oaktowner

7 ms·

1.
by oaktowner 5mo ago
Go to Louisville -- it's all BOURBON.
2.
by oaktowner 5mo ago
The red zone has always been for loading and unloading. There's never stopping in a WHITE zone.
3.
by oaktowner 10mo ago
Perhaps Qwen 2.5 should be known as Dali 2.‽
4.
by oaktowner 1y ago
I'm using the MS suite for the first time in over a decade...and the collaborative aspects are still nowhere near Google's. I routinely get problems when multiple people are editing the same content (Word doc, spreadsheet, or Powe
5.
by oaktowner 1y ago
>>It's the best authoring tool we've ever devised. 100% agreed. Creating a spreadsheet is declarative programming, and Excel (and now Google Sheets) has made more developers than any other platform (probably by an order or t
6.
by oaktowner 1y ago
> If you remove the people born into privilege, from attending your college, all you succeed is in making your college irrelevant, I don't think that the Cal Grants program was ever designed to remove those people from the progra
7.
by oaktowner 2y ago
No! After about 10 years of writing software professionally, I moved over to product management, and my time spent coding decreased drastically (in the last 15 years, only some Python to show my kids a thing or two). But I'd love to tr
8.
by oaktowner 2y ago
I just love his writing so much -- he captures what I felt when I discovered Lisp. As a kid learning programming in the 80s, I had already done some BASIC, Fortran, Pascal and COBOL in high school and early college. There were differences,
9.
by oaktowner 2y ago
A wonderful, wonderful read. An audacious title, but the book absolutely makes good on it.
10.
by oaktowner 2y ago
I love this so much. From 1992-1996 I was in a band in the SF Bay Area. I played the congas, but really I think they just let me do that because I also took on the band's webpage. It was dozens and dozens of pages of hand-coded HTML, u
11.
by oaktowner 2y ago
For demos, I long ago learned to "start with the good part." If you have some fantastic monitoring software, don't start with an intro for how you installed it, how you set up the metrics collection, how you hooked the fron
12.
by oaktowner 2y ago
Whoa! Thanks for the clarification. As a word aficionado, I did not realize the correct form of this one.
13.
by oaktowner 2y ago
I came here to say this -- couldn't agree more. Very positive feelings and this nails it (and adds some stuff, too).
14.
by oaktowner 2y ago
I knew a woman whose last name was Jolie... Her parents named her Très ("très jolie" means very pretty).
15.
by oaktowner 2y ago
This gibes with my experience in college -- I did more calculus in my physics courses than in my calculus courses.
16.
by oaktowner 2y ago
I worked at Google from 2013 to 2020. There were definitely employees (maybe a majority) who assumed that Google would always be the dominant force in technology. Those of us who were a bit older always understood that everything chan
17.
by oaktowner 2y ago
Yeah, kind of a terrible day to publish something like that (through no fault of their own, of course!).
18.
by oaktowner 2y ago
I can't stand it being called "hallucinating" because it anthropomorphizes the technology. This isn't a conciousness that is "seeing" things that don't exist: it's a word generator that is generating
19.
by oaktowner 3y ago
I had to start using the space bar instead of the arrows -- it reinforced in my mind that it was a single-button controller.
20.
by oaktowner 3y ago
I've been fiddling for a few minutes and have successfully moved a bunch of pieces...but also can't figure out for the life of me why some moves aren't allowed.
21.
by oaktowner 3y ago
Kind of fun reading that and not only hearing about Diffie and Hellman, but also learning where the initials RSA came from!
22.
by oaktowner 3y ago
OMG I had forgotten all about the "Turbo" button. Great story, and thanks for the trip down memory lane.
23.
by oaktowner 3y ago
Exactly this. Data has gravity, and this increases the gravity around data stored at Amazon...making it more likely for you to buy more compute/services at Amazon.
24.
by oaktowner 3y ago
I agree with much of this post, but I have to take issue with "it's starting to feel silly." The "you need to upgrade your phone every year" concept has been silly from the outset.
25.
by oaktowner 3y ago
A good friend once described the lottery as "a tax on people with bad math skills" and I don't think I've played since.
26.
by oaktowner 3y ago
OMG had forgotten all about that.
27.
by oaktowner 3y ago
Ugh.
28.
by oaktowner 3y ago
I did find the table comparing its permissions to others in the space...enlightening. My kid bought something from Temu recently and it was ridiculously low-priced. I told him the quality must be terrible...and I was wrong. I was kind of sh
29.
by oaktowner 3y ago
We put one in 15 years ago and use it every single day. Sorry for the commercial link, but https://insinkerator.emerson.com/en-us/insinkerator-products... is an example. It's great to have near-boiling water on de
30.
by oaktowner 3y ago
Yes! Totally agreed.

More ›