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961.
by dmd 3y ago
3.5 is absolute garbage. It is puzzling to me that OpenAI continues to make it available, simply because of the reputational damage.
962.
by dmd 3y ago
You can also buy these "off the shelf" from https://www.drakware.com/ . My wife uses a NeXT keyboard (which she's been using for 25 years!) via one of their adapters.
963.
by dmd 3y ago
This explanation is in a Cricket Magazine I have from the mid-80s, so perhaps there's something new here also?
964.
by dmd 3y ago
You would imagine wrongly, then. (At least in Colorado.)
965.
by dmd 3y ago
which is, in fact, illegal in several western us states
966.
by dmd 3y ago
My friends and I own the domain name “dev.host” and you wouldn’t believe the traffic we get.
967.
by dmd 3y ago
Shakespeare was considered in his time to be bawdy, throwaway pop culture.
968.
by dmd 3y ago
Perhaps you missed clicking on the link?
969.
by dmd 3y ago
Maybe you can tell me what I'm missing here. What does his comment have to do with anything else in the thread?
970.
by dmd 3y ago
Please stop doing this. "Novelty" accounts are not welcome on HN, and chatgpt-made posts even less so.
971.
by dmd 3y ago
... what
972.
by dmd 3y ago
A story my dad (who wrote for various magazines in the 80s and 90s) used to tell: > My friend Ken worked for what was then a first-tier Japanese hifi company. At the time -- it was the eighties -- companies exhibiting at CES gave shit aw
973.
by dmd 3y ago
When you say "it", do you mean this one individual with his one radio transmitter, or do you mean the collective practice of humanity in its billions using radio transmissions?
974.
by dmd 3y ago
But you missed the actual joke.
975.
by dmd 3y ago
Nope - that's not a valid ldap URL - or even a valid domain, for that matter. Domains can only contain the ascii leters a-z and the digits 0-9 -- asterisks are not permitted; the only symbol permitted is a hyphen (and it cannot start o
976.
by dmd 3y ago
How about Lotus Notes? Or is that just "a road we didn't go down"? I've always felt it had so much promise.
977.
by dmd 3y ago
Mirror from 3 years ago: https://gitlab.com/dwrodri/bash_irc_quotes
978.
by dmd 3y ago
If you don't know that - or rather, if nobody on your team recognized this issue and brought it up - you should not be selling and shipping this product.
979.
by dmd 3y ago
> based on what we see biological neurons doing We have almost no idea what biological neurons are doing, or why. At least we didn't when I got my PhD in neuroscience a little over 10 years ago. Maybe it's a solved problem by
980.
by dmd 3y ago
You want https://www.visidata.org/
981.
by dmd 3y ago
I'd love to see this with sun position. Maybe even change the brightness of the square too. Then you could visually see when all your meeting participants are in daylight.
982.
by dmd 3y ago
You’d better notify https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/SES that this guy made it up and they should remove it from the dictionary
983.
by dmd 3y ago
I've interacted quite a bit with some of the authors, and when I've asked "why on earth did you do it this way" the answer is generally some form of "well, it saves nearly 6 bytes on disk in the source code! disk is
984.
by dmd 3y ago
> A typical PhD student in the biosciences will use about 200,000 pipette tips over the course of their research. (An estimated ten boxes of 96 tips per week, with 50 working weeks per year over a 5-year period, comes out to 240,000 tips
985.
by dmd 3y ago
This reminded me of the morning my wife and I decided to semantically classify all of Hodgeman’s 700 Hoboes. https://dmd.3e.org/2006-07-22-the-semantics-of-hoboes/
986.
by dmd 3y ago
Looking at you, SuperMicro: Every other “normal” LED on our server room is green. Theirs is amber.
987.
by dmd 3y ago
It's either a non-native english speaker or a marketer so far up their own ass they can see daylight again ... but I repeat myself.
988.
by dmd 3y ago
So if you want to be a professional writer, go into PR or lobbying.
989.
by dmd 3y ago
And if that’s not weird enough for you, the same era of Macs also had IBM AIX!
990.
by dmd 3y ago
Well, as someone who works in the healthcare sector - it’s a household name, like “Philips” or “Baxter” or “Medtronic”.

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