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by dbrower 1y ago
I don’t think anybody thinks or thought it was.
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by dbrower 1y ago
it was a lot simpler in capabilities. much of the complexity is because of feature creep.
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by dbrower 2y ago
How much did the engineering time to make this optimization cost?
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by dbrower 2y ago
Just looked and I'm not seeing ANY 55" 8k around right now. All the ones I'm seeing now are 65" at the smallest, and that seems way too big. I've found a 43" 4k is about the right pixel size for me; a 49&quot
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by dbrower 2y ago
Will it translate to yaml for toolchains that want that? I'd be delighted to have a high-level IDL that gave the same sort of thing that CORBA IDL gave us 25 years ago -- schema and stub generation for multiple languages.
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by dbrower 2y ago
How is that not an API? It’s offloaded the work to an adapter.
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by dbrower 2y ago
Not diversity. Younger cheaper quotas.
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by dbrower 3y ago
I was looking for the chalk v marker on whiteboard shootout, and it was conspicuous in absence.
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by dbrower 3y ago
Ah, an ancestor of Typescript!
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by dbrower 3y ago
So, at his site, 10+ years ago, his wind produced more frequent power than PV would have, at 3x the cost of a commercial solution. Even then, PV would have been more cost-efficient. Now with storage probably even more so. Small wind is a
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by dbrower 3y ago
It doesn't have to be the NULL macro, which is correctly defined as plain 0. The literal 0 is treated specially, so this could indeed be one of those 'turns into a weird bit pattern NULL pointers', if such a thing existed in
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by dbrower 4y ago
Part of it is that by 1986, CP/M was dead for new development of anything, and Modula-2 was also on fumes. It would have been business malpractice to spend money on CP/M products at that point.
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by dbrower 5y ago
1998 was a bit early, but I could easily have imagined it any time after 2000. I'm frankly surprised it has taken this long.
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by dbrower 5y ago
oof
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by dbrower 6y ago
It's not Democrats, it's business owners needing that labor. The Republicans are equally bad in practice, it's their rhetoric that is tougher.
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by dbrower 6y ago
Cool! Windows please. Someone. Anyone.
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by dbrower 6y ago
The Selectric keyboard touch and feel was vastly superior to the best mechanical keyboard you can get today. Truly fabulous. I really wish there had been a terminal or keyboard based on that. I like my UNICOMP clacky, but I'd gladly
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by dbrower 7y ago
This is going to go pretty much like it went for Frank Snepp and "Decent Interval", see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Snepp
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by dbrower 8y ago
A better argument than imputed carbon offset is the oil depletion allowance, which is a pretty explicit subsidy for extraction industries.
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by dbrower 8y ago
Is there a C compiler for it?
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by dbrower 9y ago
Could either of them apply topspin or return it?
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by dbrower 10y ago
A reasonable career trajectory is something like doubling the time at each place until you hit the 8-10 year mark, modulo uncontrollable events, like a place shutting down. When you have someone who's been repeatedly changing employers
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by dbrower 10y ago
I've read the report several times (it keeps coming back every 5-7 years or so) since publication, and I've never felt like a reliable solution had wither been found, or was in the offing. There is good thinking, but the problem
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by dbrower 11y ago
Listen to the "This American Life" about NUMMI, and you'll see that this approach was endemic to GM assembly and it's supply chain for, like, ever. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/epis
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by dbrower 11y ago
Not many of those have professional careers in STEM, law or medicine, the "highly qualified" potential immigrants in question.
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by dbrower 12y ago
I think the article and much of the discussion misses a larger point -- time is hard, and very very hard when there are multiple systems with different clocks. The APIs are the way they are because there just aren't solutions especial
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by dbrower 12y ago
" If your parents spend their lives accumulating a couple million dollars in assets they want to pass onto the children, you should not have to liquidate their entire estate just to give nearly half in taxes the day after they die.&quo
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by dbrower 12y ago
+1. That should always work as an exmaple of "crash only" programming. It's nice to get shutdown working for valgrind, but it should never be necessary.
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by dbrower 12y ago
73.6% of statistics are made up. I had to look that up: http://www.businessinsider.com/736-of-all-statistics-are-mad...
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by dbrower 12y ago
Awful. Instead of throttling Netflix at the backbone level, they'll do it in the local loop. A single, neutral regime is the only viable one that doesn't mess things up. The trick is how to NOT turn title II into a highly regulate

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