Oh. Yeah, it's real.

They're charging SGI money. Having written software for both O2s and Macs, they're not trying to be SGI. Or if they are, they suck at it.

Free software projects are managed by the programmers working on them, and most critical infrastructure is running on them. Microsoft is even supporting Linux on Azure and open sourcing developer tools after a couple of decades propagandizing about the superiority of proprietary software and throwing every technical hurdle it could out into the ecosystem. It isn't uncommon for all the worthwhile work someone does to be done behind their employer's back because the stuff they get paid for is trivial bullshit that's really an ad platform and it doesn't take all that much effort, while there's always something interesting and worthwhile to do in the time not filled by profitable bullshit. If tech workers had management competent enough to notice most of what they're paying us to do has nothing to do with making the graphs in their quarterly reports go up the whole industry would collapse.

But why would you want to fix the cute?

Unless the weather is really weird in your neck of the woods, your markov chain is irreducible and ergodic, so it has a stationary distribution. With two states, the state your process ends up in is a Bernoulli random variable.

Thingiverse? It's pretty much DeviantArt for people who can't draw

Dude, have you tried learning Blender? I've made several attempts over the years, and every time I hit the "oh, so this is what it's like to have a cognitive disability" point and give up. Anyone who can generate something more complex than a platonic solid with it has my respect.

Mumbemumble years of government tech projects, though not nearly as interesting as NASA, says someone who worked on the project when they started out at NASA moved up the chain, and it remained their pet project. At some point you just let the PHBs have their thing even if it's stupid, because they have enough clout to be an even bigger pain in your ass than doing the stupid thing will be. If you're lucky letting them have the stupid thing will get rid of both the stupid project and the PHB.

Lingua Ignota - Caligula. Like, by far.

I read The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood . It's like Godel, Escher and Bach in that information theory is something that it's easy for a math geek to get mystical about, and like Godel, Escher and Bach in that it's like listening to someone describe their first acid trip to you at great, tedious length.

The Red Army Faction weren't anarchists, they were MLMs. So were the Weather Underground.

I can't even tell if they're giving me attitude or a lesson at this point.

Trying to figure out what to say to the guy whose answer took the form of a drawing of a penis is a rite of passage.

I mean, would you want to work as a systems programmer at Apple, where nothing that isn't shiny or at least comprehensible to the designers matters?

The other might be your easier option. Get it working in CUPS and let Windows talk to the CUPS server. As long as your printer speaks postscript, you should be able to set it up as a generic postscript printer in Windows.

If you want to steal a ford rental car (... or most police cars) you can buy a copy of the fleet key cheap. Tracking it is a new security issue, and if the engine can be turned off by the app while it's being driven that's bad independently of whether you should have access to the app, but Ford making it easy to steal fleet cars isn't new.

Still don't like abbreviations as part of the syntax. Graham likes abbreviating symbols in lisp, but aside from some conventions (call/cc in Scheme) no one else does that, and for good reason.

Why on earth did he rename cons "join" but then keep car and cdr? Oh, because cons is defined later as something that isn't cons. On that note, since threads are part of the language join doesn't mean what one would expect it to mean either.

lit is cute, but I notice a lack of guarantees that serializing a function twice and reading it back will yield two functions that are id to each other.

Either the definition of apply is misleading or it serves no purpose? In CL and Scheme it takes the arguments as a list, but here it looks like it takes them individually, and it's a lisp-1, so it seems like any use of apply could just be a function call.

... I'm stopping now. Kind of like arc, it looks like it was a fun hobby project.

That thing is so in some intern's bathroom right now. It's the art student's version of having a stolen phone booth.

Sure you could make mojitos and it would be cheaper, but then you would miss out on the canned piss experience.

To be fair, I do not mind putting jeans on my body, and I most definitely do not want that thing on my body. The neural network is correct, in that sense, that that thing is the opposite of jeans.

The calculation isn't President Pence anymore. If they impeach Trump it won't take less than a year, either President Pence won't happen or he won't have time to do anything. Since without the Senate impeachment isn't going to be successful regardless, the calculation is whether tying Trump down with it is worth risking getting him reelected by firing up the wingnuts.

Probably not.

Because it's a grand jury, and refusing to cooperate with grand juries is a thing.

Generating all primes is just as easy as testing for primes:

    import math
    def is_prime(n):
       for m in range(2,int(math.sqrt(n))+1):
            if n%m == 0:
                return False
        return True
    def primes():
        n = 2
        while True:
            if is_prime(n):
                yield n
            n += 1
    for p in primes():
        print p

it's just that we don't have useful ways to generate primes.

... and then I find out what Chrome and Safari's default "automatically pay" amount is and request an empty file that costs that much every random() seconds on my clickbait site, which exists under many identities that I retire when they start getting added to blacklists. And the arms race continues, only instead of picking advertisers' pockets we're picking everyone's.

Ok, I'll bite. The subscription model doesn't make sense for the web because most of us don't read the New York Times, we read an article in the New York Times because we got linked to it from somewhere else. If every site used subscriptions you'd need a ridiculous number of subscriptions to use the web like the web.

It's the Windows model: sell it to the management and the whole company's stuck with it.

I don't think anyone but marketers and people writing the thinkpieces about hipsters that preceded the thinkpieces about millennials killing things ever thought Vice was cool.

Sure

but klansman cops is more of a local thing, the bigger problem is that looking into right-wing terrorism antagonizes the GOP.

I get a bunch of Republicans running unopposed every time too. I make myself feel better by writing in my cat, the specter of communism, yog-sothoth, a club sandwich...