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by _wire_ 1y ago
This article's claim is a good demonstration of Brandolini's law. End of discussion.
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Why do people call businessmen "suits"? Or say that "planes fly" but not that "submarines swim"? When and where does an aircraft carrier "set sail"? What exactly is "pre-boarding" at an airp
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by _wire_ 1y ago
//Google's Veo 3 Is generating mind-blowing AI videos: Here are the craziest ones yet!// https://www.androidauthority.com/google-veo-3-best-ai-videos...
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by _wire_ 1y ago
> if you switch two statements' places, but one of the was the last one in the block, you will need to also shuffle that pesky semicolon... Blarg, zarg, arg. -> Arg, blarg. zarg, All I want to do is switch two words
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Imagine no file types ♪ It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Visualize whirled peas Ah ah ah oooo! You may say I'm a dreamer...
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by _wire_ 1y ago
But there was the Apple 80 column card option with full ascii. Add USCD Pascal and suddenly it morphed from plaything to a programming-for-computer-science trainer.
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by _wire_ 1y ago
//What, exactly, does a social network do?// <i>It's as if no one had ever thought of any of it before</i> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry Go on... /&#x2F
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by _wire_ 1y ago
This article wastes readers' time by pretending to command of a subject in a manner that is authoritative only in its uncertainty. Pixel is an abbreviation for 'picture element' which describes a unit of electronic image repr
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Hauntology, Lost Futures and Lost 80s Nostalgia https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gSvUqhZcbVg
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I will attempt to agree by disagreeing: Ep I, II, III are bad in so many ways that they may end up aging the best. It's impossible to take any of it seriously, from the infidelity of the world of the first trilogy, to the ludicrous cha
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by _wire_ 2y ago
And that his vision readout is Motorola 6502 machine code, including comments for peeks and pokes. It was a simpler time.
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Ah good call! I noticed that too, but didn't mention it because I want to believe the packaging would be designed tend to keep the food in... But yes, this too because the packages wouldn't use an open-ended straw? At the time of
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by _wire_ 2y ago
My bad re Party reference... From imdb trivia: //The sequence in which Peter Sellers's character plays his bugle to rouse his troops is a satire of Gunga Din (1939).//
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Star Wars 4K77 A 4K fan scan of a 35mm print the was in cold storage since 1980. It's great to see OG Star Wars looking like in did in '77, with all the optical glitches and the lower contrast with slightly green shadow bias of pr
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by _wire_ 2y ago
In the referenced video, there's a clip from the movie Glory where a fair-skinned hand with a digital watch is in the frame. I like to think this must be a glib reference to Blake Edward's' The Party (1968) in which Peter Sel
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by _wire_ 2y ago
The only one I've ever noticed on my own in a long life of watching movies is the compressed air tank to overturn a chariot in Gladiator (2000). I was told about the pole that causes the truck to flip in Raiders of the Lost Ark and now
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Step 1: Computer, make me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If this can't work, the program abstraction is insufficient to the task. This insufficiency is not a surprise. That an ordinary 5-year can make a sandwich after only ever se
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Capitalism fully explained in one terse comment. Just substitute AI for X ~ profit fad du jour.
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Web users struggle to download PDF about AI taking over the world
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by _wire_ 2y ago
All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - Adam Curtis https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines... See ep-1 "Love & Power," on contradictions of Ayn Rand's life versus her phi
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Last Year at Marienbad (1961) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Year_at_Marienbad
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If only artificial intelligence was intelligent! Oh, well...
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When you think that your primary relationship with a machine is "telling it what you want" you've already taken the first step to an inevitable hell.
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Re dualism: To paraphrase Chonsky (link below), the legacy of Descartes' observations for "mechanical philosophy" is profound: substance-dualism became untenable because no coherent idea of material can be formulated. Newton
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Wait, it wasn't about performance, but it was about Performance? It was that a pseudo-machine/VM approach put the VM IP owner (Adobe, Sun/Oracle) in driver's seat for control of the product's precious HW resources w
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Looking forward: The right to choose an abortion also extends to the prospective father.
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by _wire_ 2y ago
Whose digits sum up to 30, or the sum of whose digits equal 30? Btw, _whose_ digits are we talking about? — I just built a random program generator. After I finish optimizing, I'm gonna test it to see if works! — "If builders buil
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by _wire_ 2y ago
> It was also the very first image I was actually not embarrassed to share - https://imgur.com/a/t9b1Uug I was goofing around with the ciechanowski moon model and noticed that either this image or ciechanowski'
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Consider the expressive power of GIMP over ImageMagick, then imagine that Photoshop is an increment of expressive power over GIMP. As you become familiar with Photoshop you will experience a usage gestalt that is unattainable with GIMP. But
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In any lineup by height someone is tallest and someone is shortest, so what's significant about Tesla in this spread? If not them then another. A significant aspect is that Telsa, as a harbinger of "progress", by this measure

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