pogopop77

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by pogopop77 11d ago
Well now we know Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Meta, apparently.
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by pogopop77 1mo ago
A lot of what seemed wildly absurdist at the time, seems a lot more realistic these days.
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by pogopop77 2mo ago
Information was so much more scarce back then. Made programming feel like a black art. I remember when I learned about overlays in Turbo Pascal, it felt like I learned a new spell :)
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by pogopop77 5mo ago
In a small town of 900 people, it seems odd a council member would be THAT upset about removing license plate reading camera systems, when it's clear the town doesn't want it. To get flustered enough to start proposing sarcastic
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by pogopop77 6mo ago
The irony is that on-shoring high-end manufacturing would be a good thing. But the approach of "do it right now, or I'll put tariffs on your product(s)" is not the way to get any lasting change. It's a way to get the p
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by pogopop77 10mo ago
Given this was backdoor was likely funded by a nation-state actor and very carefully obfuscated, the fact that it was discovered within a month and never rolled out to production releases, shows that the open source process mostly worked.
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by pogopop77 1y ago
Interesting investigation, good read. Definitely illustrates how new paradigms (i.e. overlay filesystems) can subtly affect behaviors in ways that are complex to track down.
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by pogopop77 1y ago
"Be curious, not judgemental" -- Ted Lasso (via Walt Whitman?)
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by pogopop77 2y ago
If the software development is mostly stock and standard, I would agree, it doesn't matter if staff have advanced degrees or not. But developers with advanced degrees tend to have a better understanding of what is actually going on &q
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by pogopop77 2y ago
I hope Boom can make supersonic travel commercially viable. Would be nice to have a faster option for long-distance travel, even though the cost will probably be too high for most. I'd sooner spend money on that vs. edge-of-space tou
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by pogopop77 2y ago
As advertising is a huge part of Google's revenue, I'm surprised they've let an extension like uBlock Origin work on Chrome as long as they have. If you haven't tried Firefox in a while, it's time to give it anothe
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by pogopop77 2y ago
Mozilla is a non-profit that made a couple of poor decisions. Meanwhile Google's whole business model is based around it. It is not the same thing at all.
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by pogopop77 3y ago
I understand where you are coming from. I've done that with a few selected items, but in general I have chosen the newer options. There always seems to be a feature or two I find worth the hassle.
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by pogopop77 3y ago
Newer tech has added vast amounts of new functionality at the expense of making the older, simpler functions a bit more cumbersome and less reliable. Not everyone likes that trade off. For example, in the early 1980s, landline phones were
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by pogopop77 3y ago
C and C++ are most often used when performance is the highest priority. Undefined behavior is basically the standards committee allowing the compiler developers maximum flexibility to optimize for performance over error checking/handl
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by pogopop77 7y ago
Very impressive. If my understanding of how the AI works is correct, it is using a pre-computed strategy developed by playing trillions of hands, but it is not dynamically updating that during game play, nor building any kind of profiles o