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by baruz 7d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company It was presented as an investment, but the $150 million was just the initial payment of a much larger settlement which was not disclosed.
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by baruz 14d ago
Anecdatum: I confidently told a woman that her son, who was looking for a research opportunity in Berne, Switzerland, was heading for the birthplace of the World Wide Web, which is actually a couple of hours west and south at CERN.
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by baruz 17d ago
Thank you!
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by baruz 17d ago
I am not too familiar with Windows development in the 16-bit era, so I do not understand what Raiter means when he writes that he “de-Petzoldized” the code. I thought Petzold’s work on documenting the Windows API was foundational. Was it th
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by baruz 23d ago
He’s using a $5k/month account to access the “equivalent” of $122k worth of tokens.
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by baruz 25d ago
Reminds me a bit of some of Dave Secretary’s TIME FOR SOME STORIES.
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by baruz 27d ago
But let’s not pretend that the plastic and painterly arts are so much more self-evidently “thick” than literature is. Despite their immediacy, these arts have their own conventions, motifs, and demands that must be understood to “find the t
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by baruz 1mo ago
A lot of books that call themselves Roget’s have abandoned the dual structure (classification-index) in favor of a single index structure built like a dictionary, basically constructed for people who want a different word than what they wou
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by baruz 1mo ago
A quick trip to Wikipedia says that the Spanish name was Río del Espíritu Santo, River of the Holy Spirit, and the initial French name was fleuve de l'Immaculée Conception, River of the Immaculate Conception, and later the fleuve Colbe
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by baruz 1mo ago
I was interested in astronomy as a six-year-old, which led me to Greek myths, which led me to Greek poetry, all of that in translation, as well as Gene Wolfe’s Latro books as they came out. I was learning to program at the same time, follow
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by baruz 2mo ago
Many of the things you mention, crossing out, circling, I do not think of as actively engaging with the material, which a quick skim of the underlying research pointed out in the TFA (or maybe an earlier 2017 paper of theirs) requires using
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by baruz 2mo ago
Those are called commonplace books.
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by baruz 4mo ago
People keep saying that Microsoft invested in Apple to defeat anti-trust measures. They did not. They lost the Video for Windows lawsuit (Apple v San Francisco Canyon Company, Microsoft, Intel). Buying the non-voting stock was part of the r
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by baruz 7mo ago
I thought the use of the eta in ΣΗΜΙΟΙ ΔΙ to be later, like the late fifth century, at least in Athens, than the eighth century implied by the text. Before that, they would have been writing ΣΕΜΙΟΙ ΔΙ with what is now called simple E, epsil
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by baruz 7mo ago
What got acquired?
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by baruz 9mo ago
_Pride and prejudice_ hits for me similar notes as those for fantasy and historical fiction, though of course it is commenting on contemporary issues with no magic (except the magic of love), alas. It’s like entering a foreign society where
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by baruz 9mo ago
I think you mean romance? A romance used to be a Roman-style long narrative fictional work that described extraordinary deeds, soap opera plots. Novels were more concerned with realistic narratives describing the nitty gritty of everyday li
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by baruz 9mo ago
Not with that attitude you won’t! But dip your toe in, _Pride and prejudice_ is pretty light and breezy while having some depth to it.
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by baruz 10mo ago
I do not know about TFA and the egg cooker, but I usually boil the water first so I can pull the eggs out at a specific time (6:30 to 7:00) so the yolk is gooey. When I put an egg into boiling water without putting a hole through to the air
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by baruz 11mo ago
This was part of Steve Baker’s (“Omniverous Hexapod”, sic ) extensions to a long-standing Usenet FAQ about graphics programming, put out by “Carniverous Hexapod” ( sic ). It’s at least two decades old, and the FAQ from which he it on may b
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by baruz 1y ago
In the 1990s Microsoft “invested” in Apple because Steve Jobs allowed them to save face by giving them the option to settle their part of Apple v San Francisco Canyon Co by calling part of it—$150 M—a stock purchase that only lasted a few y
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by baruz 1y ago
Or manganese blue?
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by baruz 1y ago
Aeneas is several generations removed from Rhea Silvia, as the founder of the ruling dynasty of Alba Longa whence Rhea Silvia emerged.
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by baruz 1y ago
The author states elsewhere that the payments are for the use of their server, which can be reconfigured.
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by baruz 1y ago
Is there a performance hit for f_fullfsync?
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by baruz 1y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/ You know which one.
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by baruz 1y ago
I did the same thing, used setq and set ' before I did :r and saw the “define” verbiage. > assumed to know the difference :m for the manual and it’s under Comparisons
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by baruz 1y ago
An earlier Gen X reporting in to agree with this eloquently-written comment. I only want to add that my Silent parents never tried to sell me on the Baby Boomer dream retirement, having been raised by Lost Generation parents still shell-sho
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by baruz 1y ago
That was not Gen X saying that—we don’t say anything, like our Silent parents—we just sulk in our rooms playing grunge to relieve the overwhelming dread and to root out whatever ear-worms Clear Channel has been feeding us. Baby Boomers were
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by baruz 1y ago
I wonder whether TFA author never saw it again because the fifty-minute bookers wised up and started booking the extra ten minutes or whether the ten-minute stand-up pirates finally got a talking-to.

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