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by randrews 5y ago
Could not disagree more. If your plan is to build a search engine and you _can't_ answer such a basic question as "why would someone use your engine over Google," then your plan is going to fail. If you're a founder you
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by randrews 5y ago
You don't mention where you live, but that last one suggests to me that you might consider moving to a different part of the country: I know several people, including myself, who carry sidearms. Where I live, everyone can do it, some p
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by randrews 5y ago
Very insightful piece, I think. The answer to the question in the title is that whenever we tried, people came by to shout us down and call us ugly names. Which of course she addresses, talking about how people would heckle her when she wen
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by randrews 5y ago
Shifting the definition of manipulation and gaslighting is itself a kind of manipulative gaslighting...
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by randrews 5y ago
Including this one, ironically.
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by randrews 5y ago
American Airlines' headquarters is in Fort Worth, so banning Texas customers would be a peculiar move...
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by randrews 5y ago
> If you oppose lockdowns you still need to express your views lawfully just like anyone else. I'm sure people said much the same about Rosa Parks.
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by randrews 5y ago
So your complaint is that a company might have put a forklift training video on youtube, as an unlisted video, have then forgotten the password to change it, then will hire someone and tell them to watch it, that person won't be able t
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by randrews 5y ago
There have been a lot of (I'll charitably say) misleading stories about how bad the power system in Texas is lately, and this is one of them: these folks opted into this program, most people foresaw this exact sort of thing happening a
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by randrews 5y ago
I don't think he was expecting the cat to care, but the cat owners.
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by randrews 6y ago
I have a laptop charger with one that I taped over with kapton tape: the orange kapton is almost the exact opposite of the blue LED so you're left with a dim white indicator, no blinding brightness.
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by randrews 6y ago
I think the article title is fine, I'm saying that the HN thing that removes numbers and "how to" and so on (to prevent clickbait titles) has done the opposite here. :)
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by randrews 6y ago
The article-title-rewriting thing has actually made this sound _more_ clickbaity. The original title prepends the word "how" which is much better.
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by randrews 6y ago
"I'd like to buy a drill." "Here you go!" "This is... A board with a hole in it? I want a drill." "This is better for regular people: the hole already exists, you can screw things right to it." &
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by randrews 6y ago
Then call it a phone, or a console, or something. Words have meanings and if you sell something as a "computer" then the buyer can expect to be able to do general-purpose computation on it.
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by randrews 6y ago
When did we become okay with people selling something other than a general-purpose computer and calling it a "computer?"
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by randrews 6y ago
It's part of a larger project that's not finished yet. First I made up a CPU architecture and wrote an assembler for it. Then I made an emulator for the machine. Then I wrote a Forth compiler targeting that assembly. Now I'm
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by randrews 6y ago
I live in rural Texas. Tuesday it was 10-20 degrees here, today was high 60s, tomorrow will be 70s. Thursday I was wondering where to evacuate to if I ran out of propane, today I turned off the furnace because it was too hot in the house. T
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by randrews 6y ago
I've seen a couple on Hackaday too! I didn't know if it was just me, because I've been writing a Forth compiler so I'm probably more likely to notice them.
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by randrews 6y ago
This might be the baader meinhof phenomenon since I've been writing one, but does it seem like there are a lot of Forth-related things happening lately?
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by randrews 6y ago
If their goal was to demonstrate that the system is rigged, and this article acknowledges that they "lost" because the system is rigged, then how have they lost?
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by randrews 6y ago
It's because his comment is essentially "Republicans are evil and the US should be more like Europe." Even if you agree with that, by now you're probably tired of seeing it on every single thread everywhere.
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by randrews 6y ago
The "what did you use before Emacs" question stumped me: only one of those even existed when I started using Emacs. :)
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by randrews 6y ago
If you haven't ever used Forth or made a Forth interpreter, it's a fun project that I recommend doing.
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by randrews 6y ago
I was surprised to read that bit, because the graph earlier in the article shows the percentage of twelfth graders who can read as holding steadily around 40%. Implying that whatever we're doing is as good as doing nothing at all.
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by randrews 6y ago
I called this a few months ago. I just today moved into a new house on five acres in the country, and my old house in the suburbs is now worth about 50k more than in January (going by comps). The people with jobs that let them afford houses
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by randrews 6y ago
Just wanted to say, a couple of your books (Kids Shenanigans and the Explorabook) had a big impact on me as a kid, so, thank you.
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by randrews 6y ago
Having been a moderator of a large, 60k-ish person subreddit for a couple years, I can assure you that that's not the case: removing spam and other obvious rule breaking (sending users death threats, racial slurs, etc) took no more tha
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by randrews 6y ago
What everyone else said, but also, it's a particular kind of turned-into-a-brick: you can render something useless just by running a few hundred volts through it; "bricked" means that it's still functioning in some way
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by randrews 7y ago
If they planned to keep it secret, why tell anyone that they're about to start the thing up?

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