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Commercial EDA tools almost all use Tcl. (Cadence's Skill is a notable exception.)

Except this time Clippy's serving ads. And my documents/presentations/spreadsheets are going to be cross-referenced with Linked-In? Sounds like a mechanism to put me one click away…

Or even other things in granular form, like salt. (As in "corned beef".)

It was part of DEC culture, not US culture.

> Great news unless you are living in a village near the tigers. This fear that people have of nearby predators is, in fact, a real problem with conservation efforts to preserve th…

How close to full-spectrum are those new "daylight" LED bulbs?

It certainly is the trend here in New England, where winters are reasonably harsh. And the new outdoor malls aren't very walkable, either. They're separate stores, or sometimes chu…

> and, strangely, a Sears that just hasn't moved yet I believe Sears owns most of its real estate, so maybe moving isn't so easy.

Going by wikipedia stats (us population of 131 million, 420000 wwii deaths), and assuming 3 years for heavy US troop involvement in the war (say mid-1942 to mid-1945), it looks lik…

I don't know why this is so hard nowadays. I administered a large VMS system in the 80s, and we regularly changed usernames (and email names, which were the same thing in those day…

How often do these machines need spare parts? And how much power do they consume to operate?

To your point (3), perhaps it is reasonable to bring a lifetime's supply of vitamin supplements for four people. But with an artificial lamp you would have to worry about bulbs bur…

iWork only runs on Apple's hw, but I didn't think you needed to buy _new_ hw. I believe you only need to update to Mavericks (or Yosemite).

Similar to how we Americans put foreign words in italics, no? Does that look aesthetically irritating to others?

> It's not like after calling Dell and not getting an answer [...], you say "Oh, fuck it - I'm going to do gardening instead". Perhaps not, but it influences the answer to your nex…

There were (quite capable) desktop calculators, but just barely (1968): http://www.hpmuseum.org/hp9100.htm But color TV had been widely available for about a decade. In fact, I wat…

> We had rain throughout the winter Snow would have been better. Rain fill the reservoirs, and then the excess must be spilled off. Snow sits in the mountains forming a huge natura…

The latest issue of National Geographic has a map showing meat calories consumed per-capita for various countries and regions around the world. The US is high, but more-or-less rig…

> ssh and tmux won't work? big effin deal So when I want to ssh into a remote machine, I don't use your new program, unless you've also written an ssh replacement. If I want virtua…

Is this a hard problem for kernel devs to solve? Or could it be as simple as using a timeout when the kernel's OOM killer is disabled? That is, when a cgroup is at the limit, the k…

> (I understand that this is not very common these days but I still do work on remote X on a daily basis) It's probably more common than you think. We also use it.

No doubt immersion is the way to go. But it still seems to me that countries where students learn foreign languages successfully at a high rate start those students before they're …

"if you start at a young enough age" My understanding is that less than 12 is a good definition of young enough. (Although, ironically in the context of this discussion, my google-…