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by bitsavers 4y ago
Anyone stuck in the Hell that is a driven commute in Silicon Valley would disagree that it does anything to positively stimulate the brain. I wouldn't argue that getting out is a good thing. Do it off drive-time peaks. Go to the park.
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The Moral Authority of ChatGPT(arxiv.org)
3 points by bitsavers 4y ago|1 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The Moral Authority of ChatGPT https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.07098
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"STEM jobs pay more on average than non STEM jobs." That is exactly what they want you to think. Be a good little drone for the VCs
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by bitsavers 4y ago
since the original was from 2018... "Microsoft came out with a competing technology in that timeframe called 'Microsoft Pen Computing' as a direct response to the hype around General Magic." It was actually put out to ki
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Can it write a complete paragraph, instead of a sentence with the incorrect use of "-" ?
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"It is issued without the permission of Intellectual Ventures Management LLC" Certain GM staffers won the IP bid during the bankruptcy, but I Vultures still managed to acquire it.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
I worked with a bunch of them at Apple, like Zarko (RIP) and Phil (RIP). Hung out there a little bit, got to meet one of my PARC heroes (Ed Satterthwaite) Andy went from there to Artemis/WebTV, Danger, then Android.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
640x480 interlaced with optional genlock.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"re-crafting their core business" The G MBAs have run business expansion efforts and morale into the ground, now they are going to chase this brass ring?
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Like Scott said, pretty awesome data dump on GM. Telescript is a whole story in itself. I remember being in a meeting where Marc was pitching Pocket Crystal to Al Alcorn at Apple. The dark side was the company was peak ex-Apple rock star pr
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by bitsavers 4y ago
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/01/bringing-tls-to-magic-cap...
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by bitsavers 4y ago
It was Yet Another Color Computer, designed by Don North in Apple's Education Research Group, the people who formed part of Apple ATG. It was mostly used by the ATG Graphics and Sound Group and eventually had a 68020 daughter card. ht
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What Is the Apple YACC(osnews.com)
6 points by bitsavers 4y ago|3 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
It appears it is now impossible to get "following" to stick instead of "for you"
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by bitsavers 4y ago
This is EXACTLY what happened with HP as well.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Creator of A history of the web http://webhistory.org/
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Lisa Source Code Release(computerhistory.org)
387 points by bitsavers 4y ago|113 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"This doesn't deserve a human answer" Think outside the bun.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The Klein Dog
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Is a chili dog a taco in a raised bun? The differentiator is a yeast raised dough?
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by bitsavers 4y ago
I've also made hot dog quesadillas in the past when I didn't have any bread.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
There is nothing in the rule book that says a "hot dog" ie. a type of sausage, can't be placed in a tortilla. So there, Mr Wise Guy.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Is a corn dog a linear meat-filled donut?
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Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT(theregister.com)
2 points by bitsavers 4y ago|1 comments
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Future Unclear for LCM+L(seattlecollegian.com)
2 points by bitsavers 4y ago|1 comments
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by bitsavers 4y ago
"Humans will happily move to some semi-conversational way of searching through this new online gigantic collection." No, humans will be frantically trying to build bullshit filters for all the nonsensical 'wisdom' poison
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Doing these 'simple' things requires a massive amount of software behind the scenes. No one wants to take the man-centuries to recreate all of that work from scratch. Not even Apple did. They built it on top of years of already cr
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Ah, the Artemis Research/WebTV stories I could tell. spies.com lived at their office in Palo Alto for a while. A LOT of ex-Apple people involved. Bowser, the General Magic rabbit lived out his life there. RIP Phil Goldman.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/11/apple-and-meta-dropped-off-g... After several delays due to Covid, Apple hammered down on their return to office plans, requiring employees to be in the office three days a wee

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