Angostura

3 ms·

1.
by Angostura 6d ago
But were you successfully conned into believing an AI had solved the Navier-Stokes problem?
2.
by Angostura 9d ago
I think you've said nothing here other "Look up a good summary of the Monroe doctrine, with which I mildly disagree"
3.
by Angostura 9d ago
Does low-tariff trade and easier freedom of movement offer benefits?
4.
by Angostura 9d ago
Tokens want to be paid for
5.
by Angostura 10d ago
> What's the point here? That everyone should use the n-nines notation? Sure. However, companies have no inte Skip to the last 2 paragraphs
6.
by Angostura 10d ago
I don’t see why you think “12 hours affected in the last 30 days (98.31% uptime)” Is trying to spin anything . It’s making easier to see the impact over the last 30 days. I agree with the article
7.
by Angostura 14d ago
It might be reasonable for a new source you don’t pay for to make money from advertising. Not so, the company that sells you a tv
8.
by Angostura 14d ago
Indeed. Chances that it will be humans who turn out to be fittest?
9.
by Angostura 15d ago
I’m not sure that’s true. I’m old enough to remember the great British bread strike of 1977 https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/11045641.look-back-chaos-c... One of the effects of the strike was that white sliced was in
10.
by Angostura 15d ago
There was an excellent fully featured version of Logo for the ZxSpectrum that got me hooked. Came for the graphics, stayed for the recursion and string handling
11.
by Angostura 15d ago
Migration assistant can also use a TM backup, I’m pretty sure
12.
by Angostura 15d ago
Ah, that’s interesting- I wasn’t aware and I can see why it would be annoying
13.
by Angostura 15d ago
I’m sticking with the 13 Mini as long as possible. iOS 25 public beta is probably faster than 26 on it.
14.
by Angostura 19d ago
Can you give some examples of a goal you can’t accomplish?
15.
by Angostura 19d ago
From what I can tell from the project team, Apple aren’t being hostile. Just not contributing resource
16.
by Angostura 19d ago
Mine is still attached to the network, but I’ve turned off all the ad/customisation &AI stuff. Seems to work fine, no ads etc. though usually I’m using it simply as a screen for the AppleTV. I do have it isolated from other devices
17.
by Angostura 20d ago
Investors
18.
by Angostura 22d ago
Never enough Frank Sidebottom on here
19.
by Angostura 23d ago
Chain Of Tokens
20.
by Angostura 23d ago
Tongue in cheek dry humour, nothing more. "That wasn't a very good idea was it old chap?"
21.
by Angostura 24d ago
Interesting. My initial thought was “this is so horribly written it must be human”
22.
by Angostura 25d ago
Big studios will love this They’ll come across some talented little band playing some nice new tune in a tiny club, record it on their phone and give it to one of the existing boy-bands to play. No need to sign up aspiring artists any more
23.
by Angostura 1mo ago
There was also the semi-mythical PowerPC 615 that was meant to have both PowerPC and x86 instruction sets. W
24.
by Angostura 1mo ago
I found the piece interesting, once I worked out what it was about. I strongly disagree that taking time to spell out acronyms should be taken as a signal that an article is low level.
25.
by Angostura 1mo ago
I have a particular antipathy for articles too lazy to spell out acronyms on first use. So: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrieval-augmented_generation
26.
by Angostura 1mo ago
If you enjoy clicking things you can spend hours in their cookie consent boxes untickinv the several hundred individual ‘legitimate interest’ tick boxes for individual vendors
27.
by Angostura 1mo ago
A root cause investigation that concludes 'the system as a whole is fragile and poorly designed' sounds highly valuable - and they do happenl; I've seen them in healthcare
28.
by Angostura 1mo ago
Could someone outline the threat to me? If mirrror life can only use mirror molecules as a source of nutrient - which are unavailable for use by conventional organisms, it feels like an infection risk is limited.
29.
by Angostura 1mo ago
The final paragraph of the article > According to NextEra Energy, Unit 1 at St. Lucie is back online at 100% power after operators safely resolved an equipment issue. I wish the article had said where on earth St Lucie is. Never heard of
30.
by Angostura 2mo ago
I knew him as the founder of UK Online - only met him a few times but he seems a really friendly, helpful guy. Sorry to hear of his passing

More ›