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by adestefan 2y ago
It wasn't just the search that was amazing. You would go to google.com and be presented with only a Google logo, 1 line input box, and 2 buttons. No portal, no news, no header, no login, no advertise with us, no punching monkeys. It wa
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by adestefan 2y ago
Warhol wrote that in 1975 when the US was a lot different.
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by adestefan 2y ago
Always has been.
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by adestefan 2y ago
I was the student manager of all Unix systems on campus in the late 90s. Included labs of Sun and HP workstations. Managed some system connected to various lab instruments around campus, too. We stood up the first Linux lab around 1998, but
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by adestefan 3y ago
Glyphosate is only absorbed through foliage. I have had good luck with brush killer.
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by adestefan 3y ago
There already are two tunnels for I-95 and I-895 under the port.
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by adestefan 3y ago
So you’d rather have Google abuse its monopoly on search to get what you want?
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by adestefan 3y ago
The App Store didn’t even exist until the iPhone 3G. Everything was suppose to be a web app until everyone, including HN, bitched about the lack of native apps. Now here you all are 15 years later bemoaning what you have helped create.
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by adestefan 3y ago
It seems to work better when it’s not subtle. You’ll get all the *chan bois relaying your disinformation for the lulz. YouTube and podcaster hucksters trying to make a name for themselves to get a payday from some weird billionaire’s self
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by adestefan 3y ago
HN consistently reminds me of the park bench scene in Good Will Hunting.
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by adestefan 3y ago
A girl would like to ask a boy to the high school dance. A computer can do all the calculations to decide on if it's a good idea. Given the inputs of the time they have spent together, the number of glances that are passed between then
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by adestefan 3y ago
Weizenbaum even wrote an entire book, Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation, on how AI is a crank term for computer science. The basic premise is that humans are not machine so stop using language that treats them as
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by adestefan 3y ago
I'm also unsure of any innovation Spotify has made in the world of music. Some searching has led me to the end of year recaps and a lot about advertising. Guess France will miss out.
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by adestefan 3y ago
Libgrapheme will get you there for the most part. It will let you find characters, words, sentences. It’s nice because it returns byte offsets so you can use them directly for C data structures. I wish there was a way to get the number of c
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by adestefan 3y ago
I just installed a ratgdo on my Lift Master door and it’s great.
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by adestefan 3y ago
As a parent the part that sucks is there is good that can come of this, but it's not on the major free-for-all platforms. My kids are involved in some activities that use other social media-like platforms for sharing information with k
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by adestefan 3y ago
They're not allowed to have them in class, but we all know how well banning anything with early teens goes. The influence of social media extends to school boards being completely paralyzed. Imagine the "Moms for Access to Student
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by adestefan 3y ago
As an addendum realize that these kids were making that awkward transition into pre and early teen years at the height of the COVID pandemic. Social media was a connection to their friends and peers that they did not see in most large socia
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by adestefan 3y ago
It's the techno-liberatarian wing of HN that flares up on issues like this.
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by adestefan 3y ago
Meta and their lobbyists have been pounding advertising in the DC media market on TV, radio, and the Washington Post under all their brands about how they now support the government trying to mandate parents rights to limit access. First it
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by adestefan 3y ago
I have a kid that's in middle school and last year there was about a 2 month stretch of multiple daily fights that were driven by views on TikTok by 6th graders, so around age 11. It started out small. Maybe a kid would start something
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by adestefan 3y ago
Just because it's the least bad doesn't mean anyone won.
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by adestefan 3y ago
Like most things with the government they've been heavily slashed since 2008.
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by adestefan 3y ago
The pay is awful and the benefits aren’t great. You also have people constantly telling you that you must be bad at your job since you work for the government and not the private sector. It’s also not a lot of fun when half of Congress repe
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by adestefan 3y ago
I recently bought my wife a new Air and the only reason why I went with the M2 version was the nicer screen. Otherwise the M1/8GB would be more than fine for what she needs.
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by adestefan 3y ago
I own an IASIS IA-7301 which is very similar single board trainer The IASIS is built around the NEC μCOM-80 version of the Intel 8080. The board is attached to a plastic backer that fits into a three ring binder. An entire programming cours
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by adestefan 3y ago
An Alphabet is just an ad company. What’s your point?
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by adestefan 3y ago
It was not built around any of that. It was built to facilitate compiler construction and add some introspection to that process. The problem is that building what is a compile and code generation library to cover multiple languages and m
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by adestefan 3y ago
28 years ago was the original Bowling Alone article. That was expanded into the book by the sane title rehearsed in 2000. It’s probably time to give it a read again.
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by adestefan 3y ago
Add in cooling requirements, too.

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