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by pavlov 1y ago
Microsoft itself was a leading Unix vendor in the 1980s with Xenix. Every Microsoft developer had a Xenix workstation for things like email, access to network disks, running a decent C compiler, and debugging. DOS was practically a single-p
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by pavlov 1y ago
Is there a more bizarre legislative process anywhere in the world? The US Congress is practically able to pass only a single giant bill every year. To work around its own deficit rules, these bills are packed with taxation time bombs where
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by pavlov 1y ago
As mentioned in the story, everybody with a 68k or RISC computer in the 1980s tried their hand at making a Unix workstation because the market was so lucrative. In addition to Commodore there were Apple, Acorn, and Atari also making these u
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by pavlov 1y ago
Tariffs and a devaluating currency are a double whammy of inflation on imports. It will be reflected in overall inflation statistics, and that limits the Fed’s ability to cut rates.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Why CSV instead of newline-separated JSON arrays? Ambiguity in your storage format isn’t good in the long run… JSON lines can be trivially parsed anywhere without a second thought.
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by pavlov 1y ago
A country that specializes in building outsourced concentration camps and hosting foreign cryptocurrency hustlers. El Salvador is starting to sound like the location for a side plot in a 1990s cyberpunk novel.
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by pavlov 1y ago
The Norway lottery is not a private business, it’s a state-owned gambling monopoly. Hence the CEO is practically a political appointee. And in politics, you want to see heads roll. Probably the Prime Minister told her to resign.
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by pavlov 1y ago
I want artists I’ve never heard of to have the ability to grow. Taxes are a great way to fund culture, sort of like an index fund: I don’t have to try to pick winners now, I’ll get the accumulated benefit eventually.
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by pavlov 1y ago
I love art and I also love making art, but I have to work so I don’t get to spend as much time on it as I’d like. Yet that doesn’t mean I want to see other people making less art. On the contrary: I wish other people could create more great
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by pavlov 1y ago
How do you know that animals “don’t have feelings, motivations, and narratives of their own”? Seems like this can only be true if you define feelings, emotions and narratives as precisely human ones… But then the question becomes whether hu
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by pavlov 1y ago
My hunch is that the square vs. circle convention is derived from paper forms. The checkbox has been a common design element in forms for a long time. But people can of course tick off all boxes. So when form designers needed to emphasize t
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by pavlov 1y ago
Former Twitter has been suing its customers if they don’t spend enough money on ads on the platform. Tech companies and oligarchs are incredibly entitled.
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by pavlov 1y ago
But it's not actually separate. A lot of engineering innovation starts by identifying a design problem.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Typescript--
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by pavlov 1y ago
> "TikTok passed Instagram active users. This would be like if Universal theme parks surpassed Disney Parks in revenue" It's like if a Universal theme park surpassed Disneyland Paris in revenue. Meta has other properties
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by pavlov 1y ago
You’re talking about two different GPs. The other poster meant “grandparent”, as in the comment above the one they were replying to. And I think you mean GP in the British sense of “general practitioner”, i.e. medical doctor.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship, but in practice they want to build a Great Firewall of Texas.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Huh. I would never have noticed that your example image is actually in Latin script. Because I don't read Chinese, anything that looks enough like Chinese seems to mentally go into the bin of "I can't understand this anyway.&
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by pavlov 1y ago
This was back when people still used 1.44M floppies to boot in an emergency.
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by pavlov 1y ago
The physical ROM chip is a certain size. If you have 50kB left over, it doesn't matter if those bits are zeros or an easter egg.
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by pavlov 1y ago
It’s not the same class of device. A typical NVIDIA server GPU consumes 700W, and a server might have eight of them, so 5.6kW. A PlayStation 5 consumes 200W total.
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by pavlov 1y ago
They can rebrand to "iOwe", which is short for "I owe tens of billions to investors who expect a massive return on all this GPU spend eventually."
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by pavlov 1y ago
Nazis were very good at making both industrialists and military feel rich. The German stock market went up like a rocket between 1933 and 1941. And the military higher-ups were bribed with constant personalized handouts. Hitler even paid a
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by pavlov 1y ago
And today the railroad system in the USA sucks compared to other developed countries and even China. It turns out that boom-and-bust capitalism isn’t great for building something that needs to evolve over centuries. Perhaps American AI effo
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by pavlov 1y ago
Also, Wix bought this guy with an impressive track record. There might be an earn-out that's not being discussed. The article mentions that $25M is a retention bonus for those eight employees. (About $3M each — a nice bonus by any stan
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by pavlov 1y ago
Cents were a useful unit back when a dollar was defined as 1/20th of an ounce of gold (or 1/35 between the Great Depression and 1970).
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by pavlov 1y ago
That’s just not true. Both TOS and TNG aired in various European countries.
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by pavlov 1y ago
Metacoding? Managed coding?
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by pavlov 1y ago
This matches my own experience trying to use Google's C++ open source. You should write the blog post!
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by pavlov 1y ago
It’s actually version 2. Apple switched to using car maker style year numbers for their entire OS lineup, so everything is “26”.

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