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Of course there were analog 'computers' but vacuum tubes were also used to realize digital computers in the early days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum-tube_computer

Maybe we agree, maybe we disagree. You got specific works and authors? That would help a lot.

Don’t be a d**k. Lots of literary fiction is perfectly readable for normal humans. Lots of what isn’t accessible is just not that enjoyable to anybody. I’m happy to debate … but on…

“This is fundamental misunderstanding of literature” No it is not. It is a central and vital part of literature. Wound you like to have a friendly debate, each of us using quotatio…

Great example. It is absolutely a matter of taste. Sadly noise music doesn’t support a lot of full-time jobs compared to writing songs more or less the way the Beatles did. Which w…

Then why is Kurt Vonnegut still so popular?

What is that stuff? Is Kurt Vonnegut that stuff? Folks, downvoting the comment above is literally destroying what you claim to support.

Of course that’s punishing, though 75% may be closer than 90%. But I don’t buy it as the root cause. Where is the new Susanna Kaysen or Lionel Shriver or Laurie Moore or Barbara Ki…

But that’s new. Until ca 1970-2000, people read literary fiction because it was high quality, much more than because it was unrelateable. O’Hara, Salinger, and Franzen were not wri…

That’s the old standby argument, and it may be right. I can’t really read John Barth or George Saunders the way I can read Richard Russo or Lionel Shriver or Kurt Vonnegut or Micha…

It’s really not accurate to say that a photon has no position at all. How would a photodiode work? You have to be careful with this stuff. https://physics.stackexchange.com/questio…

Not all of that is true. Who played with the un-updated CD version?

Sure. But inventing something better is not reinventing the wheel. Those are two completely different activities.

I’m sorry but you’re mistaken. The wheel was invented thousands of years ago.

Yeah. Ok. You want the fine print? Reinvent the wheel … for your own learning and fun. Or invent a different kind of wheel. Don’t reinvent the wheel on a tight deadline while the r…

No, dB are always power gain.

Kind of agree. But pervasive downvoting by folks who don’t understand the subject is a form of forum rot. The risk is only that we expose the rot. Not such a terrible risk, because…

Dale Gribble

The economic boom isn’t helping everyone.

The book is from basically the “experimental music” school of electronic music. The idea was/is that music will be completely transmuted by electronics and computers, leaving tradi…

Thanks. Agreed, that could have been a good point to mention that Laplace transforms are more or less the same as Heaviside’s method. As I read it, the article leaves the opposite …

Great. Possibly missed the opportunity to point out that Heaviside’s method is more or less the same as Laplace transforms.

Good point, your suppliers need to get singular too. And sales. And management or investors.

Just on the naive math level, a simple growing exponential has no singularity at any finite time. I’m sure Vinge knows that but some of those dudes don’t seem to. EDIT Rest in peac…

It’s cool that you’re a native speaker, but the typical HN commenter is at a much higher level of proficiency than that. Irony notice. This comment contains irony.