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Graham's book "On Lisp" is really good. I think we should all try to recognize what's good from people, and call what's bad what it is. Unfortunately, there's a lot of bad in SV no…

This seems really clever. I don't know anything about what it takes to serve the targeted needs, so I could be wrong. But it's the sort of thing that pops out as really cool and us…

Windows 95 was definitely better for MS users, but it was really just patching a hole in a single company's product line. Macs were far more solid than Win 95/98/SE at the time, an…

There were an usually large number of big prize winners in last night's Powerball drawing. The drawn white balls form an arithmetic progression, with a common difference of 16.

General Motors is worth $72B.

Here's a mirror link: http://archive.today/CJlNk

It doesn't change the reality of what's happening, so I don't think this is worth much, but most people here don't think that.

I think the big problem is that this is more like a sanction, more than the government saying they don't want to do business with them. They government is saying that anyone they d…

I think that sometimes they decide certain businesses have too much fraud, and they just get out of them. It's terrible for them to do that with no notice, though.

Were any people who work for the garment industry involved in GNL's creation, or is it something that's coming entirely from tech people?

It wasn't quite as old, but there was an old MS DOS database system called Cosmos Revelation that was sort of a proto-nosql/graph database used keys and values for records, with th…

This is a great description of how I use Claude.

It would be really ironic if the guy who kept harping on the need to make us an interplanetary species ended up being the one who triggered a Kessler effect. But I don't think even…

My doctor's office was using it. I didn't want to give them my biometric data.

I'm writing my first custom policy for MS's B2C identity provider, and it's a painful process. Making authentication and SSO more painless will actually make the world a better pla…

This matches my experience as an amateur programmer. The initial hill was steep, but I don't think it was because people weren't friendly. There is one cultural thing that might be…

I was on the Cypherpunks list, mostly as a lurker. The technical discussions were amazing. I was really into it at the time, but now I find some of the political ideas to be embarr…

Thank you, this is helpful.

Does anyone have any idea how a person could go about trying to understand the basics of what's going on here, even in just a hand wavey way? This is so far above my head it seems …

I don't know if I'd go so far as to disqualify someone, but I agree with the basic point you're making. What you've described happens with religious people of a certain type as wel…

Thanks, I'll definitely give that a try.

I think they still introduce small problems for people who run software they don't like. For example, if you run Linux on your desktop, and want to use a Windows VM for work, you c…

Has anyone been able to confirm that this actually happened?