BeetleB

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by BeetleB 1mo ago
How well I remember someone predicting 7 of the last 2 recessions... Yes, one day , we'll have a recession. It doesn't mean the doom prophets were correct.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
This is a fairly cynical way to look at it. Consider the scenarios: Pre-LLM, most researchers wouldn't have bothered writing it up outside of a journal. They're extremely busy people, and it takes a lot of effort to write a well p
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> The period of Pluto's planethood represents just about 0.76% of recorded human history, but that does cover around 7% of the total number of people who have ever lived, about 10x the 'average'. Of course a lot of culture
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> I was also a power FF user at that time. It was not fast. Not at all. For me, the speed improvement in Chrome was marginal. Perhaps my PC at the time was simply too slow to notice the difference.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> Historically and culturally, Pluto is considered a planet. A very brief period of history. Give it 50 years and the number of people who will call it a planet will be close to 0. Let's not overstate Pluto's significance in cu
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Yeah - definitely by 2014 they were well entrenched within academia with their CUDA offerings. By that point it wasn't "luck".
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> Serious question: why do people use non-OS browsers? Because Edge sucks, and FF is better than Safari.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> It was just less of everything than Chrome. This is insane. As a power FF user, I don't think Chrome ever "got ahead". There were 2 reasons for its success (in order): 1. Made by a respected company that was killing ever
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
I remember those days. I still used FF even back then. Stability was an occasional issue with FF, but feature-wise Chrome was always better.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
The projectors are not worth the extra cost (not even close!). When I think of all the classes I took in over a decade at universities, very few benefited from projectors. They existed mostly for lazy professors who wanted to write a slide
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
What year are you talking about? When I was in grad school, around 2007, Nvidia was aggressively marketing GPUs for high performance computing. They would go to campuses, talk to professors, etc. Yes, the whole Deep Learning thing was luc
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> Do you have any idea what a "typical" middle class lifestyle was like in the 1960s? You mean the one where they could have 3 kids, send them to college, and graduate with no debt? One of my professors went to UC Berkeley in t
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Regarding travel, you can decide for yourself: https://www.bts.gov/content/annual-us-domestic-average-itine...
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Same here. If it's really interesting I'll try Reader Mode. Otherwise I close the tab. I'm not going to waste my time figuring out where to click to get rid of it.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
I came looking for this comment. I suspect Billy is the most hacked piece of IKEA furniture!
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> Nitpick but solid wood furniture does not weigh more than the particleboard furniture from Ikea. While perhaps IKEA sells some heavy wood furniture, most of it is fairly light.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> I’m looking forward to inheriting some of my parents furnitures and getting rid of some of the ikea crap.. they are furniture that have been in the family in some cases for over 200 years, and I learned to maintain them and care for th
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Couch: I'd never get from IKEA. Comfort really matters. I have 2 IKEA beds. Quite happy with them! Ditto dressers and nightstands. I don't see why I'd get something more expensive.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
I had an XT. Not IBM. It had BASIC ROM. Everyone I know who had an XT (8088 or 8086) had BASIC in the ROM. None was IBM and all were different companies. I don't think Compaq even made XTs, did they?
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Yes, but most people bought IBM Compatibles, not IBM. I don't think I know anyone who bought an actual IBM PC.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
If you're a company that has 20 facilities, all run in more or less the same way, it means you expect to be checked every year. As I said: 5% may be too low. But perhaps 20% would be good/great.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> I believe the statistic was that the people responsible for keeping our food system safe only have the capacity to inspect around 5% of domestic agricultural and food processing operations nation-wide. Over what time period? If they ca
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
For API users, it says: "The Company do not store any of the content the Customer or its End Users provide or generate while using our Services. This includes any texts, or other data you input. This information is processed in real-ti
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Why are you asking the person who said Emacs isn't the best at any particular thing? If you want to engage, at least read the comments.
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Well, after getting deported to a country he's never lived in, and separated from all his children, and possibly never getting a stable job because he declared he was involved in terrorism, and having his elderly mother not have anyone
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
I'm pretty sure the BASIC that launched from my ROM was not from Microsoft...
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> There are other tools that are fast, free, and capable which do not have this problem. You are merely mirroring what I said. > There's good reason that all the new agentic development environments aren't forks of Emacs or
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
Yes, it may take some work these days. I was addressing the claim that it's "not a reasonable expectation" with a pretty poor rationale provided. The rationale applied equally well in the 80's and 90's, and no one t
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> but I haven't used it because their privacy policy was pretty buns last time I checked. What did you find objectionable? I looked at it when I subscribed almost a year ago and I was fine with it (e.g. they don't train on your
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by BeetleB 1mo ago
> Even before PCs, computers typically shipped with BASIC, which was their operating system of sort. Sure. In the 80's, all the IBM PC compatibles I dealt with shipped with BASIC in their ROM. But I don't think they charged a l

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