dmolony

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by dmolony 2y ago
Luckily they explained what papyrus is. The BBC is now doing ELI5.
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by dmolony 2y ago
> To test what effects this rapid growth might have on the plankton Yay nerd-sniping.
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by dmolony 2y ago
I just click all the back buttons instead.
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by dmolony 2y ago
I think what they mean is 'an influx of AI-generated code (which is frequently garbage)'
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by dmolony 3y ago
The Apple ][+ (which I bought in 1981) had left and right arrow keys, but no up/down arrow keys.
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by dmolony 4y ago
CLR James once asked 'What do they know of cricket, who only cricket know?' I think the same applies here.
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by dmolony 4y ago
> I hope this will you help in case you cannot afford to hire anyone at all with a elementary school level of Arabic script reading. Oops.
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by dmolony 4y ago
Sheer volume of work. I think the 10,000 hours theory has some validity.
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by dmolony 4y ago
Presumably 'The Fucking Article'
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by dmolony 4y ago
April fool?
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by dmolony 5y ago
Warning: infer has been deprecated because it does not build!
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by dmolony 5y ago
[PDF]
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by dmolony 5y ago
Please add [PDF].
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by dmolony 5y ago
You can get an improved ROM from https://www.bigmessowires.com/mac-rom-inator-ii/
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by dmolony 6y ago
I remember in 1976 we were using mark sense cards to write programs, and we definitely had to slash the letter O. I think we also had to slash the Z to distinguish it from a 7.
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by dmolony 6y ago
You might want to check this out - https://www.kansasfest.org/
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by dmolony 6y ago
You can add Canberra to that list. I know several apartment blocks that are close to collapse, one Owners' Corporation is currently suing the builder (and the local government authority) in a case before the Supreme Court.
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by dmolony 7y ago
"I posted a poll on instagram to get a more accurate assessment of the situation." Cute.
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by dmolony 7y ago
The documentary says he is in France.
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by dmolony 7y ago
Check your VPN?
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by dmolony 7y ago
[2006]
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by dmolony 7y ago
Delaminating screens...
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by dmolony 7y ago
Will this overwrite files that have the same name but are in different directories?
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by dmolony 7y ago
I'm pretty sure Australia has done this for 40+ years.
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by dmolony 7y ago
Nice idea, but the saccharine voiceover made it impossible to listen to for me.
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by dmolony 7y ago
In contrast, the worst that could happen with compressed air was a burst pipe; this would not be a good thing to be standing near, but since the pipes ran through the sewers the chance of this was very small. Even more reason to avoid sta
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by dmolony 7y ago
Amazon - the company that broke online shopping.
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by dmolony 8y ago
That web site is all flashy presentation, I couldn't tell if there was any actual information hidden amongst the animations. TLDR anyone?
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by dmolony 8y ago
It's a shame the author never actually ran the code, it has bugs. For example, the Factorial next() function should be: return new Factorial (index + 1, value * (index + 1)); And of course the iterate line should be: Stream.
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by dmolony 8y ago
I hope they build a Difference Engine or Analytical Engine as a proof of concept.

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