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by acuozzo 1y ago
The center is everywhere.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> if we paid real-life things not as a subscription, but based on usage Are you thinking a flat rate or one based on local population density?
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by acuozzo 1y ago
The justification emerges when you start thinking about how to build a true "package management" system for C libraries which embraces the fact that a world exists beyond GNU/Linux on x86_64. At some point you realize that no
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Technical? No. Social? Yes. Fixing it would require an unprecedented level of cooperation across multiple industries.
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by acuozzo 1y ago
Hands have to get dirty somewhere. "As deep as The Worker's City lay underground, so high above towered the City of Metropolis." The choices are: 1. Restrict the freedom of CPU designers to some approximation of the PDP11. No
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by acuozzo 1y ago
> most middle class Americans seem to refer to "their lawyer" I've only run into this among the so-called "upper middle class" here (e.g., physicians making $500K+/yr) and even then it's pretty rare.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> calculating a derivative or setting up a fancy data structure of some kind or something, is interesting but how much of that do we actually do as programmers? A LOT, depending on the domain. There are many R&D and HPC labs througho
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by acuozzo 2y ago
Didn't they fork Apache 1.x?
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by acuozzo 2y ago
This is the case with OpenBSD. It doesn't come with Apache turned on by default, of course, but it's a part of the base install as httpd.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
Awareness and appreciation of the utility of humor increases with age and/or maturity. Ms. Super-serious "I'm in university now and no longer find fart jokes funny" is liable to enjoy them again in her golden years. Ther
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by acuozzo 2y ago
You've gotten fifteen years older.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> why is one physical iPhone identical to another physical iPhone Apple is willing to pay the cost to minimize the margin-of-error at every step. Another approach to keeping yield high (at the possible risk of hurting your brand) is to d
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> Small nudges and corrections, and we had something that worked. From there, I iterated and added more features to the outputs. FWIW, I've seen people online refer to this as "vibe coding".
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> Real programming is on a totally different scale than what you're describing. How "real" are we talking? When I think of "real programming" I think of flight control software for commercial airplanes and, I can
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> Luck is also a factor but you cannot control that. I agree, but making choices which increase exposure to opportunity is often lumped-in with "luck".
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> high-quality stuff has always been expensive The argument being made here is that, if you hold quality constant and adjust for inflation, many goods now cost a greater percentage of the median income than they did in the past.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
EXACTLY!
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by acuozzo 2y ago
No one has the responsibility to prop-up marginal businesses by toiling for them or purchasing their goods/services. Absolutely requiring the American "minimum" standard of living is propaganda set nearly in stone by The New
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> C still is simple Syntactically, yes. Semantically, no. There are languages with tons of "features" with far, far less semantic overhead than C. https://blog.regehr.org/archives/767 FWIW, writing program
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> rest of the world outside of tech, looks at tech and sees a bunch of very overpaid developers They most certainly do, but it says A LOT more about them that they see developers as overpaid rather than themselves as underpaid. Propagand
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> Yeah, but why do people still trust corporations? When most of your time is spent ensuring your material needs are met, then whatever time remains is precious. Telling someone hustling two different "gig economy" jobs sixteen
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by acuozzo 2y ago
Do you live in a wealthy coastal suburb? If so, the public school system there is probably great.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> BTW, if you run your own local DNS resolver Can you share some more information on this? I've been thinking of doing so with my OpenBSD server, but my DNS knowledge is limited to the client side.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
I think it requires SDP negotiation between your UE, your EPC, their EPC, and their UE. Assuming all parties agree on the use of AMR-WB, then you're good-to-go.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
> It turns out to be a largely empty experience I'm pretty heavily involved in SD video restoration and I drive things from "retro" systems mostly because I need 32-bit PCI slots and Windows XP in order to interface with o
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by acuozzo 2y ago
Not OP, but… what? On Windows I have a trigger finger for Alt+0133, Alt+0150, and Alt+0151. I use proper ellipses, en–dash, and em—dash all the time.
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by acuozzo 2y ago
Where did all of this trust come from? When I first started hacking I had the expectation that every chunk of code I came across was broken in some way. All of the software I relied upon was broken in some visible way. My Windows 95 install
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by acuozzo 2y ago
It becomes self-fulfilling, no? Like a bank run started by a rumor. More money flowing away from the market into safe(r) investments than flowing in causes valuations to plummet.
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It's a rapidly depreciating asset, but an asset nonetheless and its core function is useful.
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> some of the worst code on the internet After enough time elapses (and it has!) it transitions from being "bad code" to just nostalgia-inducing. Take a gander at the code over at TUHS. The original vi from UCB, for instance, w

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