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by ido 11mo ago
Isn't the 68060 backward compatible? Why wouldn't it run the same binaries compiled for other 68k CPUs?
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by ido 11mo ago
I think what you’re saying is that they are a natural monopoly , which isn’t nefarious or illegal. But is still a monopoly.
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by ido 11mo ago
Maybe it's my own personal bias but I feel that these stories of low, slow growth; small teams, small wins but consistency are becoming more norm. While I realize there is still plenty of froth, it's inspirin
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by ido 11mo ago
Does it? I often ask ChatGPT such things and specifying I want free software options is enough (it often mentions which options are and aren’t free on its own).
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by ido 1y ago
I suspect the reason is that most late-teens/early-twenty-somethings are not responsible/emotionally mature enough to put in the required amount of work in the relatively free environment of university where nobody is checking if
126.
by ido 1y ago
Squeegee like sibling comments mentioned, then it doesn't take long to dry.
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by ido 1y ago
I did not appreciate having to pound the dust out of the erasers when I was in grade school. I wonder if they could make the chalk magnetic and have magnetic trap at the bottom or something. But again too complicated. Th
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by ido 1y ago
Municipal/state government cutting budgets.
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by ido 1y ago
Didn't more modern currencies (e.g. ETH post switch to Proof-of-Stake) solve a lot of that[0]? [0] I own no crypto and have no horse in that race, just from what i understood from online discourse.
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by ido 1y ago
> I'm convinced that most office work exists for social reasons The powers that be are not competent/powerful enough to engineer a society-wide conspiracy like that. A lot of waste (especially in big organizations, and the bigg
131.
by ido 1y ago
Microstransactions are a massive on iOS and android using “non-crypto” currency and have been for many years.
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by ido 1y ago
Sounds like it would have been simpler to just raise it to $160k instead of introducing a $100k fee.
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by ido 1y ago
Why not set a salary floor for H1-B candidates? That's how the equivalent works in Germany (the floor is quite low imo but if it's too low it can be set higher). If you set the floor (maybe per profession) for software engineers a
134.
by ido 1y ago
Do we really need to do this with each comment adding another rule and another reply from someone breaking it? I live in Berlin with my wife and 2 kids (who were born lived their whole lives in Berlin). We all bike and take transit. Neither
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by ido 1y ago
There are a lot more tourists then there used to be in the past. When I moved to Vienna in 2005 I used to take weekend trips to nearby cities (anything up to a couple hours by train, like Budapest or Brno). I would just go on a train and wh
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by ido 1y ago
Amazing dedication! QBasic was also my first taste of programming. I wonder what you'd consider the tradeoffs of QBasic vs something intentionally geared towards IF, like Inform[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by ido 1y ago
The contemporary Jagged Alliance, while it has a handful of baffling UI (that was already the case when it was new), is still imo much easier to get into than the original X-com while having nicer looking graphics.
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by ido 1y ago
I’m not forcing them to stop printing, I’m introducing an additional tool to their toolbox. For some reason ive offen seen resistance to even try learning how to use a debugger.
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by ido 1y ago
Ive multiple times had to force programmers to use a debugger at least once (instead of only printing/logging). If they wouldn’t do it on their own whenever a bug stumped them where they needed my help I stepped into the debugger with
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by ido 1y ago
> It’s why you have a generation of kids that only eat chicken fingers and french fries. I’m 42 years old and something like this was already said about kids when I was a child (I suspect it was like that before my time as well). Childre
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by ido 1y ago
Historically imporvments in programmer productivity (e.g. via better languages, tooling and hardware) didn't correlate to a decrease in demand for programemrs, but quite the opposite.
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by ido 1y ago
> I'm willing to take a 20% pay cut at this point for a chance to actually ship things at a small company. Unfortunately the pay cut might be a lot bigger than 20%. I've seen people have "the same job" where one gets
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by ido 1y ago
Jimmy tend to have opinions about the games he covers and doesn’t pretend to present some ideal objective review (he had much “hotter” takes about other games in past articles). Take it for what it is and enjoy the ride, I’ve been reading
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by ido 1y ago
> Non-market housing, healthcare, education all provided to every citizen This can also describe Nordic and Germanic models of welfare capitalism (incrementally dismantled with time but still exist): https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by ido 1y ago
What wouldn’t apply to Europe?
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by ido 1y ago
I studied computer science and have been working as a programmer for about 20 years. The downside is that you're filtering a lot of people who would actually potentially be great programmers but are for whatever reason not good at calc
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by ido 1y ago
Whenever I visit a “chatty” country like the US or UK I enjoy the small talk and casual chit-chat and really miss it in grumpy and silent Central Europe :)
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by ido 1y ago
I don't think leading to long term connections (although a big bonus) is a requirement for socialization to be positive. The alternative we discuss in this context is to being home alone.
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by ido 1y ago
Aside from the drinking, what is wrong with the social activity you just mentioned? Or was your point that they only used it as an excuse to drink? Cause it would have surely been easier & cheaper to just drink at home on their own.
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by ido 1y ago
Depends which Iraqis you talk to, plenty were killed and had their homes destroyed by Saddam.

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