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by cmsonger 2y ago
Paid them for a sample kit. Never used it after I carefully read the ToS and thought about what might happen.
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by cmsonger 2y ago
I'm not sure about the title, which just seems weird. But I think the broad point in the short post is right. Objective-C may look horrible today, but compared to the other choices at the time of its debut; it looked pretty damned good
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by cmsonger 2y ago
100%. This is the nail in the coffin for me with Windows. It's all Mac and Linux from here on out.
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by cmsonger 2y ago
Rest In Peace. I was a pre-teen when I first learned to program on a TRS-80 Model 1. I was, at the time, an expert in BASIC and Z80 assembly. At the same time I was asking my parents for quarters to play space invaders. And that's wher
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by cmsonger 3y ago
So far it has not broken the binding but then I didn't buy it as a collectors piece and if it does break the binding, that's OK with me. Not deriding book collecting. :) I've been there. I've just decided on this one tha
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by cmsonger 3y ago
The form factor is huge! In my case it works really well because I can read it standing up while looking down at the huge book. But that's a great edition to put out!
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by cmsonger 3y ago
One of the smartest things I've done in recent years is to buy the complete Calvin and Hobbes and put it prominently on a table that I walk by daily. I turn a page a day... In the morning before I get coffee usually, though it's o
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by cmsonger 3y ago
My sentiment exactly mirrors yours. I own a 2017 S100D. It has turn signal stalks, and wiper stalks, and has been (and is) a good car. My only complaint is that I hate the HVAC being on touch screen. New Tesla's are literally worse to
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by cmsonger 3y ago
I'm not sure: "I drove with the radio blaring so I could not hear the siren" is something to brag about. More sensors == better. And the fact that LiDAR costs have come down two orders of magnitude since Tesla made this decis
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by cmsonger 3y ago
Indeed! I suppose I actually meant f(number of reports) because I didn't actually think the scaling through. The broader points remain: This is true everywhere and not unique to Google. People get a choice whether or not they opt in.
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by cmsonger 3y ago
> One of the primary metrics for leadership success at Google is how many people you have under you. I mean ... you get to choose how you play the game. If your goal is money and you are a manager then in any organization (not just Goo
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by cmsonger 3y ago
Ale8! I post because there is something glorious about an outlier in a consumer space that is largely homogenous. I will look for some RC cola because you posted this!
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by cmsonger 3y ago
The author is playing a semantic game. I don't think the author's point is that "C is not a good language for systems programming." You are not going to have an equivalent to volatile int *dma_register = SCATTER_GATHER_B
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by cmsonger 3y ago
I gotta admit, I like lightbulbs that are just lightbulbs.
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by cmsonger 3y ago
Thanks for posting this. This was really interesting and I learned a lot.
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by cmsonger 3y ago
I wonder what it would cost to make / sell.
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by cmsonger 3y ago
I am agreeing and adding another solution. The other solution is political. There's a reason that governments regulate and define economic rules of the road. This is a good example of where governments need to step in. The link between
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by cmsonger 3y ago
Came to say just this. There's no profit sharing here. Mods don't get a cut of any proceeds off the traffic their communities generate. "Landed gentry" is exactly the wrong phrase. The CEO is the landed gentry. The mods
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by cmsonger 3y ago
Ha! Great link. I legitimately think it's possible that a properly managed "for the profit of the investors" social media company will always follow this path. It's why I think the right future for social media is non-pr
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by cmsonger 3y ago
"untethered" is right for me. I'm backing the effort by not even landing on reddit. And it's odd. I have found reddit to be helpful over the (now many) years. I'm coming to the conclusion that capitalism destroys so
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by cmsonger 3y ago
I'm coming to the conclusion that capitalism kills all interesting social media for me. The founders build something. It's pretty good. I engage. They decide they need to make more money. They make a change that I find annoying or
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by cmsonger 3y ago
They are going to make me have a second computer. One for gaming. One more browsing. I'll just never open anything but Steam on my windows computer. Given how small and cheap Linux boxes can be, I guess I'll get on this pronto.
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by cmsonger 3y ago
Except that it's going to be robot police. What in the current world order suggests labor wins. Who controls LLMs? Who has the compute to produce AGI?
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by cmsonger 4y ago
As a Purdue grad who spent a decade in Silicon Valley and who currently works remote for a FAANG in a state adjacent to yours: Didn't go to the coast for the big starting salary. Went for the interesting job, the flexibility to move to
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I seriously hope that the people asking the government for a bailout revisit their past policy positions and offer the same empathy to others going forward that they are asking for themselves right now.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
This sucks. I was doing exactly this yesterday and fortunately figured it out before sending money that I could not do the booking. Instead I told the people I wanted to stay close to me "book it and I'll send you the money."
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by cmsonger 4y ago
Owned a NeXT Cube (and later color station) back in the day. Mathematica came free. Was glorious, perhaps even more so back then. OTOH, I'm sure it did a lot less. OTOH, the baseline was so much lower.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I think this is what's going on too. Easy way to have folks self select out.
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by cmsonger 4y ago
I think the WARN act (here in the US) is site based. They don't need employees to be encouraged. If they want to tell people: "Get to a site or don't have a job", they can do that already. (I think, I am not a lawyer.)
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by cmsonger 4y ago
In my case "50s is 'too early to join social media'". So right there with you. :) (Though to be honest, joined back in the 00's then left in the early 2010s.)

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