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by linguae 4mo ago
I feel the exact same way. I was a Ron Paul Republican from 2007 (when I became old enough to vote) until 2016, when I changed my registration to “no party preference” in the aftermath of the GOP primary results. It hasn’t gotten to the p
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by linguae 4mo ago
I’m not optimistic about the near future. It seems that the post-WWII order in the developed world is disintegrating. It seems that the political and business elites of America and some other developed countries have forgotten the concept
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by linguae 4mo ago
Germany has both the Autobahn and rail.
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by linguae 4mo ago
Pre-Carly Fiorina Hewlett-Packard was a great example of an old-school Silicon Valley company, long before the era of “move fast and break things” and of Zuck, Elon, and Altman. I used to work for a Japanese company until I left a few year
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by linguae 4mo ago
Unfortunately marketing helps sell OS upgrades and new PCs, and one way to market a new OS is to advertise its “new and improved” UI. OS UI used to be more utilitarian and rooted in HCI principles, notably the classic Mac OS and Windows 95
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Research Is Not Engineering at a Slower Speed(voiceinthemachine.com)
3 points by linguae 4mo ago|1 comments
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by linguae 4mo ago
Unfortunately when you live in a place (like most American cities) where they’re largely built under the assumption people will drive everywhere, a car is essentially required. It’s expensive owning and maintaining a car, but it also feels
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by linguae 4mo ago
I love Tokyo (I spent eight months in Kawasaki in 2010), but I can see the appeal of living in a smaller place in Japan (though I’d personally be hesitant to live in a small, isolated town with little or no public transportation). Crowded
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by linguae 4mo ago
This is a description of Alan Kay’s STEPS project: https://worrydream.com/refs/Kay_2007_-_STEPS_2007_Progress_R... This is the final report: https://tinlizzie.org/VPRIPapers/tr2012001_steps.pdf
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by linguae 4mo ago
Not disputing any of the statistics cited, but there is one advantage of being homeless in California compared to other places: favorable weather, especially along the coast. Snow is a once-in-a-generation event outside high-elevation area
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by linguae 4mo ago
I doubt that most computer users have more than 16GB of RAM in their systems. There are plenty of users on 8GB systems and some still on 4GB. Even when considering bloated Web apps, 8GB of RAM is passable and 16GB is plenty. I think peopl
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by linguae 4mo ago
Apple did openly court Unix users during the early days of Mac OS X. As a teenager during this era, Macs of this era were my dream machines due to Mac OS X, and I was so happy to buy an 2006 MacBook the summer after my freshman year of col
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by linguae 4mo ago
When I was in high school in California more than 20 years ago, SAT math alone was insufficient for admissions to STEM programs at mid-ranked and top-ranked universities. I was required to take the SAT Math IIC subject test, which went up
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by linguae 5mo ago
Wow, this is very insightful and I haven’t looked at saving for retirement as a type of debt before! Thanks for sharing!
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by linguae 5mo ago
I would love to see a follow-up series that covers the dot com bust, the revival of Silicon Valley’s tech industry thanks to mobile and cloud tech, and the modern AI boom, starting with deep neural networks ran on GPUs and culminating with
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by linguae 5mo ago
In my opinion, it’s been a problem for a long time. Sure, the titans of industry are very interested in the profitable applications of science, but they are generally less interested in investing in science, let alone the science itself.
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by linguae 5mo ago
This is cool news. Given Apple’s history, there’s something rather interesting about Haiku, a BeOS clone, running natively on Apple Silicon, like stepping into an alternate universe. On another note, while I’m grateful for Asahi Linux, Hai
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by linguae 5mo ago
NeXT became an enterprise software company when it shut down its hardware division around 1993. At first it only sold its operating system, which got ported to x86, PA-RISC, and SPARC. Then, NeXT started selling development tools and libr
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by linguae 5mo ago
I agree. While it's definitely technically possible for Apple to transform BeOS into a more Mac-like experience much like how OPENSTEP was transformed, what saved Apple wasn't Mac OS X alone (which wasn't available for consu
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by linguae 5mo ago
My thoughts: 1. There were far more users of the classic Mac OS than there were users of NeXTstep/OPENSTEP. Mac OS X has many of OPENSTEP’s underpinnings, but it wasn’t OPENSTEP 5.0; it was Mac OS X, a continuation of the Mac but wit
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by linguae 5mo ago
We had the same requirement at my high school in Sacramento back in the early 2000s. I was given the option to test out of it, since I already knew how to use Office, which I had been using at home since fifth grade for reports and present
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by linguae 5mo ago
Your words resonate with me. Even before LLMs, I’ve been disappointed with the general direction the software industry took in the 2010s. Today’s software industry is not the industry of Licklider, Engelbart, Bob Taylor, Alan Kay, Woz, St
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by linguae 5mo ago
21 miles, 30-45 minutes each way in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. I have to leave home before 6:30am to achieve a ~30 minute commute; commute conditions deteriorate after 6:30am. If I’m unlucky, though, it could be 60
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by linguae 5mo ago
When I took an introductory programming class at Sacramento City College in fall 2004 during my senior year of high school, we spent the first half of the semester designing our programs using flowcharts and pseudocode. We were encouraged
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by linguae 5mo ago
I collect HP calculators: I have an HP 12C, an HP 15C Collector's Edition (there are a few of them left still for sale), an HP 32Sii, and an HP 48SX. I sometimes use them, but whenever I'm in front of a computer (which is almost
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by linguae 5mo ago
The scary thing is I don’t know of a place that would be better for Americans in the next 20-30 years: - Western Europe needs to figure out quickly how to adapt to a likely diminished or non-existent American role in NATO while at the same
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by linguae 5mo ago
The Mac isn’t a monopoly, but choices for desktop operating systems are indeed limited. I use macOS, Windows, and Linux on a regular basis. The only one that’s improving is the Linux ecosystem. I prefer macOS to Windows, but macOS is not
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by linguae 5mo ago
I do sympathize with the viewpoint that many academics are not in a position to give good advice about industry since many of them either never worked in industry or had limited exposure via internships. Additionally, the values of academi
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by linguae 6mo ago
It’s even more extreme in the Bay Area. While San Francisco is a job center, there are also major suburban job centers such as Palo Alto, Cupertino, Mountain View, and Sunnyvale. The problem is living close to work is painfully expensive
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by linguae 6mo ago
I use a MacBook Pro at work and a Framework 13 for personal use. The biggest downside to my Framework 13 is the low battery life; I’ve been getting only about 5 hours on Windows 11. Other than that, I like my Framework 13. I am very excit

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