bitwize

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by bitwize 5mo ago
Corporate requirements, apparently. Some of SQLite's corporate users insisted on a CoC that met certain requirements, which the Code of Ethics did not meet.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Oh my God I freaking love your app. The 90s Linux desktop vibes hit like a hammer. FLTK FTW!
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by bitwize 5mo ago
The people with commit bits to SQLite are a known, fixed, small set of individuals, all Christians. They decided to dispense with the usual Contributor Covenant derived code of conduct and adopt their own based on their shared value system.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Also "X is the real Y" is another tell. Surprised it didn't double down with "X—that's the real Y."
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Aside from work—commerce, entertainment, and social communication are pretty much the only things most normies will ever use a computer for. Maybe light accounting and scheduling as well. This has been true since the 90s when the normie mar
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by bitwize 5mo ago
And just a few years before then... Wii.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
They'd half-finish it then bury it, like they did with Fuchsia which is heavily Plan-9-inspired.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Wait till you see the UI the Amiga could run in 1 measly MiB of RAM. You could even run a sophisticated shell, multitasked along with everything else.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
"inspired by Scheme" "inspired by CL"
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Discipline and grit are perhaps the greatest predictors for success. High intelligence and the foresight to know what to work on, per Hamming, will get you much farther, but with discipline and grit alone your chances of failing completel
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I remember one of these sites had an image of a man who was a victim of a failed suicide attempt by "suck-starting a shotgun". The entire lower half of his face had been blown off. He was still alive.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Prompting the imagination (for example, writing prompts) was a thing before generative AI even emerged in a meaningful sense. And it does work. This is one of the reasons why I do literate programming using org-mode. It's easy to lose
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I think it was Hamming who said that some of the best researchers can only think well when they have a bench full of equipment in front of them.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Ah yes, Mcosoft ΓΛAX and Microsoft Marl. Groundbreaking products that paved the way for Visual Basic, Visual Studio, and beyond.
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Jack Henry Abbott was an American prisoner who corresponded with the author Norman Mailer, who successfully got a collection of his letters published as In the Belly of the Beast , which contain scathing critiques of the American justice a
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by bitwize 5mo ago
It's okay. In the near future people will not own a computer of significant capability at all, so it's not like they'd even be able to develop without a cloud connection in the first place. And, for the most part, they will b
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Ah, Fails. "Before we made x improvement, the app had to restart 400x a day, now it's only 10x!" For all the complaining we do about "enshittification", we (Hackernews, the broader industry, whatever), are perfectly
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by bitwize 5mo ago
That has literally been table stakes for Windows development since the 90s. Not having the debugger fully integrated into your integrated development environment is strictly a problem of the commercial Unix and open source crowd and the
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by bitwize 5mo ago
It's funny, because I think that to certain other cultures, for example the Japanese, Christianity (and other Abrahamic religions) are Lovecraftian horror. Shinto isn't really a religion in the sense you or I know it, it's
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by bitwize 5mo ago
?Illegal function call Ok
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by bitwize 5mo ago
This takes me back. When I was about 12 years old I used Tandy BASIC to build a rudimentary programming editor that had a Multiplan-like interface. It's all part of the fun and challenge of programming: how can you construct something
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by bitwize 5mo ago
> Reminded me of when I had to be extra wordy to meet the 1000 minimum word limit for my high school essays. A huge AI signal to me is not em dashes, not emoji, not even the "not X, it's Y" construction which oh god I&#x27
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Relevant: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uVzLzClY2E8
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by bitwize 5mo ago
I was just talking about Ted Turner. I was at the in-laws' the other day and I said to my father-in-law, "Ted Turner—you probably already know this because you probably met Ted Turner, but he used to run an evening cartoon block f
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by bitwize 5mo ago
These tours are like the tutorial bit in a video game where the game wants to show you a new mechanic so it comes to a dead stop, and then your character is whisked off to an alternate dimension consisting of a bare room covered in Holodeck
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by bitwize 5mo ago
The schfive-five-five is schfifty-five! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-XccUMOQ978 (I just made half y'all crash out with old internet nostalgia. The rest of you are like "huh?")
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Dijkstra once said that "The question of whether machines can think is about as interesting as that of whether submarines can swim." I think I understand his meaning. He wasn't claiming that machines cannot think, but that on
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by bitwize 5mo ago
Man, seeing The Avengers (2012) in a PACKED theater full of excited Marvel fans was something else. The deafening roar completely drowned out the Hulk's line "puny god".
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by bitwize 5mo ago
"Well, you could go by Mike instead of Michael." "Why should I have to change? He's the one who sucks!"
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by bitwize 5mo ago
And this is why you need digitally attestable government IDs, and devices that run government-approved operating systems that can securely check these IDs in a tamper-resistant way. Anything else won't survive the "three kids in a

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