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by acuozzo 4y ago
Not that I know of, but /r/ABoringDystopia comes close sometimes.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I've seen several pieces similar to this one hit the HN front page recently. This one, the "insight porn" one, and others speak to a growing discontentment in the startup scene. I think the underlying issues are: 1. The low-h
813.
by acuozzo 4y ago
> You found him-- did you get to really talk to him? Yes. Here's the e-mail exchange: http://acuozzo.sdf.org/Mel.pdf (I moved all of my e-mails to Gmail via Thunderbird years ago which is why the sender address is d
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> but no information was proffered What more would you like to know? I'm bad at telling stories, but I can do Q&A.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> It literally means nothing more specific than "lots of content that people like". I think it's a bit more than that, something like: "lots of content that people like and will waste a ton of time consuming for littl
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I mostly use my electric leaf blower for my driveway, walkway, porch, and deck. I can accomplish in a minute or two what would normally take 20+ minutes with a push broom.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
It comes from ex (the line editor sitting beneath vi).
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Does Unity build for the 65C02S? In all seriousness, some of us write code targeting several different microcontrollers and many vendors decided to roll their own toolchain instead of just adding a new GCC backend. Build systems more elabor
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Finding a middle ground between “what do I want to do” with “what people want” and “which specific niche still has some space available” is a tricky task. … made even trickier when the hopeful founder is a self-admitted weirdo. The itc
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by acuozzo 4y ago
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19950022400
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Intel is the next Boeing...a "strategic" firm fed a diet of government pork It's fitting given the name, no?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Danger/conflict for Superman boils down to a binary question - is kryptonite present or not? Perhaps, but given that Superman is not from Earth it could go the Dragon Ball route.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I can't comment on your first submission for some reason, so I'm doing so here. Are you still looking for a co-founder? Want to chat? I'm not young either.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> If you’re not doing your own thing, you’re just someone’s puppet. Not necessarily. If you choose to have children when you don't really want them, then you're hardly their puppet if you're too principled to abandon them.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> This seems to be the silver lining from the paper for practitioners. Indeed. Of course, the hard (impossible?) part is ensuring that no peers die.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> If I want to architect a peer-to-peer application that needs to achieve consensus, what are some of the provably correct protocols/algorithms? None. Ever.¹ Proof: https://groups.csail.mit.edu/tds/papers/L
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> No. The reason the average consumer accepts limited cache memory in CPU / GPU / HDD / SSD etc, despite the high bandwidth they offer is simply because of the cost - they are very expensive The 486. > Yes, we expect ca
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> What amazes me is that it took you 165 attempts for you to put it away. If I don't try, he'll never learn. He's already fighting uphill. I'm not going to disable him further by raising him in an environment which pr
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> That's a bit disingenuous, isn't it? No, it's not. Well, at least it wasn't intended to be. The whole point of my post is: What were you supposed to do with all of the expensive cache chips you bought for your 486 w
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> It’s called "living below your means and saving money". … or living well above your means in the time of asset bubbles left and right? Let's say you and your buddy both make $125K. If you bought a small $100K serious-fix
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> That's ok. I'll choose the ability to self-repair and upgrade How do you upgrade your L2 cache? You're not still using a 486, are you? Did you protest the Pentium as well?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> At least my kids respect me enough not to interrupt be when I've got headphones on Every situation is different. My eldest has moderate autism. I had to remind him last Saturday 165 times (I counted) to not touch a delicate trinke
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by acuozzo 4y ago
… or the sort of people with young kids.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I am in favor of each employee working within the environment in which they are most productive. With that being said, I am one of the most productive members of my team and I am completely unable to WFH. I hate meetings. I don't often
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> it’s freedom Freedom from…?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
LucasFilm → Pixar → Disney. I wonder if the mouse owns Duff's Device…
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by acuozzo 4y ago
This is, in part, why I will continue to use the original 4-clause BSD license for the code I write.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> A killer filesystem A killer's filesystem, rather.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Given the state of undefined behavior in the standard, I'm inclined to agree with you. With that being said, can you recommend a modern language designed around a model of computation flexible enough to target e.g. non-flat memory mode
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by acuozzo 4y ago
TheCowboy doesn't seem triggered at all in his reply. It reads as both neutral and thoughtful. Were you hoping to trigger someone?

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