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It's 1.3 billion light years away according to the article, so yeah... 1.3 billion years ago. (plus 3 years since it was observed in 2023)

Not today, but maybe tomorrow

I read eMule and got nostalgic

Care to elaborate? Why does 0.987654 simplify to 80/81 and 0.123456 to 10/81?

I, for one, find it very cool that two out of the five people named as authors are from my old university Chalmers University of Technology, in Gothenburg, Sweden. Chalmers have been very strong on functional programming for quite a while, being (or have been) home to many influential people. Apart from those named in this paper, I can name John Hughes (Haskell/QuickCheck), Thierry Coquand (Coq) and Ulf Norell (Agda) just from the top of my head.

But F# isn't a pure functional language, is it? https://www.google.com/search?q=is+f%23+a+pure+functional+la...

Wow, let me be the first to say Thanks! I still use Miranda daily, both at my desktop computer at home and at my computer at work. Just chat, no fuzz.. Just the way I like it.

It seems that Miranda has forked into Miranda IM and Miranda NG, what are your thoughts about those two? Personally, I use Miranda NG because the Facebook plugin worked better in NG last time I compared the two.

"The story of the seizure of the machine by Balme and his shipmates was kept secret until the mid-1970s". I've always been intrigued by this fact. Does anyone know why this was kept a secret for so long?

It's noble and all, but I think that the same decision would be made even if only business aspects were taken into account. Imagine being "that one ISP where you cannot download movies". They would probably loose many current and potential customers by having that stamp, even among customers that do not illegally download any movies at all.

I'm Swedish myself and I have Bahnhof as my ISP. They are a company which builds much of their image on issues such as integrity and privacy, and that image is what got me to choose them over other options which were slightly(!) more expensive. So, all the sudden you have a company that gets a lot of appreciation from the public, and it's not like they are spending more money on their infrastructure just because they do everything they can to avoid tapping their customers' traffic.

This seems like a no-brainer decision, which is why I find it hard to understand why it's not like this everywhere.

The markup is actually pretty neat.

That last point is interesting. Do you have a source on that?

Also, happy birthday to Albert Einstein and me (in that order of significance).

Out of curiosity, what does this signal actually trigger?

So basically, "OpenGL in 2015" will be great!

I remember seeing something similar to this a year ago in a documentary series concerning the small Swedish supercar manufacturer Koenigsegg. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bch5B23_pu0&list=PLHa6PXrV-y.... It sounds really interesting.

It doesn't justify it, however it explains it.

Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring

In other news: PCs now even more versatile. Now also replace radiators.

Ok, that's it. It's now officially f__k this s__t o'clock!