esnible3

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by esnible3 6y ago
Turbo Pascal is 3.7x smaller than the Wikipedia page describing it. Wikipedia's prose description of Turbo Pascal is 148k.
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by esnible3 7y ago
Russia was experiencing democratic protests against their czar and might have had a peaceful transition to democracy in 1918. German-supported propaganda ended up ruining their 20th century. Russia is copying that playbook. https:/&
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by esnible3 7y ago
Also discussed on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2019/12/11/786760790/44-000-year-old-ind... The NPR story quotes one of the authors of a paper published today in Nature... but then brings in an unrelated grad
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by esnible3 7y ago
Is it possible to even find out the rated noise level before purchase? I feel like every 'fridge and air conditioner should print this up front with the capacity and voltage. Noise level is the main thing I look for in an appliance w
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by esnible3 7y ago
If you have the right paper you can download and print your own notes from https://5thpillar.org/programs/zero-rupee-note/ I believe note will be historically important. I wanted an example for my currency collec
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by esnible3 8y ago
Exactly this. Barabási says "networks drive success." The Baroness was a leaf node. She connected mostly through Duchamp. His network allowed him to succeed. Her packets got dropped by the Duchamp node.
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by esnible3 8y ago
Sugary foods, opium, these things all cost money. Most things on the Internet are free. Think of the addictive things as “gravity wells”. Everyone explores until they find something that addicts them. Many library cards for <18 year-o
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by esnible3 10y ago
Nice photo of the oldest zero known, at Angkor Wat, Cambodia, dated 683 AD http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/origin-number-zero-180... The previous contender was the zero at Gwalior in India, dated 876 AD http:&#x
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by esnible3 10y ago
Few names survive beyond their great-grandchildren unless there are contemporary records to remind people. After the statues are destroyed and books containing are not allowed to be published very little will be left. Think about how littl
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by esnible3 11y ago
No. It was recently revealed that even a much simpler problem, detecting genitals in on-line worlds, was so difficult that the world was shut down. It might be possible to detect certain words with speech recognition, but the teacher will