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New comment by thrown_22 in "H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs"

thrown_22 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:35:56 +0000

Yes, and that's why the immigrants who make it are the best and brightest. The average ones didn't cut it.

New comment by thrown_22 in "H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs"

thrown_22 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:35:09 +0000

Living in the US is a privilege not a right until you become a citizen.

New comment by thrown_22 in "H-1B visa holders scramble for jobs after 2022 tech layoffs"

thrown_22 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 22:12:37 +0000

The benefits are split $200,000 for faang and -$150,000 the rest of the country though.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party"

thrown_22 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:12:38 +0000

> That's just not true. All but a handful of the smallest LAN parties I attended I the 90's and early 00's included console gaming. It was pretty much assumed there would be consoles at a LAN.

You should have gone to better parties.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party"

thrown_22 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 15:11:14 +0000

Until you dropped your screen on the drive way into your friends house and heard the magic sound a CRT makes when it implodes.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Thinking Forth (1984)"

thrown_22 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 14:12:00 +0000

That's literally what it's for. Forth is the simplest language to get running on hardware which you have no idea how to program directly. Much easier than doing it for C.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Just a bunch of idiots having fun: a photo history of the LAN party"

thrown_22 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 13:55:39 +0000

Split screen was never a part of lan parties. The reason why lan parties stopped was because it was hard to move a tower around.

Even during that period it was much easier to go to a lanshop and play there either as in lan or on the proto cloud servers they had.

Many fond memories of early battle.net and much fewer of steam.

New comment by thrown_22 in "[dead]"

thrown_22 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 05:11:16 +0000

Intel to the German high command that allied troop strength would be severely depleted in the 1919/1920 winter.

New comment by thrown_22 in "An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs"

thrown_22 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:42:15 +0000

Just buy a keyboard ffs.

New comment by thrown_22 in "An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs"

thrown_22 — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:05:22 +0000

To anyone reading: don't just be a consumer. There are enough projects made for people who just consume. Emacs is still a project run for people who make stuff with it. Please go somewhere else if you have no interest in building anything.

New comment by thrown_22 in "An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 23:03:50 +0000

>I'm a writer and I'm really good at punctuation and spelling, do I really need to learn how to write a good story?

Vim is a text editor, emacs is a text manipulator. If you never want to do more than copy a rectangle of text from region a to region b then you don't need more than vim. If you want to write tools that fit your workflow you need to know elisp.

New comment by thrown_22 in "An Interview with Mickey Petersen, Author of Mastering Emacs"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 22:59:36 +0000

No.

Vim is a text editor.

Emacs is a lisp interpreter whose dialect of lisp is specialized for text manipulation. In emacs the user interface is incidental to the main goal of programmatic text manipulation.

In vim the user interface is the be all and end all. Which is why vim is now a specialized emacs mode when you need character based text manipulation.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 09:40:13 +0000

Yes.

New comment by thrown_22 in "$477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 07:10:10 +0000

>Every criminal we have caught was stupid, ergo all criminals are stupid.

Sure thing bud.

New comment by thrown_22 in "$477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 06:51:34 +0000

>Hur hur, street smarts better than smart smarts.

It's a solved problem, and has been since the first bitcoin paper. That no one read that and just heard "magic internet gold I can get rich from" is their problem and not mine.

You don't get rich quick off the bitcoin protocol however so we have people run places like FTX: centralize and get the big bucks because they provide convenience. Then act surprised when it goes tits up like every other centralized system.

Same thing with people not encrypting their emails or not using tor as a bridge to the internet. In short: if you're the type of person who doesn't have their own key, yeah, prepare to get wrenched. The rest of us can manage our exposure quite easily.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 05:23:53 +0000

The idea that Mozilla spends 1/500th of its budget on firefox is wrong. Just look at their fillings.

New comment by thrown_22 in "$477M FTX ‘hack’ was a Bahamian government asset seizure"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 03:21:14 +0000

We could call that problem something fancy like the Byzantine General Problem and try and figure out ways to solve it mathematically.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 02:34:00 +0000

A dozen at least, yes.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%"

thrown_22 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 01:21:01 +0000

Firefox is sucking up all the donations for such browsers. So no, them dying would make a thousands flowers bloom.

New comment by thrown_22 in "Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%"

thrown_22 — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 21:27:23 +0000

>Look Mr. Government, we're not a monopoly. We have a competitor! *

*Who were funding and have neutered to the point where they've lost 90% of their market share in the last 10 years. Have fired all their developers and are spending the money on spending that looks a lot like what GFX did.

Mozilla is a dead weight around the neck of the internet. The best thing that can happen is that it dies and something new, run by people who actually make things, is created again.

When was the last time anyone was excited about a firefox update?