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by sedachv 10y ago
> When analysed as an interactive application Oberon makes me think the most Acme, then Emacs. Rob Pike borrowed the UI/UX of Acme from Oberon: http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/acme/acme.html IMO th
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by sedachv 10y ago
There are more details in this lecture Hotz gave at Berkeley this September: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxoke1lDJ9w One of the things that seemed missing from the lecture when I watched it is how data was going to be c
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by sedachv 10y ago
Suspicious especially given Hotz's comments about Cruise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zy_07g2IrM#t=40m10s
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Remember all that quality code that was in place before Cranor's UVM? So much before my time I was not even aware of it. For the uninitiated: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix99/full_papers
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by sedachv 10y ago
> This is so, so true, that I wish there were enough beer in this world to gift you with. There's a lot of cruft in XNU, and there's even more of it in the rest of the system, but all this heap of hacks isn't just useless
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by sedachv 10y ago
> i can't deep link it because, you know, probably a 1970's mainframe system ported to the web and all that I think it has to do with the length of the query (longer ones go to POST). For example searching for GRAM gives this l
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by sedachv 10y ago
> One extreme downside of thinking of your home as an investment vehicle is how poorly it is diversified. It is almost exactly directly correlated to the local job market...and to macro trends like the MBS issues we saw in 2008. This is
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by sedachv 10y ago
For anyone interested, David Belck has some good lectures on how medical procedures get billed and how insurance (doesn't) work in the United States: https://www.youtube.com/user/davidbelk46/videos
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by sedachv 10y ago
> I do hope to see our society mature a bit on end-of-life care. It looks like many countries are moving that way in the past 20 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_euthanasia
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Ma Bell and ISPs are odd examples, because their monopoly or quasi-monopoly positions are possible because of government involvement. False: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_monopoly
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by sedachv 10y ago
Federal prison camps are not that terrible: https://www.bop.gov/about/facilities/federal_prisons.jsp Think of it like a three-year, $100 million sabbatical "upstate." That is enough time to read through
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by sedachv 10y ago
> By discriminated against do you mean someone saying hateful things to you, or someone actively going out of their way to deny you something? More like being murdered for being gay or black or ... and the police refusing (sometimes open
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by sedachv 10y ago
It can be if you make it. It has been about a decade since I finished coursework for my pure math degree, I do not work in mathematics, and I am enjoying mathematics more than ever just from reading books. I do not miss doing textbook exerc
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by sedachv 10y ago
Which book do you think is a better introduction to computer science?
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by sedachv 10y ago
Forth also makes a good scripting language for many applications due to being compact and very easy to implement. Warren Wilkinson used Forth for scripting in his Common Lisp-based web forms/reports/documentation app: http:/
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George Hotz on machine learning for self-driving cars, ML at Berkeley [video](youtube.com)
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by sedachv 10y ago
A lot of the old VAX installations are industrial control applications, the device interfaces are exactly the things you want to keep. You can buy new VAX-compatible machines with the old Digital I/O buses and cables today: http:&#x2F
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by sedachv 10y ago
AFAIK Theo de Raadt still has a bunch of racks of vintage hardware working as an OpenBSD build cluster in his basement (old photo circa 2009: http://www.openbsd.org/images/rack2009.jpg ). VMS-related, OpenBSD discontinu
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by sedachv 10y ago
> While I can appreciate the slippery-slope argument against mass surveillance and bulk data collection, comparing municipal police with infamous clandestine federal investigative agencies borders on conspiracy theory. If you look at the
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by sedachv 10y ago
> Don't forget Jobs attempted to steal NeXt's fork of the GCC with Obj-C extensions. The FSF had to sue NeXt to get them to release their modifications. Actually there was no lawsuit. NeXT released the patches after a warning:
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by sedachv 10y ago
> list price, plan discount (usually 30-60% off), next what the ins comp. covers = usually 80% of discounted price, then what I pay, that is a small amount, 20% * 60% * original price. I recently had a drug that wasn't covered by my
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by sedachv 10y ago
> And worst of all, extraneous lawsuits targeting companies attempting to share helpful information with workers regarding taxes, insurance, and retirement accounts, are punishing the very individuals these groups falsely espouse. David
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by sedachv 10y ago
> My wife ended up not wanting to eat goat, so I ate a fair bit of goat after that. ...and she learned never to name or play with the livestock. So treat the animals like objects to make it easier to kill them? That also works for humans
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by sedachv 10y ago
A good place to start with transparency in the meat industry would be mandatory cancer warnings, like tobacco products are required to display: http://who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
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by sedachv 10y ago
Do you (or anyone else) know of a book in the same spirit covering the more recent Unix tools?
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by sedachv 10y ago
> This depends a lot on the user. In the right hands it's extremely efficient. IMO the inefficiency is more due to the fundamental brokenness of the Unix process model. A Unix process is sort of like a VM with none of the security,
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by sedachv 10y ago
What are you going to do for currency amounts if you do not have ints ? Strings with numbers in them?
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by sedachv 10y ago
> How would you provide the functionality that hashtags do on the public timeline? That is what search engines are for. The whole point of the Internet is that you can build businesses on top of open protocols with interoperable implemen
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by sedachv 10y ago
QueueTard's Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips at HOPE number nine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4 Guy Steele's How to Think about Parallel Programming: Not! at Strange Loop 2011: https://
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by sedachv 10y ago
There is a great incentive to obfuscate when your "value delivery" is skimming (mutual funds that charge 1.25% management fees for underperforming the S&P), privatization fraud (health insurance in the US, government contracto

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