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by smikhanov 3y ago
This one is not for AR/VR, but still: https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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by smikhanov 3y ago
Likely doesn’t support anything except 8-bit encodings, so only suitable if you’re writing in English without fancy punctuation like em-dashes
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by smikhanov 3y ago
Rotherhithe tunnel in London screams to be repurposed this way -- to become "colorfully lit, art-lined" thing where psychologists give input on how to make it more welcoming
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How Does an Intel Processor Boot? (2018)(binarydebt.wordpress.com)
49 points by smikhanov 4y ago|6 comments
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by smikhanov 4y ago
There's a very detailed but less emotional writeup on the same topic from 2018, highly recommended: https://binarydebt.wordpress.com/2018/10/06/how-does-an-x86-...
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by smikhanov 4y ago
Societies taxing their entrepreneurs at 10 and at 90% are always vastly different. This difference in turn heavily influences every participant’s system of motivations, so comparing these two numbers alone is usually not very helpful
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by smikhanov 4y ago
There’s an economic incentive for someone to increase their productivity at every taxation level that is less than 100%, no?
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by smikhanov 4y ago
Nobody can be fully certain of this, but I suspect all the way up to 100%
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by smikhanov 4y ago
Just make sure to never swallow one (or allow children around you to swallow one).
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by smikhanov 4y ago
What a great article. When he mentions that Facebook and Dropbox were launching their own similar apps, it would be fun if in the end he would end up acquiring all of them, Pinboard style.
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by smikhanov 4y ago
Fantastic comment, totally matches my perspective as a father of three. Not letting your old self go leads to all sorts of problems, severes your relationship with both your child and your spouse, and is a sure way to remain unhappy. I see
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by smikhanov 4y ago
I wish I would be like that in 20 years (I’m in my 40s now)
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by smikhanov 4y ago
> and now no one mentions a future date at all It might be that works of Mark Fisher (aka k-punk) hold an answer to that. He convincingly argues that somewhere around 1990s the humanity lost the ability to conjure alternative
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by smikhanov 5y ago
> worked on one of the biggest production > Haskell code bases on Earth Which one was that?
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by smikhanov 5y ago
Correct. The “try-catch-log” example from the article is so trivial that it can be used to support any argument really.
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by smikhanov 5y ago
> what authors qualifications are The author is definitely not very qualified, yes.
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by smikhanov 5y ago
For FAANG, levels.fyi shows pretty competitive salaries in European cities where it has presence (Munich, Amsterdam, London, etc) — most are in six figures. Every time I put those figures in expatistan.com, I absolutely don’t get the feelin
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by smikhanov 5y ago
> Now, perhaps OSX is more feature complete than Oberon, > but certainly not by a factor of ~40 000X. Not sure why the author is so certain of that. Isn't that conceivable that a modern industrial-grade OS is 40 000
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by smikhanov 5y ago
Honest question: if Boston Dynamics robots are so good, why we never see any news of them cleaning up toxic debris, working in an area of armed conflict, or rescuing people from fires?
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by smikhanov 6y ago
Out of interest, when would that code be used? When compiling for an architecture that doesn’t have intrinsics defined?
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by smikhanov 6y ago
No, the word is not a symbol; the pair (word, its interpretation) can plausibly be considered as one.
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by smikhanov 6y ago
> everything that can be talked about by humans, in principle, should be considered > at the reach of symbolic approaches This doesn’t seem obvious to me — do you have any references that support this idea?
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by smikhanov 6y ago
This question simply disappears.
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by smikhanov 6y ago
No, try .aq!
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by smikhanov 6y ago
I sense some notes of disagreement with calling the Tesla CEO "a loony"
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by smikhanov 6y ago
> the likelihood of failure is high but the expected value is positive Except when the new technology was proposed and marketed by a loony, of course.
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by smikhanov 6y ago
3.5 years on my prediction holds well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811365
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by smikhanov 6y ago
Granada or Malaga are both better, check them out if you haven’t already
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by smikhanov 6y ago
He’s really not
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by smikhanov 6y ago
Your #2 is not good. I live in London, UK and when asking "What's the time in London", I mean London, UK. You may ask why do I need to specify London at all? Here's one of the possible scenarios, sounding very normal as

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