jlarocco

That had to do more with competition for workers than it did business owners wanting to share productivity gains with them.

Nowadays there are plenty of people, so wages haven't risen to keep up.

1970s? More like the 1800s with the industrial revolution. Workers have almost never seen increased pay from more efficient production - it's the business owners and investors who benefit every time.

People can argue that the workers benefit from buying cheaper stuff, but that's on the other side of the equation.

FWIW, there are knock-off brands on Amazon selling collections of assorted Technic pieces for quite a bit cheaper than Lego. The colors are off, but the quality is pretty good.

I recently got nostalgic and checked Amazon for some Technic Lego sets to tinker with as an adult.

I feel bad saying it after growing up with Lego, but I ended up going with two collections of assorted pieces by some knock-off brands. The Lego sets are much more expensive and almost all of them have obnoxious branding tie-ins. Some of the Technic sets looked kind of dumbed down compared to what I remember as a kid, too.

The generic parts have been fine so far. Other than off colors and no embossed "Lego" logo, I can't really tell the difference. There are no instructions or pre-decided models to build, but making stuff up was always the best part.

IME the diferent components of Azure vary quite a bit. Some of them are great, others are pretty inconvenient or weirdly designed. I personally feel the web UI is terrible. I like that the APIs follow consistent rules and seem to follow good practices across the board. The documentation is hit or miss, kind of like the components themselves.

Honestly that's kind of been my experience with all of the cloud providers I've had to work with.

> It's convenient enough.

It doesn't sound like it.

I think I read somewhere that they kept that type of thing out of SimCity to make it fun.

And TBH they were right! I watch a bunch of city meetings that Boulder posts online (https://www.youtube.com/@CityofBoulderGov/videos) and it's exhausting the amount of back and forth nitpicking and NIMBYism that goes on. It's surprising anything gets done at all. The cynic in me thinks the rich get their way because they can pay people to keep fighting for them - everybody else gets fed up with it and stops participating.

I thought everybody knew this was a problem. Scrapers vacuum up data but don't have any way tell what's true or false.

It's interesting to have a specific case where obviously false data is being spread, but there's nearly an infinite number of more subtle variations around.

We're talking about the dorm room project of a rich kid who stole the idea from his friends and thinks his users are "dumb f**s".

There's really no reason to expect anything from Meta except for it to do what's best for Zuckerburg.

The Sherlock Holmes book is definitely one of my favorites!

It looks like it's on archive.org, but needs an account to see the whole thing: https://archive.org/details/elementarybasica00ledg/page/n291...

Interesting, but not what I was expecting. I have a small book collection, mostly from used book stores around Boulder, CO. I think the rarest and most interesting ones I have are:

"Music By Computers", published in 1969. Before books had websites, CDs, or floppy disks, they had "flexi discs". Covers composing and generating music on computers in the 60s. [0]

"Parallel Logic Programming" published in 1991. Covers implementing Prolog and other logic programming languages on multi-processor systems in the late 80s and early 90s. [1]

"Strand: New Concepts in Parallel Programming", published in 1990. Documents a language that's more-or-less a stepping stone between Prolog and Erlang. [2]

"LISP LORE: A Guide To Programming The Lisp Machine", published in 1987 and is an intro to programming on Lisp Machines. I found a mint condition copy at Goodwill for $1. [3]

"Elementary BASIC: Learning To Program Your Computer In Basic With Sherlock Holmes" published in 1982. Write BASIC code to help Sherlock and Watson solve cases. They just don't make computer books like this any more. [4]

"Man And The Computer" published in 1972, written by John Kemeny, one of the creators of Basic. Predicts the rise of home computers, the internet, Wikipedia, online news, and a bunch of other modern technologies decades before they actually existed. [5]

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Music-Computers-Heinz-von-Foerster/dp...

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262200875/parallel-logic-progra...

[2] https://archive.org/details/strandnewconcept0000fost

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Lore-Guide-Programming-Machine/d...

[4] https://www.amazon.com/Elementary-Chronicled-Learning-Comput...

[5] https://archive.org/details/mancomputerbyjoh0000john

"Assume people can see everything you post on the internet" still applies when using AI. It's not as newsworthy when you put it that way.

> Do you actually enjoy the smoke in your mouth, burning your eyes and lungs?

TBH I just didn't have those sensations. People wouldn't get hooked if it felt terrible.

My sister still smokes, and every now and then I'll have a few hits of one of hers, and it's great. No doubt I could get hooked again if I wasn't careful.

The silver lining is there's a whole boatload of drugs I never tried (and never will) because I know first hand how easy it is to get addicted.

As a former smoker (I started and quit twice), I strongly disagree that "Smoking tobacco is an unpleasant sensation."

It's terrible for your health, it's "burning money", it literally makes you stink, it makes you winded walking up stairs, and is generally terrible.

But the little head rush you get starting the day with a coffee and a cigarette feels great.

I don't know... AOL chat on a 56k modem (IMO) worked better than Teams and Slack and had most of the features.

I don't blame him for trying, but it seems like a long shot.

They can only increase rents as much as the next guy. If you're charging $2500 but next door is $2400, then nobody will rent from you. But if everybody's charging $2500, then that's what people will have to pay.

You're right that some people will get squeezed out, but in high demand markets there are enough people willing to pay that it doesn't matter. The number of properties available for rent in California isn't growing as fast as the total population is growing. Property owners will eat the 5% increase for a while - at least until the existing leases expire - but eventually they'll incorporate that 5% increase into the rent.

That doesn't say you can't do them, though - they just don't take responsibility if doing so fails because of Java somehow.

Basically, it voids the warranty, which you don't really have with Java anyway.

Now add 2D lists...

If you have enough money nobody can tell you what you do.

Yeah. Sometimes old hardware forces its hand and causes a big PITA.

I had a job working on VAX/VMS around 2009, but it was actually an emulator running on a PC because they just couldn't find any hardware to fix the VAX. At some point before I joined they had to get a ton of government approvals to use the emulator.

Fortunately they had a project to modernize the whole stack. And it was going to Solaris :-/

But who's selling the land? If everybody has to pay the tax then all of the property owners can increase rental prices by the same amount.

The idea that it needs to run an agent on the remote machine to edit files over SSH is itself bananas.

And I was pointing out that they are one and the same but the "Facebook" name was so tarnished by their terrible privacy practices they had to change it to save face.

But I guess if people like you are able to ignore that to make yourself feel better about giving your personal information to Zuckerberg's advertising company then anything is possible.

> They have Meta accounts now, which are also not Facebook accounts.

How gullible can you be?

The "increases the risk of extinction" bit is 100% marketing BS that they're spewing to pump up their stock prices and encourage the government to shutout foreign competition (who would use this ability against the USA, of course ).

They've played you like a fiddle.

I don't see what point you're trying to make. Those two examples work identically in the OSX terminal.

Something to keep in mind is that you don't have to use GNOME. There are a ton of window managers that run on Linux, and you can find one that works better for you.

There's not much choice on Mac unless you install Linux on it.

Well even if you think the iPhone UX is great, they'll change it for no reason in the next release.

Kinda. I use the `disassemble` function in Common Lisp quite a bit, and I can't work backwards to explain what a function is doing based on the disassembly.

BUT what I can do is see which functions are being inlined, which values are in memory versus in registers, see if things are being boxed and unboxed a lot, see if SIMD is being used, etc.

And more importantly I can compare two versions of a function to see which one looks better by those criteria. It's not perfect, but IME it works really well for guiding optimization.

I should add that I read the book "Assembly Language: step-by-step" by Jeff Duntemann, and wrote a Tic-Tac-Toe game in assembly ages ago, so that helps a bit to understand the syntax.

(And technically that's a patch file :-)