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by II2II 6mo ago
Given the framing of the article, I can understand where the opposite direction comment is coming from. The author also gives mixed signals, by simultaneously suggesting that the "laziness" of the programmer and code are virtues.
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by II2II 6mo ago
An MMU is pretty much necessary for robust multitasking. Without it, you are at the whim of how well software behaves. Without it, it is more difficult for developers to create well behaved software. That also assumes good intentions from p
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by II2II 6mo ago
And that is just a fraction of what WinUtil does ... It has been a while since I booted Windows, but I am fairly certain you can still circumvent the OneDrive nonsense (which is what the article is about) by setting up a local account. Ther
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by II2II 6mo ago
If I recall correctly, the G4. The issue was definitely more memorable than the model name: the image on the right half the screen would gradually compress vertically.
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by II2II 6mo ago
My first LG ended up being my last LG because it was defective. Screen issues started popping up about a year after purchase. Sending it in repairs didn't accomplish anything. They probably returned the same phone to me untouched since
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by II2II 6mo ago
That's the impression I have as well, but I am also cautious about accepting it. People tend to discuss the bad schools and ignore the good ones. They tend to focus upon the families who don't care for their kids (may they be poor
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by II2II 6mo ago
True, but you don't know which ideas are going to win out until they have won out (or an objectively better idea replaces them).
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by II2II 6mo ago
Yeap, the specific example wasn't important. I choose an example involving the order of operations and an integer overflow simply because it would be easy to discuss. (I have been out of the field for nearly 20 years now.) Your example
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by II2II 6mo ago
> Calculators are deterministically correct Calculators are deterministic, but they are not necessarily correct. Consider 32-bit integer arithmetic: 30000000 * 1000 / 1000 30000000 / 1000 * 1000 Mathematically, they
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by II2II 6mo ago
> The determining factor is always "did I come up with this tool". Somehow, subsequent generations always manage to find their own competencies (which, to be fair, may be different). In a sense, I think you are right. We are cu
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by II2II 6mo ago
Take a look at the technology sitting in front of you. How many ideas does it incorporate that were tried and failed, or were tried but languished in niche markets for decades before they became an everyday thing? A lot of ideas fail becaus
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by II2II 6mo ago
> what exactly am I supposed to do with the above? Exactly what you did there: ask a question. You tried it, you know where the potential failure points are. Don't assume the super optimistic person hasn't considered them. Ask
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by II2II 6mo ago
> Speak to a group of K-12 teachers. > We (as a society/culture) are absolutely giving our children passes and teaching them to act this way. That depends upon where you teach. I've worked in schools where families who would
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by II2II 6mo ago
There's the info boxes that it could be added to, that way it is always available at a mouse click. That said, I'm not sure how useful expanding most of the acronyms would be. Names like Negative/Positive Metal Oxide Semicond
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by II2II 6mo ago
I went down that rabbit hole. Apparently, he was a member of the Saskatchewan Social Credit Party. It looks like the party never made inroads in Saskatchewan, but the party controlled Alberta for decades. Then I ran into the following comme
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by II2II 6mo ago
If I had to make a guess, it is for the same reason that people will pay more for free shipping: they simply aren't doing the math. Of course, there could also be other reasons, things like people valuing their free time differently. J
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by II2II 6mo ago
The trouble with those examples is they assume a motivation from a behaviour. Such is the root of so many of the world's troubles.
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by II2II 6mo ago
>> Sadly you are atypical and the vast majority are freeloaders > Citation needed. I think we need to agree upon a definition of freeloader before citing sources to support the claim. I've found that many people who use the wo
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by II2II 6mo ago
> Free does not scale No disagreement there, except the early web was not about scale. The sites you visited may have been created by someone as a hobby, a university professor outlining their courses or research, a government funded org
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by II2II 6mo ago
Apple has created vibrant videos, both internal and for marketing, to celebrate their history. For some 1980s cheese, there is We Are Apple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbJy0O4UFSM The company wasn't even 10 years
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by II2II 6mo ago
The tone of the article, as well as some of the comments here, make me think of "City of New Orleans" (a song about the history and experience of American railways) instead of "Midnight Train to Georgia".
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by II2II 6mo ago
I understand that dealing with complaints is annoying, but the response in the article was very unprofessional. Feel free to say what the change is, why it is there, and perhaps even address some of the concerns. But attacking users, even i
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by II2II 6mo ago
That's the thing, not everyone is a professional photographer. Open source tools are fine for many of us. They are also great to get a taste of a field, to learn the basics, without a massive investment. You don't have to be every
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by II2II 6mo ago
And I think it is fair to acknowledge that Linux doesn't fit the needs of all people. The thing is, the flip side is also true. While I can pick up my (admittedly technical) hobbies under Windows, it is more convenient under Linux. Wit
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by II2II 7mo ago
Been there, done that, and all without the benefit of a home Internet connection. I also created a couple of scripts that I could run on my desktop computer to install new software or update my operating system. After running the scripts on
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by II2II 7mo ago
The syntax of languages like Lisp and Forth are so fundamentally different that they don't need an explicit statement separator. You don't have to think about many other things either, or I should say you don't have to think
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by II2II 7mo ago
I should have said: no one in my programming class bothered to program under Windows 3.1. Clearly there were people out there writing software for Windows 3.1, and I have heard that VisualBASIC was a nice development platform for Windows 3.
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by II2II 7mo ago
Things I noticed right off the bat: framing it as a tourist verses locals issue, a complete lack of numbers backing that claim, and the few numbers presented in the article have any context. I realize this is a travel article, but it seems
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by II2II 7mo ago
The thing is, any generation can say something similar. Just look at the article: it manages to produce and describe the creation of a simple spreadsheet, yet the code and accompanying description would only fill a small pamphlet. There are
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by II2II 7mo ago
I almost entirely agree with the author's assessment of new technology. Yet that statement rubbed me the wrong way. Sometimes it is better to get into things early because it will grow more complex as time goes on, so it will be easier

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