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I live in a rain forest, so this post confused me for a minute. I was expecting some kind of on-screen optical illusion, but it turned to be asking about actual physical trees outs…

Depends on what part of Budapest. One of the reasons people like Zugló (14th district) is the many trees. And farther out it's even better, of course. But a lot of the trees in Hun…

Oh man. My wife's biscotti business will benefit from this. Nice work!

One of the funniest moments I remember from that class is he suddenly noticed the parens didn't match in the snippet he'd written on the board - so he counted through the trailing …

I took his Compilers class about 30 years ago. I really wish I still had those notes.

Gary McGraw was the first doctoral candidate to work on the Letter Spirit project: https://web.archive.org/web/20220331021500/http://goosie.cog... And John Rehling did a second por…

Similarly, every European city turns out to be Budapest. Especially if there's an urban car chase of any kind.

Who would report it?

Threaten people with a 49% national sales tax, and suddenly they celebrate when it's only 10%.

There's a shocker. Why would anyone fly to a country that's proud of shackling them and keeping them in detention without notifying their families? With the added bonus that next w…

Lord knows there are ample opportunities to learn this lesson in the industry today.

Same - the funny thing is that right now my 3-foot prescription is zero (plus a bunch of astigmatic correction). Apparently my mortal frame has accepted its purpose.

I think they might be rolling out here in rural Adjuntas, Puerto Rico, which to be absolutely honest I would not have expected in a million years. Certainly a guy came by this week…

Astonishing.

This is so cool! I wish there was a way to know when an attack was charged up, or maybe show its progress in charging.

Stay out of my head!

There are one or two. https://github.com/shleeable/Big-List-of-ActivityPub

"Today, traveling to the same Caribbean islands can be tricky, as anyone caught with contraband can face serious repercussions." That is a very odd take on the Caribbean, and it's …

Why don't we start with some in his house and office?

Because when I think of content-addressability, I mean you can find things intensionally and not just extensionally, that is, you can know the shape of what you're after and find s…

This might be a stupid question, but by "content-addressable" do you mean that namespaces are eliminated? This thing where you store each individual version of a function indexed b…

Over enough years, they will be forgotten, just like the names of the people you went to school with, unless you've got a way to rehearse them.

So a million years ago (the mid-90's), I was working with Doug Hofstadter and I had some ideas I wanted to follow up. Over the intervening years of raising a family, none of which …

She got her PhD in 1999, shortly after the birth of the kid who just finished his first year of grad school. Sure, you're working, I totally get that. But you're also sometimes rea…

My wife and I are 57 years old, so I think I can address this. We finally got the younger child through to grad school and paid off all our debt, and now we can devote our time to …