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by scelerat 3y ago
Massively different, from the size of the protests (Beijing was not the only city which was experiencing student protests) to the scale of the carnage, to the all-stops attempts to erase the memory of the event. So for an LLM it's an i
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by scelerat 3y ago
I said it in another comment, but just wanted to reinforce this. The things people -- professionals and amateurs alike -- did with Hypercard were amazing . I think Hypercard faltered because of the confluence of a number of things, primari
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by scelerat 3y ago
I feel like this article undersells Hypercard. From my perspective as a young teen BBS kid in the early '90s, everyone and their mother (literally) were making Hypercard stacks. A friend of mine in 9th grade made a Spanish flash card q
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by scelerat 3y ago
Alien corpses of the 19th century
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by scelerat 3y ago
The continuously showing movie was a vestige of early 20th century nickelodeons where you might see a some newsreel and then a series of relatively short movies. It was effectively a constraint imposed by the format rather than an aesthetic
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by scelerat 3y ago
I did LAN parties in the early '90s when a bunch of BBS nerds would show up at a local pizza joint cradling Mac LCs, IIsi's, and Powerbooks, bust out some PhoneNet connectors and play some intense Bolo [0] or Spaceward Ho [1] game
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by scelerat 3y ago
I mean, that's true of just about every non-trivial framework ever
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by scelerat 3y ago
This weekend I went through the svelte/sveltekit tutorial, and I can't wait to use it in a project (several in mind in fact). I haven't felt this stoked about a front end library, its simplicity and apparent minimal painfulne
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by scelerat 3y ago
I agree that the NA beer I’ve been exposed to over the last 3-5 years is remarkably better than what I’ve encountered before. To the degree that I like a lot of them on their own terms and not as a substitute for anything else
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by scelerat 3y ago
Rails and Django got very popular because of how terrible it was to work with PHP in the mid '00s
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by scelerat 3y ago
> There is way too much friction A lot of the early ISPs, 1993-early 2000s, had free nntp/usenet services. The "friction" of using usenet was not any greater that the friction of launching an email client, an ftp or gopher
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by scelerat 3y ago
I loved FreeHand (since the Aldus days) and later had a fling with Deneba Canvas. Could never get the hang of Illustrator.
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by scelerat 3y ago
Same here. 22 years experience full stack; leadership roles. Can't get an interview. Taking an ML class. I think telling some recruiters I had a baby on the way was a mistake.
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by scelerat 3y ago
Ehh. I was in high school and college throughout the '90s and still think pop music quality peaked sometime between 1966 and 1986. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean, I remember thinking that at the time too. There are stil
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by scelerat 3y ago
Universal health care. Universal health care. Universal health care. Yes, tipping in the US is its own peculiar local minimum -- a cycle or trough that is difficult to escape from. A big component of the costs to both employees and employer
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by scelerat 3y ago
As a muted protest to municipal, county or state mandates requiring employers to pay for employees' health insurance, some businesses -- restaurants especially -- have taken to exposing this cost to the customer in the form of an added
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by scelerat 3y ago
For perspective, this was written by an extremely precocious 16 year old. And I think for most people, the front page of the New York Times may indeed contain nothing of practical use. You're effectively paying for general up-to-date w
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by scelerat 3y ago
> But finally, I’d like to argue that following the news isn’t just a waste of time, it’s actively unhealthy. Edward Tufte notes that when he used to read the New York Times in the morning, it scrambled his brain with so many different t
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by scelerat 3y ago
Is the distinction useful? Like, am I going to lead someone down the wrong path suggesting they write a "script" to solve their problem, instead of a "program"? At most I feel a script is a kind of program, maybe a short
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by scelerat 3y ago
elsewhere on HN today is a short article on BBedit, which has a really nice shell worksheet interface similar to the old MPW. Select the text you want to execute, hit control-return, and the shell output will appear below the selected text.
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by scelerat 3y ago
To this day I still use BBEdit even though most of my daily meat-and-potatoes text editing and development is done in neovim. For some things it's just really nice features and UI, in particular: - the multi-file search and replace
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by scelerat 3y ago
What do seasons look like on a circumbinary planet? I know that it's still going to be orbiting a center of mass somewhere between the two stars, but is that orbital ellipse significantly different from a planet orbiting one star? And
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by scelerat 3y ago
> is a useful incentive for good, quick service This is frequently said, but has anyone done any work to show that it's actually true? That tips work as an incentive for measurably better or improved service? Or to what degree it is
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by scelerat 3y ago
OmniWeb (from Omnigroup, developers of OmniGraffle, OmniPlan, OmniOutliner et al) was their web browser offering in a particularly fecund period of browser development in the early 2000s, which had vertical tabs. The tabs themselves were li
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by scelerat 3y ago
I’ll take Tokyo over the car-dependent sprawl of the suburbs. That’s a really easy choice to make
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by scelerat 4y ago
Personally this has happened to me once. I was visiting my parents and the town I grew up in. I went for a walk by my old elementary school and walked onto the grounds. It was late in the afternoon, well after classes were done and most of
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by scelerat 4y ago
A common sentiment in guitar/music worlds is "tone is in the fingers."
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by scelerat 4y ago
Tell me you have never been responsible for maintaining a code base without saying "I have never been responsible for maintaining a code base"
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by scelerat 4y ago
I think this is a great breakdown and analysis, though "‘Terminator’ Really Is a Horror Movie" is something a lot of people at or near the time of its release, including my eleven year old self watching it for the first time, unde
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by scelerat 4y ago
I feel "hipster" can be boiled down to something which is leveled only as a mildly pejorative epithet, and frequently by those who are secretly envious of the subject's aesthetic, or their freedom to exhibit it.

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