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by golem14 4y ago
Actually, I now know what seemed so weird to me. If they had planned to sell a bag for $x (41 or 41/case_size) retail, but now realized that was per case not per bag, this would have reduced their profitability by a lot or completely k
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by golem14 4y ago
I'm with you all the way – but I would still like to understand how they could get it so wrong.
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by golem14 4y ago
Yes, that is right. I'm not saying that the OP was blameless. I don't understand why the first thing they did after the discovering the issue was to hound the distributor and try to renegotiate payment terms. I believe the worst w
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by golem14 4y ago
Why is there _any_ open source? There are enough areas, libraries, whatnot, where it would be perfectly fine to share forth code. I mean, look at device drivers for linux. Doing this would really have helped the ecosystem, I suspect, becaus
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by golem14 4y ago
$41 per CASE, not per bag.
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by golem14 4y ago
I think this is also true, but authors could have open sourced application code. Some of it has, esp with Forth standardization . However, even so, there is just very little Forth application code available as open source.
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by golem14 4y ago
I also believe that this commercial bent Forth has is contributing to it's decline
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by golem14 4y ago
I disagree with the anti-commercial philosophy that Forth is supposed to have. E.g., there are no oss network stacks I could find written natively in Forth, but there might be a few commercial ones. I believe there are a few very good Forth
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by golem14 4y ago
Actually, Doyle made fun of phrenology in "the case of the 3 Garridebs", if memory serves?
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by golem14 4y ago
Maybe have travellers sign away their biometric data as part of the visa waiver? Then the EU can claim not to be beholden to the US (the travellers are) and the US still gets data of travellers. The demand is for travellers only according t
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by golem14 4y ago
Reminds me of of Syndrome: "And when everyone's super..." [laughs maniacally] "... no one will be."
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by golem14 4y ago
Every year this war lasts will diminish the dependency of the West on Russian gas/oil, so there's that.
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by golem14 4y ago
I don't disagree. It helps to put the new ssh port on some other well established port you are not using (say port 52, 69 or 70 or something). Bots seem to be less likely to try out ssh when another protocol is supposed to be running t
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by golem14 4y ago
I would change the ssh port to nonstandard, maybe implement a knocking protocol. Maybe leave a honeypot/tarpit server on the original ssh port to distract the bots. 8gb of bandwidth a month seems not worth sweating about.
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by golem14 4y ago
IIRC, Gmail search used to work on threads, not messages. ie word1 might be in the email and word2 in the reply. That leads to all sorts of weirdness.
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by golem14 4y ago
Angel number 538 seems equally fitting …
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by golem14 4y ago
This might be unpopular, but the Google/Nest WIFI pucks are pretty decent. I'd wish for a configuration other than the crappy mobile app, and better family controls, but compared to anything than a self rolled DDWRT it's real
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by golem14 4y ago
Forth is just not very easily optimized - it has a lot of indirect jumps that do not play well with today's instruction pipelines. There are a few optimizing forth compilers, but I never have seen compelling evidence that they would be
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by golem14 4y ago
Not too surprising. It's easier after letting go of all the trouble makers ;)
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by golem14 4y ago
I don't think this is genius, it's hard nosed decision making. I personally think he wants to move Twitter mostly on maintenance mode until he has cleaned house, and then slowly rehire when new features are more clear. For that, r
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by golem14 4y ago
But will the remaining eng be what he wants? I assume he already laid off most h1bs, who would say and do anything to not get deported but might not be the best engineers. Still, the people that claim to work 'hardcore' might just
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by golem14 4y ago
Sad to see how crappy today’s assembler documentation is in comparison (especially Apple)
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by golem14 4y ago
There's a bunch of documentation (in english) at https://github.com/RT-Thread/rt-thread/blob/master/documenta... One thing that stands out is that one of the selling points would be the inclusion of
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by golem14 4y ago
It would be great to better understand how this compares to RTOS and FreeRtos. E.g., if one wanted to build a baremetal version of a small programming language, like minilisp or Forth, what would one like to use ? I would like to understand
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by golem14 4y ago
And if it does, and the US would see it as attack on her critical infrastructure, wouldn't it actually preclude high altitude detonations ? I assume that Putin would not like to poke the bear here, but I could be entirely wrong.
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by golem14 4y ago
I can't read the article (I'd love a filter option to filter out paywalled submissions or YT BTW), but I would imagine Putin would love to take out a large number of skylink satellites. I wonder if any high atmospheric detonation
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by golem14 4y ago
Periodic videos and Alex Szydlo are good if basic channels. Alex is to me the Cliff Stoll of chemistry:)
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by golem14 4y ago
FWIW, I recommend to replace news surfing by perusing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events daily. I'm not quite there yet myself, I sometimes fall in the bad habit of news surfing for fun, but I fou
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by golem14 4y ago
[this is not legal advice] Practically speaking, if you are in the US, you could download stuff from zlib and get away with it - I believe that's not illegal. Hosting on the other hand is. Using torrents to download is legally also hos
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by golem14 4y ago
I would imagine that if humans did use it at scale, it wouldn't be long until the microbiome was evolving to metabolize it.

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