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1234554321a··on Susan Wojcicki has died
I want to vote against this. Thanks.
1234554321a··on SpaceX's unmatched streak of perfection with the Falcon 9 rocket is over
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1234554321a··on A brief interview with Awk creator Dr. Brian Kernighan (2022)
He’s the closest man to C still alive. Yet it’s not really “his” accomplishment. C was created by Ritchie alone, Kernighan only wrote the book.
1234554321a··on A Review of Linux on Surface Pro 4
I’ve had had SP4 i5 8gb ram version since 2017. It’s unreliable when running Windows, let alone Linux. It had constant touch screen issues which never fully went away even after replacing the screen. When I tried installing Linux I decided to switch back to Windows after a couple of months as both wifi and bluetooth had constant issues. The battery life is 2 or 3 hours at best even if you replace the battery with a new one. I’ll be replacing it with an M2 Macbook as that’ll be way more productive than to keep using this Surface.
1234554321a··on I'm done making desktop applications (2009)
“Modern” C++ is completely different to the pre-2000 or even pre-2010 C++.
1234554321a··on Death Valley is so hot right now, rescue helicopters can't fly
Curse you evil stranger!
1234554321a··on Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI
Automating fundamental activites like farming is a top priority if humanity ever wants to expand to other planets. A lot of things will have to be automated to function completely without human interaction.
1234554321a··on Python programming for Nintendo 8 bits (2018)
Don’t tell this guy about the thing that Ritchie made in 1972.
1234554321a··on Eating meat with lower carbon footprint often means killing more animals
One cow costs $2500, one chicken costs $10. So one cow life is worth approximately 250 chicken lives. Q.E.D.
1234554321a··on Migrating from Java 8 to Java 17: A Comprehensive Guide to New Features
Good for both everything and nothing at the same time.
1234554321a··on I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
It’s legal to hack North Korean infrastructure? Might be a good way to test out your hacking skills.
1234554321a··on YouTube experimenting with server-side ad injection
This is the kind of thing where people will put a lot of effort to engineer a good machine learning / AI solution to get rid of these ads. If it’s something that people hate they’ll put all their effort into stopping it. Google might’ve actually made their situation worse with this as it’ll force people to innovate and come up with new ways of countering their bs.

“Love, friendship and respect do not unite men as much as a common hatred for something.”

1234554321a··on Tiny fern has the largest genome of any organism on Earth
Bad channels which’ve accumulated views and subscribers getting recommended by the youtube algorithm. Hence why he has a filler segment to get the video to 10 minutes. That’s just how youtube works nowadays.
1234554321a··on TotalRecall: Extracts and displays data from the Windows 11 Recall feature
This comment got downvoted because you’re about to watch a racist and problematic movie.
1234554321a··on Where are the builders?
You have no idea what you’re talking about. There’s a huge learning gap between this and a modern consumer CPU. Assembling together logic gates and understanding a simple RISC-V implementation is literally almost nothing when compared to the years you’d have to spend intensively learning just so you could get to the level of being able to design a Pentium 4 from scratch.
1234554321a··on Where are the builders?
This is not even comparable. Yes you can implement a simple graphics card or a RISC CPU in a video game. But that doesn’t mean you have the skill to build any practical modern graphics card or design a modern CISC CPU. You can learn about the basics of these things during a single semester at university and that’s likely what these “video gamers” did. It’s nothing impressive to recreate a RISC-V CPU in some game, only people who have no knowledge in this subject are somehow “impressed” by such things every time it’s brought up.
1234554321a··on ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015)
They come down in London
1234554321a··on YouTube started slowing video buffer with adblock enabled
It doesn’t have sponsorblock. So it’s still worse than the website.
1234554321a··on Reinventing the E.R. for America’s mental-health crisis
20 years ago a mental illness, now they changed the name and it’s not an illness anymore so everything is ok.