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by teddyh 5mo ago
“ There are old pilots and there are bold pilots, but there are no old, bold pilots. “ — Lieutenant Charles L. Wright
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by teddyh 5mo ago
I remember thouroghly disliking The Mix (1991). The changed new versions of the old songs were all worse, not better, and especially egregious was the change of Radio-Activity from an etherial hymn about radio communication, to an over
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by teddyh 5mo ago
> For example, making it slightly tilted because it was easier to draw on old screens. No. Some older systems actually had straight pointers. The slightly tilted design is, I assume, a result of wanting to point to something while st
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“This isn’t just a supposition — I have proof!” was one I noticed at a glance. Also the many bulleted lists.
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by teddyh 5mo ago
More: • < https://ui.codexpanse.com/ > • < https://history.vpon.me/ >
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by teddyh 5mo ago
A rumor I heard was that x := 4 was chosen because it looks similar to x ⇐ 4
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by teddyh 5mo ago
< https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this >
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by teddyh 5mo ago
Stallman only invented the name “POSIX”, not the standard itself.
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by teddyh 5mo ago
Ask Steve Wozniak about his two-dollar bills.
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For your sake I hope that your pay is determined by your “output”, and not your long-term usefulness.
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by teddyh 6mo ago
You mean this one: < https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1567852-shen-comix >
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by teddyh 6mo ago
By ”using it”, I mean using the AI model .
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Every single machine I use, both at home and at work, has IPv6. Exactly none of them use a link-local address as the gateway address.
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The problem is people at large companies creating these AI models, wanting the freedom to copy artists’ works when using it, but these large companies also want to keep copyright protection intact, for their regular business activities. T
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by teddyh 6mo ago
No. People are not LLMs. And even if some argue that they are mechanically similar, they are legally distinct.
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by teddyh 6mo ago
It’s the Lisp curse again. “[X] is so powerful that problems which are technical issues in other programming languages are social issues in [X] . ” — < https://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html#ma...
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by teddyh 6mo ago
If you hold an illegal party on public land, you would still be liable, even though you did not own the land.
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by teddyh 6mo ago
Better link, by the author: < https://dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html >
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by teddyh 6mo ago
The old disparaging term was “angry fruit salad”: < http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.htm... >
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by teddyh 6mo ago
The name was “Qwitzatteracht”: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36191638 >
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by teddyh 6mo ago
> First, they require changing the operating system This was done very quickly with IPv6; most major vendors had adequate support very early . This shows that it can be done when the companies involved actually want to do it. >
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by teddyh 6mo ago
> The original comment also doesn't state they are issues just that they are differences. My point is that, in most cases, these aren’t differences , since IPv4 does the same thing as IPv6. Therefore, the claim that IPv6 “ has s
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by teddyh 6mo ago
> IPv6 has some quirks that make it harder to digest. Almost every point in your list is wrong. > - link local gateway address, makes it hard to understand why the subnet does not have a gateway from the ssme address space IPv4 ha
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by teddyh 6mo ago
> the author is the CEO of Tailscale. That explains it. Like I wrote two years ago¹: The eternal problem with companies like Tailscale (and Cloudflare, Google, etc. etc.) is that, by solving a problem with the modern internet which th
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by teddyh 6mo ago
To someone who was around at the time, this sounds silly. Is the Commodore 64 then a 16-bit machine, because its address pointers are 16 bits? No, the Amiga and related 68000-based machines were generally considered to be 16-bit machines,
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by teddyh 6mo ago
Many years ago, terminal emulators used to allow keyboard rebindings via escape codes. This is why it was then common knowledge to never “cat” untrusted files, and to use a program to display the files instead; either a pager, like “less
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by teddyh 6mo ago
I recommend < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM >, Larry McEnerney’s lecture The Craft of Writing Effectively .
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by teddyh 6mo ago
Disappointingly, this draft does not reference previous important and influential work in this field: < https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf >. (Also available in video format: < https://www.youtub
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by teddyh 6mo ago
> You literally CAN NOT. On Android there's no way to put in a static IPv6 or even use stateful DHCPv6. Blame the closed and proprietary Android platform for that; not IPv6.
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by teddyh 6mo ago
> For example, in IPv4 each host has one local net address, and the gateway uses NAT to let it speak with the Internet. Simple and clean. No, that’s not the IPv4 design. That’s an incredibly ugly hack to cope with IPv4 address short

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