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by bell-cot 5d ago
Not mentioned - the NEC V30 CPU, which was the V20's 8086-replacement near-twin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_V20#Variants_and_successor... IIR, the V30 provided a notably better improvement (over the 8086),
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by bell-cot 5d ago
Appears to be fixed now. (If not - zoom way in, and it's relatively readable.)
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by bell-cot 5d ago
Why do we need laws against stealing bikes? (Yes, example chosen for its reputation for indifferent enforcement.)
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by bell-cot 6d ago
I'd assume that they have - but will keep mum 'till they have a major breakthrough or large-scale operational deployment to announce.
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by bell-cot 6d ago
The article calls the data an "observation", made by the captain of a Rescue Boat from Sea World Foundation. From a peek at https://seaworldfoundation.com.au/rescue it seems clear that their job is rescue, not re
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by bell-cot 6d ago
In what context? If I need my appendix out, I'd really prefer a surgeon who got passing grades in med school.
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by bell-cot 6d ago
The need for profanity came much earlier - due to smashed thumbs, gouged fingers, etc. while learning to make primitive stone tools.
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by bell-cot 7d ago
> Then just pass a law that says... Issue #1 - I don't know if the US could pass a law saying that 2 + 2 = 4 these days. Issue #2 - Even if a tenant has the spare $$$ lying around to buy an electric stove - rental units with gas sto
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Point for America's grid having serious reliability issues, and many gas stoves working fine during a blackout. OTOH, 1/3 or so of American rent their homes - and most landlords will throw a big red flag if you try making such c
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Analogous to the Archimedean Property - there is no approach to teaching mathematics so intrinsically good that it cannot be done poorly enough to yield arbitrarily bad results.
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Last I knew, at least in America, universities that want their math prof's to do research also expect those prof's to bring in plenty of outside funding. You could argue about the costs of that desk, paper, pencil, and such - b
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by bell-cot 7d ago
While spam's a huge problem, and I'd love to make spammers pay, any decent email admin can tell you about spammers' 24/7 attempts to break into legit users' email accounts, and what happens when they do. Any sort o
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Possibly, but I wouldn't assume any connection. In sociological terms , modern universities are mid-last-millennium noble houses*, locked in an endless competition for power, wealth, prestige, and influence. Adding a few stanzas of
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by bell-cot 7d ago
Pretty much, and they've less shame than a British tabloid in how far they go. When submitting, one can try to replace the title with something honest. HN does not favor that, mostly due to submitters having their own biases. The best
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by bell-cot 8d ago
The word has a many meanings - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/groom Squinting at a [Compact] 1971 Oxford English Dictionary - the pedophilic meaning postdates that edition.
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by bell-cot 8d ago
Best wishes and all. But given Berkshire's scale, and the son's age (71), questions about the next succession plan seem appropriate. Also, since the NYT says nothing else about the son: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by bell-cot 9d ago
The article describes several houses either built or bought at seemingly considerable distances from the ocean - yet now near or at the point of ruin. A competent gov't would keep maps of projected future shorelines, and enforce very w
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by bell-cot 9d ago
In theory, one can just hand the keys to a Junk Busters-type company. But yeah - actually doing that is another barrier to action.
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by bell-cot 9d ago
Considering all the plans to revisit and maybe hang around on the moon, this sounds like an excellent reason to have a radioisotope-powered lunar probe or few doing continuous seismic monitoring. (IIR, even the crash of an Apollo LEM upper
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by bell-cot 9d ago
> I don't know where people get this idea that... Kinda legit: Most people who lived through the Great Depression learned a "never throw any possibly-useful thing away" ethos as a survival skill. And they often taught th
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by bell-cot 9d ago
The second half of NPR's headline is bullshit - as the story makes clear. FEMA is stuck working in Congress's Customer Service Dept. Congress is very aware that their CS policies suck. But Congress is too dysfunctional to fix t
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by bell-cot 9d ago
tl;dr; version: While there are good use cases - > The United States is the world leader, with roughly ninety per cent of global capacity. [...] there are more self-storage facilities in the U.S. than there are Starbucks, McDonald’s, Wa
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by bell-cot 9d ago
I'd first question whether the NY Times' accounting included the carbon footprint within NZ, where the lambs are probably raised far from the shipping piers. Then you've got the infrastructure and power requirements for free
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by bell-cot 10d ago
Two points: Many open mathematical problems of form "There are no numbers satisfying the following criteria..." were resolved when computers became fast enough to perform arbitrary-precision arithmetic at decent speed. Some folks
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by bell-cot 10d ago
American, in an area getting more roundabouts. The two most heartfelt criticisms of roundabouts I've heard are: - I have to pay attention every time I go through one. (Vs. having your mind elsewhere works fine with traffic lights? T
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by bell-cot 11d ago
> If today it takes twenty years of math study to reach the frontier ... Are you counting from when a kid first learn 1 + 1 = 2? That seems a misleading metric. The rate at which kids are learning math in the first half to 2/3 of
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by bell-cot 12d ago
Looking at Wikipedia - might you mean the 1067? They appears to claim that the 1167 paired with the 80386...though that page certainly could be better-written and better-sourced.
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by bell-cot 12d ago
In the True Conspiracy Theorist sense of Believe? No. It's an obvious Follow The Money theory, with Nvidia being particularly topical, a few "how might a rational business exec do this?" details, and Task Peppermint thrown
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by bell-cot 12d ago
"Conspiracy" requires an unlawful or wrongful purpose. Please assume that the op was run from a jurisdiction where using a pseudonym on the internet was not illegal, and various sorts of influencer and meme marketing were well-ac
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by bell-cot 12d ago
Ask a lawyer about sending an unpleasant letter to the scanner, detailing the situation and demanding that they cease & desist. That clobbers their "we didn't know" defense, and their Legal Dept. will likely order them t

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