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by chiph 3y ago
That's how it gets trained with data - by searching the internet. It's the subject of a couple of lawsuits over copyright. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/27/business/media/new-york-t...
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by chiph 3y ago
I just want to know which older printers will be no longer supported because they have an obscure page description language and their drivers will be blocked.
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by chiph 3y ago
It's been years since I looked, but mainframe jobs at the big banks in Charlotte were a little less than that. Whenever I hear about a skills shortage (in any field), I automatically append the phrase "at the salary we want to pay
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by chiph 3y ago
If an elephant can create paintings of other elephants, why not? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7Ge7Sogrk
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by chiph 3y ago
In my college graphics class (taught by Jack Bresenham, no less) I asked for permission to use the new Borland Turbo C for my class projects. After a quick recompile for the demo (the PC in the classroom wasn't a 80286) I found my code
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by chiph 3y ago
That will get them around the tariffs. I'm more curious how they'll pass the NHTSA & IIHS crash testing. There's definitely a market for super-cheap cars - Malcolm Bricklin knew this when he arranged to import the Yugo G
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by chiph 3y ago
The one myth they did that I was truly concerned for their safety was when they piled a bunch of lumber and construction material on top of a Volkswagen Jetta and drove around. Having owned one, I had no confidence that the roof structure
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by chiph 3y ago
There's the chance of a ricochet, possibly into the body of the shuttle or bystander. Or they miss, hitting whatever was on the far side of the shuttle. I think it would also be not as controlled a release of air as they'd want -
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by chiph 3y ago
After Steve makes a $16,000 purchase from the store, and he says "You can go the website ... so you don't take up the time of the salespeople at CompUSA" I bet Hal Compton (the CompUSA CEO who had just left the stage) was in
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by chiph 3y ago
On cars without a sunroof, you have the sheet metal roof, a small air gap, and then the headliner - somewhere around 1/2 to 3/4" of an inch. On cars with a tilt/slide sunroof (most of them) the mechanism takes up somewh
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by chiph 3y ago
Replying to my own post since the edit window has closed... There are some things about some EVs that I like. On the Mach-E, I like the small LCD they use as a speedometer panel. I also like the door handles. The handles on the Model 3 &amp
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by chiph 3y ago
They do get you more headroom in the car. But downsides include annoying reflections, heat and cold (they aren't insulated), and should you be in a rollover accident - broken glass raining down on you (it's laminated but the inner
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by chiph 3y ago
I plan on owning an EV one day. But right now, they're not building the car I (and apparently a lot of other people) want at a price they're willing to pay. I'm not interested in owning a science experiment. I want something
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by chiph 3y ago
A product manager works at a higher level than those roles. They aren't implementers - they collect information, identify needs, create plans, and get approvals. And then direct the roles you mentioned to do the work needed. A PM will
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by chiph 3y ago
From watching some of the Waymo videos, it's the best of the self-driving systems out there today. I'm not denying that it doesn't still have some things to be worked on, but it's something I'd be comfortable with
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by chiph 3y ago
The recent interview with Dave Cutler mentioned this briefly. When the Cairo team was working on their object file system, they had no requirement to maintain backwards compatibility (which makes sense for new development). But they didn&#x
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by chiph 3y ago
> The business problem was that ad-supported metaverses don't work. Have any of them tried to add online shopping via affiliate links?
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by chiph 3y ago
One other reason for the daily visit is to exchange large bills received from customers into small bills (and coins) to give out as change.
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by chiph 3y ago
My credit union did this several years ago - marketing them as "Cyber Branches". They're basically ATMs with video conferencing added. There are advantages, like increased employee & customer safety and lower costs. But I
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by chiph 3y ago
A customer at a previous job was a fuels distributor. They told me that there is usually some leakage around the pig seals, so the gasoline near the pig might be contaminated with some other fuel - diesel, jet fuel, or whatever. And that th
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by chiph 3y ago
Also spoiler - there are no terrorists. It's the incompetence of Central Services that is causing things to explode.
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by chiph 3y ago
I did some contracting at a bank and an employee told me about a problem they had with their pneumatic tubes: A customer had taken the carrier with them when they drove off, so the teller put their spare into the tube and continued working.
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by chiph 3y ago
I suspect there's a fair amount of overlap between the two populations, which is why I thought the comparison would be interesting. Both tend to attract affluent households.
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by chiph 3y ago
They may not have been losing money, but perhaps not making as much as they had predicted/wanted. We'll likely never see the numbers, but I'd be curious how valuable the Apple Card franchise is vs. the Costco card franchise (
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by chiph 3y ago
The 1995 is very good and I'll watch it again every few years. I walked out of the 2017 Scarlett Johansson remake. And a big reason I did so was that it lacked the atmosphere of the earlier film, what is known as Ma https:/&#x2
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by chiph 3y ago
I've thought about buying a weather station that tracks barometric pressure, sunlight, wind speed, direction, etc. but my house is surrounded by tall trees so the numbers would not be accurate. Some of these stations can report to the
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by chiph 3y ago
WoW was spotted doing that in 2012. It contained information like the server IP, the account ID, and a timestamp. As far as I know, Blizzard has never commented on it, but one theory is that it's for troubleshooting purposes when a pla
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by chiph 3y ago
It's basically a reinstall where the user's configuration and preferences are preserved. As to why - perhaps a file got corrupted (rare, these days). But often what happens is another program overwrites a shared file to one that
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by chiph 3y ago
I've written some installers using Installshield and later the WiX toolset, and the typical application developer has no appreciation on how difficult it is. "Just copy over the binaries, it's not hard." Well, when your
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by chiph 3y ago
When planes that aren't VTOLs take off the thrust isn't perpendicular to the runway/road - it's mostly parallel. But what can happen is if there's a crack or gap in the road surface the wind could get under there a

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