LAC-Tech

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721.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Here's a script I use to strip out low quality discussions from the HN front page: const boringDomains = [ "newyorker.com", "nytimes.com", "economist.com", "wired
722.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
But you don't understand, I once had to replace chart.js 3 with chart.js 4 and the documentation didn't cover all of the changes. This man would have collapsed into a heap if he'd had to face the challenges I've faced.
723.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I'm sorry but the line of business software most of us work on is not more impressive than writing a major component of a file system from scratch.
724.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I would love a more systematic approach to this none-coding part of coding. I mean I doodle little diagrams and write notes on scrap paper but nothing so rigorous as what Andre is doing.
725.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
As someone who constantly likes to amuse himself by making funny (even if only to me) remarks - some of which make their way here and get flagged! - it has nothing to do with hiding or coping with sadness. I have zero energy for wise cracki
726.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I more meant "I didn't worry about the bit with the algorithm". The first bit of the paper is everything it's cracked up to be.
727.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
So cool to see people getting into the classics! IIRC Lamport himself said in the second bit of Time Clocks, the algorithm was wrong, so I didn't worry too much about it.
728.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Dirty hippies. Thank god those domestic terrorists were apprehended before they could murder again.
729.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I've gotten a lot of value by going to a topic I don't understand on wikipedia, finding the oldest paper they cite, and printing it out. Sometimes I only finish half the paper, but damned if I haven't learned a lot. Disclaime
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
This isn't some "pro-trump" thing. It is the idea that people think they were anywhere close to a regime change. It would be funny if it wasn't so contemptible. As for the so called leaders in the building that day, I ha
731.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
You raise an interesting point. It could just be - to my ears and sensibilities - that Americans have a very low bar for what they call an insurrection or rebellion.
732.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
The LISP 1.5 Programmers manual! Love this one. Your 2) is what Alan Kay called "Maxwell's Equations of Software". And you're right, there's absolute magic in old computing papers. They were pioneers. I wish we coul
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I see Jan 6 as something much more like the Sunflower movement in Taiwan, where protestors (or alternately rioting insurrectionists) actually occupied the chambers of the Taiwans unicameral legislature. No one was shot or skilled, despite a
734.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Off duty police officers? OK I'm wrong it was practically Bastille. They were moments away from making it to the Rotunda, and at that point they could have immediately started legislating and the US as we know it would have ended. Than
735.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Posting a NY Times article in response to Jan 6 is like posting a Russia Today article in response to Maidan. Also, I don't have a subscription.
736.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
After all these years I still can't take the term "Jan 6 Insurrection" seriously. Not only did it pose zero threat (no military support, no political support, no police support), the most notable act of violence was one of th
737.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Damn it I laughed out loud at that and I hope my toddler is still asleep. That was all in the snappiness of the wording, great little joke.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
No. I'm tired of machines trying to be friendly and cute with me. Be short, curt, and polite. Like a Star Trek original series computer. We're not friends, and you're not my equal, you're a damn program. Act like it.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Which of these were egregious in your opinion? Just through a random wikipedia list, I found Oppenheimer (if not an outright member of the communist party, very closely aligned) and Needham (who had agreed to be an Inspector in North Korea)
740.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I'm a millennial and I didn't even know "off the hook" originated from phones.
741.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
One of those things that I always thought was a great idea, and it's fantastic to see someone actually working on it. AST editing really is the next step for modal editors IMO.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Are there any pure - no OS or screen - mp3 players around that accept bluetooth? I'm running my little sony walkman mp3 usb stick into the ground, but it only accepts wired in ear phones, and they tend to break a lot (and are now start
743.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I feel the need to immediately change to an upward pointing cursor to honour Douglas Engelbart.
744.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I ran my own client side script to strip out links to such articles. New computer, didn't copy the script over, and now I'm engaged in passive aggressive discussions over some guardian article. It's my own weakness of course,
745.
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
I think the chances of a human being existing who knows enough about a specific topic that they can write a paper about it, and who is also an exceptionally clear writer, is pretty low. So if you want the knowledge, you go in knowing this.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
HN would be a much better place if they banned domains like the guardian, nytimes etc entirely. There's way too much journospam.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
We're arguing in a comment thread for guardian journospam. Everything about this interaction is entirely irrelevant and unneeded.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Hurry up and die, Bob. Children want to use the slide!
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
If you do something publicly you have zero control of who judges you and for what.
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by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Wouldn't it be nice to hear all the lovely things friends and family might say about us at our funeral? No, you weirdo Guardian journalists, it would not. Because I'm not dead. And when my funeral does happen, I may be the theme

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