6502nerdface

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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
What they should really do is collect book recommendations from ALL founders right when they start up (make it a required field in the incorporation paperwork, lol), then after N years, group them into the recommendations by failed founders
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Interestingly, your comment is very similar to the Gemini FAQ "2.9 Why didn't you just use Markdown instead of defining text/gemini?" [1] [1] https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi
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The most unethical thing I was asked to build while working at Twitter(threadreaderapp.com)
34 points by 6502nerdface 4y ago|1 comments
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Picture two white collar professionals sitting at a bar, clinking their glasses to celebrate college debt relief, inches away from the blue collar bartender whose taxes will pay for that relief. I agree I don't think it's fair to
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
This is almost exactly how noncompetes work in practice in the finance industry, where most employment contracts are governed by New York law or something similar, which will generally require the payment of "consideration" during
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
Well... by comparison the sitting president of the United States peaked at only ~89 million followers [1]. [1] https://slate.com/technology/2021/01/trump-twitter-ban-follo...
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
"unforced error" and "forced error" already are sports jargon (baseball) and from context "unforced error" must have been intended, which is similar to "own goal" but doesn't imply points being s
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
I appreciate the implementation of /bin/true.sh.
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
> A game of Telephone Funny enough the children's "telephone game" is, in many Commonwealth countries, apparently called "Chinese whispers," at least according to my Londoner colleagues.
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Vim_ahk: Vim Mode for Windows(github.com)
1 points by 6502nerdface 4y ago|0 comments
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
So basically, the smoking guns are the TV being tilted the wrong way (oops!) and certain frames of video, especially in the transitions between levels, appearing as only MAME would output them, not real hardware (because MAME is framebuffer
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
If this interests you, then I highly recommend The Big Cats and their Fossil Relatives by Turner and Anton [1]. The illustrations of ancient cat species are almost forensic in style and realism, showing details of muscle and tissue placem
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Applying IQ to IQ (2020)(razib.substack.com)
3 points by 6502nerdface 4y ago|0 comments
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The Language Construction Kit(zompist.com)
23 points by 6502nerdface 4y ago|5 comments
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
I rode my motorcycle to the beach where I helped a little girl build sand castles and capture mole crabs in a bucket. Then we released the mole crabs and I rode back home to hackernews.
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They're made out of meat (1991)(mit.edu)
384 points by 6502nerdface 4y ago|151 comments
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
A difference in maintenance costs is not necessarily a consequence of disinvestment... it could simply be that lower performing schools are more likely to be urban, and in urban areas everything related to the construction and maintenance o
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
I wonder if another factor could be: - in higher performing schools, parents fund a number expenses directly through a very active PTA, so those expenses don't show up in the school's official spending per pupil, while - at lower
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
GP was probably referring to the closed rulesets: https://www.snort.org/products
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I Had My First Kiss in GemStone III (2020)(gizmodo.com)
1 points by 6502nerdface 4y ago|0 comments
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
I considered "they" but worried that it could be parsed as coreferential with matrix12's "they," so I used he/she which, because it is singular, refers unambiguously to the previous speaker, matrix12 himself&#x
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by 6502nerdface 4y ago
He/she means the Soviet astronomers called themselves cosmonomers. Like astronauts and cosmonauts, har har.
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BerkShares(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by 6502nerdface 4y ago|0 comments
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
Yeah it depends whether you count all of the infant deaths in the average.
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
> This process was short-circuited immediately for those of us who went into tech. It’s the new gold rush; you really can go west and seek your fortune. Remarkable times. > it’s completely unfair to those still trapped in that life wh
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
And today it's Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists.
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
This plotline sounds familiar to me, too. I hope someone will remember the author... are you thinking golden age SF, 60s/70s?
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Citadel Securities taking outside investment from SV firms Sequoia, Paradigm(nytimes.com)
2 points by 6502nerdface 5y ago|0 comments
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
We need to begin with a more modest interim goal: http://www.pavethehudson.org/
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
Best accompanied by https://masterbootrecord.bandcamp.com/album/c-defrag

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