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by WoodenChair 9mo ago
I mean I think there's a pretty stark difference between a charity feeding the poor and an app startup (even a non-profit one). So stark that it feels almost weird writing this comment, but I'll take your question at face value. O
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by WoodenChair 9mo ago
Looks like cool stuff, cheers. Always interesting to learn about new ways of organizing. The great thing is if the world is free enough we can all experiment with different structures if others will agree to experiment with us. But these do
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by WoodenChair 9mo ago
One that would've helped is "Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days" which is a collection of interviews with startup founders by Jessica Livingston. Even though this was a non-profit it effectively sounds lik
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by WoodenChair 9mo ago
First, I'll just say I think the iNaturalist app is great and I've used it before and enjoyed it. I assume he had good intentions when experimenting with non-hierarchical governance, but this wasn't the right organization wit
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by WoodenChair 9mo ago
Business books sometimes get a bad rap on here, but I never read an essay where I more thought "wow this guy really needs to read some basic business books." Even though it was a non-profit, there is so much wisdom in them about
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by WoodenChair 9mo ago
If you want to learn more about those formative beliefs around the time that this horoscope program was written, I recommend the book The Bite in the Apple by his former girlfriend (and mother of his daughter) Chrisann Brennan: https:&#x2F
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AI Nudges Syracuse Professors Back Toward Blue Books, In-Class Work(govtech.com)
1 points by WoodenChair 9mo ago|0 comments
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
Thank you. I think that's a good explanation for much of the phenomena and your insight would have strengthened my post. I think you're probably right about where many of the people who see it that way are coming from. But not all
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
> After about 30 minutes of futzing with prompts, it was clearly stuck trying to create the proper regex and I just went back to pasting alter tables and getting deletes back until the job was done. If you're copying and pasting SQL
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Computer Science from Scratch: Interpreters, Art, Emulators, and ML in Python(computersciencefromscratch.com)
2 points by WoodenChair 10mo ago|0 comments
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Python numbers every programmer should know(mkennedy.codes)
429 points by WoodenChair 10mo ago|186 comments
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
No but an LLM is a great assistant to reading a book. In fact some eReader interfaces have started to include them. Best of both worlds.
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
> I've come to hate every cookbook that starts with 100 pages of here is a tour of my pantry, which sounds a lot like, here is how to use pip! Yeah I agree. I hate when books do more hand holding than the reader clearly needs to the
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
Absolutely. And further because when you prompt ChatGPT as you write your ray tracer you don't know what the important things to ask are. Sure, you can get their with enough prompts of "what should I be asking you" or "e
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
> This is why most publishers won't even talk to you unless you have a finished manuscript already This is absolutely not true in the world of technical publishing. I mean books published with publishers like O'Reilly, Manning,
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Computer Science from Scratch (Talk Python Podcast Episode)(talkpython.fm)
2 points by WoodenChair 10mo ago|0 comments
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
Ironically, I was working on a book with a similar concept in the same time frame that came out as "Computer Science from Scratch: Interpreters, Computer Art, Emulators, and ML in Python" with No Starch Press a couple months ago.
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
I was envisioning the latter (changing behavior on the fly). Think the hot-reload that Flutter/Dart provides, but on steroids and guided by an LLM. Interpretation isn’t strictly required, but I think runtimes that support hot-swap &#x2
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C –> Java != Java –> LLM(observationalhazard.com)
43 points by WoodenChair 10mo ago|47 comments
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by WoodenChair 10mo ago
Thanks for posting this detailed history and breakdown. And congratulations on your success. As someone with a podcast in the same ballpark of downloads, I will say it's a real testament to how much people must like The Program that yo
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by WoodenChair 11mo ago
Yes, but several Filemaker versions run under Mac OS 9 so there's no reason to go back to System 7.
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by WoodenChair 11mo ago
Yes, but it's very uncommon for it to still be in use beyond hobbyists.
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Writing Computer Science from Scratch(observationalhazard.com)
2 points by WoodenChair 11mo ago|0 comments
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by WoodenChair 11mo ago
You can find a 9 image for it at macos9lives.com
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by WoodenChair 11mo ago
I use a mSATA to IDE adapter that I buy in bulk. This is the Amazon available equivalent of it: https://amzn.to/48qEaOm I use only 128 GB mSATA cards from reputable brands. I always do the following: - Boot from the Mac OS
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by WoodenChair 11mo ago
Very related but self promotional—I have a hobby business selling restored Mac mini G4s. I clean all of them internally, upgrade them with 128 GB SSDs, max them out at 1 GB of RAM, put a new clock battery in, and pre-install the Mac OS 9 Li
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by WoodenChair 11mo ago
You're hand wavy "it's the pandemic" neglects the other evidence provided in the article that happens to coincide with the pandemic such as the elimination of test scores as admissions criteria to many universities. And
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by WoodenChair 11mo ago
> Not Ives or Cue or Federighi. It’s “Ive” and Federighi wasn’t a candidate in 2011. Also, how you think someone is going to work out and how they actually work out is still worth commenting on. Not every CEO would have extracted value i
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by WoodenChair 1y ago
The 14900 does not reflect Intel’s radically more efficient upcoming 18A and 14A nodes which is what much of the hype around the company’s revival is hoped on. Time will tell when products based on 18A come out in a few months.
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Computer Science from Scratch: Interpreters, Art, Emulators, and ML in Python(computersciencefromscratch.com)
3 points by WoodenChair 1y ago|0 comments

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