memetomancer

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by memetomancer 3y ago
Your comment is almost completely incomprehensible to me, as someone that doesn't work in the Meta context... I take it being an L5 is a good thing? but just six months ago you were an L8, and competition to become an L6 was a coin tos
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by memetomancer 3y ago
Sounds great in theory but I'd suspect that you'd cave pretty soon after your bank adopts this (or whatever essential site/service you aren't considering is captured here).
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by memetomancer 3y ago
I disagree: the device monitors battery fluctuations to 'authenticate' the driver. the fluctuations need to be a specific pattern - delivered either by a device plugged into the 12v accessory port, or by some specific pattern of d
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by memetomancer 3y ago
This is a frustrating yet common sort of take. Yes, this is simple, as the article clearly points out. Yes it is obvious in retrospect. But did you do anything with your brilliant work besides bodge your terrible car a few more miles down t
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by memetomancer 3y ago
the inode is the important thing when all is said and done. It is flexible in that it can contain all the metadata needed to present a file to a process. Sometimes that metadata is a list of blocks in the filesystem. sometimes it points to
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by memetomancer 3y ago
|For example, what combination of shell commands can I use to output the number of files in a directory? Hint: it probably isn't what you think it is, if it's even possible. `find . -type f | wc -l`
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by memetomancer 3y ago
I'm immediately reminded of "Master Foo and the Ten Thousand Lines": http://catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/ten-thousand.html Master Foo once said to a visiting programmer: “There is more Uni
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by memetomancer 3y ago
| worse than anyone who's on it now. Bold claim about a site that is, in the last year or so, pivoted to explicit and quite public encouragement of Nazi/racist viewpoints.
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by memetomancer 3y ago
So... I visited Reddit before coming here and finding the HN thread... Most of the site is rebelling, but I took the time to visit, intending to give them impressions, just to see how they are holding up. And of course they aren't real
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by memetomancer 3y ago
should be able to measure that with the same lasers, I would think.
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by memetomancer 3y ago
I had a look at this paper, and in the citations I see two papers from Jonathan Pruitt! For those unfamiliar, Jonathan Pruitt is a _former_ Professor charged with falsifying massive amounts of data relating to spider behavior. I was under t
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by memetomancer 3y ago
| Namely, the domain experts (navy pilots) I don't think this is accurate - "navy pilots" are domain experts in operation of navy aircraft. What you are maybe getting confused here is that the three examples in the article ar
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by memetomancer 3y ago
FYI, and nothing personal, but your comment is more or less coming across to me as "whelp, the inflexible delegation has spoken". I go to great lengths to maintain a flexible mindset, to try to get the best out of a new approach.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Thank you, I'll be sure to swing by. I specifically worked on MM6-8 in detail, would be glad to chat about the good ol' days.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Nice to see it! I had a pretty big hand in making these suckers, worked at New World Computing during that era... I'm thinking I'd better not elaborate on the particulars or give out any personally identifying information, but may
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by memetomancer 4y ago
(Hey so I apologize if this has been touched on in the main thread, but I didn't spot anything related so starting a new one). We should consider even further: what about consequences of successfully colonizing Mars? I feel it would me
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by memetomancer 4y ago
| Particularly disgusting A phrase particularly lacking in decency, making you a bad actor on this forum. Especially when you are wrong. It takes an elevated sense of self-importance to say that because you don't like a moderate opinio
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Just out of curiosity, can you explain to me what you mean by 'marketing names' in relation to IMEC? I'm not quite convinced you understand what that organization is, what they do, or what they have accomplished.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
I wasn't being condescending, and I am objectively not 'wrong'. I merely urged you to gather information you may not be familiar with. Particularly IMECs roadmap. I will point out that you instantly went into condescending mo
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Perhaps you are unaware of the angstrom scale process nodes on the semiconductor roadmaps? i.e., IMEC, TSMC and Intel all aggressively pursuing "20A" at the moment with an eye toward a new generation of sub-1n production. This isn
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Interesting take. You have casually dismissed the Goldbach Conjecture (perhaps the deepest centuries old problem in number theory) as 'trite, trivial and uninteresting'... Suggesting that you are only minimally familiar with the i
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by memetomancer 4y ago
It is weird hate.
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by memetomancer 4y ago
Positive Feedback: I quit like the tight, minimal look. the variation in key heights and the concave number row keys seem like excellent positioning features. Honestly, I've used so many keyboards in my time that I'd be quite happ
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by memetomancer 4y ago
While looking up a reference image for another comment in this thread, I came across another cool GUI site: https://guidebookgallery.org/guis This seems much more comprehensive, has screenshots of specific UI elements and c
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by memetomancer 4y ago
The KDE 1 task manager looks _very_ similar to the Windows NT 4 task manager (from the mid nineties): https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/winnt40 (scroll down to 'task manager' and click the faint tab co
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by memetomancer 4y ago
minor nit - this is a very poorly named site. A better name might be "the history of workstation and personal computer graphical user interfaces", a very far cry from blanket coverage of all "user interfaces". Even foreg
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by memetomancer 4y ago
> Your conceptual model is way too vague. Same can be said for you? A "Thinkpad" is nowhere near as sophisticated as a human. Your challenge equates to something like "Go put a human pancreas cell in a jungle hut in a bath
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by memetomancer 4y ago
I fail to see your point, really. I'm not sure how your premise of "[trying] to build something like a new hardware device or systems" forces anyone into the app store, or even if it did compel them - say in the instance of t
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by memetomancer 4y ago
I don't buy this for a minute. With all due respect your comment reads as so much noise. Are you rejecting the premise? Then identify the premise and rebut it. Are you citing Wittgenstein or Chompsky, or just name dropping for the borr
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by memetomancer 4y ago
thanks, that is bound to come in handy at some point. AS an aside, this kinda touches on what I mentioned about discoverability - I sorta go out of my way to understand how to get stuff done on these various OSs and this one eluded me. I wa

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