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by wilsynet 2y ago
I do not recall Sun being renamed into “Java”. It was acquired by Oracle as Sun Microsystems.
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by wilsynet 2y ago
It’s fine to have a conservative leaning news channel. It’s not fine to spend so much of the time spreading lies.
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by wilsynet 2y ago
Steve Jobs was first a computer hobbyist, then later he worked at Atari before he co-founded Apple in 1976. He wasn’t a non-technical founder, although he was certainly less technical than his co-founder. He could program, he could do digit
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by wilsynet 2y ago
There were people who showed up to Washington DC on Jan 6, who were not affiliated with Proud Boys. Who saw the shattered windows and open doors, and decided to go for a stroll through the Capitol building. I think they just showed up and w
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by wilsynet 2y ago
There are almost two hundred thousand employees at Google. No matter what environment Google fosters, there are always going to be 0.01% who think it’s OK to stage a protest in the office.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
There is no chance AI is making a junior engineer as effective as a senior engineer.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
The business model was to license the browser to corporations. And they would have done pretty well except Microsoft gave away the browser for free. The model of licensing software was pretty typical for the time. I disagree that they didn’
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by wilsynet 3y ago
I am 50 years old and -14.5 diopters in both eyes. Slowing by half would have been a great outcome by comparison.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
The NYT and other newspapers don’t go after the archived link providers. Probably because the newspapers scholarly mission includes things like preservation. But they also have a profit motive or they can’t stay in business. This implicit p
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by wilsynet 3y ago
Relying on the App Store to distribute your app is more than a little different than building an extension to iMessages. Apple and Google want you to use their app stores in this way. Apple does not want you to bridge iMessages to other pla
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by wilsynet 3y ago
There were Internet search engines before Google, but Google did it way better. I remember when Gmail was new. It was way, way better and more amazing than Hotmail. The idea was a practically infinite searchable inbox. Nothing else was like
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by wilsynet 3y ago
I used PFS:Write on the Apple II. Then later WordPerfect 5.1 on the PC. When I was a kid, a university student who couldn’t type paid me to transcribe his essays.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
Cars also hit bikes when cars are backing up, making turns, driving above the speed limit, driving below the speed limit, when the driver opens the door. Really, many varied circumstances that have nothing to do with making a U-turn. Perhap
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by wilsynet 3y ago
As merely two examples, both gRPC and Kubernetes are important to Google, and yet Google opened sourced them. "No longer used" is not the criteria Google uses to make their software OSS. FYI, I work at Google.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
There are very few ideas that are absolutely right. I don’t consider “facts” as ideas, although these days even the facts have alternatives too.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
Both Amazon and Google have document writing cultures. If you want to propose an idea, you write a doc about it. The value of a doc writing culture is that writing things down encourages rigor and thoughtfulness. Docs can be widely distribu
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by wilsynet 3y ago
Sure, Fleischacker pool was underfunded for years and fell into disrepair and then closed in 1971. But why was it underfunded, and why was there not enough money to repair it? Compare that to Kitsilano Pool in Canada. It was consistently re
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by wilsynet 3y ago
It’s a two hour plane ride away, but there’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsilano_Pool
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by wilsynet 3y ago
The NYT argument is going to be that they put up a site, own the copyright for their content and make that content available for either a human to read it for themselves, or software to index for something commonly understood as a search e
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by wilsynet 3y ago
As previously said, search engines index and provide links. I’ll add that it constitutes fair use because a search engine isn’t itself a replacement for the articles that it indexes. But ChatGPT is actually providing an alternative that obv
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by wilsynet 3y ago
I dislike hot tubs. Don’t want one, don’t even want to sit in one.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
I’ll add my support to the chorus of Brother laser printers. My spouse bought one about 6 years ago and the company has updated drivers and it is just super reliable. I just bought a new one for my parents this year. Couldn’t be happier.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
My first computer was an Apple IIe, which of course used 5.25” diskettes. Later, I had a 386 with 3.5” drives. I loved those 3.5” disks, they made a satisfying clunk when you pushed them into a drive. I felt like I was living in the future.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
The truth is out there.
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by wilsynet 3y ago
To leech, leeching and to be a leecher has been around since people used to download warez. It far predates torrents. I remember a local sysop in the 80s who ran an Apple II ASCII Express download site with two 5.25” floppy drives. You’d wr
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by wilsynet 3y ago
To lurk, to be in the state of lurking, and to be a lurker — has been around since the BBS days. Thanks for calling it out!
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by wilsynet 3y ago
Same with nutrition industry. Decades of saying eggs are bad for your cholesterol, but no science to back it up.
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by wilsynet 4y ago
“I put this unusual string in my software” may be enough to get you to discovery. During which time, you can ask for the source code.
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by wilsynet 4y ago
Looks like usual banal corporate marketing. I’m not sure what’s woke about it or why it implies that the bank will fail. Are there hidden woke words in the song lyrics?
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by wilsynet 4y ago
The first comment was that’s not what an arcade looks like. But they are wrong, some arcades did look like that.

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