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by timmg 5y ago
Very cool. Thanks
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by timmg 5y ago
Thanks!
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by timmg 5y ago
Oh, interesting. One of the first results from Google turns up this: https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/exotic02.html > The most widely used rewriting engines often sit at the heart of programs and languages used f
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by timmg 5y ago
Does anyone know how wolfram's language is implemented? I think that there is a small-ish language. And then a bunch of hand-coded libraries that do a lot of the heavy lifting. But I'm curious what that core language is like. I
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by timmg 5y ago
> (If one would disappear, nobody would miss it). Makes you wonder what the value is, then. Interop between blockchains seems doable (I guess Coinbase, more or less, does this). At that point what makes one cryptocurrency worth more tha
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by timmg 5y ago
From a big-picture perspective: people quitting jobs to "grind" through a game to "win" tokens makes no sense. There is literally no productive value from it. I don't understand how it can be anything other than a
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by timmg 5y ago
I don't see how AR/VR assets are any different than jpegs, etc. If enough systems integrate with the blockchains to allow transfer of ownership, maybe it will take hold. I think central authorities with interop would be a better
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by timmg 5y ago
Personally, I don't see how the NFTs of today will have any long term value. Maybe a few, simply for the history/novelty. The blockchain itself has no legal authority. It's just a transaction log. You could buy a link to
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by timmg 5y ago
Yes, you have it exactly right. We basically had three different hand-coded implementations of the same classes, each in a different language.
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by timmg 5y ago
I used to work on Sheets. We built the “engine” of Sheets in Java. Then we used GWT to transpile to JS (probably switched to J2CL by now). We built Android version by compiling the Java code against different libraries. And we were the fi
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by timmg 5y ago
I thought a recent study showed the most effective/cheap method of reducing CO2 was very simple: plant a lot of trees. Like, really.
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by timmg 5y ago
Someone should make a mini CM-2 -- desktop size. With the LEDs and everything. And then some kind of emulator (or FPGA) on the inside that could actually run their code. Maybe connect to a desktop via USB or something. I wonder if the co
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by timmg 5y ago
Ok, thanks. It occured to me how cool it would be to pick one up on eBay. Obviously, I didn't find one. (Not that would have actually bought one.) I guess this is why :)
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by timmg 5y ago
Anyone know how many CM-1s and CM-2s were made? I spent a few minutes googling and got nothing. Did they sell 10s of them or 100s of them or more?
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by timmg 5y ago
That's just so they can charge subscription fees. One day I'll figure out if my Youtube Music subscription cost more than I would have spent on buying all my music.
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by timmg 5y ago
> I personally try to collect nothing. Have you seen the movie "Up in the Air"? Your comment reminded me of the speech George Clooney gave :)
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by timmg 5y ago
Just curious: do you use Amazon? They track everything you've bought, everything you view, all comments you read, etc. Does that bother you any more or less than Youtube?
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by timmg 5y ago
Ad blockers don't change that. They track you for recommendations and view counts and things like that either way. I suppose you could watch Youtube in a new incognito window for every session. But I doubt that is what most ad-blocke
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by timmg 5y ago
> Why don't these companies just offer a paid version of their products? Youtube is a great example of that. I see post after post of people here bragging about using ad blockers on Youtube -- rather than pay. Nevermind that the c
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by timmg 5y ago
Can't you still use the USB-C ports for the higher bandwidth if you want to (and have the dongle?)
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by timmg 5y ago
> In the long term, I think that many mosquito species will be driven to extinction within the next 30 years. I honestly don't know: will this affect the ecosystems? I think (at least) dragonflies eat mosquitoes. No idea how much
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by timmg 5y ago
Maybe because I haven't followed the case at all but: that wiki says: "Allen was cleared through a comparison of DNA, fingerprints, palm prints, and handwriting." Most of the evidence seems to be a friend of his claiming he s
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by timmg 5y ago
Shit, he was exactly right.
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by timmg 5y ago
> If I'm reading this right, pre-pandemic sales were ~8 million. So a cut 1.4 million due to chip shortages represents an 18% drop. But compared to 2020, the drop is 23%. But it's a low margin industry. They can now charge ab
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by timmg 5y ago
I'm really curious to see the winning business model for apps like this. Everyone is used to free web apps. No one wants to pay. And people have become more and more worried about ads (many people block them). Is there a world where
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by timmg 5y ago
> Apple will of course appeal this... Given the current climate, I don't think they have a strong chance to overturn this ruling.
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by timmg 5y ago
When I was an awkward high school student trying to meet girls, I had a friend with more experience. His advice to me was, "When all else fails, lower your standards." I just find that so amusing in retrospect.
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by timmg 5y ago
Employment is a market. Google needs to pay what the market will bear. If the "remote worker" market is 25% cheaper than Silicon Valley, then that's what they'll pay. If they underpay then they'll lose workers. O
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by timmg 5y ago
I'm not smart enough to know if that makes any sense at all. But it's a very intriguing idea. I'd never heard of it before.
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by timmg 5y ago
Doesn't Epic pay money to game makers to keep them (if temporarily) off Steam? Is that materially different than this case? (Is it that Google already has a strong market position and Epic is an upstart?)

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