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uncletaco··on The Rickover Corpus: A digital archive of Admiral Rickover's speeches and memos
The Nixon memo is dated for 1980 from after Nixon was president.
uncletaco··on TI to invest $60B to manufacture foundational semiconductors in the U.S.
Nope. This is Foxconn all over again.
uncletaco··on How to live an intellectually rich life
This is how I feel about learning street fighter. On one hand yes I can learn how to do Ed’s dream combo by watching Momochi in tournament then reading a discord message that writes it in numpad notation, but I think it’s equally important to understand what motivated him to sit in training mode and figure it out. What was he trying to achieve other than an optimal combo? What situations was he looking for answers in?
uncletaco··on How to live an intellectually rich life
I’ll never forget the night sjc students invited me to smoke weed and listen to some Charles Mingus.
uncletaco··on Partnering with the Shawnee Tribe for Civilization VII
Paradox Interactive is right there and thriving? They’re like the next step into the 4x rabbit hole and their fanbase is pretty loyal.
uncletaco··on My Wife's Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too (2019)
Was a great way to start my day, honestly.
uncletaco··on My Wife's Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too (2019)
Is it? The person also believes it’s because he’s a man in a relationship.
uncletaco··on My Wife's Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too (2019)
> The more you love someone, the more ardently you should feel not just obligated but driven to want to destroy the people your loved one wishes ill.

Bars.

uncletaco··on My Wife's Enemies Are Now My Enemies, Too (2019)
If many of your wife’s friends hate you then it’s almost certainly just you.
uncletaco··on The impact of competition and DeepSeek on Nvidia
When he says better linux drivers than AMD he's strictly talking about for AI, right? Because for video the opposite has been the case for as far back as I can remember.
uncletaco··on The quiet rebellion of a little life
Are you the author on an alt? This article and comment are the first time I've ever seen someone on this website not use capitalization.
uncletaco··on Could the Soviet Union have survived?
The Soviet Union collapsed less than 5 years after Deng retired in 1989 and his economic model had only begun to bear fruit in the mid 80s. “For decades” is a wildly ignorant thing to say.
uncletaco··on OnlyFans Models Are Using AI Impersonators to Keep Up with Their DMs
AI solutions will work for the type of person who consumes free porn but will likely fall flat for paying customers.
uncletaco··on The EdTech Revolution Has Failed
I dropped out of school for adhd reasons and after getting treatment I went back and finished my last couple semesters (and wrote a novel, that first year on vyvanse was insanely productive). I found it a lot easier to engage with the work and pay attention long enough to take notes in class.
uncletaco··on Autism's Four Core Subtypes
No. The greatest interaction I had was when a kid didn’t hold a door for me and his mom said “I’m sorry he has Asperger’s and it’s a little heavy on the ass.”

Then we ended up in the same waiting room for a while and she talked about accommodating her son and how they managed it. What was really interesting is the kid looked like it was the first time he heard his mom talk to someone else about it and him and I could tell he was embarrassed but really loving her that moment.

uncletaco··on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine
I’m pretty sure they’re saying the other commenter and they themselves disagree.
uncletaco··on Things you didn't know about GNU readline (2019)
One thing trying to work with Guix over the last five years taught me is how much I take for granted all the little things that come packaged extra. I was using guix for about a month before I learned that readline was the package that allowed me to do a lot of the extra commands like ctrl-c etc.
uncletaco··on The number of CS grads who don't even know basic Git commands is astounding
The iPhone came out in 2007, the ugly brown android in 2008 or 2009, what mobile OS were students using during the time period mentioned in OP’s comment?
uncletaco··on I like the RP2040
15 years ago it was maybe $50-$150. As recently as 4 years ago it was more like $200+ and hope for a sale. Top of the line around a decade ago was a madcatz te or razer panthera for $200. The DIY aspect and ease of changing internal parts got harder with most sticks released in the past 5 years.

Brook boards alleviated some of that but that was still an extra $50-$100 depending on the vendor and available supplies and some hardware hacking that a lot of people were unprepared to do. Those who were willing to hack were hit hard because most fight sticks were taken off the market from back then and people got a bug up their butt about value during lockdown these old fight sticks started showing up for as much as $400 on Craigslist or Facebook marketplace. A 9 year old panthera was being sold for as much as a brand new Victrix. The market was rough. It still is for secondhand fight sticks.

This is why gp2040 was reinvigorating. With cheap pcbs and ready made firmware came cheap controllers. $50 gets you a 3d printed leverless. $150 gets you an aluminum leverless. There are mini boards that are just keypads with thumb sticks running the same firmware as full sized fight sticks with dual analog levers. You’re starting to see the same explosion in ideas and customization we saw in the keyboard space like 8 years ago.

uncletaco··on I like the RP2040
I'll mention it. PhobGCC is awesome and thank you for making it!
uncletaco··on I like the RP2040
It doesn't. Brook boards always added like an extra $100 dollars to any custom or DIY fight stick. The reinvigoration came because sticks that used to be $250 new are now closer to $100 and in some cases less, particularly leverless controllers. If you've heard of the Haute 42 or any of the countless leverless controllers that have been flooding Ali Express, Amazon, and other sites they're possible because of the firmware gp2040. For a lot of these new makers all they have to do is get the pcb printed and build an enclosure.
uncletaco··on I like the RP2040
RP2040 has single handedly reinvigorated a really niche market: custom controllers. Due to the wonderful work done on gp2040[1] which is open source game pad firmware, people can buy cheap, quality, fightsticks and leverless controllers for a lot cheaper than they can from vendors like Victrix or Razer. Not only that but because its open sourced the hobbyist side of the controller community are building RP2040 pcbs to accommodate all kinds of projects and weird controller ideas.

[1] https://gp2040-ce.info

uncletaco··on LXQt 2.0.0
Looks cute.
uncletaco··on The happiest kids in the world have social safety nets
Skeptic that I am I do wonder if this is something normal in all of the Netherlands or specific to, like, these hyper urbanized walkable places in (clearly) affluent neighborhoods of Amsterdam. While the social safety net is a factor I'd honestly like to know if what's true of her sister's children is also true of some kid living in a country village or wherever.
uncletaco··on Niklaus Wirth, or the Importance of Being Simple
I write fiction as a hobby and "Most every 'simple' system I've been a part of building started life as an oversized beast, laboriously wrestled into a more streamlined form" describes my day to day life in both that and my programming job
uncletaco··on A larger family worsens kids' cognitive development, suggests 30-year study
Please post those studies I want to seem something.
uncletaco··on A larger family worsens kids' cognitive development, suggests 30-year study
This study doesn’t at all say what you originally claimed about moms “running out of resources as time goes on” when it comes to birth order and IQs. Either you missed the point or you honest to god don’t care about spreading disgusting misinformation.
uncletaco··on Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)
You know I find that funny. When I want to mash in tekken I just remember each button corresponds to a limb. If I want to do the thingy that uses both legs then press the two leg buttons with a direction. If I want to do a left right left combination I press left right left punch in order. You can mash around with a character to see where it leads you to get really good basic understand imo.
uncletaco··on Visualizing fighting game mechanics (2020)
Just play Dhalsim boom you can punish the block string with a standing low kick that closes the distance.

Now laugh as they call you anti fun.

uncletaco··on Gen Z wants to retire early. They're off to a good start
The study said four in five gen z investors. I wonder how many of those gen z investors maybe bought a little crypto along the way when it was a fad.
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