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by ylee 5d ago
> Typically, the latest exercices introduced recursion which is immediately visible as fractals. I well remember the epiphany I felt while learning Logo in elementary school, at the moment I understood what recursion is. I don't thi
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by ylee 2mo ago
I can relate much to the author's experience. I am also a Korean immigrant, with parents who owned a retail business, who grew up in the NYC area with a Commodore 64. I also majored in the liberal arts at an Ivy League school. I have n
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by ylee 2mo ago
I worked in tech investment banking for a decade out of college, and now work for myself. I majored in history and Spanish at Columbia, which is associated with at least two other people who have had notable computer-related careers/si
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by ylee 2mo ago
What Lutus talks about exists even when it's not for anyone else. I have never been paid to write code, and my formal CS education is limited to AP Computer Science, and a one-credit Java class in college. I wrote 20 years ago a backup
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by ylee 7mo ago
> This is meant to insult AI skeptics, let's not pretend to be idiots. Only an idiot would read the piece in that way. >It should be flagged and taken down. Even if it really did "insult AI skeptics" (and, again, no one
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by ylee 7mo ago
>The main value of modern ape coding appears to be recreational. Ape coders manifest high levels of engagement during coding sessions and report feelings of relaxation after succeeding in (self-imposed) coding challenges. Competitive ape
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by ylee 8mo ago
Usenet killfiles are not "totally reliable". Nym shifting has always been a thing, even before Google Groups-based commercial mass spamming using constantly changing From: lines industrialized the problem. Killfiles also do nothin
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by ylee 8mo ago
I address that in the comments at < https://www.filfre.net/2022/05/a-web-around-the-world-part-1... >
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by ylee 8mo ago
Nothing has changed since Jerry Pournelle wrote 40 years ago when discussing online forums: >I noticed something: most of the irritation came from a handful of people, sometimes only one or two. If I could only ignore them, the computer
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by ylee 10mo ago
>Unfortunately for HP, its workstations (the ones OP acquired) weren't nearly as popular with universities and developers as Sun Microsystems', so you tended to find HP-UX in commercial production—larger servers, more workload,
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by ylee 11mo ago
If this is true, it will be a significant change in strategy. The company has always played upmarket. Average iPhone prices have risen since the first iPhone 18 years ago, as opposed to falling. Around that time, I heard Apple's CFO sa
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by ylee 11mo ago
When I started at Goldman Sachs, I was told early on of an "Israeli discount" and "Canadian discount"; that is, investors were more skeptical of companies based in those countries. I was not told of any more details than
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by ylee 11mo ago
>Some foolishly believed that the twin towers were invincible after the 1993 WTC bombing. I was told right after the bombing, by someone with a large engineering firm (Schlumberger or Bechtel), that the bombers could have brought the bui
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by ylee 1y ago
I read and enjoyed The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun , but another book by Rhodes made me question his veracity. < https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4413437417 >
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by ylee 1y ago
>but you could just plug MX-80 series in to Windows 9x and pick any of the same fonts as you would for a laser printer, and it went bi-directional laying down overlapping dots like Adobe bricks, near-letter-quality enough to where they c
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by ylee 1y ago
I used Applixware on Linux during college. Here's what I wrote to someone else at the time: ---- I've been using Applixware 4.2 then 4.3 to write papers and such for a year and a half. Bear in mind that I've only used the Wo
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by ylee 1y ago
>It was as formative of a moment as my 2nd Grade teacher showing us a really complex looking (at the time) rainbow flower in LOGO (she had one of few color Mac classic), and showing us it was simply the work of drawing the path of one pe
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by ylee 1y ago
Nothing has changed since Jerry Pournelle wrote 40 years ago when discussing online forums: >I noticed something: most of the irritation came from a handful of people, sometimes only one or two. If I could only ignore them, the computer
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by ylee 1y ago
> Apple delivered an OS that the “year of the Linux desktop” folk had been (and still are) trying to deliver for years. Indeed. I figured this out on the day in 2003 when I first tried out OS X. I've been using Linux since 1995 and
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by ylee 1y ago
I have never been paid to write code, and my formal CS education is limited to AP Computer Science, and a one-credit Java class in college. But like 2OEH8eoCRo0, I can say that Red Hat Linux changed my life. Experience running Linux from
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by ylee 1y ago
I have never been paid to write code, and my formal CS education is limited to AP Computer Science, and a one-credit Java class in college. I wrote 20 years ago a backup script implementing Mike Rubel's insight < http://ww
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by ylee 1y ago
My father says "I feel like I hired an able assistant" regarding LLMs.
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by ylee 2y ago
20 years ago, when I helped cover IT hardware including AAPL for a large investment bank, our analyses consistently showed that Apple products were comparable in price to competing products with comparable specs . I agree that Apple Silico
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by ylee 2y ago
I knew the very basics of the story, but did not know/hadn't put it together in my mind that kernel 1.0 appeared in mid-1994, and not somewhere in the 1991-1993 timeframe as I had vaguely assumed. Certainly, the Red Hat Linux 2.1
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by ylee 2y ago
I use two of the mentioned browsers. I have elinks as a default `tmux` pseudoterminal. I don't use it often, but it's always there. My emacs setup uses w3m as the parser for HTML mail in VM, my email client. It works really well.
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by ylee 2y ago
>At its soul, Apple is a software company that also makes their own hardware. Nokia was a hardware company that also made their own software. ... and bad software, of course. Worse than that, multiple versions of bad software. Apple is t
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by ylee 2y ago
> For example, the bullet "scaling the user experience to lower HW specs may be challenging. iPhone mini may be closer to iPod UI" comment still suggests they were stuck in the mindset of the time. They thought it was unlikely
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by ylee 2y ago
I helped cover IT hardware companies including Apple at a bulge-bracket investment bank. Not just Nokia, but the entire phone industry was caught flatfooted by iPhone as willvarfar and anonu said, despite rumors going around the industry. (
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by ylee 2y ago
>It's going to be like the glory days of the Tel Aviv binary options scammers, who at one time were 40% of the Israeli finance sector and had good political connections. When I started at Goldman Sachs 25 years ago, I was told early
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by ylee 2y ago
I played the Linux version the article mentions while at Goldman Sachs; a colleague on the Red Hat coverage team gave me a boxed copy of Corel Linux including the game. The port ran very well on my Red Hat Linux box at home. In retrospect i

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