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by aparsons 5y ago
I remember a post here this year about Big tech being used as a tool of oppression. The poster was laughed out, but this is a very real issue. Found it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26117559
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by aparsons 5y ago
AIOps is the hot new buzzword. Saw it thrown around quite a bit recently, like blockchain in years past
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Game 6 of the 1998 NBA Finals(en.wikipedia.org)
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by aparsons 5y ago
I think a lot of people - dare I say it, even PaulG - are missing the point of Mighty (or not putting it into words properly). Mighty isn’t betting on the internet continually getting more bloated, or being better than a thick client. Even
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by aparsons 5y ago
Excellent! One of my favorite HN moments :)
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Did they ever mention who they are or what company? Very curious as I also enjoy reading their posts on occasion
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by aparsons 5y ago
Thanks for the overview. I’m looking forward to it, and best of luck with your project!
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by aparsons 5y ago
I find tech like this so impressive, because back when I used to code for a living, web browsers were slow, clunky and woefully underpowered. Is the core app just using a canvas/svg? Did you have to build your own UI toolkit on top of
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by aparsons 5y ago
I think it’s misdirected anger. The reason we enjoy the strong, stable economy that allowed Google and Microsoft is flourish is our strong military that prefers to play “away games”. I often half-joke that the aircraft carrier did more for
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by aparsons 5y ago
I read it more as a plea that “we’re desperate”
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by aparsons 5y ago
What do you mean by game-style here? I’m very intrigued. Any place to read more about these?
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by aparsons 5y ago
Linus is a brilliant guy. Underneath his quirky, cold persona, and the short temper, is a guy I admire not just for his technical brilliance, but his ability to put it into words so concisely and correctly. That’s the one superpower people
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by aparsons 5y ago
I think Karl is one of the players that history looks back on more kindly than the present did. He was seen as not a winner/unable to win at the time, and a lot of fans valued that more so than at present. If you asked 10 people to cho
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by aparsons 5y ago
I’ve seen a lot of efforts to add a notion of associative memory into neural networks. Have any exciting applications of such architectures been publicised?
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by aparsons 5y ago
A VSCode extension (triggered on README.* files) that does this would be very nice to have
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by aparsons 5y ago
He was a good numbers guy, but there were always five or more players better than him throughout his tenure. Certainly not 2 MVP's good.
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by aparsons 5y ago
I have not watched NBA basketball in years, but the NBA had the most vague definition of MVP going back decades. What it certainly is not - since the 1980s or longer - is “best player”. Magic over Jordan in the late 90s set that precedent,
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by aparsons 5y ago
I turn my old Macbooks into pseudo desktops as the batteries start to go. My 2012 MBP is my girlfriend’s “desktop” now.
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by aparsons 5y ago
Cue arms race
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by aparsons 5y ago
Link is broken
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by aparsons 5y ago
I chuckled! I spoke to Anthony at the Udacity office in Mountain View around 2018 (he’d already left Uber to found his trucking company). He seemed like he’d given up on city streets being autonomously drivable any time soon, but highways w
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by aparsons 5y ago
This is a near product, and a reminder than first-mover advantage is huge. It’s not trivially cloneable, but the barriers to entry are very small. As a first mover, PhotoPea’s advantage is mindshare, nor data or infrastructure.
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by aparsons 5y ago
Neuralink /s
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by aparsons 5y ago
If you’d like to read a canonical, well-commented implementation, here is one from OpenJDK: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/jdk9/jdk/file/37a05a11f281/s...
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by aparsons 5y ago
They should have done this a long time ago. Sharing photos in a non-attachment format with close friends is a feature I wish iMessage had. I hope they borrow a little from Google+ circles. Android support will also be very welcome. Apple is
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by aparsons 5y ago
The “arbitrary” part is a force of how rather than what programs are run. Is your Smalltalk code running by compiling it into the OS? Is it loaded as a library? Can I write a C backend to output an indistinguishable library? In the latt
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by aparsons 5y ago
You may have found a loophole in my specification :) I’d like to amend it to specify that an OS refers to software “that can run...”. (And this is why we do design reviews!). In your example, a real or virtual machine’s load/setregs
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by aparsons 5y ago
Thanks for your input. I don’t know the insider story like you do, but went off descriptions of the review process from good friends who worked at Amazon.
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I like to define an OS as something that can execute arbitrary binaries. So if your hypothetical Smalltalk OS has a defined executable format that non-Smalltalk programs can compile to, I’d call it an OS. Note that this also makes for examp
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by aparsons 5y ago
Per Vognsen’s Bitwise (*) was one of my favorites until it was discontinued. It’s not a complete set, but still a great watch. I also enjoyed George Hotz’s occasional programming streams. He reminds me of some of my favorite colleagues from

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