snovymgodym

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by snovymgodym 8mo ago
There's definitely a lot of truth to that, Europe is not a monolith in terms of transport infrastructure. On the other hand, it's hard to overstate just how radically car-centric the majority of the infrastructure in the USA is.
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by snovymgodym 8mo ago
I'd love to be corrected, but my intuition tells me probably not. The only pragmatic use for a modern Algol 68 compiler I can think of would be to port a legacy codebase to a modern system, but any existing Algol 68 codebase will likel
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
> There have been options since JOVIAL in 1958 Yeah, pedantically speaking there were other options but not for the average person. Languages like PL/I and JOVIAL were locked away in corporate institutions behind exorbitant licensin
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
> Lets not forget not having a formal spec apparently wasn't an issue for C C emerged in the 1970s when there weren't many other options, and it was rapidly propagated because US antitrust laws forced AT&T to inexpensively
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
No offense, but the source code for this is wild. It's almost like outsider art. https://github.com/pouyathe/glang/blob/main/source/dub/sourc... Still, I have to respect the dedication it
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
I'll be honest, none of that code looks meaningfully worse than human-written code that you'd find in a typical game's codebase.
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
Feels like a vibe coded RCT clone. Cool project, but lacks the polish that makes games actually fun to play. I'd much rather someone drop https://openrct2.io/ into emscripten with open-source graphics.
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
Interesting post, worth a read. It seemed pretty US-centric, and I'd be curious to see how data compares in other countries where school is done differently. I'm reminded a little of Ivan Illich's take on education being a ne
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
Wasn't Watson basically a parlor trick though?
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
Yeah, blu-ray not bluetooth.
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
Kind of how Sony pushes a bluetooth DRM update to PS3s every year still.
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
I believe the integrity of ReactOS's clean room reverse engineering has been called into question in the past when it was found that there were some header or code files with sections that matched leaked Windows Server 2003 code or som
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
The international value of the dollar as a reserve and trade currency is inherently tied to the behavior of the US Government and the Federal Reserve. The behavior of the US Government has been very unusual lately, and the independence of t
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by snovymgodym 9mo ago
Move to Latin America
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by snovymgodym 10mo ago
Not sure where I said I was on their side.
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by snovymgodym 10mo ago
Really? Having an opinion endorsed by the mainstream doctrine of several world religions with billions of adherents is the same as robbing a bank? That being said, I disagree with Eich and it probably made sense for the org to let him go gi
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by snovymgodym 10mo ago
For much of the last 5 years, I felt like the cost of computers and tech generally has been one of the few inflation debuffs I observed. In terms of both inflation-adjusted and absolute dollar amounts, it seemed like Macbooks, prebuilt PCs,
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by snovymgodym 11mo ago
When billionaires own the media companies that influence public opinion and have legal avenues to essentially bribe elected officials, does the public have a meaningful avenue to vote anti-billionaire?
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by snovymgodym 11mo ago
Yeah, looks like NRW alright
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by snovymgodym 11mo ago
Wasn't Xenix just Unix V7 ported to x86? (Albeit originally 16-bit x86)
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by snovymgodym 11mo ago
(On desktop systems)
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by snovymgodym 11mo ago
I do not like the Cybertruck, the company that makes it, nor the man who owns said company. That being said, I still appreciate seeing them out on the road as an example of what's effectively a concept car that made it to production. I
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by snovymgodym 11mo ago
I highly recommend Tools for Conviviality, it's extremely poignant and ahead of its time.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Is it even responsible to cut interest rates now given tariff inflation?
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
It's fairly popular, especially for elective surgeries.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Huge swathes of business software run on stuff built in the 80s and 90s with only incremental changes since.
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
The problem is that everyone wants a different 20% of the functionality. Actual good UI/UX design isn't trivial and it tends to require a tight feedback loop between testers, designers, implementers, and users. A lot of FOSS simpl
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Even if you're insured it sucks. The American healthcare system creates an immense amount of waste and is a parasite on society. You go to the doctor and then the provider comes up with some reason why the service isn't covered by
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
I doubt it, probably just running on a regular Power ISA rack mount server from IBM. Though I guess technically all IBM i aka AS/400 is running on an emulator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_i#Technology_Indepen
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by snovymgodym 1y ago
Costco still uses AS/400 company-wide for their inventory system I think

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