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by subtextminer 3mo ago
1/3 isn't that bad in the late 80s/early 90s at the UT Austin CS department. Only ~30% graduated at the time. The orientation was literally "look to your left and looked to your right only one of you will graduate.&qu
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by subtextminer 5mo ago
You can definitely say that ego was the fountainhead of progress for him!
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by subtextminer 6mo ago
I live in Austin. In the 1980s, there was a building boom that collapsed. Austin had 23%(!) apartment vacancy in 1990 after a collapse that started in 1985. It wasn't until about 1993 that prices returned to 1985 nominal values. At the
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by subtextminer 1y ago
The Proton CEO is not "backing Trump and Vance." He wrote something positive about a narrow policy Trump supported that's favorable to little tech over big tech. That's it. It's certainly possible that someone y
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by subtextminer 1y ago
Related: when UT Austin computer science dropped Haskell for Java for it's first course in 2001. Dijkstra on Haskell and Java https://chrisdone.com/posts/dijkstra-haskell-java/ "A fundamental reason for
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by subtextminer 2y ago
Enterprise Linux was getting going for real in the late 1990s but in my view it was more 2005-ish that it became "mainstream" in these sphere. Sun Computer for example started to support Linux in 2006 and was a Hail Mary to try to
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by subtextminer 2y ago
Any views or experiences evaluating OpenStack instead of one of the big ones AWS/Azure/GCP? OpenStack has a bad rep due to added complexity and limited developer tools that may lead to ultimately higher TCO but I wonder if this si
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by subtextminer 2y ago
The biggest problem with housing the USA is largely local zoning that artificially limits what can be built. Cities that have minimal zoning such as Houston, Texas have rents that have closely followed inflation only. In Houston there is
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by subtextminer 3y ago
Yet another reason to move to Debian. While in many ways not comparable to what's happened with Redhat, with Suse turning to the dark side one wonders how much longer Canonical will last before doing something similar. Make no doubt ab
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by subtextminer 3y ago
Yo, Larry needs a new yacht.
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by subtextminer 4y ago
They (1-3) do not exist but they are psychically real- they are genuine illusions, as instantiated in the dynamic, split-second successive whiffs emerging from the processing of neurons. To think that they (1-3) "exist" in a class