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🧙‍♂️ Herding bits and cats

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🦾 This is what the next Mac Pro COULD be
— @geerlingguy


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl5H5rT87JE

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A recruiter contacted me about a Rust job opening.

🫠 It was web3 related of course.
🤡 The founding team comes from fmr SVB. employees, they do risk management.
🫣 SV bros keep failing upwards, but now they're too broke to hire locally.
🦄 And the business model is pixie dust, at best.

Anyway, some 24 yo monkee avatar kid will fall for it, not my jam.

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「 Selling autism as a brand likely perpetuates some generalizations — even stereotypes — in the name of overcoming bias, a complicated compromise, if a strategic one 」
— @nytimes


https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/02/21/magazine/autism-office-design.html

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「 Anxiety, commonly experienced in people with autism, can make typical workplace competition unbearable; one Auticon employee, compared his experience at his last job to the television show “Survivor.” The interview process alone is a sociability test that many people with autism are destined to fail or inclined to avoid altogether 」
— @nytimes

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@peterainbow
Sorry to hear about your experience.

I learned about my autism from a previous job, I later quit, felt ashamed at the time for exposing my "personal issues" in order to explain myself.

Not the team's fault tho, they were cool.

It was the last time I took a stable job. Since then I've been very selective about what to work on, even if that means sacrificing good faith opportunities.

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⚡ Why Don’t We Have 128-Bit Computers Yet?


https://www.howtogeek.com/858423/why-dont-we-have-128-bit-computers-yet/

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「 Broadly speaking, the PARC researchers set out to explore possible technologies for use in what Xerox had tagged “the office of the future.” They aimed to develop the kind of computing hardware and software that they thought could be both technologically and economically possible, desirable, and, perhaps to a lesser extent, profitable in about 10 to 15 years 」
— Spectrum IEEE


https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

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「 Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in the Rust programming language, and the more memory-safe code is already reaching developers.

David "dwizzle" Weston, director of OS security for Windows, announced the arrival of Rust in the operating system's kernel at BlueHat IL 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel, last month 」

— The Register

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/27/microsoft_windows_rust/

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「 Andrea Cunningham wrote, “Part of Steve wanted to prove to others and to himself that Apple wasn’t just luck”

Jobs felt betrayed by what had happened at Apple and his removal from the levers of power and was determined to ensure that NeXT was run exactly as he felt it should be, with him in complete control and answerable to nobody 」
— Another Boring Article


https://anotherboringtopic.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-next-computer

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「 In the end NeXT failed as a business, its computers were only bought in small quantities and its giant automated factory, capable of making thousands of machines a month, frequently was manufacturing fewer than 100. Although its status as a revolutionary system with a strong cool factor was undisputed, few people bought the computers or used the software 」
— Another Boring Topic

#NeXT #NeXTStep #Retrocomputing
https://anotherboringtopic.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-next-computer

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I just wanted a place to post about cats, retro stuff and Java rants.

Leftubers are always one month away from going full greenwalding.

Hard to be shaped by bigsocial once you find a place where people are people, not an act or mask.

Shitposting isn't artificially propelled to the top to increase engagement via outrage.

Not perfect tho, it also makes breaking news and issues harder to gain momentum.

Twitter was great at flattening, which created horrible side effects.

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🚀 10 Watt HA Proxmox Cluster ft. ZimaBoard
— Raid Owl


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JfZuZ6zE7AI&feature=youtu.be

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Another Princess Is In Our Castle - A Mario 64 Horror Game Where Peach REALLY Hates Visitors!
— @AlphaBetaGamer


https://youtu.be/szf5fn5gNK0

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「 The carbon load of LLM model-building and execution is horrifying. Quote: “…the amount of compute used to train the largest deep learning models (for NLP and other applications) has increased 300,000x in 6 years, increasing at a far higher pace than Moore’s Law.” 」
— @timbray


https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2023/03/14/Binging

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「 One worker’s conclusion: Bard was “a pathological liar,” according to screenshots of the internal discussion. Another called it “cringe-worthy.” One employee wrote that when they asked Bard suggestions for how to land a plane, it regularly gave advice that would lead to a crash; another said it gave answers on scuba diving “which would likely result in serious injury or death.” 」
— Bloomberg


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-04-19/google-bard-ai-chatbot-raises-ethical-concerns-from-employees

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Me: "You've made your bed, now lie in it"
Augusto: ...

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「 It’s true that if you’re managing a software project the choice of tools does matter, but this choice pales in comparison to the following simpler ways to mitigate risk:

Offset the risk using as many legal and insurance instruments possible.

Having a highly liquid talent pool.

Factoring software failures into the expectations and economics of projects.

Ability to restart the project with different assumptions and team if it all goes awry 」
— Stephen Diehl https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/marketing.html

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「 IBM even spent 50 million dollars in October of 1988 to buy a license to use the NeXTStep operating system as the operating system for some of its PCs, potentially replacing DOS, although it never actually used it. As a side note, for all of NeXTSTEP OS’s unfinished state in 1988, it was probably considerably better than IBM’s own OS/2 operating system, which had been updated with a marginal graphical user interface that same month 」


https://anotherboringtopic.substack.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-next-computer

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「 On 22 May 1973, Metcalfe wrote a memo describing his “ETHER Network.” His design built on networking technology from the famed Arpanet, then being constructed, along with an experimental digital radio network developed at the University of Hawaii called ALOHAnet. By November 1973, Metcalfe and another PARC researcher, David Boggs, had developed a network that began to come to life inside the research center 」
— Spectrum IEEE


https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

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「 Kay envisioned a new sort of software environment and programming language for the Dynabook. In this digital world, children and adults alike would be able to create their own tools, models, and simulations; share them and build on one another’s work; and exchange the resulting knowledge. The key to accomplishing all that would be a new approach to coding that came to be known as object-oriented programming」


https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto

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Trying to change some bad habits.

Went to sleep earlier and woke up at midnight 🫠

I'll get there eventually.

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「 BeOS was, at the time, a foray into a new way of doing home computing. The features it introduced that were brand new at the time are now ubiquitous — things such as preemptive multitasking, journaling filesystems and an uncluttered desktop design. In a way, it was forward-thinking enough that if you look at a screenshot of it today you’d swear it was just any other modern Linux environment, ’90s graphical aesthetic aside 」
— @hackaday


https://hackaday.com/2020/01/09/beos-the-alternate-universes-mac-os-x

jbzfn, to programming
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🐍 Programming as a Way of Thinking
— Sciam

「 Some ideas that are easy to express computationally are awkward to write in math notation, and the symbolic manipulations we do in math are impossible in most programming languages 」

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/programming-as-a-way-of-thinking/

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Augusto checkout for the night
It's only me against the machine.

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「 A common trap we have in software design comes from focusing on how "simple" we find it to read and interpret a given piece of code. Focusing on simplicity is fraught with peril because complexity can't be removed: it can just be shifted around. If you move it out of your code, where does it go? 」
— @mononcqc

#Complexity #Simplicity
https://ferd.ca/complexity-has-to-live-somewhere.html

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