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by breckinloggins 2y ago
God I love plan9. Making my own os using many of its principles is a retirement project life goal. EDIt: I reserve the name “chaos10” for this project, since - like SerenityOS - there will be no plan.
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
I’m not sure what Mozilla has been doing the last ten years but I’m fairly certain it has little to do with what users want. I am thoroughly finished with them as an organization; hopefully they represent the end of an ugly era, which to my
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
When I was a kid in the 80s and early 90s I was fascinated with the process of making video games for my favorite console. But back then I didn’t really know how to research that topic (and much of it - unbeknownst to me - was behind NDA an
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
I don’t like ‘em. Bah. But then again I’m old now and have always been a bit too “trad” for even my own liking. If they prove popular, through, who am I to judge?
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
I am thinking of making this transition as well. As I age I realize how much of life's moods are intertwined with physical places and their emotional associations based on what I do in that place every day.
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
My study is modest: just a spare bedroom that serves as a home office, sanctuary, and musical practice room... and with a few cheap bookshelves to turn it into a "library" as well. Still, I have not always had the means nor the sp
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
My list would include Pink Floyd's 1994 Pulse concert.
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
Dorico is exceptional software, but it’s expensive and there’s a learning curve. If you have the money to spend and like fiddling with pro software I’d recommend it, but if MuseScore meets your needs then I’d stick with it. It seems to be i
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
Can you back up this claim? Knowing what I know of both Andreas and the Swift team I find this comment incredibly bizarre. You either know something the rest of us don’t or you have made an emotional outburst in the form of an insult.
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by breckinloggins 2y ago
I also thought of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” series, which I thought it odd to omit but eventually found it in the margin notes.
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
I don't know the proper term for whatever style of writing articles like these use, but I'm so happy I stopped reading them. Am I just old? Is this what getting old and curmudgeonly feels like?
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
I really enjoyed this article. My only critique is that the 2055 predictions are "meta-linear". In other words: the author avoids the (probable) mistake of taking our current tech and linearly regressing the numbers 33 years forwa
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
I bought this over 20 years ago and still have my copy. I definitely recommend it.
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
Not the way I would have preferred to see my Alma mater on HN, but not exactly shocked, either.
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
> really coming face-to-face with the profound systemic and otherwise deep long-term issues kids in this environment have to confront Are there any good books on this topic that you would recommend? I don't expect you to write a poi
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm the type to be attracted to this sort of thing, but: > Does Vogel, personally, wish to be a god? > He declined to answer on the record. Hopefully that's just end-of-article rhetorical flourish, b
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
> sounds like you are being rewarded for not holding your own end of the promise That's a risk, but I find that overall I pick things just hard enough to be challenging but just easy enough to make myself do. Then I do those things
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
Nobody's perfect, and besides... I haven't promised myself yet, so technically it isn't procrastination! :)
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
Someday I should write an entire blog post about that, but basically: 1. Promise yourself you will do thing tomorrow 2. If you do thing tomorrow, make another promise and repeat (but maybe a more challenging thing) 3. If you fail to do thin
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
> Is there a failure mode from having too much willpower? Yes. I was a terribly undisciplined child and carried much of that with me into college and early adulthood, so I spent over a decade doing "self discipline workouts". I
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
I wonder if this is the result of becoming desensitized to ever-more-radical ideas until one arrives at either fascism or some other hardcore uncompromising -ism? Kind of like a porn addiction but for philosophy, politics, and ethics.
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
After trying my best to wade through the neopuritan works of the MIT Press’ “Software Studies” series, this is a breath of fresh air.
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
I agree. 90% of the experiences I've had with modern "support" makes me wish I was talking to GPT-4, instead. The exceptions are either lucky breaks that feel about as good - and random - as finding a $20 bill on the ground a
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
> Most of these articles border on science fiction and involve a lot of projection. Given that the author stuck mostly to their own experiences of the here-and-now, I'm not sure I understand how the rest of your critique (which, ove
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
I have a thought experiment that has helped me think more carefully about consciousness (sentience) vs intelligence. Imagine an all-powerful genie appears and gives you a magic wand. But, the genie says, the magic wand only does one thing:
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by breckinloggins 3y ago
The parent was making a joke, but one way to answer your question might be: You feel bad because you assume they - like you - feel something when you mistreat them, and you assume this at a very deep level that might not, itself, feel like
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by breckinloggins 4y ago
To me this is about that ineffable thing called “sentience”. It always seemed obvious to me that entities which feel things are afforded commensurate moral consideration. I wish us all good luck in the future differentiating between actual
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by breckinloggins 4y ago
Yes. I've worked for nearly 30 years now (mostly corporate and consulting jobs). I enjoy it and always have. I've learned that this sentiment is somewhat uncommon, though.
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by breckinloggins 4y ago
I purchased the hardcopy and have been very pleased with it; it's been a long time since I've enjoyed a technical book so much.
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by breckinloggins 4y ago
> Comparisons of data between pairs of identical and non-identical twins showed that genetics plays only a minor and insignificant role in next-day alertness, explaining only about 25% of the differences across individuals. What a bizarr

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