blackhaz

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1. 31.▲
   by blackhaz 8mo ago

   Oh, right! 800x600 was pretty sharp on a 14", and 1024x768 on 15", and when ClearType came out it actually was blurring things on CRTs.
2. 32.▲
   by blackhaz 8mo ago

   My dad used to run a whole commercial bank on MS Office 4.0 and a 386. (A small one, but still!)
3. 33.▲
   by blackhaz 8mo ago

   I have MS Office 4.0 installed on my 386DX-40 with 4 MB of RAM and 210 MB HDD, running Windows 3.1, and it is good. Most of the common features are there, it's a perfectly working office setup. The major thing missing is font anti-alia
4. 34.▲
   by blackhaz 8mo ago

   I wonder if your KPI is no. of active users, page views, etc - then you are a priori building an addictive thing.
5. 35.▲
   by blackhaz 9mo ago

   Can somebody please tell Barclays their 3DS widget is never redirecting back to the seller when transaction has been approved on user's device? In fact, the sheer amount of systems not working correctly in Britain is astonishing. Feels
6. 36.▲
   by blackhaz 9mo ago

   I am amazed to discover that Xfce of that era was so CDEsque: https://www.linux.co.cr/desktops/review/2000/xfce-3.3/help.h...
7. 37.▲
   by blackhaz 9mo ago

   Very nice tool. If you don't mind, I've linked to it from our observatory: https://www.alnitakobs.com/telescope/ A widget version would be nice!
8. 38.▲
   by blackhaz 9mo ago

   If I would be running this company I would imagine a person, or the entire group of persons, who implemented this were nothing else but saboteurs sent by a competitor. I would fire the whole team immediately.
9. 39.▲
   by blackhaz 10mo ago

   Anyone shorting the damn stock?
10. 40.▲
    by blackhaz 11mo ago

    This is the most atrocious rating article I've stumbled upon in a while!
11. 41.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    We had Netscape Navigator which began bloating after version 3 eventually becoming Netscape Communicator with various sorts of useless bullshit. When it became so fat it couldn't even start without causing machines to swap, I remember
12. 42.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Can somebody provide an example why would someone prefer such a workstation over a Windows workstation back then? I.e., which specific programs/applications demanded it?
13. 43.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Would the Age of Encyclopaediae be next, with human information safeguarded by the selected, several giant egregors taking shape and competing for world views?
14. 44.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Lawyers and judges finding ways to make money for themselves. It is obvious nothing productive will ever come out of a configuration where employee calls their boss a dickhead, and the company wants to get rid of such an employee. The only
15. 45.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    How does Polars compare to FireDucks?
16. 46.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    None of the above is AI.
17. 47.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Is it widely accepted that LLMs won't lead to AGI? I've asked Gemini, so it came up with four primary arguments for this claim, commenting on them briefly: 1) LLMs as simple "next token predictors" so they just mimicry t
18. 48.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    I am completely naive,l as I don't understand much in contracts, but wouldn't war effectively nullify those contracts? I mean, if a large proportion of your adversary's economy hangs by a simple piece of paper, I'd expec
19. 49.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Sure. First line tech support as well. In many situations customers will get vastly superior service if AI agent answers the call. At least in my personal case, struggling with renewal at Virgin Broadband, multiple humans wasted probably an
20. 50.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    This is the true definition of Plug-and-Play.
21. 51.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Thank you.
22. 52.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Muchas gracias.
23. 53.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Thank you.
24. 54.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Thank you.
25. 55.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    My father currently suffers from bladder cancer, he's currently in palliative care, he's in Ukraine. If there are any medical professionals here, could someone provide an advice - is there any chance to get him access to TAR-200?
26. 56.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    I'd go one step further and say it's a blatant Chinese SIGINT.
27. 57.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    But it cannot be adequately attributed to ignorance, so no, Hanlon's razor does not apply. There is an obvious security breach.
28. 58.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    If I would be deciding, I would kick-ban StarDict immediately from the distribution, and scrutinize i) the maintainer for all the packages he has ever touched, ii) StarDict authors for allowing such a default behavior in their system.
29. 59.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    This is amazing. Thanks for making it.
30. 60.▲
    by blackhaz 1y ago

    Preferably in a table format.