ThrowawayR2

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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
If you read the source the parent poster provides, it plainly says " ...digging out the operating system listings from the trash... " not DEC BASIC. Same deceptive pattern as the previous account making false claims so there&#x2
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
This is the second time I've seen this weird false claim on Hacker News that MS BASIC is a port of DEC BASIC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43576119 . From Paul Allen's site at https://paulallen.c
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
Unless you are the same person as account "elif", I wasn't responding to you?
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
More interesting than the Gates angle is the original story linked at the bottom where Oracle was found to have hired private investigators that attempted to acquire the trash of a lobbying group funded by Microsoft in an attempt to dig up
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
What is it about AI that causes so many of its promoters to write like a used car salesman using hard sell tactics to push a lemon onto an unsuspecting mark? Raises my hackles every time I see it. Even those who are pro-AI ought to discour
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
That's wishful thinking. I have been placed into professional situations where I needed calculus and, as I found out to my sorrow, all the CAS software packages in the world wouldn't have helped because I didn't have/re
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
If you turn on [showdead] the submission history looks even more unnatural. The account seems to be mostly self-promotional or marketing of some sort.
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
An AI would end/die ultimately when the planet's resources required for maintaining it are exhausted, when the Sun becomes a supergiant and engulfs the Earth, or, assuredly, at the heat death of the universe. An AI would regard t
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
I'll believe that when I can get a robot plumber or electrician to come to my house for less than what a senior SWE makes per hour. Until then, it's just an empty promise.
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
For pity's sake people, the essay has nothing to do with traditional religions and their deities except an analogy about clergy. It's about how to interface with a hypothetical AGI / ASI with god-like abilities, which this
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
Archive link: https://archive.is/QqNT2 For those who dislike clickbait titles, the the blurb is "Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction."
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
I lived rural poverty in America will attest that the parent poster is making excuses for a life they never lived. And yes, I did have parents who were screwed up enough not to fill out financial paperwork. (A pity you hadn't "ha
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
Only about 10% of Americans had college degrees in the 1960s compared to about 37% today and the large majority of them were men. Does that sound like a past anyone wants to return to?
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
Previously posted yesterday with 22 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489547
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
The number of people fulminating on HN despite the guideline forbidding it is really getting out of hand.
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
An improvement isn't all or nothing, it can be incremental. The dis- prefix only indicates that the increment is negative in this case.
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
- A developer continues to get paid if they accidentally write a bug that needs to be fixed, even if if it costs the business money to fix it. - A CxO continues to get paid if they accidentally make a bad business decision that needs to be
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
He's somewhere in the top 300 wealthiest people in the world; forget one-percenter, that's something like top 0.00001%. He definitely has done a lot of nice things for gaming and I hope he continues to do so for the rest of his d
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
The sibling post's "disimprovement" sounds more natural and has parallel form with pre-existing broadly accepted English words like "disincentive" and "disinfect".
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
Gabe Newell has an $11bn net worth so he hasn't exactly been not squeezing.
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
Relax and enjoy the circus, dude. This is the reality of the tech profession as it is today and all we can do is laugh and tighten our hiring practices.
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
> " IDK why so many people romanticize pauper riots and try to wish them into existence. " They think they will be they ones leading the riots (the precariat will defer to them because they are "smart" apparently?) in
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
I'm surprised to learn that he was also the voice of Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. Rest in peace, Mr. Cullen.
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
How so? Even in a jurisdiction where corporate officers aren't required to be a natural person, trying to have an AI CEO is like trying to make a cat/dog a CEO. As a practical matter, it is not a legal entity recognized as capab
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
The Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union and then western military R&D funding dropped drastically. Shrunken military R&D pipeline = less cool discoveries that eventually filter over to civilian applications.
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
This is one of those rejoinders that tries to be clever but really, really isn't. The "intern as fake CEO" is left holding the bag because it's their signature on contracts and other legal documents. The idea of puppe
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
Corporate officers, including CEOs, have to be "natural persons" (legal jargon for flesh-and-blood humans) either directly by law or indirectly as a practical matter so the attempted turnabout falls flat on its face. Sun Tzu said
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
He missed the most basic risk: unequal access. AI providers have enormous investments to pay off and enormous operating costs and want a ROI so they are going charge all the market will bear. Imagine a nightmare scenario where access to A
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
> " Where are all the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels? " They've been driven underground or entirely out of software by the mundanes but pointing that out draws huffy accusations of "gatekeeping".
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by ThrowawayR2 1mo ago
The only currently similar available product is the Dasung Paperlike 103 but they warn that the it's not safe to expose it to the UV in direct sunlight. You'd need to jury-rig a UV filter over it I'd think.

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