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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>Given that OS X has supported multi-button mice since 2001, I certainly believe that. Just a joke, mate.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
"Obsolete" is too strong a word, I think. OSX isn't an evolution of the Macintosh's operating system; That'd be Pink, which was even mentioned, and it crashed and burned. OSX was far closer to a Linux box and a Mac
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Why would a high-end car need regular updates? The only thing it needs to do that isn't guatanteed to not change without physical service is entertainment, and it's a safe bet anyone who can afford one has a smartphone they keep u
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
If by "these companies" you mean the third party suppliers, then sure, but Amazon obviously loses business when a customer can't trust the branded microphone cylinder they bought to place the desired order for them and make t
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Personal fantasies are an exveptionally poor excuse for handing out known bad advice.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
"When it happens to you"? Does this happen to all engineers, or even a majority? Isn't the percent who work at google under any circumstances much lower?
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>These meals also don't seem all that nutritious. A lot of the entrees are high in carbs but low in proteins and fats Uh, of course? That's the stuff that keeps on the shelf. The point of disaster preparation is to avoid burnin
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Partially because where WP set up shop, the Utah Valley in the 1980s, was mostly still a rural county with a barely-semi-urban exclave at the middle. Living in the center of Provo let you pretend to be surrounded by actual development whil
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Spare you the sad tactic of disagreeing with you instead of just assuming your conclusion?
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>I often wish he was more explicit about WHAT was developed. (I have watched the mother of all demos, which is truly awesome, but partial information). Here's one of several demos Kay has done of the Squeak/Croquet/Etoys&#
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Got censored last time I quoted this: >Annual Economic Health Check >IMF Country Focus >IMF Survey: Soft Landing Ahead for U.S. Economy >IMF Survey online >August 6, 2007 >United States should return to potential growth ra
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>Methods >We followed 66,692 females from the Nurses’ Health Study (1986–2019), 92,438 females from the Nurses’ Health Study II (1989–2019), and 47,274 males from the Health Professionals Follow-up Study (1986–2018) who were free of c
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
I don't follow. You agree these people are nothing like the bacteria in the story... and that's why they should be treated like them? And also you need to relay your dislike heated swimming pools I guess?
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Even a big fan of using games as datasets for research, I'm so tired of reading policy proposals based on literal fake economies meant for maximizing entertainment only after being buoyed up by some other real and unrelated cost behind
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Are the proles in your metaphor also capable of indefinitely suspending half of all their starvation-level resource consumption? Are they doing it as stochastic insurance against a population-level extinction event, which they are capable o
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
McCarthy warned us about this.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Side note: I really dislike how shortsighted many orgs are with the extreme level of "go to your customer" that led to using the persistent IRC client I used to banter during game nights with my friends a decade ago as an all-enco
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
You've misunderstood me, in a way that doesn't make sense as unintentional. Of course I'm not commenting on the rules of HN. Why would I comment in support of a user who just restates those rules then?
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Interesting that people seem to not like your comment. Isn't harassment and doxxing against the rules around here? What's the principle that disagrees with this statement that doesn't also apply to everything else on site?
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Perhaps, but only because most jobs done on computers today are by people who also have little if any math or programming ability. Change that and it's a different world to make those predictions in.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Those 5% go on to make an upper-class salary sitting in an air-conditioned office instead of a lower-class salary turning wrenches and stacking boxes. What makes more sense than enabling everyone who can to attain that life? (Plus every one
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Why would you assume this? Wouldn't Sal Kan want to design his version of a teacher AI to avoid that behavior?
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Did I say it's a "counter-example"? Both are operational dumpster fires. I obviously brought it up in a negative tone with the words "even" and "somehow". Utopia's a business, too. Why are you defendi
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
This is such a misleadingly narrow headline. Utopia's a decade old and has been a mess from the business side pretty much the entire time. Even Google fiber in Provo's somehow giving better rollout service than they are. I was exc
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
"The Nature of Order" is the four-volume book Christopher Alexander introduced his analysis tool of the fifteen fundamental properties of order in. It's named in the first paragraph of this blog post.
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>What drew me to it was video game level-design. Was it Jesse Schell's The Art of Game Design for you, too? I loved that book when I thought I was going to become a game designer. When someone like Schell spoke so highly of Alexan
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
Here's some other posts on Alexander's work: Beautiful Software: Christopher Alexander's research initiative on computing - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011469 Dec 2022 (40 comments) Do You See a
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
>Presumably a building serves purposes other than being seen. Though these were posed by an architect, "residents", "occupants", "users" etc are never mentioned -- only "spectators". This is just a
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
I guess you haven't read any of TNoO?
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by Phiwise_ 2y ago
What are you talking about? It's an index . The data starts proportional at 100%. Says so on the scale. Did you not read the page? 0 would imply there is no dev jobs anywhere in the country. The industry could go through the worst cra

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