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571.
by sidpatil 6y ago
Unfortunately, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9959088
572.
by sidpatil 6y ago
That's a shame. Those could have been useful for adjusting volume, brightness, zoom/scale, h/v scroll, etc.
573.
by sidpatil 6y ago
"Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones." Epigram 120, Alan Perlis. http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
574.
by sidpatil 6y ago
I think it's part of a larger trend of infantilization of the end user, which I find disturbing.
575.
by sidpatil 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooming_user_interface
576.
by sidpatil 6y ago
This is known as the Gish gallop . https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempest_(codename)
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by sidpatil 6y ago
It doesn't seem like a coincidence, since this showed up recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25003441
579.
by sidpatil 6y ago
This is a projection. edit: I was wrong. Headline is accurate.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015876
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25015876
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The Free Lunch Is Over: A Fundamental Turn Toward Concurrency in Software (2005)(gotw.ca)
1 points by sidpatil 6y ago|0 comments
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Sounds like a textbook example of why market competition is essential.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> I wanted to skip Threadripper, as he normally works in single app I thought those types of applications would actually be able to take good advantage of all those cores.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Would there even be a chance of a healthy weed market? From my perspective the market will quickly be saturated by big tobacco, since they already have all the plantation & manufacturing infrastructure needed to mass produce smokin
586.
by sidpatil 6y ago
Good to know! I have a few old 32-bit laptops in my collection, and I thought my only options at this point were FreeDOS or one of the BSDs.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> And I realized that to a lot of people there is no discernible difference between doing software development and doing tech support. I've experienced something similar. Whenever I'd tell people I'm studying electrical e
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2019 redefinition of the SI base units(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sidpatil 6y ago|0 comments
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Would you just set up multiple “origins” with each one pointing to a head maintainer’s computer (and named appropriately)? That's one way of doing it. There are others as well. https://git-scm.com/book/en&#x2F
590.
by sidpatil 6y ago
> it at one point had a charging port under the mouse I've read that the motivation for this decision was to ensure that the customer would use the device wirelessly as intended. I guess it could be beneficial for the battery as w
591.
by sidpatil 6y ago
RTF is a much simpler format than ODT. RTF source code resembles TeX at first glance; ODT is based on XML. Unfortunately, it's not an open standard AFAICT.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
This is known as combinatorial logic , contrasted with sequential logic which is "timeful".
593.
by sidpatil 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24945361
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I thought this was about the movie at first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_the_Cat_(film)
595.
by sidpatil 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24945361
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24069802
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Also available via Telnet at towel.blinkenlights.nl.
598.
by sidpatil 6y ago
I'm disappointed we didn't use ASCII-separated values. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7474600
599.
by sidpatil 6y ago
> It's far too easy to chase that high from app to app, method to method. Likewise for languages and frameworks.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Andy Matuschak makes a similar point. If I understand correctly, his perspective is that the notetaking is the work. https://notes.andymatuschak.org/z6cFzJWgj9vZpnrQsjrZ8yCNREzC...

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