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by systemBuilder 4mo ago
Strangely, estrogen bathes the male brain in the womb to remove connections and make it masculine. To think of it as "the female hormone" is to misunderstand physiology.
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by systemBuilder 4mo ago
She changed the ending of Star Wars IV : A New Hope. She decided that Han Solo should return to save Luke at the last minute when Darth Vader was closing in for the kill. This absolutely MADE THE MOVIE end wonderfully, and made Harrison Fo
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by systemBuilder 4mo ago
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by systemBuilder 7mo ago
Google now wants $30,000 a month for customsearch (minimum charge), up from 1c per search or thereabouts in January 2026...
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by systemBuilder 9mo ago
This article is about FAFO for MAGA loyalists in the USA. Well, MAGA has FA'd with US-European relations. Now they get to FO where it takes us (i.e. over the waterfall, isolating the USA from everything good in the world.)
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by systemBuilder 9mo ago
$3 a day, $100/mo to run your own github actions (which is a programming language based atop json ... sheesh). Ugh!!
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
Dijkstra was silly because everybody knows that Computer Science is the parent field of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of all O(1) algorithms. Computer Science is all other algorithms!
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
OMG you lived my dream. In 1976 I was 14 years old and started programming for the first time on the PLATO SYSTEM (university of illinois), the first computer with plasma screens, 1000 terminals, SOCIAL NETWORKS, MICROSOFT FLIGHT SIMULATOR
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
In high school (late 1970s) I inherited (from my deceased father), a white book with red/yellow titling as "The Basic Programming Language" (the lettering on the front appeared to be in IBM check-writing font). In the append
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
Red States are the biggest leaches off the federal government. Out of the top-10 states that take in more subsidies than they pay out in taxes, only 2 are blue states, 8 are red states! The Red States never learn because the social welfar
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
It makes Linux more robust. Since Microsoft is the king of vulnerability, making Linux more robust is NOT in their best interest. I actually think Microsoft did a GOOD THING. This should create a mad scramble to tighten up security at al
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
The difficulty in learning a language is proportional to the SQUARE of the number of BNF rules! Let that sink in. When last I looked, C had 120 rules and C++ had 250. C++ was already out of control and has a bunch of really stupid featur
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
When I was in high school I learned about BNF and so i wrote a program that let you type in BNF rules and then it would run a recognizer on an arbitrary string to decide if the string met the BNF rules. I don't know if I could write t
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
gfx1101 : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/amd-navi-32.g1000 gfx1100 : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/amd-navi-31.g998 gfx1030 : https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs&#
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by systemBuilder 2y ago
I had been programming profesionally for 3 years (since age 15) when I took "SICP" at MIT in 1980 (we used LISP; Scheme would come a few years later). The course is designed to appeal to the ego of the professors who teach it, an
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
This is every telco evil empire's ultimate dream. Charge all customers twice! Let the second charge be pure profit which you can direct to the critically important expenditure of executive bonuses!
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
I dont really believe this crazy tutoring theory AT ALL. What has changed is that education has become widespread. It is well known that standardized education destroys creativity. Ramanujen was largely self-taught! The stuff you learn o
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
This is all Avago. They bought Broadcom, eviscerated America's #2 communications chip company, and renamed Avago Broadcom to hide their crimes against humanity ...
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
Intel was infected with marketing people who diseased the entire C-Suite and drained the company for 8 years without doing anything other than make up new marketing names for the 5000-11000 series of chips and their stagnant iGPUs. That le
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
I have no interest in learning how to program a mistake. By this I am not talking about the z80 or 6502, but rather, the Atari 2600.
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
You're a fool if you think the EPA is at fault. A 2022 Ford F-series catalytic converter costs $824 at retail, much less in volume. The average car in the USA is 12 years old so that's $70 per year per car to have a catalytic co
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
Ford is so stupid. Is it no wonder America has lost its competitive edge with blue collar workers driving $100k Ford Raptor trucks?
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
In my lifetime the memory hierarchy has grown from 3 levels (register, main memory, disk) to at least 8 levels (register, L1 Cache, L2 Cache, L3 Cache, VM, main memory, disk, web). A lot of people like the guy who wrote this paper have no
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
It's probably much worse than this. Once the earth stops rotating IMHO it's likely the magnetic core stops rotating. Then the solar wind strips our aosphere in only 1000 years ...
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
"Different Poses" section - the hands are all cut off in these pictures except for one single picture where the index finger is the longest finger on the right hand!
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
You have the wrong impression of Google Translate. Translate was started in 2006 and it sucked. 60% accuracy at best. Janky incoherent sentences. Translate revolutionized the entire field of language translation in 2016. Seriously. We
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
That's mostly propaganda, like most companies, Google has a policy of something like 5x-10x fewer people at every level as you go up the management chain, and they enforce that policy in preference and use these sugar-coated candy-cane
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
They really don't give a shit how many search engineers they drive away with 50+-hour weeks and their endless criticism. When it became uncool to have Google Search on your resume in 2018, I left.
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
Most people will misinterpret what this book really is. Most people will think, "Hmm if I read this book I can start another google." Nothing could further from the truth. This is a book about how to run a gigantic software org
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by systemBuilder 3y ago
True, just like Qualcomm bought Eudora (mac) email for fame, Google started the Go project to keep Rob Pike (of UNIX fame) happy and to help their own internal SRE teams. The public "good will" and benefits to Google SRE have mor

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