Jetrel

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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah. The storage medium changed so much, but the functional shipped object was still "a chunk of read-only memory containing the (probably) sole version of a game that got shipped to a market". I too tend to think of ROMs as st
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by Jetrel 5y ago
I mean, yeah - that's why it's so valuable. When something is so rigorously guaranteed that it's almost absolute, it's able to change your behavior, dramatically. It's incredibly liberating. It's like turning
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by Jetrel 5y ago
This seemed like a somewhat reasonable article, but once I saw the "suggested links" at the bottom - all by the same author, I've got a bad feeling this is pure astroturf. The guy has a series of articles that are almost form
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah. This right here. The problem with corporate america isn't that the work is boring; it's that for most jobs it's actually evil at some point in the pipeline. (To use a metaphor - you're still morally culpable if y
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah - that was the thing. To traditional mac users, the finder wasn't a file-browser, full stop. It was a document viewer. Each folder was a document. What would have been really nice would have been to get a clear, visually-distin
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The spatial finder was really 2-3 promises: • Every time you opened a given folder, it always opened in the same, physical place on the screen. Same size, same spot, same view options. Always. • Only one instance of a folder could be op
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The difference was mostly a choice, and it's arguably the main "smart" thing Musk was able to do, whereas Holmes dropped the ball on. Musk's first breakout gig, Paypal, was honestly just dumb luck of being in the right
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by Jetrel 5y ago
This is really well put. The term "machine learning" fits the field, but the venn diagram of "what those two words could mean in english" versus "what the term means in the field" is a huge circle enclosing a t
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by Jetrel 5y ago
It's worth pointing out that "machine learning" is a specific term of art, not a term for AI in general. It refers very specifically to the type of "convolutional neural networks" that have made a bunch of progre
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah, it's almost as old as computing - likely 60-70 years old. The thing about it is we had the blueprints for a lot of stuff like neural networks almost at the dawn of computing, but it took almost half a century for us to even begi
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by Jetrel 5y ago
From what I've heard, MS's whole idea was that ultimately, "the web" was broadly going to be scrapped. What people were actually going to be using, "in a few years", was going to still be IE, but the webpage w
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah, speaking as an increasingly older developer, "resistance to interruption" is probably one of the cardinal skills you can learn as a developer. The ironic thing about it is the actual skill you're developing when you do
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The main thing is that what Bezos and especially Branson have built is a technological dead end. In order to make something that can actually reach orbit, Virgin Galactic is basically going to have to scrap everything they've done, an
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah, from reading up on it, this is often classified as "Third Degree" murder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depraved-heart_murder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_(United_States_law
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Honestly it's probably a case-by-case thing, and debatable. A lot of it is down to the motives of the people involved, and I think swatting really hits on a grey area. With any sort of "potentially lethal indirect action"
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah - it's worth pointing out that BBEdit itself, can partly be used for free, indefinitely. You're allowed access to a subset of features (which is very similar to what TextWrangler offered), without needing to pay. I think the
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Also - Rust code can directly link to C++ code and vice-versa. If you're an existing C++ shop with a big codebase (say, a large game engine), you don't have to "rewrite it in rust". You can just start building new part
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Any codecs or anything like that seem like a screamingly good target. Right now they're one of our most egregious sources of security vulnerabilities (mostly due to a lot of hands-on bit-twiddling that results in a lot of possibilities
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by Jetrel 5y ago
> At the very least you'll have the same issues as everyone else, so you won't get blamed. IME, the corollary of this is even more important: They'll have solutions ready-at-hand .
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Uh, speaking as an american, yes, it is 100% actually a question, and yes, I do in fact want to actually know how the other person is doing. I'm fine with them leaving anything out they don't feel comfortable disclosing, but … if
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Not the person you're replying to, but - I mean, I can (and did) buy a car for $30. No, we're not missing a zero there. That's what democratization means - it doesn't mean driving down the costs to some fictitious leve
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by Jetrel 5y ago
The real dark bit there is that if someone else posts something publicly, but your own stuff is "obscured" in some way, they may be able to (falsely) claim prior art, as the original author. Amongst other things, hosting something
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Nothing, really. There's plenty that's restrictive about one of several app stores on the platform (the one offered by apple), but - that's a store. Actually using the OS; you can do pretty much anything you want - up to and
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeah, this hews pretty close to what I've heard; that the conquistadores acted mostly as a "catalyst to rebellion" for an enormous native population that hated the Aztecs, but felt powerless to overthrow them. When these stra
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by Jetrel 5y ago
This is really the chief danger here - it's the ability to retroactively label anything as predatory. You don't actually have to be guilty; in fact, what's perhaps the most dangerous aspect is that you don't have to hav
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Quite arguably, we do - such a driver would be a "compiler". Most compilers do some really wild things to reshape your code to take (some) advantage of new processor features. There's a huge amount of "brain offloading
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Having had a lot of experience myself, I sadly can't echo this. A lot of it has to do with stick-and-carrot incentivization, stack ranking, and other stuff. Unfortunately every place I've worked at sort of accidentally pits their
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by Jetrel 5y ago
I completely agree. Of the various coders I've worked with over my career, I've noticed an astounding correlation between quality-of-writing and quality of code. It becomes most curious with exceptionally talented people who a
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by Jetrel 5y ago
> if a woman is basically the mirror image of a man (degree, high paying job, spends most of the day at an office), I have to be perfectly honest, but to me, this is entrepreneurialism, not intellectualism. Someone might go to college a
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by Jetrel 5y ago
Yeahhhh. Honestly, "business-focused" decisions like cost-center accounting, and various schemes to save money, are really how we got into this mess. A lot of our appalling lack of computer security basically comes from the equiv

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