andywood

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by andywood 4y ago
10 years from now I live in a farming community, most of you have cel phones in your heads and live in panopticon minority-report smart cities pre-policed by AI, many of your relatives live in a bed, and every last one of us believes in God
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by andywood 4y ago
True words.
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by andywood 4y ago
Imagine being so [insert your own term] that a robot is qualified to teach you to communicate better with humans.
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by andywood 4y ago
For me that moment is every time I read anything new about AI. Luddite life!
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by andywood 4y ago
Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088681
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by andywood 4y ago
Exactly. If your entire right hemisphere is permanently shut down from making computers the core of your identity, these are exactly the same thing.
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by andywood 4y ago
I think you mean that the only thing that's changed is that information that was tightly controlled by governments via a small but powerful set of mainstream media channels to advance the notion of an open society that played by a tigh
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by andywood 4y ago
You think? Just read all the ones in black: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell But as so many even here keep repeating so idiotically, "We live in a society. We live in a society. We live in a society...&
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by andywood 4y ago
I'm not as fond of the redesign that took place sometime in the last decade or so, but I remember the old (circa 2000) Win32 docs as good examples of great documentation. For the worst ever in all of human history, I submit the officia
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by andywood 4y ago
IMO this is a normal way to feel about it. I'm american and while I'm not shedding tears, I do feel the significance. I'd have immense respect for her even if it were only for fulfilling one large role, honorably and consiste
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by andywood 4y ago
Kiwi Farms has a thread on Taylor Lorenz from WaPo, because of certain erratic behavior. Taylor got her own dirt removed from the internet archive. Taylor has been helping Clara go after Kiwi Farms. Taylor's uncle is Roger MacDonald, f
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by andywood 4y ago
Another fun fact: Taylor's uncle is Roger Macdonald, apparently a fairly prominent operator within the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/roger-macdonald-tv-archive https://dicktracyonline.su
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by andywood 4y ago
Tell it to somebody who's already subscribed to that whole delusional ideology. Such as every other user in this thread.
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by andywood 4y ago
Still really unclear what law is being broken in that case. Unless you're proposing new speech-curtailing legislation. They're Intenet-famous. They're of interest to forever-onlines. This one in particular is of interest to w
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by andywood 4y ago
I don't want that to be a quasi-unilateral judgement. Also, one question. Suppose we do change the laws, and Kiwi Farms continues to operate within those new laws. Will that be enough, do you think? Because the US would have to outlaw
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by andywood 4y ago
I have the same information, unless CF pays someone to lurk the Farms more than I do. Unlikely. This is a pretext plain and simple. Prince is full of it. There was one fedpost and it was taken down. It happens. There's no machine learn
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by andywood 4y ago
Lifetime of depression and multiple suicide attempts as well. If I ever do it, it'll be because I suffered my whole life, not because of the most recent thing that happened the week before.
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by andywood 4y ago
He's been taken to court around 7 times. It's almost as if he didn't break the law, and people just think he must of because it be so nasty!
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by andywood 4y ago
Of course not. It wasn't an actual threat, though it sounded like one. The mods handled it as soon as they became aware.
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by andywood 4y ago
> what kiwifarms has been doing to "free speech" What? Testing it? To make sure we can actually exercise it in practice? Because "be careful how you use it or you might ruin it for everyone" wasn't ever how the 1
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by andywood 4y ago
"the threat" Ever think the feds have half a brain among them, and know there's no threat? I know how gullible people are in these culture-warish times, but I still hope you've lost credibility with some significant frac
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by andywood 8y ago
I prefer not to distinguish weekends from weekdays. So every day is a mix of work, hobbies, and play.
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by andywood 8y ago
I can't remember how the flyouts worked. They might have shared a window, or they might not have been HTML windows (but I think they were). What I know for sure is that the one main dropdown was IE.
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by andywood 8y ago
Here's a late version of Encarta. https://goo.gl/6uX4Qu Do you see that plain-looking dropdown menu with the rounded orange highlights? That is Internet Explorer. Just this one menu. It's an in-process instance of
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by andywood 9y ago
I made a game that has this design principle. The UI is all point-click and a few icons. But it presents things like: what you can do to the object in front of you, with the item in your hand. What you can do with items you have on hand .
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by andywood 9y ago
Oh my god. It's astounding what becomes possible as we move further into this era when most digital activity gets archived for future mashups and other archaeology. Here, I released this in 1996: https://archive.org/det
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by andywood 9y ago
The existence of a BigCo is stable, but a job there isn't always. Between up-or-out, re-orgs, RIFs, defrags - you just might find yourself effectively reapplying for your own job on a yearly basis.
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by andywood 9y ago
Aha! I had not thought to look for such a hook. Are they common? This is very close to what I'm looking for, thank you. Then, to toggle, I guess I would automate closing and reopening the file. Edit: Oops. Now I'm thinking this wo
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Ask HN: Are there any IDEs or editors that support editable views of code/text?
8 points by andywood 9y ago|4 comments
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by andywood 9y ago
https://gaiaeternal.itch.io/domino-playground I personally guarantee that this is the highest-quality PC game about making binary logic circuits with dominos in existence.

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