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by ralphc 3y ago
Sounds like words with friends.
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by ralphc 3y ago
We need people like this that self-teach "in the wild" to break down expectations and learn what's possible. This is how revolutionary leaps are made in a field; Eddie Van Halen with guitar is a classic example.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Anyone who's tried this, does a 2004 desktop on 2023 computers run fast? Does it run super fast like people would predict?
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by ralphc 3y ago
We'll be living in condos in the 4th dimension before that happens.
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by ralphc 3y ago
What's the hardware/OS stack you have for the autonomous part? Can you go wild and use unsupported software as long as it fits in the official hardware?
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by ralphc 3y ago
An autonomous robot is just a NPC in the real world.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Could you give an example of this or point to an article that does so? I feel the pull between "framework I'd most want to use (svelte)" vs "framework that is more popular, more docs, more devs (vue)". If Vue is get
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by ralphc 3y ago
There was an article in Salon or Slate last year where they asked people what it would take to get them back in the office, and the universal answer was on-site free day care for their kids.
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by ralphc 3y ago
As an individual, especially a "hacker", I have no use for these things. But when I went to my state's Department of Driver Services (DMV) for my license renewal, there were a bunch of Chromeboxes running the check-in process
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by ralphc 3y ago
It gets better. With Elixir's Nx will take a subset of Elixir and compile it to GPU code so the expensive math ops can be farmed out to other machines and run on their GPUs in parallel.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Ars Technica had an article about this a few months back, used thin-client PCs can fill in some use cases https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/11/used-thin-client-pcs...
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by ralphc 3y ago
My CPA wife sets up and recommends Quickbooks Desktop installed on Right Networks, a Windows Remote Desktop shop where Quickbooks and Excel is installed. The convenience of remote work without the awful Quickbooks Online. It handles backups
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by ralphc 3y ago
I'm not sure. I have my "play" AWS account, for Alexa apps, connected to my Amazon account but I don't really have a single credit card on my Amazon account, it always asks which one to use, so I don't think so.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Last I looked they demanded a credit card, even for the free tier, and choked on a gift card credit card, they wanted a "real" one. Has this changed?
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by ralphc 3y ago
I'm not using anything like this for personal or corporate information but this is real handy for laws or government documents. I uploaded the Durham Report, a 300 page PDF, and have been asking questions.
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by ralphc 3y ago
Do you think this applies to all OOP-centric languages as opposed to FP-centric? OOP languages need types to keep things sane?
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by ralphc 3y ago
Have you used Elixir? I ask because the Elixir books mention that setting up GenServers is easier in Elixir, with behaviours and callbacks you don't have to write code for all the functions in a GenServer if you're not using them,
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by ralphc 3y ago
The feature hiding in Elixir, and I assume Erlang, is the binary pattern matching, on either whole bytes, big or little endian, down to individual bits in a byte. I'm helping with a project to recreate the old Prodigy network, and the
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by ralphc 3y ago
Sounds like they're the prototype for a new company. WhatsApp ran rings around competitors with a small team using Erlang; can you do a better job than the company that rejected it?
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by ralphc 3y ago
That page says the HP-42S was "widely regarded as one of the most desired calculators ever made". Was it more "desired" than the HP-41C, with all the accessories that you could get for it?
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by ralphc 3y ago
I'm an old, I grew up with vinyl, walked into stereo stores with dozens of turntables to sell, have about 200 records from back then. I was glad to leave it all behind, first with CDs then digital. My main memories of vinyl was constan
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by ralphc 3y ago
We can't forget WKRP in Cincinatti, which had so much good music of the time, and even referenced it in the show which made for some butchered edits. The most egregious example is from the classic "Turkeys Away" episode, ther
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by ralphc 3y ago
I look forward to this, not for potentially sketchy third party apps but for my own apps. My phone is the computer, camera, etc. that I always carry with me and I'd like to be able to write my own apps, both for experimenting and for m
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by ralphc 3y ago
Is it just me or do other people read things like "covariance on a mutable generic type" and just want to get stuff done? Maybe it's because nowadays I do solo or small team projects but this is why I fled to Elixir, it'
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by ralphc 3y ago
AI fatigue is the new JavaScript fatigue.
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by ralphc 4y ago
NVidia got lucky, at least in the long term. They spent years perfecting SIMD to make spaceships blow up and, by coincidence, that's the same technology that enabled coin mining then deep learning.
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by ralphc 4y ago
Isn't a product like this tied to the viability of the job market, as in when the job market has a downturn your potential customers are less include to buy?
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by ralphc 4y ago
I'm playing Descent through again right now! Pentium II machine with a Logitech Wingman Extreme joystick. It's the side benefits of being old and throwing nothing away.
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by ralphc 4y ago
The Changelog Podcast had a good talk with someone who teaches mainframes and helps people get jobs. "This week we’re talking about mainframes with Cameron Seay, Adjunct Professor at East Carolina University and a member of the Governi
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by ralphc 4y ago
I have a 2019 16" MBP and love the speakers. I regularly use them for music listening, Netflix and Youtube.

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