fatneckbeard

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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
thats legendary amount of kludgery. one thing that was fun about bare metal that we dont get nowdays (and we coudlnt with all the viruses and ransomware)
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
CGA font were never re-programmable, Hercules (after a certain version) were.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
Here is the problem people are having with this Maggie Appleton on this blog literally says "Yancey Strickler's companion idea of the Dark Forest theory of the web". I have a Dark Forest Theory of Hacker News. If I stay out o
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
Yeah I worry about this. There was no "C leadership", it was simple enough that dozens of people created their own compilers within a few years of C existing. this was back before the internet. they had companies sprouting up like
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
or whether it identifies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism#Epist...
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
why does it feel like every tech website turns into an amateur humanities and economics discussion group?
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
"and not already in the sequence" --> bound to be weirdness in that.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
interesting because in my experience Chat GPT has severe problems "understanding" OEIS so i wonder if it could solve the problems the way you did?
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
if only they had rebranded as an AI non-profit, they could have gotten away with all the enabling of copyvio they ever dreamed of.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
I get it now. It's just like some grocery stores used to operate. They purposely moved stuff around so people have to wander in order to find things. Or they put common items far away so people have to interact with other stuff. Theory
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
i used to imagine similar opportunities with google books. but they have done basically nothing with it. and that's been like 20 years. if anyone could have disrupted the corrupt and unfair academic publishing world, it was Google. the
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
sounds kind of like Toyota Production System
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
maybe its because the article yesterday, 80% of jobs are gotten through networking, and if the rest are from leetcode interviews.. you kind of have decided to select against diversity.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
fortunately the employers are now tracking like everything we click on and every time we move a mouse, every key we type, every second we are logged on... also every single IM/teams chat we send and receive, every phone call we make..
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
my point is not even that. my point is if you pick a time-slider window of 150 years, Europeans have started two world wars. Sweden collaborated with Nazis and i wonder how much violence resulted from that.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
yes thats basically, going along the lines of the Chartalist / Modern Monetary Theory view of money, and combining it with the Petrodollar theory of money. sorry - edit - tried to keep this short, keep messing up. Theres a lot of deep
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
i too have been told for 50+ years the National Debt will bury us. Often by people like Ross Perot Now that i actually have savings, i load on up T-bills paying 5 percent, and Ibonds paying like 6 or 7, now im thinking "God i love the
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
why do i feel like the whole Certificate thing is a gaping hole that has gone mostly ignored ? am i just paranoid?
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
HN prob full of people who make their living off smartphones reminds me of Oil / coil industry people who dont want to talk abt climate change never easy to come to terms with your life work has to change or stop.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
if they went back before 1973... you know, say, 1939... might have some different statistics about who is responsible for violence in Sweden.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
yup. its hard to describe what it was like back then. i was young and the idea that this hobby open source internet thing i had been interested in for a few years, had become mainstream, with Linus on the cover of Forbes, was mindblowing.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
It's funny how if you are a major corporation with fat government contracts you can systematically destroy your engineering department, ostracize whistleblowers, and wind up killing hundreds of people and nobody gets punished and the
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
amazing
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
dealing with the same thing in rust, you can't use float in a lot of equality places where you can use ints, and they are moving to change match so you can't use floats in patterns there either.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
im pretty sure one of the main reasons systems thinking is unpopular is because Robert McNamara applied it to the Vietnam War and it didn't work.
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
dos.exe was kind of referring to how a lot of games would just completely ignore DOS even before the days of protected mode and 32 bits, im going back to the 8088 days. but yeah same idea. actually now that i remember it, my first linux was
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
why i like arduino. why i kind of like old IBM PC environment. x86 + a few bios calls, dont even need DOS after you load game.exe
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
when the did anyone start expecting a hamburger menu? all these old websites i used to poke clearly labeled buttons on all of a sudden have three lines one year. its like all these web3 node js assholes took over the planet within an 18 mon
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
it's like if we had the same TV show every night for our whole life, i think we would start to notice some patterns
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by fatneckbeard 3y ago
its kind of rhetorical question. imagine if TD produced a payment card that worked like a debit card. . . . wouldnt that be a whole lot like a cbdc?

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