1n3nt0r

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by 1n3nt0r 2y ago
It should be noted that in spite of the devastation of Tokyo in WW2, many parts of Tokyo retained the pre-war system of neighborhoods and streets, where streets might often not be straight, or start and terminate abruptly within the boundar
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by 1n3nt0r 2y ago
Sadly my first exposure to programming was in FORTRAN on a mainframe (when I took a summer course at a college in 8th grade). I could not initially make heads or tails out of fortran or the imperative approach, but I knew it was magical.
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by 1n3nt0r 2y ago
One of the impediments to BBS'ing was the extraordinarily high cost of connection. Luckily I go early access to arpanet, uucp, and bitnet as a middle school and high school student in the 80s. AT&T phone rates were outrageously hi
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by 1n3nt0r 3y ago
Certainly accounting scandals are bad. I am sure there are shenanigans being done by quite a few Japanese companies. That said, activist investors, the root cause, are a plague. Generally they want to boost short term profit at the expens
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by 1n3nt0r 3y ago
hard drives, memory & other silicon, batteries, a wide range of consumer appliances, and industrial equipment.
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by 1n3nt0r 3y ago
We do need people out there willing to take risks in research. Many of his claims may not be correct, however some findings may be made or may stimulate productive directions. The problem with this work is with the messenger. His massive e
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by 1n3nt0r 3y ago
Let's not forget that the JVM still does not have reasonable generics & value types. The .NET CLR introduced this in 2005, bettering the JVM. Java was in a sleepy slow release mode back then. We've been waiting 18 years fo
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by 1n3nt0r 3y ago
I've used C++ from its inception (when it was cfront C++ -> C translator) to modern C++, not to mention many other languages over the years. Totally agree with the author that C++ manages to accumulate many bad decisions over time,
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by 1n3nt0r 3y ago
Nice to hear mention of RBK Dewar. He was well known in the programming languages field as a professor at NYU, but also was quite successful as an entrepreneur with his various compilers (I think his company was called "Realia")
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by 1n3nt0r 4y ago
If we have a mix of human drivers and AI assisted drivers on the road, nothing short of AGI is going to be sufficient. Aspects of driving involve theory of mind - anticipating what another driver might do, sometime eye contact, etc. An alt
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by 1n3nt0r 4y ago
Exactly right. Google is the largest advertising company on the planet, everything else is secondary to their profitability. Search became the means by which they deliver ads, so how do you integrate that into a ChatBot type response. The