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by sblom 7mo ago
It's not outside Jason Rohrer's style for this to be... guided output, but it's also not outside his style for this to be the creepiest fully autonomous bot I've ever seen.
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by sblom 8mo ago
That's a great idea. It's also what Tally does.
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by sblom 9mo ago
I love the aesthetics. The cryptographic strength tradeoffs (against UUIDv7) seem rough for a lot of applications, though.
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by sblom 11mo ago
Both technologies (cryptocurrency and nostr) are very cipherpunk—I'm not particularly surprised that they draw overlapping crowds. Another take on decentralized source control with more of an emphasis on "federated" and less
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by sblom 1y ago
I really love Rob Mensching's framing in Open Source Maintenance Fee[1]. "The _software_ is free. The _project_ (issue tracker, forums, release management, package repository, etc.) is not." It doesn't solve the supplier
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by sblom 2y ago
They have three other approaches that they're considering as well. (Check the About page on TFA.)
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by sblom 2y ago
In all three cases, they own hardware (Apple in a slightly different sense) that they'd love for you to pay to run your favorite models on, open or closed.
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by sblom 3y ago
A game like Rogue. Slightly less obtusely, it usually was a procedurally generated dungeon-crawler with potions and scrolls and varied weapons to use against varied mobs. When you died, you were dead. Your character began each time with no
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by sblom 3y ago
Pizza Hutt is Jabba The's cousin. Pizza Hut is the restaurant chain to which you refer.
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by sblom 3y ago
I'm sure MySpace thought the same thing about their never-before-seen accomplishments. I suspect very few people knew what "something else" was in that case, either.
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by sblom 4y ago
ChatGPT's threat to Google isn't that Google can't match it--it's that it changes the approach to search results from displaying lists of results where it's "natural" to insert sponsored listings to a more
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by sblom 4y ago
This has caused me to realize that I need to replace my old model of vi: > command mode has primacy; insert mode is a time-bounded special case with: > insert mode is every other mundane editor; use the Esc key to enter the matrix (i.
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by sblom 4y ago
By definition, each program only produces the digits of one number. It's okay for more than one program to produce the same number. Am I misunderstanding your point?
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by sblom 4y ago
I _do_ work at Microsoft, and judging by the recent crop of promotions (early September) there was still plenty of opportunity for white males (and everyone else).
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by sblom 4y ago
(That was the joke.)
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by sblom 4y ago
I think the TLA you were looking for is TRA?
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by sblom 4y ago
Is this a totally different thing than Dr. Fill [1]? [1]: https://slate.com/technology/2021/04/american-crossword-puzz...
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by sblom 4y ago
Stephen Wolfram has really grown on me over the last 10 years or so. He came across as obnoxiously arrogant for the longest time (so much that I still (defensibly) refer to "A New Kind of Science" as "Stephen Wolfram is a MF&
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by sblom 4y ago
As terrible as rescinding offers is, offering severance and job placement assistance is a very interesting approach to minimizing how terrible.
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by sblom 4y ago
VS Code, while not a fully-fledged IDE, is really good at suggesting code completions across platforms. As others have mentioned, Rider is also a wonderful fully cross-platform IDE (better than Visual Studio at some things).
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by sblom 4y ago
True in every browser I've tried far. I also had two separate blogchain tabs hard-hang and they had to be killed. I'm not sure I'm ready for all of this mindboggling innovation in UX. :)
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by sblom 4y ago
I have no idea why, but I love alternate number systems (p-adics, surreals, base -2, split-complex, etc.). This one is playful. Anyone know where to find a rigorous maths treatment for it?
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by sblom 4y ago
> Those two things cannot be true simultaneously. You cannot say "running big systems is hard" and "they can run a big system better than you can run a small system". They can absolutely be true simultaneously. In fac
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by sblom 5y ago
This feels like an "it is what it is"-style viral stunt, even though I actually suspect it's a sincere(?) post about reasons for developing without an audience. It's gonna end up with more of an audience now, tho... :eye
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by sblom 5y ago
Go was definitely ahead of the curve on a few things. I'd argue C# was there (or very very close). C# has had value types (and fine-grained memory layout) since the beginning, reified generics since .NET 2.0, and also (lesser-known fac
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by sblom 5y ago
No one insulted Java. Why so defensive? Go and Java make different tradeoffs. If you're unreasonably effective in Java and its tradeoffs work for you, that's completely fine. If you have good tools that make Java more like Go when
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by sblom 5y ago
I struggled for years with a chronic misunderstanding of Go. I kept trying to compare it to the usual suspects in the "next systems language" crowd (D, Rust, Zig). That wasn't quite right. Once I realized that its sweet spot
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by sblom 5y ago
Still being revised in standards committees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL#COBOL_2014
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by sblom 5y ago
Yep. Probably the confusing name change threw him off the scent. What would have been ".NET Core 5" is just ".NET 5", and that's when the bulk of the desktop framework compat came online.
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by sblom 5y ago
Outlook(.com) has "Focused Inbox" which does the same kind of tricks watching which types of content you interact with regularly and only surfacing those until you want to go read your "All Messages" tab. (my recollectio

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