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by gcanyon 10mo ago
HA -- I recognized that I had read the story many years before, and didn't even notice that led me to skimming some at the start.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
<spoiler> I really enjoyed the story (pretty sure I've read it before, but many years ago, so it's fuzzy) and I know it's not key to the plot, but I really want to know how Jack failed to survive.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Each level of programming abstraction has taken us a step further from the bare metal, as they used to say. In machine code you specify what goes where at the memory/register level. Assembly gives you human-readable mnemonics. C abstra
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
For me at a wider presentation the layout was broken: text overlapping, images misplaced, etc.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
It's a YOLO presidency, so sure, why not? Time and time again we've cycled: 1. That's outrageous 2. He's joking 3. But what if he's not joking? 4. We're doing it Sometimes it stops at 2, but Tr
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> swinging its dick around I'm sorry, I can't resist extending your metaphor: The problem comes when "swinging your dick around" you accidentally get the other country pregnant. Then you have to co-parent the resultin
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I say this out of genuine surprise, not judgment -- I never would have guessed that native Typescript is significantly faster than native Python. To be fair, I don't know if "significantly" is justified. I get that Typescri
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I am jealous -- can you expand on what I read about having to be careful about breathing as you ran outside for fear of freezing your lungs?
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
600/18 = 33+ hours(!!!) Hats off to you! I’ve done some long rides to be sure, but the longest I’ve ever ridden non-stop-ish is probably about 14 hours. I think riding through the night is a deal-breaker for me. I’ve never been on the
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Kids these days get together and give presentations to each other. For example, a co-worker of mine had everyone at her birthday party present on an inventor they chose.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I have to mention the 300 club at Amundsen-Scott station. When the temp outside hits -100 (F) they crank up their sauna to 200, then run from the sauna to outside in their underwear.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
600km?! at what pace? I've ridden 190km a couple times, but that was a. a long time ago b. took all day. In my defense, it was on a fully-loaded touring bike, but even on a high-spec racing bike I can't imagine cranking (heh) out
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Wow. I had (just now) made one comment on the bad layout. As you might guess, I'm on desktop, and looking at the site in a window wider than it is tall. I saw your comment and shrunk my window to be half as wide as it is tall, and the
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I'm looking at the article now, and where I am in it, the header "The Invention of the Automobile," the image of someone driving, and the first paragraph of that section are all overlapping each other. I came here to type the
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Sure, my language of choice is more flexible than that: I can type put "test abc999 this" into x add 1 to char 4 to 6 of word 2 of x put x -- puts "test abc1000 this" But I'm still curious -- what&#x27
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
As someone who most often works in a language that is literally orders of magnitude slower than this —- and has done so since CPU speeds were measured in double-digit megahertz —- I am crying at the notion that anything here is measured i
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
What language is “just as productive but isn't going to lock us into abysmal performance down the line”? What makes that language not strictly superior to Python?
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
"technical design" vs. "technical specs" I think we're in violent agreement.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
> The biggest commercial success is not the best technical design: Nokia N95 versus the first generation iPhone That’s not a good example. Neither is Beta vs VHS. The most they illustrate is a different law I am coining right here: Canyo
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
So it seems like with the right code (and maybe a ton of future infrastructure for training?) Eliza could have been much more capable back in the day.
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I maintain Navigator, a development tool I started over twenty years ago; I am the only contributor to the open source repository [1]. I have rewritten drag and drop in that thing four times (because drag and drop in Livecode [2] is a bit o
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Interesting: for me, the image quadrants display correctly in Safari, but there is a horizontal white line between the top and bottom left quadrants. You're not seeing that?
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
While not disputing in any way the truth of what you're saying: I'm a product manager who leans toward Safari, while the devs I work with use Chrome almost exclusively, and we have an unwritten agreement that when it comes to disp
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I can only speak to my experience, but I spent a long time being puzzled by video editor user interfaces, until I ran into ScreenFlow about ten years ago. For whatever reason, the UI clicked, and I've used it ever since. It's a si
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Last I read was early 2025, Brust was saying that he had over half of the next-to-last book written, and as I said, he's been on a pretty regular schedule. Plus, he's not (only) telling a single story that has to come to some eart
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Two years of a foreign language were required in my K-12 schooling; I took Spanish; estudio dos años, pero requerdo poco o nada. mi español es muy mal :-(
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
Maybe :-(
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
I haven't read that, I'll look it up! <spoiler> Have you read By His Bootstraps and All You Zombies by Heinlein?
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
HA! I almost added a disclaimer to the original message that I wasn't certain in my identification, hence the request/complaint that they didn't make it clear. But I figured the message would be more effective if I "co
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by gcanyon 10mo ago
How to build and deploy web apps. I worked as a developer for many years (before becoming a product manager), but always in desktop apps. I still code for fun, but I never made the jump to web apps. Now with AI that's easier than ever,

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