caycep

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   by caycep 2y ago

   Culturally, the Chinese population has more of a rebellious streak than people realize. It's a weird contrast - the Great Firewall is there but citizens and often the workers that maintain the firewall seem to circumvent it on a regul
2. 482.▲
   by caycep 2y ago

   I always try and build Petra in my desert city before the AI in Civ 6!
3. 483.▲
   by caycep 2y ago

   I feel like they pulled this update shortly after release - not on do-release-upgrade at the moment
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   by caycep 2y ago

   The fishy part is - it is hard for any one organization to "unilaterally" kill a trial if it is legit, irb approved, etc. If it is a political situation at one institution, people often move and take their grant funding with them
5. 485.▲
   by caycep 2y ago

   yes that's great. rah rah rah. But is their type of funding as transparent as the NIH model? What is their grant review process? And are they willing to sustain the careers of multiple full time faculty/research personnel, clin
6. 486.▲
   by caycep 2y ago

   Meanwhile a bunch of neurosurgeons are trying to sell everyone on "focused ultrasound" noninvasive brain surgery!
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   by caycep 2y ago

   Interesting to me - no R01 or other NIH money listed on NIH RePORTER for the PI. Either Stanford is moving to boutique private funders a la this Baszucki people or chan-zuckerberg etc etc (with matching overhead?). Or she will be gone t
8. 488.▲
   by caycep 2y ago

   also it looked like Optimus prime, that was kinda cool at the time
9. 489.▲
   by caycep 2y ago

   is this a technical or cultural feature?
10. 490.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    if I recall, (and someone correct me if I'm wrong), it had deep multithreaded support/design, more so than any other desktop OS at the time, so it could run more simultaneous processes and apps w/o getting bogged down. at le
11. 491.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    vs "I never understood why the company would not pay taxes to improve the environment around its chosen home"?
12. 492.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    but...it's all the open, and it might have more bugs, but the bugs get fixed faster
13. 493.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    the French are good at finding answers to these questions, often to the benefit of themselves...see https://atelierwen.com
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    by caycep 2y ago

    true. I wonder how much energy in food/farming to develop a 6 yr old human is required vs. the amount required to run a hojillion GPUs running the latest generative algorithms
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    by caycep 2y ago

    last 2? weren't they toppling latin American governments since Teddy Roosevelt?
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    by caycep 2y ago

    Yes, but why should I even bother with Zinn especially when his talk was basically to take him at his word/narrative, over other, better sourced accounts of how the US Govt is lying to me? (* some of which comes from other parts of the
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    by caycep 2y ago

    it's not that I blindly trust apple; it's more that they're the one FAANG company where I am the actual customer and their incentives align/depend on keeping me happy. Google/MS could care less how I feel; and I am
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    by caycep 2y ago

    I did actually see him talk at a rally in Boston Common, around '04 or so. While his written stuff may well be better, what struck me was the gist was basically self promotion about how he know "secret" things from "sec
19. 499.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    yes, well, pulmonary hypertension
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    by caycep 2y ago

    these days, is the way to win in the industry to basically pour money into the popularity contest of your own dev kit vs. Nvidia's and others?
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    by caycep 2y ago

    edit made by whatever APT hacking group du jour the PLA has in operation at the moment!
22. 502.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    https://www.cybercom.mil how competent they actually are at this, who knows...
23. 503.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    I wouldn't say they're nothing alike. The gestures developed for MacOS and the trackpad are paradigms derived from iPhone touch screens - swipe, pinch, zoom, tap to click (if turned on). And for the Mac, cognitively, at least
24. 504.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    granted, I think they've invested so much into trackpad quality and software support, so much so that I think touchpad Macs are moot. On a PC laptop, where the trackpad is lowest bidder/afterthought, yeah, it kinda sorta makes
25. 505.▲
    by caycep 2y ago

    but w/ exponentially much higher compute requirements since they insist on that crypto/blockchain whizbangery
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    by caycep 2y ago

    is why I think Tim needs to get a forceful visionary as head of both design and marketing...the 2 departments where there seems to be a ton of turnover. Would this ad have passed muster w/ people like Katie Cotton/Lee Clough?
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    by caycep 2y ago

    Maybe some size reduction? I think they need to figure out just how big enough to carry enough fuel for range and weapons payload
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    by caycep 2y ago

    Some filmmaker just ran the video backwards and it worked so much better
29. 509.▲
    by caycep 3y ago

    Carol Ely eventually took over the CEO job at Sun from Scott McNally, I think?
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    by caycep 3y ago

    I am always surprised how much it's taken over video processing tasks (and maybe how Apple lost the plot with Quicktime and such). Would def be interesting if someone could write up a history of the project so far. I wonder how much i