ChocMontePy

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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
I'm a James Joyce fan, but I had no idea until now that Fort Denison here in Sydney Harbour is a Martello tower.
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
One of the problems is that the UK legal system has a presumption that computers are reliable. They are assumed to be working properly unless proved otherwise, which shifts the burden of proof on the person trying to claim that they are not
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
> After Guardian Australia’s report, a US-based YouTuber, Jack Gamble, revealed Harrison’s true identity. The Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmSXQrVlk0M
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
I had the strange experience of reading all of Paradise Lost and finding it very understandable, but having the opposite experience with Aeropagetica , where I had to give up because I couldn't understand what he was saying. Prose s
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
This website is a reminder that if you have $64 then you are a millionaire in binary.
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
The full song finally got released today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml_mAoOZEAM
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
I have a half answer: not a result, but a proof that was found to be invalid. And it's a famous proof too: Euclid's very first proposition: "On a given straight line to construct an equilateral triangle." Euclid's p
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
All I know about that book is that Aaron Swartz's last ever Reddit comments were about it: https://www.reddit.com/user/AaronSw/
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
If anyone wants to test it, someone wrote a short code that simulates doing that 100,000 times: https://www.techiedelight.com/generate-fair-results-biased-c... The coin is biased to come up TAILS 80% of the time, but using
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Brian Randell's bombshell 1976 lecture on the top secret Colossus computer [video](youtube.com)
1 points by ChocMontePy 3y ago|0 comments
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
The new API price is not ridiculous. There's been misinformation about the pricing. Here's the standard API prices of three websites: (Price for 50 million API calls) Imgur - $3,333 Reddit - $12,000 Twitter - $42,000
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
> Reddit has been terrible and dishonest in their communication Partly true. They have been awful at communicating with the devs and with Reddit at large. The "dishonest" claim is debatable. > Reddit is dropping Twitter-like
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
I agree with you that the timeline is tight. Relay For Reddit has just announced their preliminary plan to offer a $2-3 a month paid version. They sound cautiously optimistic and are hoping for some flexibility on the tight timeline. This i
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
If it made 3rd party apps impossible, then all or most of them would have announced they were shutting down by now. In fact, only three have done so. The rest are still trying to work out the economics. I expect that quite a few will surviv
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
I have to hand it to those app devs. The way they managed to dupe millions of Redditors into protesting was masterful. They didn't produce any good evidence that the new API price is excessive (some cherry-picking here, a deceptive co
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
Something can be both legal and unprofessional at the same time.
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
I don't think that's a good argument. If someone says something sexually harassing to me at work and I politely say "Oh, I guess I misunderstood" to defuse the situation, it would be specious for them to later claim that
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Ten articles in a 1980s computer magazine by sci-fi author Ted Chiang
14 points by ChocMontePy 3y ago|0 comments
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
> Step 1 is to clean every tiny little crevice of your bed frame, bedding, box spring, and mattress and if possible, get a mattress bag. Step 2 is to put bed bug traps under each leg of your bed-- they can't jump or fly, only climb.
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
Milton was blind when he wrote Paradise Lost and left us a beautiful description at the start of Book 3: Hail holy light, offspring of Heaven first-born, Or of the Eternal Coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? ...but thou Revisitest n
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
Good post on the quote: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/30/hour-play/
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by ChocMontePy 3y ago
A photo of the Orion Nebula from the same book: The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Astronomy ( https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00mitt ) also provided the cover of Joy Division's Transmission 7" single:
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by ChocMontePy 4y ago
> The purpose of knowledge is action, not knowledge. > ― Aristotle If the quote works for you, that's all good. But for the other people adding it to their quote list, it's unlikely to be a real Aristotle quote. In the N
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by ChocMontePy 4y ago
The Google Trend of the search term "blog" probably gives a good indication of the change in widespread interest: https://i.imgur.com/I4jLBo0.jpg
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by ChocMontePy 4y ago
There was a beautifully made book from 1936 called "The Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature" that was set out and edited to be more like a normal book: https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.10239/