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by sbf501 4y ago
I couldn't find anything in there about spindump.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Which OS?
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by sbf501 4y ago
Musk: I'm going to buy twitter to solve its bot problem Musk a week later: I don't want to buy twitter because it has bots
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I'm having trouble believing this is real and not heavily massaged output. I worked on a AI-like project in 1988 as a programming gig in college, and the output was heavily edited by the composer. If it is real, I'm actually a som
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by sbf501 4y ago
TIL about "spindump". These kind of triage reports are really useful for learning more about macOS. THink about it: when is the last time any of you read a user manual for an OS? macOS doesn't even have one. You're just
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by sbf501 4y ago
It's a standardization of money for storing or trading value using a blockchain and encrypted.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Too many features: code bloat from noob engineers Too few features: too many new apps from noob engineers Can't win. I know you didn't say #1, but both of these contradictory points are floated quite often.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Homomorphic encryption without financialization will be the final form of cryptocurrency, and only for things like escrow and transfers between banks (probably replacing commercial paper). It'll take a decade and people will probably n
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by sbf501 4y ago
Another vote for The Economist. It is a weekly publication with good writers. Meaning: it is rarely, if ever, sensational, and covers prominent issues around the globe so I stay informed after about 60 minutes of reading. I still haven&#x27
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by sbf501 4y ago
> It's half interesting, and half boring. I once emailed Grant from 3b1b and asked if he could explain convolution. Not neural-net convolution, but transfer convolution you learn in linear systems: e.g. f * g where you flip and slid
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by sbf501 4y ago
Agreed. The X Window system is pretty damn amazing, despite its warts. Now that you say that, I've anthropomorphized MWM into this old-timer, reflecting what kind of programs it has seen run in it over the years, and what it will see i
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by sbf501 4y ago
I know most of HN wasn't even born when this happened, but from 1990 onwards, Jerry Sanders III, the then-CEO (& founder) of AMD created a similar schism in his company. A the time he was presiding over an industry that was seen as
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by sbf501 4y ago
^^^ This person cryptos. ;-)
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Great, but that's not an explanation that adds knowledge to the discussion. I mean, Python and JavaScript both have BigInt libraries and are trivial to use. I want to know HOW they work, especially in C, since that's what the majo
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by sbf501 4y ago
https://imgur.com/a/pYKiP2Z Instead of virtual desktops, I just start another VNC session because I don't like losing everything if one session goes down. macOS already has virtual desktops, so no need to reduplic
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by sbf501 4y ago
I've been using MWM and the same .mwmrc since AIX in 1991. Same palette, same decor, same .Xdefaults. I've yet to see a GUI (FVWM, KDE, Gnome) that offers something X/Athena/Motif didn't nail 30+ years ago.
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by sbf501 4y ago
In the past 5 years I've seen maybe a dozen "how elliptic curves work", but this is the first to actually illustrate how they work on a small field. I think that's key to understanding, seeing it in a small enough field
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by sbf501 4y ago
I think Elon is so focused on technology of going to Mars, he doesn't realize something: you need to get along with the people you might die with. THis doesn't register on someone who has an admitted mental illness that makes it d
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by sbf501 4y ago
You are in a space I don't understand. (I don't even understand how/where you purchase options if it is not publicly traded and you are not an investor!) Sorry, that's a PhD-level question, I'm still at options 101.
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by sbf501 4y ago
"Fire" is the wrong word, "stop seeing" is more accurate. Because he kept pitching his friend who sold annuities, who was one of those awkward guys that starts his pitch with 15 minutes of "this is how to invest, an
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by sbf501 4y ago
One step further: Options are just a way for companies to get out of paying you a salary. (I got them from Microsoft, and from Intel before they were offered to all employees.) Options = salary In other words: exercise them as SOON as they
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by sbf501 4y ago
Cry whilst they expire underwater? That's what I did from 2000-2005.
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by sbf501 4y ago
> penny wise and pound foolish I've seen this in action: e.g., clipping coupons but not paying down debt faster than the schedule.
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by sbf501 4y ago
In the late 1970's Star Wars toys still worked if the batteries died! Can't say that about an iPad.
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by sbf501 4y ago
> Americans Have an Affinity for Driving Anecdata: I hate driving. I'd much rather take a bus or light rail, but that battle was lost in the 1940's[1], along with asinine city planning that was pro-car, anti-community that stil
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by sbf501 4y ago
Is US-style dating part of their culture? In the 80's and 90's I dated a few women from countries in Europe and they all thought the 1-on-1 date thing was weird, telling me that people usually go out in groups, and then pair off o
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by sbf501 4y ago
Similar. It is very common to hear the right side of US politics claim poor minority women have multiple children just to get "free stuff" from the government, yet the same folks also want to make abortion illegal. Some people eve
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by sbf501 4y ago
You get the award for most subtle attempt at rephrasing the "welfare queen" myth I've heard in a few years.
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by sbf501 4y ago
Many countries that access my company site still use some version of IE (France and Japan come to mind). But they are still on Win7 too.
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> how comfortable they are with all the non-sensical processes and red tape That's a good way of putting it. There is this "managerial comfort zone" that goes straight up the org chart. I have observed managers evolve to o

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