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by rvense 3y ago
You can think of a language as an psychological object, a thing that can be described by a grammar and a dictionary. That's basically where linguistics started, and it's part of it. But some things about language are really best u
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by rvense 3y ago
> I bet PowerPC still has some 68000 stuff into it. You'd lose. There were two platforms who made that jump, but the architectures have no lineage in common at all.
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by rvense 3y ago
As far as I understand it, electronics are recycled by crushing them and extracting a handful of minerals - e.g. gold, there's more gold in circuit boards than the rocks they dig out of gold mines I've heard. The rest - which by m
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by rvense 3y ago
The startup I work for sells to education customers in Scandinavia. It is my impression that schools are either "Microsoft schools" or "Google schools" (these are the terms used). The Danish data protection agency made s
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by rvense 3y ago
> Album sales rarely made money for musicians Before Napster they definitely did. The saying is that you used to tour to promote the album, now you make the album to promote the tour. Artists have always been last in line to get paid, bu
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by rvense 3y ago
A few years ago, I read an essay that pointed out that the typewriter meant that people could write five or so times faster than before. And of course, what happened was not that people spent less times typing, quite the opposite. This play
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by rvense 3y ago
> someone smart who was willing to embrace the weirdness and take these ideas together to their logical conclusion. It's been pointed out to me a few times that a lot of big advances in the natural sciences are made by people early
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by rvense 3y ago
I don't really think you're contradicting me? If you, as a company, want to get rid of a group of staff because you think you're spending too much money on wages, you phrase that in a more palatable way, probably involving th
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by rvense 3y ago
Can you elaborate on where the problems would be? I'm from Denmark (which, admittedly, I understand is on the lax side of things as far as Europe goes), but I can't see what would stop you. If you want to close your company or off
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by rvense 3y ago
My wife just uses Excel like graph paper. She likes that you can write lists anywhere on the page. It's hard for me to watch but it works well for her.
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by rvense 3y ago
Doctorow writes a lot, gives a lot of interviews and goes to a lot of conferences. He doesn't tell an entirely new and original story each time.
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by rvense 3y ago
> Anyone attempting to solve climate change with software is at best skimming value off of the work being done by others in the physical world, and at worst creating markets for corporate greenwashing. I've see so a lot of jobs popp
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by rvense 3y ago
I think the main issue would be the buffering existing tools are likely to assume. You don't need more than a few hundred ms of latency for a phone call to start feeling really weird.
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by rvense 3y ago
IDK, I used to worked with "Drupal consultants" who barely knew PHP. They delivered the sites they were asked to, usually on time and within budget.
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by rvense 3y ago
On October 17th, 1979, VisiCalc was released. I'm sure pretty much every accountant in the world got up and went to work that day exactly like they'd been doing all of their career. It probably didn't feel different for that
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by rvense 3y ago
I'm not even so sure about that last one.
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by rvense 3y ago
Isn't Musk personally liable for a lot of this burnt money? In this scenario, does Musk gain something or was he just outsmarted?
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by rvense 3y ago
They did this before with at least Aldus and Macromedia.
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by rvense 3y ago
Just like they've ditched Windows? People don't care about Android. They care about their apps. Some are fun, some are necessary. In my country, cash has been almost replaced by an app (just one), and it's getting harder to e
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by rvense 3y ago
I used to frequent a chat room like this, around 1998-9. I think it was absolutechat.com. I think they restricted the HTML somewhat, though, I remember there being a group of people who tried to ruin it and some of us figured out a snippet
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by rvense 3y ago
Anything over 1GHz is a "new computer" to some of us :)
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by rvense 3y ago
RSS, Discourse, Fediverse, Matrix... I think interacting with a lot of modern things from old computers becomes quite feasible when you're not relying on dynamic web-based UIs.
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by rvense 3y ago
You might be right that NASA and other government agencies have inefficient cultures, but so does IBM. I think it's hugely problematic to privatize space research. As far as I know, every photo NASA has ever taken is in the public doma
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by rvense 3y ago
How many monkeys and how many typewriters to write out the code for GPT-4?
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by rvense 3y ago
Consciousness, like intelligence and many others, is a prescientific term, and most debates about 'the nature of consciousness' (et al) are really just debates about the definition of the term.
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by rvense 3y ago
I'm not used to reading law in English, so this is all a bit hard for me to parse, but I'm having trouble finding the section that prescribes the addition of accessibility features to all software written for any purpose. Say I am
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by rvense 3y ago
Yeah, thought that was a weird claim. I'd wager that the form "thanks" is more frequent than "thank" in most people's English, making it easy for an L2 speaker to hypercorrect.
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by rvense 3y ago
On the one hand, I think this a stupid decision for Reddit, that it's disrespectful and very bad for the internet. On the other hand, if it's what they're going to do, then that's how it is. You can't really expect
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by rvense 3y ago
That was only the very first model. Most NeXT machines shipped with floppy and HD.
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by rvense 3y ago
I had to look that up - you probably just mistyped, it's 16 years old.

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