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by nxobject 6mo ago
From the perspective of someone who's worked with (biostatisticians who touch) Medicaid and Medicare billing data... It looks like they've identified the institutions, at least... but aren't identifying it to the public for n
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Ha! At this point it's timely. What are your thoughts on the income tax? (I'm on the boarder of Washington, so I'm amused ot observe the arbitrage between Oregon's sales taxes, and Washington's income taxes.)
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by nxobject 6mo ago
I know this is probably out of scope, but I'd love it as well if Notion could slowly accrete the features of Airtable... at least expose some form of programmatic access to tables!
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Honestly? As a veteran journaler who’s struggled with depression, I’ve always wanted an “organize everything that I splurted out today while I was overwhelmed” feature. I guess the question is: can we encourage kids to use AI to help organi
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Huh - I didn’t know Linux had a usermode $ARCH! Or maybe it’s an earlier fork? The kernel version looks to be 6.9. (To clarify: while the kernel is actually running at ring 0, to act as a driver it seems to use the usermode profile.)
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by nxobject 6mo ago
I know there’s a small hobby industry of people creating Windows 9x compatibility shims for later Windows APIs… but who needs that when you can just run Linux apps?
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Note that Signal offers the option to use generic “You’ve received messages” notifications - it’s good practice in general.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
I appreciate you adding your experience here – I'm curious, just with the amount of knowledge you have of Oregon's fiscal oddities (e.g. biennial budgeting): are you an Oregonian yourself? I feel that I'm part of a sector of
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by nxobject 6mo ago
It's good to celebrate this... but, looking forward, it's worrying to think whether kiddos these days are going first to ChatGPT instead, of, well, the hotline (or real people!) I think there's genuine value in going to an AI
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by nxobject 6mo ago
If you want a vivid illustration (from an adjacent state) about the impact of pessimistic fiscal projections: Oregon has an infamous "kicker" law that refunds income taxes collected in excess of projections (plus a 2% margin). The
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by nxobject 6mo ago
A follow-up question I'd like to ask to the author: if I understand correctly, one of the ideas is that you can write "high-level", almost platform-independent translations like: regs.eax = 3; regs.eax = add(regs.ea
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Advice I got from an ex-cancer biologist working at a devices company: get your masters, and get out. PhD programs will always be there, but compound interest won’t.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Re: Apple TV (the studios and the content)... it is a bit of mystery: it's very worthy and good - arguably one of Tim Cook's finest achievements - but not a runaway success in a very competitive post-TV market. Steve Jobs shephe
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Related: Apple to Focus Hardware Team on Five Areas Under Johny Srouji. https://archive.is/h65tX I wonder what appeals to him about his new broader scope? Why would someone who started with long-shot silicon projects want t
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Part of me also thinks: yes, but is there any money/compensation attached to this? Honor, sadly, doesn't pay for grad students or soft money researchers.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
In retrospect, it seems Apple telegraphed Ternus well in advance - the NYT had an article well in January that clearly wasn't a source of friction with Apple Marketing. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08&#x2
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by nxobject 6mo ago
The big bucks are for simultaneously groveling to Trump and China’s leaders. China usually makes or breaks the quarterly numbers after all.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Oh joy, the old Onion News Network is back! Welcome back, Jim Haggerty! Some beautiful examples below… —- Today Now!: Save Money By Taking A Vacation Entirely In Your Mind https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7qYL_KT06-U Today Now
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Inventor of Heelys Dies at 71(nytimes.com)
7 points by nxobject 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 6mo ago
I love this. From reading the nuts-and-bolts "parameters" (haha) of your implementation, I get the impression that the fundamental limit is, well, using a 32-bit platform to address the sizes of data that usually need at least 48
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How the Toyota Prius comes to die in Mongolia [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nxobject 6mo ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Huh - I know Apple’s first PowerBook 100 had an ad with Shaq on a plane, and then later one with Yao Ming… I guess Apple really wanted to crack the “I’m working on a plane damn it” market?
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Yeah - even from the start, I remember NeXT marketing was spending a disproportionate amount of their time selling NeXT’s “object technology”, AppKit and Interface Builder, DPS as an advanced graphics model. It was good hunch from Steve, gi
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by nxobject 6mo ago
As a Silhouette owner (for the plotter), same - I genuinely wonder whether the Chinese market have models... the type of Chinese-market product that seems to live on because it gets rebadged.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
NeXTstep? (Leaving aside fun spitballing about whether Tahoe is morally OPENSTEP 26, and whether it was NeXT that actually bought Apple for negative $400 million...)
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by nxobject 6mo ago
This is incredibly useful - not for Scheme, but for someone like me interested in bootstrapping languages and frameworks in general. I hope you find a way to share the best practices you've learned in a broader context.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Luckily, we can omit needless words... but AI hasn't integrated Strunk and White into SOUL.md yet.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
TFA is a little unclear, but I think it might be a (userspace) driver signing situation?
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by nxobject 6mo ago
It'll be interesting to see whether this is price-competitive versus remoting into a cluster. Might be for smaller orgs/consultants.
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by nxobject 6mo ago
Once you parse the marketing speak, looks like there may be ARM ISA silicon in future System Z. But, what are their legacy finance-sector customers asking for here? Are they trying to add ARM to LinuxONE, while maintaining the IBM hardware-

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