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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Oh, I do hope you like it!!! (It earned a place on my shelf next to "Godel Escher Bach", by Hofstadter, and "Society of Mind", by Minsky.)
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Books, magazines (BYTE, Nibble[0], Dave Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar), computer camps, BBS. But because there were so few resources, they tended to be FAR higher quality than googling or Stack Overflow. Plus things weren't as complex
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Obligatory thesis that cracks this open: "Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software" An utterly phenomenal book: https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-Connected-Brains-Cities-Sof...
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
This is what I was looking for with my most recent reply to your reply. Thanks!
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> I'm not sure it's particularly accurate to describe such questions as "nihilist", they're completely necessary. Yeah. 'Nihilist' wasn't the correct word. Perhaps fallacious was more accurate: I t
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
I've been trying to build a Mastadon container for docker so that I can convince friends and family to try a smaller social network. First for pictures, then maybe later for more. If, say 1 in every 1000 people knew how to maintain the
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
I used to think this was the answer. I now think the problem with this is a lack of standards. It is documented that textbook manufacturers publish different history and science texts based on the region of the country regarding the civil w
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
> As a human, I still struggle a lot to read a paper and figure out what I just read Has this always been the case for you? or just in the past few years? I didn't care about news until the first gulf war. Then something flipped a s
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Yes, but I think it depends on where the company is coming from already. The IP licensing cost goes to zero when using RISC-V, and if the company already has a design force set up for MCU dev, it could be a big deal (if RISC-V works out its
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I try to gauge the complexity of a task like this with a period view. On the one hand, BASIC was quite simple, and the 8-bit CPU had an instruction set that could be easily memorized (days before protected mode and 64 bytes worth of potenti
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I really appreciate the nearly per-line commenting.
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That is why I said I'm ambivalent to the previous comment's statement about benefits from toxic personalities. I think your argument mixes up things you can control (skill) with things you cannot control (impulsivity), if the latt
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> I have had to tolerate obviously toxic but helpful people before I understand where you are coming from here. I struggle with this. I think there is a legit theory for it, usually given in the context of how to reconcile shitty behavio
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Hey, that's a great idea! Instead of getting warned or banned, a user is placed in a timeout box where all of their posts get a three day lag and remain editable, and when the user logs in, they must re-read their posts before proceedi
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
I would like to hear what LinkedIn moderators deal with. I wonder if it is easier/harder/same as Facebook or Reddit. There might be some interesting data here supporting real-name policies. I don't say anything on LinkedIn be
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by staycoolboy 6y ago
Hello, bad actor here. I only use Hacker News and Reddit. And I always manage to get banned every few months, so I guess I'm a "bad actor". Usually I start off OK. I can rank up 1000 points on HN or 20k karma on Reddit quickl