voidfunc

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by voidfunc 10mo ago
OSS is an intersection of commercial and hobbyist programmers and agendas. If youre a hobbyist you may prefer to spend time working on green field rather than the existing. This eventually culminates in some new stuff replacing the old. Not
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
> Taiwan is different: the vast majority of people there are ethnically Chinese, so reunification is seen as an absolute necessity. Your illegitimate authoritarian government is free to surrender at any time and hand the keys back to the
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Is Hokkaido defensible? Once China solves the Taiwan problem they're going to turn their sights on Korea and Japan.
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Didn't really have friends as a kid, probably explains why I prefer the cold glow of a computer.
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Because the investor class is drunk on their own wine.
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
It was botching Mobile that really did Balmer in and possibly not reacting quite quickly enough to the need for Enterprise-grade Cloud Computing while Amazon was bootstrapping AWS right in Microsoft's back yard. They got the cloud sit
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Tim Cook was the right guy to run Apple after the death of Jobs. He is entirely the wrong guy to run Apple in the era of AI. The board must be wondering what Apple's AI strategy is and why they aren't pushing M-chips into the data
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Good luck renaming OpenSSL...
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Nerds love to beat a dead horse.
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Crappy riff on Ass Pennies sketch
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Dave Cutler
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Think of Windows NT as the spiritual successor of VMS and it never really went away. Sort of like if Plan 9 had succeeded Unix.
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by voidfunc 10mo ago
Older programmer: Nobody gives a shit about your code and nobody thinks about you as much you think they do :) Practically it may be worth keeping code for a particular class private for the duration of the term, semester whatever so you do
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
Because nobody gives a shit about the ordinary. Cargo planes dont usually fall put of the sky in blazing fireballs. Its a spectacle, people like spectacles, good or bad.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
Sure but it scarred the Japanese culture permanently.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
Im pretty skeptical "the people" are smart enough to control their own destiny anymore. We've deprioritized education wo heavily in the US that it may be better to have a ruling class of corporations and elites. At least you
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
What youre describing is called iOS on a large iPad. Everyone from 4 year olds to my 77 year old computer illiterate Dad can figure it out. This doesn't look very usable at all by someone who isn't basically a computer nerd.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
They are all broken, weird, and expensive in their own ways. Its nothing unique to Azure.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
Also possible we get something "close enough" to AGI and it's really fucking useful. AGI is the end-game. There's a lot of room between current LLMs and AGI.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
Heh this must be Europe. In the US the driving test I took involved taking a right hand turn. Another right. Execute a 3-point and then drive back the half a mile to the testing center.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
The standard is called jq, any new standard is just going to be a committee circle jerk that doesn't move the ball forward in any meaningful way.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
This. Jq is the defacto standard and anytime I come across something else I am annoyed. Which isn't to say jq is the best or even good but its battle-tested and just about every conceivable query problem has been thrown at it by now.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
Yea that would be awesome framed and on my living room wall.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
Anyone know of a similar site for mid-century Airline and Train travel posters?
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
"Its not funny" says the one guy in a room where literally everyone else is laughing and riffing on the joke. Your humor unit might be defective.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
You dont live in a country where Rule of Law matters anymore.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
I get them sometimes but I feel like its like a lot of stuff, were hostage to the meta and everyone seems to "get" the meta so you have to go along with it or you're an outsider. Yay humans.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
That's a cute thought not grounded in reality. The infra may be cattle but debugging via anal probe err SSH is still the norm.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
While I'd support a Newsom run, I feel like he's never going to get strong support from the Progressive side of the party and they'll sink one of the few viable candidates. Also thats 2028.. 2026 midterms look grim.
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by voidfunc 11mo ago
Ain't happening in 2026 or 2028. Democrats havent positioned anyone compelling and there positions are too flaky to capture a culture that is captivated by the idea every position is zero-sum.

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