davejagoda

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by davejagoda 2mo ago
Tony Sale still has an active website: https://www.codesandciphers.org.uk
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by davejagoda 1y ago
> In their subconscious hopes that a societal formula is as simple and as universal as the famous E=mc², people are prepared to believe nonsense if it only sounds good. This is an interesting insight on human nature.
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by davejagoda 1y ago
Yet another reason to use `uv`! I try to avoid bugs like this: By accident, at first, I omitted the letter u in my list of letters that I was generating packages for, which caused extremely cryptic and long (500KB of uv painstakingly expla
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by davejagoda 1y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I'm not trying to be rude, and I'm not choosing random quotes. I chose Eisenhower since I was surprised to learn his opinion on the subject, and actually read the quote out of a paper copy of h
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by davejagoda 1y ago
The order of events is correct, but leaves out the Soviet invasion of Manchuria which started just before the bombing of Nagasaki.
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by davejagoda 1y ago
Dwight Eisenhower had a different view (from The White House Years: Mandate for Change: 1953-1956: A Personal Account (New York: Doubleday, 1963), pp. 312-313): The incident took place in 1945 when Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my hea
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by davejagoda 1y ago
If there is another "AI winter" it would be at least the third one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
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by davejagoda 1y ago
ODB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ol'_Dirty_Bastard OBD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics
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by davejagoda 1y ago
echo 256^3+256^2+256^1+256^0|bc 16843009