cestith

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by cestith 6d ago
It was a little disappointing to me given there were TurboAssembler, Turbo C, Turbo Pascal, Turbo Basic, and Turbo Prolog and that Borland had a trademark for Turbo Lisp that I don't think I ever saw an available version of that.
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by cestith 6d ago
Is it software having this effect or management over software products? I don't see many academic or hobby software projects constantly changing what's important to them on a whim. It can be seen all the time in the software indus
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by cestith 6d ago
Yet UPS still delivers packages better than FedEx. The most reliable cars are made by Toyota, Subaru, and Honda in that order. Subaru is unionized. Toyota and Honda are not in the US, but have some union membership among employees in Japan.
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by cestith 8d ago
It's a badly worded caption. The leftmost image is a wolf skull. To the right of that, in the middle, is the thylacine skull. The rightmost one is a fox skull.
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by cestith 8d ago
That's where I stopped reading. It's just so egregiously wrong I didn't have faith in the rest of the article being useful.
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by cestith 12d ago
> "There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." Do you know the source of that quote and the context? It was Frank Wilhoit explaining the core o
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by cestith 12d ago
I'm not a doctor or biologist, but remember that bacteria is a far simpler organism with a much shorter individual lifespan than a human. Depending on the species and their environment, they might divide every 12 minutes or every 24 ho
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by cestith 12d ago
Checking an online database before investing in a major creative work does not seem like the bulk of the effort to me.
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by cestith 12d ago
Using explicitly checked errors instead of exceptions was a considered design choice and is well explained in the Go literature. It may not be to everyone's taste, but there are reasons for it. One of those reasons is how often very no
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by cestith 13d ago
My new pest control folks sold me partly by showing customer satisfaction numbers from independent third-party review sites. The sales guy made the point that their customer satisfaction had stayed high after their PE buyout, but my old ser
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by cestith 14d ago
This sounds like he's discounting Lisp, Scheme, OCaml, and Haskell in favor of something that's more of a safer, fresher take on the C language for his target group. The real competition for a language like Go these days are Rust,
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by cestith 15d ago
Some cinemas do present some sporting events. The rights negotiations for sporting events are multi-layered and complex. Your average soccer or MLB game is not likely to be negotiated for that venue, and a whole-season license is unlikely.
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by cestith 15d ago
Do you mean production or reproduction? For instance, have you ever looked and the budget or the credits for a major film, TV, or game project?
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by cestith 15d ago
I'd say shorter but with renewals. Say, 15 years with two or three renewals of equal length, but require that the original protected work is still for sale to get the renewal. This would clear up things like retro games being stuck in
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by cestith 15d ago
If you get rid of copyright, half of movies will be sequels to other people's work from the previous year.
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by cestith 19d ago
It could be a new keyword rather than counting on the compiler to prove certain access patterns don't exist. That's a bit of a messy tradeoff. Maybe something like 'unordered struct' or 'packed struct' works, b
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by cestith 19d ago
The EPA as overseen by Donald J. Thatcher.
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by cestith 20d ago
I’ve had this book for a few years. It’s nice to see it in this format.
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by cestith 21d ago
Oh, yes! Dr. Petrov. That film has so many great actors. Connery, Neill, Jeffrey Jones, Peter Firth… it even has a Baldwin and a Skarsgård in the same film.
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by cestith 21d ago
This is an artifact of doing as the platform is documented to work. You can do what the man page says, or you can do the opposite. The whole article is about how forking on macOS is troublesome.
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by cestith 21d ago
The man page on macOS suggests that if you need the child to be a copy of the parent like you’d get after fork(), that you can fork() then exec() the same program in the child. That gives it enough independence to be safe. Using fork() with
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by cestith 21d ago
The manpage suggests if you need the child to be the same as the parent to exec a copy of the parent in the child right after forking.
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by cestith 21d ago
This is interesting, but instead of tying it to a specific JS library and all I’d prefer putting a list of options and their arguments into the .well-known tree. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well-known_URI That way an
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by cestith 21d ago
Annie, Clue, Command & Conquer, Criminal Minds, Legend, Muppets Treasure Island, Rocky Horror Picture Show He was an icon. It’s said you can tell a lot about a person by from where they recognize him.
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by cestith 21d ago
Many BBSes in the later dial-up BBS days had gateways between the BBS itself or Fidonet echoes and parts of the Internet, too. Some of them had Internet email for their BBS users. Some kept a copy of parts of Usenet, or had a reader on the
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by cestith 21d ago
You’re right to a point. The Internet is much older than the Web. Content on the Internet was largely FTP sites, Gopher sites, and Usenet long before the Web existed. We also had MUDs, MUSHes, MOOs, talkers, chat rooms, BBSes, and more over
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by cestith 23d ago
That is true enough, but that wasn’t the question. This thread started with someone being surprised that Siemens would hold a patent suited to a telecoms company. The patent was issued years ago, hence it expiring.
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by cestith 27d ago
One might consider this an argument for an integrated curriculum. Teach Les Misérables during a unit on the French revolution. Teach Huckleberry Finn or Roots when discussing the history of slavery in the US. Teach The Great Gatsby as part
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by cestith 28d ago
Siemens started as a telecom company.
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by cestith 28d ago
Siemens started as a communications company. The first invention was a type of telegraph. Siemens had a division called Siemens Communications Systems. They split that into Siemens Communications Systems (public networks) and Siemens Info

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