Philadelphia

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by Philadelphia 2y ago
Maybe one or two of them, but I had Macs in 1991, and much later, and they didn’t have built-in Ethernet. You would use a dongle off the ADB port for networking.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
Most computers from 1990 didn’t have built-in ethernet or native support for TCP/IP, though, so you would have to buy and install both of them.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
Also star of Real Genius
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
It's not just social media. What enabled things to get to this point was Fox News, which was created specifically to do that. " In 1970, political consultant Roger Ailes and other Nixon aides came up with a plan to create a new TV
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
This has been done with pizza, and books, and actual cash for at least 30 years. The results of trial programs haven’t been significant enough for it to spread.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
It’s at least 1400 years older than cheeseburgers
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
Requiring a signature, as the article suggests, doesn’t help. The delivery people just ignore it. My iPhone was left outside despite requiring a signature. I changed my schedule to be home when it was delivered. They didn’t even knock on th
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
So these people are sending classified specs on American military vehicles to people who just happen to have a bias toward Russian vehicles?
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
You can develop entirely from text files on the command line
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
There used to be a popular app in the early days of the app store called SitOrSquat, that had locations of public toilets along with reviews of their condition. It was really useful. Charmin bought it at some point, and it existed for a whi
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
I don’t think you can call the Mac App Store “good”.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
It’s a line by Upton Sinclair: “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
Painkillers don’t work for many types of pain
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
There’s no evidence that this is even going to be a viable business model, commercially or technically. There’s no “moat” around it or obvious first mover advantage. It seems very early to worry about competition.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
You’re implying the situation is as stable as it is in other first-world countries. It’s not. It’s brand new, and Donald Trump has sworn it’s going away.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
Only since the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”). Before that, it was common to not be able to get insurance with pre-existing conditions at all without being covered by your employer. And even sometimes your employer’s plan had a waiting p
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
LLM’s also have no life experience, so they can wrote poems, but those poems aren’t communicating anything real. Poetry in the vein of Whitman and Dickinson and Plath is very much about a person expressing their very personal experiences an
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
If it was like other poetry generation programs of the 80’s and 90’s, it was generating a lot more crap than gold. People definitely were picking out the most cohesive examples, and probably even improving on them themselves.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
It’s not really that hard to make new ones.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
Looking at the logs for Apple Intelligence on my iPhone 15 Pro Max, almost everything is actually run remotely
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
They’re pretty abysmal for things that are StackOverflow related, too? I’ve tested a lot of things recently, and all of them have had pieces that were just absolutely wrong, including referencing libraries or steps or tools that didn’t exis
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
Like environmental issues, this is a corporate problem being presented as an individual problem. It’s not going to be fixed by every single individual person monitoring every single thing they eat. It’s going to be fixed by removing the inc
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
If we’re dealing with an all-powerful Skynet intelligence, or even a WOPR or Wintermute, won’t it just figure out how to bypass the verification system?
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
CVS owns an entire health insurance company, a pharmacy benefits management company, and a chain of urgent care offices, among other things. They’re not a warm, fuzzy monopoly.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
David Copperfield is the magician’s name, if that’s who you meant
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
As a person with Jewish ancestry from the Italian peninsula in the 15th Century, I can say there are some other issues with this.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
I always use “elephant” as my debugging statement, since it’s unlikely to come up in the code and easy to search for when you need to remove it, and also pretty innocuous. If you’re writing software for zoos, you might want to try something
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
I remember being scared by this as a kid.
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by Philadelphia 2y ago
This is probably the best reason. I had a project where it went in reverse. It was a type of content that was controlled in certain countries. We launched a new feature and suddenly started getting reports from users in one country that the
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Maryland enacts one of the strongest data privacy laws in the nation(pirg.org)
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