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by linguae 6mo ago
Exactly. Tokyu's model of building a train line from the city center to rural areas and then building suburban developments in the rural areas the line traverses doesn't work in already built-up areas. Hence, there are still pub
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by linguae 6mo ago
I just ordered a base model Mac Mini a few days ago. The Mac Mini and the MacBook Neo serves different niches. They cost the same for students, teachers, and professors. The MacBook Neo is more portable, but the Mac Mini offers more proc
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by linguae 6mo ago
I'm quite familiar with Project Oberon as a professor who studies operating systems and programming languages, but even though this is Hacker News where many of us are familiar with the project, I'm not surprised that there are al
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by linguae 6mo ago
I don’t think it’s AI slop. Even before modern generative AI, I’ve noticed a decline in Apple’s software quality. Rather, I feel that Apple has forgotten its roots. The Mac was “the computer for the rest of us,” and there were usability g
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by linguae 6mo ago
I have a personal Framework 13 and a work-issued MacBook Pro. I love Framework’s mission of providing user-serviceable hardware; we need upgradable, serviceable hardware. However, the battery life on my MacBook Pro is dramatically better
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by linguae 6mo ago
None of the tools that you mentioned except for LibreOffice and OpenOffice are free-as-in-freedom, and if you’re using Linux on the desktop, then Microsoft Office and the Apple iWork suite are unavailable as desktop applications.
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by linguae 6mo ago
I interpreted the clause “two poor alternatives in a row” as Biden + Harris in the 2024 presidential election, and not Clinton + Harris, since Clinton was the 2016 nominee and Harris was the 2024 nominee after Biden dropped out, but the 202
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by linguae 6mo ago
I believe Trump would have won 2020 had the COVID pandemic not happened. Things were very chaotic in 2020 America. Biden and his extensive experience in the federal government looked reassuring to a lot of Americans. Biden would have had
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by linguae 7mo ago
As much as I love alluring designs such as the NeXT Cube (which I have), the Power Mac G4 Cube (which I wish I had), and the 2013 Mac Pro (which I also have), sometimes a person needs a big, hulking box of computational power with room for
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by linguae 7mo ago
I believe this is the first time since 1987 with the introduction of the Macintosh II that there are no Macs in Apple's lineup that offer some type of combination of upgradeable RAM, upgradeable storage, and internal expansion slots.
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by linguae 7mo ago
Indeed. It seems, at least in America (I’m less familiar with the situation abroad) that computer science researchers who want to do longer-term work are getting squeezed. Less funding means fewer research positions in academia. Industry
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by linguae 7mo ago
I wholeheartedly agree. Computing professions such as software engineering used to feel like, "Wow, they're paying me to do this!" Yes, there was real work involved, but for many of us it never felt like drudgery, and we
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by linguae 7mo ago
My take is that there used to be a significant overlap between hobbyist-style exploration/coding and what industry wanted, especially during the PC revolution where companies like Apple and Microsoft were started by hobbyists selling t
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by linguae 7mo ago
I’ve come to the same conclusion, though my line of work was research rather than software engineering. “He who pays the piper calls the tune.” It’s fun as long as I enjoyed the tunes being called, but the tunes changed, and I became less
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by linguae 7mo ago
I remember when I first learned about GNUstep in 2004 when I was in high school. It's a shame GNUstep never took off; we could have had an ecosystem of applications that could run on both macOS and Linux using native GUIs. With that s
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by linguae 7mo ago
I'd like to give my perspective as a computer science professor at Ohlone College, which is a two-year community college located in Silicon Valley. I used to work as an AI researcher in industry (but not in large language models) befo
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by linguae 7mo ago
I was just thinking about this a few days ago, but not just for the CPU (which we have RISC-V and OpenPOWER), but for an entire system, including the GPU, audio, disk controllers, networking, etc. I think a great target would be mid-2000s
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by linguae 7mo ago
I love the BSDs; I have the most experience with FreeBSD, I regularly use macOS, and lately I’ve been learning NetBSD due to its rumpkernel. With that said, with the decline of commercial Unix and the dominance of Linux, POSIX, in my opinio
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by linguae 7mo ago
That’s what happened to my 2006 Core Duo MacBook after about three or four years of use. It was an excellent laptop that was quite user-serviceable (I upgraded the RAM and hard drive), but I did have problems with the palmrests, and the Et
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by linguae 7mo ago
There is a lot of good computer science, but the computer science community today is vastly larger than it was in the 1960s and 1970s when Dijkstra, Knuth, Wirth, and others became legends. There are so many subfields of CS, each with its
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by linguae 7mo ago
I prefer the classic Microsoft Office toolbar/menu interface to the ribbon, but I grew up on Office 97. A thought that dawned on me is that the ribbon has existed for nearly 20 years; it debuted in Microsoft Office 2007. There is now
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by linguae 7mo ago
Steve Jobs is famous for his 1996 quote about Microsoft not having taste ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiOzGI4MqSU ). I disagree; as much as I love the classic Mac OS and Jobs-era Mac OS X, and despite my feelings about
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by linguae 8mo ago
I’m also from Sacramento and I also have fond memory of that same Fry’s location in the 2000s. It was an excellent place to buy new computer hardware and other electronics. I still have the Brother laser printer I bought there in December
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by linguae 8mo ago
Ironically, once upon a time Prolog and logic programming in general were part of the cutting-edge of AI. There's quite a fascinating history of Japan's fifth-generation computing efforts in the 1980s when Japan focused on logic
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by linguae 8mo ago
He’s still here. In fact, in December he gave his annual Christmas lecture, and last month he was a guest at a Computer History Museum event.
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by linguae 8mo ago
Definitely. I left the industry and became a community college professor two years ago, partly because I felt disillusioned with the industry. This decision had nothing to do with LLMs. As someone who was inspired by people like Steve Job
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1 points by linguae 8mo ago|1 comments
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by linguae 8mo ago
I’m also concerned about the continuing enshittification of software. Even without LLMs, we’ve had to endure slapdash software. Even Apple, which used to be perfectionistic, has slipped. I feel enshittification is a result of a lack of m
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by linguae 8mo ago
1970s IBM and 1990s Microsoft were formidable monopolies, but I was thinking in lines of influence over society and not necessarily in terms of market share. The consequences of social media and centralized Web services are much more impac
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by linguae 8mo ago
I’m an ex-industry researcher with experience at FAANGs, albeit as a software engineering intern (Google) and a production engineer (Facebook). I think it depends on the interests of the researcher. If a researcher is comfortable being a “

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