lordfrito

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by lordfrito 22d ago
> No one who matters care about HN anymore compared to 5 years ago, and those who are left are basically using it for the same reason a smoker continues to smoke despite feeling indifferent. Any idea where they've moved on to? Askin
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by lordfrito 1mo ago
Wow the ModRetro units are really polished... Look great with more than a nod to the original system designs. Anyone know what Nintendo's stance is on the companies making these kind of "brand inspired" retro products?
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by lordfrito 2mo ago
> their mods often seem directed to inflicting their cars on everyone else Flies in the face of all the talk about consent. I did not consent to this...
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by lordfrito 3mo ago
The number of people here defending AI cheating as an alternative/clever form of "learning" is eye-opening. Also the people saying it's not the students fault they cheated, it's the systems fault. All I know is I wo
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by lordfrito 3mo ago
Regarding shaming: A new strategy I've noticed recently is that my organization randomly deploys emails from time to time that are basically "fake" hacking/phishing attempts. Sometimes it's a PDF link, or a request
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by lordfrito 3mo ago
I'm a fan of separating the trusted compute levels for commercial and non-commercial uses/sides of the internet. I think we have to move in this direction. As it stands today, doing business on ebay/craigslist/etc isn&#
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by lordfrito 3mo ago
1985: Austrian rock singer Falco records Rock Me Amadeus!
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by lordfrito 3mo ago
> I think it is fair to argue that basic libraries don't support trig on common fixed point sizes. Its not that hard to roll your own support for fixed point trig. CORDIC is your friend. Easy to understand and easy to implement. Plu
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by lordfrito 4mo ago
I use the term "programmable people" for people like this, in that they believe what the screen tells them to believe and they do what the screen tells them to do. It bothers me that it won't be long before these programmabl
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by lordfrito 4mo ago
This is like maximum 80's cringe... I say that as a child of the 80's... I'm half tempted to cut this up and try and build some sort of vaporwave track. Seems tailor made for vaporwave.
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by lordfrito 4mo ago
This is awesome! Thanks it made my day!
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by lordfrito 4mo ago
Watching it from time to time over the years I've noticed all the little 2001 A Space Odyssey references. The Dark Star universe is some sort of "low budget" version of the 2001 universe. By low budget I mean janky. Many th
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by lordfrito 4mo ago
> I dont know why people would want to be in a community where they arent wanted. This is standard predatory behavior. Child abusers hanging out with kids, weirdos hanging out near the women's clothing department, etc. It's usu
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by lordfrito 5mo ago
From my point of view I don't see anything wrong with knowing a little bit more about the person behind the app I'm trusting to do my personal compute on my personal device. Personally I always think twice when I download apps fr
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by lordfrito 6mo ago
It's not illegal to do business with whom you want to (freedom of association etc)... but if my business provides you with tools to systematically avoid a protected class (say, black businesses) then my business might not be legal.
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by lordfrito 6mo ago
Interesting, the Wikipedia article has this to say Mere customer satisfaction, or lack thereof, is not enough to justify a BFOQ defense, as noted in the cases Diaz v. Pan Am. World Airways, Inc. and Wilson v. Southwest Airlines Co. Therefo
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by lordfrito 6mo ago
Law is in flux.. Employee or contractor, it's basically not settled law yet.
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by lordfrito 6mo ago
Sex is a protected class under Title VII of the civil rights act. And the supreme court recently said that even majority classes (men) are protected by this. Since Uber involved in the decision to send more business to female drivers than m
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by lordfrito 6mo ago
> I've always been fascinated by nostalgia. It is such universal source of both positive and negative feelings for people. I read somewhere that nostalgia is just bitterness towards the present. It's an emotional trap and best
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Is this true? My understanding is that for extremely large black holes the tidal forces are negligible near the event horizon. So things should function pretty much the same other than you can't move in reverse and get out. If two rock
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by lordfrito 1y ago
From a product standpoint, we're beginning to look at lot more like Europe did to us in the last few decades. The EU couldn't manufacture a cheap consumer item no matter how hard it tried and no matter how much the EU subsidized t
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by lordfrito 1y ago
I'd definitely buy one! Back in around 2007 I went to the Chevy dealer and said "What's the cheapest car you got" and he said you want a Cavalier... I got it with air conditioning and an automatic for around $12k. It was
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Thank you for the link. Amazing article, and 29 years old at that.
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Sam Altman complaining about mercenary behavior from competitors... Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Guess he's unhappy he's not the one being mercenary in this situation.
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by lordfrito 1y ago
In many ways Chris is ending things just as his dream is about to come to fruition. His vision was just 40 years ahead of the technology. If only he could stay engaged another 10 years. The best times are ahead of us
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by lordfrito 1y ago
I love this. Thank you.
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by lordfrito 1y ago
This doesn't surprise me. Here's my hot take, having worked building these kinds of ecosystems in automotive and related industries (RV), and also working with German automotive/caravan companies in those spaces. 1) They don&
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by lordfrito 1y ago
Isn't that a bit like asking if computing is mostly ones or mostly zeroes? It's the relationship between order and chaos that matters. Everything interesting always happens on the boundary between the two.
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by lordfrito 1y ago
> To be clear- if you support what's happening here: you are a bad person . i genuinely hate you. This is the kind of political reductionism I was referring to. It's not OK to "genuinely hate" a person (or group of p
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by lordfrito 1y ago
> Politics aside, LA just can't seem to catch a break. Floods last year, fires earlier this year and now this. Reminds me of the old joke about California's 4 seasons: Earthquake, fire, riots, and drought.

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