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Somebody talking about researchers, I think it was Hamming, once said that there are people who just can't think without a bench full of equipment in front of them. So if you want to get good work out of them, your job as a lab directo
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LLMs will still blithely ignore the specs and steering documents, apologize profusely for doing so after the fact , and tell you "I'll do better next time" which they might do once or twice. But after the context is cleared
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The most popular pen plotter, and sort of the "holy grail" among hobbyists for this sort of thing, is the HP-7475A, a desktop model which could accept A4 or A3 sized paper (or US A or B size). It cost $1895 upon release in 1984, s
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Pen plotters could accept sheets of A4 and very precisely position them since at least the 80s. I'm surprised that dot-matrix printers didn't adopt similar technologies sooner, though it could be because by the mid-80s dot-matrix
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Given that DS9 showrunner and co-creator Michael Piller was in fact Jewish, I highly doubt that the Ferengi are some sort of stealth Nazi propaganda. They're either a mockery of the "happy merchant" stereotype beloved of anti
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Apple still did it best: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
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(Sonic voice) Foiled your plans again, Eggman!
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Or Pinky & the Brain
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I was experimenting with an early, early version of the Java SDK, v1.0.1, about 30 years ago. I was trying to build a calendar using a GridBagLayout, and all the date squares got scrambled and drew on top of each other. I posted to mailing
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You might be the ultimate hackernews
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The first thing I started wondering was "is this the same Centaur that comes up as 'CentaurHauls' on a CPUID (EAX=0)?"
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(in a high-pitched, pathetic regency-era British orphan voice) Please sir, may I have some compute as well?
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The American education system seems to have taken a serious turn for the worse in the past 30 years, but when I was in junior high we had a class called Industrial Arts, aka "shop class". We made stuff, using real industrial proce
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Sceptre still sells dumb TVs, and there are always computer monitors with HDMI in. I'm typing this on a 43" one. You'll still pay more, especially for the latter, but not hugely more.
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I'm actually sympathetic to group B. The last para was a note that the economics of software dev means that the value of human-created code is low and dropping. It's ushering in a new hellscape if you desire quality software or ju
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Remember, folks, AI is mainly just statistics. You know, as in what comes after "lies" and "damned lies".
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If they're getting sponsorships or just engagement-baiting gooners to get OnlyFans signups, maybe they don't care that much about video monetization. The ones that do are starting to censor cľeavage.
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There was a guy on TikTok whose daughter (~10 yo) had discovered a "Weird A.I." that could "take any song and make it funny".
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There's a meme that goes: Person A: I'm a tech enthusiast! I have the latest smartphone, smartwatch, smart car, smart TV, smart home... all networked together and automated to make my daily life easier. Person B: I work in tech. T
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YouTubers are now blurring out women's cleavage. Not bare breasts. Cleavage. Nearly all of Pamela Anderson's notable body of work would need to be censored to avoid risking loss of that precious, precious monetization. It's l
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Fizpa wizh? Fizpa wizh? Fizpa wizh? I'll take it! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AHeI1_XZeww&t=6m58s
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Whatever tools come along, step one is getting into the mindset that typing code in is no longer part of your job. You are a designer and director, not a coder. As Steve Yegge says, if you still have an IDE open entering code by hand, you&#
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We've been fighting this war since Design Patterns at least. Remember those? Engineers who Get Things Done treat them like TV Tropes—useful vocabulary for talking about recurring ideas in software development. Suits in the 2000s treate
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This study was shown to be flawed at the time; METR has retracted it. And it doesn't take into account current frontier models. AI makes you more productive. This is no longer up for debate. The energy you spend arguing last year'
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Can I go to the place where the Mu-Mu mate and the children still cry "Mine's a 99!"?
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Windows 3.x did not cohabitate well with certain games that required nearly the entire 640k of conventional memory to run. These are mainly games from the old DOS days; games that relied on DPMI were largely exempt. But to play certain Sier
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> To me a laptop is a stamp-sized version of a desktop: it's asking Da Vinci to paint the Mona Lisa on a stamp. Da Vinci painted the actual Mona Lisa on a small panel of wood. Similarly, people do good work on laptops. A MacBook w
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Microsoft is in a pickle. Linux and open source have made "selling operating systems" nearly as preposterous as it was back in the mainframe era when they were getting started. So it's gotten very hard to generate revenue dir
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Absolutely nuts and squirrels. Then again, I did know that the Mega Drive's CPU loadout (68000 and Z80) is the same as the first Unix machine I ever used (a TRS-80 Model 16), so running some form of Unix on it was therefore, theoretica
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Sounds like "That's a bold strategy, Cotton, let's see if it pays off for 'em."

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