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by donut 2mo ago
Reminds me of E. W. Dijkstra's digitized hand-written manuscripts: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/index13xx.html
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by donut 6mo ago
Sometimes a pop-up appears that I blindly accept because I happen to be typing something with spaces. Wish that button was protected somehow.
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by donut 2y ago
The pickup idea sounds similar to how newsgroups work.
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by donut 3y ago
Also these: * https://text.npr.org/ * https://lite.cnn.com/ But I think sites should be made more accessible/simpler to begin with, rather than having a competing implementation.
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Language Models: A Guide for the Perplexed(arxiv.org)
2 points by donut 3y ago|0 comments
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by donut 3y ago
I loved that game. Played it on my 8086 with CGA graphics in the early 1990s. Check this out: > Chopper Commando, a DOS game written by Mark Currie using Turbo Pascal in 1990 https://blog.loadzero.com/blog/chopper258
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by donut 4y ago
This is so cool! Thanks for sharing. Taxonomies are inherently limited -- I love this portion of the talk "Everything is Miscellaneous" about Melvil Dewey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3wOhXsjPYM&t=1206s S
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by donut 4y ago
This thread is amazing.. thank you both for sharing!
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by donut 4y ago
The comments are mind blowing. I really didn't expect the theory to have so much confirmation in other languages.
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All English Is Valley Girl English(youtube.com)
2 points by donut 4y ago|1 comments
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by donut 4y ago
> have our PERSONAL aggregator That's the dream, isn't it. So if there are 100 people whose messages you willingly watch, how do you discover new people? (Maybe you do so organically when they mention them?) And if you _do_ all
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by donut 4y ago
> Thanks for posting this. Everything old is new again. Right? It was such a good time :-) You're welcome. > why usenet couldn't be a viable social media platform I wonder if identity plays a role here. Centralizing points (
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by donut 4y ago
How was poster identity handled in Usenet/NNTP? From what I remember, it was just a "From:" header and spoofing was easy. Or was there more to it? (Maybe because most posters wrote to their local server which require auth, yo
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by donut 4y ago
Is this a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September ?
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by donut 4y ago
The timeliness of this article is that it compares Usenet to Mastodon.
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Some thoughts on social networking and Usenet (2018)(jfm.carcosa.net)
88 points by donut 4y ago|79 comments
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by donut 4y ago
Love this: > Always look at the date when you read a hardware article. Some of the content in this article is most likely out of date, as it was written on September 19, 2011. Not only do they have a date on the article (and many posts i
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by donut 4y ago
I'm reminded of the thesis that worse is better: https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html :-)
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by donut 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#German
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by donut 5y ago
(christmas tree) + (eyeballs) shows me a turtle: https://tikolu.net/emojimix/%F0%9F%91%80+%F0%9F%8C%B2 (Looks like that combo isn't found.)
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by donut 5y ago
Thank you!
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by donut 5y ago
I'm having a hard time finding the original title of this story, The Truth. Prawda? Googling around isn't helping... Anyone know?
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by donut 5y ago
Hey Peter! Thank you for doing this. I'm a regular reader and love what you do.
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How to send an 'E mail' – Database – 1984(youtube.com)
2 points by donut 6y ago|0 comments
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by donut 6y ago
Where's the SQLite database written? How do you ensure only one writer is modifying it?
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by donut 6y ago
Oh, I had no idea ".." was an operator. That's a pretty cool feature, combined with the "?" to match optional objects. Thanks for explaining!
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by donut 6y ago
Nice and terse :-) Right, the ".." part was hard to remember because it's something like: { "entries": [ { "fields": { "fileURL": { "en-US":
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by donut 6y ago
Agreed, gron is a fantastic tool. Earler today I was looking at some deeply nested structures which had leaf nodes with a field named "fileURL", and values that were mostly " https:// " but some were " htt
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by donut 6y ago
Here is a spell checker from Peter Norvig: https://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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by donut 6y ago
I actually want KidPix as it was back then, for my kids to use today. On an iPad. Like https://jspaint.app/ but ... I mean, KidPix kinda figured out all the details in such a good way the I don't see a need to have suc

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