fatneckbeard

thats legendary amount of kludgery.

one thing that was fun about bare metal that we dont get nowdays (and we coudlnt with all the viruses and ransomware)

CGA font were never re-programmable, Hercules (after a certain version) were.

Here is the problem people are having with this

Maggie Appleton on this blog literally says "Yancey Strickler's companion idea of the Dark Forest theory of the web".

I have a Dark Forest Theory of Hacker News. If I stay out of certain threads i dont get blasted. So i dont post in them. Hacker News is like Liu Cixin's dark forest.

i hope someone would say "as Fatneckbeard pointed out, HN is a lot like Liu Cixin's Dark Forest" not "Fat Neck Beards's Dark Forest theory of Hacker News".

I did not write 1000+ pages of books about this that became a world wide best seller and responsible for the phrase being a house hold word. I just pointed out they are similar. It is not my idea. It is not even my adaptation of an idea to a novel context. Im just pointing out something relatively obvious, because the original book is widely interpreted as an analogy for China's 996 tech startup culture by the Chinese readership which made it a success in the first place, so I'm basically making a pop culture reference. Even if I wrote a blog about it it would not make it my idea.

Yeah I worry about this. There was no "C leadership", it was simple enough that dozens of people created their own compilers within a few years of C existing. this was back before the internet. they had companies sprouting up like Borland just making C compilers for personal home computers. C just ... spread. All these kids learning Arduino in school, they are learning C.

There basically is no other usable compiler than the official rust compiler. So it has this 'leadership' thing that ... C never really needed

or whether it identifies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_skepticism#Epist...

why does it feel like every tech website turns into an amateur humanities and economics discussion group?

"and not already in the sequence" --> bound to be weirdness in that.

interesting because in my experience Chat GPT has severe problems "understanding" OEIS so i wonder if it could solve the problems the way you did?

if only they had rebranded as an AI non-profit, they could have gotten away with all the enabling of copyvio they ever dreamed of.

I get it now. It's just like some grocery stores used to operate. They purposely moved stuff around so people have to wander in order to find things. Or they put common items far away so people have to interact with other stuff. Theory is that it increases sales.

i used to imagine similar opportunities with google books. but they have done basically nothing with it. and that's been like 20 years.

if anyone could have disrupted the corrupt and unfair academic publishing world, it was Google. they just found it an uninteresting task. they preferred to work on G+, Stadia, Google Code, etc, https://killedbygoogle.com/

sounds kind of like Toyota Production System

maybe its because the article yesterday, 80% of jobs are gotten through networking, and if the rest are from leetcode interviews.. you kind of have decided to select against diversity.

fortunately the employers are now tracking like everything we click on and every time we move a mouse, every key we type, every second we are logged on... also every single IM/teams chat we send and receive, every phone call we make...every email we send, every sentence we typed out and then deleted because it sounded wrong,... so... they will have the data pretty soon.

my point is not even that.

my point is if you pick a time-slider window of 150 years, Europeans have started two world wars. Sweden collaborated with Nazis and i wonder how much violence resulted from that.

yes thats basically, going along the lines of the Chartalist / Modern Monetary Theory view of money, and combining it with the Petrodollar theory of money.

sorry - edit - tried to keep this short, keep messing up. Theres a lot of deep rabbit holes if you want to dig into those theories online.

just keep in mind a lot of economists disagree with MMT / Chartalism and some even disagree with what a Petrodollar is.

i too have been told for 50+ years the National Debt will bury us. Often by people like Ross Perot

Now that i actually have savings, i load on up T-bills paying 5 percent, and Ibonds paying like 6 or 7, now im thinking "God i love the national debt, its so awesome, its literally free money, i wish there was more national debt. The national debt should sell t-shirts and drop an album".

why do i feel like the whole Certificate thing is a gaping hole that has gone mostly ignored ? am i just paranoid?

HN prob full of people who make their living off smartphones

reminds me of Oil / coil industry people who dont want to talk abt climate change

never easy to come to terms with your life work has to change or stop.

if they went back before 1973... you know, say, 1939... might have some different statistics about who is responsible for violence in Sweden.

yup. its hard to describe what it was like back then. i was young and the idea that this hobby open source internet thing i had been interested in for a few years, had become mainstream, with Linus on the cover of Forbes, was mindblowing. i knew maybe 2-3 people in my entire life who had ever installed linux and that was only because of college. nobody else cared. but then Linus and ESR became a celebrity. dotcom bubble was in mainstream news and open source was part of the bubble. internet, and computers, were going mainstream.

So that is why i thought Cathedral and Bazaar was cool. Because i was young. didnt have access to Brooks book or others, physically, monetarily, but also it wasn't even written in my language. ESR's Cathedral was a textfile i could get off my dialup. and there just wasn't much else talking about what he was talking about.

Took me a while to realize. oh. hes just kind of a aggro dude writing extremist politics and ... this is like pseudo sociology. and nobody uses fetchmail.

edit - this is weird to think about but it's almost like... how they say 1991 was the "year punk broke", Nirvana and all this alt music / college rock was selling millions of copies and headlining festivals. these guys went from obscure regional bands who have to wash dishes for a living in between gigs, to international fame and millionaires almost overnight. im guessing there is a rock equivalent of Catb and i guess theres an equivalent discussion about how the music version of CatB wasnt really that insightful. but it sure was popular amongst the young folks, who saw the world change before their eyes.

It's funny how if you are a major corporation with fat government contracts you can systematically destroy your engineering department, ostracize whistleblowers, and wind up killing hundreds of people and nobody gets punished and the FAA will even be on your side, like the Boeing thing.

but if you make a youtube stunt that hurts nobody you can get 20 years in prison and the FAA acts like you besmirched the stellar reputation of the aviation industry.

amazing

dealing with the same thing in rust, you can't use float in a lot of equality places where you can use ints, and they are moving to change match so you can't use floats in patterns there either.

im pretty sure one of the main reasons systems thinking is unpopular is because Robert McNamara applied it to the Vietnam War and it didn't work.

dos.exe was kind of referring to how a lot of games would just completely ignore DOS even before the days of protected mode and 32 bits, im going back to the 8088 days.

but yeah same idea.

actually now that i remember it, my first linux was a copy of ... i think Dragon Linux? It used Dos as a bootloader, it ran off the existing DOS FAT filesystem so you didnt have to mess with partitions, and it dealt with the filename-too-short issue by keeping a dot file in each directory with a list of the 'real' linux long names and how they matched the DOS fake shortnames.

but like even windows and linux, they are having layers and layers of abstractions. trying to do anything in X11 or win32 API calls, compared to the before-times where you just write directly into RAM at A0000 to draw pixels.. there is something about that that is very interesting.

why i like arduino.

why i kind of like old IBM PC environment. x86 + a few bios calls, dont even need DOS after you load game.exe

when the did anyone start expecting a hamburger menu? all these old websites i used to poke clearly labeled buttons on all of a sudden have three lines one year. its like all these web3 node js assholes took over the planet within an 18 month cycle and brainwashed everyone.

im old. i expect buttons with words on them.

now i have to spend a significant amount of my time, hours per year, explaining to users to click the "thing with the three lines, then scroll down, there should be a menu that says XYZ, no, you have to go down farther, its between PDQ and ABC. no its not categorized very well i agree. i agree nobody would know what three lines mean. ".

it's like if we had the same TV show every night for our whole life, i think we would start to notice some patterns

its kind of rhetorical question.

imagine if TD produced a payment card that worked like a debit card. . . . wouldnt that be a whole lot like a cbdc?