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by glimshe 1y ago
The traffic to Vegas is down from all over. People simply don't have the low interest rate money to gamble anymore.
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by glimshe 1y ago
If you can't find a qualified candidate at 160K/year, the problem isn't the candidate... It's your company and your interview process. There are many places in the US where you could find that person, especially now with
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by glimshe 1y ago
The "largest compendium of human knowledge ever assembled" isn't Wikipedia. It's Anna's Archive. Especially relevant when reading this from a paywalled article.
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by glimshe 1y ago
This is great. I've been around since the BASIC days and I always found awesome that most older personal computers had a programming language available within seconds of turning the computer on! I did a lot of hobby programming in BASI
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by glimshe 1y ago
Slow news day, huh? And, with LLMs, literally every single random stock movement is potentially newsworthy.
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by glimshe 1y ago
Sometimes I'm just happy to avoid the worst engineers. They do exist. Bad work ethic, poor foundational skills, hard to work with. I feel that if I can weed them out, I've done 75% of my job as a hiring manager.
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Altair 8800: The Most Powerful Minicomputer Ever Presented (1975)(archive.org)
3 points by glimshe 1y ago|0 comments
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by glimshe 1y ago
Reaper is the closest thing to a "programmer's DAW". Highly configurable and scriptable, it's kind of a DAW toolkit that comes with a great free default. It also has the fairest pricing and upgrade policy I've ever
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by glimshe 1y ago
Some 80s computer manuals used to have schematics for the entire computer, full command reference and even Assembly programming turorials. Boy, these were the days.
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by glimshe 1y ago
Just like in the music industry, people still believe they can be the outlier. Flappy Bird, more so than your examples built by skilled individuals, showed that "anyone could do it".
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by glimshe 1y ago
There is a certain group of people who love this narrative/propaganda for political reasons. I'm tired of it irrespective of whether it is true. I'm ready to say "China is the greatest superpower ever and so much better
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by glimshe 1y ago
Ars Technica is far from what it once was. It's now more political and leaning heavy on click bait.
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by glimshe 1y ago
The world needs BBSs again. That was the best source of local meetups back in the 90s.
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by glimshe 1y ago
I love the N100s. They are the new Raspberry Pis (for most applications). I use mine for Jellyfin
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by glimshe 1y ago
If Mark Zuckerberg didn't exist, we'd still have Facebook. Someone else would have done it. But if Neal Stephenson didn't exist, we'd not necessarily have what he created. That's how unique his ideas are. And Meta,
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by glimshe 1y ago
I wonder how much this has an influence on the widespread reduction in remote positions, especially in bigger companies, as opposed to the other reasons.
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by glimshe 1y ago
Cool story - as you may also know, 4K isn't that much compared to 80s prices. The Apple II cost close to 7K in today's dollars. The Apple Lisa would set you back 35K in today's dollars.
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by glimshe 1y ago
The promiscuous relation between government and tech is as old as Silicon Valley. I'm fact, it created Silicon Valley. It started when people in China were still building backyard furnaces.
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by glimshe 1y ago
This makes sense. AI is obviously useful for many things. But people wouldn't invest tens of billions to summarize data center calls and similar tasks. Replacing data center workers isnt where the money is - it's replacing 100K-20
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The Secret of Psalm 46(maraoz.com)
1 points by glimshe 1y ago|0 comments
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by glimshe 1y ago
Great story! I faced some problems in the old world of computers, but none as fun as this. I've always felt that computing was a lot more visceral back then because we were operating much closer to the machine. Nowadays, software devel
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by glimshe 1y ago
Can you donate to them without someone claiming you're donating money to a criminal enterprise and getting you in trouble? I mean, without using bitcoins
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by glimshe 1y ago
I would not buy a book after downloading it from Anna's archive. But that's the wrong question in my opinion. You should be asking why aren't most books available in a DRM free format? The main reason to download "pira
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by glimshe 1y ago
I studied a little bit of occultism, but wasn't as dedicated as you must have been. I also wondered about whether there was something there worth finding. I couldn't find anything but "captivating fantasy". Some RPGs are
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by glimshe 1y ago
XML was going to end all other data formats.
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by glimshe 1y ago
I don't use Word much. When I do, I use standard US Letter size. I rarely print to paper, though. I use PowerPoint and Excel more frequently nowadays. Excel happens to be truly exceptional.
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by glimshe 1y ago
Sounds fascinating. Did you do that full time? What did you get out of it?
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by glimshe 1y ago
I do. Although I have no love for Office, it allows me to keep all of my data locally seamlessly. With online-only tools, I'm one unfair ban away from losing all my data.
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by glimshe 1y ago
When I was kid, kids used to blow things up (usually trash, dog poo etc) with small gunpowder bombs. Even at school. VERY unlikely to kill someone but could certainly seriously injure... Never got in trouble. Different times.
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by glimshe 1y ago
I'm fine with all of this. Factory hubs are the new factory cities. You still get to employ thousands who don't necessarily have a PhD in computer science.

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