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by leoc 1y ago
I'm afraid I have to say that in my experience talking therapy is even less effective than drugs, which at least do something . But again, I'm not discouraging anyone from pursuing these pathways: do it if you can, and as soon as
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by leoc 1y ago
No, not that (though I'm sure they can cause anxiety under certain circumstances, consult your physician etc.) It's just that IME they do basically nothing one way or the other about anxious procrastination, so if that's the
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by leoc 1y ago
Getting diagnosed and medicated should absolutely be the first port of call and one should do it without delay. However I should add that they never made much concrete difference to my "clinical outcomes". Now I'm sure I wa
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by leoc 1y ago
HtDP users would probably also be interested in looking into some of the old courses based on it. List courtesy of charlysl: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18891945 .
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by leoc 1y ago
If you're already fairly comfortable with computer programming, The Little Schemer would be almost perfect for this. https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262560993/the-little-schemer/ It would be well worth reading
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by leoc 1y ago
My hunch is that for nearly anyone who is serious about it these days, the way forward is either to have unusually tight control over the underlying platform, or to include a servant Linux installation with your OS. If Windows is a buggy se
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by leoc 1y ago
Look at the outcome of Meta's performance in AR/VR over the past few years: a fortune has been spent; relatively little has been achieved; the whole thing is likely about to be slashed back; VR, something Carmack believes in, rema
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by leoc 1y ago
Meta's AR/VR division has burned a huge amount of money and years of time, with relatively little to show for it. Now it seems to be on the verge of being cancelled or slashed back, and in response people are saying that this prov
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by leoc 1y ago
Masters of Doom does seems to want to, however accurately or not, set Carmack up as the antagonist of its story against Romero as the hero sometimes. I think that readers just largely didn't notice that since Carmack's heroic im
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by leoc 1y ago
In memory-safety discussions it needs to be borne in mind that 'simply fix the hardware' is also a viable approach; or at least it's a lot more viable than it was or seemed to be a few decades ago https://en.wiki
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by leoc 1y ago
Tim Peters and GvR did both hit the news https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/09/core_python_developer... in the past couple of years!
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by leoc 1y ago
And a nearly opposite business model too: IIUC ARM was more or less the first company to behave like it actually wanted customers for its CPU-design licenses.
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by leoc 1y ago
The 8008 is not a 4004 descendant, though: it was a new design originally done for the Datapoint 2200!
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by leoc 1y ago
Both your statement and IshKebab's are true.
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Digital's Ken Olsen is probably one of the most relevant examples. Though it probably helped that Olsen was largely working with the grain at DEC, building digital playsets which engineers themselves loved, rather than constantly forci
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by leoc 1y ago
I don't know, maybe he wouldn't raise his voice, but I can't imagine it would be fun to be a subordinate of LKY at the moment he decided you were wasting his time.
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by leoc 1y ago
IBM did bid, but Oracle jumped in with a higher offer. Supposedly (IIRC) the Sun leadership had wanted and expected IBM to buy Sun but didn't feel it could refuse the higher bid. Aside from Java Google would surely have been a very awk
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by leoc 1y ago
They famously did better than the proprietary shell tools in the original fuzzpocalypse https://users.cs.northwestern.edu/~robby/courses/395-495-200... . I also think I recall reading, somewhere on jwz dot org,
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by leoc 1y ago
Just wait for the new, kinder, gentler Oracle, that one will be a hoot. Ellison will probably have to be carried out first, unfortunately.
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by leoc 1y ago
You can see the reactions in 2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524082 . Pretty positive overall!
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by leoc 1y ago
In this case it's more that hardware isn't a critical business for MS, I think.
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by leoc 1y ago
(Cross-posting from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44867429 .) I've seen enough: as the recognised authority and designated responsible person ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525256 I&#x
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by leoc 1y ago
I've seen enough: as the recognised authority and designated responsible person ;) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7525256 I'm officially recognising this as the final end of 2010s Cool Microsoft. > 74 poi
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by leoc 1y ago
Via "Coates" on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/oddthisday.bsky.social/post/3lvzzmj... at at Medum https://mulberryhall.medium.com/odd-this-day-5b1cfd1fdb32 who provides some other
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The value of institutional memory(timharford.com)
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by leoc 1y ago
Who knows what will really happen, but there have been rumours of significant core-count bumps in Ryzen 6, which would edge the mainstream significantly closer to manycore.
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by leoc 1y ago
It's also the home of the Three Questions (about each bug you find): https://www.multicians.org/thvv/threeq.html
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by leoc 1y ago
If you had a rotating mechanism which allows slip then you could have rotor shafts which rotate all the blocks in a column while braking mechanisms prevent all the blocks in a given row from moving. Or you could have both rotor rows and rot
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In its form as ‘the normalisation of deviance’ it’s generally recognised as bad.
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Presumably they could also be rented for big commercial outdoor events, too. On a grander scale, maybe these might make a big network like the old Project Loon more feasible, though presumably the things would have to be able to fly high en

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