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I can relate much to the author's experience. I am also a Korean immigrant, with parents who owned a retail business, who grew up in the NYC area with a Commodore 64. I also majore…

I worked in tech investment banking for a decade out of college, and now work for myself. I majored in history and Spanish at Columbia, which is associated with at least two other …

What Lutus talks about exists even when it's not for anyone else. I have never been paid to write code, and my formal CS education is limited to AP Computer Science, and a one-cred…

> This is meant to insult AI skeptics, let's not pretend to be idiots. Only an idiot would read the piece in that way. >It should be flagged and taken down. Even if it really did "…

>The main value of modern ape coding appears to be recreational. Ape coders manifest high levels of engagement during coding sessions and report feelings of relaxation after succee…

Usenet killfiles are not "totally reliable". Nym shifting has always been a thing, even before Google Groups-based commercial mass spamming using constantly changing From: lines in…

I address that in the comments at https://www.filfre.net/2022/05/a-web-around-the-world-part-1... >

Nothing has changed since Jerry Pournelle wrote 40 years ago when discussing online forums: >I noticed something: most of the irritation came from a handful of people, sometimes on…

>Unfortunately for HP, its workstations (the ones OP acquired) weren't nearly as popular with universities and developers as Sun Microsystems', so you tended to find HP-UX in comme…

If this is true, it will be a significant change in strategy. The company has always played upmarket. Average iPhone prices have risen since the first iPhone 18 years ago, as oppos…

When I started at Goldman Sachs, I was told early on of an "Israeli discount" and "Canadian discount"; that is, investors were more skeptical of companies based in those countries.…

>Some foolishly believed that the twin towers were invincible after the 1993 WTC bombing. I was told right after the bombing, by someone with a large engineering firm (Schlumberger…

I read and enjoyed The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun , but another book by Rhodes made me question his veracity. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4413437417 >

>but you could just plug MX-80 series in to Windows 9x and pick any of the same fonts as you would for a laser printer, and it went bi-directional laying down overlapping dots like…

I used Applixware on Linux during college. Here's what I wrote to someone else at the time: ---- I've been using Applixware 4.2 then 4.3 to write papers and such for a year and a h…

>It was as formative of a moment as my 2nd Grade teacher showing us a really complex looking (at the time) rainbow flower in LOGO (she had one of few color Mac classic), and showin…

Nothing has changed since Jerry Pournelle wrote 40 years ago when discussing online forums: >I noticed something: most of the irritation came from a handful of people, sometimes on…

> Apple delivered an OS that the “year of the Linux desktop” folk had been (and still are) trying to deliver for years. Indeed. I figured this out on the day in 2003 when I first t…

I have never been paid to write code, and my formal CS education is limited to AP Computer Science, and a one-credit Java class in college. But like 2OEH8eoCRo0, I can say that Red…

I have never been paid to write code, and my formal CS education is limited to AP Computer Science, and a one-credit Java class in college. I wrote 20 years ago a backup script imp…

My father says "I feel like I hired an able assistant" regarding LLMs.

20 years ago, when I helped cover IT hardware including AAPL for a large investment bank, our analyses consistently showed that Apple products were comparable in price to competing…

I knew the very basics of the story, but did not know/hadn't put it together in my mind that kernel 1.0 appeared in mid-1994, and not somewhere in the 1991-1993 timeframe as I had …

I use two of the mentioned browsers. I have elinks as a default `tmux` pseudoterminal. I don't use it often, but it's always there. My emacs setup uses w3m as the parser for HTML m…

>At its soul, Apple is a software company that also makes their own hardware. Nokia was a hardware company that also made their own software. ... and bad software, of course. Worse…