ebruchez

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by ebruchez 22d ago
One needs to be a little more sophisticated about it. Ray Kurzweil, for example, set fairly clear rules for his interpretation of the test in his 2001 wager: https://www.writingsbyraykurzweil.com/a-wager-on-the-turing-... T
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by ebruchez 2mo ago
I got here to mention Asimov. For those unaware, it was revealed 10 years after his death that he had actually died of HIV, contracted from a blood transfusion during a heart operation. It's quite tragic.
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by ebruchez 5mo ago
Oh no they weren't!
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by ebruchez 7mo ago
Marques Brownlee seems to like the wheels in his latest video review, FWIW. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfReqcUJfBU
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by ebruchez 7mo ago
Not criticizing your decision, but I went the opposite way, deciding that I was ok spending a certain extra amount initially in order to encourage a non-Chinese manufacturer. But I understand not everyone has this luxury. I bought the Core
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by ebruchez 8mo ago
I suppose that means the museum is doing its job then: educate people totally ignorant of the history of computing. Next time that younger person sees a floppy disk they will know what it is.
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by ebruchez 8mo ago
Yes - so far.
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by ebruchez 8mo ago
> There's just no way to deny this. Of course there is "way". All the above above in itself sounds like propaganda. You forget other political (authoritarian system making massive mistakes), demographic (1.0, probably less
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by ebruchez 10mo ago
In particular, the IBM 1401 (two of them actually) that you can see demonstrated at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View are transistor-based and were very successful computers. https://computerhistory.org/exhibits&#
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by ebruchez 10mo ago
> The US and Switzerland are the only two countries that use the same colors for all of their various bills. Factually absolutely incorrect for Switzerland, and easy to verify. Swiss bank notes are and have been some of the most colorful
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by ebruchez 1y ago
That's right. There are still S-100 enthusiasts who are maintaining and developing S-100 cards, see http://www.s100computers.com/ (does not seem to respond correctly to HTTPS right now).
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by ebruchez 1y ago
One of the interesting aspects of the Altair was that it was based on a bus called the S-100 bus. You would have a CPU card and a memory card at least, but everything else was optional. The serial board was separate, and strictly not absolu
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by ebruchez 1y ago
True or not, be aware that "The Global Times is a daily tabloid newspaper under the auspices of the Chinese Communist Party's flagship newspaper, the People's Daily, commenting on international issues from a Chinese nationali
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by ebruchez 1y ago
Future might tell. But while it's tempting, I wouldn't bet against democracy and freedom just yet.
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by ebruchez 1y ago
I don't need to be convinced that China has lots of bright, hard-working individuals. I just want to point out that China faces immense challenges and that we should see beyond, and push back against, the propaganda. There is a massive
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by ebruchez 1y ago
Yes, but this will likely hurt China as well. You can't assume only the US will be hurt by this.
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by ebruchez 1y ago
This sounds like official Chinese propaganda. This was truer at some point, but things have started turning bad for China with the advent of Xi Jinping. 20-25 years ago, the country was hopeful, developing fast, opening up. Foreigners start
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by ebruchez 1y ago
> China will surpass USA from a GDP Point of view in 2035. Don't be so sure, this has become much less clear. For example, in this article: "The Centre for Economics and Business Research, which in 2020 predicted that China wou
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by ebruchez 1y ago
Fair enough. By the way, the original CSS from 1996 featured only: - the "descendant" combinator (whitespace) - the "class" selector (".foo") The 1998 CSS2 introduced "child", "following sibling&
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by ebruchez 1y ago
There have been proposals a long time ago, including by Tim Bray, for an XML 2.0 that would remove some warts. But there was no appetite in the industry to move forward.
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by ebruchez 1y ago
CSS selectors have spent the last few decades reinventing XPath. XPath introduced right from the beginning the notion of axes, which allow you to navigate down, up, preceding, following, etc. as makes sense. XPath also always had predicates
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by ebruchez 1y ago
XSLT will perform the transformations that you instruct it to do. It does not wipe out whitespace just on its own. Do you mean that you'd like facilities to nicely reindent the output?
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by ebruchez 2y ago
You are confused. Look at Taiwan's present, not its long gone past. As I mentioned in another thread, during my last trip to Taiwan, I revisited the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, which features a museum where Chiang Kai-shek's li
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by ebruchez 2y ago
I think the GP meant "a" cultural revolution, not "the" cultural revolution. But yes, the CCP taking over Taiwan would erode and then try to erase the beautiful and diverse culture of Taiwan. Schools will teach obedience
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by ebruchez 2y ago
You swap character by character, and of course if you want to swap a group of characters related to a particular domain you can do so. The tray is just a grid so you have as much flexibility as you want as long as you have the appropriate c
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by ebruchez 2y ago
The possibly unique instance of the MingKwai typewriter, thought lost, was recently found, by the way: https://typewriterrevolution.com/the-discovery-of-lin-yutang...
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by ebruchez 2y ago
Cool, I hadn't seen this video. I am currently working on mapping the character tray and boxes of a Taiwanese Jue Shine typewriter, which uses a different mechanism: https://typewriterdatabase.com/1972-jue-shine-747l.24
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by ebruchez 2y ago
There is absolutely nothing hilarious about any aspect of it whatsoever. We are talking about peace, justice, human freedom and suffering - all values on which the US was founded, by the way. Whether the US should be involved or not is a va
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by ebruchez 2y ago
Saying "Taiwan is in fact occupied by China" is at best a gross misrepresentation. It's like saying "North America is in fact occupied by Europe now [...] for North America to be free, in any proper sense, the European o
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by ebruchez 2y ago
There are several aspects that come into play: 1. How the PRC (mainland China) regards Taiwan (or ROC). 2. How Taiwan regards itself. This has changed over time. 3. How third-parties play that situation. Since Nixon's visit to China in

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