foobarian

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by foobarian 7mo ago
I think that a big part of it is the transparency brought on by the vast communication bandwidth that came online starting after the dot com years. This stuff happened before just the same, but was concealed by media gatekeepers. Bay of Pi
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Oooh maybe finally time for lovingly hand-optimized assembly to come back in fashion! (It probably has in AI workloads or so I daydream)
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by foobarian 7mo ago
These days it's hard for the screen and sound alone to compete with home theater tech. So the only remaining edge a theater might have is the presence of others. The Minecraft movie was the perfect example of this. Some of our kid&#
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by foobarian 7mo ago
That's all great, but to me the primary point is rms' original grievance with that printer driver. If the source is open, anyone can improve it. Multiple anyones can improve it! They can even collaborate on message boards and ma
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Wait until you hear someone talk about "begging the question"
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by foobarian 7mo ago
The biggest problem I ran into without a code formatter is that team wasted a LOT of time arguing about style. Every single MR would have nitpicking about how many spaces to indent here and there, where to put the braces, etc. etc. ad nause
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Outsider! :-) More like PLIM-uth. I guess there is no way to write it unambiguously in English
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by foobarian 7mo ago
Oddly enough I found the Duplo line much more fun to play with as our kid went through the blocks years. You could build something substantial with fewer block clicks, there were fewer different types of blocks, they were less fiddly and p
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by foobarian 7mo ago
In a way I found sketchy/scammy aspects of Roblox helpful to educate my kid about that sort of thing. Early on a classmate scammed her out of some item on AdoptMe, nothing monetary valuable but it shook her and really caused her to th
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I feel like parent post is maybe joking/being sarcastic? If not they are kinda proving the point.
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by foobarian 7mo ago
I would also add it's easier to download and set up than Minecraft. I still have nightmares about setting up various Microsoft and Xbox accounts and trying to help my kid play with her friends. IMO that Roblox doesn't have this
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by foobarian 7mo ago
They could just cease all shipping. The consequences would be legendary.
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by foobarian 8mo ago
Bring back the key signing parties! p.s. @patrickmay: jinx!
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by foobarian 8mo ago
> They were in the software licensing printing money business I mean what do you expect them to do, I'm sure the OracleDB exodus has been long ongoing and they probably saw the writing on the wall years ago
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by foobarian 8mo ago
For me it's not the fingers, it's the eyesight.
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by foobarian 8mo ago
The question is what happens after they are gone?
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by foobarian 8mo ago
It strikes me that both these views are selfish, in that they focus on direct impact on one's life. But what about the broad impact on society for the descendants? What if by abdicating procreation we create conditions where only commu
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by foobarian 8mo ago
No no no use it more, make sure to use up as much tokens as possible. They do inference at a loss
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by foobarian 8mo ago
> Reminds me of Blaise Pascal's quote: 'All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.' Ah but this is where modern technology comes in! Social media, Tiktoks, video games, porn...
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by foobarian 8mo ago
Should we discuss DNS root servers at some point too?
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by foobarian 8mo ago
I pitched a "crit Doritos" idea to Pepsi just recently, but sadly they haven't implemented it :-)
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by foobarian 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure if I followed this advice I'd get fired, arrested, or both. Nice aspiration but not practical for everyone
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by foobarian 8mo ago
I'm going to guess that having too many kids would be a happy problem for them (and most gentrified Western societies)
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by foobarian 8mo ago
I'm not sure even wealthy America is better off. They might have their $3M mansion in a nice town but it will still have no sidewalks, be 2 miles from school, and an hour from major city center.
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by foobarian 8mo ago
The last time I used telnet was... today actually, to debug our memcached cluster :-D OK to be fair it might not be THE telnet protocol but still.
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by foobarian 8mo ago
These kinds of resignations are interesting. The character is such a good protagonist, he resigns rather than do Bad Thing. But that pretty much guarantees the boss will hire someone more pliable. Why not instead swallow the pride and do
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by foobarian 8mo ago
I think if artificial wombs ever succeed it will turn the world upside down
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by foobarian 8mo ago
Looks like it might be opt-in by server.
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by foobarian 8mo ago
I had that same epiphany when I discovered AI is great at writing complicated shell command lines for me. I had a bit of an identity crisis right there because I thought I was an aspiring Unixhead neckbeard but in truth I hated the process
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by foobarian 9mo ago
Ironically I feel like this may force schools to get better at the core mission of teaching, vs. credentialing people for the next rung on the ladder. What replaces that second function remains to be seen.

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