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ido··on Should you wash your solar panels?
Some places don't get much rain (and these are the places that tend to get even more dust - e.g. deserts).
ido··on Mag Computer: A Mag History of RAM (1960–2025)
Would be helpful if they'd define what a "mag" is. I'm assuming it's short of "magnitude"?
ido··on The IBM PC, Part 1: Arrival
Now? It's just a plain wordpress theme.
ido··on Critical Minerals: Reducing U.S. import reliance with substitution and recycling
In the 70s it was offshoring to Japan. China’s market opened to the west in the late 80s/90s.
ido··on Advertise in ChatGPT
The best parody tends to converge with reality (see The Onion).
ido··on AI, Vim, and the Illusion of Flow
I was super into vim in college (20 years ago now, jeez). I started off like that but then transitioned to basically using “default vim” (plus support for a few external tools like ctags or cscope). For basically this reason!
ido··on C64 Basic Dungeon Crawler: Goblin Attack (C64 Basic Part 8)
Neat idea, very distracting with the incessant meme clips constantly inserted into the youtube video.
ido··on Mac gaming is finally getting the overpowered upgrade it deserves

    That isn't worth the effort 
Maybe I'm too unambitious as a small indie, but "porting" my game to mac merely requires building that target (I use unity & have both mac and windows automated building scripts - I press a button and it builds and uploads both to steam). There's nowhere in my codebase where I had to specifically adapt to one or the other.
ido··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
Thank you for the through answer! I hope I remember what to ask if/when the time ever comes.
ido··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
I don't know, that's why I'm asking! If I'm in that situation I hope this option is available to me, and want to know what to ask for.

If the answer is that it's illegal I'd know I can't ask this directly/explicitly (but maybe there's a "secret handshake" way of asking for it). If it is I'd know I can. I wish no harm to OP.

ido··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
> administered to my mother opioid to accelerate death

Isn't that illegal is most countries? Does it not count as doctor assisted suicide?

ido··on How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari
He did, as is stated in the article.
ido··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
8-10pm for the supermarkets near me & well later than that is night not evening :) It's certainly not 5pm is what I meant.
ido··on Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again
Supermarket opening times are definitely not that restrictive (these days, but I don't recall it ever being like you mentioned & I moved to Berlin in 2013). The ones near me are usually open early morning till late evening (8-10pm), monday to saturday.
ido··on Egypt Is Building a New Nile

    The results of that election were thrown out the window
Might be good to mention the result of that election were Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood (the originator of many jihadist movements like Al-Qaeda).
ido··on Is the iPhone birth control? Causal evidence from AT&T's 2007-2011 monopoly [pdf]
Android an even more effective birth control then?
ido··on Claude Sonnet 5
I’m interested!
ido··on Tokenmaxxing is dead, long live tokenmaxxing
Some companies are badly managed (at least in some aspects). But it’s also true that some devs need to be pushed - sometimes forcibly - out of their comfort zone.

I’ve had multiple instances of taking months/years to get some devs to use a more sophisticated git client than GitHub Desktop (so they could properly do anything but the most trivial merges/rebases for example). Or to learn how to use the debugger instead of just printing/logging for debugging. For some of them getting them to seriously figure out how to better use AI required a bunch of repeated prodding.

Funnily enough a few years ago they enthusiastically jumped on copilot’s fancier autocomplete in VS Code, but getting them to really figure out how to get the most out of Claude Code required more pushing.

ido··on Guy in his basement creates a drug to treat Alzheimer's disease using AI
Any subject matter experts care to chime in with your gut feeling about where this sits in the "promising potential treatment" to "AI psychosis" spectrum?
ido··on AI's Affordability Crisis
> Based on such a basic mistake

The mistake of 'h' instead of 'y' typo?

ido··on The Manhoff Archives: Color photos of Stalin-era USSR taken by a US diplomat
Not just the USSR, Warsaw Pact countries in general (e.g. Prague was disproportionally well funded in Czechoslovakia in comparison to other cities - even accounting for its size and population) and probably authoritarian countries in general tend towards it. Of course in general the biggest cities/capital cities tend to be richer than smaller/less important cities but the comment was about the magnitude of the phenomenon in the USSR.
ido··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
They didn't write how old the kids were, there's a big difference between a 3 year old and a 12 year old.
ido··on Apple bets cheaper AI will woo small developers
I run a company of 4 people (including myself) and the "apple tax" (if by that you mean the price premium of macs and iphones vs PC and android) is a tiny fraction (borderline rounding error) of my budget.
ido··on AI is slowing down
But we know global GDP per capita (a proxy to wages)- the US represent about 25% of total global GDP (a metric which accounts for US wages being higher than average). I’m not being contrarian, I genuinely think the addressable market is the global market and not just the US (and by a wide margin) and as such thats the real potential of anthropic/openai/et al.
ido··on AI is slowing down
Why only US wages rather than global wages? The US is the biggest economy but it’s still only a minority of the global economy.
ido··on Programmers Aren't People
> 99 per 100 software devs are not fired

While far from 99%, there’s been a lot of layoffs in the last couple years and less hiring such that anyone that has been looking for work can tell you’re there’s a massive in experience before and after ~2023.

ido··on Europe raised me to fail and here is why
There are some valid points in there but “Europe” is too vague a label for this post. It’s the difference between Greece and the US (or Greece and SFBA).
ido··on Do we need billionaires?
Power and influence.
ido··on Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks
Phoenix often has kid-appropriate documentaries, and sometimes ARD and ZDF. Phoenix is the channel they watch the most, by far.
ido··on Toy Story 5 shows 'terror' of children's screen addiction, says Tom Hanks
Don’t give kids YouTube access. More curated platforms like Netflix or Amazon Prime at least filter out the worst dreck.

I find German public tv (I live in Germany) actually has relatively high quality programming for kids. I rather have my kids watch TV than streaming (when they’re allowed screen time), we bought a TV after almost 20 years of not having one.

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