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by raddan 4mo ago
F-19 is a great game and one of my favorite Sid Meier titles ever. I remember buying it from Electronics Boutique in the late 1980s and playing it on our Packard Bell 286. The game's copy protection mechanism required you to look up ai
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by raddan 4mo ago
I also enjoy the huge explosion in availability of music. And I think the youtube recommender algorithm is insanely good. But I do agree somewhat with the author's sentiment: something has been lost. I've been thinking about this
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by raddan 4mo ago
> Throughout it I continued reading to him daily, mostly stuff that he comprehends just find but find too difficult to read on his own. This reminds me of the father-son scenes in Zen and the Art and of Motorcycle Maintenance. The narrat
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by raddan 4mo ago
My parents had a rule where the default answer when I asked them to buy me things was no—except for books. Combined with the fact that we lived in the middle of nowhere and did not have cable TV, books were by far the most appealing thing a
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by raddan 4mo ago
For what it’s worth I think people have always been this way. I used to read during recess when I was in middle school. I usually could not wait to get back to my books. But the other kids saw this as profoundly antisocial. I wasn’t being a
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by raddan 4mo ago
> I don’t have the same thing for the ebooks I’ve read, and it gives me a weird feeling of amnesia. I have a similar feeling when it comes to my music collection, some of which includes rare recordings. I ripped everything and have it at
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by raddan 4mo ago
> The world is changing, and it's moving away from long-form reading and writing. The kids (as usual) are adapting faster than us oldies. Perhaps this is the case, but it is a great loss to civilization if true. The fact is that the
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by raddan 4mo ago
Obviously my experience is a little dated (graduated high school in 1997), but Shakespeare was a recurring theme throughout my high school English classes. We read The Tempest, Macbeth, Hamlet, and a number of poems, some of which we had t
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by raddan 4mo ago
The last time Facebook reported its monthly active user base they were at 3 billion. [1] So I guess the answer to your question is… everyone? [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1326801/0001326801
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by raddan 5mo ago
> I think the right way to go about this is to tax consumption. The most efficient one would just be a co2 tax, to not favoritize some emission over others. I too thought this for a long time. But after watching taxes on consumption basi
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by raddan 5mo ago
It really is surprising how much air travel has changed during my lifetime. I remember feeling like kind of a loser in (public) high school back in the 90s when a select few kids would return from some exotic location for the winter break.
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by raddan 5mo ago
Awesome! I am going to try this when I have some time next week. Fantasizing about how to make a better SimCity 25 years ago is what inspired me to pursue a computer science degree. I got sidetracked by a PhD and never returned to making ga
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by raddan 5mo ago
I worked at Bedford/St. Martin, now Macmillan Education. It would be hilarious if you worked there (or at our nemesis one floor down in the same building).
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by raddan 5mo ago
> Overall, as a technical writeup I enjoyed the article; however, I would caution that the author seems to approach publishing from an amateur perspective. I also worked at a publishing company (for ~6 years) in the early 2000s. While y
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by raddan 5mo ago
I’d like to know what the advantage is over KL divergence. It seems like the important idea is symmetry? Not clear to me why that matters; I’d love to know what application this is used for.
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by raddan 5mo ago
I was told by an engineer at Microsoft that Excel's formula interpreter is essentially a kind of bytecode-based stack machine. This came up in the context of a bug I found (while working on a project with Microsoft) that revealed that
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by raddan 5mo ago
I’ve also seen this. It’s completely insane. Especially when I consider how many times a sound alerted me to a danger while I was on my bike.
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by raddan 5mo ago
Given that you’re posting on HN and went to grad school, I wonder whether you’ve worked a minimum wage job. Most of those applications ask whether you’ve ever been arrested. It’s been a long time since I worked one of those jobs, but I reme
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by raddan 5mo ago
Like you, I am not much of a fan of victim-blaming, but you're reading the post in an extremely negative light. The poster literally concludes with "I just don't understand it." A more charitable way to interpret this
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by raddan 5mo ago
The way I read the post is that the author is disappointed that the community is gone. The CTF was just a reason for a number of like-minded people to organize around an activity. Indeed, in the real world, plenty of people organize to do f
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by raddan 5mo ago
I’m not clear what you mean by “know.” If you mean “the information is in the model” then I mostly agree, distributional information is represented somewhere. But if you mean that a model can actually access this information in a meaningful
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by raddan 5mo ago
I was wondering at which point the enshittification would be revealed.
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by raddan 5mo ago
In general, I agree with you. However, to extend your analogy a bit further, so that it applies to _this_ situation: suppose you buy said house. When the former owner hands over the keys, you copy them. Then, one day, you enter the house
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by raddan 5mo ago
For one thing, Apple has tended to focus on privacy at the expense of profit. Apple could certainly be monetizing all of their user data. Now more than ever. It's not just businesses that want your data to sell you stuff, it's
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by raddan 5mo ago
Yes, this is amazing. I would love to know where the data is coming from.
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by raddan 5mo ago
More importantly: future tourist trap! You should set up a lemonade stand.
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by raddan 5mo ago
My Troop spent a lot of the non-adventure time motivating us to learn skills that we would need on adventures. Knot tying, first aid, camp cooking, paddling technique, carpentry, etc. Many of the leaders were current or former Navy personne
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by raddan 5mo ago
I was a Scout in four different places growing up. My family moved a lot. My experience (in the 1980s) is that program depended a lot on the priorities of local organizers. Anecdotally, I observed that in communities where Scouting was seen
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by raddan 5mo ago
The 33 year old Windows NT kernel, duh.
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by raddan 5mo ago
Yes. I still have one. I used it in a Soekris 486-class machine running OpenBSD for many, many years. I stopped using the Soekris when they dropped driver support for the accelerator. I think i386 support might be gone now too. Cool little

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