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by mac3n 2y ago
you mean, like (Yukaghir)? https://www.ethnicjewelsmagazine.co.uk/articles-yukagir/#!ji... To be fair, the environment imposes a lot of constraints. And there's the Eskimo/Inuit cultures that cross the Bering
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by mac3n 2y ago
ClearCase is a version file system masquerading as project version control. It's heavyweight, clumsy, and brittle, and it's easy to get yourself in an inconsistent state. At one enterprise in my past it could take months to merge
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by mac3n 2y ago
/me pronounces something unprintable
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by mac3n 2y ago
also "The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene" https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7617447/
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by mac3n 2y ago
Kamiah, ID https://www.nps.gov/nepe/learn/historyculture/heart-of-the-m...
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by mac3n 2y ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/?ref_=ls_t_2 also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot.Com_(album)
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by mac3n 2y ago
if you must have a `free_on_exit()` (for example, if you allocate a variable number of pointers in a loop) then build your own defer stack registering pointers using memory that you allocate
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by mac3n 2y ago
this is way overkill the way i do this in C looks like initialize all resource pointers to NULL; attempt all allocations; if all pointers are non-NULL, do the thing (typically calling another routine) free all non-NULL
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by mac3n 2y ago
gamification, trusted computing, semantic web, big data, blockchain, NLP, metaverse, IoT.
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by mac3n 2y ago
earlier discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25920517 see also https://gitlab.com/mac3n/qrl "simple serverless single-system sequential scheduler" for similar trick
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by mac3n 2y ago
it's a bargain, in exchange for legal sovreignity
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by mac3n 2y ago
the point of vibe "coding" is to be unmotivated
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by mac3n 2y ago
canonically a cannon
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by mac3n 2y ago
like Gerald Bull's Space Research https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Research_Corporation
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by mac3n 2y ago
We need to estrablish a Strategic Bullshit Reserve - there's currently a surplus, but we may need more in the future. Also, Government Cheese. And maybe stockpile qbits.
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by mac3n 2y ago
> we might want to consider explosive launches, nuclear or otherwise. Project Orion: nuclear pulse rocket also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXeUkrlxQ98 wait until Elon hears about this!
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by mac3n 2y ago
Tricycles are statically stable, as long as you're on level ground. They're unstable on canted ground, like driveways, cambered roads. Also dynamically unstable taking corners. Bycicles are dynamically stable, since they can lean
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by mac3n 2y ago
So Google can use AGI to advertise to us after we're laid off?
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by mac3n 2y ago
your manager thinks this is serious who cares what you think?
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by mac3n 2y ago
https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383 I guess I can learn to code by throwing stuff at it from copy-paste, confabulations, and just trying random changes. Until it more-or-less works. Sure, it's t
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by mac3n 2y ago
We'll see if there is more financial loss due to bad AI, similar to self-driving fatalities. It's calculated risk. We've seen companies held liable for AI chatbot statements and lawyers penalized for confabulated case law.
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by mac3n 2y ago
As i expect you know, that's not how they see it - they were trying to keep the child healthy. Now you might ask how RFK Jr feels about this.
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by mac3n 2y ago
Truly, we are entering the Golden Age of scams!
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by mac3n 2y ago
Silly Chinese! Don't they know that social media surveillence is for advertising?
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by mac3n 2y ago
guess that's my retirement plan
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by mac3n 2y ago
Don't think of writing software as creating a work of art, think of it as a performance, a thing of the moment. What this means is that you can refine your craft, without concern for your audience.
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by mac3n 2y ago
> If your software gets used, it means that you are hired by extremely smart and highly competitive people ... have you ever worked for Oracle? >A client should be always unhappy If you're not regularly sued by clients, are you e
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by mac3n 2y ago
did ICE ever account for the missing children? does this get me on the list?
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by mac3n 2y ago
nothing to see here. this is entirely predictable, no insider needed. The Trump/Musk administration is friendly to antidemocratic Silicon Valley billionaires. And surveillance tech is likely to prosper, even as record-keeping declines.
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by mac3n 2y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/03/education/03education.htm...

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