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by j_m_b 4y ago
This is awesome, now if someone asks me what a promise is, I can say "it's an argument to pledge about which system resources I am declaring access to" and watch their faces glaze over. "No I'm talking about the asy
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by j_m_b 4y ago
Kubernetes seems like subversion before git came out. Overly complex but got the job done. When git came out, all other VCSs were quickly abandoned. Just waiting for the day when the git of container management comes out.
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by j_m_b 4y ago
Love these kinds of writeups! I've been learning 6502 for NES programming because I too have the nostalgia factor for these old machines.
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by j_m_b 4y ago
What about magic? Instead of being a great utility, it might have actually set middle earth back in terms of technological development. Who needs a voice-activated door when there is magic? Who needs technological efficiency when you can ju
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by j_m_b 4y ago
Getting to the point as a company where you're fighting right-to-repair seems like you're a company on your last gasps. It means you can't sell enough product at a profitable margin to keep yourself going through sales alone.
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by j_m_b 4y ago
The Fed doesn't use the CPI, they use the PCE. The PCE is calculated based on rental prices, not home prices. I should have said more accurately that they don't include the PRICE of homes in their inflation measurement. It seems l
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by j_m_b 4y ago
Everyone is focused on the rates, but what about the 2T USD of mortgage backed securities on the Fed's balance sheet? They promised to wind-down their holdings of MBS but they have persistently held them all the while housing prices ha
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by j_m_b 5y ago
Looks like I need to check out F#! Thanks!
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by j_m_b 5y ago
My favorite operator is the pipe operator. When I first found out you could do a simple `ls | more` to read long outputs, it was an eye opening experience. In Clojure, we have the threading macros, `->` and `->>` that do a very sim
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by j_m_b 5y ago
Would be interesting to see what Facebook came up with in this space. Not a fan of their "service" but I love their libs.
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by j_m_b 5y ago
We need some good 'ol FOMO to encourage vaccination: First month, it's free, second month, it costs $10, third month, it costs $100, fourth mount, $1000.
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by j_m_b 5y ago
relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2055/ Bluetooth is still a nightmare after being around for over 2 decades. Meanwhile, my wireless mouse with USB dongle just works.
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by j_m_b 5y ago
I also ran Slackware on a 486DX. I remember it taking hours to compile a kernel. I upgraded around 98' to a Pentium II and was blown away when I could compile a kernel in 2 minutes!
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by j_m_b 5y ago
Metaverse, the next 3D television.
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by j_m_b 5y ago
> We are aware that The BMJ is not the only high quality information provider to have been affected by the incompetence of Meta’s fact checking regime. It is not an acceptable tradeoff that some high quality information is censored in or
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by j_m_b 5y ago
The US government is always honest and most assuredly will make their software with the end user in mind. Combined with the excellent customer support offered by the IRS and the US government's proven track record in creating stable so
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by j_m_b 5y ago
20 years after Covid: Will we ever stop putting up plastic and wearing masks?
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by j_m_b 5y ago
The language of this article is biased and portrays viewpoints using various leftist tropes such as use of "deniers", "right wing", "alt-right". The article is little more than summary of fictional portrayals o
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by j_m_b 5y ago
At one time, Snopes was part of the fact-checking team at Facebook. This comment goes to show that having an arbiter of truth is a bad idea considering it's hard to accurately know everything. Imagine Doctors trying to debunk the offic
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by j_m_b 5y ago
The bad news: Propaganda in media is way more pervasive than it was back in the 80-90s. The good news: It's laughably obvious.
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by j_m_b 5y ago
There is no evidence dopamine fasting does anything. It's just the latest techie health fad.
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by j_m_b 6y ago
Fiat Money! Quantitative easing! Stimulus Checks! Next it will be UBI. Unrestrained monetary policies were the piper to save us from financial crisis after financial crisis. Now his pal inflation is coming for all of our free lunches.
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by j_m_b 6y ago
I wondered when the GraphQL "ORMs" would start appearing!
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by j_m_b 6y ago
Is there any science behind dopamine fasting? By science, I mean empirical evidence regarding dopamine fasting. When I last looked into it, there seemed to be scant evidence for it.
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by j_m_b 6y ago
Rush created a market for his product. He offered his show for free to AM stations in exchange for leaving open breaks for commercials aired by the program. This at a time when AM radio was dying due to it being supplanted by the superior f
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by j_m_b 6y ago
To throw on the anecdote pile... my brother was committed due to overreaction of an LSD trip. He had been up for days and was almost incoherent after being brought in to the emergency room by the police. They said it would be 2 days, then 5
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by j_m_b 6y ago
It's all relative and very nuanced. It depends on which team you're on and whose being censored!
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by j_m_b 6y ago
I agree. The switch is really an amazing piece of hardware. I can be playing on my TV and just pull out the switch and continue playing if someone wants to watch something. Nintendo has been innovating gaming hardware for years. Microsoft w
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by j_m_b 6y ago
So an ad hominem attack is legit argument nowadays. Got it. >Invest in yourself and others you believe in. A financial instrument that brings out the worst in people—greed—won't change the world for the better If we're going to
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by j_m_b 6y ago
Lecture Videos are available at the course webpage: https://iucompilercourse.github.io/IU-P423-P523-E313-E513-Fa...

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