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by saulpw 1y ago
The reason C beats Forth is code-sharing. Forth is a better language and system on its own, but it's difficult to standardize for reasons both technical and cultural. So if you write some really wonderful code in Forth to, say, decom
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I've explored AI, and will continue to do so. I deliberately overcame my resistance to it because I'm an old-school hacker and I do enjoy tinkering with technology. But regardless of how cool it is and whether it works or not (s
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by saulpw 1y ago
The replacement voters are currently teenagers. They haven't "learned their lesson", they aren't old enough to have experienced politics at all. They were 6 years old when Trump was elected the first time. This is the
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by saulpw 1y ago
With WASM, you still have to have a JS layer that interacts with the DOM. WASM can't touch the DOM by itself, it can only communicate with JS.
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No, sorry. It's eminently reasonable to ask or demand that a business to reduce its (fantastic) margins/profits in order to remain a prosocial citizen in the marketplace. In fact we do this all the time with things like "
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by saulpw 1y ago
Conway's Law: Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
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If you have had zero marketing, how do you know what you have is a good product?
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by saulpw 1y ago
You might have become too much like a marketing bot, sad to say.
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I don't have the time or energy to judge content by its quality. There are too many opportunities for subtle errors, whether made maliciously or casually. We have to use some non-content filter or the avalanche of [mis]information wi
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by saulpw 1y ago
Yes, the existing ones were captured, and so we have to build new ones.
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It's a spot check. They checked one article from one of those issues and they spotted an error, so odds of >5% wrongness are high in their view. (They need a larger sample size and some statistics to make such a claim, but certain
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by saulpw 1y ago
The most important question I have for any project like this is: who is making it? And this website does not answer this question.
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I've never seen a smart company then.
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by saulpw 1y ago
Computing power (compute, memory, storage) has increased 100x or more since 2005, but AWS prices are not proportionally cheaper. So where you were getting a reasonable value in ~2012, that value is no longer reasonable, and by an increasin
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by saulpw 1y ago
During the Seattle BLM protests, SPD vacated the neighborhood precinct building to show how violent the protestors were, and then they claimed that an "incendiary device" had been thrown through the window to burn down the buildin
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by saulpw 1y ago
If I had $270k and something cost $1k, I wouldn't waste a whole day on it.
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by saulpw 1y ago
I agree, some of the macros are very useful, and I've found myself wanting DO(n, code) as a simpler for-loop construct. In my own code, when I have some dozens of small things (like opcodes or forth words or APL operators), I specific
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by saulpw 1y ago
Hotshot FAANG and YC startups don't want humans, they want zipheads[0]. [0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Ziphead
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by saulpw 1y ago
The US government just allocated $10b towards Intel, and bailed out GM in the past. So what you said is clearly not the case. Now we have publicly-funded private management that is failing. At least if they were publicly owned and manage
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by saulpw 1y ago
Yeah, like IBM and Intel and GE and GM are shining examples of how effectively the private sector runs companies. Maybe large enterprises are by their nature inefficient. Maybe productivity isn't the best metric for a utility. We co
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by saulpw 1y ago
I disagree. The answer for me is always half. And then next time, half again. Always take some out and leave some in, and an easy way to hedge your bets is to make both amounts half.
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by saulpw 1y ago
The community equivalent of Proof of Stake is reputation. You can't do anything until you've shown up for awhile and contributed in small ways, you gradually gain the ability to contribute in bigger ways, and if you are discovere
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by saulpw 1y ago
$5T is 1% of all global wealth ($500T).
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Exact numbers as of today: Elon Musk has $500b. 32 other people have at least $50b. 827 people have at least $5b.
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Yeah, notice that the "inspiration" for this tactic was a designer who interrupted their loud conversation. He read the room and realized these guys were spitballing business ideas and took advantage of their drunken egos to get
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Avril Lavigne (singer of "Sk8er boi") is Canadian.
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How is it different? Orders of magnitude more content, 24/7 availability, higher resolution, extremely hardcore, faster cuts, etc. The sheer quantity, across multiple dimensions, is more than enough to make it qualitatively different
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by saulpw 1y ago
That "a good model (if you know how to operate it well)" is doing a lot of lifting. To be sure, there are a lot of bad books, and you can get negative advice from them, but a book has fixed content that can gain and lose a reputa
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by saulpw 1y ago
Yes, code like someone might die if you make a mistake! Can you imagine a surgeon using Claude Scalpel as an agent to just go ahead and fix that one artery?
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> the upside is they also won't produce terrible ones. Design by committee is known to produce terrible designs. The best an LLM can do is to completely copy a common decent design.

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