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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Story time: I worked the night shift at a motel during college. "Bored to tears" was an understatement. I was poking around the front desk computer system one night, as one does, and found its data file. Lacking anything else to d
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
"Imagine a universe, like ours, overlapping ours, except where some of its matter spontaneously rips itself apart, and other matter can be mashed together if you squeeze it hard enough." "That's nightmare fuel! Fortunate
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Same here. It clearly wasn't Unix, but it was a whole lot closer to Unix than MS-DOS was. All the basic concepts were there, and when I eventually migrated into a Linux environment it all felt familiar.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Young me is envious. I downloaded or typed in, I forget which, some monitor program[0] that I used a lot , but loading it was far more manual than what you described and was basically impossible to load while another machine code (i.e. non
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Who are you, and why are you writing my biography? Your journey was nearly identical to mine. I truly, sincerely feel like we went through a golden age, where amazing things were starting to become possible but you hard to work hard enough
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I was in nearly the same boat, not quite rural, but close enough that I was one of a couple of "computer kids" in the whole school. I got my hands on the "Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide"[0] and it was lit
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I feel seen. Yes. It’s the same fundamental reason to-do apps exist. “Do you really need an app to remember to pay the rent on the first of the month?” “Demonstrably yes.” And there are events less personably important to me that matter to
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> How do you get to v3 and "the relationship you have with the person you are capturing hasn't been a priority"? In the article's words: > Relationships are a good example. Storing that Monica is Ross's sister
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
My brain is not wired to remember certain details about people. I can have a conversation with them for an hour, truly engage with them and pay attention to what they say because I care to do so, and a week later remember almost nothing abo
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
That's common for founders, though. The CEO and CTO etc. are almost certainly in the same boat. They're not so much saying "come work for free" as "come join this group of us who are taking a leap from our current j
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here. But also: while I didn't post this, that's not uncommon for a founding engineer. They're looking for someone to help
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Factory | Security Engineer | Onsite in San Francisco | Full-time Come work on my team! (We’re hiring lots of engineers right now, but I’m biased toward my own group today.) Factory builds software development agents that accelerate the wor
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I wanted this so badly on my Amiga. I didn’t understand how limited it was, and fully expected conversational computing to be right around the corner.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> “That's because I thought it made sense to represent a book as a sequence of Unicode code points stored along with the cumulative lengths of the individual fields. But you don't have to worry about it, since the auxiliary fun
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Yes. That helped, but not nearly so much.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
And yet, in practice, it's true. I was getting about 600K requests to my Forgejo server a day from crawlers making idiotic queries: https://honeypot.net/2025/12/22/i-read-yann-espositos-blog.h... I just
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
No freaking telling. I understand reasons why people might oppose AI, but fascism isn’t on that list.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I love this. However, Amiga’s Reorg program had a vastly better display, with a larger, resizable window and individual pixels instead of large boxes. You could see much more of the disk at once and get a feel for what the entire operation
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I lost a school spelling bee because I couldn’t remember if my word used ie or ei. I panicked and used “i before e”, leading to me appropriately failing to spell “forfeit”. You’re so right: Fuck you, it’s English. Good luck memorizing all t
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Also: The two best days in a boat owner’s life are the day they buy it and the day they sell it.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
I honestly can't imagine this concretely at all. Tell me to imagine a spinning cow. My experience is a lot like evaluating the mental version of: class Cow: spinning = True What does a spinning cow look like to me? A lot l
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
That's so bizarre to me. I can "picture" an apple, but I'm not literally seeing something resembling an apple in my mind. It's closer to the classic object-oriented example of "Apple isa Fruit", except not
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Well. Today I learned something new about myself. I can't visualize a thing, but I can pull up something vaguely visualish that represents its inherent thingness, while not at all resembling the thing. For instance, the way I might pic
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Ohhh, got it. Yes, correct. I’ve used Emacs for ages. Some newer editors came along with more powerful language features that I’d wished Emacs had. Now that the editor ecosystem is converging on LSP and treesitter, and Emacs supports those
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> And then Microsoft pushed AI everywhere, including on GitHub itself with copilot. Ding ding ding, we have a winner. I like AI. I work for an AI company. Still, Microsoft aggressively pushed GitHub users toward Copilot. They don't
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
Fair point.
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> Are there more housing units in Manhattan or Dubuque? Which one has more expensive housing units? That's an interesting question, because it's often — not necessarily in this case, but often — asked by people who ignore capit
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> The country needs to find a “compromise” between privacy and safety, according to Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley. “When people talk about just one of these, privacy or safety, they’re prioritizing the wrong thing, and what we have to
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Flock CEO calls for 'compromise' as surveillance company faces growing backlash(techcrunch.com)
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by kstrauser 1mo ago
> Increasing housing supply does not decrease home values This contradicts every common theory of economics I've heard.

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