Omar Rizwan

@rsnous

the astonishing, unfailing Bell System / /

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: prosinac 2010.

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    Operating system

Since UTF is the only format for text in Plan 9, the interface to the operating system had to be converted to UTF…

The window system, once called 8.5, is now rightfully called 8½.
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    [end of README in linked GitHub repo]
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    Tag yourself!!!!!!!

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    what do the transistor, probability, and the French Revolution have in common? "a story of radical novelty, in which suddenly, like a volcano erupting, something completely new appeared"

    All the other features of the transistor (Fig. 1), its
minute size, its ruggedness, and its potential inexpensiveness, become relatively insignficant beside
the overwhelming fact that it is an efficient low-level electronic amplifier-[emphasis] a basically new thing in
the world.
    before 1654, there was no concept of probability; it was an unthinkable concept. This was a story of radical novelty, in which suddenly, like a volcano erupting, something completely new appeared in the intellectual landscape.
    @HeerJeet Oct 28, 2016: @john_clute has convincingly argued that Science Fiction… emerged out of the trauma of the French Revolution… The French Revolution was experienced as a rupture in history, & introduced the possibility of transformative change, not just miracles. The French Revolution was a "novum" something new, unprecedented & transformative.
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    "… before 1654, there was no concept of probability; it was an unthinkable concept. This was a story of radical novelty, in which suddenly, like a volcano erupting, something completely new appeared in the intellectual landscape."

    in Phenomenal World link: "But in terms of actually working on probability…" to "… These claims in Hacking’s book continue to grip me."
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    Odgovor korisniku/ci

    also similar: "Art work that is completely abstract—free from any expression of environment—is like music… Our response to line and tone and color is the same as our response to sounds… It holds meaning for us that is beyond expression in words." ()

    in spring of 1956, a duck-walking Chuck Berry sang “Roll over Beethoven and dig these rhythm and blues” in an act of rebellion against musical conventions much in the same way that Agnes Martin did for art. However, while Berry hated classical music, Martin adored it in a way that reflects her "resistance to change" and her love for "repetition." Music, and in particular Beethoven, mattered a great deal to Martin…
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    "technical" in the names of things reminds me of the "Technical Machine"s from Pokémon :-)

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    we should organize a hack day where we all make a 90s
style Windows desktop programs

no fast internet or streaming or w/e
just random utilities that are self-contained and useful

gray buttons and list boxes
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    "With all that space to fill"

    Before all this, up until the 1940s, a Sunday strip often
filled an entire newspaper page. I don’t think it’s coincidental
that this was the “golden age” of comics. With all that space
to fill, cartoonists produced works of extraordinary beauty and
power. There has been nothing remotely like them since.
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    i'll be goddamned if a computer is gonna eat before i do

    Automation? Depends how it’s applied. It frightens me if it puts
me out on the street. It doesn’t frighten me if it shortens my work-
week. You read that little thing: what are you going to do when this
computer replaces you? Blow up computers. [Laughs.] Really.
Blow up computers. I'll be goddamned if a computer is gonna eat
before I do! I want milk for my kids and beer for me.
  13. 29. sij
    [from linked page]

Again, Microsoft claimed intellectual property over Windows APIs and ISO put the standard on hold pending proof of their claims. The delay lasted until November 1997, when, hearing no response from Microsoft, ISO announced they were pushing through with the standard.[11] However, there is no record of it ever being approved as an ISO standard.
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    ❤️ "… it is a rather naive way of thinking of a work of art, it's as if you thought this was the way to make a painting: The sky is blue. I will paint the sky blue. The sun is yellow. I will paint the sun yellow…"

    …Even leaving
abstract painting out of the question it is closer to the truth that a painter
would think of the surface that he wanted in a painting and the kind of
light and the lines and the relations of colours and be attracted to painting
objects that could be represented in a painting with those properties.
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  15. 29. sij
    [a StackOverflow answer]

Here's a thought. Open one of the offending libraries in a hex editor and change all occurrences of the offending strings to something else. You should then be able to use the new names in all future calls.

UPDATE: I just did it on this end and it seems to work.
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    ??????????????????????????????????????

    Why is the new C++ visibility support so useful?
Put simply, it hides most of the ELF symbols which would have previously (and unnecessarily) been public. This means:

It very substantially improves load times of your DSO (Dynamic Shared Object). For example, a huge C++ template-based library which was tested (the TnFOX Boost.Python bindings library) now loads in eight seconds rather than over six minutes!
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    210 Reasons for decline of  Roman Empire
Source: A. Demandt, Der Fall Roms (1984) 695
See also: Karl Galinsky in Classical and  Modern Interactions (1992) 53-73.

1.      Abolition of gods
2.      Abolition of rights
3.      Absence of character
4.      Absolutism
5.      Agrarian question
6.      Agrarian slavery
7.      Anarchy
8.      Anti-Germanism
9.      Apathy
10.  Aristocracy… (etc, from linked page)
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    "Modern societal transformations identified since 1950" 😂

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    Odgovor korisniku/ci
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    "[Science fiction] is also interested in those topics purely for their own sake, without them being metaphors for anything else. I think many readers outside of SF aren't interested in aliens or robots unless they're a metaphor for race." hehe (from )

    BH: But in a sense, so much of SF has been concerned with race.  It just deals with race in primarily an elliptical or metaphoric way through alien encounters, artificial intelligence, and the like.

TC: Yes, those topics can definitely be ways of indirectly discussing race. Although SF is also interested in those topics purely for their own sake… [quote in tweet]

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