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dosisking

18 hours agodiscuss

JS is Self, which is a dialect of Smalltalk. So not really Lisp imo

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18 hours agodiscuss

Python is definitely Light Side

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18 hours agodiscuss

Just look for the people who like Rust and filter them out

dosisking

5 days agodiscuss

Everytime I try and use one of those Complex 3D web games, all 8 cores of my computer go to 100% and my computer becomes unresponsive until I kill the web browser.

Its really amazing how inefficient those Complex 3D web games are.

dosisking

5 days agodiscuss

And Fireworks Construction Kit

And Garry Kitchen's Game Maker

dosisking

6 days agodiscuss

So maybe try the weapons industry? If you write a bug, it will probably miss the target, and people won't die.

dosisking

8 days agodiscuss

China is not the enemy.

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8 days agodiscuss

AI climate change.

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8 days agodiscuss

Computers are like a bicycle for the mind.

LLM AI is like Uber for the mind.

dosisking

10 days agodiscuss

Early Usenet was similar, there were no flamewars or anything like that.

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10 days agodiscuss

Nothing beats NHL '94

dosisking

10 days agodiscuss

No, OP is correct, you are wrong. N64 hardware is much more powerful, and the MMU makes a big difference.

dosisking

13 days agodiscuss

I guess Diocletian was the first Communist, before there was such a thing as Communism.

The price fixing was a failure, as would be expected. I am not sure if 'sophistication' is the right word to describe it.

dosisking

15 days agodiscuss

LLMs in general have a limited use, and are a dead end. So small local LLMs are also a dead end. That of course, does not stop people from using LLMs for purposes that they are not good at.

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15 days agodiscuss

Basically, you are saying "There are 4 lights"

dosisking

16 days agodiscuss

Most everything they teach in economics class is wrong. You would be better off ignoring everything they teach you.

dosisking

17 days agodiscuss

No they are not. They are bland and unoriginal.

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17 days agodiscuss

90% of "Senior" Programmers are not very good programmers, but they think that they are, and look down upon "Junior" Programmers.

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17 days agodiscuss

It's hard to take an article that uses the word 'ginormous' seriously

dosisking

17 days agodiscuss

> Apple makes so much money that they can fund the creation of incredibly high quality shows with basically minimal advertising.

But Apple has not created any high quality shows.

Simply throwing money at something does not automatically make it good.

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