Let’s go over their statement. > Inadequate or broken safeguards do not fall under my definition of reasonable. I see no such assumption there. In my reading, the implicit assumption is that adequate safeguards are…
>maybe Xerox before that? Yes, the cut/copy/paste system and its shortcuts were developed at the Xerox PARC LRG as part of Smalltalk-76. They used a Control key. >and adopted by DOS DOS inherited it from CP/M by way of…
Ah yes, computing luminary Larry Tesler, what an idiot, working at Xerox PARC. Whoof. Decades is an exaggeration. It was less than a decade after Digital started using Control-C as a process interrupt in their PDP-10…
Do you mean Epstein? I missed the Elon bit.
Ktesibios and Heron of Alexandria Anthemios of Tralles, quite the prankster
That does not sound correct. Priests in Eastern rite Catholic churches get married, but they do not own the land in which their parish chirch stands and they do not pass that land on to their children. Note that the…
Different ships that can survive and bounce on slower or glancing hits, shields, more maneuverable saucer ships. Wave fifteen the ships reload and fire really rapidly, decimated a crowded field in seconds.
Around wave ten, I think the ships can teleport.
The number of ships increases, and then the speed, and then the accuracy with which they fire. The gravity generator seems slower to recharge, and the asteroids are slower to generate, or that may be subjective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company It was presented as an investment, but the $150 million was just the initial payment of a much larger settlement which was not disclosed.
Anecdatum: I confidently told a woman that her son, who was looking for a research opportunity in Berne, Switzerland, was heading for the birthplace of the World Wide Web, which is actually a couple of hours west and…
Thank you!
I am not too familiar with Windows development in the 16-bit era, so I do not understand what Raiter means when he writes that he “de-Petzoldized” the code. I thought Petzold’s work on documenting the Windows API was…
He’s using a $5k/month account to access the “equivalent” of $122k worth of tokens.
Reminds me a bit of some of Dave Secretary’s TIME FOR SOME STORIES.
But let’s not pretend that the plastic and painterly arts are so much more self-evidently “thick” than literature is. Despite their immediacy, these arts have their own conventions, motifs, and demands that must be…
A lot of books that call themselves Roget’s have abandoned the dual structure (classification-index) in favor of a single index structure built like a dictionary, basically constructed for people who want a different…
A quick trip to Wikipedia says that the Spanish name was Río del Espíritu Santo, River of the Holy Spirit, and the initial French name was fleuve de l'Immaculée Conception, River of the Immaculate Conception, and later…
I was interested in astronomy as a six-year-old, which led me to Greek myths, which led me to Greek poetry, all of that in translation, as well as Gene Wolfe’s Latro books as they came out. I was learning to program at…
Many of the things you mention, crossing out, circling, I do not think of as actively engaging with the material, which a quick skim of the underlying research pointed out in the TFA (or maybe an earlier 2017 paper of…
Those are called commonplace books.
People keep saying that Microsoft invested in Apple to defeat anti-trust measures. They did not. They lost the Video for Windows lawsuit (Apple v San Francisco Canyon Company, Microsoft, Intel). Buying the non-voting…
I thought the use of the eta in ΣΗΜΙΟΙ ΔΙ to be later, like the late fifth century, at least in Athens, than the eighth century implied by the text. Before that, they would have been writing ΣΕΜΙΟΙ ΔΙ with what is now…
What got acquired?
_Pride and prejudice_ hits for me similar notes as those for fantasy and historical fiction, though of course it is commenting on contemporary issues with no magic (except the magic of love), alas. It’s like entering a…
Let’s go over their statement. > Inadequate or broken safeguards do not fall under my definition of reasonable. I see no such assumption there. In my reading, the implicit assumption is that adequate safeguards are…
>maybe Xerox before that? Yes, the cut/copy/paste system and its shortcuts were developed at the Xerox PARC LRG as part of Smalltalk-76. They used a Control key. >and adopted by DOS DOS inherited it from CP/M by way of…
Ah yes, computing luminary Larry Tesler, what an idiot, working at Xerox PARC. Whoof. Decades is an exaggeration. It was less than a decade after Digital started using Control-C as a process interrupt in their PDP-10…
Do you mean Epstein? I missed the Elon bit.
Ktesibios and Heron of Alexandria Anthemios of Tralles, quite the prankster
That does not sound correct. Priests in Eastern rite Catholic churches get married, but they do not own the land in which their parish chirch stands and they do not pass that land on to their children. Note that the…
Different ships that can survive and bounce on slower or glancing hits, shields, more maneuverable saucer ships. Wave fifteen the ships reload and fire really rapidly, decimated a crowded field in seconds.
Around wave ten, I think the ships can teleport.
The number of ships increases, and then the speed, and then the accuracy with which they fire. The gravity generator seems slower to recharge, and the asteroids are slower to generate, or that may be subjective.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Canyon_Company It was presented as an investment, but the $150 million was just the initial payment of a much larger settlement which was not disclosed.
Anecdatum: I confidently told a woman that her son, who was looking for a research opportunity in Berne, Switzerland, was heading for the birthplace of the World Wide Web, which is actually a couple of hours west and…
Thank you!
I am not too familiar with Windows development in the 16-bit era, so I do not understand what Raiter means when he writes that he “de-Petzoldized” the code. I thought Petzold’s work on documenting the Windows API was…
He’s using a $5k/month account to access the “equivalent” of $122k worth of tokens.
Reminds me a bit of some of Dave Secretary’s TIME FOR SOME STORIES.
But let’s not pretend that the plastic and painterly arts are so much more self-evidently “thick” than literature is. Despite their immediacy, these arts have their own conventions, motifs, and demands that must be…
A lot of books that call themselves Roget’s have abandoned the dual structure (classification-index) in favor of a single index structure built like a dictionary, basically constructed for people who want a different…
A quick trip to Wikipedia says that the Spanish name was Río del Espíritu Santo, River of the Holy Spirit, and the initial French name was fleuve de l'Immaculée Conception, River of the Immaculate Conception, and later…
I was interested in astronomy as a six-year-old, which led me to Greek myths, which led me to Greek poetry, all of that in translation, as well as Gene Wolfe’s Latro books as they came out. I was learning to program at…
Many of the things you mention, crossing out, circling, I do not think of as actively engaging with the material, which a quick skim of the underlying research pointed out in the TFA (or maybe an earlier 2017 paper of…
Those are called commonplace books.
People keep saying that Microsoft invested in Apple to defeat anti-trust measures. They did not. They lost the Video for Windows lawsuit (Apple v San Francisco Canyon Company, Microsoft, Intel). Buying the non-voting…
I thought the use of the eta in ΣΗΜΙΟΙ ΔΙ to be later, like the late fifth century, at least in Athens, than the eighth century implied by the text. Before that, they would have been writing ΣΕΜΙΟΙ ΔΙ with what is now…
What got acquired?
_Pride and prejudice_ hits for me similar notes as those for fantasy and historical fiction, though of course it is commenting on contemporary issues with no magic (except the magic of love), alas. It’s like entering a…