my next trick, here is another one: where in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it guarantee that the judiciary will be free from political interference?
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  7181.  @mbjasniewski  I was the one who asked that question. The answer seems to be “no”. Any advance on “no”?
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  7182. No answers to my other question, about (lack of) Constitutional guarantees of the independence of the judiciary?
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  7183. By the way: pro tip: if you have to resort to personal attacks against your opponent, that’s a sign you’ve lost the argument.
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  7184. Forgotten my second question, I see. Or maybe you are ignoring it in the hope it will go away ...
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  7185. Answering a question with a question is one thing; replying with an entirely irrelevant question smacks too much of desperately trying to avoid answering the question.
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  7186. True, but with Open Source, you can just take an existing server or client program (or set of libraries) as the basis for your project, instead of having to reinvent everything from scratch. For example, Python offers loads of toolkits for things like TLS, WebSockets etc that you can reuse. The problem with coming up with your own implementation of some standard protocol is getting it wrong. We saw this a lot with proprietary SMTP, HTTP and DNS products in the 1990s, just for example. Luckily all of them are extinct now.
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  7187. But no love for the International Criminal Court? Set up to provide justice for the downtrodden, yet both 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇱 seem determined to stymie it at every opportunity.
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  7188. 12:20 By the way, forgetting the “await” in front of “asyncio.sleep()” is a mistake I have made a few times. How about you?
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  7189. Somebody else further down said “Q-Ella” ... which I like. 😈
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  7190. 0:19 You and Colbert both!
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  7191. You don’t have to be if you don’t accept that you have to be.
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  7192. I guess this proves the Earth can’t be flat!?
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  7193. If he isn’t convicted at his impeachment trial, he might come back. So Australia needs to keep pretending he really won the election, just in case.
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  7194. Goddard was not really the cooperative type. He wanted to own all the intellectual property. So he was never more than a little side show in the whole development of space technology.
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  7195. You are winning so much, your Republican Party has taken control of the Government and shut it down. Are you sick of winning yet?
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  7196.  @rogerdodger8415  Funny how you blame the Democrats for getting in the way of Trump’s promises. It’s like he didn’t win the election after all.
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  7197.  @rogerdodger8415  The good old Honda NSX runs rings around your Corvette, at a fraction of the price.
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  7198.  @rogerdodger8415  Interesting you admit that the Honda has the more efficient power train. It was the first Japanese supercar, underrated simply because the Japanese don’t have a reputation for making supercars. Americans have no idea about “supercars”. They think only in terms of large, gas-guzzling engines that are only good with straight-line performance.
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  7199. 17:06 It makes sense for finite-sized particles, not infinitesimally-small ones. Do I sense a repeat of the whole Planck-oscillator business? That if you take the classical formula down to the zero limit the numbers blow up, but if you stop at a nonzero size, you can get answers that make sense? That are quantized, even? Just suggesting that you stop thinking like a mathematician, and start thinking like a physicist ... ;)
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  7200. GIMP already uses GEGL for all its pixel manipulations. This copes seamlessly with a whole range of bit depths. This is why GIMP can natively handle EXR files with 32-bit floating-point pixel components, and Photoshop cannot.
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  7201.  @rob-1873  But it is a good source of references. Go follow them.
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  7202. But I’m told that no living thing can cross the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting in?
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  7203.  @Noname-iz6xz  Like that at Roswell?
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  7204. Who would coordinate the global fight against the pandemic, then? Because we certainly can’t see nations like Australia and the US doing a credible job.
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  7205. Is there some kind of smear campaign against the WHO and the UN? Certain groups trying to distract from their own shortcomings in dealing with the crisis in their own country, perhaps?
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  7206. “Special military operation! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing!” -- Frankie Goes To The Odessa Steps
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  7207. If you were a Communist country, you’d have better healthcare.
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  7208. It was the God-followers who helped get Trump into office in the first place. So maybe not.
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  7209.  @cmdlp4178  I think LLVM, like GCC is available on every platform on which the Linux kernel runs. That should be about two dozen major processor architectures. No other equivalent would even come close to those two.
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  7210. She should sail back where she came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yawl .
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  7211. Yes. For example, I saw a PHP password algorithm using MD5, which sounds bad. But it iterates the hash 8000 times, which is good. Not suitable for cryptographic message hashes, but good for password hashes.
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  7212.  @kim-hendrikmerk4163  Which is better? Why not compare some examples? The following is an Elisp command I wrote which, given a two-letter country code like “nz”, converts it to appropriate Unicode to show “🇳🇿”: (defun convert-to-region-codes (beg end) "converts alphabetic characters in the selection to “region indicator symbols”." (interactive "*r") (unless (use-region-p) (ding) (keyboard-quit) ) ; unless (let ( deactivate-mark (intext (delete-and-extract-region beg end)) c ) (dotimes (i (- end beg)) (setq c (elt intext i)) (cond ((and (>= c ?A) (<= c ?Z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?A) #x1F1E6)) ) ((and (>= c ?a) (<= c ?z)) (setq c (+ (- c ?a) #x1F1E6)) ) ) ; cond (insert-char c) ) ; dotimes ) ; let ) ; convert-to-region-codes
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  7213. He’s really Wallace, isn’t he? But where’s Gromit?
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  7214. 10:22 That’s assuming you can actually mount the drive in Windows. Otherwise you’re out of luck. On Linux, you can check the filesystem type without mounting the volume: use “file -s” on the block device for the drive or partition.
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  7215. “Cognitive dissonance” applies.
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  7216. 12:00 People have been launching rockets for centuries, if not millennia. You’d think maybe he might have taken that into account.
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  7217. 17:41 I hope you’re not doing that now.
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  7218. If you don’t think you got what you paid for from Facebook, feel free to demand your money back.
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  7219. Of course it would be legal.
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  7220.  @raushonmunni2633  Open Source + Open Source = Open Source!
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  7221. I think the “tyranny” is secret code for “getting rid of the guns”. Because the 🇺🇸 gun lobby is already scared stiff of the example set by 🇦🇺, which has so successfully shrunk its gun-crime problem since Port Arthur; if 🇳🇿 were to prove that the same strategy works for them, then that makes all the pro-gun slogans and rationalizations sound even more foolish.
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  7222. Python lets you “import «fullname» as «nick»”, to shorten the references a bit without resorting to wildcard imports. Has C++ got that feature yet?
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  7223. GUIs are great for running multiple terminal windows. Copy and paste works nicely for command lines, which is something you cannot do with GUI operation sequences.
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  7224.  @lincolnsand5127  Yeah, but copy and paste doesn’t work between them.
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  7225. Antiliberals demand equal time! Anything bad that their side does, the other side must be guilty of as well! Because!
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  7226. Actually not ‘“equal time”, but “equal crime” ...
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  7227. 1:11 When an article’s authors list needs its own abstract ...
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  7228. Merely quoting what TFG said. Or is there some other part where he expresses his love and respect for the 🇺🇸 Constitution, that I missed out? You know, the same Constitution he swore to uphold while he was in office? And don’t your crowd believe he is still in office?
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  7229. 5:00 Be still, my heart ...
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  7230. 0:47 Genocide joke. #TooSoon?
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  7231. They do actually have a certain level of gun violence. Easy access to guns does correlate to increased levels of gun violence.
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  7232.  @TheTiptap88  Interesting, isn’t it? They just don’t notice their own levels of violent crime. Probably thanks to brainwashing by organizations like the NRA.
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  7233. You must have “shopt histverify” set.
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  7234. Seems like the answer is “for as long as necessary”. As far as I can tell, in TLS 1.3 they don’t see any point in forcing expiry of any session keys before they have to -- there is no security gain in doing so.
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  7235. 18:17 Nowadays they call it a “podcast”.
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  7236. I think I know why they’re called “wind turbines”: think of it as a marketing thing. It’s an analogy with hydroelectric power, where the water flows through actual turbines that spin the generators to produce the electricity. So when the marketers wanted to sell the idea of generating energy “like hydro, but with wind”, they realized that, even though they are using windmills rather than turbines, the term “windmill” is going to evoke images of those quaint wooden things from bygone centuries, and distract from the message. So they hijack the term “turbine”, just to make it sound better.
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  7237. Remember to pull the crank up, not push it down.
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  7238. Maybe he’s being looked on more favourably because he’s part of the solution, not part of the problem?
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  7239. 0:20 Proposal: either say “twenty-eighteen” and “twenty-oh-one”, or “two thousand and eighteen” and “two thousand and one”. Don’t mix the two. Thoughts?
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  7240. With single-character names, you can adopt conventions like implicit multiplication. E.g. instead of “a × b”, you can just write “ab”. That doesn’t work with longer names: how would you know that “widthheight” is supposed to represent “width × height”?
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  7241.  @miguelguthridge  With maths formulas, the structure tends to be more important than the pieces, and the ability to manipulate that structure, e.g. to solve for different variables, is also important. In short, concentrate more on “derivation” than “memorization”.
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  7242.  @miguelguthridge  Try it and see.
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  7243. Yes, “probability of 0” does mean “impossible”. Because consider what happens when you try to determine which probability-0 point you have hit: you cannot actually do so in a finite time. All you can do is narrow it down to an interval with a nonzero total probability, which gets smaller and smaller the more time and effort you spend computing it (convergence). So the exact probability-0 event that was hit requires an infinite amount of time and effort to narrow down. Which means you can’t do it.
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  7244. 3:49 Waiting for the Indiana Jones/Lara Croft crossover ...
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  7245. Slavery. There was a court case in the UK in about the 1770s on the rights of black people. Some in the Colonies could see the writing on the wall. Slavery was outlawed throughout the British Empire by 1807, while the USA hung on to its institutionalized oppression for over another half a century. And some parts of that still exist today. Like the Electoral College. Which, if you remember, took the vote away from the popular choice, Hilary Clinton, and gave it to Trump.
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  7246. The majority of those who identify as evangelical Christians in the 🇺🇸 still support Donald Trump. Never forget that. God isn’t fixing this!
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  7247. I know that feeling. Particularly fun with a sleep call: await asyncio.sleep(«n») vs asyncio.sleep(«n»)
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  7248. Funny, Linux runs on a wider range of hardware configurations than Windows. E.g. anything from a tiny embedded device up to the world’s most powerful supercomputers. And it is capable of running efficiently on all of them.
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  7249. Whereas Windows stays buggy.
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  7250.  @adg1355  Funny how Windows is the one suffering problems like deleting users’ files or breaking their printers. Even Microsoft’s own Azure cloud is mostly Linux. Their own customers don’t want Windows.
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  7251. HyperCard still lives on, in the form of LiveCode.
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  7252. It’s an incompatible ABI change. For example, I currently have both libfuse2 and libfuse3-3 packages installed; one has a library called libfuse.so.2, the other has libfuse.so.3. That way client code linked against one version will not accidentally pull in the wrong version, since the file names are different.
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  7253. Wasn’t Trump’s border wall supposed to keep them out? How well has that been holding up, then?
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  7254. An oldie but a goodie: The Mythical Man Month , by Frederick P Brooks. An object lesson in how not to approach large-scale software development ...
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  7255. Funny how your side is full of snowflakes continually moaning on about “mainstream media”, implicitly admitting that media that caters to the likes of you can never be considered “mainstream”!
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  7256. The IDF has no credibility in being able to investigate itself.
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  7257. Idempotency is particularly important for resource-disposal routines. The canonical† example is free(3) https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/free.3.html : when given a NULL pointer, it does nothing and returns no error. I go into more detail about why this sort of behaviour makes it easier to write robust code here https://github.com/ldo/a_structured_discipline_of_programming . †Did you include “canonical” in your list? Get your definition from here http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/C/canonical.html .
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  7258. 5:58 Technically, “atomic operations”.
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  7259. I wonder if that applies to your comment as well ...
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  7260.  @lussdoru3108  If it “always depends”, then it has to be yes.
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  7261. 1:27 That should be “$nums[1]”. 1:34 And that should be “$friends{'Larry'}”. Welcome to Perl syntax. Does it make sense yet?
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  7262. Some people get upset to think that other people’s votes should matter as much as theirs.
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  7263. Get rid of gerrymandering and the Electoral College. Other countries have independent Electoral Commissions to set boundaries, register voters and run elections -- all in a transparent fashion; why not the US? This is why the USA scores so low on the Democracy Index -- down in the “flawed” section.
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  7264. Yes, there is a point. Raising the amplitude of a quiet signal, or resampling a signal to a different sample rate -- digital numeric operations all have rounding errors.
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  7265. No, it won’t be OK. You cannot magically recreate information that was never captured in the first place. And you cannot escape rounding errors. This is all basic Computing 101.
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  7266. It matters when you do any kind of processing to the audio.
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  7267. And what do you fill the extra bits with? Where do you magically create the information from, out of thin air?
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  7268. OK, let’s use a simple example. Say you have captured a signal at 16 bits per sample. That gives you a noise floor of -90dB. Supposing the signal actually has a level of -45dB. You want to boost that to something closer to 0dB. But at the same time you end up boosting the noise floor to -45dB. How do you fix that?
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  7269. It’s that English accent, isn’t it? It makes everything sound more serious.
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  7270. Somebody trying to downplay the use of modern languages in safety-critical applications might like to bear in mind that the touchscreen UI in the SpaceX Dragon capsule (you know, the one that just carried two crew to the ISS) is implemented using the Chromium web browser and JavaScript.
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  7271. Why, what do you think it demonstrates?
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  7272. You don’t consider the controls that the astronauts use to operate the spacecraft important?
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  7273.  @jasonschuler2256  That is the primary way, the way they designed it.
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  7274. They don’t even have proper remote controls and sensors. This is all being improvised out of desperation.
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  7275.  @DipaTarigan  The fact that Putin cannot even keep Moscow safe.
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  7276. Maybe you should ask an actual journalist.
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  7277. What do you reckon: an international peacekeeping force?
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  7278. 8:18 Of course, the logical next step would have been bit -addressability. A bit impractical with only 32 address bits, but now we have 64 bits, why has no one considered this worth doing? All transfers between CPU and RAM nowadays are actually in units of cache blocks, with smaller transfers happening only between registers and L1 cache, so the speed impact should be minimal. And it would simplify various kinds of bit-manipulation algorithms.
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  7279. Remember, it was a Trump appointee saying this. And Trump trying to agree and disagree at the same time.
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  7280. What if you needed to be vaccinated in order to vote? Suddenly Republicans will be scrambling all over that idea ...
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  7281. 10:01 Ah, you forgot to say “jemmin-ee” and went “jemmin-eye” instead. Which I think I prefer anyway. ;)
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  7282. 7:03 A patch of nonzero area, in other words.
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  7283.  @mudi2000a  Unfortunately, Vista’s networking performance was not the best. There was a long blog post from a Microsoft engineer about the effort they tried to put into minimizing the impact of file copying on network performance. They just couldn’t do both.
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  7284. Because you don’t want to eat him.
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  7285. They were both racing to the patent office on the same day. Somehow, Gray’s application got held up, while Bell’s got through. Actually, neither one is officially recognized as the inventor of the telephone.
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  7286. >>> 1j * 1j
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  7287. (-1+0j)
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  7288. Remember Putin promised he wasn’t going to send any conscripts to the “special military operation” which was definitely not a war? Yeah, he was wrong on two counts...
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  7289. SQL is de rigueur for interfacing to just about any RDBMS. Even the non-relational ( née “NoSQL”) DBMSes are now adopting some form of SQL as their query language.
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  7290. 14:12 Are there any stats to back that up? Maybe ratio of deaths to electric shock events, or something.
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  7291. Microsoft Windows trouble?
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  7292. 6:03 Linux application software doesn’t, for the most part, need to install itself into the boot routine. Yet something like LibreOffice or Inkscape can still start up quickly. Even with all that boot preinitialization, Windows software still becomes slower and slower to start all the time. How come?
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  7293. Wasn’t he in favour of gun control?
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  7294. I thought Trump’s border wall was supposed to keep them out? How well has that been holding up, then?
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  7295. 10:55 “The virus itself as it weakens” ... present tense. True marketing-speak in talking about something that hasn’t happened, put to political service.
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  7296. 0:04 At a guess I’d say that’s Python code on the right half of the screen.
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  7297. The police unions are way too powerful, and have let their members get away with too much for too long.
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  7298. The Republican Party is terrified of her. That’s all you need to know.
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  7299. They have to get it via a trusted channel somehow. It’s not a large amount of data.
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  7300. Instinctive physics-undergrad answer: represent each point in 6D, being 3 spatial coordinates and 3 momentum coordinates. Then do ICP in that space?
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  7301. Still feeling sore over that complete rout of MAGA Republicans in the midterms?
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  7302. 14:33 You may notice that the object scaling transformation is being adjusted at the same time. Basically the shape is still a cube, but it is being distorted into the proportions that you specified. This may not matter for 3D printing. It will matter when you get into things like materials and texturing. Which are probably not relevant in this application.
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  7303. 4:58 As I recall, the main reason why Apollo flew an aerodynamic re-entry (with an offset centre of mass) was it gave them a wider range of incoming angles, and hence a wider safety margin. Otherwise the tolerance on the re-entry angle would have been very tight, and the risk of missing it (with consequent loss of the astronauts) too high.
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  7304. 1:32 This is one aspect of PHP’s language design which shows what happens when you only think about things part way. Understandably, they did not want to copy the Perl (mis)feature of implicitly declaring all variables as global unless specified otherwise. So they decided that all variables would be local unless specified otherwise. This turned out to be a nuisance for global data like “GET” and “POST”. So they decided that built-in globals would become “superglobals”, visible everywhere without having to be declared global. Too bad about not being able to do the same with your own globals! Python adopted a different, admittedly slightly more complex rule: assigning to a variable would automatically create it as local, unless declared otherwise; but you could refer to an existing global/nonlocal variable without having to declare it (provided you did not also try to assign to it).
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  7305. Which HP model is that? Is it new?
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  7306. 9:46 Yeah, but one sign of normalcy hasn’t returned: all the magazines in waiting rooms are still gone.
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  7307. When I started using Emacs, I didn’t do much configuring -- really just turned off all the automatic mode stuff, and started from there. That was 15 years ago (possibly more, but that’s when I created a Git repo for it). Since then, my custom settings have grown to over 900 lines of Elisp.
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  7308. Putin really didn’t expect the West to be so firmly united behind Ukraine, did he? Now he’s crying about it. So sad.
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  7309. 2:15 How do you know the “heavy lifting” isn’t being done in Go and Python?
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  7310.  @simplecoding8462  Python can do low-level manipulation just fine. E.g. https://github.com/ldo/blendhack
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  7311. Ah, but that just means it was sucking away the power HOMEOPATHICALLY!!
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  7312. Can’t recall ever having to reinstall Linux, though. Upgrading the hard drive just involves using rsync to copy everything to the new disk. For the OS itself, I just reinstall the boot loader, fix up /etc/fstab for changed device names, and it will boot again.
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  7313. If it only took 15 minutes to cross Gaza, it would be easier for those Palestinians that have to evacuate from the north.
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  7314. What the cluck are you talking about? Oh, I thought you said “fowl” ...
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  7315. Think of the story of the Arab and the camel: the camel (Linux) is now inside the tent, and soon the Arab (Windows) is going to feel that things are getting a little crowded in here ...
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  7316. 7:35 Well, the original photons destructively triggered chemical reactions in the film, which gave rise to other destructive reactions during development and duplication, and then a further set of reactions to print the slide. The end result being (you hope) that the final physical manifestation of those reactions will produce a similar effect on illuminating light as that which impinged on the original negative in the first place. Still think digital is so bad?
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  7317. Using “=” for assignment was a mistake. It was a mistake in Fortran, it was a mistake in C, it’s a mistake in all those languages that have copied C (including Python). Consider also the inconsistency: if “==” is the equality comparison, and negated versions of operators are just supposed to have “!” in front, then why isn’t the inequality comparison “!==”? The Algol language family (including Pascal and its offshoot Ada) invented “:=” for the assignment operator, reserving “=” for equality comparison. This I think makes much more sense. Perhaps walrus in Python was a backdoor way of introducing this usage, at least in part?
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  7318.  @TheNewton  Just use “:=” for assignment, following the Algol tradition.
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  7319. As long as you keep giving them your money, they don’t really need to pay any attention to your complaints.
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  7320. Did you know that Jupyter notebooks, those .ipynb files, are just text JSON files? I put them in Git version control all the time. One tip: clear all cell output before committing. That will get rid of the junk. And the result is, you will have nice commits that you can compare cleanly to see what has changed.
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  7321. (cd ~/projects/myproject; git diff master mybranch) | patch -p1
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  7322. Current would work, in the Earth’s magnetic field. I think one of the Shuttle missions did some testing with this.
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  7323. 14:01 You did fractals in high school?? I didn’t discover them until I read Mandelbrot’s book!
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  7324. Yes, but posting the results on a commercial site like YouTube would be stretching the definition of “personal use ... at no cost”, wouldn’t it.
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  7325. 2:24 Do you say “All that and a bag of chips” in your part of the world?
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  7326. Anti-systemd Devyawn
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  7327. 1:30 It’s the infinity of the counting numbers, which is probably why it’s called “countable”.
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  7328. But then the Senate is supposed to conduct the actual impeachment trial, right? What if they find him not guilty? What then?
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  7329. Why do police officers need special “rights”? Let them have the same rights as any other citizen. Isn’t everyone supposed to be equal under the law?
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  7330. I don’t like pure functional-programming languages, but I like using functional constructs in procedural languages like Python which make them very handy.
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  7331. Remember the Republicans arose out of the ashes when the Whigs self-destructed because they couldn’t agree on the question of slavery. Now it looks like the Republicans are self-destructing in their turn, but over nothing as important as the question of slavery, but over whether they think some childish, narcissistic man is worthy to lead the country or not.
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  7332.  @blackplaydoh3522  Java-only programmer?
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  7333.  @marcasrealaccount  Yuck.
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  7334.  @blackplaydoh3522  Couple of convenience examples, from C++: typedef std::map<RegionCode, IDType> RegionCodeTable; /* mapping from region code to name ID */ typedef RegionCodeTable::const_iterator RegionCodeTableLister;
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  7335. @The Adjudicator What do you think an “enterprise” like Facebook runs on? Hint: they created their own variant of PHP, called “Hack”, with their own high-performance implementation, the HHVM.
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  7336.  @xNYCMarc  I have listened to lots of AM. I live in a country which had no FM for several years after I first got here. So don’t try to tell me how good or bad AM can be.
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  7337.  @xNYCMarc  Maybe because all the AM you listen to is crap.
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  7338.  @xNYCMarc  So, has DAB taken off in the US yet?
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  7339. 1:15 Who is “we”, oh you buyer of products from a notoriously litigious proprietary company?
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  7340.  @andrewstevenson118  “... I will ønly say this wänts ...”
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  7341. 1:22 Woof!
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  7342. In the 2020 election she led Labour to the only majority victory that any party has achieved since proportional representation was brought in.
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  7343. I had a look at the MDN page (probably the most readable description I could find), and apart from warning about non-numbers being implicitly coerced into numbers, it says nothing like this. There are situations where delays may last longer than expected, but they should never be shorter. So it seems like this is some kind of weird Chrome/Chromium bug.
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  7344. 8:19 Finger-Lickin’ Stein?
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  7345. So, you wouldn’t risk causing any “UFO sightings”, then?
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  7346. Remember he actually said “perfectly reconstruct original band-limited signal”. That’s the key point.
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  7347. If the D/A converter is not band-limited, then it cannot be reconstructing the original signal, can it?
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  7348. You did notice he was careful to keep emphasizing throughout that the signal was “band-limited”, did you not?
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  7349. Better to put them in /usr/local/share/fonts.
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  7350. You know what they say: a word to the wise is sufficient.
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  7351. Putin needs to destroy Ukraine in order to save it.
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  7352. Because Texas has been doing so well so far, hasn’t it.
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  7353. 18:24 Yes, pretty catastrophic, only to be used in the most dire circumstances. Normally ⌘-shift-1 and ⌘-shift-2 will eject the floppy drives, but will not dismount the floppies. If you reboot and hold the mouse button down, the ROM boot sequence will eject the floppy.
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  7354. They still use film?
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  7355.  @brennathecatlover4360  You still use video tape?
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  7356. If you avoid deploying mission-critical systems on Windows, that reduces your embarrassment exposure.
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  7357. Back when Windows NT first came out, the US Government had a requirement that all its divisions buy “open systems”. This specifically included POSIX compatibility. So Windows NT initially shipped with a POSIX “personality layer”, just to satisfy the purchasing requirements. In fact, this was never really used in production, since all the customers were quite happy to run software specifically developed for NT’s own proprietary APIs. The internal modularity in Windows that allowed the creation of these alternative personality layers has long since bit-rotted away. Which is why their more recent attempt to emulate Linux APIs in WSL 1.0 didn’t work very well.
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  7358. The Belarusians already got rid of their own language in favour of Russian. Lukashenko is very much Putin’s lapdog -- he owes the Russians big time for saving him from a revolution by his own people. But will he go as far as taking a direct, active part in outright hostilities against Ukraine? Maybe there are those among his support base who will draw the line at that. We can but wait and see.
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  7359. At least one well-known legal professor somewhere has pointed out that a law means exactly what the courts say it means, no more, no less. That applies in any country. And guess who the 🇷🇺 courts get their marching orders from ...
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  7360. 25:41 It’s 1989, and there are still PC users stuck with the 640K RAM limit. Can you recall any other case like this, where the company brings out a 2.2 version to sell in parallel with its 3.0 version?
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  7361. In all the good democracies, those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  7362. There are quite a few from a similar military/spook background like Putin--they’re called the “siloviki”. They, not the business “oligarchs”, are the only ones Putin cannot intimidate.
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  7363. 27:51 “1-800-DO-MY-GUI” Heh.
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  7364. Has Kamala Harris said anything? She’s part-Asian too.
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  7365.  @chrisyang7411  Religion is the one saying that right and wrong is a matter of personal belief.
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  7366. Yeah , it is better to multigive than to multitake.
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  7367. I have created worker threads to turn blocking calls into non-blocking.
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  7368. What a pity so few Windows users will discover this, since they are all conditioned to hate the command line.
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  7369. This is not some random frivolous thing like posting a Tiktok video while drunk and undressed. This is about taking a principled stand on an important issue affecting people’s lives. That kind of thing is never easy. Thing of when little Ruby Bridges, and her parents, insisted on her right to education. The whole family suffered as a result of that, losing jobs, suffering threats of violence, all the rest of it. That just made them more determined to exercise their rights.
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  7370. Here in 🇳🇿, as you head south from Auckland along Highway 1, there’s a sign saying “MOTORWAY ENDS”. Then, maybe a couple hundred metres further on, another sign says “EXPRESSWAY BEGINS”. But what is that piece of road in the middle?? Honestly, it doesn’t look too different from the “motorway” bit to the north, or the “expressway” bit to the south. But it is neither?! Does it exist in some kind of road-classification limbo?!?
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  7371. Britain is the only country to actually start its own space program and get as far as putting a rocket into orbit, only to abandon it.
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  7372. I hear Trump’s Secret Service agents are getting special training for his rallies: they’re going to watch out for snot and saliva droplets heading his way, and jump in front of them. All agents have been told to bring a change of clothes.
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  7373. 1:00 The lawsuit wasn’t over copying Java code, it was over copying APIs. Up to that point, it was generally understood (particularly among open-source developers) that APIs were not copyrightable, only implementations of them were. But by spending huge amounts of money on legal fights, Oracle was able to get a court decision to the contrary.
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  7374. Back in my Mac days, Apple would use “d”, “a” and “b” suffixes on version numbers to denote “development”, “alpha” and “beta”. So you might see a version like “1.0d23”, which you would immediately understand as being far from finished, with not even the feature set finalized as yte. The next release, “1.0d24”, might be better. And so on.
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  7375. “Dilute Citizens’ Power” is secret code for “Diminish The Republican Minority Even More”. If you want to claim you live in a democracy where every vote is equally valued, maybe you should act like it for a change.
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  7376. They all run Linux.
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  7377. 3:23 Spot the false equivalence between the C++ and Python code ...
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  7378. 8:06 The wheel arch has to be far back because of the weight distribution. Also note the organ-pedal accelerator. Pity those went out of fashion ...
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  7379. I used to have so much respect for this guy. Enjoyed his documentaries. Really disappointed to see he has come to this. 💩
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  7380. 5:20 Police are civilians. You’re not implicitly classing them with the military, are you?
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  7381. President Xi’s weak point is the economy. People are willing to turn a blind eye to what the authorities get up to, if they get a comfortable life in return. Once that deal falls apart (as is happening now), all bets are off, and no amount of brutality will keep the insurrection down.
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  7382. Waiting for him to post some nonsense on social media about how this person was never any good, and how TFG practically did him a favour by hiring him, rescued him out of obscurity, etc, etc. Basically, TFG is like a movie villain, surrounded by incompetent henchmen. Who turn out to be his undoing.
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  7383. And VSCodium is pretty crippled in terms of the addons it will accept, compared to the proprietary version.
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  7384. When I were a lad, my father was gifted this black pup from a work colleague, who said it had come from the Russian Embassy. He became my companion from that point until I grew up and left home. He also fathered four pups, of which we kept two (one black like his father, another with all red-brown fur). He looked remarkably like this one. However, many years later, I saw a similar one, asked what it was, and was told it was a Samoyed-Alsatian cross. “Samoyed” would make sense if it really came from Russia.
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  7385. Emacs can work in the terminal or with its own GUI. You have the choice.
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  7386. Linux is now the go-to platform to learn about computing. Microsoft and Apple are where you go to learn to press the right buttons and not ask questions.
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  7387. SQLite is also useful for ad-hoc data-collation uses. Example: I got a list of a few thousand records to process for a client (in an Excel spreadsheet, of course). I use LibreOffice Calc to convert it to CSV format, then a custom Python script to import that to an SQLite database, with NULLs in the processed-status fields. Now I can run the actual processor on the SQLite file, filling in the statuses as it processes the records. I can stop this process at any time (it is quite time-consuming) and when I resume it, it simply skips the already-processed records and continues with the unprocessed ones. When all the records are done, I use a third script to export the data to CSV, which I can send back to the client.
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  7388. 33:10 Is there any point in preferring tmux over GNU screen?
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  7389. The “Unix Wars” was really the story of how the entire proprietary Unix market self-destructed, its fragmentation leaving it open to a takeover by Microsoft’s Windows NT.
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  7390. Just in time for your subscription to expire.
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  7391. 16:16 Some did. Possibly a cost-saving measure on the cheaper ones.
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  7392.  @mskiptr  You can already do that. The API is object-oriented: PDB calls will return a reference to created objects, which you can then pass to other PDB calls. So you can write your entire image manipulation process as a series of script commands, in any supported language.
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  7393.  @mskiptr  Do it the way I said.
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  7394.  @mskiptr  But you can’t invoke GIMP operations with those libraries. Oh, you want GIMP to record a script for you as you invoke its operations? I think there are plugins for that.
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  7395. If you hear phrases like “one nation under g
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  7396. 3.7 is obsolete. Why do you feel the need to do the extra work?
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  7397. 13:10 I think a couple thousand more have died in the US since this video was made. It’s come to the point where you can just say “tick—there goes another one; tock—and another; tick—and another; tock” ...
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  7398. “Democratic”, but not a democracy?
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  7399. You are Jaromil and I claim my £5.
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  7400. Should someone buy them all up and shut them down?
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  7401. Did you know that asyncio is implemented in pure Python? That the whole task-dispatching system works through an interesting (deliberately-designed) interaction between coroutines and generators? I wrote up a description of this in a Jupyter notebook, which I cannot link to here.
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  7402. The Republican Party is the reason why America can’t have nice things.
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  7403. Flat-Earthers vs Hollow-Earthers ... DEATHMATCH!
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  7404. Don’t worry. He’s talking about “intelligence collection”. Which is quite the opposite of the Israeli strategy.
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  7405. Blender is eating the lunch of major CG apps like Maya and Houdini. And guess which platform Blender runs best on ...
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  7406.  @justinrogo1415  It is what I talk about, though. Nvidia seems to be about preventing users from doing things with its products, rather than enabling them to do things.
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  7407.  @justinrogo1415  For playing video games, as opposed to developing content.
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  7408. I used a shareware Mac program called MIDIgraphy. I liked it so much I paid for it. Took me many years to find something just as simple to get started with on a Linux system: LMMS. Now Linux has PipeWire, which lets you interconnect different software apps in a modular fashion, all working to make music together. It can do video, too.
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  7409. 0:45 What a stupid answer. What are laws for, if not to prevent evil?
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  7410. The Jesus freaks are the biggest part of the reason Trump is so powerful to begin with.
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  7411.  @xrafter  The OP did say “archiving a folder”, not “archiving a single file”.
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  7412. There is also the issue that maintaining such a spin rate requires fuel to be expended. The natural state of such a body is to become tidally locked.
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  7413. → Sheldon Robertson OK, so you send some internal mass spinning around one way to try to to spin the station the other way. That works for a while, until it becomes tidally locked again. So you speed up the internal spinning mass, and that restores the spin -- for a while. Then you have to spin it up some more. And more. And more.
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  7414. 14:33 Sony made good VHS machines, by the way. I have an SLV-757NC from about 1989. It does trick play, picture-in-picture, and has an editing jog shuttle. It normally keeps the tape threaded (Beta-style) for fast-wind, for fast switch to play mode, but slower fast-winding. There is an extra-fast-rewind button you can press which is supposed to unthread the tape, but I never measured any noticeable speed increase with it.
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  7415. It seems more likely these images are bugs in the computer imaging systems. Military computer systems are so complicated and difficult to get right, that’s why you always get massive budget and schedule overruns--the F-35 being a prominent case in point.
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  7416.  @vgaportauthority9932  Can you cite an example of the same object being seen through different systems?
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  7417. The second version is fine, too. Note that the docs state that no formatting substitution is done on the message string if no formatting arguments are supplied. Compare, say, printf(3), which always does formatting substitution even when it doesn’t make sense. Python is a bit smarter.
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  7418. Fun fact: x86 is only the 3rd most popular processor architecture in the world. It is outshipped about 3:1 by MIPS, and both are left in the dust by ARM, which ships more processors per year than the entire population of the Earth.
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  7419.  @alexander-jl6cs  “why don't I see any powerful hardware using arm architecture?” Ummm ... the most powerful computer in the world right now is built on ARM processors https://top500.org/lists/top500/list/2020/06/ . Places 2 and 3 go to IBM POWER9 machines, while number 4 could be either MIPS or Alpha-like, nobody is quite sure. Intel doesn’t make an appearance until 5th place.
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  7420. Vinyl fans are snobs. But audiocassettes ... are cool. ;)
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  7421. How many kids are out there, who may or may not know that Darth Cheeto is their father?
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  7422. Maybe it is, for other Englishes ...
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  7423. Darwin was a scrupulous scientist, and something of a religious man. He published his book on evolution not because of his religion, but in spite of it. The pioneer of genetics, Gregor Mendel, was perhaps not so scrupulous in his reports, though he was even more so a “man of god”. Is there a correlation between the two? You be the judge.
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  7424.  @DJWESG1  Malthus was a “Reverend”, so I guess that made him religious, too.
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  7425. 3:06 “Don’t want to like MATLAB” ... I can relate to that. Originally it was a FORTRAN-based program for manipulating matrices. But later on they tried to tack on other functionality to it. Earlier this century I had the misfortune of having to do GUI programming in MATLAB. Let’s just say I gritted my teeth and took the money ...
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  7426. He probably thought she was Russian.
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  7427. Even judges that Trump appointed will not back him up. It’s like his own ability to judge character has developed Liberal leanings ...
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  7428. The Government should be telling these private companies how to run their own business!
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  7429. I hear the Kama Sutra is a good fucking book. What do you mean, “not that kind of fucking”? What other kind is there?
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  7430. Because building an IDE on top of such a bloated framework as Electron is perhaps not such a smart idea ...
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  7431. Given that you can cancel a scheduled timeout, why not allow infinity? Then you avoid special-casing the situation where “did I schedule a timeout, or didn’t I?”.
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  7432.  @FlareGunDebate  It’s just a table entry. Think of it as a disabled table entry.
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  7433.  @FlareGunDebate  It’s not a stack.
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  7434.  @FlareGunDebate  No call frame because no function is called. Like I said, it’s just a table entry, nothing more. Just that, in some situations, it is slightly easier to always have a table entry, than to remember whether there is one or not. Should be a minor issue, not a major one.
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  7435.  @FlareGunDebate  It’s part of the definition of “number” in JavaScript.
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  7436.  @FlareGunDebate  Doesn’t say that anywhere in the spec.
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  7437.  @FlareGunDebate  It’s a “number” according to IEEE-754, and therefore to JavaScript.
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  7438.  @FlareGunDebate  Of course it can be represented computationally. IEEE-754 defines its behaviour, and JavaScript follows that in other areas, and other IEEE-754-conforming languages manage it just fine. In short, don’t act maths-ignorant. Unless maybe you’re thinking of running for political office...
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  7439.  @FlareGunDebate  “infinity. ... a number”. Like you said. It has logical properties that a computer doesn’t need to “approximate”, because it can implement them exactly.
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  7440.  @FlareGunDebate  Now who’s the one being “obtuse”?
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  7441. AppleScript ... my condolences. (I used to be a fan of it back in the 1990s.)
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  7442. After doing it for some years, I came to the conclusion that trying to script GUI apps is a waste of time. The Linux approach is to provide the command-line functionality, then put the GUI as a separate layer on top of that. If you want to automate functions, you skip the GUI and do it at the command line. Much more efficient and reliable, with much less stuffing around.
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  7443. Most of the ones on Linux are.
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  7444. Embittered Visual Basic fan speaking?
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  7445. 2:38 Perfectly valid code so far.
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  7446. Makefiles on their own aren’t even enough these days, you need another layer on top, like CMake. For example, Blender is built with CMake. It also used to offer the option of building with SCons, but having two alternative build systems in the source tree seemed like a needless complication -- particularly when they got out of sync.
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  7447. How would you handle a level break? Here’s a fairly simple two-column example, which lists the moons for each planet on a separate line. The planet name only appears for the first moon, and the last one is followed by a count line for that planet. out⋅write("<TABLE>\n") out⋅write("<TR><TH>Planet</TH><TH>Moon</TH></TR>\n") items_iter = db_iter \ ( db, "select planets⋅name, moons⋅name" " from planets left join moons on planets⋅id = moons⋅parent" " order by planets⋅name, moons⋅name" ) cur_planet = None while True : item = next(items_iter, None) if item == None or cur_planet != None and item[0] != cur_planet : if cur_planet != None : out⋅write \ ( "<TR><TD><I>Count:</I></TD><TD>%d</TD></TR>\n" % count ) cur_planet = None ♯end if if item == None : break ♯end if out⋅write("<TR><TD>") if cur_planet == None : ♯ first moon for next planet cur_planet = item[0] count = 0 out⋅write("<B>" + html⋅escape(item[0]) + "</B>") else : ♯ second or subsequent moon, don’t repeat planet name out⋅write(" ") ♯end if out⋅write("</TD><TD>") if item[1] != None : ♯ there is a moon out⋅write(html⋅escape(item[1])) count += 1 else : ♯ that’s no moon out⋅write("<I>(none)</I>") ♯end if out⋅write("</TD></TR>\n") ♯end while out⋅write("</TABLE>\n")
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  7448. Different parts have different licences. You can build it without any non-free parts.
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  7449.  @matthewboyer4212  Depends on whether you prefer a licence that guarantees the same rights to the recipient of the software that the giver has, or not.
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  7450.  @matthewboyer4212  Copyleft has been described as a kind of “copyright jiu-jitsu”, where you use your adversary’s strength against him.
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  7451.  @matthewboyer4212  I would. And I’m not the only one. Linus Torvalds said deciding to release the Linux kernel under the GPL was the best decision he ever made. You don’t like it, you know what you can do.
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  7452.  @matthewboyer4212  ∗Yawn∗
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  7453.  @matthewboyer4212  Like I said, you know what you can do.
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  7454. Android 4 doesn’t have it. That’s pretty good, isn’t it?
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  7455. Bravo! Good explanation. But to preempt the inevitable disbelievers, and paraphrase Michael “Brexit” Gove: “I think the audiophile public has had enough of experts”. Tell them to go back to their oxygen-free cabling ... maybe that lack of oxygen has gone to their heads ...
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  7456. I keep hearing about how awful HP drivers are -- that must be a Windows thing. On Linux, they have the open-source HPLIP project that offers drivers for pretty much all their models. I used an HPLIP driver for those few years I had an HP printer.
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  7457.  @gspaulsson  Like I said, that would be true in a democracy. But in the US...
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  7458. Trying to automate a GUI never really works that well.
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  7459. Trump was supposed to be such a good judge of character, yet look at the menagerie of sleazeballs he got working for him.
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  7460. Yow! Is my fallout shelter termite proof?
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  7461. 4:57 If you miss the hole, they throw you out of the casino for cheating.
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  7462. Yeah, they were supposed to be the bad guys. Like an earlier version of Hitler.
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  7463. Can the USA ever recover from the total destruction of the credibility of its institutions that has been waged under this administration? With the full support of a Republican party which has put its own absolute hold on power above the welfare of the country? I’m struggling to conceive of what a post-Trump USA would look like.
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  7464. We do have our own local lunatic fringe in 🇳🇿, like this guy https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/freedom-party-leader-billy-te-kahika-says-he-is-quitting-politics/DVKDDO7NHMEWLMTFJDSJCPAKUM/ . The difference is that they remain very much on the fringe, unable to attract enough support to get anywhere close to the mainstream.
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  7465. 2:50 I’d forgotten Bill Daily had died back then ... Am I the only one old enough to remember I Dream Of Jeannie ?
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  7466. 1:07 Low-poly fingernails? Could a new fashion.
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  7467. Donald Knuth is well aware of that, and he did something about it.
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  7468. If DNA had a more robust copying system, evolution wouldn’t happen.
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  7469. This was before the RISC era.
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  7470. I think the Democrats made a mistake in agreeing with McCarthy’s ouster. Without their support, there was no way his own party could have removed him. And if he became beholden to the Democrats, perhaps they could have wrung further concessions out of him in future. That could have been a real jiu-jitsu move.
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  7471. Gesundheit.
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  7472. Put the TSA in charge of all adjoining streets.
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  7473. PHP is a recipe for mediocrity. But then again, it’s a reasonable answer to the question, since the type of people who would be good at programming wouldn’t be here asking.
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  7474.  @mralistair737  That’s a simplistic interpretation of how compression works. Real-world compression algorithms are able to take advantage of more subtle statistical properties of the data than that.
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  7475.  @mralistair737  No, I’m not talking about lossy compression. Here, let me name some lossless compression algorithms, so you can go and study how they work: LZW, FLATE, FLAC.
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  7476.  @mralistair737  Yes, you most certainly can have fractional bits of information. Remember, the amount of information conveyed by an event is inversely proportional to the logarithm of the probability of the event.
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  7477.  @mralistair737  You can’t think except with YouTube videos, can you? Here’s the formula: information content in bits I = - log₂ P, where P is the probability of the event. If P = 0.5, then I = 1. A whole bit corresponds to an event with 50% probability. If you want I = 0.5, then just solve for P accordingly.
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  7478.  @hans-joachimbierwirth4727  Remember, probabilities are always less than 1. Work out the numbers for yourself.
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  7479.  @hans-joachimbierwirth4727  Don’t forget you have to multiply the amount of information from each event by the probability of that event occurring, to get the mean information amount. The result is always maximum when the events are equally likely, and is less when they are not.
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  7480. Yes, they had an uplink! https://youtu.be/Xtsrcc0c8Mo?t=3335 But they didn’t trust it.
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  7481. Vim variants keep replacing each other. But there seems to be only one Emacs.
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  7482.  @DylanMatthewTurner  Are there? The others just seem to be smaller subsets. GNU Emacs remains the One True Emacs.
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  7483. Other countries also have the number-one cause of death of their children be by gunshot wounds, right? ... Right?
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  7484. The Government has more ammo than religious fanatics have followers.
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  7485. Here in NZ we have an Independent Police Conduct Authority, quite separate from the Police. They automatically become involved every time someone gets seriously injured or killed as a result of some police action, and members of the public can even raise specific complaints with them. Does the US have anything similar?
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  7486. 13:50 Aaah ... “Enhanced CD” ... would that explain it? Prior to that point, CD-ROMs stored their data in what looked to an audio CD player as track 1. There would be a warning label somewhere telling you not to put the disc in an audio player. Or there might be discs with data in track 1 and regular audio in the remaining tracks, where the warning was just not to play track 1. I tried once, and it sounded like a chainsaw was cutting through my speakers ...
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  7487. Wasn’t Trump’s wall supposed to stop them? What happened to the billions he squandered on it? And when is Mexico going to pay?
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  7488. 11:24 “Any future manned mission.”
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  7489.  @tachikomakusanagi3744  Yeah, it’s an opaque line on transparent film, not the other way round as I thought.
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  7490. 3:29 Here’s the funny thing: in Python, “everything is an object” is true even more so than Java: the latter has “primitive” types which are different from “object types” or “reference types” (can’t remember what they’re called). For example, in Python, “int” values are objects with methods like any other objects, while in Java they are “primitive”, and you need to have “boxing” and “unboxing” mechanisms to convert between “int” and the “Integer” object type. And yet, Python manages not to devour all your RAM the way Java does. Why not?
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  7491. 13:34 I think that is an inevitable stage in the evolution of every large corporation. For example, I would say Microsoft is entering that stage now.
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  7492. Because that was a fictional part.
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  7493.  @Obscurai  Guess what the RSX-11M was running on. Hint: there was no actual PDP-11 processor inside the case.
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  7494.  @Obscurai  True, but irrelevant. Let me clarify: “there was no actual hardware PDP-11 processor inside the case”.
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  7495.  @Obscurai  Talking about that box with the blinking lights over his right shoulder. “Literally within arm’s reach”, like I said.
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  7496.  @Obscurai  Remember what Dave said above: “I showed him my real 11/23 and 11/73 each running RSX-11m but we had to turn them off for recording... fans are too loud!” That PiDP-11 was left running because its fans were not too loud—if indeed it had fans at all. That’s because the computer inside it was a Raspberry Pi running Linux, on top of which was running the SIMH PDP-11 emulator.
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  7497. Hah. You and your subversive godless Liberal logic. If you truly understood the part in the Bible explaining how to correctly run democratic elections, you would not be suffering such regrettable confusion.
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  7498. She’s not Appalachian, is she?
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  7499. 4:08 #TooSoon?
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  7500. At one point even the Sun and Moon were called “planets”.
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  7501. I just found out in the last day or two that the Hollywood Screen Actors’ Guild had a policy, at least as of the 1980s, banning the showing of bloopers, because it somehow undermined the dignity of their members.
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  7502. LO Writer can open multi-hundred-page documents without choking.
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  7503. Because in mathematics, the “<” symbol is known as the “fewer-than” sign, not the “less-than” sign. Got it.
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  7504. Of course. So it’s not “grammatical” to write that the number of days is n such that n < 100.
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  7505.  @michaeljohnangel6359  So how do you write the “fewer-than” sign?
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  7506.  @kensmith5694  I don’t think it’s ARM, it’s a separate x86 “Quark” core. And it runs MINIX. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/20/intel_flags_firmware_flaws/
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  7507. The Fascists are the ones who don’t want every vote to count equally. And who want to put obstacles in the way of those who don’t vote the way they like.
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  7508. 4:46 But it’s still in the Constitution. You know, the Second Amendment? The Constitution that, according to this latest Supreme Court nominee, is not a “living document”, but must be interpreted “as originally written”?
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  7509. Well, if he got his knowledge of guns from typical Hollywood movies or TV, he could conceivably get away with that.
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  7510. 6:57 “Ap-helion” surely, not “af-e-lion”?
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  7511. The thing with curiosity is you can never be sure where it leads. Who knew, back in the 19th century, that playing around with Leyden jars and magnets would lead to the harnessing of electrical power? Or that understanding this weird stuff called “pitchblende” would lead to generation of atomic power? Or that trying to manage noise in telephone circuits would lead to information theory and the development of the electronic computer? Maybe a better understanding of gravity would lead to an actual “space warp” drive that would get us farther and faster across than Universe more easily than we can manage with rockets. Or maybe it will lead to something else. Who knows?
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  7512. She totally controlled what you were allowed to know; you simply could not find out anything contrary to what she said. It was like hers was the only news program you were able to watch; when you switched to her, you forgot other news channels existed.
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  7513. Have you heard of this idea of “airship to orbit”, where you use engines like ion drives, which have low thrust but can keep firing for days or weeks on end, to get into orbit from high altitude? https://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/02/space_airships/
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  7514. Fun fact: Don Knuth’s first published article was in MAD Magazine, a spoof item on the “Potrzebie system of weights and measures”.
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  7515. RS-232C was an absolute pain to work with. Back when a serial connection, plus Kermit software, was the easiest way to transfer data between PCs with incompatible floppy disk formats, you still had to figure out, not just what speed they were using, but whether it was 7 or 8 data bits, and if there was a parity bit, and whether it was even or odd, or even something completely useless like always 1. I was quite handy with a breakout box ... for a while.
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  7516. Why are you still using Cubase? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_audio_software
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  7517. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunk_cost_fallacy
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  7518. Anybody remember what happened to WebSQL? That failed for an interesting reason ...
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  7519. Apparently named for Scott, not Janis. :)
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  7520.  @l_CJ_xl  You are reinforcing my point, that Faith on its own is not enough to tell whether you are right or wrong: you need something higher than Faith, and that is Morality.
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  7521. Funny how some people don’t believe that ever happened.
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  7522. But given that entropy tends to increase, does that mean the amount of information tends to increase or decrease? Consider the case of a gas confined to one half of a container by a barrier. Then the barrier is opened and the gas escapes to fill both halves of the container. Do we have more or less information about the positions of the gas particles than we did before?
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  7523.  @sclogse1  Who is “we”?
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  7524.  @papaqwesi9263  First results were reported over a decade ago. See the 26 Aug 2011 issue of “Science” magazine.
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  7525. 4:56 Radio-semaphore!
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  7526. 2:09 Hyper-V is Windows-only, as I recall.
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  7527. He must smell like onions.
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  7528. 8:04 And where exactly would a whale put a neck tattoo?!?
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  7529. Watch out for the predictable antiliberal responses that cannot rise above the “I know you are, but what am I?” level.
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  7530. 11:08 Looks too much like somebody giving vent to their furry fetish.
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  7531. What’s alt-tab? I have my windows grouped into desktops, and switch between them with CTRL-F1, CTRL-F2 etc.
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  7532. Next: how to explain to all those computer graphics noddies that “pixels are not little squares” ...
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  7533. No, light always follows a geodesic (aka “path of least action”). That doesn’t always mean a straight line.
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  7534. How come a Socialist state has managed to become more powerful than the USA?
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  7535. This feature is implemented entirely at the syntactic level by the compiler. This means it works even for your own custom types where you write your own definitions for e.g. ‌_‌_lt‌_‌_, ‌_‌_eq‌_‌_ and the other comparison methods: you just write them as regular two-argument functions, and Python takes care of the rest.
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  7536. “self-thought” ... I guess studying psychology does that to you ...
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  7537. 26:57 Except there were no fractal graphics around in the 1960s. Benoit Mandelbrot only introduced fractal geometry in the 1970s.
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  7538. 3:50 Is it allowed to say that on a white page? Or does it have to be a black one?
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  7539. Other countries have an independent, nonpolitical Electoral Commission whose job it is to set boundaries in an impartial, transparent way, and to ensure that everybody gets to exercise their right to vote. That would put an end to voter suppression and gerrymandering. Also, get rid of that stupid Electoral College and First-Past-The-Post voting. Make sure every vote counts equally.
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  7540. How did they get all the dust to fall in neat parabolic arcs?
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  7541. A writer named Wright. What could possibly go wrong...?
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  7542. I don’t understand this “Unix philosophy” thing. The small bits don’t work without the big ones.
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  7543.  @larry_the  Everything digital is made up of bits, so I don’t know what point you are making.
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  7544.  @larry_the  That’s still not saying anything.
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  7545.  @larry_the  So if everything is made of smaller programs anyway, where is something that doesn’t follow this “Unix philosophy”?
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  7546. Because the Republicans are such a bipartisan party! It’s all the Dems’ fault for not agreeing with them!
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  7547. 6:29 “Icosa”, not “isoca”.
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  7548. If you want to see a much-hyped solution in search of a problem, look at quantum encryption. This uses entangled particles to communicate information across arbitrary distances. Which is theoretically entirely possible. What makes it special is the idea that it is proof against eavesdroppers, because the slightest attempt to interfere with the state of one particle will instantly show up in the (mis)behaviour of the other particle. And this will set off alarm bells etc. Now, if you understand anything about computer security, you will know that the security of the entire current Internet is built on protocols that simply don’t care about eavesdroppers. Spies can collect as much as they like about the encrypted information going back and forth, it will be of essentially no help to them to decipher any of that content. (Yes, there are still potentially useful things like traffic analysis. I’m ignoring that for now.) So with quantum encryption, you have a system that is so sensitive to interference, you could potentially trigger an eavesdropper alarm without actually bothering to eavesdrop at all. In computer security, we call this a “denial-of-service attack”. Do this often enough, and the supposedly “secure” quantum communication channel becomes unusable. You see the problem ...
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  7549. Don’t let your cluster get into a fluster!
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  7550.  @CristiNeagu  Some of us multitask. That means we use our machines to do more than one thing at a time.
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  7551.  @CristiNeagu  There are other more useful tools. Like Emacs and Jupyter are so resource-efficient, I can leave them running all the time, and use them for all kinds of different things. VSCode, not so much.
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  7552.  @CristiNeagu  Like I said, I use that RAM and CPU for other things. Here’s a simple thing I did in Emacs LISP: a custom character table that includes all the characters that can occur in a Python identifier. This includes all Unicode characters classed as letters: (defvar identchars (make-char-table nil)) ; no need for extra slots (map-char-table (lambda (key value) (when (or (eq value 'Lu) (eq value 'Ll)) (set-char-table-range identchars key t) ) ; when ) ; lambda unicode-category-table ) (set-char-table-range identchars '(?0 . ?9) t) (set-char-table-range identchars ?_ t)
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  7553.  @CristiNeagu  You asked for an example, I gave you an example. As they say: “Your move, creep.”
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  7554.  @SplitWasTaken  Friendly advice: on the Internet, if you have to resort to personal attacks, that’s an admission that you’ve lost the argument.
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  7555. It’s easy to do that kind of thing on a computer nowadays. By the way, the imperfections in typewriter output were sufficiently distinctive to particular typewriters to be almost like a fingerprint. This was well-known to people working in forensics back then.
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  7556. 12:13 You still have magazines in your dentists’ offices? They’ve all been removed here in NZ.
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  7557. The telescope lets you see more stars because its wider aperture gathers more light than your unaided eye can.
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  7558. Waiting for somebody to say “That’s Hedley !” #DontCrossTheMemes
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  7559. 10:18 There seems to be an asymmetry in the diagram, in that 1 and 2 occur three times each, the others only twice.
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  7560.  @lynnmicucci7086  That’s why he keeps losing lawyers -- because he keeps insisting he wants to bring it up.
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  7561.  @alanjm1234  They’re charging him with abusing his powers while he was President. His lawyers are trying to claim it is unConstitutional to try an ex-President. Except it is he himself who insists he is not an ex-President.
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  7562.  @thetruthchannel349  You mean, the same Congress that they just voted for?
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  7563.  @thetruthchannel349  You know Google owns YouTube? Why are you here?
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  7564. 9:06 True, dat. ∗cough∗ K∗mm∗l ∗cough∗
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  7565. CTRL-D is EOF. You can also set Bash to ignore it, if you feel prone to pressing it by mistake and killing a shell session that you didn’t mean to.
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  7566. No, because Rust is not a dynamic heap-based language, while Python is.
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  7567. Freeware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware is not Free software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software .
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  7568. There is the economic factor, that Russia has been supplying oil and gas to Europe, and those supplies are now severely constrained (not to mention the Nord Stream attacks). European leaders seem reluctant to make their people suffer too much, particularly now winter is coming. Then there is the N-word: how far can the West push back before Russia decides it has nothing to lose? How crazy can Putin get, before he is forced to back down by saner voices on his own side? War is a complicated thing. Not like the movies.
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  7569. 5:50 That’s a job for auto-indentation, which is quite a separate function: press Enter, and automatically have the same whitespace inserted at the start of the new line that is at the start of the previous line.
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  7570. 2:58 s/ecosystem/echo system/. Whom do they listen to? Basically just each other.
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  7571. I currently have files spread across 3 drives on my main machine. I used to use symlinks to tie it altogether, but this got a little bit irritating when moving around the directory tree caused relative links to misbehave. So lately I have decided to try bind mounts instead.
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  7572. Back in the early days of people discovering Mandelbrot’s book, and fractals were this cool new thing that people were playing with on their computers, there were many suggestions that the matter density in the Universe could take a fractal distribution. At the time, known observations seemed to rule it out. But that was before the discovery of these new large-scale structures. Is anybody reconsidering the idea today? Because it would essentially allow for non-uniformities to occur at every possible scale. It would also mean that the density of matter in the Universe would, at larger and larger scales, tend towards zero.
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  7573. 6:21 See, those numbers are denominators too, yet everybody understands that the larger denominators actually represent smaller numbers, unlike with f-stops.
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  7574. In principle, the curvature of the Earth is visible from altitude zero. All you need is a patch of ground (or water) free of hills/waves/other bumps that block your view of the horizon. And consider: what is the shape of the horizon that you can see? Why, it is a circle, of course, going right round you. You only get that on a curved surface. QED.
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  7575. Does that explain why he likes PHP?
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  7576. Notice that Python effectively already has generics, because function objects and class objects are constructed at runtime?
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  7577. Trouble with FORTH is, people seem to spend more time coming up with their own FORTH implementations than actually using it to write useful programs.
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  7578. Maybe you mean “complexity”?
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  7579.  @sugarfrosted2005  In that case, I have no idea what you mean by “relative computability”. Either something is computable or it’s not.
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  7580.  @billybongthornton777  The 🇺🇸 taxpayer! Of course, it’s all becoming clear now!
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  7581.  @williamkang1986  but @Billybongthornton. said it does matter! Which of you is lying?
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  7582. Odesa, a city founded by a Russian Tsar, Catherine the Great, and defended by the Soviet Union, including the Russians, against German attack during World War II. Now the Ukrainians have to defend it against those same Russians, against an aggression that Catherine would be ashamed to hear about.
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  7583.  @RamonAlbertoEscobarUSA  I did say your neighbours, didn’t I?
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  7584. One fact is that international independent media are free to report (and interview people) from all parts of free Ukraine, including some areas quite close to the front lines. Contrast this with the Russian side, where the message is tightly controlled, and reporters risk jail time just for using the wrong words.
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  7585.  @RamonAlbertoEscobarUSA  Tell that to all the independent media operating there. And to the journalists in jail in Russia.
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  7586. 5:17 I thought the “I” stood for “Incremental” (as in it’s the changes that are important, not the levels).
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  7587. Science is about confronting the tough questions, not about shying away from them. Is the Universe too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  7588.  @BaconizedCanadian  I haven’t made any claims yet. I just asked a question.
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  7589. But I’m told that no living thing can cross the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting in?
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  7590. Anybody else noticed his name sounds like “Mitt Schmuck-Connell”?
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  7591. Since when did Conservatives understand statistics?
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  7592. 1:05 To be fair, a lot of Eminem’s fans have short attention spans ...
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  7593. Part of the problem in the US is the inflexibility of the two-party system: if you’re not for one side, you’re automatically against them. Third parties don’t stand a chance; try voting for one, or even not bothering to vote at all, and you end up favouring the Republicans. Here in NZ we currently have five parties in Parliament, representing a broad range of political views. And three of them are actually part of the Government. Sounds unwieldy? It might be, except that everybody understands that politics is all about compromise. And so we manage to get things done--ideological posturing tends not to survive very long in our political climate. In the US, you have a Government shutdown every few years. When was the last time we had one in NZ? Never. And another part of the US problem is that slavery-era institution known as the Electoral College.
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  7594.  @maryrosekent8223  Seems like lobbyists have too much power in the US system. Even if there is popular sentiment for change, powerful forces can keep it from happening. Looks like every kind of manipulation is allowed, just short of being able to tie particular lobbying/campaign/funding dollars to particular votes: so long as that connection cannot be explicitly made, it’s not considered “corruption”. The system may not be entirely “corrupt”, but it is certainly lacking in transparency.
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  7595. systemd is a collection of pieces, not one monolithic piece. It is no more a SPOF than pid 1 was always a SPOF -- kill that, and your system died.
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  7596. It must be a pain to have to put up with drive letters and .BAT files in this day and age. I’m glad I don’t have to use an antiquated toy OS.
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  7597. Windows? I rest my case.
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  7598. This is why 🇺🇸 is classed as a “backsliding democracy” this year. (Not that it was exactly in the top tier before). You can’t have a functional democracy with just two political parties.
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  7599. Because Cams Control mode like 23:58 is just like “bad D rating movies”, isn’t it.
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  7600. 10:18 It’s only supposed to be in fiction that the chief villain is cursed with comically incompetent underlings. But when you look at Trump and Giuliani ...
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  7601. 12:06 syncthing: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/syncthing
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  7602. 4:31 Just wondering why so much screen space is wasted on the padding to turn portrait-mode video into landscape-mode. Why not use some of that space to make the human figures bigger?
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  7603. 23:45 Just to add to the irony, many of the same populations that use these for illumination will have access to mobile phones by now. So they don’t have access to a reliable electrical grid for home lighting and other appliances, but they can still charge their phones via solar cells or other portable means. And they don’t have a landline phone system, they have jumped straight to wire-free telephony, and will very likely stay that way.
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  7604. If it’s such a failure, why is Microsoft trying so desperately to make Windows Linux-compatible?
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  7605. Let’s face it: if she was carrying a gun, you wouldn’t be celebrating her as a “martyr”, would you?
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  7606.  @apoorhorseabusedbycenk  The OP obviously did, describing the perp as “unarmed”.
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  7607.  @cscott6629  Months and months of obstruction and stalling, until a warrant was issued for a raid ... ?
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  7608.  @1fastmex  Said someone who said “lol” ...
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  7609.  @RodneyBean-13  Facts are not neutral.
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  7610.  @mistagunzz9670  Since when was Mar-A-Lago a “federally approved” location for anything? It’s not even a legal residence.
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  7611.  @acidlab9586  As part of the planning agreement for building it, nobody is allowed to live there.
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  7612.  @acidlab9586  Their own rules don’t allow it. They are basically turning a blind eye, as happens so often when you have influence. This is all a matter of public record.
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  7613.  @redbloodedamerican2346  Really? So “Need-to-know” doesn’t apply to the VP? So Mike Pence had access to everything Trump did? Has anybody searched his residences?
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  7614.  @redbloodedamerican2346  How do you know, if you haven’t checked?
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  7615.  @redbloodedamerican2346  “Hasn’t been caught” ... right.
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  7616.  @redbloodedamerican2346  I wonder whom you are trying to convince ...
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  7617.  @redbloodedamerican2346  Sure you do.
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  7618.  @acidlab9586  This is all a matter of public record -- you can check it online for yourself: “THIS DECLARATION OF USE AGREEMENT is made and entered into this 10th day of August, 1993 by and between the TOWN OF PALM BEACH ... and THE MAR-A-LAGO CLUB, INC...” “WHEREAS, the Town has approved a Special Exception use for the Land as a private social club subject to the conditions set forth herein ...” “The use of guest suites shall be limited to a maximum of three (3) non-consecutive seven (7) day periods by any one member during the year.” Note that last bit. Feel free to point out where you think the agreement says something different. But that would mean you’d have to read it for yourself, wouldn’t it? Instead of relying on your favourite loony hearsay sites.
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  7619. Text formats are the easiest to use for interchange purposes.
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  7620. 6:46 Not ASCII, but Unicode! ASCII has no code for “ö”, while Unicode has a code for everything.
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  7621. 7:45 Wrong age group for Sandra Boynton? Middle-aged sigh ...
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  7622. systemd lets you write short, concise tasklets that conform to the principle of “do one thing, and do it well”.
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  7623. Open source doesn’t magically appear out of thin air, you know. It needs someone to do the work (hint, hint).
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  7624. But I thought being armed was supposed to protect you from the Government!?!
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  7625. It does rather give the lie to someone who claims to be such a successful businessman.
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  7626. That’s not the way I pronounce it.
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  7627. What’s more, it’s hard to believe anybody would bother to comment on this.
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  7628. Never, ever, track down and read an online copy of “The Unix Hater’s Handbook”. And if you do, never, ever, ever try any of the stupid things listed there. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
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  7629. Umm ... why do you need hard disk images on Linux, exactly? The OS doesn’t care about the precise layout of its files on disk. Just do a file-level copy, and you can restore from that, too. Let me recommend rsync as a robust file copy tool that can cope reliably with hundreds of gigabytes of data, working across (possibly unreliable) network connections etc. It has clever tricks like deduping, being able to make an incremental backup that looks, for restore purposes, like a full backup. For example, to move a Linux install to a new hard drive, just copy the files across, re-setup the boot loader, edit /etc/fstab for the changed device names, and that’s it. I’ve upgraded hard drives countless times that way, and never had to reinstall.
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  7630.  @LearnLinuxTV  The file-level method is the most versatile. It lets you change volume sizes, partition layouts and filesystem types as you go. It works with existing file-manipulation tools. Sure, I use dd for things like copying a SystemRescueCD image download onto a USB stick. But for managing my important data and my OS installations, disk imaging tools are just too inflexible.
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  7631. Remember that C barely existed at the time he started work on this series, and nowadays I don’t think it would be considererd a “high-level” language.
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  7632. 5:39 Brother-in-law.
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  7633. She needs to retire. She is no longer capable of doing her job ... whatever that job is.
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  7634. 4:18 Or they wanted to use it as an excuse to commit genocide in return.
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  7635. 7:30 Because “degenerate” is such an ugly word ... ;)
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  7636. 10:50 You mean ground vehicles? Spacecraft are vehicles, too.
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  7637. 7:47 Theme park? Aircraft toilets, in my experience.
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  7638. Macs can run Linux, too. In fact, every popular processor architecture on Earth can run Linux. Maybe you specifically mean “Microsoft-compatible PC”?
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  7639. Microsoft’s ARM OSes are a joke. Apple? Apart from the tightly-locked-down IOS, it’s all vapourware. Or, judging from Catalina, likely to be just as tightly locked down.
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  7640. Richard or David?
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  7641.  nasty buzzard  I haven’t. What’s yours?
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  7642. Not at all. They are charging exactly what the users will pay. So long as users complain but keep handing over their money, Adobe has no reason to change.
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  7643. Don’t poke the woke joke, just take a toke, oke?
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  7644. 13:25 What ... Fox News giving credence to Ungodly Non-Doctrinal Socialist Liberal Science, now? Is your ideology something to be only preached, not practised? Next you’ll be saying it’s OK to vote Trump out of office, and still call yourself a Conservative!
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  7645. I wonder how long Paul Schindler’s resolve not to buy anything compatible with an IBM PC lasted ...
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  7646. Israel is bombing Gaza with white phosphorus now.
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  7647.  @docescete3672  Sure. But how do they get away with warm testicles?
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  7648. 0:48 Yeah, there’s two jobs. In military parlance you talk about “command and control”. Well, the “commander” does the “command” part, while the “chief” does the “control” part. Simples!
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  7649. Hey, I did a joke about “chief” and “control”. RIP Edward Platt ...
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  7650. “Admissible” ... ha-ha!
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  7651. Quick! Somebody should tell Giuliani about all this “evidence” he’s missing! Seems he needs help to see in front of his nose.
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  7652. Note also that if you are communicating over AF_UNIX sockets, then the client and server are by definition the same machine.
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  7653.  @hye181  Look at the deteriorating quality of Microsoft’s Windows updates. I rest my case.
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  7654. You wonder how these Liberal services got to dominate the landscape, unless it was with Government help...
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  7655. I hear he’s against the vaccine. You know, the one Trump is trying to take credit for?
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  7656. 12:08 Nah, the best prank played on him had to be the link registered on his Twitter typo https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/05/rudy-giulianis-typo-became-an-anti-trump-message-he-blamed-twitter-this-atlanta-man-pranked-him/ -- remember he claimed afterwards he’d been “hacked”? The guy who was supposed to be advising the nation on cybersecurity didn’t understand how Twitter worked?
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  7657. 11:28 Ahem Unchecked variants, anybody?
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  7658. Here in 🇳🇿, at most two confirmed cases of myocarditis from the vaccine, from several million shots administered. They keep a careful watch on side-effects, for precisely this reason.
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  7659. It is common in UI selections to show a list of descriptive values to the user, but to store unique IDs for each option in the backend, and use those to represent the actual selection that was made.
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  7660. 12:41 A point Kurt Gödel also understood very well.
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  7661. If your OS manages time as UTC, you can still figure it out. If your OS only keeps track of local time, you’re stuffed.
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  7662. It’s like How-To Dad ... in SPAAAACE!!
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  7663. 3:20 Actually, MTV refused to show any black acts to begin with. Jackson’s record label threatened to pull all their videos unless the channel put him on. They gave in, and the floodgates opened to other black artists.
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  7664. Another handy feature of Python’s operators is actually very subtle. So subtle, that I only discovered it by accident one day: the operator precedence differs slightly from C. Which lets you write things like flags & mask != 0 or flags & mask1 == mask2 Any C programmers squirming at that? Because the operator precedence in C requires you to write (flags & mask) != 0 (flags & mask1) == mask2 otherwise they won’t do what you expect! Now, changing the precedence rules in C to remove the need for these parentheses would, in principle, be backward-incompatible; but can anyone come up with actual real-world C code that would break if the rules were changed to be more like Python?
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  7665. 3:38 The reason why Edge is so tightly coupled, not just to Windows 10, but your current version of Windows 10, is a really stupid one: it’s because it’s written as a “Universal Windows Platform” app. UWP, if you remember, was Microsoft’s latest in a long string of attempts to "modernize” its antiquated Windows APIs, from MFC, through Dotnet and Silverlight, through WinRT, through ... how many other dead and gone Microsoft technologies can you name? But if anything is proof of the uselessness of UWP, this whole Edge fiasco has to be it.
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  7666. 5:06 Not a good look for UWP!
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  7667. 8:14 Political appointments should not be for life. I thought the Supreme Court was supposed to be above politics?
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  7668. That’s a load of nonsense. That “too influential” idea has never been shown to happen in practice.
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  7669. 4:04 Just a hunch, but I get the feeling that thermostat joke was translated from Celsius. Consider: 77°F = 25°C 68°F = 20°C Notice how they come out to nice round numbers? Just sayin’ ...
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  7670. You have to respect someone who sacrificed his life rather than contaminate his body with Socialist healthcare.
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  7671. When their fingers caress that gun barrel, the critical parts of their brains completely shut down.
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  7672. 1:28 Inflation is a hypothesis to try to explain why the cosmic microwave background radiation isn’t lumpy enough. Inflation is built on two assumptions: * Something turned inflation on * Later on, something turned inflation off For the first assumption, we could say that the smoothness of the Universe itself is evidence that that happened. But as for the second assumption, there isn’t really any evidence for that. When and how did it turn off? The whole idea seems pretty arbitrary. But if inflation never turned off, then you end up with an infinite series of big bangs budding off other big bangs like yeast cells reproducing. An alternative explanation is that, instead of inflation, the Universe is smooth because it is older than the Big Bang. So, whichever way you look at it, the evidence seems to point quite clearly to the conclusion that the the Big Bang was not some once-off event.
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  7673. Mexico has two problems: the USA and the USA. It is the USA that is the source of all this money funding the drug cartels. And it also the USA that is the source of all the guns they use to fight off law enforcement. Addressing just one side of the problem isn’t going to solve it. You need to fix both sides.
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  7674. I think I would prefer mine minced rather than ground.
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  7675. Every time the gun shooters gather for an NRA convention, gun injuries drop 20% across the US, and over 60% in the hosting state. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/03/during-nra-conventions-gun-injuries-drop-20-nationwide-63-in-hosting-state/ Idea: the next time they hold a convention, lock the doors and make sure they never get out again.
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  7676. There is a saying: “it takes years to become an overnight success”. While the USA and others of that ilk were embracing “Reaganomics” and proclaiming that the Government should take a hands-off approach because it was not competent to pick winners and losers in business, the Taiwanese (and other Asians) were setting up partnerships between Government and business to invest in new industries for the long haul.
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  7677. That’s quite a reasonable use. Do you introspect the procedure prototype to do typechecking against the arguments before actually invoking it?
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  7678. 16:00 I think at this point the “gorilla arm” effect was not yet widely known.
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  7679. 17:20 I take that back. Gary hits the nail on the head.
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  7680. 0:48 Don’t call it a “gender reveal”, it’s a sex reveal. The baby is too young to know what gender they are going to be.
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  7681. tar supports a number of different compression methods these days, not just gzip. Which is the best? I was going to say bzip2, but I think zstd is taking over nowadays.
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  7682.  @astral6749  Does it? Ah, it’s the way you pronounce “z”.
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  7683. 5:42 Probability theory seems to have a lot of these. E.g. the “Monty Hall problem”.
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  7684. 1:00 PulseAudio bloat?!? But, but it’s in Slackware now!
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  7685. It’s an iconic phrase, one might say. Pain point or not, it is low-hanging fruit in the reporter’s phrasebook. It is what it is.
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  7686. I wonder at what age that starts becoming creepy ...
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  7687. Gee, I wonder why Microsoft itself has now recognized the importance of the command line, then. Why did it put so much work into PowerShell, in an attempt to replace the decades-old embarrassment that is CMD.EXE? And why is it now revamping the hoary old Windows Terminal, trying to make it look a bit more like the cool tools available on Linux? If you consider yourself a Microsoft fan, maybe you need to wake up and take notice of what they’re doing now, as opposed to 20 years ago?
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  7688. Gee, I wonder why Microsoft itself has now recognized the importance of the command line, then. Why did it put so much work into PowerShell, in an attempt to replace the decades-old embarrassment that is CMD.EXE? And why is it now revamping the hoary old Windows Terminal, trying to make it look a bit more like the cool tools available on Linux? If you consider yourself a Microsoft fan, maybe you need to wake up and take notice of what they’re doing now, as opposed to 20 years ago?
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  7689. Gee, I wonder why Microsoft itself has now recognized the importance of the command line, then. Why did it put so much work into PowerShell, in an attempt to replace the decades-old embarrassment that is CMD.EXE? And why is it now revamping the hoary old Windows Terminal, trying to make it look a bit more like the cool tools available on Linux? If you consider yourself a Microsoft fan, maybe you need to wake up and take notice of what they’re doing now, as opposed to 20 years ago?
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  7690. The US system is missing too many of the safeguards of democracy. For example, an independent Electoral Commission to draw boundaries and run elections. It doesn’t score very highly on press freedom. Also it helps if every vote counts equally, as in Germany. Talking of Germany, their system was brought in after World War II to ensure that a dictator could not take power there again. Maybe time for the US to give it a try?
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  7691. 0:56 Science recognizes no boundaries. There is no “supernatural”, there is only “natural”. As the Ghostbusters know only too well.
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  7692. Regardless of whoever is responsible, the fact that it happened under Russian control shows that no territory under Russian control is safe.
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  7693. 9:27 No real surprise about the noise. It seems that a key part of the rationale behind quantum computers is that the “many-worlds” interpretation of quantum mechanics is supposed to represent actual reality. Thus, you are supposed to be able to take advantage of multiple states of the same processing elements simultaneously existing in alternative worlds. But information and energy must be conserved. So as you spread out the information (and energy) content of your processing elements across these multiple worlds, of course your signal-to-noise ratio will decrease proportionately.
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  7694. VSCode is an IDE, and IDEs want to impose a particular build system on you. In the Open Source world, we deal with a variety of projects that use a whole variety of build systems. It’s not like Windows, where everthing is based on Microsoft’s tools. This makes text editors more versatile than IDEs, because a good text editor, like Emacs, can drive any build system.
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  7695.  @armpitpuncher  Emacs doesn’t need “customizing” to use any build system: it can already invoke the necessary build commands.
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  7696.  @armpitpuncher  It runs the commands you give it.
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  7697.  @armpitpuncher  Visual Studio is an IDE, you yourself said.
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  7698. CIRC can correct a whole lot of errors -- a lot more than Hamming. But you need a lot of redundant bits to do it.
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  7699. He’s a musician who does standup comedy. Or a comedian who does standup music. Something like that. Very funny, talented man. You’ll find some of his stuff on YouTube.
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  7700. They’re radio-controlled boats. Torpedoes travel underwater.
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  7701.  @Conenion  The problems scale, up to a point. That’s why a supercomputer needs a high-performance interconnect which makes up such a big part of its cost. If it wasn't for that, a supercomputer would not be much different from, say, a server farm.
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  7702. The song featured in Robert Heinlein’s story All You Zombies .
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  7703. For anybody else who watched Roger Moore in The Saint back in the day, we heard this a lot. #ShowingMyAge
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  7704. Lanczos or GTFO.
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  7705. That’s a very absolutist statement though, isn’t it.
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  7706.  @Kneedragon1962  Think of WSL as an admission of defeat. The camel has been allowed into the tent, it’s only a matter of time before it pushes the Arab out.
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  7707. I think the one that is not GIMP-specific is supposed to be called “GTK+”.
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  7708. 7:03 More penetrating kinds of radiation, really. Alpha particles are the largest, most massive and carry the greatest electrical charge, so are easiest to stop.
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  7709. HTTP cannot switch to TLS encryption until the Server Name Indication (SNI) has been sent. Then, based on the host name that was specified, the appropriate certificate can be selected for the encryption. Because the host name has to be sent in the clear, this can be seen as a security vulnerability. This why we have proposals for Encrypted SNI. But what encryption key do you use to send this? That encryption key is taken from the DNS. This requires a secure DNS. And there are two different proposals for that. Which is a whole other story.
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  7710. 4:52 Ummm... “Yo-yo” “Bipolar” “White-knuckle ride” “Oscillatory” “Barf-inducing” “Stand by negative Gs”
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  7711.  @henlofren7321  And what do you do when an official Microsoft patch fails your acceptance testing? You can’t reject it outright: it’s simply going to stay in your pending queue until you give up and let it in.
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  7712.  @henlofren7321  When was the last time Microsoft was successfully sued over the quality of its software?
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  7713.  @henlofren7321  If those lawsuits were really successful, Microsoft couldn’t keep getting away with it, could it?
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  7714. We’ve heard of one-hit wonders, but Linus really knocked it for six not once, but twice: first with the Linux kernel, and then with Git.
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  7715. Microsoft: “26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody!” 🐧:\>
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  7716.  @SkyFly19853  Nobody cares about Windows 7 any more. Certainly nobody in the Linux world. Stop living in the past.
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  7717. If a representative of the US government works into a shop in NZ and buys something, they’re going to pay 15% GST, just like everybody else.
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  7718. On the one hand it’s good to know, on the other hand it’s slightly disconcerting to learn even more of the ways that things can go wrong, that people have thought of ...
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  7719. What?? Empty beds?!? So the facilities are not filled to overflowing?!? What was all this about a “crisis” at the border???
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  7720.  @NathanHedglin  So do I ... mainly in PHP code.
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  7721. Yeah, but the former guy is gone now, so things should get better.
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  7722. That’s OK, Ronnie’s not from China. He’s from the same country as me.
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  7723. 1:27 This channel gets so much mileage out of bad jokes, it’s obscene.
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  7724. 1:32 No fair! Skipped one!
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  7725. Has Moore conceded yet? Last I heard he was still hoping for a turnaround in the final tally.
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  7726. 7:16 “Orange ... squeeze ...” Heh-heh.
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  7727. Wonder why the former guy cared so much about this liberal lefty social media before, anyway. Why didn’t he go straight to his own platform to begin with?
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  7728. If the number of calories is nonzero, I would say the donor requires medical attention ... stat.
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  7729. Perpetual growth within a limited area possibly means extinction. But when you have an entire galaxy to populate, then over that time frame the very concept of species integrity, never mind social integrity, starts to lose meaning.
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  7730. The Blender folks did exactly this some years ago, and all credit to them. To compare, I just did ldo@theon:~> ls -d ~/.[!.]* | wc -l 251 ldo@theon:~> ls ~/.config | wc -l 203 I think that shows that a large number of apps have already converted.
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  7731. That’s how religious teachings work.
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  7732. Did you know Dolphin can also work remotely, to another machine? It makes a secure connection via SSH, and lets you transfer files between the machines that way.
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  7733. Did you know Dolphin can also work remotely, to another machine? It makes a secure connection via SSH, and lets you transfer files between the machines that way.
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  7734. Did you know Dolphin can also work remotely, to another machine? It makes a secure connection via SSH, and lets you transfer files between the machines that way.
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  7735. Just make sure they all agree that the hardware clock is to be interpreted as UTC. Unfortunately, this is not something you can set in Microsoft Windows.
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  7736.  @mirandahotspring4019  You mean, one spread among credulous illiterate tribespeople?
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  7737. This is why having separate command and insert modes is a bad idea.
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  7738. They call it the “school of hard knocks”. Try it some time.
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  7739. If every vote counted equally, things would be a lot fairer.
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  7740. Let me be the first to say “erste”. Because nobody else thought to say it...
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  7741. That’s just the popular vote. But what did the Electoral College decide?
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  7742.  @ChooChoo_4u  The quote did say “three days and three nights”, did it not?
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  7743.  @ChooChoo_4u  They did understand the difference between “day” and “night” though.
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  7744. Apple pioneered the use of OpenGL for on-screen drawing, but it never really did any of the fun effects.
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  7745.  @xard64  That’s only very basic stuff. Compiz and its successors do a lot more.
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  7746.  @xard64  And of all of them, the Linux version was the one that ran well on the least powerful hardware.
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  7747.  @xard64  Linux KDE 4 was able to run fancy 3D animations and transparency on an Asus Eee 701 PC with a 900MHz uniprocessor Celeron. I know, because I had one.
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  7748. Psychoanalysis?? I thought this was a nude rap session!!!
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  7749. In those days, “serial” specifically meant RS-232C/422/423.
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  7750. Anyone else notice you can’t mention Git
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  7751. Hub in the comments?
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  7752. Look up POP-11. It has the concept of an operand stack, so assignments go naturally left-to-right. E.g. a, b -> a -> b swaps the values of “a” and “b”.
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  7753. Science is about confronting the tough questions, not shying away from them. Is life too complex to have arisen by itself?
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  7754. 3:49 What is this “Universal Standard Time” of which you speak? Do you mean “Coordinated Universal Time”, or “UTC”?
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  7755. But when the religion itself decides which idols are “true” and which ones are “false”, that does tend to point up the circularity of the whole belief thing.
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  7756. Not counting the dozens, hundreds of engineers and their slide rules.
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  7757.  @battleoid2411  The computers were there to aid the engineers, not the other way round.
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  7758. 10:38 I like to use a name like “def_should_buy_avg”. The extra “def” on the front looks like the keyword for defining a function -- which is what the function does.
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  7759. It’s all the complications to disguise ads to make it harder for adblockers to recognize them.
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  7760. 0:16 So you didn’t get a ticket?
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  7761. 8:34 Tai-Lund?
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  7762. 8:19 Aperture defines how much light is captured only when expressed relative to focal length, not as an absolute distance measure. E.g. an aperture of 50mm with a focal length of 200mm is actually f/4, while if the lens focal length is 400mm with the same 50mm width, then that’s f/8, which means you only get one quarter the light.
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  7763. 10:02 So the aperture is actually 50mm/360mm = f/7.2.
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  7764. 10:42 Not to mention a longer objective focal length means a smaller aperture in f-terms (for the same aperture in absolute distance units), which means less light-gathering power!
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  7765. 11:07 f/6, only slightly better than your Celestron.
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  7766. 0:15 On the contrary, operating systems can make quite a big difference to the way you think, too. Consider a box which is sealed, with signs stuck all over it saying “NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE”, versus one which is easy to open and poke around in. Which one will teach you more about how things work? The former is a proprietary system like Mac or Windows, the latter is an open-source system like Linux. Guess where the cutting-edge development is happening these days?
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  7767. Looking at how the GPIO works, I found a web page which shows how to use simple shell commands to control the pins. It should be easy enough to create a Python wrapper with functions that carry out the same I/O operations--no need for any special drivers at all.
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  7768. I thought Windows NT was supposed to progress beyond that. “New Technology”, and all that?
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  7769. The Windows 9x/DOS line was obsoleted over 20 years ago. Why is Windows still stuck with 26 drive letters?
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  7770. But we keep getting told that no living thing can pass through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are the aliens getting here?
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  7771.  @lawrencedieck2222  Is that how the Apollo astronauts got to the Moon?
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  7772.  @lawrencedieck2222  So the Moon landings were not faked?
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  7773. One of those pretends to be news, the other claims nothing more than to be entertainment.
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  7774. Java bytecode, like Microsoft IL, is primarily designed for interpretation, with compilation more of an afterthought. LLVM is designed for compilation to efficient target code, not interpretation. It is built around SSA specifically for this reason.
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  7775.  @imacds  I don’t see that at all. Small programs compile quite quickly on a Linux system. A large program, like Blender (more than a million source lines) I can build in about 10 minutes.
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  7776. 19:58 That openness isn’t there today either, according to some companies. Proprietariness is alive and well. But at least Free/Open Source software has a name (OK, two names), and a clear definition you can point to.
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  7777. 4:02 Also most phone customers live in urban areas, so the feature of total coverage of the surface of the Earth isn’t so important. I think Peter HIllary (son of Sir Ed) used an Iridium phone to stay in contact during an expedition in Antarctica.
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  7778. I took some periscope-style pictures at a local model railway exhibition several years ago. I just used my mobile phone camera, and stood it upside-down inside the model scene. That way I had a support with the top edge resting on the floor of the model, which kept it steady. Easier than trying to manage it hand-held.
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  7779. I don’t know why that “keyboard not found, press a key to continue” thing is considered such a joke. It makes sense, after all, that if the hardware requires a keyboard to continue, it should wait for you to connect one.
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  7780. Al Jazeera did an undercover exposé on that a while back. Caused a bit of a scandal, with vociferous denials from Hanson &co. Not sure if it had any lasting impact, though.
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  7781. Just goes to prove that raking the leaves did work, you see ...
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  7782. Notice the “evolved” part of the description of these galaxies. That means they have already accumulated significant amounts of elements heavier than H+He.
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  7783. How much did you pay for the software originally? Did you consider getting a commitment from the supplier to provide some kind of support agreement for the useful life of the system? Instead of leaving you entrusting mission-critical business operations to obsolete, unsupported software?
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  7784. Murdoch is still in a huff over Albanese winning the election.
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  7785. 6:28 Or at least, the 🇺🇸 part of the World.
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  7786. So ... how’s the Vladimir Putin fan club doing now?
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  7787. 4:06 Not sure if this counts as a “correction”, but when you put two symbols side by side with their faux-3D depth perspective at conflicting angles, it makes me wonder about the skills of their art department. No, I don’t use Adobe products. Why do you ask?
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  7788. Microsoft seems to be gradually backing away from ReFS. Which makes you wonder what they are going to do about the increasingly antiquated NTFS ...
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  7789.  @CraigHaydock  The fact that they have reduced its OS support since its early days.
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  7790. DeSantis has already made his big play against Disney, and lost. This will likely strengthen Trump’s standing within the party. But unfortunately, not among the wider voters.
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  7791. 6:53 You didn’t mention that, after the original C-60 tapes, there were also C-90 and C-120 cassettes using thinner tape to hold up to 1½ and 2 hours of audio respectively. While the C-90 tapes seemed to work OK, I had a fair bit of trouble with the handful of C-120s that I did buy. They were probably pushing the format a little too far.
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  7792. 2:52 Yeah, but he was just taking the adipisc. It says so on the next line.
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  7793. 9:42 Collecting area is perhaps not so vital -- all that does is diminish the signal/noise ratio. What is probably more important is angular resolution, and you do that by widening the effective aperture. Which you can do by setting up multiple radio telescopes over a sufficient distance, listening to the same signal in sync. Hence the well-known radio telescope array projects.
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  7794. The 68K architecture derives in many ways from the DEC PDP-11. I have programmed both. ;)
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  7795.  @ScottyDMcom  PDP-11 was not 32-bit, though. The genius of 68K was that even the first 68000 was more than just a 16-bit processor, it was more a cut-down 32-bit design. VAX was arguably nice than both. But that’s another story...
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  7796. Just try removing packages, and see what happens. Even if you break the GUI, you can still log in via a text console and put back the GUI packages. If you accidentally remove the kernel and make your system unbootable ... well, you’ll know not to do that next time ;).
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  7797. Funnily enough, I think when the Nazis were asked where they got the idea of combining the office of head of State and head of Government into a single figure, they said it was from the USA. Parliamentary democracies tend to separate the two.
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  7798.  @JustChuck1982  “America tends to separate church & state” ... I think those evangelicals supporting the Republican Party might disagree.
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  7799.  @JustChuck1982  I guess “soft corruption” is the best way to sum up the way the US political system operates. Just so long as you cannot directly tie particular dollars to particular votes, anything is fair game.
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  7800.  @JustChuck1982  You need a democracy and rule of law in order for a vote to matter. You’ve had a regime that has spent the last four years trying to destroy every last shred of credibility in those institutions. Somehow I think it’s going to take more than a vote, this time.
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  7801. Linux runs on supercomputers with thousands of cores. Microsoft tried to compete in this market once (with Windows HPC), but they couldn’t even give it away.
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  7802. 5:04 What was “extended” about it? The fact that it was an improvement on what Linux had been using before—the Minix filesystem.
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  7803. 4:10 I like to think it’s still an insult to him. Every time the new Administration takes any action to deal with the pandemic, every time people are encouraged to mask up and socially distance and get tested, every time a new batch of vaccinations gets delivered to people, think of it as yet another big bird flipped to ex-Lügenführer Trump. Over and over. A thousand times a day, from now until the virus is licked.
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  7804. Zelenskyy is Jewish, from a family of Holocaust survivors; why shouldn’t he be entitled to make comparisons to the Holocaust? And yes, it appears Russians have been systematically killing civilians, in the territory around Kyiv recently reclaimed by Ukrainian forces.
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  7805.  @miriamweller812  Did you just refer to Slavs as “slaves”?
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  7806. Common Linux file managers can use SSH to make remote systems accessible as though they were local ones.
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  7807. vim is the only family of editors with separate commands for inserting text before the current position versus after the current position. Normal editors (including the GUI ones) do their insertion at the current position.
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  7808. You know how if you use “<script type="module"> ... inline content ... </script>” inside a web page, there is no module name to import from, so it would appear you cannot access any function defined in that inline content part from outside? Actually, there is a way you can.
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  7809. Exactly! “Conventional” computers would not work without quantum effects. Even before transistors, there were vacuum tubes. And there was no way their operation could be explained without quantum theory, either.
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  7810. 7:17 A comic caption I saw somewhere: “This is a job for ... [rip] *#@$! I forgot I was already in costume!”
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  7811. I think it’s called a “perfect information” game in game theory.
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  7812. Remember how Turkey bought that missile system from Russia, annoying Trump? And here it is selling a lethally effective drone system to Ukraine to defend against Russia. Isn’t the international arms industry wonderful?
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  7813. Those were block-mode terminals. Proper GUIs can do things like change parts of the window in response to input elsewhere (e.g. enable/disable one option based on the setting of another, update a live preview image etc), while those terminals could not do any such thing.
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  7814.  @avadarkness666  Wonderful for you. But we don’t need your approval.
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  7815. Seems to me the Dems could have used him. He already made Gaetz and the “Freedom Caucus” nutjobs angry by putting together bipartisan support to pass that interim spending bill, which is why they wanted to get rid of him; by helping to keep him on, the Dems could have made him beholden to them, and enrage the nutjobs even further.
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  7816.  @Harlem55  So how does that explain how a transistor works?
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  7817.  @Harlem55  You do realize that electrons in an atom are not in “orbit” right? #BremsstrahlungShoutout
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  7818.  @Harlem55  How strong is the gravitational attraction between an atomic nucleus and its electrons?
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  7819.  @Harlem55  Wrong answer.
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  7820. This is likely the end of Prigozhin, i.e. the end of the only effective part of Russia’s attempt to invade Ukraine. What’ll happen next? If Wagner forces are not quickly rounded up, they could go to ground and continue causing trouble within Russia for months or years.
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  7821. Try going through hundreds or thousands of fonts with a GUI, and you soon learn to appreciate the value of command-line utilities ...
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  7822. Do you really want to compare today’s conditions to those in 1856?
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  7823. He has a very limited ability to express himself.
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  7824. Microsoft made patent claims against Linux. Or rather, they made vague patent threats, claiming at one point that Linux was infringing something like 200 of their patents. But they would never publicly say which patents those were. Instead, they strong-armed a few Linux-using companies into making deals to hand over some amount of money -- while keeping all terms, including those all-important patent citations, secret.
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  7825. “Law-abiding” is not an excuse when it’s an unjust law.
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  7826. They had multiple big IBM computers back at Mission Control. This on-board computer was really just interpreting sensor readings, little more.
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  7827. This might be making use of the new “packrat parser” system to pull syntax tricks they couldn’t do before.
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  7828. Liberals respect their supporters. Conservatives fear theirs.
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  7829. Whereas nitrogen is repelled by a magnet. I think Toyota patented an idea some years ago about using magnets to increase the oxygen content in a car’s ventilation system, taking advantage of these properties of O₂ versus N₂.
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  7830. The way I learned it, you had this hierarchy of mathematical structures, e.g. groups, rings, fields, number systems. A “group” starts out with one operation defined on its elements (you might call it “addition” or “multiplication” or whatever), while a “number system” has two separate operations (so you call one “addition” and the other “multiplication”), and they have to interact in certain ways: the operations must be closed on the set of elements, every addition and (nearly) every multiplication must have an inverse, and so on.
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  7831. I think the browser sends you the same cookies as for the page itself. So if your Web connection is already authenticated, you can depend on that.
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  7832. 3:00 So in that picture, everything down to the box-like base is the MLP, and below that is the crawler transporter.
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  7833. 6:44 MLP above, crawler below.
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  7834. Because only VBA or PHP programmers would think it worth including.
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  7835. They’ve already hit that Engels base twice. Now Putin has to move his bombers further away from the Ukraine border. Which will make it harder to launch those missiles that are wreaking havoc on the the buildings and power supply etc. So you see, a gain here, a gain there.
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  7836. The 386SX was “cut down” in only having a 16-bit memory interface, as opposed to full 32-bit in the 386DX. I remember colleagues wondering what was the point, why not buy a 286 machine instead. I, being a software guy, was vociferous in pointing out the 32-bit future compatibility that the 386SX offered as a reason to go with that chip. I felt that too many of the people around me were focused on hardware issues, forgetting that software issues were, in the long term, much more important.
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  7837. 1:38 You realize if you put Seth’s and Ben’s hairstyles together, you would have a full head? I wonder what that’s worth in a game of “follicle poker”?
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  7838. Trump’s wall didn’t seem to last very long, did it? Didn’t he build it well enough?
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  7839.  @martinc.720  Spammer.
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  7840. In a command language, everything is assumed to be a literal string unless some special characters indicate otherwise. In a programming language (in which I include Python, Go etc), everything is an expression or statement unless you use special quotes to indicate literal strings. The latter is a pain in a command language. That’s why they’re not designed that way. And that’s why programming languages tend not to be good as command languages.
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  7841. It’s a service manager. Those are services. They need to be managed.
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  7842.  @jamesmachado2224  Are you trying to suggest that liking systemd is akin to terrorism?
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  7843. The Linux environment is a dynamic one; services can be started or stopped at any time, not just at boot time. systemd is designed to cope with this.
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  7844. 18:04 Does Apollo 11 count? The switch to ignite the LM ascent stage was broken, so they used a pen to close the contacts.
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  7845. Biden got a bipartisan agreement to raise the debt ceiling. All TFG would have done was lead the country into default and then blame it on the Democrats.
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  7846. People in 🇺🇸 seem to be turning more and more away from science.
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  7847. s/hugging/humping/
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  7848. But I keep getting told that no living thing can pass through the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are they getting here?
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  7849. But on Windows, it will likely crash before it manages to prove anything.
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  7850. But the very fabric of reality itself has a liberal bias, don’t you know ...
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  7851. LibreOffice has a Python scripting API. And Python is a bit more advanced than any language offered by Microsoft Access/Office.
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  7852. So, is he going to call on his state-level cronies to instruct their Electoral College deputies to simply ignore the popular votes in their States, and choose Trump regardless? Because so far his court cases are overwhelmingly getting rejected.
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  7853. Those judges better remember who put them there, eh?
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  7854. Some people have real trouble telling Hollywood movies from reality. Got a problem? Just shoot it, or
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  7855. blow it up. And then everybody lives happily ever after.
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  7856. 2:34 Velocity, not speed. I.e. speed + direction.
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  7857. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  7858. Would you trust mission-critical business functions to an OS that can only handle 26 drive letters?
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  7859. Arabs are Semites too.
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  7860. 2:26 But air, being compressible, means that more mass might be entering a point than leaving it, if the pressure (and hence density) at that point is rising, and conversely if it is falling.
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  7861. Lambdas are just functions. If you think lambdas are bad, then that must mean functions are bad.
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  7862.  @supercellodude  OK, so if it is Java that is “brittle”, rather than lambdas in general, you would get no argument from me. ;)
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  7863. Nice animations.
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  7864. OK, here’s another one: how wide do you set your editor windows? I currently use about 100 columns, and sometimes I think I need more.
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  7865. Did anybody else buy those CD-R blanks that were made to look like vinyl records? I think they came initially from Verbatim, then a few other vendors copied the idea. You can’t get them any more.
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  7866. 8:59 “Brain the size of a planet” etc etc.
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  7867. Java was supposed to be simpler than C++. But if you look at the language spec, the one is now almost the size of the other.
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  7868.  @whitebirchtarot  They already split it three ways.
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  7869. That’s called a “warm boot”.
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  7870. 2:39 Hence that incredibly-useful invention known as the “steam engine”. Which James Watt did not invent.
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  7871.  @DFX2KX  He didn’t have anything to do with the “steam engine” at all. What he did was improve Newcomen’s “atmospheric engine”. It wasn’t a “steam engine” because it ran off the pressure of the atmosphere, not of steam. It took a later bunch of Cornish mining engineers to figure out how to actually harness the power of steam pressure to create the “steam engine”.
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  7872. Visicalc began on the Apple II, like he said.
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  7873. Now do you think you can stop those journalists from saying “GMT”?
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  7874. 8:03 Why is secret-key (what he calls “symmetric key”) encryption preferred to to key-pair (public/private) encryption for the bulk of confidential communications, instead of using the latter all the time? Because key-pair encryption is on the order of 1000 times slower than secret-key encryption, that’s why.
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  7875. So, the US produces its own assessments of threats to Israel, but does not necessarily share them with Israel? Wheels within wheels ...
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  7876. Does Sky News, part of the same stable as Fox News, count as media?
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  7877. Now all you have to do is persuade the virus to believe in your god ...
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  7878. I’ve been using duff, but I see I have both installed.
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  7879. I don’t understand how this anti-systemd nonsense is able to proliferate. The code is out there, go look at it for yourself. If you find bugs, why not fix them? Go talk to admins and distro maintainers who are adopting it. They are embracing it because it solves real problems. Nobody is holding a gun to their heads. This is the Free Software world, after all! No company can own it. And of course, if you don’t want to use it, there are still a few distros around to cater to that preference, too. If that’s not enough for you, feel free to do what their maintainers did, and create your own!
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  7880. XP with the Fisher-Price colour scheme? 😲 And the good old “My First Documents” folder for the kiddies...
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  7881. Did you positively identify it as a UFO?
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  7882.  @Mike-gt1cs  You have to be sure that you’re not sure what it is.
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  7883.  @tech21support  How does that answer the question?
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  7884.  @tech21support  I am merely doubting the veracity of your account, not its legality.
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  7885.  @dewayneyoung7019  Our 🇳🇿 economy has been bouncing back since we managed to achieve our Covid-free bubble and end our lockdown. Things are still a bit fragile as you can imagine, but we have been able to go to shopping malls and cinemas over Christmas, and even attend open-air summer music festivals. We had a general election just a little bit before yours, and our leader got her job contract renewed for another term. Unlike yours.
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  7886.  @dewayneyoung7019  We don’t get sick and die afterwards.
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  7887.  @dewayneyoung7019  7% of the 🇺🇸 population has now come down with it. A September 11 worth of deaths per day. Ambulance crews being told not to bother bringing in patients who are too far gone and are just going to die in hospital anyway. State governors calling in refrigerated trucks to hold the excess bodies, with the morgues all full to overflowing. If you think that’s all a hoax, then you can go and sit in the corner with your security blanket and suck your thumb, and maybe let the adults take responsibility for the country.
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  7888.  @davidli9887  Israel is kind of a poor example to follow, given their chronic political instability. A better one would be Germany. The proportional system there was put in place after WWII to ensure that a dictator could never take power again. And it has worked so well, we here in NZ copied it. Time for the US to give it a try?
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  7889.  @hilal_younus  Seems like the Republican Party is severely split over Trump. If they were to jettison him and his supporters, it will likely destroy the Party. That’s the problem.
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  7890.  @sarabranden7697  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvtvLZ8U3TM
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  7891. Where can you get a better one for that price?
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  7892.  @georgeanton  That’s already way out of the same price bracket.
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  7893. It seems your blurb doesn’t include the link to the sample video you used to test. It’s here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCouxBnT4rw
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  7894. 6:20 Will Ruby become like COBOL now, then? Lots of greyhairs being pulled out of retirement and paid exorbitant hourly rates to maintain old code?
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  7895. I have this theory about the Sky/Fox News types: they have to project their inner desolation and emptiness on everything around them. They insist on sticking to their bankrupt ideology even when it endangers their lives, as with their refusal to take basic precautions to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. Think of it as a slow form of suicide.
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  7896. 🇺🇸 tried to delay some anti-aircraft missile sales to 🇹🇷 a few years ago, and remember what they did? They bought Russian missiles instead.
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  7897. Didn’t your Founding Fathers warn against a king taking over? Guess what the Forever Trumpers have done. Greetings from one of the top ten in this list https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zealand-is-again-sitting-at-the-top-of-the-list-of-worlds-most-democratic-countries/L6VKLEE2WJCISHCJTONJPUDVFQ/ .
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  7898. Trump himself keeps insisting he is still the sitting President. And nobody claims that impeaching and trying the sitting President is somehow unConstitutional. So by his own admission, his trial is permissible. QED.
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  7899. Don’t you mean, “Put that through cat into your pipe and smoke it”?
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  7900.  @fletcherrhoden  The movie title sounds like an open-and-shut case of false advertising, then.
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  7901.  @fletcherrhoden  Discrepancy between title and content ⇒ settles it.
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  7902. 1:03 “per-chlo-rate”
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  7903. Watch out for the antiliberal kneejerk “I know you are but what am I?” response.
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  7904. Emacs gives you editability. Plus it can spawn commands to give you access to all the functionality of a Unix/Linux system.
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  7905. They really get up your nose.
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  7906. Considering that the entirety of Ukraine’s territory bordering Russia is controlled by pro-Russia separatists, I wonder how Ukraine would be managing it?
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  7907. Other countries have independent Electoral Commissions. Where those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  7908. Remember when Trump promised to make it easier to sue journalists for libel?
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  7909. You think Tucker Carlson got off lightly?
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  7910. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  7911. All I can think is, peer pressure is an incredibly powerful thing. You’ve seen it in countries where mass atrocities were committed, it’s like large numbers of people are just sleepwalking, oblivious, through a nightmare.
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  7912. Antiliberals demand equal crime! Whatever we did wrong goes double for them!
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  7913. Consider that no Republican Presidential candidate has won the popular vote since 1992, and you can guess which party is going to fight tooth and nail to ensure that the Electoral College stays ...
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  7914. In all the good democracies, the ones who run for election are not the ones who run the election.
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  7915. I wonder why it’s not just pronounced as it’s spelled. Think “ng” followed by “inx”, then run them together.
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  7916. I grew up in 🇲🇾 eating spicy food, and I don’t understand that latter part.
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  7917. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Well, it’s a good excuse, anyway...
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  7918. There is no monopoly. Users can choose not to use Adobe products. The complaints are only coming from those who would rather make noise than make an effective decision with their lives. That’s why Adobe can afford to ignore them.
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  7919. Time for her to retire. She can no longer do her job properly ... whatever her job is.
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  7920. 24:01 I don’t recall the 145B. Presumably it was introduced to fill the gap left by the dropping of the 100. That was a very popular model, but from what I heard, Sony gazumped Apple over the manufacturing cost (at least, Apple saw it that way), so the initial manufacturing run of 100,000 units was not renewed.
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  7921. 6:46 No mention of process management and interprocess communication? Memory management? I can understand leaving out networking, as it was still early days for that.
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  7922. 16:36 OK, process management comes in here, but still no IPC.
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  7923. Minicomputer systems like Unix and VMS most certainly had a range of IPC mechanisms by that point.
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  7924. Any OS textbook from the era would have discussed it.
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  7925. 5:28 Should really use “×” instead of “x”.
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  7926. Look for “pylibgimp2”.
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  7927.  @casyatbat  If right and wrong is subjective, then I could say you were wrong and you couldn’t prove otherwise.
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  7928.  @casyatbat  But your saying I am correct doesn’t mean anything. It can only mean something if you are wrong.
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  7929.  @casyatbat  But that is only what you believe. Without objectivity, you cannot prove it is true.
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  7930.  @casyatbat  But where do those “premises” come from? How does objective morality arise from subjective religion?
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  7931.  @casyatbat  Well, that’s one way to duck the question ...
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  7932.  @ezbody  Please explain how they “OBVIOUSLY” subjective.
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  7933. Back in Greek and Roman times, their different variants on (polytheistic) religion could overlap without conflict, because they were careful not to claim that one particular god was the true god, and all other gods were false. Unfortunately, this principle has nowadays become an indivisible part of monotheistic religions in particular. If we are to have religious tolerance, then it has to go.
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  7934. ... and it turns out we’re at the unfashionable end of it ...
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  7935. “f” means create an output file, rather than writing to a tape drive.
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  7936. Liberals know how to copy digital bits for free.
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  7937. Remember they’re not really that “hidden”. On a multiuser system, the existence of a file with a particular name in your home directory betrays the fact that you have used a particular app. That’s a potential invasion of privacy.
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  7938.  @Cepreu_K  But presumably you are not from Rostov-on-Don.
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  7939. Where did that “do one thing and do it well” nonsense come from?
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  7940.  @bakters  So how does it apply to things like the shell or X11? Or the kernel? Or the whole antiquated sysvinit mechanism, that some people seem to prefer to systemd?
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  7941. Christians have pretty much the same ideas. E.g Acts 3:23 “And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.” So don’t try to say Jews are somehow unique in this.
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  7942. If those functions are only called from the “main” function, why not make them local to that “main” function?
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  7943. Have difficulty navigating nested blocks? This is why I have editor commands defined to quickly jump between lines with matching indentation.
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  7944. If you look at the original spec, it distinguishes between no less than three representations: the “reference language”, the “publication language” and the “implementation language”. There was a recognition that typographic limitations on computer input/output devices would require conventions like quotes for representing things like begin and end in the implementation language, while the publication language (as used for examples in the spec) would write these as words in bold. In the “reference language” (the language as theoretically defined in the spec), these are not reserved words as such, they are symbols , and their actual implementation representation is not defined.
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  7945.  @robt864  For example, if you could use this technology to save thousands of lives of your own soldiers in a war like Afghanistan (or back then, in Vietnam), why wouldn’t you? Particularly if the aura of “magic” that your technology would convey would also add to the intimidation of your enemies.
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  7946. 12:11 Ah, the good old flashing “12:00” from folks who didn’t know how to set up their VCRs. ;)
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  7947.  @guy_autordie  You are thinking of “Space Oddity”. Hint: “I Think It's Going To Be a Long, Long Time...”
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  7948.  @guy_autordie  Of course, I can’t be sure which one of them Mr Musk sent into space ...
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  7949. I love how they took those suspicious-looking X-ray pictures, but let the truck continue on its way regardless.
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  7950. “Cashew?” “Bless you.”
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  7951. 6:35 In the old days, they had this hook.
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  7952. 4:24 So that “II” on the end is not a Roman numeral at all, it’s “arr-jee-emm-eye-eye”. Arr, Jim lad, aye-aye! Heh.
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  7953. Stallman is/was very much a political activist.
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  7954. 5:05 No error checking on the pthread calls! Bad example.
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  7955. 0:21 And boy, was the Ipod fussy about the type of video it would play. Way back then, I implemented a system for a client for automatically generating videos in various formats (including for inclusion in DVD-Video, and playing on Ipod). Thank goodness for FFmpeg’s ability to convert anything to anything!
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  7956. 0:46 Not just any old metal, but a platinum-iridium alloy, as I recall. Also the same material used by Isaac Asimov for his (fictional) “positronic brains”.
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  7957.  @christopherbrooks1402  Did they scream like turboprop aircraft?
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  7958. Him and Amy Hoggart.
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  7959. I have come across people insisting it did.
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  7960. I can understand why the Germans continue to be sensitive about it, and why Scholz was so slow to agree. There is still a feeling that 🇩🇪 has a special relationship with 🇷🇺, because the Soviets were instrumental in defeating Nazism.
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  7961. 7:20 Running shoes...? /me wonders if test labs have ever been fitted with ejector seats.
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  7962. Tell them to standardize their document format on ISO 26300, which is a properly-specified, easily-understood standard with a diverse ecosystem, instead of that supposedly-open-but-still-proprietary complicated mess that Microsoft has been pushing.
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  7963. 10:06 But you would want the twin-fibre cable to be a crossover, where transmit at one end connects to receive at the other end and vice versa. Whereas the actual single-fibre TOSlink connector is the same at both ends (RCA connectors have that property too), and doesn’t prevent you from connecting an output to an output, or an input to an input. So basically there would be no compatibility with such a hypothetical twin-fibre connection anyway, and it would be pointless to try to incorporate any such into the design.
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  7964. Do you mean an audio file or a MIDI file?
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  7965. Is “gay” a bad thing?
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  7966. Hold on ... isn’t this part of the corrupt, lying mainstream media the former guy warned us about?
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  7967. The effect of that is to lower the amplitude of the higher frequencies close to the Nyquist limit. The same thing happens with scanned digital images, because of the nonzero size of the pixel samples, and the cure for this is the well-known “unsharp mask” filter. The same kind of equalization filtering can be done to sound.
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  7968. They were the bad guys in the Civil War, and it seems many of them never really admitted defeat.
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  7969. But he has the support of so many millions of devout Christians! They can’t all be wrong, can they?
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  7970. 4:13 “await” is actually an expression, not (necessarily) a statement.
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  7971. 4:04 You don’t encrypt the packet length!? Even I was able to figure out how to do that. ;)
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  7972. At one time, they even tried to unify the look across KDE and GNOME, with a project called “BlueCurve”. Quite controversial at the time, as I recall.
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  7973. For those who think 26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody, a new version of FreeDOS just came out recently.
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  7974. 14:59 Let me suggest that, for a design/layout tool, Inkscape might be a better choice than Gimp?
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  7975. Setting it up on Windows is a pretty manual process, though.
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  7976. Linux and other Unix-type systems do a lot of process creation, so that has to be cheap and fast. Windows, on the other hand, was created by a refugee from the Unix haters at DEC, who believed in doing as much as possible in a single process. So process creation on Windows, like on its precursor VMS, is expensive and slow.
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  7977. So where are they?
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  7978.  @bonysminiatures3123  If they were more advanced than us, they would have no need to hide.
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  7979. 10:26 If it’s a “space station”, then how does it move?
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  7980. There are still those who insist the Apollo Moon landings could have been achieved without alien help.
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  7981. @@makebelievearchitect You sound like someone who cares for the welfare of the Palestinians, with no desire to exterminate them or steal their land.
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  7982.  abesapien9930  “Now is not the time” ... the eternal refrain of those who don’t want to confront the issue at all.
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  7983. Always amusing to see these sorts of comments from a guy whose employer had to testify in court, under oath, that he could not be trusted to tell the truth.
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  7984. If he really was blaming China, wonder why he didn’t shut down all traffic from China ...
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  7985. Given how much his rallies contributed to the spread, perhaps they should call it “MAGA Fever” ...
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  7986. You, you, you LATIN, you.
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  7987. This is why Trump can’t stand Fox News any more. You can no longer be trusted to take his side. Are you turning RINO now?
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  7988. I thought your side were not fans of being soft on crime??
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  7989. 20:03 Soon as he said “Battlenet”, I thought “whatever happened to bnetd” ...
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  7990. How can anything from Apple not be a good deal? I’m shocked. Shocked, I tell you.
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  7991. Looks like the Ukrainians will be holding Bakhmut after all.
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  7992. If Attorney James gets her way, Trump won’t have anything left to pay back taxes with.
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  7993. Remember when Trump promised to make it easier to sue journalists for defamation?
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  7994. “Roswell II: Swamp Gas Is Back!”
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  7995. They are certainly trying desperately to be cool with all da Linux kidz, with their belated discovery of the power of the command line, revamped Windows Terminal and Notepad and WSL and all the rest of it.
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  7996. No, the “size on disk” would include whole space units that are allocated to the file, even if only part of the last one is used. The “-s” option in the ls command shows the allocated size. For example, see this listing: ldo@theon:github.com∕imageio> ls -ls imageio-ffmpeg/imageio_ffmpeg/ total 48 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 ldo users 4096 Jan 12 21:49 binaries 4 rw-r--r- 1 ldo users 1420 Jan 12 21:49 _definitions.py 4 rw-r--r- 1 ldo users 227 Jan 12 21:49 __init__.py 24 rw-r--r- 1 ldo users 21515 Jan 12 21:49 _io.py 8 rw-r--r- 1 ldo users 5870 Jan 12 21:49 _parsing.py 4 rw-r--r- 1 ldo users 3085 Jan 12 21:49 _utils.py You can tell from there that the filesystem is allocating space in units of 4096 bytes.
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  7997. Some of us run multitasking workstation OSes, which means we do multiple things at once. The idea of devoting the entire computer to doing just one thing seems so ... quaint.
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  7998. 9:45 YouTube’s comment system does not have durability.
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  7999. Amy Hoggart was doing something similar, over on Samantha Bee’s team (ex-team?).
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  8000. You can have your own personal custom font config file without having to modify /etc/fonts/fonts.conf.
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  8001. So what you are saying is that the response of the human ear is not linear, that it is subject to distortion.
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  8002. Hearing aids have to do with sensitivity and frequency response.
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  8003. Have you thought that it’s not just your ears, but also your mind -- i.e. a psychosomatic phenomenon? Something that you can only rule out by doing blind A-B tests.
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  8004. Cancel your subscription and demand your money back.
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  8005. 14:45 Isn’t the orbital period chosen so that the same satellite is visible at the same apparent position in the sky at the same time each day?
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  8006. Mini-stroke.
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  8007. ZFS is to filesystems what Java is to programming languages. Best not to run it on a general-purpose machine. Put it on a dedicated storage appliance, where it can chew up all the RAM to its heart’s content.
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  8008. 11:25 Notice they didn’t bother building pyramids any more in New Kingdom times.
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  8009. 4:12 Because the gas is at low pressure, so it shows its Fraunhofer lines (absorption/emission spectra). At higher pressure, these disappear.
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  8010. “Why is he wearing a false beard?” “Because he can’t afford a real one.” Brought to you by the “Give An Elderly Joke A Home” Foundation. Thank you for giggling.
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  8011. Funny you should mention taxpayers. Didn’t Obama want to make the 5 million or so illegal immigrants already in the US pay taxes? And didn't Republicans oppose that measure? Think what a difference that would have made to taxpayers.
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  8012. 9:14 Fun fact: the density of the Earth is 5-and-something tonnes per cubic metre. This is less than that of iron. So while the core of the Earth is made mostly out of iron, clearly the Earth consists in large parts of materials other than iron.
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  8013. I like to use the term “Dimdows” for the Microsoft product. Everybody knows what I mean. ;)
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  8014. 6:59 Dang ...
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  8015. 1:19 JPEG does have a lossless option, I believe. Or there is always PNG.
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  8016. Dmitri Utkin, founder of the Wagner Group and well-known Nazi sympathizer, was killed along with his boss Yevgeny Prigozhin in that blowing up of their aircraft. Moscow denies involvement. But if you take Putin at his word, that means that there is a well-organized outfit, with access to military-grade weaponry, operating with impunity on Russian soil, killing Russian heroes, and the Russian Government can do nothing about it!
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  8017. I remember a mention from the time that Linux actually performed better on Sun’s own hardware than Sun’s own OS.
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  8018. 18:58 It seems to me you are confusing the physics with the mathematics. The mathematics predicts physically-impossible situations, and you feel that means something is missing in the maths. But it’s not missing there, it’s missing in the physics. Understanding the discrepancy isn’t going to come from any deep insight into Navier-Stokes as it stands, but in altering the model in some way (like introducing the quantization limit I mentioned earlier) to be more physically accurate. Will this lead to new maths? Maybe ... maybe not.
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  8019. I think the name is a homage to Rutherford (for whom the engine is named). Interestingly, both NZ-born Nobel Prize winners went to the same primary school.
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  8020.  @jared_bowden  No, I think the double helix is part of the replication mechanism. For example, PCR only works on DNA, not RNA. So the SARS-CoV-2 virus test involves retrotranscription of the traces of viral RNA to DNA before it can be amplified via PCR to detectable levels. The redundancy in the genetic code comes from having 64 different symbols code for just 20 different amino acids.
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  8021. 21:32 Gosh, the text is just as badly kerned as the series’ own, presumably “professionally done” titling.
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  8022. 11:23 I dunno ... Marjorie Taylor Greene could edge him out just by totally out-loonying him.
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  8023. 5:12 It doesn’t seem to be using the H.264 codec, contrary to your specifications. Edit: Never mind, it seems “avc1” is indeed h.264.
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  8024. 4:16 Fun fact: the awkward “PostgreSQL” name arises from the fact that the original Postgres DBMS had its own query language, called QUEL. This was in the early days of relational DBMSes, when SQL was still gathering momentum but hadn’t quite become totally dominant yet. So when they finally gave in and adopted SQL as a query language, they had to indicate this by grafting this new thing on the end of their name, with slightly unfortunate results.
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  8025. Not much of an entertainment program. Needs more jokes.
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  8026. Vim insists on treating files as being divided up into lines, though. In other words, it is really only good for editing text files. Whereas I have successfully patched binary files using Emacs.
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  8027. Where do you think Robin Hood lived? Sherwood Desert?
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  8028. Leap-seconds are a whole separate issue, necessitated by the slowing down of the Earth’s rotation. There is no predictable system to how they come in--it has to be determined by actual measurement. One thing we’re sure of, their frequency will inevitably increase over time. Some people are in favour of getting rid of them. But that leads to its own controversies ...
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  8029. I love to see the out-and-out denial from the Trumpers that they had anything to do with the riots. They were happy to bask in the publicity while it was happening, but once they were caught, suddenly it’s all “wasn’t me”. They have no loyalty to each other, and will happily sell each other out to save their own skins. Just like their leader, really.
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  8030. Is Biden actually developing ... CHARISMA!?
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  8031. Watch out for the mindless kneejerk “I know you are but what am I” responses from the antiliberals.
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  8032. Too busy protecting illegal settlements.
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  8033. 1:48 Organically-grown produce, by any chance? They tend to be vulnerable to E Coli infections.
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  8034. 16:49 Would the VCO not run at a low-enough frequency?
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  8035. 4:19 One of those who uses both “sudo” and “su” together, when one of them will do.
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  8036. Linux is easier.
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  8037. 4:47 Hey, looks like I was born and grew up in an extra-high-gravity field. ;)
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  8038. Capitalism is efficient when there is a level playing field without vendor lock-in. Unfortunately, the history of the computer history is full of instances of vendor lock-in, which has reduced the efficiency of market competition. On the bright side, most of these cases do go away eventually, so they mostly slow down innovation rather then prevent it altogether.
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  8039. Just as an example of something Swift has been having trouble with: https://github.com/apple/swift-system/issues/5 . I offered a script to fix the problem, written in ... wait for it .. Python.
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  8040. I use KDE Konsole, which lets you have tabbed windows. And I also like to use different themes for them. Notice he has a root session permanently open (upper left), for performing installations and other admin tasks? I put a distinctive yellow background on mine, just to remind myself to be careful what I type there.
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  8041. “Totalitarian” ... isn’t that something that applies to what Governments do, not how private companies run their own business?
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  8042. One of the things unfortunately left unspecified in the ALGOL 60 spec was the meaning of something like if cond1 then if cond2 then alt1 else alt2 which “if” did the “else” pair with? Later languages specifically said that it paired with the “last unpaired “if”". But ALGOL 60 did not. Some implementations might have interpreted it that way, but others said you had to be explicit by putting in begin/end as appropriate, i.e. if cond1 then begin if cond2 then alt1 else alt2 end or  if cond1 then begin if cond2 then alt1 end else alt2 Of course, “begin/end” was only allowed in statements, not expressions, so this didn’t help with conditional expressions.
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  8043.  @PontschPauPau3451  Big companies were never “better”, except perhaps in job security. There are hundreds, thousands of MBA case studies showing how a small, entrepreneurial startup might be innovative and successful until it becomes big, then its culture becomes more conservative and risk-averse, more ossified. Bill Gates was at Harvard, remember, and he knew about all this. IBM was the most obvious example that he saw first-hand. Microsoft managed to avoid this (mostly) through the 1990s, but even it has succumbed now.
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  8044. HAH! I LAUGH at your puny notch! Myself, and thousands of heedless toddlers trying to jam sandwiches, biscuits and other squishy, non-notch-bearing treats into their parents’ VHS machines! Your engineering cleverness means NOTHING to them!
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  8045. Not really: remember Trump never won the popular vote. A more representative system would never have elected him.
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  8046. Sometimes the State has to step in and be the parent. That’s why we have Government.
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  8047. Arabs are Semites, too.
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  8048. 0:46 Ross Perot all over again. This is why the US doesn’t really have a democracy; it cannot tolerate even the concept of having more than two political parties in its representative assembly.
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  8049. Actually, the Russian leadership is in a bit of a mess at the moment. We have Prigozhin and Kadyrov openly mocking the Russian military. And this is not helped by Putin continually shuffling the military leadership. So those truckloads of poorly-trained, poorly-equipped and poorly-motivated Russian soldiers being shovelled into the fight are mostly being sent there to die.
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  8050. Meanwhile ... AOC seems to be doing more for Texas than the entire GOP put together.
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  8051. 5:16 “If we win we get to decide what the agenda is, and they don’t.” Yeah, but aren’t you supposed to let the voters decide elections based on which agendas they prefer? Seems you just want them to grant you the power unconditionally, on the basis of “trust us, we’ll decide what to do with it”. That’s not how checks and balances in a democracy work.
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  8052. 3:17 At this point, I’d guess that you can have any integer number of slider axes ≥ 2, and furthermore they don’t even have to be distributed at uniform angles (subject only to the mechanical limitations of actually building a physically possible shape). As the centre point between the pivots always lies on a 4D* linear spiral, a projection of that world line along any axis will produce a sine wave. Furthermore it will always be a sine wave of the same amplitude and frequency, just with phase dependent on the axis angle. *3 dimensions of space + time
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  8053. 6:04 OK. ;)
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  8054. And all Republicans, who just happened to attend Barrett’s nomination ceremony. Such a random coincidence, isn’t it?
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  8055. Re cylinders versus disks: history kind of repeated itself about half a century later with magnetic media, though the technological tradeoffs were slightly different. Magnetic drums (cylinders) were considered to be faster, since they tended to have a dedicated read/write head for each track, while disks usually had a single set of heads that had to move back and forth from one track to another. But the latter could pack more data into the same space, were cheaper to make, etc etc.
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  8056. PHP user?
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  8057.  @greggoog7559  What has changed in Python in the last “few weeks”? Hint: Python 3.11 was released nearly a year ago.
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  8058. Yawn that old “spinning rust” cliché again. Rust isn’t magnetic.
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  8059. 5:05 If it was a “%d” format specifier and you used printf-style formatting, then it cannot be substituted with anything other than a decimal integer. Problem solved.
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  8060. I may not always be right, but I’m never wrong.
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  8061. If you impose field-of-use restrictions, then it’s no longer FOSS.
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  8062. Putin can destroy Ukraine, no question. But he can never conquer it.
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  8063. His new motto is “Five Shots, One Kill”. He just fired over 70 missiles into Ukraine as reprisals for the Kerch Bridge, and managed to kill 14 people. And with all the bribes to the oligarchs, those missiles don’t come cheap. Or accurate, either.
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  8064. Greetings to 🇬🇭 from 🇳🇿. Sorry I can’t think of any famous Ghanaian other than Kofi Annan. ;)
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  8065. Very possibly. Though DAT was effectively sabotaged for consumer use anyway, since the record labels were still terrified over the prospect of a recordable medium which could make perfect copies. I think DAT machines still gave you the option of selecting a 44.1kHz sample rate if you wanted.
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  8066. Think about what “sunk-cost fallacy” means ...
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  8067. Be careful about analogies with Saddam. He wasn’t the one doing the invading in 2003, he was the one being invaded.
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  8068. I had fun when PC fax modems first came out. Suddenly you got good-quality graphics at the other end. Even more fun, use a proper photographic-quality scanner on the PC to input an image, and watch it appear perfectly legible at the other end, with dithered gradations, instead of those black blobs you usually get.
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  8069. Any equivalent to “apropos”?
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  8070. 3:28 Private Browsing Mode FTW!!!
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  8071. 3:26 I thought we normally call that the “dot product”. I think also “inner product”?
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  8072.  @iii-ei5cv  Yes, but which John Steed sidekick? Tara King? Emma Peel? Cathy Gale? Or one of the older ones?
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  8073. 11:31 Hey, the first non-Apple PC I bought -- a Pentium-4 Shuttle in 2004 -- came with a copy of Mandrake 9.1 “Discovery Edition” in the box. The “Discovery” bit meant that it was missing the 3rd CD with the developer tools. So one of my early experiments in Linux tweaking was figuring out how to download and install those tools from the online repo.
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  8074. And the Thorn Boidz graffiti?
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  8075.  @StƏphaniƏ012  Well, he already tried to blame the Democrats for not taking charge of things like the BLM protests.
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  8076. And of course he has a lot of them at his rallies, doesn’t he ...
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  8077. 1:54 Yes, the 🇺🇸 electoral system has big problems. 1: get rid of the Electoral College.
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  8078. Feel free to come up with a solution.
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  8079. Laws exist for the good of the people. Society is not here to serve the law, the law is here to serve society. If a law is harmful to society, we don’t blame society, we get rid of the bad law.
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  8080.  @PabloTheThinker  He didn’t break in anywhere he was not wanted.
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  8081.  @PabloTheThinker  You people are really desperately scraping the bottom of the barrel, aren’t you, to try to conflate the criminal acts your side committed on Jan 6 with legitimate and nonviolent acts of protest?
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  8082. Why do I suddenly hear Peter Griffin singing “I Need A Jew” ...
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  8083. It’s pretty neat, though, that you can pass open files and other process context from the old userland instance to the new one.
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  8084.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Open Source is all about choice. Some of us want to do things our own way, others just want to concentrate on what they’re good at.
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  8085.  @terrydaktyllus1320  It’s all about choice. Others want to set up systems that work best for them, you don’t agree, that’s your choice.
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  8086.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Maybe you should stick to systems that don’t offer you a choice.
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  8087.  @terrydaktyllus1320  You are the one trying to make it somehow personal and off-topic. All I did was point out the feature that the video was about. Who was the one trying to “hijack” what, again?
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  8088.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Seems like you completely missed the point of the video. Maybe watch it again, and stop “whining” about being reminded of what this discussion is about.
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  8089. Given Microsoft’s repeated failures trying to support ARM, would this be a case of sour grapes? You have the Linux source code, which runs fine on ARM, RISC-V and loads of other architectures, why not learn some things from it?
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  8090. Former Bond girl makes good.
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  8091. The password is “swordfish”.
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  8092. Anybody else want to see LISP in 100 seconds? As old as it is, its macro facility is still streets ahead of struggling with #define in C.
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  8093. On more modern computer OSes we have the “compose” key. This lets us type multi-key mnemonics for all kinds of Unicode characters. For example, compose-lessthan-quote for an opening curly quote, like I did up there.
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  8094.  @Kasiarzynka  I can type all that on a US keyboard (which is what we use in NZ), and more besides, all with the Compose key.
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  8095.  @LudwigvanBeethoven2  MouseMove needs to be carefully controlled. For example, the WaitNextEvent() call he describes takes a mouse-region argument, and a mouse-move event is only generated when the mouse leaves this region.
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  8096. 10:43 No coincidence that, among that roll-call of past Presidents, the one Republican is the one most closely aligned with Democrat values today.
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  8097. Microsoft has not found “alternative revenue sources”. Nothing else it is doing has brought in profits anywhere near the scale of Windows and Office. In fact, a lot of it is losing money: aQuantive, Danger/Hiptop, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mojang/Minecraft, Nokia, Skype ... would you count any of that a success?
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  8098. If a straight line maps to a straight line, then that’s the definition of a “linear transformation”.
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  8099. Iron is one of those elements that forms a range of different oxides. The one that predominantly makes up rust isn’t magnetic.
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  8100. But where do they find the migrating trees? Those must be pretty rare...
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  8101.  @GilesBathgate  CIL/MSIL could not be used to implement its own interpreter, so you still need something lower-level than that. LLVM-IR is designed for this.
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  8102. DEC’s 12-bit (PDP-5, PDP-8, PDP-12) and 18-bit (PDP-1, 4, 7, 9 etc) machines used this trick. The jump-to-subroutine instruction was called “JMS”, so JMS SUBR would store the address of the following instruction at location SUBR, and transfer control to address SUBR + 1. (cont’d)
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  8103. (cont’d) By the way, the first prototype of what became Unix was developed on a PDP-7. You can see why they were quick to move to a PDP-11, which had a much nicer architecture with a proper stack.
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  8104. (cont’d) This would jump to the address stored at SUBR, which was of course the point in the caller at which to resume execution. (cont’d)
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  8105. (cont’d) There was no return-from-subroutine instruction as such, instead you ended execution of SUBR with an indirect jump: (cont’d)
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  8106. (cont’d) JuMP I SUBR (cont’d)
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  8107. And so I just discovered that if I used the right mnemonic for the JuMP instruction, YouTube deletes my comment!
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  8108. And the latter is a modern superscalar RISC architecture underlying some of the most powerful computers in the world right now.
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  8109. ... register defined by hardware, the IBM POWER/PowerPC architecture does not.
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  8110. It’s no big trick to implement a stack in software.
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  8111. ... had a dedicated stack-pointer ...
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  8112. ... PDP-11 ...
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  8113. While the ...
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  8114. Now it seems I cannot post a comment with “dlo” (backwards) in it.
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  8115. 3:02 I think 🇷🇺 is officially defined as a “hybrid” state, so he is right.
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  8116. If you are really happy with paying over and over for the rest of your life just to have access to your own work ... well, you do you.
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  8117. Worth mentioning Jacob Bronowski’s classic 1973 documentary series on the history of science, The Ascent Of Man . May seem a bit old now, but he’s still fascinating as a presenter. Episode 6 dealt in part with Galileo. Bronowski visits the actual room where Galileo was tried--it had been turned into a post office by that time. He was also granted access to the secret Vatican archive where a remarkable series of historical documents are kept, including the (in)famous divorce application by Henry VIII of England, the refusal of which led to the foundation of the Church of England. While the trial of Galileo took place in 1633, the dossier collected on him by the Inquisition starts as far back as 1611. There was also claimed to be a document (never produced at the trial) which was supposed to prohibit him from teaching geocentrism. Bronowski found that document in the archive, and it was at best an unfinished draft which was rejected, or at worst, a complete forgery. As part of Galileo’s sentence, besides the recantation and the house arrest, he was also to be shown the instruments of torture. You can imagine the effect on a scholar, a man unused to physical abuses, such a display would have.
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  8118. It’s that incomprehensible Liberal sense of humour.
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  8119. There is static type, there is dynamic typing, and there is no typing at all. JavaScript is one of these.
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  8120. Are you sure there won’t be more final wars? It really will be the last one?
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  8121. Remember that Torvalds himself describes Git as the “stu
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  8122. The idea behind a flying car is you won’t need a pilot’s licence to drive one.
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  8123.  @sebastienh1100  Makes a big difference between having a few thousand vehicles in the air versus a few million.
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  8124. 6:17 He was named for a ball-point pen?!? And they hadn’t even been invented yet?!?!?!?!? WOAHHH ... MORE BRAIN OVERLOAD!!!
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  8125. 0:40 The PAL version could fit it on one.
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  8126. 4:15 Possibly the first open-source licence?
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  8127. I have a problem with the idea that light can disappear into a black hole and be lost forever. Light travels along geodesics. And geodesics are time-symmetrical. That means a light beam can travel in either direction along a geodesic. Therefore, if there is a light path from outside the event horizon leading into it, then there is a path in the opposite direction leading out. So if light can enter, it can just as easily escape. Since there is no escape, that must also mean there is no entry. QED.
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  8128.  @scottmanley  Whatever it travels along, those trajectories are bidirectional. Either they cross the event horizon (which gives both entry and exit), or they don’t. Which is it?
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  8129.  @scottmanley  Geodesics are time-symmetrical. Consider the orbits of the planets -- flip the time axis, and they go round the orbits the other way, and everything still conforms to the laws of physics. Every trajectory under gravity is time-symmetrical. That carries over to General Relativity too.
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  8130. Yes, there was a common ABI on VMS, which even included exception handling. So a language could throw an exception which got handled in another language! (Assuming your language notion of “exception” bore some resemblance to the VMS notion...) Nowadays it seems a platform ABI is defined for C and C++, and other languages have to conform to that.
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  8131. Could this be the flip side of objective decoherence? Namely the idea that wave function collapse happens inevitably as you get closer to macroscopic scales. This could be seen as being because of the increasing influence of gravity, but if the two are just two sides of the same coin, then gravity is simply something that comes out of wave function collapse.
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  8132. 4:05 Another issue is the handling of autorepeat: by having this entirely in software, you don’t actually have to insert the repeated keystrokes into any buffers; you simply generate them on demand, as the user program asks for keystrokes. That way, you never have them happening faster than the program can handle.
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  8133. You can run anything you like as a “shell”. But when you try, you discover why there is such a thing as “shell command languages” (like Bash), as distinct from “programming languages” (like Python).
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  8134.  @tylerdean980  That makes no difference to your personal choice of shell.
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  8135. Fun fact: Windows NT on Alpha only ever ran in 32-bit “TASO” mode. Of the four OSes for Alpha that I know of†, Windows NT was 32-bit only, DEC’s VMS was a hybrid 32/64-bit, while the only full 64-bit ones were DEC’s Unix and Linux. This was only the second architecture that Linux ran on, and the first 64-bit one. †I’m told some version of BSD was available as well.
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  8136. 3:10 In ALGOL 60, a procedure body was defined as a single «statement», preceded by zero or more formal argument specifications. Of course, a begin/end block counts as a «statement», but it is not required to be this. This was later deemed to be too confusing, so in Pascal it must specifically be a begin/end block. Not sure if that was also the rule in ALGOL-W (aka “Wirth-Hoare ALGOL”), which was an intermediate language between ALGOL 60 and Pascal.
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  8137.  @johnleclair663  I did say “modern”, did I not ...
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  8138. Yup, can’t argue with putting Blade Runner at the top. Syd Mead’s concept designs were just amazing. And you get points for rating Metropolis at all. For those who haven’t heard of it, go see it! It may be a silent film from 1924, but it’s still a classic.
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  8139. The whataboutism is strong in this one.
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  8140. Best is to avoid such situations, by keeping your REs simple.
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  8141.  @TofuBug24  That’s the kind of (mis)use of regexes Jamie Zawinski had in mind when he made his famous quote.
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  8142. All it did was modify an index register that could only point at one of a set of labels.
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  8143.  @TheOwlman  Well, that’s a problem with ICL, not the COBOL spec.
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  8144.  @TheOwlman  In general that’s true of any variable: when it’s value is changed, there’s no “visible logic” to indicate it no longer has the value it was given at initialization time. So nothing too special about COBOL’s ALTER statement: it’s just a specialized form of assignment.
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  8145.  @TheOwlman  It’s not as well structured as a case-statement, it is true. But given that you cannot assign arbitrary expressions in an ALTER statement, it is still possible to gather all the possible values of the switch-variable simply by finding all the places where it is mentioned.
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  8146.  @fixups6536  It’s a switch statement. Quite a common feature in languages today, albeit in a more structured form.
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  8147. Projection is a recurring characteristic of the anti-Liberal mindset: accusing the other side of doing what they themselves are guilty of.
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  8148. Or at least backslashism.
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  8149. Another key point about these good democracies is that everybody’s vote counts equally, and those running for election are not the ones running the election.
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  8150. Do you have steam engines running nearby? He seemed to enjoy the whole experience, anyway. Let me guess: his full name is “Caninus Maximus” ...
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  8151. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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  8152. 2:05 sysfs is basically the API for accessing (and managing) the kernel’s view of your system hardware, and of its control of that hardware.
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  8153. Quantum computers that can run Shor’s algorithm are vapourware, and destined to remain that way indefinitely.
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  8154. Unfortunately, the Windows API is not well enough specified to allow this. Compare how many different implementations of POSIX there are (that is much easier to demonstrate compliance with), while the WINE folks really have their work cut out trying to be Windows-compatible. https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
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  8155. He keeps getting booed by his own supporters every time he mentions them.
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  8156. 10:44 That was not CG, by the way.
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  8157. 10:19 This ! Their tendency to believe in multiple conspiracies is their weak spot. Simply point out the logical contradictions between the conspiracies, and watch them fumble about and try to rationalize all these. 8:48 Pushing lots of proofs and evidence in their faces is certainly not the way. But science isn’t about that anyway: it’s about asking the questions that led to the uncovering of those proofs and evidence. So ask them a few probing questions about these “conspiracies”, to make them think a bit more critically about them. Bringing up contradictions between their different beliefs is particularly helpful (see above).
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  8158. Only one news network I know of has correspondents inside the Gaza Strip, in the West Bank and in Israel. And also in Lebanon and Iran, while we’re at it. Though not any more in Egypt. Their Egyptian staff are currently languishing in a Cairo jail. In fact, one of their West Bank correspondents was murdered by Tzahal, not too long ago. Her name is Shireen Abu Akleh.
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  8159. Looks like she’s committing political suicide, for the sake of doing the right thing. How many politicans can you say that about?
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  8160. 1:25 Isn’t “frozen liquid” a contradiction in terms? If it’s liquid, it’s not frozen.
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  8161.  @justinwright245  It’s not water. The water is frozen hard like rock. It’s hydrocarbons, in gaseous and liquid form. Cold, yes, but (mostly) not below its freezing point.
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  8162. Windows was never really adaptable. Microsoft is still trying to port it to ARM, and failing.
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  8163. In your country, 220 volts counts as some advanced technology.
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  8164. 25:59 When Lotus 1-2-3 3.0 finally did ship, it couldn’t fit in 640kiB of RAM, so expanded/extended memory was a must. This left a lot of existing users with older machines out in the cold, so Lotus brought out a new release of 1-2-3 2.xas well, to keep them happy.
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  8165. Yes, that was a very influential language -- well worth a look.
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  8166. Think of “viscosity”. High mean free path means low viscosity.
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  8167. They follow a god who claims credit for all the good things but shirks blame for all the bad things. Is it any surprise they tend to support leaders who behave the same?
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  8168. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  8169. LMMS rulez OK!
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  8170. Why not use setsid instead of nohup?
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  8171. There is a word which is used a lot in this video, which you are not allowed to mention in the comments. Can you guess what it is?
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  8172. As an exercise, how would you write a wildcard to match dotfiles in your home directory? These are the various files/directories containing user preferences for apps that you run. Their names begin with a dot, so they are normally excluded from directory listings. However, if you type something like “ls -ld ~/.*”, it will also show the useless “.” and “..” entries that clutter every Unix/Linux directory. How do you exclude these? The answer is: ls -ld ~/.[!.]*
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  8173.  @serge5046  That won’t work if you just want directories, though: du -ks ~/.[!.]*/
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  8174.  @faithcastillo9597  But Trump promised!!!111
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  8175.  @Digger-Nick  I wonder who are the ones claiming “terrorists” are entering the US from Mexico -- who are the real fear-mongerers. Even Fox News had to call out Sarah Huckabee-Sanders on the speciousness of that claim. Seems even the Republican-sycophant “news” network has limits on how sycophantic it is going to be.
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  8176. I see “desktop” as a concept created by the marketing departments of proprietary platforms. They are careful to distinguish “desktop” from “server” by carefully excising anything resembling “server”-style functionality from their “desktop” products, precisely so they can sell the “server” ones at a higher price. Linux tramples all over this distinction. That’s why it is best called a “workstation” platform, with both “desktop” and “server” functionality rolled into one. So when is the year of the Linux “workstation”? I’ve got news for you: Linux has been king of the workstation market since the last of the Unix workstations went extinct. That’s about two decades ago.
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  8177. Latin.
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  8178. Imagine if she had a son. Don’t call him “Harry”.
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  8179.  @BleedingUranium  Well, he made the UN General Assembly laugh. At him.
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  8180. Because the binary digits of the number making up each sample are recorded and transmitted as signal pulses. Electrically, these can be voltage or current pulses. On magnetic media, they are pulses in the magnetic field. On optical media, the pattern of “pits” and “lands” induces pulses in the photodetection system. And so on.
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  8181. 11:18 Hilbert who, apparently, was quite miffed when Kurt Gödel came up with his proof of how no sufficiently-powerful theory of mathematics could ever be both complete and consistent.
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  8182. But surely all the scripts are done from templates according to a database from HR. Once the records are updated, then all the machine mappings automatically update to match.
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  8183. Conservatives cannot succeed in the marketplace without Government help!
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  8184. Restriction to sublight speeds would not be a barrier, as Brian Cox pointed out.
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  8185. Who’s in charge in Florida? Oh, right, DeSantis ...
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  8186. There is an off-switch, just like on your TV. Use it.
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  8187. Now he’s off to Minsk!
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  8188.  @oorzuis1419  The Belarussians hate their leader enough as it is. If he gets them more involved in the war in Ukraine, he’s going to find himself strung up from a tree outside his Presidential palace.
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  8189. Why always with the Australia digs? Not sure why I care ... I’m in NZ ...
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  8190. How do you do the equivalent of ffprobe?
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  8191. Pro world-leader tip: if you want to discourage your neighbours from joining a military pact against you, you don’t do it by threatening their security.
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  8192.  @longinusukenta  Canada is a secular democracy; like all proper democracies, it looks after the welfare of all its citizens equally, regardless of race, creed, sexuality or anything else.
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  8193. 3:10 Not 63 or 61 miles up, but 62 miles. Why? Because it’s 100 kilometres, dummy!
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  8194. OK, this is going to be super-anal-retentive, but the title should be “Republicans Wonder if Georgia Isn’t the Final Nail in Trump’s Political Coffin: A Closer Look”. Because you say “I wonder if not X” when the original assumption was that X was false (and “not X” was true), and now you are beginning to wonder about that assumption.
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  8195. Hollywood: “The sequels will continue until morale improves.”
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  8196. Ah, forgot Sardinia. But the Vatican is technically a separate country, is it not? As is San Marino.
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  8197. Still waiting for intra terrestrial exploration to progress beyond (literally) scratching the surface...
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  8198. Yup, hand-coding state machines to handle parsing various kinds of data is an extremely common thing. Done it lots myself.
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  8199. Yup, hand-coding state machines to handle parsing various kinds of data is an extremely common thing. Done it lots myself.
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  8200. The trouble with FORTH is it’s such a crummy language model. Even PostScript is better than that.
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  8201.  @aleksandersabak  You like PostScript? Both its graphics model and the language are antiquated, but both can be improved.
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  8202.  @aleksandersabak  No idea what you mean by “concatenative”. If you want to understand the difference between FORTH and PostScript, start by contemplating you forth love if honk then versus you postscript love {honk} if
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  8203. User of Microsoft KlunkyOS?
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  8204. How’s the former guy doing? Hope he’s enjoying his retirement. At last he has time for all those golf games he had to give up before...
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  8205. 12:13 What happens as KE continues to dissipate beyond that point?
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  8206. To answer my own question: the dissipation stops once the bottle and the contents are moving at the same velocity, so there is no more friction between them.
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  8207. And also seemingly trying to hide their connection to her. Wonder why?
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  8208.  @a46475  Does that also apply to Fox News as well?Or doesn’t that seriously count as “media” in the eyes of right-wingers?
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  8209.  @a46475  Does that also apply to Fox News as well?Or doesn’t that seriously count as “media” in the eyes of right-wingers?
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  8210.  @a46475  Well, that’s one way to deflect from the question and avoid answering it.
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  8211. Windows is not its core product any more. The big cash cows now are Azure and Office 365†. Speaking of Office 365, have you heard they are going to offer a Python addin for Excel? Because they just discovered that all the professional-quality data analytics are not being done in Excel (surprise, surprise), but in open-source toolkits built on Python, NumPy/SciPy, Pandas, Jupyter, Matplotlib, and all the rest of that ecosystem.
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  8212. Only this Microsoft service will cost extra, because after all it’s targeted at Excel jocks too du
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  8213. mb to realize that they can bypass Microsoft and access open-source stuff for free. †Anybody else find the “365” name ironic, considering the service has never been able to manage 365 consecutive days of uptime in its entire existence?
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  8214. I think eventually Microsoft will decide that maintaining the Windows kernel, with all its decades of accumulated cruft and vulnerabilities, is too much trouble. Then it will simply move the Windows userland on top of the Linux kernel. If you think the Windows kernel is fine, consider why WSL1 had to be abandoned: it was because Windows simply lacked the necessary core functionality to provide Linux-style features.
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  8215.  @edism  “Hasn’t been abandoned” ... yeah, right. Never worked properly, and will never be fixed. But fine, go ahead and drink more of their marketing Kool-Aid™.
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  8216.  @edism  What I don’t understand is why you feel the need to rush to the defence of a dead product -- one that even Microsoft itself can’t be bothered with any more.
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  8217. 0:24 That’s it, you can’t visit Thailand any more without being arrested.
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  8218. The Ukraine invasion is Putin’s “Operation Barbarossa”.
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  8219.  @realdaybreaker8013  Oh, I’m sure he has won already ... in his mind.
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  8220. We keep getting told that no living thing can cross the Van Allen radiation belts. So how are they getting here?
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  8221. 15:36 OK, here’s an interesting thought: one situation where, it seems, this issue of prior probabilities is explicitly ignored, is in the legal system. Here in 🇳🇿, we had a high-profile murder case where all details of the accused had been kept suppressed until just the last few days. It turns out the reason was that he was implicated in the deaths of some other victims, and the court wanted to be sure that these other cases would not influence the verdict in this one. Whereas it is now clear he is a serial offender, who has done this sort of crime several times, and will likely do it again. In short, it seems the legal idea that each criminal trial should be run entirely independently, without regard to what might be happening in other trials of the same perp, is directly counter to Bayes’ Theorem.
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  8222. There’s no way to force all the Linux distros to adopt it. This is why we have 300-odd Linux distros!
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  8223.  @replikvltyoutube3727  I wasn’t even talking about PowerShell for Linux, just about the Windows version.
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  8224. Even clicking on the link is impossible.
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  8225. You can’t even comment here, the air on this very page is unbreathable.
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  8226. I saw somewhere a design for a self-aligning sundial, so you can tell from the shadow itself whether you are pointing it in the right direction.
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  8227. 6:18 Interesting that they used 31 cells in series at a nominal potential of 1V each. I believe the power supply was nominally 28V. Maybe the extra 10% was to cater for quality variation and degradation over time.
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  8228. 9:38 Thought: the rounding discrepancy between 0.965” and 24.5mm is maybe one part in 2000. Would there be any problem with a part made to one measurement fitting to one made with the other? On the other hand, 1¼” is exactly 31.75mm, so there should be no problem using SI units there.
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  8229. 3:32 “id est”
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  8230. But is that d.f. or d.j.?
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  8231. They believe reality itself is part of the Liberal Plot.
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  8232. I’m confused. Is that an argument in favour of gun rights, or against them?
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  8233. And yet, at the same time, the seeds of the future always lie in the present, and the past.
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  8234. So, no chance of accidental “UFO sightings”, then?
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  8235. Facial recognition proves that those rioters are actually Trump supporters.
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  8236. 19:45 Hi to you, too.
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  8237. The irony about Fox being anti-mask/anti-vaccine is that, in 2020 or 2021 while Murdoch’s network was downplaying the whole severity of the pandemic, Murdoch cancelled his own birthday celebrations because he knew he was in a high-risk group for getting sick and dying.
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  8238. 4:48 Don’t put your own fonts in /usr/share/fonts. Put them in /usr/local/share/fonts.
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  8239. @Learn Linux Because /usr/share is for stuff installed by your distro package manager.
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  8240. But was he telling the truth?
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  8241. Antiliberals demand equal crime!
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  8242. /me basks in an endless stream of coherent, complete sentences from the Leader of the Free World ...
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  8243. It’s easier than that, you can just redefine the HOME environment variable.
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  8244.  Dwight A. Spencer  I heard of chroot(8) and chroot(2), but never chroot(3).
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  8245. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  8246. That’s how the god of their religion works, so naturally they follow that example.
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  8247. 13:46 Hey, I thought “full-stop” was a 🇬🇧 thing, you said “period” in 🇺🇸an.
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  8248. I just do “man -k”.
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  8249. It’s like Jeopardy ... only more dangerous.
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  8250. Or, you could just watch Ken Russell’s Gothic , then walk around looking stunned for a couple of days.
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  8251. WordPress is not exactly known for its speed though, is it.
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  8252. He is absolutely right. Laws do not define what is right and wrong: it is your sense of right and wrong that should be the foundation of the law. When a law ceases to be relevant to the needs of society--when in fact it is actually becoming harmful to society--then you need to get rid of it. Simple as that.
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  8253. Worst of them all is the one whose employer had to testify in court, under oath, that he could not be trusted to tell the truth. Which one was that? The network was called Vulpine News, or Wolf News, or something like that ...
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  8254. Apple manages to design its computers to prevent users from doing things (like running alternative browsers). That sucks up a lot of computing power, too.
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  8255. 5:06 Not necessarily an error; it might be what you want.
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  8256. It wasn’t the apps that made Android dominant. For many years, the app developers preferred Apple’s platform, even when Android was outshipping it 3:1. So clearly it wasn’t the apps drawing customers to Android, it was the overall experience, versatility, flexibility, capability.
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  8257. 1:23 Maybe the system should tell Trump to get bucked.
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  8258. ... but see what happens next.
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  8259. 8:28 Never fear! Underdog is here!
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  8260. I had to hunt around, but you get that info (and a lot more besides) with “ffmpeg -help full”.
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  8261. 6:18 There is a problem with that construction: it never terminates. Remember what an “algorithm” is: it’s supposed to produce an answer after a finite number of steps. Therefore, the Cantor diagonal construction is not an algorithm. So your proof that the infinity of the reals is greater than the infinity of the integers can never actually be completed.
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  8262.  @MuffinsAPlenty  The specification of each decimal place allows you to define convergence. That still doesn’t allow for Cantor’s diagonal proof.
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  8263.  @MuffinsAPlenty  But the Cauchy construction only gives you one real. At each step, you get closer to the number you are approximating. Cantor’s construction is infinite and does not converge: after any number of steps, you are no closer to the final answer than when you started.
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  8264. You could flip the proof on its head: you could say that, every time the diagonal construction produces a new number, you can always add it to the list. Or, look at it this way: it takes an infinite number of steps to produce a new number, but only one step to add it to the list. Or, to put it another way, in an infinite construction, who gets the last word?
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  8265. I ran it for a while. Every time I went to do an update, the first thing it would say was “a new version of portage is available”, and you should upgrade that first.
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  8266. Don’t you know that “lmao” is the standard way to indicate sarcasm? If you don’t want something to be taken literally, you need to indicate it with “lmaozedong”.
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  8267. Maybe that depends on what kind of [blank] it is, and what exactly you want to [fill] it with.
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  8268. 3:02 Which is only the official name according to the International Union Of Pure And Applied Chemists, but still, points for that. ;)
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  8269. He tried 3 times to become President. The only time he was able to win was against ... Donald Trump!
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  8270.  @TheLapper13  Comprehension trouble? Hint: we got the one you didn’t need a pound of.
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  8271.  @Buleril1  The key phrase is “excess deaths”. In the US, hospitals were filling up to such an extent that they had to turn parking garages into temporary emergency wards. And in Texas (one of the stalward denier states, at least in the initial stages) they had to bring in refrigerated trucks to hold all the bodies, because the morgues were overflowing. In NZ, while things did get tight, they never got that tight.
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  8272.  @Buleril1  See, that’s what I mean about “excuses”. Just like your Great Leader of the time. “It wasn’t a problem, and anyway the problem wasn’t our fault.”
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  8273.  @Buleril1  You are just admitting to poor planning. Parking garages and refrigerated trucks in one part of the country, and these notional empty wards in other parts. That’s not a good look.
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  8274. Putin called it a “war”. Obviously he needs to be arrested.
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  8275. I have Apple stickers from when the logo had 6 colours.
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  8276. Use a GUI frontend if you can’t handle the command line. For example, gnome-boxes.
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  8277. The low-level mechanism of a coroutine object is that it executes when you call its “send” method. The coroutine blocks itself by calling a generator which does a “yield” back to the caller that did the “send”. On top of this, you can build an entire event-loop scheduling system. I drew up a diagram of how all this interconnects, that I call “Van Rossum’s Triangle”. If you search for “python topics notebooks ldo”, I cover this in one of those notebooks.
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  8278. The whole dropping-weights-from-the-tower thing can be done entirely as a thought experiment.
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  8279. 09:22 More likely 65,535. This is because they are signed twos-complement integers. Since the largest value is +32767, it makes sense to omit the smallest value -32768 and only go down to -32767 for symmetry. Otherwise your signal could end up with a DC component. Which, as far as sound is concerned, is not helpful.
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  8280. 2:41 “Air dancers”? I though they were called “wacky waving inflatable arm flailing tube men”!
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  8281. 4:20 An essential part of being a lib-hater seems to be to lose the ability to form long-term memories.
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  8282. General John Kelly has just admitted that he told Trump to say what Trump claims he never said. So he is backing up Rep. Wilson’s reporting of the facts--facts which Trump said were “fake news”! Just another day with White House staff undermining, or being undermined by, their boss ...
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  8283. And what about those who tried to discredit the health experts? Like certain pundits on certain “news” networks? Or will they simply develop amnesia over their own past actions?
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  8284. Greetings from user [216, 25].
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  8285. Yeah, I think jet fuel is more like kerosene than diesel. That is, it is slightly thinner than diesel. Then, on the other side of diesel, you have the really thick fuel oil that ships run on.
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  8286. 6:10 I see no examples using the -print0 option, together with piping into “xargs -0”. This can be useful with dangerous commands like “rm” (of which I see several instances in the examples), just in case a filename has something strange like a newline in it.
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  8287. PHP user?
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  8288. Actually, broadcast NTSC was 30000/1001 frames per second. Though in SMPTE time code, this is rounded off to 29.97. (Yup, the time code for NTSC is actually inaccurate by about one part in a million.)
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  8289.  @gg5115  The time has already come, as I pointed out in my history lesson. Yes, Open Source is different -- it has already proven itself many times as a defence against vendor lock-in. Because of that, things will never be the same again. Why do you think Microsoft, once the dominant giant of the software world, is now trying so hard to play catch-up?
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  8290.  @gg5115  If you want to talk seriously about GPUs being pushed to the limit, have a look at this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaY3Ffor-8c No DirectX anywhere near there. Or Microsoft Windows, for that matter. It’s Linux all the way.
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  8291. 17:30 The traditional representation of Bayes’ Theorem in terms of probabilities can be recast to show a nice, symmetry, though: P(E∧H) = P(E|H)P(H) = P(H|E)P(E)
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  8292. 3:54 I started out using tabs, too. But I used a reconfigurable editor which let you specify the width of a tab. So setting tab stops every 4 columns worked out nicely. Then, after many years, I realized that forcing everyone to reconfigure their editing/viewing tools away from the default of tabs every 8 columns was getting a bit wearying. So I switched to explicit spaces. Nowadays a I use an editor (Emacs) that can automatically sniff every file it opens. So if the file has tabs, then the TAB key inserts tabs. But if there aren’t any tabs, then the TAB key is automatically set up to insert spaces for that file. Also, having keystrokes to quickly adjust the indentation of blocks of text is very helpful.
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  8293. 4:47 I think the spec was a bit vague about whether you actually had to specify the types of the arguments (integer, in this case). Some compilers may have allowed this to be optional. Which meant that type information had to be carried around at runtime.
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  8294. Former Guy is going to jail! It’s not a matter of if, but when.
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  8295.  @jonathanalonso6492  The successful businesses are the ones that produce quality results. Are you really going to pay for someone to perform a manual process over and over? Automation is what computers are for!
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  8296. Funny, then, that the world is running out of IPv4 numbers (addresses), but there are still plenty of domain names to go around.
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  8297. They made one breakthrough in how to manage controlled flight, then when Glenn Curtiss came up with a better idea, they tried to claim their patent applied to that as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war . There is a saying thatˇ"when a company starts litigating, it stop innovating”. This allowed the Europeans to take the lead in aviation, until FDR strong-armed the Wrights into being a bit more reasonable about patent licensing.
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  8298. 3:18 But you didn’t know that when you were 7, did you? I probably didn’t, either.
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  8299. As an embedded developer you don’t have to worry about dependencies, since you can provide all the necessary ones in your installation image. Heck, you could probably put all your necessary startup/shutdown sequencing in a single rc.local-type file and dispense with sysvinit altogether. systemd is designed to cope with much more complex, dynamic and variable situations.
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  8300. 14:01 Don’t do it that way. The more reliable way would be to use a client tool like pactl, ignore the output, and see if it succeeds (PulseAudio is running) or not, e.g. pactl info &>/dev/null && echo yes || echo no outputs “yes” if PulseAudio is running, “no” if not.
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  8301. When a military guy says someone is a “martinet” ... that’s not good.
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  8302. We say “pissed off”. We reserve “pissed” for the imbibing of the C₂H₅OH.
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  8303.  Kiss My Axe  And here I thought Republicans were supposed to be better than the Democrats, instead of being just the same.
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  8304. 13:25 Hmm ... I am thinking that the wobbly windows combined with the slight delay in the mirroring could set up resonance effects that ... on second thought, maybe I don’t want to think about it.
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  8305. “` ...`” for command substitution in POSIX shells is kind of old-fashioned. The main problem is that the same symbol is used for both opening and closing the substitution sequence. The more modern equivalent is “$( ... )”, which can be easily nested, and also uses larger symbols that are easier to see.
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  8306. Sure, the programmers will use the Python and the Jupyter and the Pandas and all the rest of the data-analytics toolkits they already do. Just leave out the Excel part.
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  8307.  @fryersoncaptain  Not a very Linux-compatible Unix, though.
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  8308. Fossilized, mineralized, turned to rock, but kept its shape.
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  8309. 6:20 Take your own when you visit, ya dummy.
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  8310. Yeah, the ideal reconstruction involves sinc functions, which have an infinite extent both before and after the peak, and only slowly fade away from that peak. So in order to be causal (not respond to a signal change before it happens!), it would require an infinite amount of buffer lag.
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  8311. They already tried “extinguish”. Remember “Linux is a cancer”? What could they do now that is worse than that?
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  8312.  @EidosX_  Which doesn’t make any sense to have only a teentsy bits of procedural code at the edges with pure-functional code in the middle. That’s just pretending to be functional.
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  8313.  @EidosX_  So, does Haskell have I/O (i.e. procedurality) or not?
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  8314. Remember, the thing with package managers is it’s only the distro maintainers who have to worry about them. Upstream developers just release the source code with the necessary build scripts etc, and leave it at that.
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  8315. The story of science is one of great many twists and turns and surprises along the way. The important point is, in case of doubt, we don’t refer to any holy book, we refer to reality itself. That’s why science is a self-correcting process. The age of the Earth is one very good example of this. The nascent science of geology started with the assumption that the landscape around us is basically the debris from the world-wide Noachian flood, which supposedly occurred just a few thousand years ago. But gradually and inexorably, evidence accumulated that became harder and harder to reconcile with this assumption, until it finally had to be abandoned altogether.
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  8316. Hint: the “reg” in “regex” is short for for “regular”.
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  8317. Except that South Vietnam was hardly “democratic”, was it?
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  8318.  @scotttild  Speaking as a “globalist” myself, all I have to say is, you sound as detached from reality as a Trump supporter.
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  8319. A password is a shared secret.
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  8320. 14:17 Bad Alex?
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  8321.  MichaelKingsfordGray  Wonder why Microsoft is so desperately trying to turn Windows into Linux, then.
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  8322. They can’t quite decide whether to threaten the use of nukes or not. After Putin proudly declared “this is not a bluff”, 🇨🇳 President Xi Jin Ping went tut-tut, and then there was definite backpedalling from 🇷🇺, claiming they never said they would attack with nukes at all.
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  8323. A great environment for doing “scratchpad” programming is Jupyter. The notebook paradigm supports incremental cell execution with multiple lines of code per cell, and rich output with interactive GUI widgets as well. I have done several presentations using Jupyter notebooks, and they are also handy for publishing examples that users can not just passively view, but also actively interact with.
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  8324. A lot of publishers make cheaper editions available in what they think of as “third-world” markets, on condition these are not sold in places where they make more profit.
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  8325. Proprietary vendors think they own your machine.
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  8326. Some of those 🇷🇺 tanks, at least a few months ago, were sporting the hammer-and-sickle flag. Not sure whether that was in jest or not, or whether they’re still doing it.
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  8327. All these demolitions of family homes, stealing of land, arbitrary detentions ... it’s all calculated to provoke those who are put under pressure into exploding. Then, when they do explode, that is used as an excuse to perpetrate further demolitions of family homes, stealing of land and arbitrary detentions. It’s a bit glib to toss around the term “terrorism” just as a smear label. Remember the Jewish groups who operated in the area before the founding of Israel, and the assassination of Folke Bernadotte. Remember, one side’s “terrorist” is the other side’s “freedom fighter”.
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  8328. Do you find people run away when the bus arrives?
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  8329. 1:42 By the way, anybody else notice the odd way that a gripping fist is depicted in Egyptian drawings?
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  8330. I don’t know why. His theorems are so straightforward. It’s like basic knowledge that every programmer should have absorbed into their DNA.
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  8331. Put it in a Jupyter notebook!
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  8332. 3:25 “CDs-ROM” -- touché! Great for storing your multi-medium datum base!
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  8333. The deregulated Free Market is working really well, isn’t it? Do you think the Government should intervene more in how companies operate?
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  8334. Java was meant to be something like C++ but simpler (leaving out some features) and easier to use (integrated garbage collection). I don’t think it would have become popular without Sun’s massive hype machine behind it. And in the end, some of the features it left out turned out to be rather important (e.g. generics, typedefs, unsigned integers). And you’d think that garbage collection would ensure no memory leaks, but it doesn’t. And so in language complexity it saves very little compared to C++.
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  8335. But what happens if the real numbers turn out not to be so real after all? Consider Cantor’s diagonal construction, which tries to write down a list of the reals. But every number that you can write down is by definition a computable number. So if you accept Cantor’s construction, then it is proving that the cardinality of the computable numbers is greater than ℵ₀, which we know to be nonsense.
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  8336.  @leighnbrasington  Yes, but Cantor’s construction itself is only producing computable numbers.
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  8337. More likely you have/had /etc/nsswitch.conf, which lets you configure multiple sources for DNS (and other) data.
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  8338. 9:02 I don’t know about your country, but here in 🇳🇿 music TV is alive and well. We have 2 full-time music channels (Edge and Breeze) free-to-air, and part of a third channel (Kordia) is devoted to music videos too (Juice TV). And there are no ads on any of them.
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  8339. What if you already have an SSD?
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  8340.  @xrafter  Bullet in the head for Microsoft Windows sounds like a good idea.
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  8341.  @xrafter  Life’s too short. Normal people just use technology to get work done.
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  8342.  @xrafter  That’s why they say, Windows is a great OS -- if your time is worth nothing.
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  8343. CAD software normally uses OpenGL for drawing on-screen, and that does indeed render surfaces as made up of triangles. The same would be true of Vulkan. It’s just easier for the hardware to work with triangles. Of course, the CAD software has much more elaborate mathematical structures, like surface patches, that it uses for calculations like FEA, BOM and so on. But all the on-screen visualization is still done with triangles.
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  8344. Now that Russia has lost its only effective fighting force in Ukraine, what can it do?
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  8345. Trump supporter.
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  8346. 11:05 Oh, by the way, greetings from secular godless radical liberal 🇳🇿 with Socialist healthcare, proud to be a democracy under the rule of law, where every vote counts. And where both Government and people have sufficient respect for the science that we were able to make our month-long lockdown work.
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  8347. The human body has unexpected complexities everywhere.
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  8348.  @KuraIthys  But the price for SRAM is so high mainly because so little of it is manufactured. If it were more popular, the price would go down.
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  8349. GNU is userland, not the kernel/OS.
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  8350.  @noam65  With systemd, you use journalctl to look at log files.
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  8351. Is Apple running out of ideas? Coloured Imacs are so ... 1999.
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  8352. “The greatest tragedy in human history may have been the hijacking of morality by religion.” -- Arthur C Clarke
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  8353. 7:21 Because of course you wouldn’t trust what a human tells you, the computer must be correct!
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  8354. Cold Fusion, WebObjects, Java applets ... how many more names can I drop to confirm I was alive before this century?
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  8355.  @jamescarter3196  By “recourse” do you mean “incentive”? If copyright is supposed to be an incentive to create, then why do artists have to turn over their copyrights to publishers? Why keeps them creating, if they have to surrender their incentive to create?
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  8356.  @jamescarter3196  Corporate publishers tend to have more legal resources than solo artists. It can be very expensive to a) pursue a copyright-infringement case against someone, or b) defend a case brought against you. Not just expensive, but time-consuming and generally life-ruining. Publishing companies have the resources to do this, individuals tend not to. The whole of copyright law is set up to favour those publishing companies, not the artists.
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  8357.  @jamescarter3196  What is the point of a “legal right” you cannot afford to enforce? Particularly when things like YouTube’s automated ContentID takedowns are stacked against you.
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  8358. Go is not for systems programming. When Google were looking at what language to use for implementing their Fuchsia† kernel, they decided Rust was a better choice than Go, even though Go was created by Google itself. †As to why Fuchsia even exists, is entirely another matter.
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  8359.  @contactluke80  That’s a couple of thousand arrests, the protests have been larger than that. And they are still ongoing.
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  8360. 7:27 Nine planets ... those were the days ...
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  8361. However, note a language inconsistency. While [isinstance(i, int) for i in sample_list] is equivalent to list(isinstance(i, int) for i in sample_list) which computes the same list as l = (isinstance(i, int) for i in sample_list) l = list(l) These are not equivalent to l = (isinstance(i, int) for i in sample_list) l = [l] which returns only a list of a single element, being the generator object. This seems like a deliberate design decision.
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  8362. DOSlexic confusion of “/” with “\”?
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  8363. Once the filter cutoff descends below the noise floor from other sources, that’s as good as zero, because you can never measure the difference.
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  8364. “Quantum” computers cannot even perform encryption yet, don’t expect them to handle any decryption.
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  8365. What did the missing part say? And where did you get it from?
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  8366. Xephyr?
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  8367. This may seem a lot like watching paint dry, but this is how debates commonly happen in Congress or Parliament or whatever your country’s assembly of elected representatives is called. Don’t expect a lot of drama. This isn’t movies or TV, this is reality. You have to watch closely to realize that something important has been decided after all.
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  8368. Wasn’t Trump’s wall supposed to stop them? What happened to all the billions he squandered on it? And when is Mexico going to pay?
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  8369. And Fox News ought to know about lying, don’t they? They had to admit in court, under oath, that one of their own pundits could not be trusted to tell the truth.
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  8370. 4:09 Why do I think for a moment he’s channelling Jon Stewart?
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  8371. 7:09 “Cycle the magnetron” ... there’s a dead giveaway that it’s not an inverter unit. There is one new technological innovation in microwaves since that time.
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  8372. 9:54 OK. But I believe it does let you cook eggs without them exploding. (Not that I’ve tried...)
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  8373. Python has an entirely separate “array” module. And then there are NumPy arrays.
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  8374. The problem is, they have no idea what’s waiting for them in Gaza. Just like they had no idea the attacks were coming.
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  8375. We’re glad that you’re glad. Aren’t we?
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  8376.  @707Berto  Maintain a positive attitude. Think glad thoughts. You can be a normal human being too!
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  8377. Was the GUI a modular, separately replaceable layer like on Linux?
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  8378. Look at VS Code--
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  8379. they used Electron with
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  8380. I thought the news about him being on The Masked Singer was out weeks ago.
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  8381. As opposed to the ex-President and his followers who think that “Who does he/she think he/she is, anyway?” is a suitable riposte to a scientific argument.
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  8382. The floggings will continue until morale improves. That is all.
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  8383. Sounds like he’s gunning to be the next Donald Trump.
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  8384. Here’s a challenge for vim users: editing Python code. Ordinary editors may have commands for jumping between, e.g. “{” and ”}” symbols, but Python doesn’t use these as statement brackets. Instead, it uses indentation. How do you jump between lines with matching indentation? To make things a bit easier, I write my Python code with “#end” lines to mark the ends of blocks, e.g. if «cond» : ... stmts ... else : ... stmts ... #end if This gives you something to jump to at the end of the block. How would you define commands to implement such navigation? I wrote my own in elisp #TheEmacsWay.
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  8385. Back in my day, there was no Ubuntu. I was introduced to Linux when a customer of mine had servers running Red Hat (pre-RHEL). Then another customer moved from DEC/Compaq Tru64 Unix (which I had been managing) to SuSE (pre-OpenSuSE). Then I bought my first non-Apple PC, which came with a copy of Mandrake 9.1 “Discovery Edition” in the box. “Discovery Edition” meant it was missing the third CD with the developer tools. So my first adventure in Linux was in figuring out how to download and install those tools from the online repos.
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  8386. 2:10 See, they had trolling in those days, too. But ... Lord Kelvin!? shock horror
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  8387. You can also have different people/departments having access to the two.
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  8388. One difference being that Linux doesn’t use drive letters.
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  8389.  @hbm293  And yet a lot of things will not install anywhere other than the C: drive.
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  8390.  @ImTouchkv2  “Option” for what?
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  8391. There are metal detectors for the general public, but not for the members.
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  8392. 09:38 wipes droplets out of eyes
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  8393. Not sure what you think other countries should do. Which side should they support?
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  8394. Russia shoots at them.
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  8395. You have no democracy in the USA. Democracies have multiple political parties representing a diversity of viewpoints, without each side accusing the others of trying to destroy the country. They can even cope with multiple parties being elected to Parliament and having to work together to form a Government that can actually get things done, without it all falling apart.
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  8396. My main clients have (nearly) always used Debian on their servers.
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  8397. The US let it happen, by being so lax in its media regulation.
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  8398. Quantum theory says that reality is indeed founded on true randomness.
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  8399.  @BradenBest  Bell’s inequality quantifies the random probabilities involved.
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  8400.  @BradenBest  I’ll just let that speak for itself.
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  8401. 32:38 That 50fps looks a bit choppy—is that an artifact of your screen recording? For comparison, I went to view the original directly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9l6KNHSlv4 , and it looks much smoother.
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  8402. Time to invoke the 25th Amendment and put this man out of the world’s misery? But then that would mean Pence takes over ...
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  8403. And the brown theme was an integral part of that. They stuck with shades close to that for several releases, only gradually moving to something a bit more purple.
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  8404. He’s currently touring in 🇳🇿.
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  8405. So basically, it is V8 that is shitty.
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  8406. Lisp! Because it has continuations http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Continuations
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  8407. 5:06 Look at the brake “pedal”.
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  8408. It’s for those Excel jocks who are too dumb to realize you can access all this stuff directly, outside Microsoft’s walled garden, for free.
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  8409. That fourth estate has to make a living, too.
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  8410. We now have two approved vaccines for SARS-CoV-2, with more on the way. Remember, these followed on from the work already done on a vaccine for SARS-CoV-1. By the way, we don’t actually know if the vaccine stops a person from being infectious. So if you are not vaccinated, you might be at risk of getting the disease from somebody who is. Have fun.
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  8411. The employer I was with back then also had their telex number on their letterhead.
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  8412. 0:06 Hasn’t TV in 🇺🇸 gone digital yet?
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  8413. Yes, that certainly evoked a frisson among certain quarters https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/9/30/twitter-users-react-to-bidens-inshallah-remark-in-us-debate ...
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  8414. The problem we all live with ...
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  8415. Feel free to show us your PHP version.
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  8416. Linux runs on everything. ;)
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  8417. Are you sure it was sarcasm? Could have been some litotes in there, maybe a touch of innuendo, topped off with the ever-reliable synecdoche, just for laughs.
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  8418. I always thought that, whatever arguments you offer in support of our universe being a simulation, would also apply to the universe inhabited by whoever is running the simulation.
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  8419. GUIs don’t scale.
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  8420. This is why pro-gun Republicans can spout the nonsense that they do, and get away with it. They know they just have to wait until the current storm blows over, and they’ll be safe for a little while longer. Voters will forget.
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  8421. I have yet to find a use for this myself, so so far I have just been ignoring it. The “«true-part» if «cond» else «false-part»” conditional expression, on the other hand, gets on my nerves. Because Python needs a conditional-expression form, but that is just an abortion. So I came up with my own solution https://ldo17.tumblr.com/post/17544419704/conditional-expressions-in-python .
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  8422. 11:11 No love for Antarctica? ;)
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  8423. 1:55 If the board wrapped around, then that open tour would become a closed tour.
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  8424. Holocaust survivor Marika Sherwood has a talk “You're doing to Palestinians what the Nazis did to me”.
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  8425. 28:57 It’s called ”non-destructive editing”. The effect of modifiers is not saved in the document; what is saved is the unchanged original object, plus of course the modifier settings. These are then recalculated every time the object is rendered. Thus you can change the modifier settings, and turn them on and off at any time. And of course add and remove them.
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  8426.  @ExplainingComputers  Have you checked out Chris Prenninger’s channel? He’s been making a specialty of doing non-destructive parametric modelling in Blender. It seems to me that kind of thing would be useful in CAD.
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  8427.  @ExplainingComputers  And your likely next step would be to look at Geometry Nodes. If you thought Blender was fun, that will blow your mind. ;)
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  8428. All the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for.
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  8429. Conflating constructive, peaceful tools with destructive, violent weapons is always going to end badly.
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  8430. What can Linux do? It can run the entire backbone of the Internet, allowing people to communicate all over the world. It can run your own machines, allowing you to do all the wonderful and useful things that computers can do, for you and your loved ones, without limitations. What can a gun do? All it can do is blow holes in things. And hurt people, like your loved ones.
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  8431.  @xX_Lol6_Xx  Please, no. What a horrible way to get food, when you contaminate both the food and the environment with toxic heavy metals.
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  8432. 9:45 Windows would be requiring a restart at this point.
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  8433.  @ant.upptech  For installing just about anything, it would appear.
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  8434. Too bad.
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  8435. 2:22 I take it the Creationists no longer see him as their darling ...
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  8436. As a result of which, the National-ACT majority is hanging by a thread.
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  8437. Belarus is under an unpopular leader who owes his very standing to Putin. But if he gets his country more deeply embroiled in this invasion of Ukraine, then he riles his people up so much that even Putin cannot save him.
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  8438. You may be right in comparing it to Java, given Oracle’s campaign against Google. But frankly, that’s not saying much.
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  8439.  @ace_gainsventura_flexdetective  Yes, masks do work, even though the pores in an N95 mask may be bigger than the viruses. One virologist likened it to “multiple rugby players trying to push through a doorway at the same time”. If that weren’t enough, you only have to look at the parts of the world where mask-wearing has become widely accepted, versus the parts where it has not.
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  8440.  @ace_gainsventura_flexdetective  I live in one of those countries where mask wearing is accepted, not shunned.
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  8441. Easier just to say “left bank” and “right bank”. Kherson is on the right bank, and the Russians will have to retreat to the left bank.
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  8442. 7:03 Is the natural language of growth only in the real numbers. Once you go into the complex plane, you see that it is the natural language of trigonometry as well. Where you have periodic functions, rather than infinitely growing ones. And Euler’s famous identity.
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  8443. 6:21 Talk about a passive-aggressive guilty plea ... ... I thought Giuliani was supposed to defend Trump, not dunk him deeper in it.
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  8444. 12:48 C-language trivia question: are the parentheses in “(1 << 24) - 1” needed?
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  8445. Who can tell one fish from another?
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  8446. It’s like nothing Trump did has been able to last, if Biden has been able to knock it down in just four weeks.
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  8447. Nobody has mentioned that he’s not just using Python, but Jupyter as well? 👍👍👍 Yay for Jupyter notebooks! 👍👍👍
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  8448. 7:01 Yes, but “neurotoxin” is such a big word. So many sybillabubbles. So hard to say. That must be a sure sign of a Liberal Scientific conspiracy. What do you mean, “conspiracy” has just as many syllables? Don’t confuse the issue with facts!
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  8449. This is why Linux systems have a package manager, to automatically keep track of these dependencies on a systemwide basis. E.g. apt-cache rdepends libcairo2 | wc -l 1557 That’s right, that’s 1557 other packages that depend on the Cairo graphics shareable library on my Debian system. Yet I only need one copy installed, and it only needs to be updated once.
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  8450. 5:52 Yeah, but ’flu! That’s like an entirely different kettle of RNA. And protein coat. And an entirely different virus shape.
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  8451. I’ve heard the phrase “constitutional republic”, but given the way the current President has trampled all over the first part of that phrase ...
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  8452. Sure they do ...∗clik∗ ... sure they do ... ∗clik∗ ... sure they do ...
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  8453. You can still do that. Try typing CTRL-ALT-F1 on a Linux system.
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  8454. I was thinking about the CO danger. With all the stink and irritation, that’s one factor you won’t be able to smell, or even notice until it’s too late.
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  8455. But the digital graphics adapters driving them certainly did. And still do.
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  8456. 1:01 If I may (badly) strain a phrase, somebody calling for a “witch-hunt” over this must be suffering a “wit-shunt”. Does that do anything for anybody? Guffaw if you agree.
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  8457. Perl is like quantum theory: if you think you understand it, it’s because it hasn’t been explained properly.
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  8458.  @NoNameAtAll2  It can’t work, because opening/closing tags can be nested inside other opening/closing tags, to arbitrary levels. Regexes cannot handle that.
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  8459.  @NoNameAtAll2  It can’t work, because opening/closing tags can be nested inside other opening/closing tags, to arbitrary levels. Regexes cannot handle that.
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  8460.  @MSStuckwisch  Those are not regexes any more. Remember, regexes have to recognize a “regular grammar”. That’s a very specific technical term, referring to Type 3 in the Chomsky hierarchy, and nothing else.
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  8461.  @MSStuckwisch  If you go beyond Type 3 grammars, then you lose their useful properties, such as the equivalence between non-deterministic and deterministic expressions, and the ability for them to run without a stack.
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  8462. Using SSH as the transport is probably the easiest. You likely need to set that up for remote management purposes anyway, so why not minimize the potential remote attack surface.
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  8463. If we take Putin at his word, that he had nothing to do with shooting down Prigozhin’s plane, then that means that there is some outfit with access to military-strength weaponry that is operating with impunity on Russian soil, without the knowledge or consent of the Russian Government. Is that really something he wants to admit?
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  8464. 20:19 I never laughed.
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  8465. 2:49 Because then the language gets bloody huge . This was the approach taken with BASIC back in the days of 8-bit micros -- every vendor’s implementation had built-in commands to do screen graphics, disk file I/O, play sound, and every other feature they could think of sticking in. It just made the language too complicated.
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  8466. 12:56 What a fake picture. Take one image of a pile of binders and stuff, make five copies, and do the absolute minimum you need to, to try to make them look a bit different.
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  8467. OK, DOSser.
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  8468. 10:07 They don’t even allow reclining bicycles to be considered “bicycles”. So recliners hold the world land-speed record for “human-powered vehicles”, not for “bicycles”.
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  8469. 1:10 The problem with “do one thing and do it well” is that such simple examples inevitably have to build on much larger and more complex underlying layers. For example, does any command-line shell “do one thing and do it well”? Does X11 “do one thing and do it well”? Does the Linux kernel “do one thing and do it well”? What about glibc, the good old C runtime library, that just about every userland program depends on? I would say that none of these things fits that paradigm. But they all enable the creation of pieces on top of them that do. This applies to systemd as well. Writing a systemd service file is typically so much simpler than all the boilerplate you need to include in an old-style sysvinit script. That’s why it’s worth using.
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  8470. Maybe it should have been called “Tralfamadorean” arithmetic. The Moon is not that far from the Earth, after all.
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  8471.  @johnwellbelove148  I’m sure that’s true -- up to a point. There’s a reason why Microsoft feels the need to respond to developers deserting their platform -- because they are, after all, deserting the platform. Even in the embedded space, look at Android, the Raspberry π, Arduino, all the rest of it. The developer tools just work best on Linux. I was helping a client with a Sierra Wireless box the other day. That actually runs an embedded Linux stack. And there are some interesting quirks with the Windows drivers. But on Linux, you don’t actually need custom drivers.
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  8472.  @johnwellbelove148  Well, Linux is already considered good enough to deploy a hundred million kilometres away on Mars, where support calls are a little bit more difficult than your particular line of work, so the seabed can’t be that far away.
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  8473.  @johnwellbelove148  You keep thinking in terms of a proprietary OS where all the possible customizations are controlled by the vendor. Linux isn’t like that. You can build it and tune it to suit yourself. Think of how the Ingenuity helicopter was only supposed to last a month on Mars; but by remotely making various tweaks to it, they have kept it flying into the summer months when the air is warmer, and expected to be too thin for the original flying parameters. Also, just to be clear, we need to distinguish between Linux as the development platform, and Linux as the deployment platform. Even where you need some specialist microcontroller setup in your embedded device, Linux can still offer the most versatile development and testing environment. Windows users tend to be conditioned to be allergic to the command line, even when writing custom scripts can save you a great deal of repetitive effort. So the automation facilities on Windows will never be as advanced as those on Linux.
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  8474.  @Hunsenbargen  Sure, lots of companies are too closely tied into their legacy systems. They end up falling into the sunk-cost fallacy. In a competitive marketplace, who wins out: the ones who treat their computing resource as a strategic investment, or those who see it just as an ongoing expense?
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  8475. In that case, India, with over 100 TV news channels, should be enjoying some of the most accurate reporting in the world. But it is not.
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  8476.  @namastezen3300  So how many news sources do you need, if those are not enough?
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  8477.  @namastezen3300  I notice you are moving away from your original claim about multiple news sources “compete to get the most accurate reporting”.
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  8478. AbstractComponent provides an enforcement check that all abstract methods have been overridden before allowing instancing. Just typesafeness, that’s all.
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  8479.  @jeancerrien3016  So that he can predeclare exactly which abstract methods need overriding.
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  8480. The only reason Lukashenko is still in power is because of Putin. If he gets 🇧🇾 embroiled in this war, that would be the last straw for what little support he still has left, and he would be deposed (and probably behind bars) in an instant. And he’s well aware of that.
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  8481. But what was the largest program JvN was ever able to write? In other words, how much absolute binary could he cope with, until even his legendary brain cells got full?
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  8482. Memory is one thing; debugging a complex piece of code--keeping track of all the potential interactions between its parts--is quite another.
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  8483. Functions that are useful in multiple places are a sign of effective code reuse.
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  8484.  @gJonii  Look at, for example, the built-in integer operations. Do they have a “clear domain where they operate in”? Or are they in fact widely used in a lot of different code?
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  8485.  @gJonii  So you feel Python shouldn’t have such operations, because you find them “confusing”?
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  8486.  @gJonii  You need to stop trying to describe something as fundamental to developer productivity as code reuse as an “antipattern”.
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  8487. Fun question: where does it say in the 🇺🇸 Constitution that elections have to be free and fair?
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  8488. Sure http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/23/your_wget_is_broken_and_should_die_powershellers_tell_microsoft/ ...
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  8489. “Unforgivable” or not, they seem to have forgiven him ...
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  8490. The more evidence accumulates that Trump and his supporters are wrong, the more stubbornly they dig their heels in. At some point you have to admit you’re wrong. Otherwise it’s not going to end well.
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  8491. It seems to happen with just about every audio-visual technology: after it becomes obsolete, some artist rediscovers the artifacts, that were deplored at the time, now seemingly add an endearing “retro” effect which becomes highly desirable.
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  8492.  @LittleRainGames  I’ve been thinking about this. “Conservatives” as supposed to be those who like to stick to how things were in the past. But they tend to exhibit very limited and selective memory of how things really were in the past. Those who actually study the history of how things were in the past, and try to learn from it, tend to get branded “Liberals”.
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  8493. 7:52 Tiga suku!
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  8494. Doesn’t that make it sound “digital”?
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  8495. I rest my case.
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  8496. We have a few new things, like command history and editing, and tab completion. Shells like bash have also acquired new language features, like arrays and job control. But yes, the basics remain largely unchanged from that time, and even before that time.
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  8497. Apple seems to hate GPLv3. That’s why they dropped recent versions of bash. And also why they funded LLVM, so they could get away from GCC.
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  8498. 6:44 Maybe that’s why some people prefer a different style of colour picker from the Adobe one ...
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  8499.  @BackroomsSlayer  There is no other kind of free society, If you don’t live in a democracy, then you live in a dictatorship.
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  8500. The “blue note” comes from Touareg music. They were slave traders.
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  8501. 1:46 Carnal panics ... sinful.
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  8502. Given the myriad applications of dynamic memory, that must severely limit the kinds of applications you write. Consider that even text strings require dynamic memory, unless you impose arbitrary limits on the lengths of your buffers. Here is a discussion of how to manage dynamic memory: https://github.com/ldo/a_structured_discipline_of_programming
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  8503.  @IamusTheFox  What else is “delete” for, if not dynamic memory?
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  8504. But do they have zero overhead?
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  8505. Because once you give up on the “zero-overhead” principle, most of C++ just becomes ... pointless.
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  8506. I see C++, Java and C# as being on a spectrum of “semi-dynamic” languages. C++ tries to be static, but secretly it wants to be dynamic (virtual methods, RTTI). Java and C# are only grudgingly dynamic--look at how convoluted Java’s Reflection API is, for example. In all of them, the more dynamic the things you try to do, the more complicated it becomes.
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  8507. He went to the Moon expressly to prove that the moon landings were faked. That’s how smart he is.
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  8508. She’s Swiss.
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  8509. Arabs are Semites too.
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  8510. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  8511. Obama got audited every single year he was President. You never heard him complain about that.
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  8512. 6:42 Can’t you just make a selection and indent that?
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  8513. 5:06 You are James Burke and I claim my £5.
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  8514. Frequency-independent time delay happens with real-life sound all the time. Think of the difference between listening to a concert from the front seats as opposed to the back ones: every change in distance of 3m from the sound source corresponds to a difference in timing of 10ms. So really, digital sound is nothing special in regards to this.
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  8515.  @jasonschuler2256  Looks like some people don’t understand what “quantum” means. It’s not a marketing term, you know.
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  8516.  @JNCressey  You mean like how a charge carrier in a transistor can be in a superposition of states on both sides of the gate? Which is how it can pass through the energy barrier and carry a (classically-impossible) current?
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  8517.  @JNCressey  Except that the data doesn’t actually exist in superposition. That’s why “quantum” computers have such a high noise level, making them unusable for digital computations.
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  8518.  @stromboli183  Cracking encryption will require fast number-theoretic computations. Which “quantum” computers have proved incapable of.
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  8519. Post-World-War-II was a good point, though: the Marshall Plan for helping to reconstruct Europe after the war was certainly a remarkable thing that the US did. But it’s not something Trump or his supporters would think of.
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  8520.  @tadeuszmarin5704  From what I was told, “Windows CE” was not based on the Windows NT kernel at all--it was an entirely separate development, now abandoned. It was probably designed from the beginning to have very limited functionality anyway.
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  8521. 2:22 I can’t think of any situation where I would use “with open(...)”. In CPython, the file object will be closed anyway once the last reference to it disappears. For read-only files, this behaviour is fine. For files I am writing to, I want to do an explicit flush or close at the end, for obvious reasons. Either way, a with-construct seems unnecessary or even gets in the way.
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  8522. One excuse reason why the cops found it hard to get to the Uvalde shooter was because he had locked the door.
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  8523. Even Microsoft has discovered the need for a proper command line, which is why it developed PowerShell. But after spending decades conditioning its userbase to be allergic to the command line, now it finds itself stuck in the trap of its own marketing success.
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  8524. TFG has absolutely nowhere near the attention span required to get through a single day’s work as Speaker. Do you think he would last beyond the first day?
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  8525. Rice cooks fine in a microwave.
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  8526. When you buy something that expensive, how much more would it add to the cost to think ahead, consider how long that hardware is likely to be in service, and extract some commitment from the vendor regarding reasonable levels of support over that duration of time?
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  8527.  @melgibson6331  For example?
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  8528.  @bit2shift  Perl used other characters with variables as well. Yet it was “$” that PHP chose to copy. Fun fact: in Perl a name can mean at least four different things, depending on which of these characters it is prefixed with. And also depending on whether it is followed by a pair of parentheses, brackets or braces (or none of these).
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  8529. 8:09 Actually the inverse matrix to that applied at the broadcast end.
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  8530. Since when are political appointments for life, anyway? For other things, like ambassadorships, it is usual for the appointments to terminate when there is a change of leadership at the White House. Why are judges exempt?
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  8531. If he made so much money, how come he didn’t pay taxes on it? Either he’s a tax evader, or a bad businessman. More likely both.
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  8532. What does “C:, D:, E” mean?
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  8533. Hatchbacks are the best.
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  8534. 10:46 Just noticed, that’s not a widescreen monitor. Is that a 4:3 ratio? I have both an 8:5 and 5:4 monitor within arm’s reach, and no matter how I lean to the side, I can’t make either of them look quite like that shape.
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  8535.  @macha-leaf  But remember, those discounted licences have restrictions like “for personal/educational use only”, and even watermarks on top of that. Can you use those versions to create works and post them on commercial sites like YouTube, Facebook etc? Open-source software has no such restrictions: you get the full-featured version up front, and you can do what you like with it. This is how the students learn these days, in the online world.
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  8536. The definition of “terrorism” is “violence targeted at civilians for political ends”. Now, did you just threaten violence against a peaceful political activist?
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  8537. 15:48 Don’t we all, JHC, don’t we all ...
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  8538. 12:03 It looks like a scan that has been quantized into a bilevel (black and white only, no greys) bitmap. Those little hairy extensions on the edges are characteristic of that.
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  8539. 6:37 What if all the Senators who have publicly expressed an opinion about the guilt or innocence of the President had to recuse themselves from the trial? What kind of mix would that leave, do you think?
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  8540. 8:46 Did you just burn the entire maker movement? ;)
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  8541. Funny how Putin is complaining that he is already fighting NATO. And NATO has not even begun to fight!
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  8542. 5:17 From the Islamic Golden Age, when Europe was in its Dark Ages.
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  8543. 1:58 A key point with Linux is, you don’t have to decide up front everything that the server will do. You can add services on demand, or remove ones you don’t want--in short, you can try things out and change your mind. Everything is in packages, and packages can be installed and uninstalled at any time.
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  8544. You can do both encryption and signing of communications, to provide both privacy and authenticity.
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  8545. 9:55 Airlines may offer different classes of seats at different prices, but airports treat all airlines equally. Imagine if airports were to charge you extra to board certain airlines and less for others? How would you feel then? That is the more accurate analogy: the airports are the ISPs, the airlines are the application services.
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  8546. But the FSF is already willing to accept non-copyleft licences as fitting within their definition of “Free”. If that isn’t already “ruinous compromise”, then what is?
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  8547.  MichaelKingsfordGray  None of them are in the same category as a decent platform API.
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  8548.  MichaelKingsfordGray  You were trying to suggest that DotNet should be taken seriously, when even Microsoft is no longer so keen on it.
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  8549.  MichaelKingsfordGray  “Gross blunder” hahaha. Consider why Microsoft is trying so desperately to make Windows more like Linux, and why they are now trying to push Dotnet Core which is open-source and cross-platform. Because the developers are deserting Windows for Linux. Windows-specific APIs don’t cut the mustard any more.
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  8550. They are. That’s why they fought for net neutrality. It was Republicans who managed to abolish that.
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  8551. I can probably get 8 hours or so on my System76 Gazelle with Debian Unstable.
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  8552. They say “weaponization” like they just discovered that fighting crime involves kicking criminals up the bum.
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  8553. 9:59 Also worth mentioning, a survey of the VFX industry released about a year ago showed that 60% of their machines were running Linux. Think of that the next time you watch some movie or TV show with CGI† in it. †Assuming you can tell, and a lot of it is so good now that you can’t.
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  8554. 13:08 Can you use search functions in that list?
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  8555. Leaving the device unplugged for 5-10 seconds isn’t just for the RAM, but for all the circuitry in the device to lose any stored charge. Unplugging and replugging the device too quickly can lead to glitches, where circuitry gets into a crazy state and the device locks up. This can happen during power brownouts, too.
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  8556.  @TomStorey96  Memory tests have to be implemented by firmware/software, which cannot run properly if the hardware has glitched.
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  8557.  @TomStorey96  Then you would know that leaving things unplugged is not a “carryover from a bygone era”.
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  8558. 5:17 But those other countries tend to be democracies. You know, where every vote counts equally?
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  8559. But then, “do as I say, not as I do” is a principle that lots of them do indeed follow.
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  8560. I’m sure there are good people on both sides. Don’t let a few bad apples spoil the whole bunch. Hate the regime, don’t hate the people.
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  8561. I wonder why Microsoft is removing ReFS support from its products ... almost as though it wants people to stop using it ...
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  8562. Wonder why the company that owns this channel doesn’t operate in the US? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assets_owned_by_News_Corp
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  8563. 12:03 Fractals are actually pretty neat things. Look at some of the Mandelbrot Set videos here on YouTube, for example.
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  8564. It sounds like some people don’t get information from very many sources.
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  8565. Similar here, I guess. My main reference was the man pages (just type “man -s1 -k perl” to see how many there are). But I was never entirely sure I understood the implications of some of the language features I was using. Then I discovered Python. That had a much cleaner syntax, and all the language features actually made sense. So I switched, and pretty much stopped using Perl.
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  8566. 4:31 Commonly (and unfortunately) abbreviated to just “ISO”. Hence “.iso” as the extension for CD image files using this filesystem format. (Sigh...)
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  8567. 18:59 Higher, not lower, frequencies (shorter, not longer, wavelengths).
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  8568. So why do you keep going back again?
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  8569. Ion propulsion doesn’t work in an atmosphere, though.
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  8570. 5:44 Some would argue that the most complex machine that humans have ever built is the Internet.
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  8571. Let there be an end to dotfile clutter! Doing a listing of your home directory and seeing it filled with hundreds of these stupid little things is not a good look. The XDG conventions try to confine these to a small number of top-level locations, like .config and .local; your app can simply create a directory tree of its own under these. Much tidier, don’t you think?
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  8572. 10:37 But can you in fact formally prove that you can “keep on playing the same game”?
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  8573. They’ve had to scrap their invasion plans and draw up new ones, because they don’t know how deep the intelligence compromise goes.
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  8574. Apple did create a Web browser around a compound-document format later, with “CyberDog” that was built on top of OpenDoc. That didn’t last long.
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  8575. Wait ... which side are you on?
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  8576. I don’t see why it matters that much. If they don’t produce a quality product, why consume it? It’s like people are watching them simply because they’re on the air.
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  8577. Gun control works. Australia proved it after Port Arthur. NZ followed the same example after the Ides of March. It is not considered a mark of a “civilized” country that you have to buy bulletproof backpacks for your children to try to ensure they survive their school years.
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  8578. When it becomes a threat to law and order, then the buck stops with the courts. And we have seen repeatedly, from all the bogus election-fraud claims that were thrown out, even before it came to this Dominion lawsuit, that the lies are predominantly on one side.
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  8579. 2:33 ∗titter∗
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  8580. 7:17 In other words, if you pulled apart the bits and randomly stuck them back together, you only have a 1 in 12 chance that the result can be solved.
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  8581. They like to ignore those parts of the Christian Bible which seem to say that a baby less than a month old doesn’t actually count as a person.
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  8582. 16:50 The Moon had mountains. How did he know? Because they cast shadows, depending on the angle of the Sun.
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  8583. If you impose field-of-use restrictions, then it’s no longer free/open source.
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  8584. He couldn’t even make it down that ramp on his own. ... oh, wait, wrong guy.
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  8585. He makes it sound like 74 million outweighs the, what is it, 250-odd million that didn’t vote for him. Their Christian faith can not only move mountains, it can also rewrite the laws of arithmetic.
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  8586. This is what’s meant by the “echo chamber”, isn’t it: if you refuse to listen to anything that goes contrary to a delusion that you hold, and so the ratings whores have no choice but to pander to that delusion.
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  8587. 0:37 Man! What’s the power draw from that hair-dryer?
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  8588.  @philipclayberg4928  The sad thing about TVNZ in particular going 24 hours was the loss of the opportunity to play the old Goodnight Kiwi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmbyor0SvdI ...
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  8589. Come on, America doesn’t have any problems you can’t blame on Democrats.
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  8590. And the award for most fascinating documentary about a toaster goes to ... (Could be worse. Could be this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRq_SAuQDec .)
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  8591. Every time we hear this sort of pontification from random people about the situation in 🇳🇿, I have to ask: how’s the Covid death rate doing in your country?
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  8592. Maybe you are thinking of the concept of “Hamming distance”?
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  8593. Guido also gave up his post as Python BDFL. Coincidence? You be the judge.
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  8594. 6:47 Ah, but he said “they’re looking forward to chomping at the bit”.
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  8595. That’s not a regular grammar.
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  8596. The funny thing about the whataboutists, they choose to watch Fox because it’s supposed to be better than the other networks, yet when challenged on its credibility, all they can say is that the others are somehow no better, not that they are worse.
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  8597. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to believe the lying media. I won’t take it as official until it has been posted to his Twitter account.
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  8598. And if you refuse, they can send you to ... double jail.
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  8599. 1:44 That’s a slash, not a backslash. #doslexia
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  8600. They pretty much invented it.
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  8601. I wouldn’t trust Microsoft either. But I know Linux is safe, because nobody can buy ownership of it—not Microsoft, not anybody.
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  8602. You can imagine, once hydroxycholorquine has been shown to be useless and even harmful, Trump will say “nobody knew that at the time”, “nobody could have predicted that would happen” and other such nonsense. Or deny he ever gave such a recommendation, blame it on the WHO, or something.
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  8603. 12:11 How this line will be parsed in the future: Democrat: “He said, “I really think they should take it”.” Republican: “He said, “It’s their choice”.”
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  8604. Can you give a non-contrived example of using it? Because I have yet to find one.
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  8605.  @PythonPlusPlus  Why should it be? Python alllows one-element tuples precisely for situations like this.
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  8606.  @PythonPlusPlus  Actually, I notice that you didn’t mention any need for “if” semantics, even though your code has an “if” in it. So which code makes more sense: the one with the spurious “if”, or the one which avoids it?
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  8607.  @vogel2499  You don’t really mean that, do you?
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  8608.  @PythonPlusPlus  Are you saying that loops must iterate at least twice in order to be proper loops?
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  8609.  @PythonPlusPlus  So you have to decide beforehand how many times the loop is going to loop to decide whether to use a loop or not?
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  8610.  @PythonPlusPlus  I figure computers are here to serve me, I am not here to serve them. They do what I want, not what they want, to solve my problems, not theirs. It is a quirk of Python that, while a “for”-statement does not introduce a new scope for the loop variable, a “for”-clause in a sequence comprehension does. As long as that feature exists, the walrus is completely unnecessary.
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  8611. Something occurs to me: your derivation of the cubic formula requires some knowledge of differential calculus. But this was only developed by Leibnitz and Newton in the 17th century; it was not known in the 16h century. So how did Tartaglia and Del Ferro figure it out without calculus?
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  8612. Emacs isn’t an IDE, it’s an editor. IDEs assume particular build workflows, while Emacs can work with them all. And notice I said “editor”, not “text editor”. You can use it to edit binary files, because unlike conventional text editors, it doesn’t assume a file is made up of lines. It doesn’t need special commands to move/edit across line boundaries; a newline is just another byte value.
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  8613. Remember, the “I” stands for “integrated”. That includes editing as well as building and debugging. Emacs doesn’t assume anything about how you build things. It provides a scripting language that can be used to invoke external commands to perform all the relevant things.
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  8614.  @CristiNeagu  Consider that CMake has a backend specifically to control Visual Studio builds, but it doesn’t have one to control Emacs builds. This is because I can use Emacs to control CMake.
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  8615. The whole “Secure Boot” concept turns out to be a complete waste of time. When security holes are discovered in signed binaries (e.g. the Kaspersky one), they are supposed to go on a revocation list so that Windows PCs will no longer run those binaries. But it turns out Microsoft cannot actually issue such revocations, because those compromised binaries are in such widespread use that it would render large swathes of the entire Windows installed base unusable. Which would likely lead to a murderous customer mob storming the Redmond Bastille ...
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  8616. They should create an IDE for it, called “Jimlad”.
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  8617.  @timbaldwin6283  The President of the United States is named “Clinton”!? Funny, I could have sworn he was named “Biden”.
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  8618.  @timbaldwin6283  I thought people weren’t supposed to have honorific titles in 🇺🇸.
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  8619. 7:05 Only tangentially related, I was reminded of an item by the late Robin Williams I saw a little while back, commenting on Michael Jackson’s addiction to propofol. He said “taking propofol because you can’t sleep is like taking chemo because you’re tired of shaving your head”.
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  8620. Anything to do with outer space immediately brings to mind the words “complicated”, “expensive” and “risky”.
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  8621. Rock-and-roll is basically uptempo Blues. And Blues was invented by black people. Though it has some commonality with Touareg music (e.g. the “blue note”). Possibly because the Touaregs were the slave traders who delivered those Africans to their European owners. And you get influenced by those you come into contact with. History is complicated. And subtle.
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  8622. Eclipsing binaries? Named for “al-gul”, aka “the demon”.
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  8623.  @sylviam6535  Problem for whom, exactly? Do you find “fragmentation” a problem with different models of cars?
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  8624.  @sylviam6535  It’s up to you to choose to use the good ones. Or help to make the not-so-good ones better. Stop thinking like a passive user of proprietary products.
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  8625. 4:31 Code reuse is done by including libraries into your project. If you are doing it via copy/paste, you’re doing it wrong.
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  8626. SHA-256 is just 32 bytes, or 64 hex digits. How many characters do you need to put in a tweet?
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  8627. In an FM stereo broadcast, the baseband signal is mono, and the subcarrier carrying the stereo difference signal is AM-encoded. FM itself is quite resistant to noise, but AM is not. I have an FM stereo tuner which has a button to reduce the noise with weak signals by, I think, reducing the amplitude of the stereo difference signal. So you lose some stereo separation in the process.
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  8628. Microsoft tried with Windows Home Server, but that got wiped out by cheap NAS boxes running Linux.
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  8629. US intelligence is denying any connection with this. I suppose there is this tendency among the 🇺🇸 public to assume that, if anything particularly brave or clever happens anywhere in the world, they must have had something to do with it.
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  8630. Given the fuss over the “Aroha” poster, maybe somebody will say this counts as electioneering as well. But anyway, something I threw together a couple months ago: https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/art/Arab-Proverb-843164291
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  8631. Absolutely. And the Electoral College.
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  8632. 8:37 I’m thinking that sounded more Noël Coward than HRH Chuckie Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
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  8633. Maybe he thinks you have to hang up after making each tweet, and call again for the next one.
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  8634. This continual downplaying of the seriousness of the situation is what got the US into this mess in the first place.
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  8635. 6:41 Well, maybe “less unaffordable”. Remember the original retail price of the 128K Mac was US$2499, or about 7 grand in today’s money. John Sculley mentions, in his book about his time at Apple, that he wanted it to be priced at US$1999, but he says Steve Jobs wanted the extra margin to fund a splashy ad campaign to promote the product. Which, in the end, didn’t really work.
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  8636. 13:42 And no doubt there will be those claiming it’s all a political hoax or some kind of conspiracy, the threat is overblown etc etc. And threatening or committing actual violence against those trying to solve the problem. (Not something I would have seriously suggested a couple of years ago, but recent events, you know ...)
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  8637. It was a 16-bit OS, in a world that was already embracing the 32-bit 386-based machines. In other words, it was too little, too late.
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  8638. 17:57 So just about a third of the votes, yet they were voted into power? Why does that sound familiar ...
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  8639. Yup. And in fact, the dnsmasq name server, which is designed for small setups like a home office, serves up exactly the contents of your /etc/hosts file, it doesn’t need (or understand) complex zone files like bind does.
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  8640. 4:53 The Prdoosrz!
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  8641. He was aiming for a Government shutdown, and when that was averted, he chucked all his toys out of the pram. Diddums!
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  8642.  EIon Musk  I didn’t see any of them on the crims’ side at Waco.
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  8643. Beware of IDEs. They let you get by without really knowing the language. For example, when I’m doing Python programming, I always keep this page https://docs.python.org/3/library/index.html open. It’s always better to read the docs for how something is supposed to work, rather than try to guess.
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  8644. Honestly, it seems an important qualification to be an antiliberal is an inability to form long-term memories.
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  8645. Our Universe is not fine-tuned for life. It is about as hostile to life as it can possibly be, without making it altogether impossible. The proof? Just listen to the silence. If it was fine-tuned for life, then it would be full of life. But it’s not. QED.
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  8646. 7:30 He of the (in)famous “Drake equation” (q.v.).
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  8647. Whom did you say that to?
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  8648. My pants just went to high school in the Carlsbad Caverns!!!
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  8649. Also known as the “Free University Compiler Kit”. Richard Stallman wanted to use that as the basis for GCC, but soon discovered that their idea of “Free” wasn’t “Free” at all. So today we have GCC, and nobody uses ... that other thing, any more.
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  8650. Because it is totally contrary to Republican orthodoxy that private citizens should be able to spend their money how they choose ...
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  8651. What kind of GUI architecture does Plan 9 support?
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  8652. The idea of an instruction set implementable across such a wide range of hardware capability was groundbreaking. The software side, not so much. IBM never really got used to the idea of timesharing (not until it adopted Unix in the form of AIX, anyway). Much nimbler competitors like DEC, DG et al ran rings around it in this area, during the 1960s and 1970s.
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  8653.  @Richardincancale  CP/M was originally cross-developed from a DEC PDP-10 machine running TOPS-10. That’s where its inspiration came from, not IBM mainframes.
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  8654.  @Richardincancale  The idea of
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  8655. put
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  8656. pu
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  8657. tting a
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  8658. do
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  8659. t between the filename and the extension was not,
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  8660. I think, something done in any IBM mainframe OS. Whereas it was characteristic of DEC operating systems.
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  8661. Pu
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  8662. tting a colon on the end of the device name was another DEC-ism. Only DEC systems had multicharacter device names; pity CP/M (and Microsoft) never copied that ...
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  8663. Is liberty worth dying for?
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  8664. The irony is that using vector graphics and actual text objects make it easier to edit the PDF file. The hardest type to edit is the one where every page is a bitmap.
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  8665. How do you do entanglement without quantization?
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  8666.  @7thDayAdventures  Remember what Spock said: “the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few”. If you have more water than you need, why should you be mangy about letting LA have some more? Face it, they contribute more to the economy than you do.
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  8667.  @7thDayAdventures  There are ways to build dams with races so the fish can still get by—then everybody wins. Decisions are best made with wide public consultation (and voter support), not by a small handful making decisions on behalf of everybody. That’s how democracy should work.
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  8668.  @7thDayAdventures  It’s not up to me, it’s up to the people in your area. Decisions have to be made for the benefit of the nation state as a whole, not to favour special groups. And it’s also worth pointing out that it is cities that prop up rural economies, not the other way round.
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  8669.  @7thDayAdventures  I have no idea what you mean by “literally not it”. Literally not what?
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  8670. Not something that goes down well in New Zealand, for some reason https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=12367669 ...
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  8671. Sounds like they did a pretty dumb thing by focusing on proprietary vendor certifications instead of, you know, actually giving their students an education.
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  8672. Just be thankful there was nobody inside ... armed with a gun.
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  8673.  @kajekage9410  When else would you expect a break-in?
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  8674.  @kajekage9410  Or just armed teachers, or armed janitors ... weren’t some folks keen on that sort of thing?
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  8675.  @Tugun87  Nice to know the god of Israel was LGBTQ-friendly, at any rate ...
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  8676.  @Tugun87  Strange, I don’t recall that being among the Ten Commandments. Which, incidentally, didn’t have anything bad to say about injustices like slavery.
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  8677.  @Tugun87  Here’s a hint: the first man and woman in the garden of Eden were both called “Adam” http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/gen/trivia/call.html
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  8678. 1:51 Gift of bread. I don’t think the soldiers need the supplies, it’s just a traditional sign of welcome.
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  8679. You are Upton Sinclair and I claim my £5.
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  8680. I think you have to concat each stream independently, then combine them.
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  8681. 2:24 Too soon?
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  8682. Try this: ht=74ps:=2F=2Fgit=68ub=2Ecom=2Fldo=2Fcurve
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  8683. Jupyter has interactive widgets and rich output. It also has a Notebook API that you can access from Python.
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  8684. Regardless of whoever is responsible, the fact that it happened under Russian control shows that no territory under Russian control is safe.
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  8685. The only sudo command I use is “sudo /bin/bash”. Or, for extra coolness (saving an extra CTRL-D to exit), how about “exec sudo /bin/bash”.
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  8686. He’s a performer. Performers need an audience.
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  8687. 2:43 Not just any old paper, but tractor-feed paper!
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  8688. Hard to believe that “baseband versus broadband” was a real controversy. In the end, the sharing of the wire was achieved by making everything digital, so the multiplexing was done at the frame/packet level, within a common transport protocol. So baseband won.
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  8689. 11:31 You still have B-52s in service, and the F-35 is gradually being revealed as a fetid pile of excrement.
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  8690. Reality check: all the good democracies offer a realistic choice of more than two parties to vote for. In 2021, 🇺🇸 was classed as “backsliding” on the World Democracy Index. And it wasn’t in the top tier before that.
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  8691. I was taught as a child that, after eating lots of durians (considered a “heaty” fruit), you should have some mangosteens (considered “cooling”) as a kind of counterbalance. Me, I found the mangosteens much tastier, I was happy to (mostly) leave the durians.
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  8692.  @CyberGizmo  No, the terminology is basic to the architecture. The display is the server, the GUI apps are the clients. It doesn’t work if you flip it around.
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  8693. All my customers’ important servers run on Debian Stable. On my own workstations, Unstable is it.
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  8694. C99 lets you use the words “and”, “or” and “not”. They’re defined in the standard include file iso646.h.
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  8695.  @M1sterE321  So how’s that wall going?
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  8696.  @M1sterE321  Is that the part that fell down? Or the one with the holes cut in it?
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  8697. 👍 Amazing bit of work 👍 (I don’t know why YouTube has started duplicating my comment postings ... I only pressed “COMMENT” once each time ...)
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  8698. Microsoft: 26 drive letters ought to be enough for anybody!
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  8699. Beans or brewed?
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  8700.  @CallousCoder  There was a survey of the VFX industry released about a year ago. That is 60% Linux now, and set to grow even more.
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  8701. Which many people feel was the best version of Windows (or NT, anyway) ever.
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  8702. 15:28 You’re not going to reach 3K with liquid N₂, matey.
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  8703. Yawn I suppose next we’re going to hear that old “tyranny of the majority” refrain ...
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  8704.  @riley6171  You do realize Ardern has been called a “socialist”? And that NZ is very much a liberal democracy?
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  8705.  @riley6171  But we have socialist healthcare. Does that mean those right-wingers who label her “socialist”, along with the majority of NZ voters who supported her, are seriously deluded?
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  8706.  @riley6171  Sounds like you’re confusing “Socialist” with “Communist”.
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  8707.  @riley6171  Where does Google get its definitions from? Or does it make them up itself?
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  8708.  @riley6171  How does it know which definition is “correct”?
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  8709. Also, this: https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-opinion/opinion-path-modern-socialism
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  8710. Can a Windows machine be the control node?
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  8711. 2:38 I remember looking at the back of a Siemens set around the mid-1970s. I could see about two dozen separate little adjustment knobs, each with its little graphic indicating its effect on the three electron beams. What happened to all those adjustments? By the time I bought a new Sony Trinitron set as a gainfully-employed adult in the late 1980s, the need for all of that had gone away.
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  8712. Buy them out and shut them down!
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  8713. The Zionist slogan was “a land without a people, for a people without a land”. Did you get that “without a people” part? As though the land they were taking over was uninhabited. Or at least, not inhabited by anybody important.
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  8714. Speaking as someone with a foot in both East and West, all I have to say is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc7HmhrgTuQ .
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  8715. 10:17 NASA’s Mars helicopter also runs Linux!
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  8716. Nothing of interest happened in 1901 that you might want to record on a computer??
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  8717. Well, that’s one way of dodging my question.
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  8718. I don’t think Microsoft uses those fonts any more.
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  8719. His sense of UI design was also a factor in the death of John Denver.
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  8720. 2:09 Smash its face into mine ... yeah, I knew a dog like that. ;)
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  8721. This is why the Earth’s surface is not covered with craters, the same way the Moon’s is. They’re in similar orbits, they would have been hit (and are still being hit) with similar densities of random objects. Erosion/deposition on the Earth tends to wipe out the traces in (geologically) short order.
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  8722.  @marcilk7534  Partisan politics has its place. What does not have a place is politicians putting the ascendancy of their party over the good of the country. That kind of behaviour is a threat to democracy.
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  8723.  @marcilk7534  The idea of “god” is one thing, using it as some kind of justification for morality is when the trouble starts. I tried to sum that up in the Humanist Commandments https://www.deviantart.com/default-cube/art/The-Humanist-Commandments-847604851 .
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  8724. 3:45 Threads share everything, not just memory: open files, process privileges -- the entire process context.
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  8725. If you develop for deployment on a platform, then it is wisest to stick with packages that come with that platform. For example, in developing Seaskirt, my Python management wrapper for the Asterisk telephony engine, I was able to run Asterisk 20 on my main workstation. But since the newest version currently available with Debian Stable is Asterisk 16, I was careful to maintain compatibility with that.
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  8726.  @notuxnobux  Actually, it does. The way X works, is every UI widget is a “window”. Typically window decorations are created by wrapping the client-created window inside a window-manager-created window.
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  8727. Linux was still playing catch-up to Solaris back then, but it didn’t take long to find itself in front of the pack.
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  8728. I loved NICAM stereo. Your TV signal could go completely to crap, and the NICAM would be just about the last thing to cut out -- after the TV picture had become just about unwatchable.
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  8729. 13:32 That would have been LucasArts. I don’t think their games were a big success, since the division is now gone.
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  8730. 0:47 See, I was taught that the “natural” numbers ℕ did not include zero, while the “whole” numbers 𝕎 did.
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  8731. Arabs are Semites, too.
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  8732. Just use cron (or systemd timers) on Linux.
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  8733. Especially when you realize that the roots of conflicts and wars invariably lie in history. So it can literally become a matter of life and death.
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  8734. Quantum electrodynamics. This was what Feynman was a part-winner of the Nobel Prize for, for working out a technique for getting actual numbers regarding electron-photon interactions instead of nonsensical ones.
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  8735. He builds on the experience of those who pioneered it earlier.
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  8736.  @Miapetdragon69  Is your granddaughter a wisecracker like her namesake? Once on a transatlantic cruise, on one of the big ships of the time, she asked “When does this place get to New York?”
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  8737. I’m curious to know how her investigation of the NRA is going. I think that is likely to have more far-reaching long-term consequences for the USA than what this loser has-been ex-President might have been up to.
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  8738. There are less than a dozen BSD variants, versus hundreds of Linux distros. Yet all those Linux distros are more easily interoperable than those BSDs. One of those ecosystems offers true “variety of choice”, while the other is hobbled by “fragmentation”.
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  8739. No it wouldn’t. Or, to be more precise, it might work in other situations (e.g. audio), but not here.
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  8740. Here in NZ, in the hospital wards, the electrical outlets are of two types. Some of them are bright red--those are the ones with RCD protection, for use with hospital medical equipment only. The ordinary ones can be used by patients for their electronic devices.
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  8741. 1:07 It used to be “procedural” versus “functional”. Until the OO folks hijacked “procedural” to try to mean something different -- not realizing that most OO languages are in fact “procedural”.
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  8742. 6:23 Kamahl Santamaria over on Al Jazeera was positively wetting himself with excitement over the numbers. So I guess an impartial international news network with no personal interest in the outcome gets to have fun.
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  8743. “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.” -- John Maynard Keynes
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  8744.  @SPOCK22  Were you not taught as a child that the truth will always come out? No matter how much those with certain agendas (ideological, religious, whatever) try to suppress it?
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  8745. 0:53 Not HTML, CSS, JavaScript/DOM, SVG, PNG ... no IETF RFCs for any of those.
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  8746. 5:30 Lenovo ... this man has taste.
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  8747. This is why quoting lens focal length doesn’t really make much sense, it is better to quote actual angular field of view. Then you don’t have to keep qualifying your numbers with the sensor size.
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  8748. 3:46 I sincerely hope that the WHO knows better than to use the word “epicenter”. Journalists, on the other hand ...
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  8749. 4:04 You don’t encrypt the packet length!? Even I was able to figure out how to do that. ;)
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  8750. 1:06 It is not a silly word! It just takes practice to say: “Mebibyte! Bemibyte! Mebebibyte!” Oh, bugger ...
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  8751. I prefer Circulartine, since I think it’s a more well-rounded drink.
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  8752. I sincerely hope you are not a fan of GNU info ...
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  8753. 3:29 “Ullage” was the Apollo-era term.
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  8754. SSH is only one port, and you can tunnel a lot of services through that.
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  8755. Fewer and fewer people are buying Macs, so yes, the message is getting through. macOS/OS X is basically the last surviving official “Unix” system still selling. But nobody cares about Unix now; the future is Linux. http://ldo17.tumblr.com/post/104358170772/is-linux-unix
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  8756. That pronunciation sounds like a bit of a cumpt.
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  8757. “Call by name” is effectively “nameless function of no arguments”. Nowadays the idea of “lambdas” has become very trendy.
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  8758. Use Linux ... or stay on Microsoft and complain.
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  8759.  @splitprissm9339  Forwarding whole sessions is exactly what you normally need.
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  8760. I wonder which side is doing the defenestrating, though? One recent casualty was someone whom you thought was solidly on Putin’s side.
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  8761. Apology accepted for thinking so.
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  8762. export PAGER='less -iXx4'
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  8763. “Special Political Operation”!
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  8764. But wait -- isn’t Joe Biden actually Trump in deepfake disguise?!? Still secretly carrying on the QOnan plan?!?
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  8765. They didn’t copy any Microsoft code, just the APIs. But Oracle vs Google could end up giving them an excuse to sue anyway.
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  8766. I’m using 7.3, and it still sucks.
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  8767.  @mjacobim  You first.
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  8768. 17:55 No need to bring in yet another module. Just add this to the decorator functions: wrapper.‗‗name‗‗ = func.‗‗name‗‗
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  8769.  @dane2565  Easy enough to copy name and docstring. Annotations may not necessarily be valid.
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  8770. Ah, the old Anglo-Saxon hangups ... squeamish about showing titties 5:01, but no qualms about revelling in blood and guts and gore and a hapless victim being ripped apart 7:42.
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  8771. I don’t like IDEs either, because they force a particular build system on you. Emacs’ strength is that it’s not an IDE. It can drive any build system.
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  8772. Barack Obama got audited 8 times in 8 years during his Presidency. Yet you never heard him complain about it.
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  8773. 0:44 I don’t allow food and drink near my computers. So that avoids that problem.
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  8774. But Debian would not do that. Not by default, anyway.
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  8775.  @walkingjustice3703  That part of the battle isn’t over yet. There needs to be institutional reform to prevent Trump Mk II from taking power again.
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  8776. This is why I put blank lines, bracketing symbols and demarcation comments in my Python code, e.g. ‌ def outer_func ... : ‌ def inner_func ... : ... #end inner_func ‌ #begin outer_func ... #end outer_func ‌ #+ # Mainline #- ‌ ... outer_func(...) ... ‌
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  8777.  @Lttlemoi  In Python, it’s just another method in the class. In C++, it’s a whole special function syntax, separate from the class.
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  8778.  @Lttlemoi  Python lets you define them on subclasses of builtin types like int and str as well. You see, there are no PODs in Python. How’s that for consistency?
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  8779.  @Lttlemoi  Python also lets you overload built-in functions like len() and abs(). Not to mention property getters/setters—have those made it into C++ yet?
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  8780. Java was supposed to be simpler than C++, leaving out stuff they didn’t think was necessary. Then they discovered they needed some of that stuff after all, like generics. Or they try limping along without it, like the awkwardness of not having typedefs or unsigned integers. And so the reference manual ends up approaching the complexity of C++. And it still manages to leave out major things like operator overloads.
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  8781. VS Code makes Emacs look petite and efficient.
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  8782. How about destroying unused pages on notepads? Because they can bear impressions of what was written on the sheets over them.
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  8783. Does the right to “liberty” include the right to endanger the health of others? Because that’s how infectious diseases work.
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  8784.  @justint984  What about if you are the cause of the danger to them? Do you have the right to sacrifice their lives for your liberty? Maybe think about how you would feel if the positions were swapped, before answering.
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  8785. What other offerings for a two-figure price tag?
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  8786. 7:41 I would put “exec” in front of those command invocations. Just to save a process slot.
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  8787. It would take you longer than the age of the Universe to come up with a hash collision.
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  8788. What was it Sean Connery said in that James Bond film, about listening to the Beatles without earmuffs?
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  8789. I would say that Microsoft has lost money on every single Surface device it has ever sold.
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  8790. Try solving this without recursion: computing all the permutations of a sequence. def permute(seq) : "generator which yields successive permutations of the elements of seq." if len(seq) == 0 : yield () else : for i in range(0, len(seq)) : for rest in permute(seq[:i] + seq[i + 1:]) : yield (seq[i],) + rest #end for #end for #end if #end permute >>> list(permute((1, 2, 3, 4))) [(1, 2, 3, 4), (1, 2, 4, 3), (1, 3, 2, 4), (1, 3, 4, 2), (1, 4, 2, 3), (1, 4, 3, 2), (2, 1, 3, 4), (2, 1, 4, 3), (2, 3, 1, 4), (2, 3, 4, 1), (2, 4, 1, 3), (2, 4, 3, 1), (3, 1, 2, 4), (3, 1, 4, 2), (3, 2, 1, 4), (3, 2, 4, 1), (3, 4, 1, 2), (3, 4, 2, 1), (4, 1, 2, 3), (4, 1, 3, 2), (4, 2, 1, 3), (4, 2, 3, 1), (4, 3, 1, 2), (4, 3, 2, 1)]
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  8791. 6:50 ... or, in this case, “spin safe”!
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  8792. 8:18 Looks like somebody doesn’t understand how celsius/fahrenheit temperature conversions work. A change of 3°C is equivalent to 5.4°F, not 37.4°F!
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  8793. Realistically, what can you do about it? As long as Microsoft keeps getting your money, it doesn’t have to care.
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  8794.  @altrogeruvah  Did you support it?
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  8795.  @altrogeruvah  Maybe it failed for lack of support.
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  8796. Consider that we are already experimenting with quantum teleportation in our labs today: aliens a few million years more advanced than us wouldn’t need spaceships. So whatever these things are, they are not alien spaceships.
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  8797. They have his tax records now. This could be one of his last public appearances before he goes to jail.
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  8798. People are angry at the Georgia Republicans’ naked power grab. Deal with it.
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  8799. Typical expensive and proprietary IBM technology. Also had its own reliability problems. They looked down on Ethernet, but Ethernet eventually wiped them out.
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  8800. Lots of Russians--including Russians in other former Soviet republics--see Stalin as a symbol of a time of stability. Ask people in Ukraine what they think of Stalin, and they are likely to answer with one word: “Holodomor”.
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  8801. But is it Linux-compatible?
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  8802. So the answer is “no”, then.
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  8803. 3:50 Remember this: “MARATWA” -- “Make America Respected Around The World Again”.
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  8804. 9:26 What is wrong with this man!? Didn’t the brainwashing take!?
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  8805. There is a phrase you might have heard: “cattle, not pets”. If a container instance malfunctions, you don’t bother spending time and effort trying to fix it: you just dump it and create a new one. Should I explain the analogy further...?
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  8806. There is a difference between official popular opinion, and what the people really think. The divergence between the two can be seen as a measure of how authoritarian the Government really is. For example, Israeli media discovered this at the recent Football World Cup in Qatar; while their country officially has good diplomatic relations with several of the Middle Eastern countries which took part, a lot of the citizens of those countries simply refused to speak to them.
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  8807. How many buildings are there? How many soldiers will they lose in each one?
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  8808.  @jimbobjim2310  Air strikes never won a war.
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  8809. 15:26 I think the longevity is very highly dependent on the brand. I soon learned to stick to good brands, like Sony, Verbatim and TDK.
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  8810. FORTRAN actually has no reserved words.
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  8811. 09:40 You could have any number of 0s in a row. Or any number of 1s in a row.
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  8812. Look at the part of the video I’m referring to.
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  8813. “It’ll all be over by Christmas.”
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  8814. Einstein’s definition of insanity: trying the same thing over and over, hoping for a different outcome each time.
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  8815. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  8816. 15:34 Ah, but it could make a difference if you are trying to do very long baseline interferometry. For example, setting up a future radio telescope array. Maybe call it the “Square Light-Year Array”.
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  8817. 0:55 I wrote a Python script to address envelopes years ago. Checking that Git repo, the first version was in 2016, last revision from early 2021. Only takes a minute or two when I need to use it, which is maybe once every month or two.
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  8818. 1:04 Are they really talking about blaming Trump for making the wrong decision back then? Enquiring minds would like to know ...
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  8819. Remember, whatever decision was made, was made on his watch.
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  8820. It is easier to be destructive than constructive.
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  8821. alias more='less -iX'
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  8822. alias more='less -iX'
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  8823. Was NRS the equivalent of DNS SRV records rather than A records, then?
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  8824. Kylenol ... is that the one with the ads featuring Tylie Minogue?
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  8825. Rust isn’t magnetic.
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  8826. Think about why Windows needs tools like InstallShield, and Linux doesn’t.
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  8827. Heckle the jackal, why don’t you.
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  8828. I think she has a point about Ashkenazi Jews, though -- aren’t they of predominantly European rather than Semitic ancestry anyway? Also they seem to be the privileged ones in Israel.
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  8829. Among those who still remember it ...
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  8830.  @CyberGizmo  None of which has anything to do with the POSIX-specified behaviour of userland processes, which is what we are discussing here.
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  8831. I wonder how many MAGA caps he’ll have to sell to pay for the running costs ...
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  8832. Where does Irish spaeoulliang come from, anyway?
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  8833. A WV state legislator was part of the mob https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/republican-state-lawmaker-livestreamed-himself-in-mob-storming-us-capitol/ .
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  8834. There is a lot of obsession with brand names. Too often, form takes priority over content. But then, that sums up most of the history of GUI design, doesn’t it?
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  8835. So he didn’t really understand the concept of free academic debate. Europe also had a problem with that. The difference being Europe was never unified, so it was possible for scholars who were threatened in one place to find shelter in another place.
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  8836. 1:13 There is a certain ... enjoyment ... to be had from sitting over a wheel well. Or so I’m told.
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  8837.  @accountid9681  Mechanism, not policy.
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  8838. The USA is the only country in the world where the number-one cause of death among children is gunshot wounds. I’m not sure that’s true even in actual war zones.
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  8839. This from a religion which celebrates the slaughter of all the first-born of Egypt.
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  8840. 3:38 Fun fact, three quarters of all animal species are beetles.
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  8841.  @tilsgee  Think of KDE as a later version of CDE.
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  8842. He was careful to distinguish the two.
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  8843. It’s a tricky thing to explain precisely because it’s such a tricky concept. It used to be simpler: until about the late 1980s, faster CPUs could be matched with faster RAM, so the higher the clock speed, the faster everything went. But then improvements in CPU speed outstripped increases in RAM speed. So for a while you had “wait states”, then finally they added caches: first one level, then two, nowadays even three separate levels to bridge the ever-widening gap between CPU speeds and RAM speeds. So now the sizes of those caches, and the size of the pipes for transferring data between them, the CPU and main RAM, have become big factors in the speed of the system as well. And then within the CPU, you have design decisions like how many concurrent instructions can be in flight at once, with separate arithmetic units assigned to each one, and how efficiently data can be moved around the chip, that further complicate the relationship between clock speed and CPU performance.
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  8844. The electronic innards were buried in a thick mass of epoxy precisely to resist shock and vibrations. That epoxy is now an obstacle to fixing salvaged units that don’t work.
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  8845. If the US was a democracy, they would not have been able to achieve the level of power they have today.
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  8846. No, libc is in /lib, not /usr/lib.
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  8847. 1:22 Worth mentioning those green and powder-blue closed curves: are they polar orbits? But they don’t seem to precess?
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  8848. 4:28 Ah.
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  8849. What about the ones in the standard library? Lots of good stuff there. For example, ctypes -- anybody else made good use of that? https://github.com/topics/ctypes-wrapper
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  8850. 5:55 Seems they really did spell it that way.
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  8851. There’s already one or two Raspberry π competitors based on RISC-V, which are very close to it in both price and performance. There’s your “desktop”. Or perhaps more correctly in terms of functionality, your “workstation”.
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  8852.  @mgord9518  Why, do they tend to maintain their value? Or maybe they deprecate them instead?
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  8853. One issue I can think of is that reprogramming the actual AGC meant remanufacturing the rope memory. The emulator could just load a new program into its RAM.
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  8854. 4:38 This is why lots of Blender tutorials run some kind of tool to display keystrokes and mouse clicks in an overlay. I have used Key-mon on Linux for this purpose.
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  8855.  @ExplainingComputers  This is why YouTube has a pause button, though, isn’t it. Anything the viewer isn’t sure of, they can go back and look at again.
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  8856. Recommended reading: Larry Niven’s short story Becalmed In Hell .
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  8857. Somebody did a Lego reenactment.
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  8858. Is that the Top 10 list that doesn’t include prohibitions on discrimination based on race, creed, gender or sexuality?
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  8859. 4:30 “Louder” = “amplification’. And here is where “electricity” becomes “electronics”. Because electronics is concerned with maintaining the signal information being transmitted (and operations on it like amplification, filtering etc), and less with maintaining the particular values of voltage, current etc being used to transmit it.
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  8860. They did: it was called “IronPython”, built on DotNet. Nobody wanted to use it. Because ... DotNet.
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  8861. Could be worse. Could be Brazilian President Bolsonaro, who remains in complete denial over the whole thing and is castigating state Governors who decide to take action on their own.
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  8862. Avoid platform-specific languages like Swift and C#.
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  8863. 1:45 If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be a Democrat.
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  8864. 7:00 It did draw some foundation from the minicomputer industry, though, particularly DEC machines. Natural, since CP/M was originally cross-developed on DEC machines.
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  8865. 10:50 Barings ... went bust in 1995 owing to the shenanigans of one Nick Leeson.
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  8866. Hamas wouldn’t be the power it is today without Israel’s help. Israel thought to weaken the Palestinians by “divide and conquer”, and take power away from the PLO. You know the phrase: “sow the wind, reap the whirlwind”.
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  8867. Unfortunately, FreeBSD has been tainted somewhat by their association with Netgate, and their treatment of the whole WireGuard brouhaha.
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  8868. Fun question: where in the 🇺🇸 Constitution does it say that the judiciary has to be independent?
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  8869. 4:21 I doubt it. I think it is just being interpreted the same as CTRL-D in sending an EOF to the shell. To verify this, try typing a few spaces (without a RETURN) and then hitting CTRL-SHIFT-D. If this has no effect, then it is the same as CTRL-D.
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  8870. 3:16 “If you can only take one programming language to a desert island” ... but wouldn’t your machine also have to be able to interpret build commands? In other words, wouldn’t it also need to have a shell? And isn’t that a programming language too? In short, one programming language on its own wouldn’t be able to achieve much these days.
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  8871. Fauci has no “power”. He is only there to advise. And he is qualified to do so. He’s had actual formal education to study this stuff, so he knows what he’s talking about. He was hired based on his qualifications, not on his political leanings. What qualifications have you got to try to tear him down? He has managed to serve both Republican and Democrat administrations in the past, while maintaining their respect. What is it with you people now? It is you who are coming adrift from reality, not him.
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  8872. In the early part of the 20th century, analog computers had the edge over digital ones in physical-simulation problems in being a lot faster, albeit with limited precision. I see history repeating itself, with “quantum” computers being the new-style analog computers. You never see them demonstrate any success with number-theoretic problems, for example, as would be needed for cracking encryption (what happened with Shor’s algorithm?). Just about all the success stories I hear about have to do with physical-simulation problems.
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  8873. Anybody tried Jupyter? Now there is an integrated terminal.
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  8874. Soon as I saw that “oc” in southern Gaul/France, I immediately thought “OK” ...
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  8875. 🇩🇪 does score better than 🇺🇸 on the democracy index, though guilt for past crimes means they tend to let the apart
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  8876. heid regime currently in charge in 🇮🇱 literally get away with mur
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  8877. der.
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  8878. 3:22 KDE user! (That’s the GUI I use on my Linux desktops too.)
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  8879. 4:40 This sommelier is from Somalia!?
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  8880. That “unix philosophy” is a half-truth. People use it to attack things they don’t like.
    1
  8881. But what he said was not what he meant.
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  8882.  @Problembeing  That’s what you think.
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  8883. Remember why Windows Vista got delayed and was so buggy with such lousy performance when it did ship? It was because Microsoft had the great idea of writing core parts of it in Dotnet languages like C♯. The performance turned out so bad, they had to abandon the project (the infamous “Longhorn Reset”) and start again.
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  8884.  @reddragon2358  Can it indeed? Can you name any robotics applications using C♯? Just for comparison, NASA’s Mars helicopter has a Linux installation on it, but is Dotnet-free as far as I know.
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  8885.  @reddragon2358  “Microsoft Robotics” ... that’s a laugh. This is the company that cannot even offer a meaningful OS for the Raspberry Pi.
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  8886. Nevertheless, they are sufficiently related that what works for one can be made to work for the other.
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  8887. Which gets the question: why were VCRs not made available that would bypass Macrovision? The reason is, not only did Macrovision patent their copy-protection scheme, but they also tried to think up all the ways to bypass it, and patent those too. So anybody who wanted to make a VCR that was impervious to the copy block could also be sued for patent infringement.
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  8888. I think also GDPR discourages a lot of 🇪🇺 developers and businesses from jumping wholesale into 🇺🇸-based cloud services.
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  8889. 8:51 Maybe they’re thinking of a certain past comment by Ilhan Omar that could have been interpreted as “antisemitic”.
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  8890. 4:13 You do that the way it was done in 🇦🇺 in 1996, and in 🇳🇿 in 2019: you not only outlaw the most dangerous weapons, you also institute a gun buyback scheme to take them out of circulation. Australia proved that it works -- look at their record on (relative lack of) mass shootings since the scheme was put in place in 1996. We in NZ hope to follow the same example.
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  8891. Just FYI, checking the cert on this YouTube page, Firefox reports the encryption setup as “TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256, 128 bit keys, TLS 1.3”.
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  8892. 16:00 I can’t imagine videos would work on readers with e-ink screens, though.
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  8893. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  8894. Love of your children should not be conditional on anything.
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  8895. Be careful about taking those big swings. It took me five hours to stanch the bleeding. And I’m still not sure I found all the pieces.
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  8896. 3:38 “Truth is that which, when you stop believing in it,
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  8897. doesn’t go away.” -- Philip K Di
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  8898. ck
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  8899. 8:25 True. Particularly since I never knew that, in spite of being surrounded by these devices since I were a lad back in the Old Country. ;)
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  8900. “When will they love their children more than their guns?”
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  8901. It’s actually a misspelling of a very old word: “N’Gome”, which means “Can’t figure out KDE”.
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  8902. Maybe both.
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  8903. I don’t have that one on my Debian system. What does it do?
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  8904. By the way, arxiv.org seems to block certain user agent strings. I had to use “--user-agent="Not firefox"” with wget to retrieve the paper.
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  8905. 4:32 Only 63 million voted for Trump? So that leaves about 240 million USians who didn’t vote for him.
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  8906. “God” is very much a part of this. The Russian Orthodox Church seems quite solidly behind the invasion.
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  8907. 1:51 Shouldn’t those units be “MiB”, “GiB”, “TiB” rather than “MB”, “GB”, “TB”?
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  8908.  @michaelrenper796  Professionals know how to express themselves without ambiguity.
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  8909. 7:06 Film was expensive. With digital cameras and camera phones, it’s easy (and cheap) to just go snap-snap-snap-snap-snap.
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  8910. Microsoft doesn’t seem to be promoting ReFS as much lately. It used to be more widely supported.
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  8911.  @profosist  Yeah, they keep dropping support for it from their products ... almost as though they don’t want people using it.
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  8912. So much careful design went into it. The two absolutely critical engines that, if they didn’t fire, the men would be left marooned in space or on the Moon—the Service Module and the LM Ascent stage—were hypergolic. That means their ignition only depended on simple on/off valves working properly, not on more complicated throttles, pumps etc. The initial trajectory to the Moon was “free return”, which meant that if nothing further was done, they would simply come back to Earth again. This is what happened with Apollo 13, where the main issue was figuring out how to last the time it took for the trip back.
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  8913. Vampires supposedly don’t have reflections. There’s some other kind of being that doesn’t cast a shadow ... might have been witches.
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  8914. Brushing teeth with horizontal strokes: 🙄 Brushing teeth with vertical strokes: 😘
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