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by guidoism 5y ago
I worked on the identity system that chat (whatever the current name is) and gmail depend on and we used IRC since if we relied on the system we support we wouldn’t be able to fix it.
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by guidoism 5y ago
I wonder if the name changes (Pacsal -> Modula -> Oberon) did damage to people’s perception in the 80s and 90s. Maybe they thought it was in decline when in reality the name just changed?
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by guidoism 5y ago
Interesting that “a million dollars” allows him to fly in jets and burn money
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by guidoism 5y ago
That original device was magical. Yes, it was ugly, but first-time user experience was magic. 1. You bought it with your Amazon account so it was automatically tied to your account. 2. You bought some books or got some samples before you go
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by guidoism 5y ago
The First Three Minutes is one of my favorite books. I keep go back to it.
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by guidoism 5y ago
Can you cite something that describes this? As far as I know all the research suggests that you can learn certain things at any time after your brain has matured enough for the skill but not before. So putting off a year of school has no ne
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by guidoism 5y ago
This is crazy. No. Lack of school doesn’t create harm. Attempting to shoehorn traditional schooling into an online form certainly can.
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by guidoism 5y ago
Oh man, I gotta lot of code in APLCore. I can't believe that's still around too. Wow.
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You abstraction isn't wrong, it's just bad (2020)(blog.cerebralab.com)
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by guidoism 5y ago
Request ID! I added that to the Amazon web servers about 20 years ago! My code probably doesn’t exist anymore but it’s funny to see it referenced on HN this many years later.
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by guidoism 5y ago
It’s just a trade-off. Which part of the OS do you hate fighting the least. Given that by the early 2000s you couldn’t really get away with a text-only terminal as your dev machine and years of fighting with XF86Config and some other bullsh
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by guidoism 5y ago
I agree. Honestly electron used the main thing pushing up ram usage these days for most people.
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Miegakure [Hide and Reveal] – Explore and interact with a 4D world(miegakure.com)
2 points by guidoism 6y ago|0 comments
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Dayssincehankgreenlaststartedanewthing.com(dayssincehankgreenlaststartedanewthing.com)
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by guidoism 6y ago
Knuth added Oxford commas to the master web files. So, I guess we can all say that we are done here. Goodnight.
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by guidoism 6y ago
I think this is a good question to ask. But my immediate reaction is: why? Land is scarce so it makes sense to “invest” in, ie convert dollars into land with the expectation that you will be able to convert it back into more dollars later b
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by guidoism 6y ago
Heh yeah. It didn’t matter because there weren’t that many people hitting the pages. It was more of a thing to do that was cool because when it hit like a thousand you would be like “OMG a THOUSAND people all over the world have visited my
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by guidoism 6y ago
I don’t disagree with you, especially if you are trying to follow the same curriculum as the schools and expect the kids to grok everything during the “correct” school year. We are finding that concepts that the kids are ready for come supe
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by guidoism 6y ago
Yeah we really don’t have a good word for this in English. I have trouble describing what I do. Being a parent and educating your children at home is exhausting so it doesn’t fit with the common understanding of retirement.
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by guidoism 6y ago
Not going to argue about having to spend money to get some time away from the kids. But education? If you retire then you have the time to unschool your children and while your family and friends will think you are crazy your children will
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by guidoism 6y ago
This. I worked at Amazon during this time on our custom web server and before that I had been using telnet to hand type my commands or various perl scripts I wrote to emulate a browser's requests. And... ugh, tcpdump to figure out what
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by guidoism 6y ago
The README says it's around 8 billion times slower than Cortex-M0+ (the RP2040's main CPU). Here's an intro to the instructions that the PIO provide: https://www.cnx-software.com/2021/01/27/a-cl
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Add two integers together using the RP2040's PIO instead of the CPU(github.com)
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Emulator for Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 in JavaScript(github.com)
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by guidoism 6y ago
My kids are so much happier on Minecraft because there's no built-in pay-money-to-get-better mechanism. Minecraft has a HUGE value in the price you pay to the amount of awesome gameplay you get. Even with Realms it's cheap compare
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by guidoism 6y ago
Except that in this case the vast majority of the money my kids have spent have been a huge failure. They expect something to work a certain way when they buy it and because of zero QC it doesn't and they end up losing their money and
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by guidoism 6y ago
I don't disagree with you — Both theoretically and in reality where success means forking over your money to a massive corporation in order to shut your kids up. Do I sound cranky? :-)
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by guidoism 6y ago
Yeah, like I said, there are some decent games, and the stuff that bubbles up to the top of the list are fine I guess, but if you ever try actually searching for a game you will find a cesspool of crap that doesn't work or barely works
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by guidoism 6y ago
Roblox pisses me off so so much as a parent. There are some good games but it's mostly wading through an ocean of shit. And the vast majority of games that are popular are clickers that incentivize children to pay money to get more for
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by guidoism 6y ago
A microcontroller is probably the closest you can get these days and honestly a modern MCU is going to be powerful enough of for most use cases. There’s a huge world of difference in complexity and understandability between an MCU and the S

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