Isamu

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by Isamu 7y ago
>the hard work that goes into building a browser ... is a gigantic amount of work, indeed. >like getting a free cheeseburger, adding a leaf of spinach to it If that cheeseburger was the size of an office building, and your spinach lea
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by Isamu 7y ago
No worries, most of the points boil down to: are you bothering to find out if the feature you shipped actually helped users? Is it actually helping to sell more product or keep existing customers happy? If you have that feedback, you are go
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by Isamu 7y ago
The key being “local network”, so if you are connected to a wifi access point you can see everyone using that access point. You can’t “see” packets beyond the router that connects your local network to the next one. The local network is a s
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by Isamu 7y ago
>lack of knowledge hoarding, healthier knowledge transfer and decision making, and reduced waste. This. It is so much more efficient as an engineer to have a clear idea of the values and needs of the users, and to share a clear vision wi
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by Isamu 7y ago
>I've been considering skimming through the whole things to get kind of a big picture of what the thing is and where I'm going and then going back a second time to catch then the details and experiment. That's what I would
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by Isamu 7y ago
Just a bit long-winded, I think. It probably boils down into some useful stuff, but I'm not entirely sure because the here-we-go-again prose pushes me away. It's not crankery, certainly.
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by Isamu 7y ago
Do you mean newsgroups like alt.binaries.* ? I completely forgot about that. They ate up all the bandwidth? I'll take your word for it. Source code sharing was pretty important I remember. That was how I first got Perl source code to
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by Isamu 7y ago
If we include the theory of error correcting codes, add Jessie MacWilliams and Vera Pless. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Pless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_MacWilliams
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by Isamu 7y ago
I watch a LOT of subtitled video, even when there is a dub available. And even I can find it challenging. Sometimes the dialog is dense. And the visuals are dense at the same time. I often feel like I am trading off one against the other. M
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by Isamu 7y ago
>As Betty put it, “Some of his early papers and even later papers are in my handwriting...and not in his, which confused people at first.” And not just his papers: Betty was a full partner in the gadgeteering, too. In fact, it was Betty—
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by Isamu 7y ago
>Why does it matter if someone else makes money on something they copied? When the copy competes with the original. The original required investment of effort and resources, the copy is near-zero effort. This is the case for certain orig
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by Isamu 7y ago
>Privacy is a concept in disarray. Nobody can articulate what it means. As one commentator has observed, privacy suffers from “an embarrassment of meanings.” So true of many things we discuss, but it doesn't stop us from assuming ev
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by Isamu 7y ago
>That music industry money isn't going to the artists. No argument there! The artists have always been the last to be paid. It may be getting worse for the artists, but the situation for actual creators has always been bad ... on av
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by Isamu 7y ago
>Napster .. could be considered a streaming service It was downloads. Anyway the article specifically calls out "streaming platforms" and that's what I take issue with. The big difference is the newer streaming platforms t
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by Isamu 7y ago
Seems to be actually a complaint about the decline of music journalism. Which I agree is sad, but is probably not related to the rise of "platforms" but part of the overall struggles of print journalism. Also the graph in the begi
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by Isamu 7y ago
>Data makes wild, un-evidenced leaps of assumption that are only "empirical" because we the audience understands what he's saying is correct. But in-universe his ideas are ridiculous and unjustified. Same with Spock, he pr
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by Isamu 7y ago
So this is about intuitive explanations of flight. The complaint about using Newton's law is that it doesn't readily explain the low-pressure region above the wing. Let me give it a try. Intuitively, all the forces on the wing are
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by Isamu 7y ago
>In his recent book, Human Compatible, Russell lays out his thesis in the form of three “principles of beneficial machines,” echoing Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics from 1942, but with less naivete. It is a recent trend to brush of
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by Isamu 7y ago
Any idea why the name Hamilton appears to be deliberately defaced on the inscription?
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by Isamu 7y ago
Agreed, many of the rights described were once considered the "natural" rights of man, not granted, and I thought the language clearly demonstrated that main concern was with restricting the power of government from denying those
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by Isamu 7y ago
I read to my daughters all the time, but eventually one of them decided she disliked it (didn't like the pace) and the other is still preferring to listen to audio books while in college. It's an individual thing. Also I think a
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by Isamu 7y ago
Very nice! I especially like that it starts with a discussion of why you would choose to use I2C, as well as why you may not, depending on your application: >I2C is not appropriate for all applications however: When higher bandwidth is r
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by Isamu 7y ago
TeX: 1978 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX which is underlying the LaTeX set of macros and stuff that is still in use for academic papers. [edit] Also TeX is a good example to bring up as an early example of a complex
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by Isamu 7y ago
Tyler Cowen is an academic economist at GMU, so yeah, he presents an economic view. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Cowen >Nothing about increasing anyone's quality of life, solving environmental problems,
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by Isamu 7y ago
Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, established this result long ago. Specially in the case of the great Bengal famine but also modern famines generally are not due to a lack of food in the world but are a result of government
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by Isamu 7y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted but this is correct, the name Unix is a joke about Multics, which they felt was a bit unwieldy. Unix is a reaction to what they felt was over-wrought operating system design. Plan 9 is obviously a joke name to
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by Isamu 7y ago
>Lesson 2: We need artists Disney-type artists, yes. Animatronic robots are getting better and better, and it is only a matter of time before they will be offering one-on-one interaction that is engaging to folks at one of the theme par
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by Isamu 7y ago
More about the XB-1 "baby boom": https://boomsupersonic.com/xb-1
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by Isamu 7y ago
They should definitely bring these back for tube amps!
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by Isamu 7y ago
Wow, I forgot about these. And the smell of warm tube electronics in a wooden housing. >Magic eye tubes were used as the recording level indicator for tape recorders Pretty sure that's where I saw them, in old reel-to-reel tape deck

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