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by tdeck 11mo ago
This reminds me of how this 3270 terminal worked. You sent the terminal a bunch of text to display, and a list of editable regions on the screen. Then only when you edited some things and hit enter were the editable regions sent back. It le
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Did Stadia do anything that adversely affected already successful products? I thought it had limited collateral damage.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
I've heard the same thing from my mother, whose uncle had a baby raccoon as a pet. Once he got older he became mean and would yank on her hair for no reason.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
> Can someone explain to me the rationale of investing in a product, marketing it, seeing that it drives consumers away from your product and erodes trust, and then you continue to invest at an accelerating rate? Hey now, Google Plus wa
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Think you want an Amstrad CPC? Try burger instead.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
This reminds me of atomic gardening, where you just blast plants with gamma rays and see if you get something useful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_gardening They still do it in Japan, with a distinctive circular
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Even easier would be to make a gift to Trump's ballroom or buy into one of his many crypto schemes or Truth Social stock.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
You're only allowed to be mad because he called it the "department of war". The premise that the US always needs more weapons and should be fighting constant wars must go unchallenged.
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by tdeck 11mo ago
It is kind of vague IMO. Especially since most of the actual NTP infrastructure is run by governments, universities, and companies. https://gist.github.com/mutin-sa/eea1c396b1e610a2da1e5550d94... But..it's $1k. Th
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by tdeck 11mo ago
> grassroots group RightToCompute.ai Sure, I completely believe this model legislation drafted by ALEC is being pushed by a "grassroots group" and not an industry lobbying organization. I wish reporters would be more careful wi
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by tdeck 11mo ago
People need to be more skeptical. This is not going to be used to uphold individual rights, and that's not the intention. This will be used not only to fast track data centers, but to support companies like Flock and push back against
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by tdeck 11mo ago
> You need ridiculously powerful processors to run a C compiler It's not 1982 anymore. I can compile C just fine on SoC that costs $5. Of course it's true that these things are ridiculously powerful, but that doesn't reall
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by tdeck 11mo ago
Let's imagine for the sake of argument that I don't need to write a compiler or interpreter. What else is FORTH well suited for?
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by tdeck 11mo ago
The whole context of this article is "how can we get C programmers to understand that they would be more productive in FORTH". My thesis is that maybe the attitude of "you should be writing everything from scratch, including
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by tdeck 11mo ago
At least this author wrote the following: > So, the question is, how to encourage today's world of C programmers to take a look at Forth. How do we convince them that Forth can be 10 times more productive? So they are clearly intere
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by tdeck 11mo ago
This kind of illustrates the biggest problem with the FORTH ecosystem, in my opinion. Approximately 80% of open source development effort seems to go toward building new, slightly incompatible FORTH interpreters to suit the author's ow
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by tdeck 11mo ago
If they do indeed use Kelvin, perhaps it's to reduce percent error? :)
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by tdeck 11mo ago
That's an uncharitable take. Those VCs care very deeply about society, that's why they're funding so much research into the Torment Singularity (and giving so many talks about it) and making sure that the Right People get the
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by tdeck 1y ago
Wait, so you're telling me a system of forced labor where people were sometimes worked to death was bad? /s
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by tdeck 1y ago
My comment wasn't intended as a "correction", just adding that historians seem to refer to this war by a different name these days. At least in the textbooks I learned from, it was discussed in the context of the Seven Years
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by tdeck 1y ago
This reminds me a bit of how the Islamic calendar year is 355 days and doesn't have intercalation for religious reasons (many calendars insert extra months now and then to realign with the year, but the Islamic calendar does not). This
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by tdeck 1y ago
I wonder why they can't just use a toothed belt.
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by tdeck 1y ago
It's more properly a campaign of the Seven Years War, which was almost a world war of its time.
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by tdeck 1y ago
This is also a difference in outcomes between traditional colonialism (where indigenous people were viewed as a source of labor) and settler colonialism (where indigenous people are viewed simply as "in the way"). That's not
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by tdeck 1y ago
The Maya are still around, but the Maya civilization's institutions were all destroyed. And the Spanish made a point of seeking out all the Maya books [1] they could find and burning them. So a lot of knowledge was lost. [1] https:&#x
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by tdeck 1y ago
Is this moment tbe only time you've been paying attention all year? The Senate opposition leader's actions now literally directly contradict his actions from several months ago. If they had taken this stand then, a lot less damage
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by tdeck 1y ago
This is not untrue, but it's also worth pointing out that democrats have been active participants in making ICE the dangerous, unaccountable, overreaching agency that it is. Nothing was meaningfully rolled back under Biden. And in Cong
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by tdeck 1y ago
But the character is saying "please save me!"
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by tdeck 1y ago
I feel sympathy for the 30 yen that stay in my pocket for sure. But also cute mascots and things are the norm in Japanese marketing.
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by tdeck 1y ago
Honestly I don't mind this si much because it means the rest of the opening is coming along soon. The real issue is when someone slacks me "hi" or "you there?" and I am doing something or in a meeting, then see it 3

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