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by dublin 5y ago
Watson was more of a Marketing name and concept than a product. The actual Watson tech, while not bad, was not a general purpose AI - all it did was assemble a bunch of inferences from a large corpus of text. At the time, it was better at
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Brontosaurus Is Back(sandiegouniontribune.com)
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Not once in the story, does Don Norman or any of the people involved recognize a key fact they ALREADY know, even if they don't know they know it: By intuition, you'll first try to PUSH on a door with a HORIZONTAL bar or handle
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Still trying to figure out how fracking, eating meat, and SUVs can possibly affect the Moon's wobble....
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Looks an awful lot like some of the fonts that used to be quite common on early microcomputers from RadioShack, Commodore, Atari, even Apple. That said, there are some thoughtful additions: the lower case F and L are as elegant as the M is
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There is no real reason for copyright terms to exceed patent terms. (And FWIW, patent terms should be inversely proportional to the number of patents issued in that category the previous year. This would automatically reduce terms in categ
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There were other open source licenses at the party before the GPL dropped its controversial "viral" turd in the punchbowl - and many of them still exist nearly unmodified. (e.g. BSD with attribution removed, etc.)
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I've had moderate floaters for a long time. I developed many more after having to look very near the sun for quite a while a number of years ago. And I may have found a way to help remove (at least some of) them. Although I've n
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by dublin 5y ago
Until the late 90's the entire Internet was this way - even .com domains were subject to the Internet AUPs (Acceptable Use Policies) that strictly banned "commercial" use of the Internet. AUPs lasted only a very short time af
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Although DEC's LAVC (Local Area VAX Cluster) protocol had shown how important low latency was to those that were paying attention...
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Biggest thing I'd change: Build in the ability to do long-duration keepalives from the git-go to avoid three-way handshakes when you want to send data later after establishing the connection. A whole bunch of other changes to reduce l
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99.99% of businesses are NOT evil. But Google most certainly IS actively evil - perhaps the most evil of an increasingly evil lot. ...and I don't use the word evil lightly.
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I'm a huge Ted Nelson fan, but what we have is very different from what he's envisioned over the years. (Even Xanadu is very arguably not a single concept - it's evolved significantly over time, and although Ted doesn't
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There have been many micropayments schemes over the years. IIRC, there was a decent one slightly cleverly called "Millicent" developed by DEC and pushed in the early Internet days... (Then there were the various pre-bitcoin inte
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In a great many cases, malware can grab your MAC address now. Which is, as it happens, a 48-bit globally unique address. IPv6 addresses are a major PITA, not only are they too long, they're impossible to write and get even most techni
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Yes. A few years ago, was all-in for the cloud. Today, we have way too many examples of the cloud providers shutting down people they disagree with, for reasons that usually have nothing to do with terms of service. Given the rapidly e
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(N.B.: I've done over a half dozen startups, and exited two of them, but didn't make much.) Yes, this is possible, but really, if done correctly (and most of the time, it's not), getting a good marketing strategy and plan in
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It's needed when they're using a modern touchscreen computer instead of an ancient mouse-driven one, like I did when reading the link from this post this morning (Surface Pro undocked, so no keyboard). There is no clue the pull-d
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It's a bug in Firefox, and affects the Windows version, not just Android. It's the worst sort of invisible and undiscoverable UI bug: clicking on the left/middle of the box is interpreted as wanting to do text input (with no
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Well, there goes the neighborhood. Seriously, half of the attractiveness of RISC-V to both buyers and developers of new hardware is that it is an architecture that is NOT controlled by the likes of Intel! I guess both Intel and AMD are now
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by dublin 5y ago
The requirements for fairly large power margins for safe operation at takeoff and landing generally prevent electric airplanes from making sense and achieving FAA approval, especially for commercial applications. We are decades away from v
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Hydrogen is an energy STORAGE medium, NOT an energy SOURCE. The ONLY economically viable source of H2 today is cracking Natural Gas (and to your point, nearly always producing CO2 in the process). From both a lifecycle efficiency and pollut
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Gas furnaces are FAR more efficient than their electric resistance heating or even heat pump counterparts. Not to mention that a simple gas burner works with no moving parts (other than the solenoid valve) for decades with no maintenance,
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You can get Sorbothane pads to go under your bed - Sorbothane is a material designed for vibration reduction.
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This is NOT a cybersecurity or network vulnerability problem. That's just a symptom. The real problem is that here, like so many other places in modern society, we've allowed consolidation to proceed far beyond healthy levels - w
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...then you might actually be able to use and manage multiple windows in MacOS, and have real fullscreen windows that don't have to use the confusing hack of being implemented as new virtual desktops. Just sayin'...
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Hell, yes. Next question? (FWIW, I have started and been part of the founding team for several companies, both angel and VC-backed. VCs are not nearly as interested in innovation or building a good company as they are in establishing cont
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Maybe, just maybe, we'll realize before many more millions are poisoned by this non-vaccine "vaccine" that provoking a permanent, irreversible, autoimmune response might not be such a good idea. It's starting to look lik
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I would certainly hope so. It's considerably safer there than in the hands of a too-big, unresponsive, bloated, inefficient, uncaring government...
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It's also protected (though rarely enforced) in some states. Unless they've changed the law, it's illegal to call yourself and engineer in Texas unless you're a Professional Engineer licensed by the state (or another st

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