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Rerarom··on You can't download this image
Yeah it's like a breeder reactor, it makes its own fuel.
Rerarom··on I'm “still afraid to use spaces in file names” years old
VFAT and stuff like that actually provided alternate names like PROGRA~1
Rerarom··on Segmentors vs Integrators: Google’s work-life-balance research
Is it a 1-room or a 1-bedroom flat? (i.e. do you also have a living room)
Rerarom··on When “Foundation” Gets the Blockbuster Treatment, Asimov’s Vision Gets Lost
You can make a lot of changes without pissing on its main themes. E.g. there are a lot of characters and scenes which were just sketched and the show could have filled them in instead of inventing whole new plots out of cloth. Also Hardin being a Chosen One and the producer insisting on reddit that "it's not really so, you'll see" but he could have just not made it look like it is so. Another thing would have been to compress everything until Bel Riose in the 1st season, since it's only afterwards that Asimov really matures as a writer.

It's not like I don't enjoy anything (the Empire plot is solid even though it's not at all from the books, proof that I'm not a purist or anything), but everything just shows a lack of interest in being faithful to the main ideas of the books.

Rerarom··on Some Were Meant for C (2017) [pdf]
Sorry, I just searched for the domain of this pdf and not the others.
Rerarom··on The Venus Project
Cliodynamics actually
Rerarom··on Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design (1996) [pdf]
I was so confused as a student because I has roughly the same objections as you have here, but I thought it was I who was missing something.

Also: In an hour I'm teaching pointers to novices haha

Rerarom··on The Windows 3.1 Virtual Machine Control Block Part 1 (1994)
Yeah I'd like a Showstopper book for Windows 95.
Rerarom··on Why DOS was (and is) a thing (2020) [video]
Imagine how much you'd be valued for that sort of knowledge!
Rerarom··on Why DOS was (and is) a thing (2020) [video]
yeah the x86 is a DOS machine the way Lisp machines are Lisp machines (or something like that, I admit I cannot find a properly slick way to express it)
Rerarom··on Media trust hits new low
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie
Rerarom··on My House
What would be a smart and cheap way of living in Denmark that doesn't have this problem?
Rerarom··on C# for Systems Programming
If an OS runs on bare metal, who does the garbage collecting? Ain't this a paradox?
Rerarom··on Almost all of the top subreddits are moderated by the same people
The only good social media search is Twitter's.
Rerarom··on The Inconsistency of Arithmetic (2011)
Wtf, I was reading at 2½yo (but learned calculus at 16-17)
Rerarom··on Taliban enter Kabul as Afghan government on brink of collapse
https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
Rerarom··on On Digital Minimalsim (2016)
the motte
Rerarom··on Console Desktop Guide (2018)
I thought this was going to be about how to use a video game console as a desktop computer.
Rerarom··on Do you like to read? I can take over your Kindle with an e-book
Me too I keep it on airplane mode 24/7
Rerarom··on Lisp as an Alternative to Java (2000)
Also see this, in the same topic but not in the same thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1803627

Rerarom··on Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)
But who produces that experimental clothing in the first place?
Rerarom··on Curated list of personal blogs
Seconded, I use Feedly daily
Rerarom··on The P-versus-NP Page (2016)
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/37986693-factor-man
Rerarom··on WHO's Chief: It Was Premature to Rule Out a Lab Leak as the Pandemic's Origin
Yup. I was pissed off from the start by people who were absolutely sure it was/wasn't a lab leak.
Rerarom··on How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer
"Number" is not a mathematical term.

"Natural number", "real number", "complex number" are.

The fact that they all contain the string "number" is completely irrelevant.

Rerarom··on A dwarf planet coming within 11 AU of the sun over the next 10 years
First read this as "dwarf star" and was really excited
Rerarom··on Link shorteners: the long and short of why you shouldn’t use them
I generally use(d) link shorteners on messengers like Facebook just so that the link doesn't take all the conversation space and the previous lines can still be visible.
Rerarom··on Leaky Abstractions
This is the kind of stuff I expected to study in my CS degree
Rerarom··on It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency
> string theory for programmers

This is gold, I'm gonna steal it

Rerarom··on An Intuition for Lisp Syntax
I agree with that, but in set theory the symbol {} is used.

I have nothing against it, I just think it should be emphasized more.

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