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by cpeterso 3y ago
Including why the board continued to be reluctant to reveal their reasons for firing Altman, if they are still evaluating the possible AGI claims.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I keep my camera on, but turn off my own self view. I read this recommendation on HN here just a couple weeks ago and I now do it all the time. It's less distracting and I feel less self-conscious. It also frees up more of my screen re
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Another example: Microsoft SQL Server is a fork of Sybase SQL Server. Microsoft was helping port Sybase SQL Server to OS/2 and somehow negotiated exclusive rights to all versions of SQL Server written for Microsoft operating systems. S
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Should platform teams deprecate or does that cause problems?(rubick.com)
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Amazon.com: FAQ: Deprecation of Amazon Drive(amazon.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
> Apple definitely picks an ugly color to make you feel uncomfortable texting with a non iPhone user. But what's Apple's motivation? Making me feel uncomfortable reading an Android user's messages does little to influenc
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Do there exist clients that can seamlessly read, cross-post, and reply to multiple social media networks? Something like an RSS feed reader with a unified timeline of posts from any number of networks. Do X and Meta’s terms of service even
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Though the software archaeologists in the book mistakenly thought the time_t epoch marked the moon landing, not just 1970. :)
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From T2 to Pebble: The Challenges and Lessons of Building a Twitter Alternative(medium.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Achieves “all day battery life”… by replacing the battery multiple times a day? “No wake word so it’s not always listening”… you just activate it with your voice?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
What does the vehicle do when it needs remote assistance and there is no cell connection?
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by cpeterso 3y ago
And AFAIU, GitHub doesn't have a way to limit the visibility of individual tickets, so even Mozilla teams that use GitHub's issue tracker still use Bugzilla for their security bugs.
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I don't know about Phorge, but Phabricator is no longer maintained: https://admin.phacility.com/phame/post/view/11/phacility_is_...
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Based on this 2016 Google Brain article, “Zero-Shot Translation with Google’s Multilingual Neural Machine Translation System”, I assumed Google Translate directly translated languages: https://blog.research.google/2016/
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Let’s compromise at 30 minutes between standard time and DST. Everyone would be happy to drop the time changes and neither side is happy with the new time, but at least it’s a less severe outcome for people during their off season.
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Firefox for Android will soon support extensions(blog.mozilla.org)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
For example, the value of Visual Basic's "True" keyword is -1. This seems silly from the perspective of a C programmer, but -1 (0xffffffff) is "more true" than 1 because every bit is true, not just the LSB. :) http
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Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future(techcrunch.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
The article says “defects” is Amazon’s internal term for irrelevant junk ads and that “Mr. Bezos instructed his executives to ‘[a]ccept more defects’ because Amazon can extract billions of dollars through increased advertising despite worse
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by cpeterso 3y ago
In medicine, describing a disease as “acute” denotes that it is of recent onset; it occasionally denotes a short duration, as opposed to “chronic”.
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AI smoothie shop opened in San Francisco to much hype. Why is it closed already?(theguardian.com)
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The surprisingly subtle ways Microsoft Word has changed how we use language(bbc.com)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I spend a lot of time in meetings and work remotely 99% of the time. We spend so much time in meetings without giving them much thought to designing them for each purpose. Is the meeting a 1:1? Is it a 1:N status shareout? Maybe it should b
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Like Microsoft’s Rewards points and discounts program: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/rewards/
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The Race to Save Our Secrets from the Computers of the Future(nytimes.com)
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The role of software in spacecraft accidents(blog.acolyer.org)
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by cpeterso 3y ago
I was an SDET on the Windows team in the 2000/XP era and heard that the internal code name for the x64 port was “Sundown” because Microsoft was hoping it would take down Sun in the server market. Unfortunately for Microsoft, that priz
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by cpeterso 3y ago
> This is standardizing vendor-specific attributes Except the standard’s likely and unlikely attributes invented new syntax that is not drop-in compatible with clang’s and gcc’s attributes. Where clang and gcc would use: if (__builti
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Very cool! What game are you resurrecting? Are you using the original client applications? Is the client/server protocol documented or are you having to reverse engineer both the protocol and game server state?
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MMO Architecture: clients, sockets, threads and connection-oriented servers(prdeving.wordpress.com)
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