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by glimshe 1y ago
I lived in one of these cities. I don't even understand what you're arguing against. The US has highly automated manufacturing because that's what makes sense with the current incentives. Other parts of the world still have f
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by glimshe 1y ago
Many tech companies still deal with physical goods and employ enough people to fill a city - but no longer in the US and Europe, generally. Whether we want them back is up to us.
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by glimshe 1y ago
I feel sad every time I think about Fry's and the death of big box electronics retail. I still long for those trips where I'd simply spend hours looking for what's new. Amazon can't deliver the same high and neither can
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by glimshe 1y ago
Are you saying that we can't tell people whose jobs were created by technology (cars destroying the jobs of carriage makers elsewhere) that they jobs were affected by technology?
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by glimshe 1y ago
Home computers were ridiculously expensive in their initial years. Some could cost more than a car. ChatGPT Pro gives you access to cutting edge technology so it isn't surprising that it's expensive. Just remember that a Wal Mart
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by glimshe 1y ago
Weren't some people saying that yearly check-ups for healthy people with no symptoms are bad because they lead to overdiagnosing and thus worsening of outcomes?
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by glimshe 1y ago
It's not a joke in the sense that the LLMs are just writing what they've been promoted to write...
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by glimshe 1y ago
This feels like "This year is the year of Linux on the Desktop" I've been hearing about F# hitting mainstream for over a decade. Unlike Linux, which is now fairly popular on the Desktop, I predict that F# won't ever be m
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by glimshe 1y ago
I didn't mean to refer to some axiomatic principle of "Europeaness", whatever that could mean. I just meant to say that the 2 goals are somewhat at odds. Europe will have to figure out how find a compromise, assuming it wishe
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by glimshe 1y ago
Your (II) includes a LOT of things and somewhat negatively correlated with (I). The European principles that created your social guarantees are largely incompatible with an individual-centric, growth-focused society that would reward certai
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by glimshe 1y ago
What is the key major breakthrough (vs incremental technology refinement) needed in your opinion? Serious question.
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A Gentle Introduction to Fortran(hackaday.com)
5 points by glimshe 1y ago|2 comments
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by glimshe 1y ago
I don't know how to solve this in the current environment. A hiring manager friend said he's getting unprecedented number of application for a software engineering role. Ultimately applicants will endure whatever companies put in
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by glimshe 1y ago
Great memories. "Keygen music" feels like a genre of electronic music... Are there people making electronic music that sounds like Keygen music but with modern instruments?
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by glimshe 1y ago
I believe that AI can't ever replace direct human contact. But I'm not so sure if a good AI can't replace superficial online-only friendships. Looking at the bulk of my online interactions (outside forums like this one), th
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by glimshe 1y ago
Calling ChatGPT a "chat bot" in 2025 isn't technically incorrect but it is like calling a male human assistant a "chat guy". It costs $200 because the chatty little bot knows a surprising number of things amazingly
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by glimshe 1y ago
I have an Amiga phone in my hands right now, then :)
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by glimshe 1y ago
I've been noticing it for a while. Might as well put one of the Amazon $200 Mini PCs in an Amiga computer case and call that "Amiga" (while running Windows/Linux). That hardware would be an order of magnitude faster than
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US-EU Deal sets 15% tariffs on most goods(apnews.com)
4 points by glimshe 1y ago|0 comments
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by glimshe 1y ago
Teaching kids to program for over 40 years: https://www.roug.org/retrocomputing/languages/basic/basicgam...
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by glimshe 1y ago
I wonder if they would be happy with modern graphics but no twitchy bling. I mean, 3d shaded and colorful tiles. Kids these days associate spartan graphics with old school/boring gameplay.
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by glimshe 1y ago
That's what I'm trying to say. SICP teaches you to think differently and "grok" the CS concepts. This isn't always the case with other approaches, which can be much more reliant on blind copy-and-paste and library f
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by glimshe 1y ago
To do that with Scheme/SICP, you actually have to understand the CS principles behind it. Not as much with Python, which is likely why it became a more popular choice.
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by glimshe 1y ago
I do, but not like cyberpunk. I like to both read and watch movies, but I feel a lot more immersed with images than I do with words. It's not a binary rating (immersed vs not immersed), it's a gradient that makes things resonate m
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by glimshe 1y ago
We don't need photorealism in games, but it does help with immersion. Many people, like me, feel like they are inside the game world, rather than playing a game with a TV/monitor in front of them. Photorealism is essential for t
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by glimshe 1y ago
You can learn a lot from Scratch, that's for sure. I'm not saying it's bad , it's actually a decent learning tool. But I think it's a step back from BASIC. You could code a ton of fairly decent games, utilities and
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by glimshe 1y ago
Forgive me, but I don't think scratch is all that good - my son did it too. I never liked these super simplified approaches to computing because I don't think they are necessary. Scratch wouldnt be that useful in the 80s. BASIC, d
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by glimshe 1y ago
Because that wouldn't help readers understand how the computer learns with this simple algorithm. People bought the book to not only play, but also learn from simple games. There's nothing quite like it nowadays.
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by glimshe 1y ago
When I started doing BBSs, I used 300 baud at times. Unbearable. "Nobody ought to need more than 2400 baud" is what I felt with the upgrade! Until 14400 came along, of course...
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by glimshe 1y ago
I'm not a betting man, but I were, I'd bet on most readers having understood it correctly. I suspect it was meant to be click bait, though.

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