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541.
by le-mark 2y ago
It blows my mind that this wasn’t more widely publicized over the years. At least this is the first time I’ve seen it, and I learned vim a long time ago. Partly because if it was a choice between weird keys, may as well learn vim.
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by le-mark 2y ago
Slightly off topic, but does anyone have experience using the book this is based on to teach or learn programming? If so what was your experience like? What was good or bad about it for example?
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by le-mark 2y ago
We are witnessing rail road tycoon, but for the solar system. The foundations set in the next 50-100 years will be the foundation of the human solar empire. Spacex has no competition for the foreseeable future. And anyone who uses them as a
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by le-mark 2y ago
No runtime No BCL No objects or GC No debugger Strings are ASCII I did not see the readme mention anything about bool/byte/char/short/int/long sizes or signed and unsigned. It can be quite
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by le-mark 2y ago
Two of the big unknowns are zero g assembly, and delta v requirements to move near earth or earth crossing asteroids (iron rich) into suitable orbits. Certainly it’s possible an asteroid munching, cylinder ring producing large machine in sp
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by le-mark 2y ago
This is an interesting and relevant point. What is repurposing in this context? In what way does RSS allow someone’s content to be repurposed more easily? How does this make monetization more difficult?
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by le-mark 2y ago
Best not to think of it as “chocolate” similar to how cheese whiz is only loosely related to cheese.
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by le-mark 2y ago
Nice to see someone exploring from first principals and implementing interesting things. And referencing past work! Gives me hope actually. One nit; I disagree with “scary”, I think “interesting” and even “fun”!
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by le-mark 2y ago
Don’t, let them pay for support like a normal person. “I work with servers not phones/pcs”. Cruel? Maybe but so is their taking advantage of their tech literate family. We actually have a local shop that does really good work. If more
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by le-mark 3y ago
Or a write up on the algorithm used? How did knowledge of the prngs of the impact the impl?
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by le-mark 3y ago
This same calculus is mentioned four times in this thread as of now. It completely ignores the human cost, as in lives saved, and cost infrastructure not destroyed and capabilities not degraded. It almost like a concerted effort of bad fait
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by le-mark 3y ago
That was great and really piqued my interest. I remember reading Byte magazine (late 70s and early 80s) and the pages and pages of adverts for machines similar to the Vector; peripherals, compilers, and softwarein the same work satation cat
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by le-mark 3y ago
This basically the idea around Paul Grahams “Beating the averages” essay which is about 23 years old now.
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by le-mark 3y ago
Cobol upto and including the 85 Standard was stackless and heapless which is quite a cognitive divide. For those going to and coming from that language. I didn’t read Raymond say anything about security in the present article, but the advan
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by le-mark 3y ago
Considering large numbers of Russian troops were sickened after digging trenches and fortification near Chernobyl during the current war Ukraine, I tend think these warnings will go unheeded in the far future.
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by le-mark 3y ago
For anyone who hasn’t read “Soul of a new machine”, Data General was the company featured. This book by Gary Kidder is a great read, and an insight into the computer era of the time.
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by le-mark 3y ago
History repeats, in this AI “gold rush” it’s best to be the person selling the shovels.
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by le-mark 3y ago
This may not fit here but I’m going to ask if anyone knows; has anyone been using starlink phased array antenna s for point to point microwave communication? What would be fruitful search words for google to find out more? Thanks!
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by le-mark 3y ago
I think the missing piece from that exchange is the reality that a lot of surviving, legacy, mission critical applications is that they are generally internal to large companies and have grown over decades to encapsulate business processes
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by le-mark 3y ago
> I would think that the way to do this would be to The devil as always Is in the details. The real problem comes With stored procedures. Maybe this is why I shy away from their used to this day. The last migration I did to Postgres wasn
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by le-mark 3y ago
I’ve been sitting on some code for about 15 years because it’s the key to disrupting a couple of entrenched players and would enable cloud vendors to offer the functionality “as a service”. No way I want Amazon/google/MS to run aw
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by le-mark 3y ago
Would this not be self reported by wallet owners? Because if each transaction uses a unique wallet address, funds are very difficult to connect to an owner. Until they’re connected to a sale to fiat at least?
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by le-mark 3y ago
I know someone who works part time at an Amazon warehouse and they have a real problem with people sleep walking through their shifts. We decided they must have the “do nothings” factored in to the equation. Considering how desperate they a
564.
by le-mark 3y ago
And cost? How does that factor in to your use case?
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by le-mark 3y ago
There was a mania around residential real estate, adjustable rate mortgages, swaps, cdos and synthetic cdos, that all hinged on adjustable rates resetting up starting in 2007 that drove the 2008 crises. The movie “The Big Short” does a good
566.
by le-mark 3y ago
Lowering inflation, strong gdp, and strong jobs growth seems to indicate they’re doing something right. Or did I miss the point (I don’t watch fox)?
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by le-mark 3y ago
Sitting at a desk for several years has wrecked me, I can’t imagine what zero g would be like to recover from.
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by le-mark 3y ago
By the same token, a space faring civilization based from the Moon or Mars is much more feasible, and a large argument for colonizing either imo, also rarely discussed nowadays.
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by le-mark 3y ago
Real time video and telemetry for military drones that’s nearly immune to electronic warfare counter measures is the real end game. The fpv drone carnage in Ukraine is currently limited to the contact lines plus or minus a few kilometers. S
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by le-mark 3y ago
Just now I was searching for flares,and after 5 attempts with different keywords I could not even get the Wikipedia page, just ads and blog spam for boating flares. Went to ddg and got informative links and the wiki entry first try. Google

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