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by blippage 4y ago
Also worth reading: The Year [2022] of C++ Successor Languages [0] "interface" seems a step forward, amongst other things. I'd like to see Sumtypes (aka Algebraic Data Types) without the pain. And recursive data structures. A
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by blippage 4y ago
> not the frenzy of bullish rallies. One maxim I heard: in a bull market, the less you know, the more you make.
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by blippage 4y ago
Brit here. I view tipping as dishonest. It's a trick to make something seem cheaper than it is. They're your employees, you pay them. Don't expect me to be a charity. Give me the cost up-front. If I decide it's too much,
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by blippage 4y ago
A few weeks ago I was opining that companies were laying off staff because "that's what everybody else was doing." I'm glad to see to few folks concur. Copycat behaviour is not uncommon, I think, and is swayed by market
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by blippage 4y ago
It's interesting to contrast this with Japan. Japan has some of the longest-lived companies [1]. Construction, hotels, sake and confectionery feature prominently. Meanwhile, the average company lifespan on the S&P500 went down fro
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by blippage 4y ago
Geeks, MOPs and sociopaths in subculture evolution https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
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by blippage 4y ago
Gotta admit, PDPs look really cool, and even modern. The toggle buttons, the blinking lights, it's all so fascinating to watch. Then, after 5 minutes, it occurs to you "If only there was a more efficient way of doing this". I
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by blippage 4y ago
I used to like Ubuntu, but gave up on it for similar reasons. I have an old machine, so I find Ubuntu too bloated. I've been on Debian Stable for a few years now, using MATE. It's fuss-free. I don't find the software too old,
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by blippage 4y ago
Interesting. Although I've no immediate plans to use it, sixel support seems pretty cool.
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by blippage 4y ago
I've thought about this, and I agree, and I'm no lover of any of the FAANGs. It makes Apple look like they know what they're doing, whilst the others are just following others and going in and out with the tide. I think it al
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by blippage 4y ago
Those guys really took the "Universal" in "Universal Serial Bus" to heart. Let's multiplex every conceivable connection device known to man into one giant standard, and throw in the ability to power the devices, too
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by blippage 4y ago
> Why couldn’t one simply build on top of existing HTTP infrastructure, throw away all the baggage and instead implement a new Content-Type, which existing browsers then could parse? "Just use HTTP" is something I've thoug
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by blippage 4y ago
I like gemini, and have a "capsule" hosted over on sdf. Gemtext files are great for writing technical documentation. I have a capsule hosted privately on my desktop, for speedier access. The SDF site often runs slowly. Setting up
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by blippage 4y ago
One of the best explanations of monads I saw was actually using Python.
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by blippage 4y ago
Here's my explanation: think of linear regression. Now ask yourself, what if I applied the idea of correlation/regression to a sine wave. An (audio) signal can be broken down into an addition of sine waves having different frequen
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by blippage 4y ago
And kids these days think that Firefox taking up 8G of RAM is perfectly fine. The site seems responsive, even though HN must be generating a fair bit of traffic. It's quite impressive what that little machine is doing. I had a ZX81, wi
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by blippage 4y ago
> In a cheap money environment you take the money and you gamble for growth, It's a classical Austrian economists nightmare. The argument is that cheap money stimulates malinvestment. That is to say that corporate projects that woul
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by blippage 4y ago
I share his sentiments. We keep layering more and more gloop on the web. It will always be a game of wack-a-mole. It's like Windows requires TPM, but then gives itself permission to snoop at your files. Or we have oauth, but then githu
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by blippage 4y ago
I discovered some weird thing: our brain seems to have "taste memory", separate from "regular" memory. If you have the same dinner several times in a row, for example, you become averse to it. You then have to stop havin
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by blippage 4y ago
> This is a brilliant prompt, for discussion / thought provocation. The web is such a complicated mess right now that I wish we would revert to it being just a document-based format. That's why I'm interested in things lik
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by blippage 4y ago
A concussion is just a sign of weakness leaving your body.
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by blippage 4y ago
If you think people don't care if you live or die, try missing a few car payments -- Woody Allen.
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by blippage 4y ago
> It’s also quite affordable. The x5000 model (which is the power system) retails at around €1650, I think there's the problem right there. 1650EUR seems like a lot of dough to me to tinker around with a toy system, basically. Show
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by blippage 4y ago
Moore often talks about being a "1X" programmer, as opposed to a "10X" programmer. By which he means that he writes only a fraction of the code that others do. I think it all boils down to specificity vs generality. Moor
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by blippage 4y ago
Some guy once said that Forth's fragility is its strength. It forces you to think in very simple terms. "Zen" is a good way of describing Forth. Charles Moore often says things that seem like zen riddles in themselves, like O
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by blippage 4y ago
One solution for the few, not the many, would be a resurgent interest in protocols like gopher or more recent protocols like gemini.
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by blippage 4y ago
"intuitive and feature rich formal verification frameworks for the major programming languages" I doubt that such things are really possible. I see two problems: 1. computers in general don't have domain knowledge, so they ca
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by blippage 4y ago
I've been trying to befriend crows, but it's a slow process. When I go for a walk I usually take a rich tea biscuit with me. I put it on a post where a crow sometimes rests. At first, it was more-or-less luck as to who and when a
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by blippage 4y ago
It seems he made it to 70, and then decided to just stop ageing.
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by blippage 4y ago
Sounds like when Russia is finished doing what they're doing, China is next up to bat. Happy 2023, everyone.

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