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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
if you read kernighan's book (he was there man) about the history of unix or whatever, it's quite a lovely read and talks a lot about the motivations and origins of unix, and hopefully some new unix tools for even the experienced
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
>Functional + universal data structure + homoiconic = power >It everything used TSV or tabular data, But is not the case. With lisp you can always be sure. basic unix kit is built around line-separated lines which are field-separated
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
It's possible to build the platform you describe but not possible to make significant progress. Joe User won't visit that site, boring! They'll visit the exciting dramasite for all the sweet gossip. These site - twitter, fa
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
The bay area is godawful in terms of expense, traffic, regulations "WHERES YOUR LOICENSE". Prop 13 means the new home buyer has 10-100x higher property taxes than their old home neighbor. Permitting madness means that in the sant
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Well that's part of the romance scam game, you don't want to seem too needy. The best romance scammers will play a little bit of "hard to get" and a little bit of "good cop bad cop" if you know what I mean. T
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
One of the most romantic dalliances I ever did have was on the soft sand on the beaches of Italy, moonlight, red wine, the sand felt like velvet and silk rolled into one. I just think back on it and think to myself "let me brag about
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Just to add to this, I don't think we even need a physical button to trigger a photo. There should just be one big touchpad and screen like the tesla car. Speaking of, why does the tesla car have a steering wheel and gas pedal at all
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
When I was a war pilot this was common practice. Shut off radio. You'd know they were going to mess with you in creative and twisted ways. So much simpler to put it on mute. Usually works best in situations where radio silence is al
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Yes. On my personal webistite I talk a lot about making forum posts -- things like typoes in what you enter into textboxes on websites, and also I had a bad habit if clicking "submit" to comments early so only a partial comment w
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Well the rightful answer is "it's complicated" DNA wise yes there are 3 billion bases and they sample about a million of them, so 1/3000 bases. THing is about the bases 1. most of them are the same in everyone 2. the on
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Yea fo sho', and it was the Cray 3 supercomputer actually based on gallium arsenide at the time, meaning faaasssttt clock rates, about 6x faster than compeititors in terms of Hz. So that would be something like a 50 ghz processor toda
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
This so much. Anyone who has ever spent time having to be stuck at a Greyhound terminal in the south knows what true hell looks like. They are full of the sketchiest people of every city. It's not the worst (i.e. a southern bus station
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Hah that's classic politics "Hello John Q. Public, here's all our data! It speaks for itself" John Q. Public: "Wow, you really improved last few years homicide-wise" "And so you see, a third party unrelat
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
There are rumors out there in the spacefaring community, wallpapered pretty heavily and media/google censored, regarding the astronaut responsible: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-could-take-legal-action-agai... Basic
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
I was thinking D but also there is basically a superset of D and HighC that incorporates best of both worlds, some people here may know it, it's called "Holy C" and it was the basis for a new operating system in the same way
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
exactly - refactor the monolith. What we do is refactor the monolith into microservices that we like to call "micro-monoliths". What you get is the agility of a microservice with the simplicity and lack of sync issues of a monol
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
>Those are all either answered in the README, answered in files linked from the README or not mentioned in the README/docs (like Netflix integration, playing files) so one can feel safe to assume it's not a feature if it's
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Father Ted opined on the concept quite extensively. It's hard to say whether the python "leaders" responsible for this are sociopaths or well-intentioned. If well intentioned the concept is to mold the community into an ima
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
ironic in some way? >we want to detect plastic >microplastics bad >we built an open source masheen to detect evil plastic >why yes, to build it you must unleash the amazing power of plastic
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
JPEG XL is a great name from a marketing perspective. The Apple roadmap has several successor compressors with AI elements in the planning sheet - JPEG XL PLUS, JPEG XL MAX. These formats will have small nominal yearly licensing fees to u
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
>This forms the basis for arguments that additional regulation of high-risk biological research is unnecessary >such research just killed ~30M people. It was a lab leak.. I should know. The Chinese government has admitted it in secre
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Look out Moore's Law! Instead of doubling transistors every two years, look out, new Sheriff in town -- Gelsinger's law : the staff roster halves every two years! We predict in the coming decades, Intel will consist of a single CE
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
It's got nothing to do with Meta's social media business directly. Massive as the FB dataset is, it gets mogged by google who, what with their advanced non-PHP-based infra and superior coders, basically have way more and way bett
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
TOR as it exists now is a honeypot simple as. Same as that documentary called "Benedict Cumberbniamnatch's Great Work" where they cracked the radio signals of the Frenchmen but they had to let the submarine sink so that they
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
not sending a man to the moon means people will LIVE actually, I can't imagine what kind of hell that would bring if Boeing tried to make another moonrocket
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
> Why is Hezbollah firing rockets into Israel? Why, Israel sent them a page and they are merely returning the call, as would be the right thing to do among polite company.
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
How about this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_refrigerator Far as damaging the environment, I'm a contrarian. If people tell me "blah blah we're forcing you to help the environment because
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
It was once said by a famous african dictator: “There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.” ― Forest Whitaker So maybe it is like this. It's a funny thing to say, because in this mindset there is freedom
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
Still doesn't work, NSA has a backdoor agreement with "Big Font" to put little tags in fonts to pinpoint the time, data, and individual authoring the pdf or similar. Similar to how they watermark laser printers, the waterfon
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by amy-petrik-214 2y ago
As a private sector company their job is maximizing revenue forever. There old slogan was "don't be evil" they have a new slogan, which is "vanquish your enemies, to chase them before you, to rob them of their wealth, t

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