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by sircastor 2y ago
Deeply entrenched in that freedom is the fantasy of inventing some new miracle product, or supremely popular song or book. It’s protecting the idea that someday I might be the wealthy benefactor of these practices and rules. We see people
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by sircastor 2y ago
Yes, I think he is. And I don’t think his claim is unreasonable. I have heard of Lebron and Messi, but haven’t seen either of them play. Ever. Lebron is Basketball, and I’m pretty sure Messi is soccer, but I only know that because the latte
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by sircastor 2y ago
I think Apple is more interested in someone who is attached to Apple and works to get to compromise, then a new person who would favor compromise over Apple’s culture.
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by sircastor 2y ago
I think a lot of gaming and computer companies were like this, especially early on. If you read Console Wars (about Sega during the 3rd generation of consoles) you run into loads of aggressive practices while they all try to build out their
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by sircastor 2y ago
I wrote an NES game in 6502 assembly back in 2020. It was a school capstone project and I intentionally wanted to do it “close to the metal”. Outside of that I had seen some people writing NES games in C++, but had heard that it compiled pr
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by sircastor 2y ago
Except they’re not storing copies of any of these. They’re storing how likely it is that something from this relates to something from that. Back when Starship Titanic came out, the website posted a copy of the associated novel, with the wo
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by sircastor 2y ago
Lots of good advice here. I recommend that in addition to exercise, good diet choices, and trying out some recreational things (hobbies, sports, etc) find a therapist to talk to. You might just be dealing with the malaise of maturing and ga
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by sircastor 2y ago
I know that we "want" investment in AI, but I'd be perfectly happy if Wallstreet stays the heck out of this whole situation. Every time investment money gets into a topic - not company, not an industry, a topic - it becomes
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by sircastor 2y ago
It seems obvious to me that there is no such thing as AI without publicly training on the open web, and that any kind of licensing is an impossible feat. Programs from my youth (Daria, Captain N) had licensed music for their broadcast, and
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by sircastor 2y ago
Part of the problem here is that the web has gone through lots of change as to what it is and how people understand it. Some people think of it as billboards posted on the highway. Some think it’s a bulletin board. Some think it’s a newspap
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by sircastor 2y ago
My suspicion is that Apple switched monitoring types to better manage battery life and to continue to walk the fine line of the Apple Watch not actually being a health device (from an FDA perspective)
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by sircastor 2y ago
> The thing is, they don't have a metric for me to hit. Get this is writing. An email outlining specifically where you’re coming up short and the metric that works address it. Print that out in duplicate and keep a copy in a safe sp
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by sircastor 2y ago
I don't remember how I learned it, but back when my family had a IIci I remember there was a startup key command you could press to display an image of the developers in the ROM. I kind of miss the days when that sort of thing was done
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by sircastor 2y ago
I don’t think you’re wrong, but also consider the costs associated with trying to setup and manage your own backup. Easy for many of us here, but the “average” person faces not only the technical barriers, but the actual cost of devices. Pe
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by sircastor 2y ago
> The tools were primitive, and skills were low I agree 100%. If you were ignorant of crayons, you might ask why so many kindergarteners’ art pieces are done in colorful wax.
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by sircastor 2y ago
Startups aren’t addressing this because printing isn’t sexy and Silicon Valley doesn’t really want to acknowledge paper as a solution to anything.
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by sircastor 2y ago
I meant more specifically the first time it was really being used as a rapidly drawn object on a screen.
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by sircastor 2y ago
> HyperCard made personal computing personal again To me, HyperCard is the definitive execution of Jobs’ “Bicycle for the mind” statement.
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by sircastor 2y ago
> We shouldn't expect juniors to use a different / artificially handicapped workflow than the rest of us. When I was at film school, our first year project was required to be done on film. This was 2001 - Digital cameras were n
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by sircastor 2y ago
I think as Andy writes, Bill was showing off a very impressive demo, and was maybe miffed that Steve wasn’t appreciating it. Also, the question had just been sprung, and literally no one had ever done this before.
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by sircastor 2y ago
Biodegradable plastics are typically degrading in intense environments, such as a compost pile. Not unlike wood. Wood is strong and lasts a long time if kept dry. If you introduce the environment where fungi, microbes, and insects are more
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by sircastor 2y ago
But you can still purchase these one-time use cards with cash? That’s the case with my local transit system. Are there places that are eliminating cash altogether?
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by sircastor 2y ago
> Just as the new automatic registering of 18/26 y/o people for military only concerns men. I think the people who want to protect the draft have a vested interest in not introducing equality here. Namely, their constituents ha
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by sircastor 2y ago
I think the problem is largely determining “dustiness” of a given space, and cleaning it appropriately. Humans are good at arbitrary judgements like “this is dusty”. It suffers the same kinds of problems as robotic pooper-scoopers, and even
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by sircastor 2y ago
The concept is this: When you're donating reasonably large amounts of money to charity (a church in this case) you can deduct that amount from your taxable income while simultaneously supporting an organization that you like (your chur
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by sircastor 2y ago
> we should be "Reining in America's Overindulgent Lifestyle and Runaway Spending Spree". If you’re interested in knowing where your federal tax dollars are going, put your numbers in and take a look. It’s possible this is
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by sircastor 2y ago
I used to belong to a very large Christian faith, with members all over the economic spectrum. One of the major tenants of the faith is paying tithing. I think most people adhere to it, but I seriously wondered many times if the wealthier a
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by sircastor 2y ago
It's worth noting that if you're interested in making your own custom silicon, you can get it done quite inexpensively. It's not a fast process, but if you want to try your hand at building something that is all you, you can!
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by sircastor 2y ago
>I've ended up in contact with vehicles twice this year through no fault of my own walking in my downtown area. Ugh. Are you alright?
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by sircastor 2y ago
I apologize for the assumption, that was quite rude of me. That said, you’ve just described my neighborhood. We’re about 2 blocks from my son’s school. One major road, with a crossing guard at school time. The 2nd-to-last day of walking him

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