andrewl

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Where a solar storm could take down the US power grid(cnn.com)
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by andrewl 16d ago
Paul Graham discusses this in his essay The Submarine : https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html As you say, Apple would not be a trillion dollar company without a great product, but you can build something great and als
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by andrewl 20d ago
I just now learned of DHH’s views by reading the Github discussion. I think the quote should be removed. But I do not think that, without further information, we should condemn someone for using the quote in the first place. And that is bec
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by andrewl 23d ago
I like a hierarchy, too. Presumably the underlying engine could be a database but it would at least appear to the user as a tree. But with the option to find files with SQL or a SQL-like language. I would love to be able to find files bas
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by andrewl 24d ago
Yes. In this interview Michael Stonebreaker, one of the original developers of PostgreSQL, discusses (among other topics) replacing the file system with a database : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPObBOwIrHk
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by andrewl 1mo ago
J. B. S. Haldane discussed this in his essay On Being the Right Size : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Being_the_Right_Size
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by andrewl 2mo ago
The site doesn't give you printouts you can fold into a globe, but it is very informative. You highlight countries, drag them around, and their size adjusts to whatever degree of distortion you'd get for any land mass at the given
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by andrewl 2mo ago
I think Bash won as Bityard says above, in the sense that COBOL won, which was because it was everywhere (approximately) and then when another system was being built to do something in COBOL’s niche COBOL was the obvious choice. Once it w
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OpenAI Acknowledges GPT-5.6 May Accidentally Delete Files(infoworld.com)
4 points by andrewl 2mo ago|1 comments
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This Factory was severely short on workers. Then it offered flexible work(npr.org)
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by andrewl 2mo ago
Quoting from an earlier comment in this discussion: There's always some nincompoop who brings that up. Al Gore deserves credit for what he did as a senator and vice president. He helped to pass legislation that enabled the NSFNET back
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by andrewl 2mo ago
To me they look oppressive and bleak. They are interesting , to be sure. But I don’t find them beautiful. And aesthetics are subjective, of course. I can well believe others find them beautiful.
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by andrewl 2mo ago
The linked article does not say what happened to him, but if you Google his name there are lots of hits. This one says he was fired: https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/monroe-county-deputy-arr...
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by andrewl 3mo ago
I think it's that they need humidity or else they dry out. So hot and humid is fine. Hot and arid is what they have a problem with.
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by andrewl 3mo ago
Can you give us some more detail on the nematodes, or point us to an article?
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by andrewl 3mo ago
It’s impressive. To admit fallibility is to be honest. It represents confidence.
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by andrewl 3mo ago
Your link to the security page is broken because of the capital H in your URL. It should be: https://www.sqlite.org/security.html
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by andrewl 3mo ago
The January 6, 2022 date at the bottom of the page is not the date the page was last updated. It is the date problem 8.9 (Boundary value error in the secondary journals used by nested transactions) directly above it was fixed. The date at t
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Debugging: Google requests permission to release 32M mosquitoes in CA and FL(theguardian.com)
3 points by andrewl 4mo ago|1 comments
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MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart(bostonglobe.com)
53 points by andrewl 4mo ago|6 comments
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by andrewl 4mo ago
“They have phones in booths now? Finally! I don’t have to lug this cell phone around.” Hermes Conrad, Futurama Season 6, Episode 6: Lethal Inspection
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by andrewl 4mo ago
Then there is the tromboon , created by P.D.Q. Bach, which is a real instrument but should not be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._D._Q._Bach#Tromboon
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by andrewl 4mo ago
Martin Gardner’s The Annotated Alice explains the subtleties, mathematical and otherwise, of both Alice books in engaging detail. It explained things I never understood, and showed me things I missed (and then explained them). Besides the
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by andrewl 5mo ago
The subhead on the article is: Animals that feed on dead matter perform an important service. Without them, we’d live in a world of putridity and pestilence.
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'Beauty of the Beasts' Review: The Gross and the Grimy(wsj.com)
2 points by andrewl 5mo ago|1 comments
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by andrewl 5mo ago
That was a bizarre performance.
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by andrewl 5mo ago
This is the first I’ve heard of straight-tusked elephants, which are almost twice the mass of modern day elephants. You’d need a lot of cooperation and coordination to kill one of them.
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by andrewl 5mo ago
Byte was great. For years it was the highlight of my month. And I thought the cover art was amazing. The Smalltalk hot air balloon logo came from the cover of the August 1981 issue, which was devoted entirely to Smalltalk. Robert Tinney,
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Why AI Needs a Sense of Smell(noemamag.com)
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by andrewl 5mo ago
The population density of Italy 201/km2 is lower then population density of Germany 241/km2, so from point of view of density, Germany should have more high-speed rail than Italy. That would be if kilometers of rail tracks scale

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