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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Not just techbro/hipsters: programmers have huge egos, when in reality they are just mediocre tradesmen. Like your typical construction worker. There are 10,000 hammer swingers for every architect, but those 10,000 think they are all i
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
This is actually pretty funny. I coded javascript for a solid ~18 years (I stopped about 3 years ago) and the majority of the concerns in this list are from the past 10 years. What I find glaringly absent, which would have been present if t
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
What do you think I'm talking about? OP pruned the comments out of github and put the code on the page w/o them. I didn't click to the github page. Still confused?
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Oh, I didn't follow that link, I was just reading the blog. Those are decent comments, too bad they were nixed for the blog.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
My original post was about the futility of debating RISC vs CISC, supporting OP. The idea that RISC has very few instructions that are near register-level single-cycle: load/store/add/subtract/branch, etc. But in reality
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
The reply is an obvious troll. Whenever someone yawns at your post, dismisses, and then decides to be the arbiter of what constitutes valid (classic fallacy), walk away. Proof? Others did reply and Op just pisses on them verbally. If you do
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
It is NOT feature hell. That is an absolutist/purist standpoint that only gets in the way in my experience. Products evolve to fit their market, which is literally why products are made. Complexity needs to be managed, not labelled and
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
It is fascinating that semantic confusion over RISC vs CISC persists since I was in college in the 80's. It is largely meaningless. The naive idea behind RISC is essentially to reduce the ISA to near-register-level operations: load, st
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Super wobbly. Looks like the structure holding the rotors together has a lot of flex in it. Makes my engineering brain panic. I could see this being a rescue device for difficult terrain where a helicopter can't fit. Recently some coas
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
I hate wasting ui space by forcing every application to use their window real estate for a menu bar. There should be only one menu bar in the same location that changes when the context changes. It’s one of my favorite aspects of macOS.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
What is “massive multitasking”? Any modern OS since the 2000s has been running hundreds of processes.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
It’s nothing of the sort. It’s the kind of reply you’d get if you tried to answer a exam question with nonsense words that doesn’t advance the conversation, at least intellectually. Your claim of toxic masculinity is absurd. People want to
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Reddit's Traffic Fell 6.6% During 48HR Blackout(engadget.com)
13 points by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago|9 comments
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Good point. I don't understand their claims, and I don't have a horse in this race, but I'm really interested to understand the mechanism in more detail if it turns out to be correct because it sounds so bizarre.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
The article points out that the researchers have a premise grounded in science for their correlation. That's the difference between shouting "correlation doesn't equal causation" and actually understanding how correlatio
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
The boomers were all about not selling out until they did and became the Man. GenX are now wrinkly tattooed grey hairs that still wear skater clothes while eyeing their 401ks.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
It is branding. Pokémon and Harry Potter started the trend of extending kid things into adult life. Comic franchises pounced. Star Wars went 15 years without a sequel then saw the cash cow. It’s not about not liking things, it’s about conti
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Who is this "many" you speak of? And why are you chiding the hype machine for not including Oracle in its acronym? Put aside the online rags trying to grab eyeballs and look at investors. My RIA has been using Oracle in portfolios
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
> It is not a good way to organize that data for human recall and reference. Yet here I am: using them for recall and reference faster than hierarchies (after 30+ years of using both).
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Tags are superior because tags can model hierarchies, but hierarchies cannot model tags. There are far too many times when a single document crosses multiople categories that are served by tags. I used Outlook for 15+ years and thought tags
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
I can no longer read things like this without imagining it coming from the mouth of Gavin Belson on an episode of Silicon Valley. That show ruined my objectivity for this kind of b.s. corporate speak. It belongs in the 1990s or 2000s at the
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
I don’t believe that for a hot minute. These peoples’ identities are so wrapped up in Reddit it’s be like amputating a limb. No way.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
I guess you don't know anyone that makes under $50k/yr. in the US. I'm guessing you probably just associate with other high-paid techies who can't understand why commoners just can't "eat cake". Trust me:
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
That's literally my point. CEOs don't care. Reddit is following suit. Reddit will become "a shambles". Although I think my sarcasm needs work.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
They'll just put the same effort in that Twitter does. Problem solved. No one has left twitter, despite Elon's tantrums. Do you really think CEOs care when their site has so much momentum and mods can be replaced in a snap?
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Victoria Taylor blackout in 2015? also ... nothing.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Throwing up your hands whining "Its to haaaaarrd" is very un-tech-bro of you.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
$10B because it was neglected for a century. But that's peanuts compared to CEO compensation. So tax the rich and get it done.
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
> What do we want from self driving cars? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. I want public transportation infrastructure and far, far, FAR fewer cars. I think the US should strive to reduce car ownership by 75% over the next 20 years, at least
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by 0xr0kk3r 3y ago
Wow. Cohelo quotes on a page about hand made wallets and how to be a savvy capitalist. So many generations' movements colliding here I can't even.

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