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by t43562 3d ago
I know you did! It's quite odd how everything gets re-invented isn't it? N years ago I didn't think that javascript would ever have a "build time" problem but I've already been asked if I can write a "file
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by t43562 4d ago
It's like Electric Insight, which was a fantastic if proprietary tool. There's an enormous amount of analysis you can do with tools like this from estimating how much faster the build would be with more cores (i.e. is it worth add
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by t43562 4d ago
Programming is fun but it's also about learning to do things and trying out ideas that you have about how to organise something and make it work well - becoming a master of some craft. If you don't care about programming but just
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by t43562 6d ago
There was a time (sigh) when everything that's happening now was science fiction. I dreamed of having a computer that could even store a video let alone stream one off the internet. It must be a bit like living through the invention
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by t43562 6d ago
I have to insert a quick joke: "guns don't kill people - people kill people."
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by t43562 7d ago
Sometimes, yes, but obviously not everyone. I suspect that it depends what you're doing and how. Perhaps the AI has more difficulty understanding what some people want than what others want. I certainly have had a milder version of th
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by t43562 8d ago
Yes, there should be some limit on the amount of IP that can be accumulated. I don't know how one would do it in a way that couldn't be perverted/abused though.
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by t43562 8d ago
I'd rather give it to individuals than corporations at least. It's useful as a lever to protect the weak from the powerful. Perhaps it should simply not be transferable? Another alternative would be for its power to weaken over
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by t43562 8d ago
These are effective monopolies competing to become super monopolies - the period leading up to dominance by one or two is beneficial to consumers with freebies and cheap offers that also completely lock out any smaller players. If you don&#
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ISAR Aerospace 5 Sept Mission Onward and Upward(isaraerospace.com)
49 points by t43562 11d ago|4 comments
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by t43562 11d ago
ISAR Aerospace to make another launch attempt at 22:06 CET or 21:06 BST of their Spectrum launch vehicle from Andoya in Norway. Spectrum achieved orbit and appeared nominal prior to the second burn. Viewable at: https://www.yout
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by t43562 14d ago
If you're not a fan you might not know that the Lightning had tremendous performance for its time and long after that time too. It could climb to 36000ft (11km) in less than 3 minutes. It could pull up off the runway straight into a ve
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by t43562 14d ago
He is establishing the acceptance of blame. 1. People who don't admit fault are refusing to learn any lesson and that's dangerous. It's the strategy that populist politicians use because someone percentage of people judge yo
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by t43562 15d ago
Thinking everyone else is lazy is narrow-minded because we're here to live a life, not burn out and die. There's no report card at the end.
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by t43562 15d ago
I have 2 older brothers and idolised them until more recently. To me it sounds like you feel a bit overshadowed. Personally I would reject that whole thing. I know you're proud of them but you don't have to be proud at your own
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by t43562 15d ago
The best way to make a stand for them is to use their money to fund education.
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by t43562 15d ago
I don't think intelligence entitles anyone to being an arsehole thought it might sometimes be frustrating. Lets say we make AIs that are more intelligent than us in the end - do we want them being arseholes to us just to achieve some
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by t43562 15d ago
It's the implication that success excuses it that sucks. The fans don't care how their status symbols came about - only that they have them. The illusion is presented that without him we'd all be using MS-DOS to this day.
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by t43562 20d ago
Who needs people skills if all the employees are agents?
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by t43562 26d ago
Absolutely. I don't have the answer either. The effort to get over that last roadblock is just never possible in the commercial setting.
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by t43562 26d ago
Why are we using C anyhow? I suggest it's mainly because of established codebases although the fact that it has very few dependencies makes it attractive for systems programming perhaps and low-level. In the case of established codebas
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by t43562 1mo ago
In open plan offices there is no silence. Working at home there's no silence. Headphones offer the only escape. They're also a sign that you are trying to concentrate to discourage those "just a quick word" moments which
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by t43562 1mo ago
I need media to cope with stressful situations - office politics and other difficult situations at work that seem more than I can manage. Audiobooks help me to get my mind off the things that gnaw at me and make it difficult to sleep. They
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by t43562 1mo ago
> macOS applications seem to just package every single DLL they need inside of their application folder rather than relying on the OS. I'd do the same if I were developing for macOS with how often Apple likes to make breaking change
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by t43562 1mo ago
A long while ago I found myself helping out with some products MSI installer. I don't think anyone can really point a finger at the Mac and accuse it of having issues by comparison with what seemed to me to be the nightmare from hell o
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by t43562 2mo ago
What they believe now or care about is fundamentally not very relevant: allowing them a monopoly would be a big mistake. Google was supposed to do no evil and it probably started that way but nothing guarantees the future other than having
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by t43562 2mo ago
If I have bash and vim, find, less and grep I'm 90% good. If ripgrep and fdfind are installed I'm very happy. One usually doesn't have to fall back from these too often because so many machines have them and its the fallback
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by t43562 2mo ago
Go to the National Museum of Computing just next door and save a bomb and see the actual bombe! IMO the house is of minimal interest compared to the machines but costs a lot.
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by t43562 2mo ago
Appended is a walkaround video of the Colossus at the National Museum of Computing next to Bletchley Park which is, FYI, a much better and far more interesting place to visit than Bletchley Park itself on the same site - and much cheaper.
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by t43562 2mo ago
While FTW! I just wondered whether it could be simplified because I get a bit tired of typing out my own belt and braces version of it: { # code that generates one item/filename per line of output } | { while read ITEM; do # do so

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