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by scroot 1y ago
> Even if all the countries in the world agree to ban AI, its not based on something with actual scarcity (like purified uranium, or gold) so someone somewhere will keep moving this tech forward... However, this is the crux of the matter
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by scroot 1y ago
Yeah I hear that on TV a lot also, but no one who has spent any time in the Harvard of the Blue Ridge would say it that way
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by scroot 1y ago
> It’s no different from how most people who drive cars can’t work on them What if instead of cars and driving, we use reading and writing as the metaphor for the kind of media/utility computing can have. I'd argue it them cha
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by scroot 1y ago
Have you heard about ufork? I find it very promising https://github.com/organix/uFork
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by scroot 1y ago
Lead?
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by scroot 1y ago
> Also 18F was not truly shut down and still lives on at GSA No, 18F is gone. All of the staff were fired and the organization no longer exists within TTS.
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by scroot 1y ago
I had the same experience the other day. Had to slum it on some other machine with Google. Borderline unusable
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by scroot 1y ago
18F was entirely federal employees.
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by scroot 1y ago
Love everything going on here. Now if someone could just send me an old Pismo powerbook...
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by scroot 2y ago
When this topic comes up, I always think of uFork [1]. They are even working on an FPGA prototype. [1] https://ufork.org/
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by scroot 2y ago
ditto
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by scroot 2y ago
> but what is happening is technically perfectly legal because Trump is (unfortunately) the elected chief executive and is ultimately all of these people's boss This is not correct. Normally civil servants need to be fired "wi
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by scroot 2y ago
This might be fiery take, but I think the X.400 standards for naming and messaging would have been a lot better than the chaotic email situation, and probably would have made more sense from a commercial/legal perspective than making D
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by scroot 2y ago
Or the Library of Congress, if it had the right appropriations. Google itself started with an NSF grant to explore the future of libraries.
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by scroot 2y ago
My take is that there is no such thing. This is not because there aren't tools now that do "similar things" to what HyperCard did, but there is simply no longer a personal computing environment in which such a tool fits so in
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by scroot 2y ago
End user programming is simply not compatible with the commercial nature of computing, and therefore -- despite very interesting early examples -- it never took off. Now the public have been inculcated into a concept of "what computing
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by scroot 2y ago
Just think about the new kind of OS one could make when the computing system is built entirely of low-level actors. uFork [1] is a promising example, and has clear motivations [2]. [1] https://github.com/organix/uFork
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by scroot 2y ago
Are there really so many OS options these days? Everything is pretty much "a Unix" of some sort, or else Windows. There is a key difference between today and the period of the 80s/90s when we had true OS efflorescence. Back t
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by scroot 2y ago
Every time I boot up Squeak, I think about what the desktop os could have been had all the millions of dollars and hours of work gone in that direction instead
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by scroot 3y ago
Not sure if it's still true, but in the glory days the DTP industry was known for stitching together different applications this way using AppleScripts
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by scroot 3y ago
In the US the boomers are in for a world of hurt. Senior care is extremely low quality, increasingly scarce, and already unaffordable. The US medical system is completely unprepared for that entire generation to age out. It is already a cri
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by scroot 3y ago
Right after I pushed submit, I thought to myself "Apple? Max? MGM+?" I can't keep track anymore.
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by scroot 3y ago
Has anyone written about the computers/interfaces in HBO's "Silo"? I've been trying to find information about that because they seem quite interesting.
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by scroot 3y ago
There is also another book in the works that has you grapple with WASM itself directly throughout by building your own compiler. It's called WASM from the Ground Up [1]. It's still in progress, but I have really found it informati
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by scroot 3y ago
the UK pint is bigger than the US pint. Know this before visiting and it could just save you a hangover.
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by scroot 3y ago
You can also just walk in and get one in the moment. I get my annual parks pass every year from REI. Pays for itself in no time with the car/parking situation alone.
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by scroot 3y ago
For whatever reason, it bugs me that this robot doesn't have a name (or at least the name isn't mentioned in the article)
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by scroot 3y ago
If I was younger and my job allowed it, certainly. I think they are close to getting an undersea fiber optic internet connection, which could make it an ideal place for someone able and willing to due a stint working remotely. St Helena is
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by scroot 3y ago
Way back in 2006/2007 I worked a severely boring, soul draining desk job. I cruised Wikipedia deeply and often. On one of these online excursions, I came across the article for St Helena -- by some measure the most remote inhabited isl
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by scroot 3y ago
I stayed in several guest houses during my time there. I also took some tours around the island. Wandering was probably the best part. The locals were extremely friendly and helpful, not to mention a riot during late nights at the pub...

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