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by mailslot 6y ago
Intel also blatantly stole patented technology from DEC. The Pentium onward, IIRC, ripped off entire designs. When Compaq eventually acquired DEC, they cancelled all of the lawsuits and gave Intel complete access to DEC’s patents. They also
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by mailslot 6y ago
I’m imagining that without ownership, car companies would begin to operate like the worst American companies. You’d have super complex mileage caps. Per-minute surcharges for peak & late night hours. Early subscription termination fees.
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by mailslot 6y ago
It’ll all be wasted. When gasoline prices plummet, everyone buys 8mpg SUVs. If power & performance gets cheaper, it’ll be wasted. Blockchain in your refrigerator.
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by mailslot 6y ago
I use my own secular simplified technique inspired by Tibetan dream yoga and wake induced lucid dreaming (WILD). It’s as “simple” as learning to remain aware and observant when falling asleep, without rousing oneself. No deity worship or ch
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by mailslot 6y ago
I’m able to consciously enter dreams from waking state. Basically, lucid dreaming on hard mode. Like going through sleep paralysis on purpose. Dreams are so close to waking state, I’m always in awe when I successfully transition. Touch, tas
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by mailslot 6y ago
Yay. They are near to officially demanding more RAM.
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by mailslot 6y ago
As a former Windows developer, I am thankful that I never have to touch COM ever again.
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by mailslot 6y ago
JavaScript binaries ?
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by mailslot 6y ago
It worked well on PowerPC too and helped with the Intel transition.
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by mailslot 6y ago
As a developer, a huge reason I don’t mind walled gardens is the massive reduction in piracy. I’m glad people want to download & pirate the apps I poured blood, sweat, and tears into... but I’m not down with theft. Each dollar I earn
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by mailslot 6y ago
Sleep paralysis is a state right on the edge of a dream. If you desire & expect a unicorn to poop rainbow ice cream on your chest, it’ll happen (with not very much practice either). If you get scared and start thinking about aliens or d
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by mailslot 6y ago
What’s a dirty environment? One that a dev doesn’t clean up? Makes a mess like a filthy hoarder?
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by mailslot 6y ago
Eh. Worked for a big CDN. Using containers would have decimated profits. There IS overhead. At scale, you feel it. But for dev? Yeah. Linux on Linux is less impactful if you’re building something simple like a blog.
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by mailslot 6y ago
Yep. macOS for what I mentioned :) ... but latency is still an issue regardless. It’s why there’s a premium to go bare metal with cloud providers.
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by mailslot 6y ago
I prefer chef locally, but that totally works!
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by mailslot 6y ago
It’s been rare, but this has definitely been a problem: “Why do I need an ENV var, the path is always /app?” And then not supporting symlinks... ugh.
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by mailslot 6y ago
Yes. They were. :)
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by mailslot 6y ago
Opposite side of this. Back in the day there was this company called Silicon Graphics (SGI). They had this API called GL, it’s what you know as OpenGL. Software was written for their workstations that ran their UNIX OS IRIX. This is where M
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by mailslot 6y ago
So much this.
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by mailslot 6y ago
I’ve worked with a few developers that have been adamant about developing inside of containers. What I’ve noticed: Terrible performance. One of my engineers recently thought that 150ms was terrific for a HTTP request. Break out of the conta
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by mailslot 6y ago
It’s both. Ruby IS slow. If you ever need to create a tree structure that isn’t available in a natively-compiled Gem, you’ll know what I mean.
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by mailslot 6y ago
Sounds like every other believer of the JVM. I’ve been reading about how Java outperforms C for 20+ years now. When it doesn’t even come close, someone faithful of the JVM insists that I try some new garbage collector or wait for the next r
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by mailslot 7y ago
One of my favorites to take a 24bit PNG and convert it to indexed color... while keeping a full 8bit alpha channel for smooth edges. I don’t think even Gimp or Photoshop can do 8bit alpha channels and indexed color.
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by mailslot 7y ago
I’ve actually started to resort to Bing every now and again. It’s THAT bad. I used to be able to get very specific and find lines in source code, for instance. Well, that probably breaks emoji search or something and is near impossible. It’
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by mailslot 7y ago
Aren’t a lot of top athletes into therapies related to this?
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by mailslot 7y ago
If you look ahead and keep going, you can just not stop.
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by mailslot 7y ago
I used to love opening things from Fry’s and discovering that it was an unmarked return & not the actual product at all. Sometimes: empty box.
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by mailslot 7y ago
As someone that would be disciplined for doing work correctly and getting correct answers, I support this. A handful of teachers would give really bad instructions. Like, commanding everyone how to round numbers incorrectly kind of bad. I c
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by mailslot 7y ago
A slightly different, yet more relevant example: digital music. Microsoft had their “plays for sure” DRM. No one thought Microsoft would get out of the music game. They did. “Plays for sure” no longer works. Does not play.
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by mailslot 7y ago
Tensorflow has a decent C++ layer, just sayin. PyTorch? Dunno. Last I spoke to those ppl, they had a solution too.

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