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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/874/
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell arguing the same. http://www.openculture.com/2018/08/aldous-huxley-george-orwe...
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hq8DgpgtSQQ
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Don't underestimate how much middle managers love pivot tables.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Great timing. I was interested in offloading FCP render to a faster machine, and this looks like the first step to accomplishing that.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
The root of the problem here is the excessively-long copyright term that facilitated this. Excessive copyright is one of the biggest enemies of cultural preservation and dissemination.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Embedded SIMs won't be an insurmountable problem as long as the TV can work without network connectivity, but they'll be very inconvenient to deal with. A destructive approach would involve desoldering the chip or unplugging the a
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by sidpatil 6y ago
" When someone says 'I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done,' give him a lollipop." Epigram 93, Alan Perlis http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Hmm, it's conceptually like a combination of a CAPTCHA and a launch code.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Microsoft making software for Linux? Huh? Is this an experiment? How long are they going to support it? VSCodium [0] is a fork of VS Code without Microsoft telemetry and branding. If Microsoft decided to stop supporting VS Code, I thin
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by sidpatil 6y ago
In my opinion, the speech-driven computing in Star Trek is the best depiction of the technology. The interaction is very fluid, low-latency, and accurate , and the system doesn't force itself on you: there are still plenty of non-spee
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I have an IBM 3151 video terminal connected to mine, through a USB-to-serial adapter. I use it for Web browsing, reading text files, light code editing/trying ideas in REPL, ssh to my desktop, etc. At first, I wanted to connect the ter
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by sidpatil 6y ago
It's Emacs with JavaScript instead of Lisp.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coand%C4%83_effect
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Race_2000 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmageddon
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Sceptre 27" 4K monitor for $200 on Amazon. It's the cheapest 4K monitor I've found so far. I wasn't even looking for a 4K monitor when I bought it, and didn't think it would make a big difference, but I was very wro
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by sidpatil 6y ago
It depends on the organizational culture, your place within the organization, your relationships with your boss, coworkers, etc. Sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than to wait for permission.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
I'm getting a lot of Error 526: Invalid SSL certificate errors.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
What's the subject matter of the book?
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by sidpatil 6y ago
They acknowledge this specifically: https://polyformproject.org/what-is-polyform/
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> My only guess is that various teams are internally competing with no core customer focus. Is all of this because of the nebulous management structure at Google? Conway's law strikes again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by sidpatil 6y ago
https://youtu.be/iMV8btPW4wU
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> Zstandard is dual-licensed under BSD and GPLv2. Both of which don't offer a patent license.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
If you want to recreate this experience in the most authentic way possible, you can buy a video terminal and configure your box to host the terminal on one of its serial ports. I picked up a couple working IBM 3151 video terminals and keybo
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Sounds like a job for community colleges.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
Would psychedelic microdosing be considered a "smart drug"? The article doesn't mention it, but it seemed to be (still is?) a pretty popular practice, especially amongst West Coast techies.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> For example, it is legal to possess and use Modafinil in the United Kingdom without a prescription, but not in United States. Adrafinil, a prodrug to modafinil, is legal without prescription in the United States.
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> So far, my only solution to this is to be a late adopter, and to favour simplicity over sophistication. I was recently considering going from paper notebooks to a tablet. That initiative stopped at the electronics store. The Surface Go
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by sidpatil 6y ago
This sounds similar to "worse is better" [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
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by sidpatil 6y ago
> But these approaches would probably get you divorced or fired. Those both sound like great startup ideas to me, honestly. A glue-logic compiler? Sounds like Zapier to me.

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