macintux

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   by macintux 11mo ago

   Your comment reminded me about the concrete arrows deployed across the U.S. for pilots. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/before-radios-pilots-n... According to that, Montana still uses them.
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   by macintux 11mo ago

   Unfortunately you can get spoiled by a good language. After using Erlang it took me far too long to get comfortable programming without immutability.
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   by macintux 11mo ago

   > ...that doesn't mean they had to give the technology away! Xerox made ~$9 million off the visit(s), so not nothing. Had they held onto that stock, they might have made billions. (Update: looks like the stock today would be worth 1
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   by macintux 11mo ago

   > the easiest concurrency model there is Erlang programmers might disagree with you there.
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   by macintux 11mo ago

   Would you say that bug estimate is when using -O2 or -O3?
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   by macintux 11mo ago

   Someone else in the thread lamented the problems as "too easy" and I wondered what world I was living in.
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   by macintux 11mo ago

   Seems ideal for those grumbling about Advent of Code’s shortened schedule this year.
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   by macintux 11mo ago

   Well, if you’re interested in text-based games, there have been custom languages for a long time. https://www.linusakesson.net/dialog/craverly/craverly_side_b... Also LPC for muds, although that definitely wasn’t
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   by macintux 11mo ago

   > HP’s first product was an audio oscillator... That reminded me that BBN started in acoustics. Any other significant tech companies get started in audio engineering?
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    They can be designed into the database itself; that was our objective with Riak. And if written and applied correctly, they can automate a resolution to the merge conflict, no matter what layer they reside in.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    I think GP is using "hostile" as a synonym for "malicious". Yes, Clippy was disruptive to your workflow, but it wasn't (as far as I know) exfiltrating private data, installing malware, trying to sell you on Bitcoin,
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    Thank you, I was completely unfamiliar with OpenRiak. Pretty cool to see some of my former co-workers chiming in on the effort. Basho was a remarkable collection of smart people.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    Fair enough, I apologize.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    I definitely like the discussion around the importance of defining a vocabulary for your solution. I can almost hear my co-workers' eyes rolling when I try to tackle that. > Thinking about the vocabulary also ensures that we are thi
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    You do realize that dang himself frequently aggregates related discussions, and thanks people for doing so. And that the previous discussions of the same URL are readily available at the top of the topic, via the "past" link. So e
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    As long as someone else is still paying their employees, it’s all good.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    You're failing to differentiate between "want" and "willing to settle for if the slippery slope is much worse than I think is realistically possible".
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    You're moving the goalposts. You said: > Most people on HN who advocate regulating social media...want to make all algorithmic feeds other than strictly chronological illegal I don't buy that, at all. I think they want a chro
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    While it was (mostly?) unintentional, the biological warfare committed by Europeans makes for a different story than anything that happened before they arrived. The Americas weren't a paradise, but neither were they a slaughterhouse.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    I would be astonished if a majority of people opposed to social media algorithms consider HN's approach to be sufficiently objectionable to be regulated or in any way similar to Facebook.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    And HN doesn't choose to show you targeted, inflammatory content based on your history. That's a huge difference from Facebook.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    I suppose more than a few of us olds remember Serdar Argic's attempts to redefine the Armenian genocide on IRC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serdar_Argic But Serdar was relatively easy to ignore, because it was j
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    > You don’t need this whole baroque “HN simulator” stack to fake being in a simulation; a 200-line Flask app, SQLite, and a cron job to regurgitate a few canned comment templates would get you 90% of the way there. Most HN threads are al
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    Effectively a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46028422 , so while I agree this is important news that should be widely covered, we don't need another thread.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    That’s effectively the entire executive branch in this administration: take illegal actions until the courts stop us, and then do it some more.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    Can you supply an example of a failure case that can’t be solved (or is at least challenging to solve)?
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    Yep, I effectively landed my favorite job by engaging with the Erlang community on Twitter. I miss it, but it just got to be too toxic during the 2016 election cycle (in fairness, everything was too toxic then, and it hasn’t gotten better
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    Yes. I've flagged this post, hopefully it'll be merged.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    I solved the social media problem by leaving social media. Not viable for everyone, sadly.
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    by macintux 11mo ago

    Fortunately, I use my smartphone about 20 minutes a day for work authentication, and for its camera while traveling. And audiobooks. Unfortunately, my iPad Pro gets way, way, way more use. Much too addictive as a media consumption device.