danbmil99

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by danbmil99 4y ago
> Perhaps Google's true target should have been 50% Just wait for Elon to buy them
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by danbmil99 4y ago
As someone who has spent time in the C-Suite, I applaud your courage in publicly addressing criticisms head-on. I just hope you are not fighting a losing battle against low employee morale, frustrated writers and angry, impulsive investors.
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Funny story - a good friend who was doing high-end cabinetry lost a finger to a table saw, so he boned up on his coding skills and got a great job in the film FX business.
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by danbmil99 4y ago
"It is estimated that Hacker News attracts more than 3 million views per day and greater than 300,000 daily users." There's that number again...
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Let's not forget Mimolette... we were staying in Paris, hungry; I hit up a local bodega (or whatever all-night store is in French) and bought a package of what looked to me like nice aged Cheddar. Back in the hotel, we are pigging out
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by danbmil99 4y ago
If you want to have a private discussion on this subject please email me: danbmil99 at gmail dot com
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Hi (disclaimer: I was the CTO at hiQ) I think your analysis is pretty much spot-on, but I would ask you as a lawyer to answer this hypothetical: If hiQ had scrupulously and categorically avoided ever using logged-in accounts (as opposed to
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Many moons ago, Chris wanted to recruit me to work on video compression/streaming (this was I think before they acquired Youtube). He found out I was a big Pythonista, an up-and-coming language at the time. Chris then invited me to mee
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Brings back memories -- I developed this hardware sync unit http://www.oldschooldaw.com/forums/index.php/topic,6763.0.ht...
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Awesome bc it had a built-in MIDI port!!! And a 68000 processor (at 8mhz IIRC) AND AN ENTIRE MEGABYTE OF RAM!!!!!
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by danbmil99 4y ago
corr: Man In The High Castle
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Kevin, if you're reading this you still owe me $500
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by danbmil99 4y ago
I recall liking the 2002 version as well but my memory of the two versions may be a bit tangled
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by danbmil99 4y ago
One thing PKD did that lends itself to moviemaking is just the fact that his novels are generally short and focus on quickly building a fantastic yet consistent world in the first few pages. Then he gives us a plotline that involves a confl
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Could this be accelerated and parallelized by writing a custom GPU shader?
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Incredible language. FORTH is like that unsung bluesman from the 30's that inspired rock superstars of the 60's & '70s. The OG, barely-above-assembly-language language.
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Fun fact: In the 90's IBM produced a commercial where a young girl is creating her own website, www.duck.com, about ducks. Unfathomably, no one thought to check whether www.duck.com was an actual website, and what if any content might
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Interesting factoid: a codec called TrueMotion by the Duck Corporation encoded cut scenes for a number of games in that period, on PC and Sega Saturn+Dreamcast+3DO. This company later changed its name to On2, and developed the VP3/VP8
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by danbmil99 4y ago
It is written in a humorous style, but I don't take it as a joke. How is this fundamentally different than GPT code completion, other than it's data instead of code? I suspect our intuition tells us code will be verified first by
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by danbmil99 4y ago
foo = 4 print(f"{foo=}".split("=")[0])
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Well I suck at text. Shoulda posted it as a tiktok.
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by danbmil99 4y ago
What's with the downvotes? Just a bit of cheeky sarcasm
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by danbmil99 4y ago
So this hotbed of liberalism -- high tech SV -- says "Merry Christmas"? What happened to the war on Xmas? Happy Kwanzaa, Joyful Festivus, and may the winter solstice bring a great harvest!
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by danbmil99 4y ago
This reminds me of the trouble they've had upgrading Air Traffic Control systems. I grew up in Manhattan and rode the subway constantly. I remember sometimes taking the front car, looking out the window and wondering what the odds were
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Hard agree! But Twitter is in serious meltdown, which makes it a good place to start.' Long live the Fediverse!
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Yes, there is a bug with image uploads. Work in progress!! What is your username so I can check the logs?
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by danbmil99 4y ago
Possibly of interest: : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34045737
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Show HN: Log in to Mastodon with your Twitter account(tweedle.social)
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My point is FORTH should definitely be on the list. It is pretty much dead as an actual programming language in that no one programs in it anymore. But it was/is very influential... For example, PostScript is basically a dialect of FOR
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FORTH Lives on in every stack machine

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