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by lordleft 4y ago
I work at AT&T Labs. We often drive over to Bell Works for our lunch break; it's a lovely mixed used space, and also a chance to keep in touch with a part of AT&T history.
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by lordleft 4y ago
Guys, it doesn't matter if you can edit terminal input in vim. If there's a way to do it in an even more ergonomic / user-friendly way, that's not intrinsically a bad thing. This entire comment thread makes us sound like
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BBC clip from 1985 about the developers of Zork and other text adventure games(youtube.com)
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by lordleft 4y ago
Teladoc Health 2002 $0.17 billion $11.2 billion ..how is this possible? Doesn't this suggest that Teladoc can cover their expenses pretty well via revenue (because how else are they in business?)
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by lordleft 4y ago
Looks like C++ developers / holdouts will be commanding 400-600k salaries in the comming decades, like those arcane COBOL wizards still tinkering on banking mainframes.
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by lordleft 4y ago
Isn't this, in a very roundabout way, an echo of docker? Or at least the abstraction Docker relies on?
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> Like other analog products that persist in a digital age (see vinyl, print media, and board games), much of the popularity of mechanical watches can be attributed to nostalgia. Quartz watches are superior in almost every metric: they c
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by lordleft 4y ago
I used pushbullet for years, until they deprecated their iOS app (I think for similar reasons?). I have yet to find an adequate replacement.
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by lordleft 4y ago
It still blows my mind that a game genre I thought was the most niche of niches, that I played routinely in the early 2000s, has become one of the major influences in modern gaming today. Shoutout to ADOM, a game I spent countless hours pla
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by lordleft 4y ago
Is this actually true? How is Visual Studio in parallels or crossover?
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This doesn't obviate his economic policies, which I'm inclined to dislike, but a part of me does feel gratified at the historical twists of fortune that landed an Indian the role of PM (as a fellow Indian).
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Egui Demo (Rust WASM GUI Framework)(egui.rs)
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Are there logically possible alternative mathematical worlds?(old.reddit.com)
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by lordleft 4y ago
Given the shoddiness of most code churned out by your average company, perhaps the title of engineer should be harder to claim.
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Torturing Geniuses(thepointmag.com)
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> Different "worlds" (neighbourhoods, schools, health care) doesn't happen because of skin color, it happens because of wealth/poverty. This is false. But let me charitably engage your argument and ask you the followi
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The Medieval trial of a man impersonating his lookalike(moltensulfur.com)
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Coding a PS1 Game(youtube.com)
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> (For a sense of just how long ancient Egypt thrived, writes Dolnick, consider this: “Cleopatra came at the very end of Egypt’s imperial run, 13 centuries after King Tut, 20 centuries after the golden age of Egyptian literature, 26 cent
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Paraconsistent Logic(plato.stanford.edu)
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by lordleft 4y ago
Controversial opinion, but I think any substantive critique of postmodernism has to acknowledge the fact that the postmodernists have a point. That supposedly neutral institutions or concepts do contain biases that favor certain interests.
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EVGA are quitting graphics cards after splitting with Nvidia(rockpapershotgun.com)
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It's a truly extraordinary epic, and it propounds fascinating philosophical and religious concepts that are worth reckoning with. Also, as a non-hindu desi, it's interesting to see how many of the conceits of the Gita / Mahab
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by lordleft 4y ago
It's been a while since I've updated my GPU (I have an RTX 2060 XC Black), so I'm out of the loop: what's the gpu market like now? I'm assuming we're seeing less fewer GPUs being purchased for crypto. Are price
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What people don't get about Motivation(youtube.com)
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A Defense of Constitutional Monarchy(theatlantic.com)
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by lordleft 4y ago
I was born in the late 80s, but I also feel nostalgic. I think it's because there was more of a sense of play in computing back in the day. I feel a real romanticism for vintage computing.
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RIP. I've always believed that there was a place for constitutional monarchy in the world. As the world hurtles forward, having a tether to the past grounds us, reminds us that we are not ahistorical, but part of a continually unfoldin
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In Billy Mitchell's defense, his villainy is fairly low grade and highly entertaining. He's very fun to hate on
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This is going to sound ironic, but it's not: another philosopher who found purpose in work was Marx. To Marx, work was central to self-expression and human thriving, and part of capitalism's failure was a de-coupling of the result

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