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by fcbrooklyn 5y ago
That was true initially, but they changed tack about a week later. The ship reduced capacity from 1000 beds to 500 specifically so that they could accomodate covid patients, because there weren't enough other patients to matter. In a
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
"What I'm asking of you is to be less cynical about what actual art and artists and be genuine in the search for meaning." There's a typo here, and I honestly am not sure what you're trying to say. I will say this:
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
I agree with everything you've said. However, many people I know who produce art, are not thinking in these terms, and resent being forced to do so, and they are forced to do so, by the commercial reality of the fine art industry. Furt
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
sounds like a job for thismuseumcuratordoesnotexist.com.
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
I have friends who are (modestly) successful fine artists, and they uniformly hate having to write that dreck. But you wanna pay the bills, you pick up a pen and write.
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
Is it really a work of art if it doesn't include the obligatory ridiculous description? Something like "Opus #4, in mixed media. Through a re-imagining of the interaction between form and light, the artist challenges our preconcei
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
that's right. 3.5... 5.25 was long past.
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
Heh, no, but it was a close call. Shipped in August of 95. I was working on Office "95" at the time, and we were seriously under the gun, for a few reasons. Firstly, it came down from on high that all Office apps needed to be por
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
Heh, yeah, I remember when they switched to labelling everything by year. Those of us on the development teams thought that was seriously tempting fate given our track record of routinely shipping things a year late.
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
There may have been some overlap, but as I remember it the main thrust of Cairo wasn't really about UI. It was an object based filesystem, and some other fancy shit going on under the covers. (I was on Apps, and we never targetted Cair
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
At the time there were two branches, the win 3.1 branch, which was consumery, and the NT branch which was for servers / developers, etc. Cairo was an OS based on the NT branch, which was ultimately cancelled. Chicago was the project na
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
They've built emulators for many, many old computers. The website is clearer than the github page. http://simh.trailing-edge.com/
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
Another feature I want is "money is no object mode" when travelling around new york city. Sometimes it's fastest to take the subway, sometimes it's fastest to take a Lyft/Uber, but sometimes it's fastest to tak
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
Good Lord, I'd have killed for that checksum feature you mention. I've spent hours typing pages of hex into a TI-994a with no such functionality, and typically you'd just have bugs that would require a careful re-reading of a
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
And the if-else construct is also a macro. The whole thing ends up being a case I think.
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
The impact is specifically related to Hong Kong, where the protesters are using telegram to coordinate, and where, according to the bug report, the telephone number range is limited.
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
I used those three button optical SPARC mice, and the bigger issue than the fact that you needed a special mousepad, was that the pad had to stay properly oriented. If the pad was rotated slightly, your mouse would go in strange directions
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
can't speak for the OP, but there are several apps I wanted to run that would have been cumbersome with that approach (although I looked at it). Main apps in question were Excel, and Ableton Live.
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by fcbrooklyn 7y ago
I did exactly this last summer, and have been quite happy with the decision. (context: my dev work is all about elixir/erlang, some python, and some haskell). So far I've had very little trouble with WSL, but its performance is
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
The real "killer feature" is the Erlang VM (the BEAM). Thanks to a combination of exceptionally lightweight "processes" (not true OS processes, a construct of the VM), which share nothing, can only interact through mess
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
A very interesting history of the NYC subway. https://www.amazon.com/722-Miles-Building-Subways-Transforme... It's been years since I read it, but as I recall, the system was built by private entities, who were gradua
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Interesting, although the article is strangely silent on the subject of property taxes, which are extremely high in NY. NYC and surrounding areas undoubtedly have higher property values, so perhaps the ratio holds, but the rest of the stat
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
It's crazier that it's paid for by the state government in Albany, with taxes collected from the entire state. The control is a side effect of that.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
The video is well worth your time. The device works very well, and the fart spray has a purpose, in that it encourages the thief to ditch the package as soon as possible, enabling him to recover and reload it.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I've always assumed that "drinking the kool-aid" was a reference to Ken Kesey, rather than Jonestown, and I'm surprised to learn otherwise. It's certainly in lousy taste.
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Speaking as someone more into Elixir than Erlang, I'm wondering why you want to move to Elixir at all? If you're happier in Erlang, then why not stick with that? For me, the best thing about Elixir is the BEAM, and you've o
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
At some point, you will be confronted with a problem (a bug most likely), and you think it is beyond your ability to fix. Do not give up. If you can't figure out what's wrong, figure out what isn't wrong, and keep figuring
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Yeah, I don't think it'd be that big of a stretch. I knew someone about 25 years ago who went from creating applications in visual basic, to working on device drivers (often involving assembly). There's a learning curve obv
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
I'm not sure (not a lawyer). In theory, both request should be squashed, and I think there's a serious penalty for knowingly issuing a bullshit request, but i've never heard of the big guys being sanctioned, perhaps they lea
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by fcbrooklyn 8y ago
Is there any reason this can't be done in reverse? (IANAL) Perhaps a small orchestra can put a bunch of stuff online, with copyright of their performance, and then issue takedown notices on all of Sony's versions.

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