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by asciimov 4y ago
One can spend an enjoyable afternoon re-implementing some of these using the equivalent of lisp's cons as a node: let node = (a,b) => (bool) => bool?a:b; It's a fun little exercise to also keep the rest of the functio
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by asciimov 4y ago
Maybe we just ban kids from smart phones. Or ban social media apps on phones operated by minors.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I had the one PC in that era that WinME was smooth sailing on. It was a Packard Bell with a 200mhz Pentium 1 (96 mb of ram at the time, i think). For whatever reason, and combination of hardware, ME had no issues running. I had less blue sc
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by asciimov 4y ago
I am very concerned about the future of jobs and workers. Our capitalistic society is salivating at the idea of cheapening the cost of production by eliminating all the creative and generative work that workers make. The capitalist class do
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by asciimov 4y ago
I kinda wonder what is gonna happen to them when they reach end of life. Knowing the history of these kinds of things, they will be left to rot and dangle in the fields they were planted.
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by asciimov 4y ago
As a kid that grew up on the south plains (Texas panhandle). I have a love hate relationship with those windmills. On the one hand it's neat seeing all that green power generation. On the other, it does ruin the landscape to some exten
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by asciimov 4y ago
There are dozens of us! I have a 9 year old laptop, and 3 in use desktops that are between 9 and 10 years old. Once you have 4 cores and 16+ gigs of ram, it's hard to need any more performance in typical day to day tasks.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I imagine there is opportunity, but it's gonna be for a big company like Amazon, and essentially be a modern Sears. A place where you can go in and buy now, get it if it's there otherwise it's delivered.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I have been on a tear lately returning numerous Amazon orders. Often due to incorrect descriptions or being sent broken items. A recent "favorite" of mine was while trying to order a keyboard wrist rest, the first one arrived fold
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by asciimov 4y ago
I didn't want to spoil the fun of all those road signs telling about the free 72oz steak in Amarillo. (Those signs start popping up outside of Oklahoma City and Albuquerque) If you're lucky you will see someone attempting the chal
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by asciimov 4y ago
If you're near it, go see it, just to say you did. Then do yourself a favor, go have lunch at The Big Texan Steakhouse, to admire the 72oz steaks. That said, not sure why you were out there to begin with. Maybe you were out admiring th
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by asciimov 4y ago
For me the biggest failure of all the VR headsets is there is no demo units at big box store and the lack of a TV app to see what the user is doing. People don't want to blindly buy an unproven expensive gaming system without trying it
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by asciimov 4y ago
The next wave of print journalism is upon us. Soon we will gladly companies to get access to their organically created and edited content slathered in Ads and DRM.
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by asciimov 4y ago
Indeed. I'm always fascinated by the idea of high density cities, because that kind of lifestyle is so foreign to me. While I would love to have stores and restaurants that stay open past 9 pm, I don't think I want to live in such
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by asciimov 4y ago
I'm sure many would consider where I grew up low density. It was just underdeveloped suburban section of a town of 110K people. I'm sure when everything is in walking distance, that the costs to store a vehicle becomes unmaintaina
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by asciimov 4y ago
As an aging millennial that grew up in West Texas, I have the exact opposite feelings. To me cars, equal freedom. I grew up in a small neighborhood, I rode bikes to my friends houses there but my neighborhood was so far removed from other p
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by asciimov 4y ago
Shooting film is a different skill. You really need to have experience with the medium to understand how it performs and when to use it. Film has a long expensive feedback loop, with limited exposures, processing time, and associated costs;
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by asciimov 4y ago
I'd like to imagine they, like other tcgs from that era, ended up in a landfill after a parent decided to toss those "baseball" cards telling you years later, "...but you don't like baseball anyway".
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by asciimov 4y ago
If I've learned anything, its people often never verify the correctness of anything automated.
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by asciimov 4y ago
Where do those creative bits come from? Often the creative bits come out of the struggle to do the work. If you get rid of the struggle, then you also get rid of the motivation for their creation.
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by asciimov 4y ago
It would help in having some sort of body that says, we want to have humans involved in the chain of responsibility when creating code and not willfully hand over the control to AI.
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by asciimov 4y ago
It's too bad programmers don't also have some sort of licensure as well. It would be helpful in keeping humans employed in creating and maintaining code, instead of letting AI run off with all our jobs.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I'm increasingly frustrated by the amount of people willing to give up control of their own thought processing. At what point do you decide, I'm good enough and don't need to improve, I'll make the AI do it for me!
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by asciimov 4y ago
This kids story is too wordy and the sentence cadence is uneven. I guess this will get better, and soon amazon with be flooded with a bunch of kids books and that is kinda sad.
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by asciimov 4y ago
This just complicates things if you have any kind of complex nesting. Something "simple" like: a(b(),c(),d(e(),f(g()))) Turns into the following: value |> b() |> a( %, c() , v2 |> e() |> d(%, v1 |> g()
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by asciimov 4y ago
All of them are doing this to shore up short term value. Say this saves google 1 to 2 Billion over this next year, that's a billion dollars they can spend on stock buy backs and dividend payments.
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by asciimov 4y ago
I’d look at refurbished laptops if you’re price sensitive. I’d rather have enough ram than a brand new system.
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by asciimov 4y ago
Those are short term ownership costs. Major Rental Companies often pull cars between 35k-50k miles, which they can pile on the car in 12 months. For most modern cars that is a couple of oil changes, but before the long term maintenance item
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by asciimov 4y ago
Rental Companies are notorious for not doing scheduled maintenance on cars.
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by asciimov 4y ago
While I'm all for people having chickens, they do need to have lot size requirements. If you think your neighbors dog is noisy in the morning, just wait till they have a flock of chickens.

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