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by guidoism 3y ago
Why would they go public at this time? It seems like companies do this because they need a big infusion of cash. I’m curious as to what would be going on in the company to warrant this.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I don’t think you necessarily need to be in an “elite” school. My high school allowed us to take classes at the local university.
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by guidoism 3y ago
My solution to that is to punt on the actual bit blitting pixel pushing stuff. :-) I still want my high dpi fonts and I’m willing to cheat a little to get them onto the monitor. And given that we are all probably using a modern monitor with
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by guidoism 3y ago
I’m doing something similar right now. The eZ80 is a modern implementation of the Z80 that runs 50MHz, is pipelined like a modern CPU, and runs most instructions in a single cycle rather than 5-10 like the Z80. It’s also 24 bit in both data
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by guidoism 3y ago
Wow I was just preparing to start this project myself. Before starting the process I did a last minute check and found this. Goes to show you that all you need to do is wait and someone will write the code for you. Thank you!
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by guidoism 3y ago
I think there's a huge difference between everyone having unlimited material goods Star Trek style and UBI being a floor for everyone. I think of UBI as a floor that I can go below no matter how bad I screw up. If I start a company and
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by guidoism 3y ago
My (honestly non-snarky) answer is: who cares? Do we really need all of the programmers that are currently being employed? Will society collapse if there aren't 100,000 working on the next photo sharing app? The important stuff will
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by guidoism 3y ago
I like to think about how this works at smaller scales. When there is an office full of people all being paid about the same and (critically) where they all want and care about the same outcome, the shit jobs will get done. I have often cal
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by guidoism 3y ago
Clearly this isn't going to work in a world where people use the word "sucker" to refer to people who do work to help others. Honestly, do we call volunteers at soup kitchens suckers? The problem clearly involves an unequal d
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by guidoism 3y ago
> The code used to build operating systems has only the most primitive of data types (lists, hashes, the occasional tree), while the libraries used in applications are a veritable cornucopia of modern data types. Really? Is this only Lin
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by guidoism 3y ago
True to some extent but middle class people in their 20s before having kids and after their kids are in high school have a ton of leisure time. It’s just usually spent spending money. Their entertainment dollars.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I love this. One of the ideas I've been noodling around in my head is that we can brute force our way through really difficult problems. There are a lot of fricking people on earth. The biggest companies doing research have what, a cou
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by guidoism 3y ago
I’m just now starting to really look into this since our eldest is now twelve years old. We do unschooling if our home, which is a form of self-directed education, so my focus has been on those experiences. Here’s an research paper about Gr
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by guidoism 3y ago
As far as I can tell you don't need an official transcript from an accredited school to get into college. We are homeschooling our kids and what I've read is that homeschoolers write their own transcript, the kids themselves write
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by guidoism 3y ago
Yes, this! It’s crazy that we spend a decade of a person’s life forcing them to learn a skill that is so completely irrelevant to their lives and yet we ignore skills that could help them from being manipulated or forced into debt slavery.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I’m curious as to how calculus is used in those fields. I got a degree in CS and we had to take a bunch of calculus classes but never used it in any of our CS classes and in my 20+ years of programming jobs I’ve never had to use it. Any tim
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by guidoism 3y ago
Something I say to anyone who will listen is that we have lived through the moment in history when the cost to receive a world-class elite education has collapsed to near zero and hardly anybody has noticed. We still talk as if an official
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by guidoism 3y ago
I feel the same. Am I supposed to legally change my name so I can continue to sign up for stuff on the internet?
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by guidoism 3y ago
At least they don’t have Guido in it… yet. I have major problems signing up for services these days. There’s some list out there that programmers use that says that my name is a slur.
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by guidoism 3y ago
Ducktales?
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by guidoism 3y ago
Interesting. I grew up in the Midwest and I had never heard of the concept of taking off shoes when going inside until I moved to Seattle.
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by guidoism 3y ago
For me the shoes thing isn’t about dirt. It’s about public bathrooms. If a shoe has stepped in a public bathroom. Especially those in bars or gas stations I don’t want that shit (literally) being spread al over my house.
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by guidoism 3y ago
Really? The main point (use an index into an array instead of a pointer into a blob of memory) gets you 99% of the benefit and it isn’t anymore difficult than using pointers. I do this all the time.
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by guidoism 3y ago
A Rolex still requires very expensive maintenance every couple years (hundreds of dollars) just to do basic timekeeping. Absurdly, an Apple Watch upgraded every 4 years is probably cheaper to maintain. A high quality quartz is probably the
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by guidoism 3y ago
And it probably worked because it wasn’t even AT&T at that point. It was Cingular before AT&T bought them.
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by guidoism 3y ago
Plan to photograph an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km per pixel resolution (2020) This is fascinating. There is a plan to directly photograph exoplanets by sending a series of telescopes 500+ AU in the opposite direction of what we
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Photographing an exoplanet 25 light years away with 25km/pixel resolution (2020)(arxiv.org)
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by guidoism 3y ago
Joey Castillo’s Sensor Watch project seems to be the only example in this no man’s land. Over 365 days on a single coin cell battery so far. https://github.com/joeycastillo/Sensor-Watch
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by guidoism 3y ago
Oh cool. I worked on the networking layer of the first Kindle iOS (née iPhoneOS) app and that captive portal stuff was a pain in the ass. I would just walk across the street to Tully’s and use their wifi to get that pop up.
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by guidoism 3y ago
I like the squeak too. I recently moved to a place with hard water and so everyone has water softeners. With this super soft water I can't get the squeak ever. It just feels slimy to me.

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