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by arundelo 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_value#Marginalism
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by arundelo 7y ago
I don't know Olin Shivers but I've read enough of his writing to know that this acknowledgements section was written with tongue in cheek, and in fact it's a funny enough piece of writing that I've shared it a number of
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by arundelo 7y ago
I guess the author was thinking of how cat's original purpose is to concatenate multiple files, not show just one file. (But I certainly don't think using cat in the latter way is a misuse.) There's also a commonly noted &quo
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by arundelo 7y ago
(1) lack of primitive hash tables (2) lack of primitive arrays I'll note that if there are primitive arrays and the compiler optimizes arithmetic, the rest of the hash table can be implemented in Bel. Also, maybe a Sufficiently Smart
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by arundelo 7y ago
http://productionadvice.co.uk/no-stair-steps-in-digital-audi... The “stair-steps” you see in your DAW when you zoom up on a digital waveform only exist inside the computer. [...] When digital audio is played back in the
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by arundelo 8y ago
This all sounds like it would make an interesting blogpost/article if you're into writing one.
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by arundelo 8y ago
I'm surprised people put up with them I don't like them at all but I do most of my Netflixing on my iPhone, where it doesn't happen. (When I do go to the Netflix site in a web browser I sometimes temporarily use "Mute
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by arundelo 8y ago
https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/
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by arundelo 8y ago
“[A]lmost anything ending in ‘x’ may form plurals in ‘-xen’ (see VAXen and boxen in the main text). Even words ending in phonetic /k/ alone are sometimes treated this way; e.g., ‘soxen’ for a bunch of socks. Other funny plurals ar
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by arundelo 8y ago
I upvoted this because it seems to make some good points and I think the topic is interesting and important, but I can't understand why the "Then, why some free software projects use xz?" section does not mention xz's ma
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by arundelo 8y ago
That is what it means. Note that the lines ("edges" in graph theory terms) can cross each other. Nelson asked: What is the smallest number of colors that you’d need to color any such graph, even one formed by linking an infinite
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by arundelo 8y ago
I'll look into xmllint. I currently use HTML Tidy for this: tidy -xml -indent -wrap 0 or tidy -xml -indent -wrap 0 -quiet
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by arundelo 9y ago
Formatting the quote like this makes it too wide to be readable on my phone without repeatedly scrolling right then left. Even in landscape mode the first line ends with the "b" of "brightly painted". A lot of people for
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by arundelo 9y ago
The efficient-market hypothesis is an idea that already has a well-known name. In the article the words are a Wikipedia link.
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by arundelo 9y ago
RFC 2392 Message-ID values are supposed to be unique, but they may not be if the software generating them is buggy. I remember reading somewhere about some email program that assumed they were unique (in effect using them as a natural key).
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by arundelo 9y ago
Esperanto has many many more speakers! (People joke about Klingon having more but it's not true.) Really accurate numbers are hard to come by but even based on estimates, it's no contest: "Arika Okrent guessed in her book In
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by arundelo 9y ago
It would be nice if Go made a new i for each iteration of the loop. Lua 5.0 made just one loop variable per loop, like Go apparently does. When I first ran into this behavior, I thought that, although it wasn't what I expected, it made
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by arundelo 9y ago
I use forward slashes a lot on Windows but tab completion in cmd.exe only works with backslashes.
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by arundelo 9y ago
I have talked to other people who found CGI Peter Cushing convincing but I did not. I'm confident I would have picked him out as CGI even if I hadn't recognized him as a long-dead actor. (Same for CGI young Carrie Fisher.) (Still
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by arundelo 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing
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by arundelo 9y ago
Wikipedia says that MP3's last patent expired in the United States last month: If only the known MP3 patents filed by December 1992 are considered, then MP3 decoding has been patent-free in the US since 22 September 2015 [...] If the
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by arundelo 9y ago
Ah, last time I looked at this I thought, "This is cool but it's too bad it doesn't have EQU or some other way to give symbolic names to constants." Now it does! define appleL $00 ; screen location of apple, low byt
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by arundelo 10y ago
Unfortunately I can't find a source for this but I saw someone saying recently (and it makes sense) that a lot of congress fax numbers just convert the fax to an email message rather than physically printing it out.
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by arundelo 10y ago
I'm talking about 8-bit microcomputers in general, from the late seventies to the mid-to-late eighties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_computer#Notable_home_com... EDIT: I owned a Commodore 64 and a TRS-80 in
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by arundelo 10y ago
There are spots where a vertex would have two hexagons at it rather than three. For instance, look at the border between the upper left and lower left islands. In this picture, those two islands are only touching along a third of the border
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by arundelo 10y ago
(Not relevant to this demo in particular, just a piece of trivia I only learned in the past few years:) It makes sense to think of the TI-99 as part of the 8-bit microcomputer boom of the 1980s (Commodore 64, Apple II, TRS-80), but it actua
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by arundelo 10y ago
Read about Thomas Tempelmann's and Mike Pall's disk copy programs for the Commodore 64 and 1541 disk drive: http://www.pagetable.com/?p=647 http://www.pagetable.com/?p=656 From the second article:
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by arundelo 10y ago
(pro tip: a b'foo' object in Python2.7 or Python3 isn't "a bytes", it's "a bytestring".) Quotes from the Python 3 documentation: Bytes literals are always prefixed with 'b' or 'B&#x2
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by arundelo 10y ago
"vi"[1] is a very influential text editor created in the 1970s (and still used today). This "family tree" show a bunch of other old text editors that directly or indirectly influenced or inspired vi. (For example, George
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by arundelo 10y ago
If you're not already familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_Pona , check it out. "Both its sound inventory and phonotactics (patterns of possible sound combinations) are found in the majority of hu

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