astrashe2

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by astrashe2 22d ago
Google treats its customers like a monopolist.
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by astrashe2 23d ago
Did you check in between the sofa cushions?
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by astrashe2 2mo ago
Graham's book "On Lisp" is really good. I think we should all try to recognize what's good from people, and call what's bad what it is. Unfortunately, there's a lot of bad in SV now.
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by astrashe2 2mo ago
This seems really clever. I don't know anything about what it takes to serve the targeted needs, so I could be wrong. But it's the sort of thing that pops out as really cool and useful, tech that makes the world better.
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by astrashe2 3mo ago
Windows 95 was definitely better for MS users, but it was really just patching a hole in a single company's product line. Macs were far more solid than Win 95/98/SE at the time, and things like Sun Sparc 5s were more solid t
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There were 91 Powerball big prize winners on April 29(powerball.com)
4 points by astrashe2 5mo ago|2 comments
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by astrashe2 5mo ago
There were an usually large number of big prize winners in last night's Powerball drawing. The drawn white balls form an arithmetic progression, with a common difference of 16.
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by astrashe2 5mo ago
General Motors is worth $72B.
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by astrashe2 6mo ago
Here's a mirror link: http://archive.today/CJlNk
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by astrashe2 7mo ago
It doesn't change the reality of what's happening, so I don't think this is worth much, but most people here don't think that.
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by astrashe2 7mo ago
I think the big problem is that this is more like a sanction, more than the government saying they don't want to do business with them. They government is saying that anyone they do business with can't do business with Anthropic.
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by astrashe2 7mo ago
I think that sometimes they decide certain businesses have too much fraud, and they just get out of them. It's terrible for them to do that with no notice, though.
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by astrashe2 8mo ago
Were any people who work for the garment industry involved in GNL's creation, or is it something that's coming entirely from tech people?
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by astrashe2 8mo ago
It wasn't quite as old, but there was an old MS DOS database system called Cosmos Revelation that was sort of a proto-nosql/graph database used keys and values for records, with the values being stored in long strings that contain
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by astrashe2 8mo ago
This is a great description of how I use Claude.
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by astrashe2 8mo ago
It would be really ironic if the guy who kept harping on the need to make us an interplanetary species ended up being the one who triggered a Kessler effect. But I don't think even he believes he's going to launch a million satell
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by astrashe2 8mo ago
My doctor's office was using it. I didn't want to give them my biometric data.
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by astrashe2 2y ago
I'm writing my first custom policy for MS's B2C identity provider, and it's a painful process. Making authentication and SSO more painless will actually make the world a better place -- apps will become more secure, people wi
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by astrashe2 2y ago
This matches my experience as an amateur programmer. The initial hill was steep, but I don't think it was because people weren't friendly. There is one cultural thing that might be confused with unfriendliness. Sometimes people
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by astrashe2 3y ago
I was on the Cypherpunks list, mostly as a lurker. The technical discussions were amazing. I was really into it at the time, but now I find some of the political ideas to be embarrassing. Other people had a lot to do with the spread of st
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by astrashe2 3y ago
Thank you, this is helpful.
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by astrashe2 3y ago
Does anyone have any idea how a person could go about trying to understand the basics of what's going on here, even in just a hand wavey way? This is so far above my head it seems like magic.
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by astrashe2 3y ago
I don't know if I'd go so far as to disqualify someone, but I agree with the basic point you're making. What you've described happens with religious people of a certain type as well. Sometimes they can adopt a legalisti
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by astrashe2 3y ago
Thanks, I'll definitely give that a try.
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by astrashe2 3y ago
I think they still introduce small problems for people who run software they don't like. For example, if you run Linux on your desktop, and want to use a Windows VM for work, you can't run WSL2 or Hyper-V in the KVM/Qemu gue
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by astrashe2 4y ago
Has anyone been able to confirm that this actually happened?