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by drob518 7mo ago
I’m always shocked at the huge number of good ideas that Xerox managed to commercially squander.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Given some of the other issues, I’m not sure it would have mattered, but it certainly didn’t even allow the experiment to be run. I would not have wanted to compile Ada in the 1980s on that hardware. Given all the checking, the compiler mus
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by drob518 7mo ago
> The verbosity was deliberate — Ichbiah wanted programs to be readable by people other than their authors, and readability over time favours explicitness — but it was experienced as bureaucratic and un-hacker-like, and the programming c
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by drob518 7mo ago
Yep, sure. So, maybe you hire one and not three. The point is, it’s going to be fewer. Of course, all that assumes the AI is actually as good as a human, which I’m still skeptical of.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Right, but what is interesting is that you can buy it off the rack for the price of tokens. You don’t have to do a specialist search for a security expert, pay a recruiter, hire them, wait for the specialist to start, pay them a signing bon
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by drob518 7mo ago
And even beyond a week. What happens when the site owner redesigns the interface and breaks things? What is the recovery process and how “deep” does the rework have to go? Would you expect to use the same prompt and just have the AI figure
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by drob518 7mo ago
Seems like an interesting way for those people that purchased a Mac Mini to run OpenClaw to pay off the hardware, since mostly it’s now idle.
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Video: Are They Lying to You About Nuclear Energy?(youtube.com)
2 points by drob518 7mo ago|0 comments
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by drob518 7mo ago
Wow, that brings back memories. In 1995, I sat right next to one of the guys who invented what we called “Magic Packet” inside AMD and what became known as Wake On LAN. I was working on what later became WiFi. Those were fun times; lots of
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by drob518 7mo ago
If you've raised money, it's difficult to give it back and then re-raise for the new thing. Lots of paperwork not just creating the new entity but in winding down the old and distributing funds back. Can it be done? Yes, surely. B
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by drob518 7mo ago
Dang! Now I can't unsee it.
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The AI Market Is Hitting Peak Absurdity(garymarcus.substack.com)
32 points by drob518 7mo ago|5 comments
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by drob518 7mo ago
Now, try to collect it.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Folks just pretending to be “influencers” and trying to cash in on the next big thing.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Another vote for Lisp in Small Pieces. Great high level compiler book that teaches you how to build a Lisp and doesn’t get bogged down in lexing and parsing.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Basically, all the old brands that had great quality were killed by private equity and have become skin suits worn by low-cost imitators trying to squeeze another penny out of customers. There are still good brands, but they are increasingl
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by drob518 7mo ago
There's some irony for you.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Okay, so they aren’t blocking whole ranges. Yea, you definitely don’t want to share an IP with a spammer or malware site. I thought they were blocking whole ranges.
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by drob518 7mo ago
But often $ generated by quantity > $ generated by quality. And that’s the metric everyone really cares about.
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by drob518 7mo ago
So, lawsuits against LaLiga from parties with affected sites would be the path forward, right? Those might be difficult in Spanish courts.
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by drob518 7mo ago
But it also highlights the fact that the idea of blocking “dirty IPs” is at best a blunt instrument. Every ISP has abusers. Some are worse than others at self-policing their customers. Cloudflare is reputable and better than most. Given the
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by drob518 7mo ago
Why?
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Apollo Domain/IX User's Guide [pdf](dn710900.ca.archive.org)
2 points by drob518 7mo ago|0 comments
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by drob518 7mo ago
That brings back the memories. I had a copy of Lightspeed C for the Mac in college. In the workstation world, most companies used C and not Pascal. Apollo was different in that regard as their operating system, Domain, was unique to themsel
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by drob518 7mo ago
While the rules for fair use are not black and white, one of the primary tests is whether the copying impairs the market for the work. If you want to copy pages of a book to mark them up, for instance, so your original copy stays clean, tha
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by drob518 7mo ago
I called it a “big wad of linear algebra,” above. That’s all it is.
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by drob518 7mo ago
Technically, I’m awed by it. Very cool visually. It’s just when you go to use it that it all falls apart. As you say, they can’t control the content it’s flying over, and thus sometimes it does bad things. But also they rearranged navigatio
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by drob518 7mo ago
And they did give up on the butterfly keyboard and the touch bar. So, there’s hope.
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by drob518 7mo ago
I’ve learned over the years that most people have poor taste in UX. Even some UX designers and supposed “experts.”
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by drob518 7mo ago
Steve Jobs knew what he wanted and was willing to put his foot down in order to get it. Yea, I’m sure he was difficult to work with and drove people insane, but he was the plumb line that kept Apple driving in (mostly) the right direction.

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