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by linguae 3y ago
The Tokyo metro area is quite affordable compared to desirable metro areas in the United States and Canada, as well as other East Asian metro areas outside Japan. While I'd struggle to find a place for $500,000 in Silicon Valley, $500
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by linguae 3y ago
In addition, if the OP is running Windows 10/11 Pro, Education, or Enterprise as the host OS and if the native x86-64 hardware supports virtualization, then the OP can use the bundled Hyper-V client. I've successfully run Linux a
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by linguae 3y ago
I work in machine learning, and I also have interests in programming languages, operating systems, and databases.
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by linguae 3y ago
As a researcher who is seeking alternatives to the pressures of both academic and industrial research, one of the things I’m thinking about for my long-term career plan is to relocate to an area with a lower cost of living (bye Silicon Vall
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by linguae 3y ago
That was a thought-provoking article. Something that interests me is how software systems become more complex over time, gradually deviating from the vision the original developers had. I believe the modern Linux ecosystem (Linux kernel,
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by linguae 3y ago
This has less to do with the technical merits of Plan 9 and more to do with the fact that nobody has ported a modern web browser to Plan 9 (there are some browsers, but none with the feature parity of Firefox or Chrome). A slightly easier
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by linguae 3y ago
As someone who lives near Santa Cruz and works in Silicon Valley who wants to own a home but is priced out of the market, I looked into the idea of buying some land in either the Santa Cruz Mountains or the Monterey Bay Area and building a
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by linguae 3y ago
This situation can sometimes be commonplace for homeschooled students and those in independent study programs where they don’t have access to the laboratories needed to do lab sciences such as chemistry and physics. This can also happen in
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by linguae 3y ago
Severance isn’t guaranteed unless it’s company policy, and I would be concerned about being ineligible for unemployment benefits if I’m fired for breaking a company rule on attendance. Granted, I don’t know if being required to return to t
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by linguae 3y ago
It depends on the open source project. Not all open source projects are community-driven or are controlled by benevolent dictators; there are some open source projects that are developed by companies selling products and services using tho
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by linguae 3y ago
I think a major part of it is a lack of knowledge of history among many people in computer science and software engineering, even researchers. Alan Kay, the creator of the Smalltalk programming language and one of my personal heroes, has l
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by linguae 3y ago
I think part of it is that many companies were not remote before the pandemic, and most of the companies issuing RTO mandates did not promote (or in many cases even allow) RTO pre-pandemic. Because the pandemic forced an abrupt shift to re
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by linguae 3y ago
While I personally prefer the terms x86-64 or AMD64, x64 is used by Microsoft to describe the x86-64 architecture: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d... There's even a guide fro
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by linguae 3y ago
This bout of inflation is very demoralizing. In 2020-21 home prices rose by over 30% in the area I was considering (the Monterey Bay Area). Home prices have stabilized since then, but unfortunately interest rates nearly doubled, pricing m
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by linguae 3y ago
As someone who was a child during the early days of KDE, GNUstep, and GNOME and who didn’t start using Linux until 2004, I’d like to learn more about Miguel de Icaza’s attempts to work with GNUstep; I’m familiar with much of GNUstep’s histo
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by linguae 3y ago
The desktop and UI conventions are largely inspired from NeXTstep, which is from the late 1980s and was considered ahead of its time. However, there is nothing preventing the use of alternative designs. One example is the Etolie project f
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by linguae 3y ago
I remember the era (roughly 1998 to 2004) when IE was completely dominant. It sucked if you used an alternative web browser or a non-Windows operating system, which I believe was the point of Microsoft's behavior: protect and maintain
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by linguae 3y ago
That’s one of the hardest things about leaving California as a lifelong Californian who is accustomed to Mediterranean climates: there’s nowhere else in the United States with this type of climate. It’s generally your choice of cold winter
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by linguae 3y ago
Unfortunately essential workers who don’t make extremely high incomes typically face grueling commutes from far-flung areas or they live in cramped conditions. While living with tons of roommates is sometimes done by single people, for fam
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by linguae 3y ago
At the same time, however, one didn't have to make the equivalent of today's high mid-six or low-seven figure salaries in order to be able to afford to purchase a home in a world-class metro area. Today one needs to make "wo
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by linguae 3y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this, too. I believe open source software is beneficial even for non-programmers; if anything else, the preservation of the software isn't completely dependent on the goodwill of the company providi
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by linguae 3y ago
Yes, delivery services have a cost, and it’s understandable that delivery costs have a separate fee from the cost of the items being delivered. What I’m referring to is the example in the article, where there is a “service fee” assessed on
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by linguae 3y ago
I think another part of it is the difference in research funding philosophy at Xerox PARC in the 1970s compared to the funding philosophy of most companies and government agencies in the past 20-30 years. Xerox PARC researchers had the rar
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by linguae 3y ago
The language’s syntax seems to be influenced by languages designed by Wirth, such as Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon. These languages have many fans, but they have quite verbose syntax compared to either languages influenced by C or those inf
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by linguae 3y ago
I’ve noticed in the past five years the proliferation of service fees at Bay Area restaurants that are separate from tip. It’s not just at sit-down places; I’ve also seen them at places without waitstaff, such as sandwich shops and cafes.
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by linguae 3y ago
And, of course, the price of Youtube Premium just went up this month (I'm also a Premium subscriber). Seems like Big Tech this year is focused this year on trying to optimize its revenue streams (e.g., more ads on Youtube, crackdowns
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by linguae 3y ago
Depending on the system this could range from an easy project that one can do in a few hours to a very long quest. For some research systems (particularly those implemented in the pre-FOSS era or those from companies) it may be impossible
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by linguae 3y ago
Through various market forces, Unix (and its descendants/clones) and Windows killed most of the rest of the OS ecosystem over 20 years ago. There are generations of software engineers and computer scientists who’ve never studied opera
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by linguae 3y ago
As a way of reducing the costs of higher education in America, I’m wondering how well a “no-thrills” model of a university will be received by students, faculty, employers, and other stakeholders? Today’s universities in America arguably h
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by linguae 3y ago
Yes, more Americans are getting degrees now than in previous generations. However, if the cost of getting a college education continues to grow and if it becomes increasingly difficult to get a college education without taking on crippling

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