nathan_douglas

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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
I was thinking the other day about how frustrated my desire is to perform some kind of Great Work. A few years back I was intensely interested in making something like Nethack - a roguelike game with a deceptively simple surface and incredi
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
> Dropout applied to my will to continue. mood
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
> The higher-end of the pricing scale we heard for these systems was in the $120-125K range. We heard of others in the $100K range, but those prices may be impacted by list versus deal discounts. It is highly unlikely these will sell for
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
I don't have the good fortune to be paid to write Rust, but I've coded a bunch of personal projects in it. It was a challenge at first, and whenever I take a few months off and come back, I find that I have to relearn some things.
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
Oh, yeah, c'est moi. I was sitting around the other night thinking, "I actually have done some really impressive things, but I have no idea how to talk about them." I'll try this out and let you know what I think, OP.
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
You (presumably) can't see it, but I'm shaking my cane at you.
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
Some months ago, I applied for a job. Seemed like a cool place, very off-the-wall, maybe a match for my mildly annoying but generally harmless personality. They work in Haskell, and I thought, "that would be really interesting. I wonde
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
It was all about Shamhat's OnlyFans clay tablet.
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
Still working on Bitwit, my CS/math spaced-repetition education site [1] I'm dogfooding it heavily. The bugs at this point tend to be in card formatting. I ended up delaying the introduction of TeX/MathJax until I had quite a
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
Great stuff. I love that there's this kind of modern noir tone to the writing. > I wanted to try and see if we could bypass the door entirely, and that’s where the canned air comes in. If you turn a can of compressed air upside down
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
Do you feel optimistic about employment in the future? I suppose that I agree to a certain extent - I feel less exhausted at the end of each day, I think, because a lot of the tedium of dealing with boilerplate and implementation details ca
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
Looks pretty slick. I have a similar idea, but based around computability, complexity, information, games (math sense), etc. I think it's going really well, but yeah, question quality is a huge part of the process. Absolutely dwarfs an
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
I haven't switched, but I'm having the same thoughts. I think technical PMs are well suited to absorb this. Ideally, they're already comfortable with specifying software, communicating about requirements, recognizing and avoi
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by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
The Zombies recorded "Butcher's Tale" [1][2], which I believe is a derivative of this but good in its own right. My French language teacher at one college or other told me a story once. I might be getting some of the details
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
I hadn't heard of this before and found it really interesting and entertaining. This reminds me of the Ediacaran and Cambrian critters... where one looks at fossils of things like Hallucigenia and marvels at the different paths that ev
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
Asianometry has a good number of these technical, interesting, and to-the-point videos about various technologies (e.g. a good one about Lisp machines). I haven't watched _many_ of them, but the ones I've watched were definitely w
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
Because of resource exhaustion or a spiritual crisis or something else/something in addition?
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
Could you elaborate? How do you see this playing out? Is this unique to disease or do you believe it's also true of other forms of suffering, e.g. poverty?
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
Which customizations do you find most beneficial?
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace (Richard Brautigan) I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
> I can see why no one wanted to write MIPS Asm At least in comparison to x86 assembly, MIPS assembly seemed very elegant and rich to me at the time. I wanna say that MIP R4K had 32 integer registers and 16/32 double- or single-prec
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
Bitwit: Learn CS, logic, and math theory (_not_ DSA) with spaced repetition: https://bit-wit.com/ I was hit by a big wave of depression last year. That crisis gave me a couple of periods of hyperfocus, and I thought I might
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by nathan_douglas 8mo ago
Location: US/Ohio Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Backend / DevOps / Infra / Platform Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf LinkedIn
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by nathan_douglas 9mo ago
I'd love to read that memoir. I feel like the NeXT era is really interesting but somewhat less covered than other periods.
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
What do you work with (if you don't mind answering)? I'm looking for a change and like low-level stuff about as much as I like any other level. I've done some cycle-accurate NES emulation and VM implementation stuff - I'
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
I couldn't make head nor tails of the QBasic help back in the day. I wanted to. I remember reading the sections about integers and booleans and trying to make sense out of them. I think I did manage to figure out how to use subroutines
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
> And btw, every plate tectonics simulation that I've seen does not look convincing. It's an amazing problem! I haven't spent much time on it - maybe 20-30 hours spread out over several years - but it _is_ something I come
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
My kid hated school in kindergarten as well. As did I. I didn't get any kind of intervention, and I feel like that set me on a terrible course. My kid, mercifully, was diagnosed and received intervention in the form of tutoring, therap
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
No wonder Dennis Nedry was so aggrieved...
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by nathan_douglas 10mo ago
I come to HN because there are absolutely wonderful discussions in the threads. Not always, not consistently, but often... the sort of conversations (even sometimes arguments) that leave me feeling energized, better informed, and/or fi

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