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by gary_0 2y ago
It's food for thought that something as groundbreaking as HL2 and Steam almost didn't see the light of day and the developers only survived by the skin of their teeth. In some nearby universe the games industry looks very differen
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by gary_0 2y ago
"Mips – processing cycles, computer power – had always been cheaper than bandwidth. The computers got cheaper by the week and the phone bills stayed high by the month." - The Star Fraction , 1995
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by gary_0 2y ago
Jesus christ. Someone's getting fucking piledrived... six times! https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you...
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by gary_0 2y ago
The old Internet was definitely my support network, I met a lot of people I could relate to back then, totally different from "IRL people". The Internet is the opposite of that for me now. Where did all the weirdo super-introvert
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by gary_0 2y ago
Yes, 90's me was definitely naive, and 00's me too. The "do no evil" years.
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by gary_0 2y ago
In retrospect it was extremely arrogant of us 90's nerds to think that the bullies and autocrats and sleazebags of the world were too stupid to figure out how to use the Internet to their own ends, and overwhelm the incumbent minority.
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by gary_0 2y ago
I wasn't disagreeing with you. My comment was implying that cargo (and arguably rust itself to some extent) was kind of a knee-jerk response to the insane parts of C/C++, for better and also for worse.
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by gary_0 2y ago
A close relative of mine works for a non-profit in Canada to give families with special-needs children access to resources from the government and other organizations. She pushes for autism diagnoses constantly, well aware that they are oft
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by gary_0 2y ago
Cargo and crates.io are something C/C++ developers would kill for (which is why cargo is what it is, I think).
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by gary_0 2y ago
I was kind of hoping he would go on to speculate on what those breakthroughs might be, but the article doesn't go into any more detail. If someone like him doesn't have some next steps in mind, that doesn't bode well for AGI
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by gary_0 2y ago
I have no local account and I must scream.
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by gary_0 2y ago
(2004), but for some reason the date next to the byline says 2016. Maybe it was updated in 2016, although the text and images seem mostly the same as the 2004 version: https://web.archive.org/web/20131117095842/htt
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by gary_0 2y ago
I actually did a quick check and most of them didn't show up as Azure, just general MS IPv4 blocks. I would hope MS keeps its own infrastructure separate from the public Azure cloud...
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by gary_0 2y ago
msbill.info's DNS points to the same IP addresses as microsoft.com, and their servers give a specific 301 response for the header "Host: msbill.info", so msbill.info is almost definitely owned and operated by Microsoft. I don
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.ph/KxdPy
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'Robot revolution' forces China's human workforce to adapt(ft.com)
4 points by gary_0 2y ago|1 comments
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by gary_0 2y ago
> Russia not being communist There are current pictures of active Russian military vehicles bearing the USSR-style hammer and sickle, and there are reportedly older Russians who still idolize Stalin—who is responsible for over 20 million
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by gary_0 2y ago
I follow the same philosophy, to the point where at this point I barely use the STL; most of that template-heavy junk has been replaced in most of my projects. For instance, most of what I typically used <iostream> for was replaced wi
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by gary_0 2y ago
The schematic is right there in the repo so I randomly googled some of the part numbers: LS125 - 3-state bus buffers - https://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/sn54ls125a.pdf?ts=17314810... LS612 - Memory mappers -
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by gary_0 2y ago
If I had to guess I'd say history is going to repeat itself and Google will also escape any significant consequences.
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by gary_0 2y ago
Nobody ever got fired for running a Linux server...
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.is/slqAq
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by gary_0 2y ago
It takes a surprising amount of time and effort to write fewer, simpler lines of code. (Until you have to use and maintain it...) "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." - Pascal
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by gary_0 2y ago
"What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." (Referring to the CEOs of Intel and Microsoft at the time.)
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by gary_0 2y ago
Hmm, the library is just a handful of hundred-line-ish source files that do the bare minimum to get the job done. This is a good thing. Bad programmers have fun writing lots and lots and lots of code. Good programmers are lazy, like this.
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by gary_0 2y ago
(2010)
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by gary_0 2y ago
https://archive.is/j6mSz
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by gary_0 2y ago
What online pastime we enjoyed 15 years ago hasn't been monetized all to shit? Making goofy YouTube videos? All about the big bucks now. Fuckin' blogging ? Now there's Medium/Substack. Dicking around on a message boar
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by gary_0 2y ago
Electromagnetism is both a continuous wave and a discrete particle, so it makes sense to me that a continuous spacetime curvature could also be a discrete particle at the same time. (Keeping in mind we're not talking about tangible sha
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by gary_0 2y ago
That one's a definite possibility, I think. I do think GenAI will prove to be very useful, possibly even world-changing (for better or worse), and the current frenzy of investment and research will probably turn up other useful ANN tec

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