Vivtek

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by Vivtek 3mo ago
I live in a rain forest, so this post confused me for a minute. I was expecting some kind of on-screen optical illusion, but it turned to be asking about actual physical trees outside my window. Yeah, I can see trees. I can see about fifty
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by Vivtek 3mo ago
Depends on what part of Budapest. One of the reasons people like Zugló (14th district) is the many trees. And farther out it's even better, of course. But a lot of the trees in Hungary just don't grow that big, maybe the most mark
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by Vivtek 8mo ago
Oh man. My wife's biscotti business will benefit from this. Nice work!
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by Vivtek 11mo ago
One of the funniest moments I remember from that class is he suddenly noticed the parens didn't match in the snippet he'd written on the board - so he counted through the trailing ))))) and inserted a close paren at the right pla
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by Vivtek 11mo ago
I took his Compilers class about 30 years ago. I really wish I still had those notes.
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by Vivtek 1y ago
Gary McGraw was the first doctoral candidate to work on the Letter Spirit project: https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021500/http://goosie.cog... And John Rehling did a second portion in his doctoral
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by Vivtek 1y ago
Similarly, every European city turns out to be Budapest. Especially if there's an urban car chase of any kind.
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by Vivtek 1y ago
Who would report it?
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by Vivtek 1y ago
Threaten people with a 49% national sales tax, and suddenly they celebrate when it's only 10%.
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by Vivtek 1y ago
There's a shocker. Why would anyone fly to a country that's proud of shackling them and keeping them in detention without notifying their families? With the added bonus that next week they might be rendered to a slave gulag in El
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by Vivtek 2y ago
Lord knows there are ample opportunities to learn this lesson in the industry today.
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by Vivtek 2y ago
Same - the funny thing is that right now my 3-foot prescription is zero (plus a bunch of astigmatic correction). Apparently my mortal frame has accepted its purpose.
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by Vivtek 2y ago
I think they might be rolling out here in rural Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, which to be absolutely honest I would not have expected in a million years. Certainly a guy came by this week measuring for, he said, laying fiber optic cable. Just to p
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by Vivtek 2y ago
Astonishing.
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by Vivtek 2y ago
This is so cool! I wish there was a way to know when an attack was charged up, or maybe show its progress in charging.
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by Vivtek 2y ago
Stay out of my head!
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by Vivtek 2y ago
There are one or two. https://github.com/shleeable/Big-List-of-ActivityPub
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by Vivtek 2y ago
"Today, traveling to the same Caribbean islands can be tricky, as anyone caught with contraband can face serious repercussions." That is a very odd take on the Caribbean, and it's the third paragraph in the article. I've
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by Vivtek 2y ago
Why don't we start with some in his house and office?
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by Vivtek 2y ago
Because when I think of content-addressability, I mean you can find things intensionally and not just extensionally, that is, you can know the shape of what you're after and find something that matches that shape. More or less what v
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by Vivtek 2y ago
This might be a stupid question, but by "content-addressable" do you mean that namespaces are eliminated? This thing where you store each individual version of a function indexed by hash, that's content addressability?
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by Vivtek 2y ago
Over enough years, they will be forgotten, just like the names of the people you went to school with, unless you've got a way to rehearse them.
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by Vivtek 2y ago
So a million years ago (the mid-90's), I was working with Doug Hofstadter and I had some ideas I wanted to follow up. Over the intervening years of raising a family, none of which do I regret, I never had the opportunity to actually do
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by Vivtek 2y ago
She got her PhD in 1999, shortly after the birth of the kid who just finished his first year of grad school. Sure, you're working, I totally get that. But you're also sometimes reading about stuff relevant to your eventual academi
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by Vivtek 2y ago
My wife and I are 57 years old, so I think I can address this. We finally got the younger child through to grad school and paid off all our debt, and now we can devote our time to what we want to do. Mostly, anyway - I'd like to be doi
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by Vivtek 2y ago
That was my first thought, too. Nice, tiny language with generators? Neat!
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by Vivtek 3y ago
I've recently resumed research I initially started with Indiana University (and stopped for life reasons). I've been out of academia since 1995. Back then, I had the resources of Indiana University for support. Today, lacking inst
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by Vivtek 3y ago
That's real. There are whole years of my email archives I have troubles looking into.
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by Vivtek 3y ago
I've been doing this since 2016 and I'm frustrated on the regular that I never did it before. It's incredibly useful to know when things happened.
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by Vivtek 3y ago
ebook-convert is Calibre. But you're right that you can use it from command line (which is what I do as well).

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