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by whobre 1y ago
Apparently, Gary’s children agreed for the entire book to be released in 50 years from the partial release. So, only 41 years now…
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by whobre 1y ago
He was nothing like BG. Gary was an inventor, educator and most of all a visionary. He hated running a business, even though he started DRI after failing to convince Intel to buy CP/M. Yes, there are quite a few videos on YouTube about
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A Tale of Two Red-Bearded Visionaries(nemanjatrifunovic.substack.com)
28 points by whobre 1y ago|5 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
That would have been insightful twenty years ago. Nowadays it’s pretty obvious…
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by whobre 1y ago
That’s not true at all. Rent is determined by demand and supply—not by a landlord’s costs. Plenty of landlords operate at a loss; rent just helps make the loss more manageable.
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by whobre 1y ago
I respect Alex Stepanov a lot and have the book, but I am obviously not smart enough to understand any of it.
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by whobre 1y ago
Reduced by 600%?
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by whobre 1y ago
June 2024
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by whobre 1y ago
When, not if
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by whobre 1y ago
x86-x64 assembly, to be precise. Nice work.
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by whobre 1y ago
Depends on what you do, really. If I need to edit a photo, of course I’ll use gui. For any kind of text manipulation, including coding, tui is simply superior.
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by whobre 1y ago
Nah, but my C++ code is full of “please” and “thanks” macros that expand to empty strings
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by whobre 1y ago
> I can only imagine the awkwardness around the table if the topic of operating systems came up during the dinner. More likely, they just had a good laugh if these old opinions ever came up.
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by whobre 1y ago
And the hell just froze over... Love it!
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by whobre 1y ago
It’s a migration from Java to Swift. For some reason that key information was missing from the title.
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by whobre 1y ago
They should have named it Zilog…
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by whobre 1y ago
I agree that M68k is nice, as are the 8-bit ones you mention. I just find it strange that you like Z80 and dislike x86 - they are fundamentally not that different and both are descended from 8080.
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by whobre 1y ago
Nothing to do with Gates, though.
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by whobre 1y ago
I am under impression that more people implement Forth than use it for programming...
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by whobre 1y ago
I did code before Google, and I was fine. Yes, it's really convenient, and LLM would be even more convenient if I could trust it just a little bit more, but it's quite possible to do some effective software development without G
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by whobre 1y ago
Well, my first computer was a 48k ZX Spectrum, and after that experience Atari’s keyboard looked like heaven. Still liked the Speccy better…
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by whobre 1y ago
There are many platforms other than x64 and aarch64; that’s the main advantage of using llvm.
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From Typewriters to Transformers: AI Is Just the Next Tools Abstraction(hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com)
3 points by whobre 1y ago|0 comments
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by whobre 1y ago
It's not like Postgres at all, except on the very superficial level. It is an analytical engine like BigQuery, Snowflake, Teradata, etc...
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by whobre 1y ago
The "why" part aside, the "how" is clearly a fantasy: get all countries in the world unite and shut down all AI. Not going to happen, sorry...
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by whobre 1y ago
> Cops who have decided it's their job to do as little as possible. To be fair, the society decided to encourage such behavior.
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by whobre 1y ago
Alright, but how can this exercise help them pass an interview? The point of leetcode is to memorize the solutions so one can do well in an interview; yes, I agree it’s ridiculous.
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by whobre 1y ago
https://www.wing.vc/content/comparing-the-financials-of-data...
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by whobre 1y ago
A VC funded company that has never been profitable spending a billion on another startup…
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by whobre 1y ago
Coming from C++, I don’t find it hard to learn. I do find it annoying, don’t love the syntax and absolutely hate cargo. To each his own, I guess….

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