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by breck 2y ago
> "Steve ...[Jobs] understood a very important principle: there's no upside in being wrong."
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Abraham Lincoln: "Discourage Litigation." (2023)(breckyunits.com)
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Podcasts About Programming(pldb.io)
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by breck 2y ago
Hi! We are interested in similar problems. I worked on a new idea for EMR at UH Cancer Center called Pau ( https://github.com/breck7/pau ). It's now encompassed as a tiny part of a larger effort called Scroll ( http
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Daniel Kallin's Homepage(skanaar.github.io)
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by breck 2y ago
> because these intellectual property protections are intended to incentivize creation Judge something not by what people say it does, but by what it actually does. > If that incentive overwhelms these models of information sharing an
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by breck 2y ago
Go further. If you model ideas mathematically, you will see that societies plagued with IPDD ( https://breckyunits.com/ipdd.html ) will become extinct, because they prolong the lifespan of bad ideas, and those with intellectu
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by breck 2y ago
I thought this was going to be a long form essay/prank/experiment, where someone launched a crowd funding campaign for a "transparently idiotic startup", and pulled off a $1M raise. Ironically however, if you were to do
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by breck 2y ago
> https://nomnoml.com/ Oh this is nice.
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by breck 2y ago
I work on Scroll ( https://scroll.pub ), which currently compiles to HTML/TXT et cetera. Compiling to JPG, SVG, PDF, MKV, MP4, et cetera, are high on my todo list, but I really haven't seen a standout way to do that, bey
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by breck 2y ago
> Layering. That is an important word. It's almost like this post has many layers to it, and that it's not really about box shadows.
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by breck 2y ago
Would love to read more. Also: > This site is powered by Jekyll (but, I absolutely definitely do not recommend it) Can I recommend Scroll to you ( https://scroll.pub/ ). It's not good yet, but should be great in 3 - 6
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by breck 2y ago
https://archive.vn/c7v3Y
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Scroll Builds Text Files(scroll.pub)
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How far does sound travel in the ocean?(oceanservice.noaa.gov)
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> It was installed in Mac OS X as standard, not sure if it still is these days. It is! Just type "tclsh"
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Live Now: World Wide Scroll AMA(youtube.com)
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A brief interview with Tcl creator John Ousterhout (2023)(pldb.io)
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A Brief Interview with Pascal and Oberon Creator Dr. Niklaus Wirth(pldb.io)
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Show HN: Building a successor to the web – live stream and AMA(youtube.com)
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ETA!: A Measure of Evolution(breckyunits.com)
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by breck 2y ago
Let's try it. Can you shoot me an email?
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A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)(pldb.io)
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by breck 2y ago
Not sure if you have the patience to use a beta product, but I recently started adding slideshows to Scroll. This source code: http://hub.scroll.pub/slideshowdemo/index.scroll Produces this HTML: http://hub.
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by breck 2y ago
Looking at vCard ( https://pldb.io/concepts/vcard.html ) it would be straightforward to compile Contacts to vCard. I am not the one to do that due to time constraints, but a company in the space did reach out to me and t
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by breck 2y ago
> it's YOU the one who can integrate. In modern software it's the opposite Ah I see what you mean. Yes I agree. > It's simply about time to admin that software can only be FLOSS and the competition can only be in hw. Me
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by breck 2y ago
can we summon dang by putting in his username? In general, I agree with your complaints about the flagging system on this site. It seems pretty indefensible, to provide no disclosure at all about who the judges (admins) are, and to require
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by breck 2y ago
Agreed, but it's a technical problem that can be solved. We've started the solution with ScrollSets ( https://breckyunits.com/scrollsets.html ), which power PLDB.io, among others. Orders of magnitude smaller than Wi
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by breck 2y ago
Right, the Selfish Gene is one of the best books I ever read. There's also a paper I recently came across ( https://warpcast.com/breck/0xea2e1a35 ) which talks about how causation is a two way street: low level node
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by breck 2y ago
> I've only read second hand descriptions of Minsky's ideas, so feel free to send some homework my way. Here you go: https://breckyunits.com/marvin-minsky.html I think you are right in that Minsky was missing

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