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by wk_end 2y ago
Jobs and co. no doubt took inspiration from Xerox PARC but I think the narrative that they just copied the Alto or the Star is a bit ahistorical and does the Macintosh team a disservice. If you sit down with each of them, it quickly becomes
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by wk_end 2y ago
> Also, is there a good learning resource on "proving" things about code for working programmers without a strong CS / math background? I don’t know how difficult Software Foundations is for someone with a limited backgrou
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by wk_end 2y ago
It doesn’t “know” - it’s not a security measure - but CD-Rs are harder for a disc drive to read. And the lasers in these old machines are losing power over time as their physical components (e.g. caps) decay, which make them more sensitive
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by wk_end 2y ago
Appropriate for an operating system called Haiku ;)
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by wk_end 2y ago
He’s a doctor (psychiatrist) so I imagine he has something worthwhile to say about medical effectiveness. He’s at least as qualified as the economists he’s responding to!
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by wk_end 3y ago
Let's be clear here: the decriminalization may have made things worse, but the problems were there well before. That particular McDonald's was ruined mostly because a shelter and various other supports opened up down the block, an
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by wk_end 3y ago
As a curious outsider - what are the key differences between Squeak and Pharo that make it worse in your eyes?
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by wk_end 3y ago
Can you elaborate further? I think of myself as pretty online (sadly) and I haven't heard anyone, right or left, talk about the politics of seed oils. EDIT: should've searched first. Sigh. https://www.rollingstone.com&#
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by wk_end 3y ago
From the direction of construction, it is - as a marker of "I want to never be able to construct this value - the only way I should be able to construct this value is in an impossible state", sure, it works. But from the direction
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by wk_end 3y ago
`never` is a problematic field type, at least unless you make efforts (via non-exported symbols, for instance) to make sure the field is inaccessible - `never` is the type of a value that doesn't exist; it's there in the type syst
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How the search for the origins of Covid-19 turned politically poisonous(apnews.com)
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by wk_end 3y ago
Yeah, linguistic difficulty is almost always relative - I can learn French or Dutch much more effortlessly than a native Japanese speaker. A native Korean (I'm guessing?) speaker would definitely have a leg up when learning Japanese th
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by wk_end 3y ago
(background disclaimer: native English speaker; can read Japanese and French reasonably well; German somewhat less so; have also lightly studied Latin + Russian + Spanish; Chinese not at all) Chinese sounds more like the exception than the
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by wk_end 3y ago
Consider using Reason and/or Rescript. Ocaml with a nice syntax and clean JS interop.
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by wk_end 3y ago
From what I've seen, on average, with many exceptions, most games will lightly compress most data. Tile graphics and layouts only need to be decompressed whenever a scene/level/map is loaded. Games aren't doing strea
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by wk_end 3y ago
SNES emulation is extremely accurate at this point - any modern/reasonably competent emulator handles this correctly. Shoutout to Near (RIP) here - they wrote an article on Ars which documents how we've reached this point. https:
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by wk_end 3y ago
Unlike modern chips with cache hierarchies and the like, the 65816 is designed to run in lock step with the memory it’s accessing. A faster CPU would have necessitated faster RAM in the system and faster ROMs on the carts too. Games were ex
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by wk_end 3y ago
Where do the byte counts for the various games come from? The games came on ROM chips that were, as ROM chip are wont to, sized to powers-of-two. For instance, Super Mario World was shipped on a 512kb ROM - where does 346,330 bytes come fro
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by wk_end 3y ago
Even his comments on programming are…questionable. He spent years hyping up Arc, his “hundred-year language”, and in the end it arrived as…Scheme with some shorthands?
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by wk_end 3y ago
Not to disparage spaces like NeoCities, but to quote the great American singer/songwriter David Berman: Punk rock died when the first kid said "Punk's not dead, punk's not dead" That is - these spaces will
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by wk_end 3y ago
Lynch's work tends to operate on dream logic. And that's how dreams often work - there can be coherent ideas - some random, and some related to concerns in the real world - and there can also be just bizarre, insane, inexplicable
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by wk_end 3y ago
From what I've seen, I've more gotten the sense that Lynch doesn't like people asking him what the "correct" interpretation of his work is, which is slightly different than opposing the personal act of interpretat
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by wk_end 3y ago
I love old video games. When I was still living in Seattle, I thought it'd be fun to join a local retro game group on Facebook, hoping to maybe connect with people who share my hobby. I very quickly realized that the group was, almost
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by wk_end 3y ago
It's frustrating. Odgers' initial review [0] is clearly inadequate, for all the reasons Haidt outlines in this post: she basically says Haidt has no evidence (simply untrue) and asserts without evidence that youth mental health
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by wk_end 3y ago
"Now" being the operative word. Vala's quite old; when it came out C# barely existed on Linux. I think these days C# is almost definitely the better choice for whatever you might have used Vala for in the past.
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by wk_end 3y ago
There's something intrinsically funny about that word. I think part of it is that it sounds like of like "masturbation", and part of it is that it's so unusually specific - why do we need a word for throwing someone ou
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by wk_end 3y ago
Not to discredit the brilliance of Woz, but - in this case I don't think so. I'm not sure if it was the first BASIC-loaded micro but the PET predated the Apple II by several months and had BASIC on ROM. The Apple I's BASIC wa
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by wk_end 3y ago
Is that ROM available elsewhere online? If so, most emulators simply say, "You need this ROM, you should dump it yourself iff you have the legal right to; the md5 is blahblahblah, definitely don't type that into google" and l
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by wk_end 3y ago
> The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with. [emphasis mine] > Though it seemed completely
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by wk_end 3y ago
This is pretty cool. In FP there's a pattern called "functional core, imperative shell" [0]; here, you can build your "functional core" in Haskell and your imperative shell in a language which - depending on your pr

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