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Disturbing. I think I'm becoming dyslexic. You're quite right.

>Novell's legacy is just "that company in the SCO vs. Novell lawsuit"

That was Caldera in all but name. The Novell people became Tarantella.

Or you could, you know, start with the excess mortality rate as measured by actuaries and then find out how many are clots and sudden deaths.

The whole back end for a TV solution that worked on mobiles and over Edge connections - 64kbps - for millions of users in Africa.

I have the 50mm 1.4 from Canon and it's gorgeous. I also have a 50mm Summicron on my old Leica IIIf and it could have been made yesterday.

Pirsig's notion of quality led me to an essay in a magazine that I haven't found again on particularly good pieces of engineering that have that Quality Without A Name: the ARM CPU, the Technics SL1200, the Leica M3, the HP-12C and some others.

A huge rollercoaster of a novel, crammed with sizzling gypsies!

I loved his cameo as Dr. Johnson in BlackAdder season 3: Ink and Incapability. RIP.

No it can't and it is damning evidence. When you wipe the world champion off the board as black (which he did), you need to be able to show you understand how the game progressed in a post-game analysis. Neimann's understanding of his own remarkable performance was seriously deficient.

Obviously it's because mauve has the most RAM.

The author's favorite topic, as described by him in the final Dialogue, is 'indirect self-reference'. This has a double meaning. Indirect self-reference can mean what it says such as Godel numbering which is a method of referring to a self indirectly but it can also mean that the whole book is an indirect way of referring to the question of 'what is a self?' He is approaching the topic of consciousness indirectly.

The central thesis of GEB is this: what is a self? From the preface of the 20th anniversary edition:

"GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter. What is a self, and how can a self come out of stuff that is as selfless as a stone or a puddle?"

Into the Abyss. Werner Hertzog looks at the process of capital punishment with great sensitivity and his usual deep insight.

The Jinx. While filming a documentary on a rich man suspected of murdering his wife, the crew become involved in the investigation. Perhaps the most jaw-dropping finale of any documentary ever.

I have a soft spot for Musl libc just for how clear it is considering it's one of the most widely used libraries in containers and has to perform well in the real world.

https://musl.libc.org/

To improve your debugging, improve your mental model of the system you're tackling. The more you know about the state and flow of data at every point, the more you can reason about what's going on. I'm a particularly average programmer who is actually quite slow at banging out new code but I have fixed very difficult bugs in cloud deployments, libraries, firmware and realtime industrial systems just by laser focusing on what the system should be doing.

Making the movie black and white will not gloss over how awful it is. Still, it did give us this wonderful Jabootu evisceration:

http://jabootu.net/?p=590

The Aureal had hardware 3d audio which has yet to be matched today.

Same here. Very annoying editing. Mountain footage is best when it's sweeping, languid and relaxed. Just as I was identifying a location it would cut. Hope there's raw footage out of this.

16-bit 44kHz is fine for playback and stair stepping does not exist:

https://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html

No single web page I can point you to I'm afraid. My climate folder got clobbered and I haven't had a chance to go and snag all the pages that were in it again. Plus they were mostly from alternative sources.

I understand (better than most!) that my position is contrary to the prevailing wisdom but then I'm the right age to be a curmudgeon about all this:

- the sun is what gives our planet warmth

- its long term cycle can be very accurately measured by sunspot activity

- we're currently entering a grand solar minimum

- this will trigger the mini ice age

- previous example: the Maunder Minimum which triggered the last mini ice age

The Maunder Minimum would be a good thing to search for.

Getting a wood stove. The incoming mini Ice Age is going to be nasty, especially in the northern hemisphere.

I have the original hardback of this book: yellow cover with a black stripe. Happy memories growing up and trying some of the experiments in it including the flour bomb which was shockingly loud.

I was in the boondocks last week and had a striking example of a jet climbing up to its ceiling around 2 or 3 miles away. I tried to figure out the answer to this in my head and didn't get anywhere - was hoping a kind geek would come up with something.

Ah the good old genetic fallacy. As it so happens, he was a lead designer on the original PowerPC and received several awards for it. So a real engineer and scientist. After retiring he started investigating the fallacy of climate change.

It's quite irrelevant who he is, it's what he has to say that's important and whether his facts are correct (which they are).

NASA has been tampering with its figures for a while:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Rc301T-hY

Lol. We're heading for a mini Ice Age which will peak around 2035. Get a wood stove if you live in the Northern Hemisphere.

Looks awesome. livebud.com isn't resolving though so I can't install.

Yeah man, Casey just needs to leave poor Microsoft alone. Can't he see it's completely helpless against his good code and the people who follow him online?

I sometimes wonder if there are any adults on this site.

I'm a perfectly sane and sober individual, mrtranscendence. I think it's you who might need to ease up on the mind-altering stuff. Besides, I know the New York Times is a crock of shit because it's lied about me several times on its front page. So I have personal experience.

You're a liar. The entire thread on github [1] shows that it is a technical discussion about the unacceptably slow performance of virtual terminal sequences in Windows. Solutions are kicked around and debated until a Microsoft person steps in and calls what is essentially a weekend fix a 'doctoral research project' and accuses Casey of being 'combative'. Casey is rightly annoyed by this, closes the bug report and goes on to implement a proof of concept showing his blazingly fast approach that did indeed take a weekend. He's a good programmer, a good communicator and doesn't suffer fools gladly. This blog post merely proves he was right all along.

All your talk of 'narcissistic injury' and his personal motivations for anything is pure projection and tells me a lot more about you than about him. And yes, the New York Times is no better than reading Twitter.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362