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by cvwright 2y ago
Seems like this is true at the larger scale as well. For example, IBM and SGI etc helping to improve Linux in the 90s / early 00s.
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by cvwright 2y ago
I thought the joke was that people wanted it so they could watch porn on a crowded airplane. Which, I dunno, ewwww.
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by cvwright 2y ago
Teach at a broke public university, and you never have to juggle huge teams of TAs.
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by cvwright 2y ago
My strategy was to, like you said, grade problem by problem. Then for each problem, first find all those who got full marks. Then group the others into piles based on what mistakes they made. This ensures that everyone who made the same m
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by cvwright 2y ago
The problem is the adpocalypse. Everyone stopped paying for ads that weren’t the super-targeted kind. I was supervising a MS student on a project trying to mess with the moderately-targeted ads of the day. We watched this happen in real t
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by cvwright 2y ago
I'm ok with arresting someone who brings a gun or fentanyl, if that means we get them before they can kill someone.
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by cvwright 2y ago
This might be the first time I’ve heard someone refer to infosec Twitter in a positive light. They were always inflammatory and belligerent and spiteful. The same crowd has now migrated to ActivityPub. You can find them there still acting t
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by cvwright 3y ago
I find that most nonfiction books follow a common structure: * 1st third of the book: Lays out the basic ideas, gives several examples * 2nd third of the book: More examples that repeat the themes from the 1st part * 3rd third of the book:
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by cvwright 3y ago
I would totally buy a faster PineTime! PineCube too, for that matter.
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by cvwright 3y ago
I have a PineTime. Two actually - one for me and one for my kid. It’s the perfect “smart” watch for children who are too young to have a “real” smart device. It shows the time, the date, a basic step counter, and not a heck of a lot more.
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by cvwright 3y ago
I can’t help but be reminded of my employer’s favorite quote from Dune: > Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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by cvwright 3y ago
A friend’s dad worked at IBM in the 80s and 90s. They told the story of his “million dollar car”, a Nissan Z that he sold Microsoft stock to buy in the early 90s. Not quite as impressive as this $6M Corvette, but still a fun story.
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by cvwright 3y ago
It hasn’t really moved. It’s still built by the same people as always. They just provide it to the rest of us under different terms (AGPL).
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by cvwright 3y ago
There are multiple “white label” Facebook knockoffs available right now. One of them even advertises near pixel-perfect replication of the original Facebook UI. But nobody uses them. I think we’ve learned the lesson of what happens when yo
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by cvwright 3y ago
Yeah it’s unfortunate that they picked the “cool” name for the protocol, not the product. I keep saying that they should make a Matrix branded client that lets you easily donate to the foundation (like Signal does) and creates accounts only
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by cvwright 3y ago
Custom emoji? We don’t even have captions for images yet!
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by cvwright 3y ago
Your story is from 1996 and 1997. Of course all the bickering was between technical people — those were the only people around!
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by cvwright 3y ago
Equinix bare metal bandwidth is pretty crazy expensive too. 5c/GB is less than the 9c that Amazon charges, but still, ouch.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Counterpoint from a former tenured academic: Maybe we just have too big of an academic class. Our universities are still trying to teach like it’s the mid 20th Century, but the economics are not in their favor. What we’re seeing is the res
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by cvwright 3y ago
The new thing around here is people driving along while carrying on a video call. Usually holding the phone up in their hand, but sometimes with the phone in a holder on the windshield.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Also * You cannot generate human readable / human memorable coupon codes to distribute to your users, like NEWYEAR24 etc. Instead, the codes are long random gobbledygook, single use only, and they can’t be redeemed within the app — onl
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by cvwright 3y ago
The problem is that academia is otherwise a pretty cushy job. It attracts a lot of people who want the prestige and like to talk, but don’t actually want to do any work. Peer review and the paper chase are the least bad solution that we’ve
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by cvwright 3y ago
Lots of old stories about IBM requiring workers to wear nice blue suits and drive shiny new cars. I think that mostly ended by the dotcom era though. As an intern in 2001, everybody there wore casual clothes just like at a startup.
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by cvwright 3y ago
No but there are people who pride themselves on always keeping a clean kitchen etc
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by cvwright 3y ago
Zwift is great, and so much cheaper than Peloton. And with the weekly emails and monthly events, they seem to actually want you to use the service, unlike the stereotypical gym model. Maybe because an Apple subscription is so much easier t
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by cvwright 3y ago
Can you explain more about the suspected CFAA violation?
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by cvwright 3y ago
Group chats are such a poor substitute though. On 00’s Facebook you could post once for all of your friends to see, and they didn’t have to all know each other.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Same here. Even now, I still sometimes set my vim colors to blue background and yellow/white text.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Now that Synapse (and Conduit!) support registration tokens, it’s a lot easier to let people you know register on your server, without opening it up to the world.
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by cvwright 3y ago
Please don’t crapify my Fastmail search. I don’t want it to be like Google, giving me what it thinks I want rather than what I asked for.

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