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by bklaasen 3y ago
TV news is curated for a particular effect; Why this story, and not that one? It is a type of commercial entertainment. It it simultaneously inane and culturally violent. Here are people dying in an ongoing struggle for power between warlor
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by bklaasen 3y ago
He'd have lost a toenail or two and might have a bit of callusing.
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by bklaasen 4y ago
That's part of the system. Management is failing if it's not acknowledging and tackling this part of the system that's prepared to destroy the whole to preserve itself.
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Yes, it made a racket! There is a description of the Harvard Mark I crashing in Beyer's "Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age": > Hopper, Campbell, and Bloch invested substantial energy in developing prac
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Archive.ph version which loads promptly: https://archive.ph/jiER0
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Terrific, thanks. That's new to me. Laurent Bossavit's "The Leprechauns of Software Engineering"[1] is fun and accessible. It claims that much of what we consider fact in software engineering is actually folklore. [1] h
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Update on 32-bit support: decision to block the update on Nextcloud 26 reverted(help.nextcloud.com)
1 points by bklaasen 4y ago|0 comments
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by bklaasen 4y ago
https://archive.ph/https://www.ft.com/content/b2154c20-c9d0-...
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Wonderful stuff. Gerald Weinberg had a huge influence on at least the 1990s generation of testers, with his ethnographic approach. He doesn't seem to have had as much influence on the same generation of programmers. Perhaps the techniq
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by bklaasen 4y ago
...and the filename is shown as a focused highlight, leading you to think that's where the focus actually is! But no, it's in the search field, at the bottom right of the dialog.
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by bklaasen 4y ago
No more "every fortnight in future". Instead, it's "biweekly going forward". I do miss the 'old' terms.
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by bklaasen 4y ago
There's a terrific episode about BEFLIX on the "Advent of Computing" podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6m1EPM2w1oX9aPoNyXa6Bb
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by bklaasen 4y ago
For near-line stuff and long-term storage, a HP Microserver with software RAID5 array via Linux mdraid. No inbound access from outside the network. Powered on as necessary. I've replaced the entire disk array once so far, as the disks
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by bklaasen 4y ago
> (my hips would need a day to recover from a 20 km walk). > > I'm in my mid 50s, so I'd like to believe my age is part of that. Nah, it's just lack of practice. I turned fifty during my walk across Europe from Dubl
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by bklaasen 4y ago
"Cailín" is Irish for "girl". https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/cail%C3%ADn
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by bklaasen 4y ago
A film of the exhibition captures the multimedia aspect well: https://vimeo.com/721486048/description (Via https://civilizationofllhuros.org/ )
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by bklaasen 4y ago
https://archive.ph/nyxGS
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Arseny Avraamov: The forgotten Soviet genius of modern music(bbc.com)
2 points by bklaasen 4y ago|0 comments
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Alan Bromley and Doron Swade's rebuild of the Difference Engine, done using metals and techniques that were available in Babbage's time, seem to have put paid to that idea. These days it's Babbage's poor project manageme
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by bklaasen 4y ago
A 65 page tract on programming as it relates to Bookchin's "social ecology" and Wikipedia-like "peer production".
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by bklaasen 4y ago
No difference. Just a branding exercise. Nextcloud will soon be at version 25, which will also be named Nextcloud Hub 3. Frank Karlitchek talks about this during the Q&A, about an hour and a half into the video linked below. However the
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by bklaasen 4y ago
The ARM binary isn't up yet. ``` $ uname -m aarch64 $ restic self-update writing restic to /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/restic find latest release of restic at GitHub latest version is 0.14.0 d
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Don't you find the background rumble of the air in the vents very enervating? I was in a friend's place with a heat pump, and I felt like I was inside a badly tuned organ. Lots of atonal near-subsonic rumbling. I think heat pump v
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Isotype (picture language)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by bklaasen 4y ago|0 comments
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by bklaasen 4y ago
The former is a classic comedy. For a taste of what you're missing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfKZclMWS1U
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by bklaasen 4y ago
I recall Flight Unlimited[1] made a big deal of their flight model which incorporated "real-time computational fluid dynamics". I'm not a pilot but I found it very compelling. It was groundbreaking for its time. None of the r
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by bklaasen 4y ago
(2015)
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Excellent, thank you! This also works in Mull, the "...privacy oriented and deblobbed web browser based on Mozilla technology." https://www.f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/
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by bklaasen 4y ago
Datamation magazine? https://archive.org/details/pub_datamation
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by bklaasen 4y ago
> A person can road trip in their car, truck, or van > or upon a motorcycle, moped, or scooter. Not quite the same thing; you're isolated from your environment by the noise and the cabin or the helmet. You won't hear the bir

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