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It's not' impossible', it's economically unviable. There's a difference. We really should be mandating that companies that don't pay fair market prices for the data they use to tra…

I have a (completely unscientific) theory that my tinnitus is a result of early exposure to CRT TV's and my brain trying to compensate for the noise. The reason I say that is that …

I can't help but wonder whether the solution here is something like building a multi-resolution understanding of the codebase. All the way from an architectural perspective includi…

If the tariffs are able to act as a sustained source of revenue then they're not working to bring manufacturing back to the US. If they work to bring manufacturing back then they'r…

- Error correcting codes (viterbi, reed/Solomon, ...) - cryptography in general - data compression - a lot of DSP stuff is pretty magical in it's various applications - digital fil…

I think it's probably about the timing. I'm not an expert, but I believe that opening the side borders requires cycle exact timing at both edges of the screen, and when you have ch…

> The amount of effort to do a single 30 minute video of this sort when scaled out to a half or full year math class is significant. This is true if Grant is the only person doing …

Start paying attention to the things that bog you down when working on code, and the things that your users (ought to) expect to be easy but that are inscrutably difficult to achie…

Kung Fu flash is probably all you need, with a few caveats (eg. With KFF the drive is "emulated" by intercepting kernal vectors rather than acting as a 1541 on the serial bus, so s…

I credit the C64 that I had as a kid and magazines like COMPUTE! / Compute's Gazette for my career in software. I taught myself 6510 assembler and started writing some simple demo-…

This reminds of the corporate adage: "You can choose to invest in your people and run the risk that they leave, or you can choose not to invest in your people and run the risk that…

Only you can decide where your moral compass points, and how far you're prepared to go in an opposing direction for wealth and/or fame. I think most people will feel better working…

I'd love to hear about your recovery journey.. it seems like quite the gravity-well to have escaped from. Would you consider writing a blog post or sharing here?

There are a lot of weird and wonderful tax breaks in Australia likely helping to drive up the sales of utes*. I don't think it's necessarily that Aussies love driving them as much …

> You never add abstractions until you can’t avoid them. Whilst I accept that bad abstractions can really hold a codebase back, good abstractions and layering are what make code cl…

20 years ago I worked on a mainframe system that, at the time, was said to have "18 months to live". Fast forward to today, the system is more entrenched than it ever was, and stil…

> Monoliths are problematic because they are too large and unweildy; The idea that something could become less unwieldy or overall "smaller" by splitting it into separate codebases…

> even just updating the dependencies might sometimes be impossible (in a reasonable timeframe). Consider the situation where you have a proliferation of micro-services all using a…

It's 1000x easier to refactor the monolith into a more modular form when it's in a single repo. Wait until you want to try to refactor across service boundaries in a u-services wor…

And anyone not on iOS stuck with webkit.

They couldn't be, realistically, any more closed without being an essentially infinite money sink of the kind even nation states would struggle to fund long-term. It's the public u…

Maybe they're working to tweak the chain-of-thought mechanism to eg. Insert-subtle-manipulative-reference-to-sponsor, or other similar enshittification, and don't want anything lea…

Feel free to reach out, a few people from this thread seem to be doing similar things, including looking at the protocols involved and interop requirements. It would be good to com…

The main trouble I have with mongo or document databases in general is that using them effectively requires a lot of design thinking up front. You need to really understand your do…

Also, Postgres. It has built in support for json data types, can index on json fields, and do most of the stuff you'd want to do in mongo while not locking you into that paradigm f…