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by ci5er 6y ago
Start here: https://www.andykessler.com/andy_kessler/excerpts/How_We_Got... Message me after. I am at wmarchibald@gmail.com EDIT: Oh! Also "Eat People" by same author - Kessler : https://www.
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by ci5er 6y ago
That makes perfect sense. They are looking for jobs. (Which is not bad!) "We" were going to build a new world. So I guess we were some kind of idiots. After I sold my first "game" on an Apple 2 in 1984 (they paid me a lo
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by ci5er 6y ago
Fair enough - I was just curious if the average modern software developer read books by Andy Grove ("Paranoid"), or Crossing the Chasm, or the biography of Steve Jobs, or kept track of what's up with the top 250 global tech c
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by ci5er 6y ago
I am sorry to hear this. It sounds as if you are like one of my sons. I miss the "buzz" of human interaction that TV in the background never gives, but I can usually get that from Starbucks. I'm an introvert, and I've be
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by ci5er 6y ago
Why don't people copy the deb-tree to their local repo and/or pin the version that they want, so that they can be free of node terrorists? EDIT: To be clear - maybe I am REALLY old-school, but every time we did a release, we archi
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by ci5er 6y ago
I've got a - maybe silly - question: Do you think that software engineers read about the business of technology? I mean, some of these behemoths (or used-to-be behemoths) of technology, like Oracle and Intel and Microsoft (Ok - everyon
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by ci5er 6y ago
This is interesting to me. I used to be very "into" agent-based computation economics - trying to synthesize macro from micro. And small-worlds neetworks and the intersection, and a a fair amount of systems biology. After a blow t
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by ci5er 6y ago
I more-or-less don't disagree, except I do. I think the entire UN has lost its way: Look at the membership of the Human Rights Council. What a joke. It barely worked in the first place, and is all sorts of corrupted now; I believe they
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by ci5er 6y ago
Taiwan is an interesting case. They are not recognized as, really anything, except part of "One China" by the UN. Anyway - WHO wouldn't talk to them, even when they asked nicely. But they, like HK (and Vietnam, and SG and I d
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by ci5er 6y ago
Like the USDA food pyramid - it's SCIENCE!
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by ci5er 7y ago
Best comment evar!
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by ci5er 7y ago
Do people sit in front of the computer watch/listen-to these instead of reading something like https://www.newline.co/fullstack-react/ ? I mean - without committing suicide? If so, ... how?
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by ci5er 7y ago
I know the concept. Schiff just tried to apply it to not having to reveal his subpoenas. But "Qualified" immunity is an adjunct concept.
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by ci5er 7y ago
> Anyway, if they didn't donate them, the Goverment said they are gonna confiscate them, and this was already clear. There are going to be lawsuits going on for a decade because of the government ordering things that they are not al
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by ci5er 7y ago
Maybe yes, maybe no. But evolution didn't decide on the structure and behavior of our throw-away-cup bodies in order to make our puny minds sitting on top our puny brains happy. For better or for worse, in humans (we are not turtles, f
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by ci5er 7y ago
I don't know. I don't think I started that way. I think I started out normal like? But when your mother awakened certain hidden feelings in me with her sex toys when I was 9, I did feel feelings against her other object of sexual
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by ci5er 7y ago
It's a client (several), it allows other clients, and it does the SMTP, POP3 and IMAP thing. It filters spam and sorts things into enumerated named folders, and you can download everything and store everything as mbox files with attach
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by ci5er 7y ago
1) Please don't read too much into that. I meant it as an umbrella term. When I say "it wasn't", I'm sort of un-smearing all of them, as an umbrella. I have no problem with Russians (I actually like them - fun peopl
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by ci5er 7y ago
I came across more recent statements from Crowdstrike, but failed to save them, and must dig them up again. Will attempt to do so (I've noticed that Google has gotten more efficient at letting me fail to find previously discovered mate
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by ci5er 7y ago
It also makes the reasonable point that the Assange grand jury had been dismissed, but IIRC (and it's only been two or three hours) the court's statement was clear that incarceration to compel was not necessary. (Probably motivate
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by ci5er 7y ago
I am baffled that no matter how many times Assange (and a fair number of NY State Fed LEOs) say "It wasn't the Russians", that the "system" nor the "media" nor the "people" seem to be able to tak
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by ci5er 7y ago
Uhhhh, yeah. I was curious about why this is a "good thing". I think I got a response that tries to respond to that more specifically up-thread. Thank you.
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by ci5er 7y ago
I think she was being compelled to testify here in the Assange case, no?
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by ci5er 7y ago
Why? I'm not familiar with the facts of the case. And, I further realize that facts are almost completely immaterial to motivated reasoning about the case, but... ... assuming that you (or someone) is a straight-shooter, why is this &q
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by ci5er 7y ago
She attempted suicide and a judge decided that she need not be incarcerated to compel her to be a witness.
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by ci5er 7y ago
That's on the plus side of its attributes. Schemaless has become a horror-show.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Floats are ugly because the distance between any two successive numbers are not the same. This makes them inappropriate for discretized time and anything accounting-related (money).
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by ci5er 7y ago
And, now, we know why we have an explosion of libraries that do the job badly OR end up with bloated binaries by including LINPACK when a one-liner would have done the trick. You triggered a conversation thread that made me understand the e
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by ci5er 7y ago
2x2? Do it by hand. No dense math involved. One line of code (or so, depending on coding style). If you want to implement or call LINPACK to do a 2x2, you've got other problems.
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by ci5er 7y ago
Backblaze doesn't give you a random read/write like DropBox, and wanting your disk drive back takes some time...

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