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by blippage 6y ago
"Economy is on the cusp of a major boom and economists believe it could last" If that's what economists believe, then we're all doomed. Stock Market 1929, Yale economist Irving Fisher declared that "stock prices hav
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My thinking on the matter is: it's kindergarten, play with the damn playdough. I'm suspicious that we in the West have become obsessed with formalism. What can be measured must be measured. Do kindergartens really need a "cur
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by blippage 6y ago
"Internalised misogyny", perhaps? I mean, why not, right? If gays can allegedly have "internalised homophobia", then why can't women have "internalised misogyny". And so it goes. When we jettison reason, e
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My own pet theory is that each age has a Great Insanity, almost like it's some kind of cosmic human constant. The particular insanity varies from generation to generation, but it still exists. It might be witches in one generation, fly
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Herb Sutter, a C++ expert, said that is possible (but it's not the general case) to simplify C++ by adding features. IIRC, on such feature is the "spaceship" operator <=>, which simplifies writing comparisons. You do ne
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by blippage 6y ago
> The attack on organised labour in the 1980's resulted in the shuttering of large parts of the UK coal industry. My understanding is that Thatcher closed down coal because production was uneconomical and she didn't want govern
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Whenever I hear the words "gig economy", I mentally substitute the words "shite economy". It's basically just low-paid shite that is exploitative. A few years back I came across a site that was looking for technical
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by blippage 6y ago
I'm not far behind you age-wise. I'm increasingly subscribing to the philosophy "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity". Like, people who work for Google and Facebook. It's all a big deal for them. For me, it's &qu
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4. Excellent documentation which will only likely get better. SDK in C/C++, and MicroPython. You can even learn concepts like PIO and DMA in MicroPython. Adafruit expressed confidence in their MicroPython libraries working out of the b
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by blippage 6y ago
This will require that the electricity grid generates an extra 1.21 gigawatts, though.
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I hear that their use of Full Metal Democracy helps avoid surgical complications. More importantly, it prevents their democracies from jamming during particularly intense diplomatic negotiations.
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by blippage 6y ago
Meh, $150 is pretty steep. I think it's all good in the long run, but I'm going to sit this one out. I'm still waiting for my dream machine: something like a hybrid between a microcontroller and a SBC. It should have all the
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Seems that the whole thing is just a bunch of rich kids getting mad at daddy, not a serious union in the way we generally think of them. It seems that this union is more like a political party. Well, why should I join a party if I don'
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by blippage 6y ago
> If I had to make a prediction, I'd say that over time open protocols will end up winning I think Alan Kay made a prediction to that effect a few years ago, so you're in good company. I certainly hope you're both right. P
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> Haskell is a language for experimenting, success is not their goal and it would remove resources to actual research. It's somewhat facetious motto is "Avoid success at all cost".
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by blippage 6y ago
Definitely worth a mention here is Magic-1: http://www.magic-1.org/ Impressive stuff, albeit slow. It runs Minix, and you can even telnet into it. There's a YT video, too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by blippage 6y ago
WhatsApp wanted me to give my phone number in order to sign up. That's a hard "no" from me. I gave up on Facebook ages ago.
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Democracy is the worst form of government there is, except for all the others. -- Winston Churchill. I may be factually wrong, but I hear that Singapore is/was somewhat autocratic. However, the government was competent and honest, avoi
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by blippage 6y ago
I'm not sure what prompted this in the first place.Had the ACM done anything that was perceived as wrong? In my view, the letter seems to be a contradictory admixture of Progressivism and Rationalism. > Such actions have included ca
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by blippage 6y ago
I visited ancient Pompeii about a decade ago. The roads were basically open sewers. Nice. There were stepping stones at regular intervals so that you could cross from one side of the pavement to the other. There stones were spaced so that t
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by blippage 6y ago
Customer: My lightbulb isn't working! Software engineer: That's odd, our reference lightbulb is working perfectly.
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by blippage 6y ago
I tried writing my own little accounting app in GnuCOBOL. For fun, believe it or not. It didn't take me too long to bow to the inevitable and rewrite it in Perl. Speaking tangentially, there's a project on Sourceforge called Apple
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by blippage 6y ago
Sex is like a game of Bridge. If you don't have a good partner, then you'd better have a strong hand.
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"Can we make a friendly Libre Desktop operating system with focus on simplicity, minimalist elegance, and usability?" The author mentions "Decoupling of the hardware from the OS and of the OS from the applications" I&#x2
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HTML is a stateless protocol Everyone is trying to turn the internet into an application server, which is stateful. Developing for the web is, therefore, necessarily complex, because you're trying to hammer a square peg into a round ho
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The time window is slipping by now, but we are living in a world where computing titans stride the earth. It's the computing equivalent of the time of Newton and his influence on Physics.
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Back in the late 90's I worked as a programmer. There was a minibus that took us from the train station to headquarters. One guy on the minibus said: you know what the best language to program in is? It's the one you want you prog
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by blippage 6y ago
I saw the Moomins when I was at university. I should probably have been studying. I happened across some episodes on Youtube a couple of years ago, and my opinion of it was that it was "enchanting". Although aimed at kids, there&#
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I think the author misdiagnosed the problem. It's not Corporate that's the real problem, it's the fact that what you're working on is probably just not that interesting. Plus the fact that you have to keep slugging away
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I see RISC OS has having one particular advantage: cooperative multitasking. You can basically turn it into a gigantic MCU with proper interrupts and timing. It doesn't seem like it's a niche others are interested in, though. Get

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