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by defaultcompany 2y ago
Yeah I remember using NCSA mosaic to browse the early web and thinking “what’s the point of this we already have FTP and archie”.
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
Yeah I feel like this article would benefit from some concrete examples of what it is the author is actually envisioning. Products that truly benefit humanity in the strict sense are few and far between.
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
I agree. And I’ll also say that whether the artist intended this as the meaning of the work is irrelevant. Art once created exists apart from its creator and can be analyzed and criticized and understood in ways the artist never expected or
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by defaultcompany 2y ago
“Welcome” is a nice one.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
I’ve wondered this also because it can be handy to have multiple ways of accessing the same file. For example to obfuscate database uuids if they are used in the key. In theory you could implement soft links in AWS by just storing a file wi
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Sounds great. I was playing a lot of Exapunks[1] when my son was little and we started playing a game in real life where I would use the Exapunks commands to tell him what to do. Like LINK HALLWAY GRAB BALL LINK BEDROOM DROP BALL etc... The
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Amazing that's exactly what I thought of as well.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Related theoretical question for those who are of the physics mindset - if I had a long (very long like 1 light minute long) bar of metal and I pushed on one end, I'm assuming the other end would not move instantaneously because that w
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
This is the same way you make a train capable of traveling from Los Angeles to New York in 1 second. A sufficiently long train.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Haha this reminded me of the two guys in hell and the one whispers to the other “I hate this place”.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
It’s not really mirrored (assuming you meant reversed). Here’s a page describing the two orders in relation to each other from a wiki I wrote: https://github.com/weinberg/SQLToy/wiki/Two-Key-Concepts
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Those double headlights remind me of the family truckster.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
The article talks about this at the end. I’m confused about how it works though.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
There is NOTIFY [1] that might do what you are thinking of. [1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-notify.html
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
I made a little project called Concurrency Runner a while ago to attempt to test these kinds of scenarios: https://github.com/weinberg/concurrencyRunner . It does so by running multiple copies of your process in debug m
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Agreed. Another surprising one to me is that the earth itself has been around for about 1/3 the age of the universe. I always assumed that the timescale of the universe was vastly longer than the life of the earth.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
There’s a story about sales guys at a company (NewTek?) who faked a demo at CES of an Amiga 500 with two monitors showing the “Boing” ball bouncing from one screen to the next. This was insane because the Amiga didn’t have support for multi
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
This is a cool idea. Maybe you could make a keyboard specifically designed for this which made distinctive tones for each key like a xylophone. That would be a fun project.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
"Except that there is a post-credits scene in this sci-fi movie where Altman shows up for his first day of work at Microsoft with a box of his personal effects, and the box starts glowing and chuckles ominously. And in the sequel, six
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Here's a couple... This project I made a while ago and never took it further: https://github.com/weinberg/concurrencyRunner . Concurreny Runner allows you to debug multiple running processes simultaneously, with br
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
When I worked in film production we would also joke that "you could stop a parade with a walkie-talkie". In other words just holding the walkie and telling people what to do was very effective even when you had no real authority.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Ugh I did something like this once when I wrote a script to rsync one volume to a backup volume. Everything was great until someone accidentally rm -r ‘d the source volume and the script happily deleted everything on the backup volume to ke
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Tempest was so damn cool.
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
The difference is that the postal service will still forward your mail for you if you sell or lose your house. There is no way to make that happen with a domain name. A person who registers your expired domain name not only has no obligatio
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
Thank you for saying those nice things! I am not really on any social media platforms at the moment. I used to post updates to that blog I linked but it’s been a long time since I could work on that project. Hopefully someday I will have a
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
I spent about 50 hours manually doing something similar a few years ago [1] but it was literally made by taking hundreds of 360 degree panoramas every two inches inside a room on a fixed path. The end result was awesome but it was so time c
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
hello falcon Hi there! How are you doing? what are your operating parameters? My operating parameters include: 1. Assistance 2. Language 3. Personality 4. Knowledge 5. Intelligence 6. Interaction give me an example of #3
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
The author of this quine (Yusuke Endoh) has a Github repository which encodes a program in the Github contributions graph. I have no idea what the program does but here is a link to the start of it: https://github.com/mame?t
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
When I was an undergrad learning linked lists I discovered its possible to remove a node from a singly linked list with only a reference to the node to delete. This is cool because much of the point of a doubly-linked list is to enable this
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by defaultcompany 3y ago
We always joked that if you throw someone out a window without bothering to open it first then it is a transfenestration .

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