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by chubot 2y ago
This got a downvote and I wonder if it’s from a person who doesn’t think it’s true
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by chubot 2y ago
I learned in college Geometry class that you can transform a square to an equilateral triangle in 11 cuts or so So I wrote a matlab program to draw the shapes, and cut them out, and it works It’s mathematically exact, not just approximate S
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by chubot 2y ago
Hm why is there only a single syntax -> for a connector? If different connectors have different semantics, as local and remote communication fundamentally do, then it seems like you want different syntax too With a single syntax, it does
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by chubot 2y ago
Wrapping network requests in naive procedure/function calls is definitely not the way to go, as many people have learned (I've personally seen a good-but-inexperienced co-worker make that specific design error, on a failing projec
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by chubot 2y ago
They have a different model -- one is better for documents, and one is better for programs/data XML and HTML are attributed text, while S-expressions are more like a homogeneous tree If you have more text than metadata, then they are m
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by chubot 2y ago
I concur with the other reply -- in my experience, it's not difficult to apply for an NLnet grant, or receive funds from one
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by chubot 2y ago
It's true, but really it's both ... there is "progress" and there are also cycles. Dalio explicitly superimposes them on each other I don't think I believed this until 2017 or 2020 or so, but it seems clear that th
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by chubot 2y ago
OK I tracked down that claim to Michael Cembalest of JP Morgan, in a 2012 article https://archive.is/kQNT4#selection-1577.155-1581.525 https://archive.is/Z2qEu Although there are problems with the analysis
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by chubot 2y ago
From the title, and skimming over this article, I notice an irony: the analysis is "short" by Eastern standards They're only talking about the last 100-200 years. That's significant on the American time scale, but insig
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by chubot 2y ago
Hm what’s the best way to look up the owner of a business? I share this viewpoint on dentists and doctors
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by chubot 2y ago
Bing is an alternative to Google Search, that took billions of dollars to build I used it, it's OK, not really any better overall. Slightly worse in some areas and slightly better in others The problem seems to be that the incentives
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by chubot 2y ago
I find the idea of a home filled with books and its inhabitants talking about them pretty romantic. Does anyone else find themselves talking about insipid “headlines” with certain relatives? Like various wars and political events Because t
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by chubot 2y ago
I find it hard to imagine a solar event that will wipe out info on both sides of the earth evenly :-) I think all the missing people and countries would be just as big a problem …
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by chubot 2y ago
This is wild! So much diversity in life
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by chubot 2y ago
fly.io is "serverless", but there are HTTP servers inside your Docker container, so I don't agree -- in that case it refers to the lack of pinning to a physical machine https://fly.io/blog/the-serverless-
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by chubot 2y ago
FWIW I agree with you -- serverless does not refer to "web server", it refers to "linux server machine" (whether it's physical or virtual) You don't care about the specific machine, the OS kernel, the distro, t
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by chubot 2y ago
> They charge you only when that thing happens and the code runs. That's how App Engine worked in 2008, and it looks like it still works that way: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/pricing Apps running in the
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by chubot 2y ago
Yeah also heroku and the whole generation of “PaaS” I was never quite sure why we got the name “serverless”, or where it came from, since there were many such products a few years before, and they already had a name App engine had both batc
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by chubot 2y ago
I don’t really understand the question, because based on the details in the article, SOME people knew he was wealthy, but he wasn’t a public figure Most people aren’t public figures, wealthy or not He had a job, a bunch of kids, multiple wi
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by chubot 2y ago
Well, it's possible to wait 50 years, and still NOT have realized the full impact of your work in society Sometimes science/engineering turns out like that e.g. I think Claude Shannon is like that -- his impact continues to rise,
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by chubot 2y ago
I definitely think their work is deserving of awards, but I kinda agree with other commenters in that this says more about the Nobel committee than anything i.e. Hinton has already won a Turing Award in 2018, and there is no Nobel for compu
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by chubot 2y ago
Agreed, I definitely like how Vim makes me feel, and how it opens up some head space I recently wrote a comment about how I started using it 20 years ago, and even then it was viewed as OLD !! My older co-workers were using Java IDEs, won
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by chubot 2y ago
Yes! And I remember "Back to the 70's with Serverless" (2020) as a great article which specifically mentioned JCL and the clunkiness of the modern cloud: https://archive.ph/sGwuv https://news.ycom
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by chubot 2y ago
My concern is not really about jobs! It's about the "thoughts you're able to think" I guess whether you think this is real or not is a similar question to whether you think the iPad/iPhone thing is real Did that ha
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by chubot 2y ago
It's not either-or -- I'd think of it as LAYERED - JSON denotes a data structure, but it is also text - you can use grep and sed on it, or jq - TSV denotes a data structure [1], but it is also text - you can use grep on it, or xsv
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by chubot 2y ago
I generally agree with this article in that PROGRAMMABILITY is the core of Unix, and it is why I've been working on https://www.oilshell.org/ for many years However I think the counterpoint is maybe a programming analo
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by chubot 2y ago
Search for "rc shell" and "es shell" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rc_(Unix_shell) https://wryun.github.io/es-shell/ They are alternative shells, both from the 90's I beli
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by chubot 2y ago
Oils/YSH has structured data and JSON! This was finished earlier this year Garbage Collection Makes YSH Different (than POSIX shell, awk, cmake, make, ...) - https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2024/09/gc.ht
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by chubot 2y ago
FWIW there are several Haskell and OCaml shell projects on this wiki page, which is editable: Internal DSLs for Shell - https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Internal-DSLs-for... and ones in many other l
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by chubot 2y ago
I"m not sure what "budget" you're referring to Apple didn't pay well for most of its life, until well after iPhone/iPad success It was not like "FAANG salaries", which started around 2011, by my recko

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