tgvaughan

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by tgvaughan 2y ago
Of course Mozilla employees deserve to be paid. Are you really saying the only way to ensure this happens is for them to sell the software or sell ads? (I write GPL-licensed software for a living and manage somehow to get paid. I also wri
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by tgvaughan 2y ago
My problem with this is that ideally, software I deign to run on my computer acts with only my interests in mind. The overarching goal of these changes is not to preserve my privacy, but rather to help advertising companies to learn someth
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by tgvaughan 2y ago
Does anybody know whether this also applies to firefox android?
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
Sorry, I wasn't intending to provoke.
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
Aside: figure 1 epitomizes everything that I hate about high-impact results-first journals: everything has to be packed into this one figure because nobody's expected to read anything else. No disrespect to the authors, these journals
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
Although I love IF, I'd never heard of Scott Adams and his games until now - so thank you! I noticed while reading this that at some point he began targeting a portable game engine, and went hunting for details. Eventually I found so
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Game of Life in Hexagonal and Pentagonal Tessellations (2005) [pdf](content.wolfram.com)
1 points by tgvaughan 3y ago|0 comments
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
and gopher still exists
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
Every time this happens I'm reminded of Kinagrams replacing Logotype among extras in Anathem (Neal Stephenson).
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
I'm a "normal person" who's never created a mastodon account, and just tried this. The original article (a "toot") has a "sign up now" button in the side pane, which I clicked, entered a username and
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Forth Dimensions magazine (1978-1999)(forth.org)
11 points by tgvaughan 3y ago|0 comments
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
Not working from Switzerland.
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Fastmail Experiencing Degraded Performance(fastmailstatus.com)
6 points by tgvaughan 3y ago|3 comments
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
Web app and IMAP/POP mail access affected. I've been with them for years and this is the first outage I've experienced. Feeling for the people tripping over themselves on a Friday afternoon to fix this!
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
I just did this for FF, worked like a charm! (I'm a programmer, but I've never put together a browser extension. This took 5min total.)
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
How does this work for free software projects which aren't themselves commercial but list employees of big companies among their major contributors? E.g. the Linux kernel?
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by tgvaughan 3y ago
I remember attending a conference presentation back in the early 2000's by one of the FFTW authors. They claimed that the mapping between architecture and optimal FT algorithm was complex enough that the only sensible approach was imp
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
Switzerland also. Although you can also just BYO and drink anywhere on the train.
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
Chicken is also a very practical scheme with a large well-maintained collection of libraries (and easy FFI).
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
I agree, although it's never "cheating" to block ads on our own devices, unless we accept that it's okay to force people from looking away Clockwork Orange-style. (Even the term "blocking" seems wrong: it&#x27
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Why do we hack?(curious.galthub.com)
62 points by tgvaughan 4y ago|49 comments
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
Not mentioned in the article, but sulphur-based geoengineering was the focus of Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Termination Shock.
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
LyX has the best system for entering maths into a computer that I've ever used. The combination of (a) understanding standard LaTeX (and amsmath etc) commands, (b) keeping track of grouping for me (no need to manually deal with curly
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
In practice they're not so different . There are plenty of people regularly publishing stuff over gopher that has nothing to do with retro-computing. Gemini also grew out of a gopher community.
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
I think losing ISP-provided hosting (by default) really marked the transition of netizens from active participants to pure consumers.
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
Perhaps we need to get rid of this artificial distinction between users and programmers.
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
For me the most annoying side-effect of this is that there's no way to signify an error in the server response, or even have errors rendered sensibly. Many servers just send errors in gophermap form (type 1), which can wind up being re
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
I hope they continue to miss this "identity" thing. Seriously, these suggestions would cause me to ditch github very quickly. I just want somewhere public to host my git repos, not to be profiled and quantified every which way.
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
> The chopsticks work by using ... a mini-computer worn on the eater’s wristband. Impressive, most minicomputers would probably break your arm if you tried to wear them on your wrist.
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by tgvaughan 4y ago
As somebody who also used to enjoy bashing R for similar reasons, I think the new preamble to that document is an important and nice addition. (Wasn't there last time I read it.)

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