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by d--b 2y ago
I wrote a 64-bit clock that would just flip one bit on a 64-square grid every tenth of a second. I was kind of happy that at some point in maybe a few billion years, that clock would show a smiley face or something like that. This is also h
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by d--b 2y ago
The examples he gives aren't very clear. Let's just state one that's fairly obvious to me: Back in the day, someone introduced tabs in browsers that made it possible to browse several websites in a single browser window. Peop
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by d--b 2y ago
The authors created Tailwind after writing it.
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by d--b 2y ago
A mobile receiving station? Uh? That sounds really bad, right?
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by d--b 2y ago
Slightly related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Void
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by d--b 2y ago
so TikTok is one, but X is not. Hmm.
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by d--b 2y ago
Nice! I guess one of the side effects is that air pirates are finally going to be a thing! Yay!
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by d--b 2y ago
The original name of Genius was RapExegesis, which only confirms the main point of the article: that Genius' founders were mostly pedantic Yale grads. /s
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by d--b 2y ago
Doesn’t it compare mostly to F#, rather than Haskell or OCaml? The examples in the post really look like F# to me
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by d--b 2y ago
> if your kid has neither aptitude nor taste for maths, what do you do? push them towards ENA? Usually business school, HEC is the second highest viewed thing. ENA is something you may do later, either after political science studies, or
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by d--b 2y ago
The main cultural difference is that Americans don’t value maths and physics as much as they value law and business. Harvard Law school is still the thing you aim for when you’re a smart kid. MIT is what you aim when you’re good AND you’re
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by d--b 2y ago
As seen in Colbert's new cookbook: Does this taste funny?
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by d--b 2y ago
The thing is that anything's that's in a car gets subjected to pretty intense mechanical and thermal stress. Your thing needs to work in a [-40C,+60C] temperature range, while going over bumping roads. A small accident like someon
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by d--b 2y ago
I started on my casio when I was 12 ish back in the early 90s, and it was great for me cause I suck at graphics. Instead of pixels, the only output I could use were chars on the calculators grid. Something like 6 rows, 12 columns, like: ^ i
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by d--b 2y ago
These messages really sound like written under threat. They have a weird authoritarian regime quality . Maybe they just had ChatGpt write it though.
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by d--b 2y ago
> The company is considering becoming a public benefit corporation, tasked with turning a profit and also helping society. What a joke.
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by d--b 2y ago
I stand corrected, thanks
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by d--b 2y ago
This reeks of conflicts of interests
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by d--b 2y ago
At this stage though, he has no more place to fail up to!
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by d--b 2y ago
"And to make this more-than-perfect world that humanity has been longing for as long as it lived, I absolutely need to betray all the principles that I once stood by, screw over all people that ever trusted me, and become extremely ric
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by d--b 2y ago
Great read and you could totally translate it to “Why to Not Write an App” almost verbatim. The following passage is I think the most interesting: > Now of course, there is a second kind of author: authors who write books with little dis
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by d--b 2y ago
Why do you say the middle east isn’t already in?
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by d--b 2y ago
No testing and proving a new suit is an excuse. The point of the mission is to bring a billionaire into space. Is this bringing more eyeballs to space research? No. This is bringing more eyeballs to space tourism. So that more crypto bros c
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by d--b 2y ago
Not talking about communism or socialism here. Just that the "version" of capitalism we're running now produces inequalities that allow people to pull up that kind of stunts. Of course it's a moral issue, but give enough
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by d--b 2y ago
Right, I guess that's why it's called Realtalk, it's sort of messge based like smalltalk but with real stuff. Infinite recursions and resource conflicts must be tough to handle.
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by d--b 2y ago
This has gone a long way from the first demos, but in a way it kind of fell back to a fairly standard model of computing: ie this looks like a reactive visual programming environment with a real-world user interface sitting on top of it. Lo
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by d--b 2y ago
Can you “pipe” the results of one paper onto one of the inputs of the next? That’d be pretty funky.
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by d--b 2y ago
Looks pretty good. The decision to put the New York Post up there is questionable. I certainly don't mind right-leaning news, but New York Post is garbage.
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by d--b 2y ago
Don’t give the guy bad ideas! At this stage, his blog posts are cries for help. Is there a css anonymous org out there?
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by d--b 2y ago
Depends on how you will feel if you don't ship it. Will it remain a thorn in your side, like that idea that actually could have worked, and that you'll finish it later? or will you just be able to move on without second thoughts?

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