EarlKing

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by EarlKing 7mo ago
> As Doctorow says, this is why huge corps segregate people into casts - to keep them from seeing the other's contribution and to keep them hating the other instead of hating those who exploit both. This is my point. I've grown
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by EarlKing 7mo ago
I'm sure I'm supposed to sympathize with the plight of the poor Amazon coder, but since everyone in the valley are encouraged to systematically shit on everyone they believe is beneath them.... I can't. ...and don't tell
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by EarlKing 7mo ago
Yes, I know that. I'm saying this is utterly futile and if they really wanted to accomplish something they'd structure themselves as I described above. If their goal is to highlight the absurdity of the law... they won't actu
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by EarlKing 7mo ago
The truly aggravating part is that if they really wanted to thumb their noses at the Attorney General's office and get away with it there's a pretty straightforward way to do it: Fork every single project they want to offer throug
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by EarlKing 7mo ago
An intellectual Mode rather than a Mean or a Median?
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
There are already "App Store Accountability Act"s present in Texas and Utah. I believe South Dakota is the other state that has one in their House right now. So no, this isn't California being a nanny state. Actually, Califor
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
It is not about whether or not it is available for free, at cost, or otherwise, but whether or not the activity has the character of commercial product development. It's what the product is used for, not what price it's set at. A
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
> Using the model of the university and various tenured profs, I'm not sure what you are saying is true. But, perhaps it's a misunderstanding of what I was intending. Tenured professors are not engaged in commercial product dev
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
Boldly asserting that all grants will be made exclusively for charitable or educational purposes does nothing to change the character of the grant. If you're giving money to someone for commercial product development then you're g
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
It's like someone saw an episode of Black Mirror and Idiocracy and went, "That's it! That's what we need to do!" and began using them as a playbook. Yeah, I'm sure this won't drive massive adoption of ad
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
So.... you just created a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization to offer grants for product development. Yeah, this will end well.
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
Well, speaking in the case of the US, this would constitute product development which is well outside the scope of what a 501(c)(3) organization should be doing, which could thereby jeopardize their tax status? Or, in the case of a state-ru
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
> There is a common myth about newbie programmers that FORTH is write-only and that you need to type everything in one line, without comments or function calls etc. By contrast, in APL it's not a myth at all.
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
More than a few companies. Nothing would allow advertisers to justify raising ad rates quite like being able to point out that their users are real rather than bots.
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
Correction: Season 2 is roughly about BBSs and QuantumLink (insofar as Mutiny is QuantumLink, anyway). Season 3 can be roughly summarized as "LOL, Norton".
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
Well....... shit. I'd been in there previously and never noticed that. Disregard.
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
That would be the source code posted to that sonic.net site. It was a mix of raw dumps of FORTH blocks and printouts converted to PDFs. It wasn't the full source code, and there weren't any design documents in there.
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
Point of information: By and large FORTHs did not use bytecode. Execution tokens (XTs) were usually stored as a function of the default word size, which typically was 16 bits. There were some FORTHs that went out of their way to use token t
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by EarlKing 8mo ago
I'm not sure what you're referring to since the files T.C. Lee posted on that geocities site are the only design documents he (or anyone else) ever released, and those are preserved in the SFFiles.zip found at the oocities mirror
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by EarlKing 9mo ago
Just in case anyone else wants to poke around and discovers there appears to be archived versions after 2020[1]... don't bother. They all 404. At a guess: There were links to them in anticipation of creating updated zip files but they
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by EarlKing 9mo ago
Cost was not the only issue addressed by OP.
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by EarlKing 9mo ago
They can require whatever the want. Good luck stopping people from just building their own printers without such "blocking technology".
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by EarlKing 9mo ago
What I find particularly galling is that he failed to learn perhaps the most important lesson: Maybe he wouldn't have these kind of problems if he hadn't outsourced his manufacturing to China but kept in on-shore instead.
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by EarlKing 10mo ago
Yes, actually... but I suppose I'm particularly critical of projects that have been running for 40 years and are still asking for money.
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by EarlKing 10mo ago
.....because it was posted on an American site?
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by EarlKing 10mo ago
Yes, that is an opinion you are supposed to have. You are supposed to associate the regime's class enemies with nazis and communists so that their claims can be dismissed without a single rational thought. "They beat up jews and g
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by EarlKing 10mo ago
Bring back n-gate!
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by EarlKing 10mo ago
I wish they'd spend less time giving awards and more time producing an actual specification for Project GNU so we can actually measure when it will be feature-complete.
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by EarlKing 10mo ago
I was wondering what that sucking sound was...
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by EarlKing 11mo ago
We'll know AGI has arrived when we finally see papers on Coca Cola Vending Machine Consciousness.

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