clarkmoody

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by clarkmoody 10d ago
My comment on this idea from 9 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16291641 First reply was exactly the same as most of the top-level comments here today: "That doesn’t prove anything. Make your fake video,
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by clarkmoody 17d ago
Nearly impossible to actually buy A4 paper in the US
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by clarkmoody 23d ago
To be fair to yourself, a16z could have changed over that time, and the marketing was honest early on.
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by clarkmoody 2mo ago
> To translate such figures into comparable 2026 magnitudes, multiply by a factor of 1,200. Perhaps this has something to do with the economic dislocations and world wars between the 1870s and today?
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by clarkmoody 2mo ago
One of the most frustrating assignments[1] (2011) in my computer science education was trying to build a better mousetrap for elevator control. [1]: https://clarkmoody.com/Moody_AgentBasedElevatorControl.pdf
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by clarkmoody 3mo ago
Don't forget that the incumbents will fight to keep regulatory barriers high.
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by clarkmoody 4mo ago
The collapse of the government does not imply the collapse of civil society.
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by clarkmoody 5mo ago
> heavy new 8% tax on our endowment returns Cry me a river.
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by clarkmoody 5mo ago
Insider trading laws are for the plebs. Tip off your cousin about an acquisition by a public company? Go to prison. Tip off your cronies about war? Business as usual.
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by clarkmoody 7mo ago
Own nothing, be happy
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by clarkmoody 7mo ago
The bathroom was on a raft floating on the surface of an ocean planet.
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by clarkmoody 7mo ago
Simmons opened new frontiers of thought for me with his Hyperion Cantos . A house with each room on a different planet. A heartbreaking tale of a daughter aging in reverse. A romance playing out over space and time. A grand piano on the po
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by clarkmoody 8mo ago
Rule #1 of power: never outshine the master
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by clarkmoody 8mo ago
The FBI won't get involved unless it's politically advantageous.
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by clarkmoody 8mo ago
Wait until your local police force has fully autonomous lethal robots on the streets.
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by clarkmoody 8mo ago
...and then what happened?
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by clarkmoody 8mo ago
He uses the word "fascism" without any relationship to that word's meaning.
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by clarkmoody 9mo ago
The ballot has always been a proxy for the bayonet.
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by clarkmoody 10mo ago
The war always comes home.
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by clarkmoody 10mo ago
Massive outages of core Internet services popping up shortly after corps firing devs and bragging about AI writing more of their code.
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by clarkmoody 11mo ago
Can we stop changing our clocks twice a year as well?
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by clarkmoody 11mo ago
I recently jumped into typst for creating a course syllabus to learn programming. The experience has been great, especially compared with the LaTeX memories from grad school.
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TROPIC01 – Open architecture secure element(tropicsquare.com)
1 points by clarkmoody 11mo ago|0 comments
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
The magic moment is importing your secret key into an alternate client and all your contacts, posts, and feed populate from the data stored in the relays.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
The more nerds that get sniped by a simple-seeming protocol, the more likely it is to catch on. Hitting a 100 page spec doc full of XML and links to other specs is a big de-motivator to start hacking on the protocol.
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
The iterator can be implemented fairly simply: self.prev.iter() .chain(iter::once(self.active)) .chain(self.next) I'm not sure what you mean by including active in another position, but see my sibling comment that makes
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
In one version I've seen, the active element is of a different type, offering enhanced functionality over the vectors of next and prev items: struct List<T, A> { prev: Vec<T>, active: A, next: Vec<T>,
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
I've used the zipper concept with lists for making impossible states impossible [0] in the context of Rust programs. The rich enum type in Rust creates opportunities to avoid bugs by baking small state machines into the code everywhere
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
For all the talk of Trump being Hitler, I never saw any real tax protest movement to defund the regime...
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by clarkmoody 1y ago
Strength and Honor

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