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by prewett 3mo ago
I think the original notepad.exe was just a Win32 Edit control (whatever it was called) with a window and some menus. I expect that Apple's TextEdit.app is just a wrapper around the rich text control in Cocoa, too. But yes, it's h
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by prewett 3mo ago
I'm American, but I've said "washroom" for a long time because I'm not asking to take a bash, but at least I wash at some point afterwards. Most people seem to understand fine, but I do get a few now and then. Funny
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by prewett 3mo ago
Maybe you just didn't really see it. I've begun to notice that I don't even see certain things that I read, especially if I'm not intellectually prepared to receive them. I vaguely remembered the mice and the earth being
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by prewett 3mo ago
This sort of thing makes me think that if I were engineering a biome, this sort of specialized spider would be exactly how I would solve the problem of a species that I accidentally made too prolific. The spider is a targeted fix: only prey
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by prewett 3mo ago
I'm confused about the quote, because the numbers do not add up to me. Elsewhere in the discussion SV apartments are quoted at $3500/month. When I rent, utilities tend to be under $100, and groceries are about $400. Let's be
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by prewett 4mo ago
It doesn't even do that. If there's complete collapse, there won't be a reliable network to transact over, and not reliable electricity to run the network and do the processing.
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by prewett 4mo ago
> you will eventually hit a point where you start thinking it's all meaningless ... You come to a point where you realize that you're not doing anything that creative I hit that point after about 5 years. At the time, software
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by prewett 4mo ago
Dividends are also one way of income in retirement, much more predictably than selling stock. The yields are worse than bonds, but they can be considered to be mostly to rise with inflation, albeit on a year or two delay. Dividends also act
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by prewett 4mo ago
GOOG and META are listed on the Nasdaq, as far as I know, hence the four letter ticker, so maybe NYSE still has a mono-class requirement. That's something worth knowing, I avoid investing in companies where my stock isn't the same
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by prewett 4mo ago
This is a great use for AI! Calculating intersections is tedious and there are an surprising number of edge cases that are tedious to track down and fix.
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by prewett 4mo ago
You've been at your current career for 20 years, and you have at least 24 left, so it seems like there's plenty of time for a new career. Even 10 years would be a worthwhile second career. I even met someone who went to seminary a
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by prewett 4mo ago
Why short QQQ when SpaceX will only be 2% (according to a poster above), when many of the other companies in the index are tech and chip companies, such as NVDA, which are going gang-busters? Even if SpaceX went bankrupt you'd only see
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by prewett 4mo ago
Since you couldn't "put money in the internet", you had to choose some actual companies. Your results varied by which company you chose, and when you invested. (This is always the case, obviously) Sun Microsystems? Let's
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by prewett 4mo ago
This is a thoughtful article, but I think the axis isn't between builders and algorithm researches, but between craftsmen and results-oriented builders. Both want to build something, but the craftsman cares about the quality of the res
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by prewett 4mo ago
It's even worse. The capital class is disconnected from employees because they have the managerial class running the business, so it's actually the managerial class that creates the employee experience. But, it turns out that &quo
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by prewett 5mo ago
Why wouldn't supernatural beings work through representatives? For one thing, they are presumably only going to work through people that are committed to their (the beings') agenda. And why would supernatural beings necessarily be
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by prewett 5mo ago
Quit reading after it suggested Lotus Notes was a Microsoft product [1], which it wasn't. The last time I used it, about 2002, it had become an IBM product. If the basic facts aren't right, I'm not interested in the conclusio
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by prewett 5mo ago
Citing a 100 km bike ride as a counter-example is not very helpful. Sure, technically, the parent was worded as an absolute statement, but I think a 100 km bike ride is such an outlier that it is irrelevant to a discussion about diet. The i
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by prewett 5mo ago
Religion is a lot broader than Christian fundamentalism and zealots. It's sort of like applied philosophy: how do you live a flourishing life in relationship to other people and to the god(s). Modernity has an implicit materialist worl
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by prewett 5mo ago
If the article is about the craft of writing, then no point. But if the article is about communicating ideas, AI is just the means the person with the ideas chose. However, in this case I think both were fairly vacuous. Also, sentence fragm
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by prewett 5mo ago
I don't think software was ever sold as a high variance career. Start a startup! was sold that way, particularly by PG's early essays, but not not W2 employment. You do W2 because you want low variance, and you either love softwa
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by prewett 5mo ago
Generally you can only profitably expand into adjacent products. Making and selling cars and HVACs are completely different, meaning that your expansion will be starting from zero knowledge. Furthermore, the sales channel of HVACs, sales st
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by prewett 5mo ago
They also say "Ai" in the upper left, which is suggestive. I noticed that the astrophysicist has a microscope on her laboratory counter. I doubt she gets the opportunity to use it much in her line of work.
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by prewett 5mo ago
Society should care about people making profits because otherwise those people do something else instead of providing goods and services. What happened in Communism is instructive on this point. Now if you want to argue that the pursuit of
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by prewett 5mo ago
Well, they acquired PA Semi in 2008, they used their first chip (the A4) in the iPad in 2010, and they progressively iterated using the chip in phones until they announced the switch from Intel in 2020 (concurrently, more or less, with the
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by prewett 5mo ago
Those similes seem pretty lousy, so I think there might be deeper problems with the award than written with AI if that is what is winning.
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by prewett 5mo ago
Have you seen countries without a government? The US government is definitely fit for purpose. It successfully keeps order, for one thing. The government in a representative government isn't the problem, the people are the problem. In
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by prewett 5mo ago
Have you spent any serious time with other cultures? Yes, we all have the same colored blood and excrement, and we have a lot of similarities. Yet at the same time, we are very different. England's traditional dignity culture (the virt
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by prewett 5mo ago
I just finished reading "That Hideous Strength" (CS Lewis) this weekend where they have a disembodied head kept "alive", and some convicts in the pipeline whose heads/brains, it is implied, will be experimented on s
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by prewett 5mo ago
Careful about that. Everybody thinks they are "average people", but I think very few people on this site are "average people". The average person has an IQ of 100, doesn't have a college degree, and makes the median

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