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The definition of “efficiency” used by Western economists sounds almost the same, at first blush: The allocation of goods and services that most matches the preferences of the members of the economy....
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One guess as to who actually pays for academic economics departments, and their fellow-travelers in business schools.
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There's a reason that Ayn Rand-related scholarships are exclusively associated with economics and business and not philosophy: Her bullshit was immediately laughed out of academic philosophy, while it...
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@siracusa@atpfm QuickDraw 3D was contemporaneous with the Game Sprockets APIs but it wasn’t actually a game API. It was a retained-mode scene graph API like SGI Inventor, NeXT 3DKit, or SceneKit. It...
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Why isn’t everyone even remotely involved with illegal settlements in the West Bank on the sanctions list?
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If a rental property is vacant for more than six months, and doesn’t have permits for (confirmed) renovations scheduled beyond that time, rental decisions should revert to the city: The landlord should...
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This ensures that a landlord still gets to make money (or at least break even) on their property while preventing them from being allowed to create blight in order to score points in bullshit...
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How is Tucker Carlson, heir to the Swanson frozen food fortune, not acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign government?
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I’ve been playing around with creating a new ROM from scratch for an existing 68K system and I’m excited to see MAME has a “gdbstub” debugger. I don’t have space in the ROM for debug symbols, and it’s...
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Anyone have any references or suggestions for how to produce symbols for a ROM I’m generating, so I can do source level debugging of it with gdb? #gdb#embedded
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To the people who believe that ChatGPT is actually intelligent and not just fancy autocorrect:How good is it at chess? Go? Scrabble? Checkers? Tic-tac-toe?#ai#ChatGPT
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Does anyone have a straightforward containerized toolchain that includes at least gcc, binutils, and gdb, targeting 68000 ELF? I’ll be running it under podman on my MacBook, for the embedded stuff I’m...
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Turns out this is all I really needed:FROM ubuntu:23.10RUN apt-get -y update \&& apt-get -y install \ binutils-m68k-linux-gnu \ gcc-m68k-linux-gnu \ gdb-multiarch \&& apt-get -y clean
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Has anyone created a Digital Command Language (DCL) parser/highlighter for BBEdit? #retrocomputing
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Are there any straightforward guides to setting up an SSH “jump server” for an old system? Let’s say I have a VAX VMS system I want to provide access to. People would ssh to cmhvax@mysite with a...
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If it surprises anyone that “the Marquess of Chumley” has stolen Chinese antiques in her home, you should really look into the contents of the UK’s museums.
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Hell, the UK has stolen whole countries and refuses to give them back in their entirety, like Ireland and Scotland.
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Ugh, iTerm2 doesn't have sufficiently good VT200+ emulation to use with VMS full-screen applications, and Terminal only supports VT100. Is there another *native* macOS terminal emulator that has good...
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Jason Scott is stirring up some drama on the eve of #VCFEast because he donated some stuff to #VCF but doesn’t actually understand how “donation” and “archiving” work. He’s also taking at face value...
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