codeulike

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by codeulike 8d ago
Its not behind a paywall if you're in the UK
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by codeulike 10d ago
Yes, the thing Salesforce are good at, and is little understood here, is that they've kept their platform online for 27 years so far. Its constantly evolving, three upgrades per year, but changes that require customers to change their
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by codeulike 10d ago
Sadly OPs explanatory comment has been flagged into oblivion (see far below) because the automod could not comprehend the importance of NUMBERWANG
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by codeulike 11d ago
"there's everything to play for ... ... And forever to play it in!"
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by codeulike 11d ago
And so OPs app should have been called Colloson I guess
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by codeulike 11d ago
For those confused by this, here is the Mitchell and Webb "Numberwang" sketch https://youtu.be/0obMRztklqU?is=qufDLUkqofpr-K1Y
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by codeulike 12d ago
Funny thing about vision, inside our heads, in our consciousness, it feels like we are seeing a picture. As in, we have pictures 'inside our heads'. But they can't actually be pictures, they must be data structures. When our
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by codeulike 14d ago
I know its not intentional but the phrase "our horses" amused me, as if the author would be surprised to learn that not everyone owns a horse.
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by codeulike 21d ago
If you remember the launch of IBM Watson in about 2011 it was meant to be this super smart AI entity and they demoed it by taking it on "Jeapordy!" and having it answer the quiz questions. To be fair, for the time that was kindof
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by codeulike 1mo ago
I'm in the UK and it always seems weird to me how in the USA its totally normal to publically register yourself as either a Democrat or a Republican. To me seems like the kind of thing that should be private. In the UK I might choose t
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by codeulike 1mo ago
Malcolm Walker, the founder and his son Richard Walker the current chairman are (for such an ordinary seeming supermarket) surprisingly progressive and have often spearheaded sustainability and corporate responsibility campaigns. Malcolm Wa
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Interested in this, but to work on an ipad that has youtube.com blocked via ScreenTime I imagine it probably wont work (unless you unblock youtube.com and the youtube becomes accessible via the browser). Unless they have found a way round t
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Its a way to make sure the delivery takes place. A code is sent to recipient and recipient only gives it to the delivery person once item is handed over. Delivery person cant mark item as 'done' without the code. I've seen Ub
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by codeulike 2mo ago
I remember the fuss about that email. Yes thats a good point, our concept of privacy has evolved a lot since then. Privacy as a technical and political theme changed a lot post-2000. To my mind, Wikileaks in 2006 and Snowden in 2013 were bi
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by codeulike 2mo ago
You could try this, from 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachments_(TV_series)
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Yep, I think of Arthur as a sortof Beta for RiscOS I had an Archimedes A305 which launched with Arthur, when I upgraded to Risc OS (which arrived on ROMs, if I remember correctly, you ordered the ROMs and then your local dealer would fit th
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by codeulike 2mo ago
The original ARM operating system
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by codeulike 2mo ago
lacking a body Just drop it into Minecraft
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Incidentally I was reading the other day that in Europe kettles are much faster than USA ones (due to 240v domestic mains as opposed to 120v) and theres a small subculture of USA electricians fitting 240v supplies into their kitchen and the
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by codeulike 2mo ago
Does it have language skills? I always thought it would be interesting to train a model within minecraft as a sortof proxy for 'embodiment'. You could then try asking it about its experiences. "whats your favourite food?&quot
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by codeulike 3mo ago
For those wondering, I found a post with a graph showing actual temperature rather than std dev from mean https://www.linkedin.com/posts/tompickerell_this-graph-shoul...
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by codeulike 3mo ago
If there’s an heir to Dylan, I don’t see who it is. Great music and great art are still being made and will always be made, and one day someone of his stature will emerge. But this particular age of heroes is over. Two thoughts about this
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by codeulike 3mo ago
Huygens was an amazing project. It also sticks in my head as a really instructive example of "bug in production code" - the Huygens probe was transmitting on two channels to the Cassini orbiter during its descent. Due to a mistake
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by codeulike 3mo ago
Because copper wires could carry enough power to make a landline work when the mains electricity was off due to a power cut Edit: also domestic routers are buggy and unreliable and need to be restarted regularly
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by codeulike 3mo ago
The act of pushing a mower around possesses an almost primordial appeal No, no it doesnt. I leapt at the chance to get a robot to do it
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by codeulike 3mo ago
Ancient writers were more imaginative than you think. Right, but imagination starts from what is known, so Vera Historia has wars, journeys, whales and gods. A whirlwind takes them to the moon, and so on. But it would have been very hard
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by codeulike 3mo ago
Lets reflect on Aristocreon, in about 200 BC, putting their thoughts down on a scroll. They would be aware that the scroll might be kept in a library for some time. Maybe they could have imagined it surviving for 300 years. But they never w
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by codeulike 4mo ago
The result is scripts that are easier to develop and maintain. I believe this goes against the official specification of XML
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by codeulike 5mo ago
I'm in the UK and I've never heard of that definition of it (being to do with churches), maybe thats a very ancient definiton
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by codeulike 5mo ago
Unless you're in the UK in which case it was the 15th March and you've already done it (or already missed it)

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