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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Perhaps -- and if I do, I think you've just underscored my point. If someone who started programming the same decade Unix was invented doesn't want to be his own sysadmin, why would most people?
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I don't get all the hate for win10 -- I love *nix from a the pov of a clear, orthogonal internal design (at least from 10k feet) and it doesn't make since to deploy at scale on Win (unless you really need to) -- but why would I ev
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
https://www.wired.com/story/stop-doomscrolling/
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Well, it's balanced -- I get all [ad]s on both sides...
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Racket platform dev itself dead, or Racket program dev dead? As for the former, I'm on the email distro and it seems pretty active to me.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
So, to be clear, you are saying that in this case the grapefruit would increase or decease the effect of the THC? In other words, to increase the effect of the cannabis, is it metabolites that we want to maximze, or the amount of unmetaboli
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Given that your eye "wants" to follow the action, it would be cool if the foveal focus moved with the character, no? Then if you really didn't "notice" the de-rezed background, that would be the proof of the pudding
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I worked at MS in the early 90's during the time when they wanted to break it up -- I'm convinced that if BillG simply accepted this and approached it in a constructive way, that separate systems and apps companies would have bee
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Objective-C isn't so much a language as one language embedded in another -- C + ST inside square brackets...
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Well, because OO - and if Simula isn't there, then that's where the link would be. Even if Simula did come first, ST is certainly the "OO root" that most people know, so I'm fine with Simula -> ST -> C++ as a
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Seems like some tree-roots are missing -- Algol??! PL/(I/M)? B(CPL)? Snobol? APL? Simula? Link between Smalltalk and C++?
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
My son just happens to be playing Scramble (Defender) on my old Vectrex as we speak! Of course, it comes w/Mine Storm (Asteriods/Space War) built-in. (Though I think it needs some new capacitors, as the vector retrace isn't
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Seems like you're losing something here -- ISTM that the goodness of a reified massage is now lost. A message, as a piece of data, can be tested, stored, passed on, etc., while a "call" (the .get()) cannot.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I assume because every process has its own GC that messages are always copied, even on the same node? AFAICT, there is no shared/copy-on-write messages in the BEAM, except for a few cases where you explicitly pass a shared byte buffer
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I would love it if every product in this category to be able to stream from the same source and be selectable as stereo (if two speakers), mono-center, mono-left-only and mono-right only -- this way I can by more than one and place them as
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Reminds me of the venerable Radio Shack Minimus 7 -- this was truly a revolutionary product at the time at set the bar for "bookshelf" speakers for years.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Exposed, non-protected woofers looks cool - but I can imagine a butter-side-down Murphy's law event happening to me within a week of getting that thing...
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I love Typescript -- I just wish there were an alternate runtime (.Net core CLR/DLR or other) that offered shared-memory green and/or native threading for true support for embarrassingly parallel but not vectorized workloads. FWIC
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I think the point that's missing is reflective vs. transmitive surfaces -- that brain is used to processing not the latter, but the former -- where reflected light is related to, and less than, ambient light. If we were using hi-res co
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
If I had long-running servers at home or were using a runtime that didn't run on Windows very naturally, I supposed I'd feel differently - but that's not the case at the moment.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Advertising? I've never seen an ad. Are you talking about some OEM Windows install with extra bits??
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I guess it depends on what you want to spend your time and emotional energy on. I use Win10 as it is "out of the box", and apply all automatic updates. If MS wants my telemetry or whatever, that's okay by me. If I'm in F
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
And I assume you can have open circuits on generators (from nuclear or other) -- there'd be somewhat less inductive drag on the generator, but I assume that's not a requirement for operation, esp. at low power. (Though I assume yo
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
> Windows was very good for desktop but had stability problems. Nowadays Windows is just awful for the desktop user, Microsoft is literally conducting a war against its own users. I don't get this. I've been using *nix since PD
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
As for drugs, nortriptyline helped me immediately (a few before bed for a while, then as needed) - cheap and safe drug. (Old anti-depressant, off-label for this treatment.) I also make some dietary changes (paleo-sih) which helped over time
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Just curious - is there a chart on your site comparing you to Knightscope or other offerings?
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I did it by sticking a screwdriver where I shouldn't have and touching the flyback cap on an old (CRT) TV that was only recently unplugged. Luckily I wasn't well-grounded and the part of the screwdriver shunted the current turned
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
Not even mentioned in the article -- IMHO cold brew just seems so much easier (make a big batch at once) and tastes so much better.
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
And also lots of devops likely these days: - Infrastructure design - Deployment - Monitoring / log-based debugging and fault tracing / handling customer issues In addition to wanting a "full stack" developer of course...
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by thelazydogsback 6y ago
I think we missed the boat -- the focus on fancy rendering rather than on the actual data/content set us back years in functionality and helped create free and for-pay walled gardens where actionable data stays server-side and renderin

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