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by r9550684 3y ago
when I first could afford to but before I had responsibilities, I bought a breguet classique off secondary market, which is already understated, and I wear it with an even more understated leather band. I consciously chose to wear it as a d
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by r9550684 3y ago
compare footnote 87 in pdf and 79 in html, the html version of the translation is invalid and reverses the meaning, uses transliteration instead of Cyrillic, but also where did the other 8 footnotes go? I have a feeling the html was transcr
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by r9550684 3y ago
for the attentive readers, I found an error in the translation of the Gogol quote, asked Eugene about it, and he said that he also just noticed that the HTML version posted here has "considerable differences" from the original PDF
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by r9550684 3y ago
cyberpunk in the 90s was a lived experience, particularly so in Eastern Europe. I read Neuromancer, watched johnny mnemonic and blade runner on pirated VHS tapes, and armitage and bubble gum crysis on pirate tv[0]. there were old grandmas s
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by r9550684 3y ago
this is a pure grift post, which is what one would expect from a former director of an adtech grift (but I repeat myself) company. it should be obvious that the goal here is not to communicate the poor state of the job market, but to exploi
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by r9550684 3y ago
I think the only reason pen's gratuitous violence stands out is because the tropes and the narrative structure are outdated. a trigger happy scrapper is played for laughs in children's cartoons today, but the joke is telegraphed s
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by r9550684 3y ago
I think addressing child's inner world on its own terms was attempted by the victorians to begin with, they had the whole cult of child thing, lewis carol serenading a prepubescent girl. but I think j.m. barrie did it with gusto, recog
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by r9550684 3y ago
I've addressed what he said for exactly one sentence in the beginning of my review: reframing fairy tales or children's tales in cynical terms is a whimsical pastime, rather than a serious literary criticism. The rest of my review
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by r9550684 3y ago
Burton Weltman, the author of this article, is a humorless old man, who plays an old game of reframing whimsical and fantastical in cynical terms, but he doesn't do it for comedic effect, no he plays it straight! Mr Weltman has at leas
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by r9550684 3y ago
I'm glad Rainer recommended his video, because I learned Concordia purely by word of mouth and exploration. There's a paper by Janet H. Walker, the principal on Document Examiner/Concordia for a hypertext convention https:&#
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by r9550684 3y ago
unrelated to your point, Sonya keene's book is the only one I know that was authored and typeset using Symbolics's in-house publishing system Concordia. (besides symbolics documentation sets of course) Concordia (and its display c
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by r9550684 3y ago
a blast from the hackernews past, when obscure hacker's personal home pages made it to the front page. timonoko is a hacker's hacker, but then it's kind of hard to figure that out without attentively going over his website, s
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by r9550684 3y ago
it's the recursive clause, that applies gplv2 to derivative works. the prescriptive part is "must cause … to be licensed", and nothing else. what is says is that paraphrasing "the work based on program must be licensed a
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by r9550684 3y ago
I didn't realize that, cheers! but how does red hat structure their stuff? I know that gnu projects must surrender their copyright to gnu, in order to prevent future shenanigans. if red hat had their core infrastructure (package manage
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by r9550684 3y ago
it should be clarified that red hat is not violating gpl license. they are free to repackage software, then sell it closed source, and only distribute the source to its paying customers. this use-case is explicitly endorsed by rms and gener
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by r9550684 3y ago
Derek Thompson, the author of the article, is an embedded Capitol Hill hanger-on, and a self-proclaimed politically progressive. It's entirely tone deaf of him to write such an article, and yet here we are. People like him look at the
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by r9550684 3y ago
this article is fluff, that exploits Lancaster tourist take on the amish to clickbait into strange and deceptive conclusions. there are two important points, ordnung is on per community basis, and second point is that the technology is excl
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by r9550684 3y ago
this is some lovely dark marketing, an innocent insider conversation, prompted by a single developer, Xalavier Nelson Jr., who might or might not have been encouraged by Larian marketing team, gets blown up into a narrative piece by a liter
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by r9550684 3y ago
I sometimes think we collectively rewrite our past for the common denominator. have people always been doing that, or it's an internet phenomenon? like maybe you listened to Andy gibb or The Bee Gees in the 70s, but you retrospectively
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by r9550684 3y ago
(hello, you are one of the people that have greatly inspired me many years go! in the early hackerspace days there was a lot of talk of diy, but it was a kind of consumer lifestyle thing, like stitching a new strap to your laptop backpack.
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by r9550684 3y ago
I remember spending some non-insignificant amount of time playing 3dpong, because that was the first time I got exposed to a wireframe game. I thought the formalism was delightful, it felt very cyberpunk. My first 3d game was probably Stunt
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by r9550684 3y ago
don't forget that besides microcode much of the lisp machine logic was implemented with PALs, which were themselves programmed in Lisp. the simple gates, mixers and flip-flops were describe with lisp code, so that the logic could be te
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by r9550684 3y ago
oh look, it's the balanced and measured lisp skeptic. If you're going to construct commenters taxonomy, you should include yourself in it, because "I really like lisp, but surely we can rationally agree that the world/we
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by r9550684 3y ago
it was bootstrapped on maclisp on pdp-10, but targeted and ran on perq
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by r9550684 3y ago
I suspect if various stakeholders (u.s. senate, various corporate interest groups, etc) understood the implications of the home computers, they would've not hesitated to ban and otherwise regulate them. Up until early 2000s home comput
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by r9550684 3y ago
I'd start by trying to add all the different paths to cffi:*foreign-library-directories* cffi:*darwin-framework-directories* and if that doesn't work for whatever reason, patching the library definition in cl-sdl2 https:
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by r9550684 3y ago
I'm going to answer to myself, since above is already a tl;dr and it's unlikely that these comments will attract any kind of attention. Note to self. There's a subtler political point that the paper is trying to make, neither
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by r9550684 3y ago
oh man so much confusion, and everyone's grifting, and I kind of suspect that the paper itself relies on ignorance to stir up a little controversy. Iberian horses moved from south to north. English horses from east to west. This should
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by r9550684 3y ago
according to any Andy Gavin, the cofounder of Naughty Dog and a MIT AI lab alumni, crash 1, 2 and 3 were written on GOOL/GOAL[0] which was a home-brewed lisp. According to Franz themselves, the language was hosted on allegro common lis
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by r9550684 3y ago
I came to America poor, and went straight to a public university, on scholarship and no money to even pay for food (grad seminars and special events with free sandwiches and pizza is how I learned about things like quaternions as an undergr

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