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by schmudde 6d ago
The article only mentions tuition once - which is the original sin of US universities. I have generally found that US Americans don't really understand the incredible value that these institutions bring to the overall culture and econo
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by schmudde 6d ago
The pace at which sports betting has changed in the USA is incredible. I grew up with Pete Rose not getting into the baseball hall of fame. Not it's impossible to imagine that athletes are not betting on games. And more importantly, th
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by schmudde 10d ago
"The Annotated Turing" - I didn't know you could meaningfully intertwine biography and technical analysis like that.
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by schmudde 10d ago
I've always had more projects than I do time. And it's easy for me to be selective about where I might use an LLM. So no changes here.
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by schmudde 1mo ago
> In June 2003, Europe’s data-protection authorities formally advised ICANN that individuals should be able to register domains without their details on a public register, drawing the line between natural persons, whom the law protects,
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Authenticity and the Dead Internet(schmud.de)
2 points by schmudde 1mo ago|0 comments
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by schmudde 6mo ago
Been getting into Rudy Rucker, who was funded by the AutoCAD folks to do cellular automata research: https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/ . Autodesk funded some really interesting projects.
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Favorite programmer website (non-blog)
2 points by schmudde 6mo ago|1 comments
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Signals in the Fire: The Impact of Banning Global Tech in Nepal(schmud.de)
1 points by schmudde 1y ago|1 comments
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Wikidata and Mundaneum – The Triumph of the Commons(schmud.de)
2 points by schmudde 1y ago|0 comments
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19 Dead in Kathmandu Social Media ban protests(kathmandupost.com)
2 points by schmudde 1y ago|0 comments
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Share how your code defines our world for UNESCO Exhibit(softwareheritage.org)
1 points by schmudde 1y ago|0 comments
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A Cold War Kit for Surviving a Nuclear Attack(spectrum.ieee.org)
2 points by schmudde 1y ago|0 comments
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by schmudde 1y ago
Trevor Paglen had a similar project for US military SIGINT. It's interesting how much more "serious" the Russian insignias are than the US patches. I have a few pictures here: https://schmud.de/books/i-co
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Engineering the End of Work(schmud.de)
1 points by schmudde 1y ago|0 comments
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by schmudde 1y ago
The web browser app paradigm changed everything. The Windows API isn't nearly as important as it once was.
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by schmudde 1y ago
I don't understand why this would be different than the Microsoft Office/LibreOffice situation. Adoption has been really slow in Europe (though it is happening - to the credit of European bureaucracies) even though the software pa
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by schmudde 1y ago
This is also what landed with me.
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State of Digital Clutter Report(yorba.co)
2 points by schmudde 2y ago|0 comments
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by schmudde 2y ago
The issues we experiment with are usually quite broad - improvements to logging, routing - but the implementation is always more narrow. Still, it seems like there is still more room for more refinement and focus now that you mention it.
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by schmudde 2y ago
Yeah - we're doing something like one-on-ones that drive these explorations. Maybe we need to make the "20%" more formal. The real missing part is discussed in the "knowledge building" link. I'm on board with P
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Guidelines for exploratory programming in a team setting
2 points by schmudde 2y ago|6 comments
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Trust Takes Time(ruben.verborgh.org)
2 points by schmudde 2y ago|0 comments
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9/11 and Vernacular Web – One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age(blog.geocities.institute)
1 points by schmudde 2y ago|0 comments
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by schmudde 3y ago
I haven't enjoyed the ecosystem of text editors on the web as much as I have local apps. HackMD was really hitting the sweet spot of simplicity and shareability. I'll give it a shot. At first glance it seems like it has the simpli
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The Early Development of Project Gutenberg C.1970–2000(cambridge.org)
1 points by schmudde 3y ago|0 comments
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by schmudde 3y ago
Ah nice tip. Will put it on the reading list!
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by schmudde 3y ago
Sharing this seems like an appropriate way of commemorating David Kahn's passing ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39233855 ). <3
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by schmudde 3y ago
It's astonishing (and sad) how few opportunities exist for basic research.
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by schmudde 3y ago
Before folks jump on the business model aspect, one should keep in mind that many (all?) online communities go through a similar growth curve. Wikipedia included. But this article goes into the details of what makes this feel different. Q

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