amygdyl

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by amygdyl 8y ago
<It was possible to spend more >than $100k for a Symbolics >Lisp Machine with accelerated >color graphics and HDTV >in/out. Quantel Harry was the competition. Link below, is for the 1981 Quantel Paintbox, the existence o
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by amygdyl 8y ago
I must add the Bangladesh Civil War, 1971-87 , to the pogrom count, the other way around. Calcutta Brahmin Hindu families intermarried and converted to Islam. The Muslims were supposed to go to Pakistan, as it became. But the ties were deep
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by amygdyl 8y ago
I suspect that this is because a human propensity exists to allocate and apportion blame, particularly in cases where the interactions involved in the immediately prior actions are unclear. I have actually not even once encountered this 5 W
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by amygdyl 8y ago
I used to wish I could publish my email correspondence as a RSS feed, to which the "recipients" could more selectively subscribe. So they're always engaged in seeking the information they need, which is so duplicated between
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by amygdyl 8y ago
I haven't thought of WiFi as a available infrastructure until this year, the development was so slow to arrive I missed it actually coming. And this is the City Of London, I live close enough to consider the city home. Ironically, I on
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by amygdyl 8y ago
I'm reading Michael Bloomberg's autobiography, and he describes working his last day as a partner at Salomon Brothers, a twelve hour day, to end fifteen years of twelve hour days, six day weeks. He was not unhappy in his work. Wha
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by amygdyl 8y ago
Hi Don, I hope you are able to see my post, I think I became a bit invisible here, but I just want to take the opportunity to thank you for all those ZFS filer reviews, back in the day. This had a profound utility for us, which I will date
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by amygdyl 8y ago
The consumer pricing structures, when you start getting services like Dropbox used extensively in professional settings, such as graphic design for advertising, is a problem. When we've got to go back to the original files with a press
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Only if the diffuser is in the optical chain and not the surface target at the focal plane of a projection. Whenever we crumple our eyes up to squint we're creating a diffraction grating that works a treat for the myopic amnesiac I am
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by amygdyl 9y ago
This was the first thought I had, also, but from a optimistic point of view: If you are interested in modelling the behaviour of a modern fabric loom, which can be a four storey high proposition with thousands of spindles feeding air guided
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by amygdyl 9y ago
No anti entrapment rule or law in the UK.
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Azure's cognitive services, particularly because you can spend the free development dollars for a start: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/sp... I have been very pleased with cust
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by amygdyl 9y ago
If contrarian debate includes technical debate, I learned that I enjoy reading the counter arguments for programming solutions that I'd probably not learn about, if for any reason I am by experience or knowledge or style or ability, th
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Is there a real hurdle in patents on map graphics held by the major mapping companies and national organisations? Could a goal of being truly open and complete, be incompatible with the interests of privacy, national security even? If commu
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by amygdyl 9y ago
This is why I think it possible that we may yet have a text centric app to rule them all, as has China gravitated to WeChat. Last night I was in a discussion about the whole shift in market power that a central role playing app like WeChat
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by amygdyl 9y ago
This is the case of the least denominator in management"thinking". If managers were legally liable to shareholders for obviously bad decisions that benefit to the managers, it might occur less. Only Sweden makes regular management
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Tesco stores in London are removing from self checkout kiosks cash payment. A middle size store in the City, two sides of a aisle, left accept cash, on the right the machines only accept cards. The card only kiosks were all vacant. On the l
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by amygdyl 9y ago
The National Audit Office must publish the model for this system, forthwith. Only then can debate begin. And political parties must be compelled to publish their proposals both normalised to the NAO model specification and atomically for th
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Sadly this was the policy of my last defunct startup. We did get to enjoy the benefit, tho, twice: For every day early we delivered a point release, the whole team got double days holiday, half paid for bonus. Editing got in s twist somehow
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by amygdyl 9y ago
I'm quite sure that English is the language that I've been using for the longest time without exactly knowing how it exactly works! Or metaphorically I don't know exactly how English works when it decomposes so gracefully as
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by amygdyl 9y ago
I keep thinking about a future retirement business: a mom and pop electronics hardware store, stocking the widest variety of maker goodies and serious bench tools, the kind that are very much try before you buy, if a private buyer - in my i
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by amygdyl 9y ago
I'm running Skype Lite on android.
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Redisplay the stop sign in the (TI DLP) HUD. Outline pedestrians, similarly. Give me a distance, stopping reaction countdown, and alert me to children doubly so lest they suddenly break from adults. I would think that indication that pedest
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Does Azure's composable FPGA design offer potential for assemblage of a higher level of abstraction, my poor analogy is the web assembly reduced to instructions/ primitives but you control the gate logic that's run, and isn&#
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Can parachutes deploy automatically safely? I mean in cities I keep imagining much greater extent of elevation, moment we figure how. Above the smog line... I'm sure I was in 94 but 16 same place, in the middle, ugh. Could it become un
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Very cool thank you! Also prewitt and Travis above and below.. Mortality rates.. Got it ,:-$ so, marketing for 7th floor Homes with kitty life policy in the service charge bill technically not the Blatant fraud I assumed, and if the buildi
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by amygdyl 9y ago
Imagine you are now the only person who has to be satisfied with the confidence you feel in map products. Otherwise you equally weight everything giving nobody any preference other than no data and no location. Now you realize that everyone
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by amygdyl 9y ago
I lived on the seventh floor, so always wondered if that meant I could safely keep a cat? [Urban legend, afaik, cats can't right themselves with less than the seventh floor height to fall..]
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by amygdyl 9y ago
I'm scarred by the CISC - RISC wars, which were serious for my business at the time. So in a year I'm anticipating Open VMS I'm x64 , having a indelible memory of the memory space rings and system calls depending on explicit
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by amygdyl 9y ago
I recognize the positive spin, the fact of hardware vulnerability is still little understood, and the trust placed in the cloud ecosystems is almost absolute. I'm aware that I would be planning to go on a Microsoft like security commit

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