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by Jach 5y ago
Ah, skimming https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/chatty/-/issues/30 I see that the incomplete work of integrating mms with purple-mm-sms and then eventually with chatty was stopped. Where I heard from was ini
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by Jach 5y ago
Does Pinephone use the same stuff that Purism has been building or is there a standalone SMS/MMS app now? It was always my impression that they've been piggybacking (and good!) but the progress rate from Purism leaves a lot to be
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by Jach 5y ago
I remember talking to someone who was playing with AWS stuff for the first time and they had a similar architecture, using Dynamo for a lookup store. It still seems a bit odd to me though. It's been a long time since I've worked w
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by Jach 5y ago
Thanks, that at least gives a basis for finding agreeable qualifiers to make a weaker claim. One of them is: if your first year was any time in the last n years... Is there an agreeable n? Salaries have gone up outside of the coasts. A quic
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by Jach 5y ago
I thought this might have been something about a Greg Egan book ( https://www.gregegan.net/DICHRONAUTS/DICHRONAUTS.html is a recent one with space-time composed of two dimensions of space and two of time), but these dem
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by Jach 5y ago
That's a pretty impressive feat. I'm tempted to link to things I think are more detached, but I'd prefer if you tried to correct me instead of insult me so that if I am detached I can become re-attached. As I led with, there
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by Jach 5y ago
Thanks for the correction! I guess another instance of Rare just doing it better than Nintendo ;) I've been trying to track down any source for the original rumor without success, the random IP seems to have made it up. Did you ever ge
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by Jach 5y ago
Health insurance isn't that bad. COBRA legislation allows you to keep your current company plan for 18 months, plus an 18 month extension if needed, with the catch that you start paying for it yourself. You'll get a letter about i
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by Jach 5y ago
There are a lot of us. After a six year stint, with my current burn rate (that I expect to decrease later this year) it'd take 20 years for my savings (read index funds) to run out if they didn't grow at all. If you've been w
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by Jach 5y ago
It is expanded, at least to Japanese. What's also fun is you can then have it auto translate the auto generated subs. The results are... not typically great, but the potential!
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Hyperbolic Tree Browser – CHI 1995 – Ramana Rao and John Lamping(youtube.com)
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by Jach 5y ago
Central to its story is also its inner "The Book", which is very much an instruction manual in the what and the how.
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by Jach 5y ago
I wish it were so simple, yet I think the rapid advances in the last 10 years or so in Java, C++, and JavaScript, which developers have been expected to learn and keep up with, are sufficient to more than cast doubt on that. The changes on
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by Jach 5y ago
Yeah it's rather amazing what Lisp applications in the 90s contributed to. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-World is the software mentioned in the comment, the modern equivalent being Blender. The Credits section o
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by Jach 5y ago
One of the pleasures of using Lisp for a game is not necessarily needing to add such UIs, or anything else special, to achieve interactive changes; you just change the code and recompile while it's running and see the differences. Unha
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by Jach 5y ago
There was a comment several days ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29825516 ) that made me reconsider the whole enterprise of operator overloading even for math, specifically its last paragraph. The gist is that you
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by Jach 5y ago
The Lisp version can also be more readable with a macro (like https://github.com/quil-lang/cmu-infix ): #I(a*(1.0-t) + b*t). Or something else that would let you write GP's preferred syntax. One of the things that
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by Jach 5y ago
I like putting it another way: 125.96 terawatt-hours at 11 cents per Kwh (my local rate which is quite a bit higher than many places mining happens) is about $13.8 billion. This is much less than what the world spent on toothpaste in a year
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by Jach 5y ago
It's still probably a good idea to get familiar with it though if in the near-term you're entering devops or wanting to move off something else. But for everyone else, it'll probably pass and give way to something different.
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by Jach 5y ago
There's definitely a HN bubble bias when it comes to evaluating what's "popular" or "trendy", reading any claim of such on HN must be done with a huge sack of salt. I wish the "untyped" moniker never
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by Jach 5y ago
> You should learn Lisp, no matter what kind of developer you are. But by today's standards, Lisp a pretty antiquated language which still hasn't caught up to modern trends (static types, asynchronism, etc...) and with a very p
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by Jach 5y ago
I have no teaching experience to back it up yet I've always felt this approach of intentionally leaving out very nifty, useful, and sometimes important bits of knowledge is bad. For sure, in the scope of one class there's not enou
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by Jach 5y ago
Seems useless given the existing clauses with the disclaimer of warranty and limitation of liability.
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by Jach 5y ago
I also wonder how much goodwill is still left from Facebook not being part of the salary collusion stuff over a decade ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
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by Jach 5y ago
Nintendo is an interesting case, because while the stores are gone/going away (though there was a Wii->Wii U transfer period), a lot of the games themselves aren't gone, and what you already downloaded will continue to work so
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by Jach 5y ago
Steam is already 18 years old, where is your confidence they won't make it another 20 coming from?
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by Jach 5y ago
Yup, and nope (I wasn't at the HQ office in SF but the Bellevue office, formerly Seattle). Look at https://www.levels.fyi/company/Salesforce/salaries/Software-... (I never added mine there; Glassdoor is
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by Jach 5y ago
I brought up the 7% raise thing to a friend, apparently Google's solution (not sure if this took place earlier though) was to change their 4 year vesting schedule to a 3 year one. This basically acts like a raise. So many compensation
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by Jach 5y ago
In case mmaunder comes back to reply soon, what I'm getting at that the other replies don't seem to address is what metaphor do you use for where you came from? The reason is because the idea of immigrating to Jurassic Park seems
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by Jach 5y ago
If the US is Jurassic Park, what was the place you came from?

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