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by scroot 15d ago
"giving up" in this case would be to stay the course, to ignore one's own considered ethical obligations.
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by scroot 15d ago
Who could have seen this coming?
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by scroot 22d ago
It's pretty much the best "devil" character in any movie I've ever seen. Perfectly executed
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by scroot 2mo ago
> I genuinely do wonder why that has been the trajectory. The simple answer here is still likely the best one: Smalltalk and Lisp Machine systems were expensive and proprietary right at the same time that Unix and C became free (and ther
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by scroot 4mo ago
Man, I would love an up to date version of Cyberdog!
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by scroot 6mo ago
This comes on the heels of the AHA and other parties in the suit against the government posting the video depositions of some of the DOGE people to youtube [1], which are fascinating to watch. Justin Fox not being able to say what DEI is re
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by scroot 6mo ago
I didn't mean "like hypercard" so literally in this manner. What I meant was, a computing environment that seems to blend seamlessly into the wider operating system, and that is able to sufficiently blur the line between end
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by scroot 6mo ago
I knew I could get Don Hopkins to show up!
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by scroot 6mo ago
Imagine if computing had continued down the path laid by systems like HyperCard
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by scroot 7mo ago
It's the "no stopping it at this point" that always sticks out to me in these discussions. Why is there no stopping it, exactly? At this juncture these systems require massive physical infrastructure and loads of energy. It&#
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by scroot 8mo ago
These posts claiming that "we will review the output" etc., and that claim software engineers will still need to apply their expertise and wisdom to generated outputs, never seem to think this all the way through. Those who write
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From Airbnb to the White House: Joe Gebbia Is Reshaping Government(fastcompany.com)
1 points by scroot 8mo ago|1 comments
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by scroot 9mo ago
> treating the economic world as a gross external thing Well, a _specific_ kind of economic world in this case. Is it not a matter of fact that big tech companies largely guide how computing is used a developed, and that they are beholde
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by scroot 9mo ago
I would be _very_ surprised if any 18Fers were a part of the "national design studio." It is, at the very least, Doge affiliated, and Doge is who killed 18F.
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by scroot 9mo ago
For those of us in civic tech, this is a higher priority. At the federal level especially, there are laws on the books about website accessibility compliance -- even if, at present, the powers that be are ignoring them. I have found the Web
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by scroot 10mo ago
As an elder millennial, I just don't know what to say. That a once in a generation allocation of capital should go towards...whatever this all will be, is certainly tragic given current state of the world and its problems. Can't h
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by scroot 11mo ago
Thanks for posting, I hadn't even heard of this
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by scroot 11mo ago
Whenever I'm using Guix I enjoy the simplicity of Shepherd [1] [1] https://shepherding.services/manual/html_node/Introduction.h...
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by scroot 11mo ago
The writing system is not syllabic. It uses ideograms, logograms, and yes syllables all together. It's also not one singular "writing system," as the set of symbols varied and changed in the context it was used (language or r
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by scroot 1y ago
All the glamour seems nice until you're in a country of continental expanse, with territories from the pacific islands to the caribbean, and with equal citizens living in areas with low-bandwidth internet access.
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by scroot 1y ago
The guides have been archived on the "18F in exile" site for continued reliable public access [0][1] [0] https://guides.18f.org/ [1] https://18f.org
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by scroot 1y ago
It's not an improvement.
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by scroot 1y ago
Oof, take a look under the hood. Definitely vibecoded. [0] https://bsky.app/profile/waldo.net/post/3lx6sfupkbk2o
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by scroot 1y ago
When I was about 12 or 13, I was hanging out in my local Egghead so much playing Rebel Assault on the demo machine that the guy who worked there gave me a free mousepad just to leave the store.
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by scroot 1y ago
Sure. Doesn't affect what I said.
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by scroot 1y ago
These guys are going to spend 6 months and millions of dollars slowly discovering that USWDS exists
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Open source effort to implement HR 1 Medicaid requirements(navapbc.com)
2 points by scroot 1y ago|0 comments
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by scroot 1y ago
I recommend Havelock's Preface to Plato and Walter Ong's Orality and Literacy
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by scroot 1y ago
To add: one of the main arguments in Gordon's tome is that many if the most impactful innovations dealt with "networking the house" (gas, electricity, plumbing, and communications) and could _only happen once_. It's actu
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by scroot 1y ago
> Even if all the countries in the world agree to ban AI, its not based on something with actual scarcity (like purified uranium, or gold) so someone somewhere will keep moving this tech forward... However, this is the crux of the matter

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