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by le-mark 1y ago
IME hackathons have always been a farce. Maybe I saw too many win with a nice UI and mocked data. Form over substance seems to be even more in vogue nowadays. Maybe I need a nap…
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by le-mark 1y ago
Also despise teams, here’s my anecdote. A few years ago (about 2020) the Linux teams client had bug where it would write to a .so continuously which is odd enough. It would then fill up the disk on my work laptop writing to that one file. S
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by le-mark 1y ago
Elon has proven to truly be the dumbest smart guy ever. He alienated Tesla’s core customers; tree hugging liberals, and anyone who cares about sustainability. The GOP nor their voters care and never will. I called this Tesla stock crash mon
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by le-mark 1y ago
Good old “let the courts handle it” Mitch. This is his doing, a direct consequence of his lack of principle.
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by le-mark 1y ago
Where can one learn more about this? I want to get some activities for my kids this summer…
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by le-mark 2y ago
Iirc the “gazette” version of Compute! Was focused on Commodore machines, whereas Compute was a polyglot of several popular US machines. Theses magazines were a lifeline to a lot of us in the 80’s pre internet. It reminds me how amazing thi
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by le-mark 2y ago
Clearly shoes and textiles in general are extremely difficult to automate, but you only have to build one shoe building robot, and copy it. Why hasn’t this been done? Expecting a “too hard” answer honestly, but is it really?
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by le-mark 2y ago
Facts. I worked on a retail system that was nearly 1M loc and the company went bankrupt. Poof all that work gone. That was a real epiphany for me, and also the start of keeping a healthy distance between me and my work. Although software ca
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by le-mark 2y ago
Three plus more years of this too. Fortunes will be made.
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by le-mark 2y ago
> We are going to see a lot more chaos and weird moves during the coming ~weeks~ YEARS Fixed that for you. It’s horrifying isn’t it?
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by le-mark 2y ago
We didn’t know how good we had it!
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by le-mark 2y ago
It’s beyond amazing; it’s the tell that gives the whole grift away. Conservative media bought and paid for by foreign influence money. They have sane-washed, explained away, normalized so much egregious behavior that would have ended any 10
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by le-mark 2y ago
One thing we know for sure Trump will never back down or admit he’s wrong. So how to invest in this 4 year regime to survive or even thrive?
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by le-mark 2y ago
> Anecdotes everyone in this discussion knows I’m genuinely curious why you think this post is appropriate or beneficial for this topic or even this subthread? Linux isn’t a windows clone; everyone knows that.
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by le-mark 2y ago
Is there a way to use typescript without pulling in all of npm? That’s the deal breaker for me, maybe others as well.
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by le-mark 2y ago
The configs are very similar though, the reasons for the move were technical and performance, for whatever that’s worth.
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by le-mark 2y ago
Exactly, parent commenter is excercising the same bias they’re accusing others of. Rookie move imo.
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by le-mark 2y ago
Why don’t YOU show those things? That would at least be the start of a good faith discussion and not a whataboutism bias tirade.
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by le-mark 2y ago
> GLib is a general-purpose, portable utility library, which provides many useful data types, macros, type conversions, string utilities, file utilities, a mainloop abstraction, and so on. Glib is c batteries included library I really li
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by le-mark 2y ago
> Part of the motivation for this recent effort for a COBOL compiler front-end for GCC has been to help migrate traditional mainframe applications over to Linux for local use and in the cloud. A unixy cobol isn’t what anyone needs for ma
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by le-mark 2y ago
Human level artificial intelligence has never had much appeal to me, there are enough idiots in the world, why do we need artificial ones? Ie if average machine intelligence mirrored human IQ distribution?
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by le-mark 2y ago
Research conscripts, meat waves, and blocking troops. Happening in a prominent European conflict today!
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by le-mark 2y ago
> why would you fab a digital design in 130nm instead of just programming an FPGA? That’s an interesting concept. So an fpga implemented on a current 7nm process is more performant (clock speed and energy use) than an asic on a 130nm pro
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by le-mark 2y ago
This should be the top comment. Apple are doing business the way business is done, just like last time. Results don’t matter, it’s economic policy via press release. Form over substance.
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by le-mark 2y ago
Is the backlash worse than the Bush invasion of Iraq in 2003? Is it worse than the first Trump administration? Genuinely curious. The reality is the 50% of voters who DID not vote for the current president are just as shell shocked as the E
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by le-mark 2y ago
Fred Saberhagen Beserkers are the first instance of this concept I’m familiar with (1963) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_(novel_series)
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by le-mark 2y ago
These insights are essential for playing the long game; it may sound distasteful for people early in their careers. That’s fine, but when you’re running out the clock to retirement, can’t go wrong.
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by le-mark 2y ago
This painfully long and meandering piece is about how David Lynch chose to not direct Return of the Jedi. If that interests you, you will enjoy it more than I did!
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by le-mark 2y ago
The function of “healthcare” in the US is to separate families from their generational wealth at end of life. The way the system is set up all a persons assets will be used up and depleted paying for required care Medicare does not cover (i
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by le-mark 2y ago
Everyone reading this should research the end of life healthcare situation in the US. In the current system you will be destitute, your assets will be sucked dry until you have nothing, only then will you qualify for Medicaid. Only the weal

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