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by ebruchez 2y ago
I am not sure if it is worth answering but here it goes anyway: 1. Taiwan is not China, any more than Ukraine is Russia, except if you believe all the propaganda coming from the mainland (or Russia). Ask any Taiwanese, and while many consid
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by ebruchez 2y ago
I am not taking your word for it at all, but if they "laugh" at this, I wouldn't want to have anything to do with them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps
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by ebruchez 2y ago
> it has never invaded outside its traditional borders Your notion of "traditional borders" is where this becomes nonsense. With a little bit of revisionist history you can justify all sorts of invasions, such as the 1959 invas
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by ebruchez 2y ago
I ported RTEMS on a 68k family microcontroller in 1997 for my computer science thesis, as part of a larger project. It was quite easy to work with, as I remember.
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by ebruchez 2y ago
This is an MT/ST Model IV. It's been on eBay for a long time, but the guy doesn't seem eager to sell it. The videos are cool though, because they show the details of the machine, including it's relays bank. The typewrite
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by ebruchez 2y ago
Great experience. I love to hear stories of people who actually used or saw these machines in use.
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by ebruchez 2y ago
> The Selectric type ball mechanism made multiple rapid impressions Not sure if this is what you mean but no, the type element would just hit the paper through the ribbon once. The crispness comes entirely from the formulation of the car
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by ebruchez 2y ago
The Mag Card was essentially a word processor, and did not compete with the MT/SC. But IBM also introduced a Mag Card Composer, which did. There really were two very different use cases: general-purpose word processing one one hand, an
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by ebruchez 2y ago
Author of the posts here. There most definitely was a market, which ended only with the advent of cheaper computer-based solutions. Think magazines and small publications. The goal here was not to print a lot, but to produce a single instan
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by ebruchez 3y ago
They are asking about the machine's typeface. Techno Elite is one of the Hermes 3000 available typefaces.
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by ebruchez 3y ago
I posted this link as a comment below but it might be worth linking from the top what I have always thought is a very good article, "The Node is Nonsense": https://read.nxtbook.com/ieee/spectrum/spectrum_
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by ebruchez 3y ago
See "The Node is Nonsense", which discusses alternative ways of describing process nodes in the future: https://read.nxtbook.com/ieee/spectrum/spectrum_na_august_20...
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by ebruchez 3y ago
Yes it supports up to 4 serial interfaces given the ports available on the Pi. You can use small USB-to-RS232 converters, and/or use the built-in USB-to-serial plus additional USB-to-serial converters and solder two MAX232 chips on the
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by ebruchez 3y ago
> a phone with a 7nm chip, which is technology they weren't expected to have. They may have it but so far there is no independent confirmation of that. Skepticism is warranted at this point.
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by ebruchez 3y ago
My house, from the 1970s, has 100% aluminum wiring. I bought special connectors to connect copper wires to aluminum wires for extra safety when I put new outlets and switches in, as there is a fire concern when the connections are not done
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by ebruchez 3y ago
This analogy would have some semblance of meaning if the US had plans to invade Mexico, or had made statements to that effect, or if there was even a latent desire in the US for that kind of action. It would then make sense for Mexico to fi
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by ebruchez 3y ago
The best part was that, no matter the size of internal or external buses, the programming model was 32-bit and extremely consistent. It was (and still is I suppose) so nice to write assembly code for it.
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by ebruchez 3y ago
I doubt it was for appearance only. Your other reasons make sense.
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by ebruchez 3y ago
It is based on what IBM called the "I/O typewriter", which was a Selectric variant with switches and solenoids. Pretty cool stuff.
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by ebruchez 3y ago
That is correct. The Selectric (and Selectric II and III) are entirely electric. Later Selectric variations, like the Mag Card II, introduced electronics in a separate console or in a board fitting at the back of the machine, but the typewr
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by ebruchez 3y ago
That is correct. IBM type elements are made of plastic, but plated with a very thin layer of metal. From a 1981 article: "the type element was functionally plated using an electroplating process that enabled the metal skin to adhere to
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by ebruchez 4y ago
> What's an example conversation you've had with it where it fails? Almost all of them? It's mixing up and making up everything, not showing a proper understanding of context or relation between objects.
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by ebruchez 4y ago
> Only because the goalposts have been moved I don't know about what goalposts you are referring to, but I think that you are confusing two notions: - the fact that GPT is impressive - the question of whether GPT is "intelligen
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by ebruchez 4y ago
> ChatGPT is passing with flying colors all the traditional tests we used to test for intelligence. I am not sure where you are getting that from. ChatGPT is failing at extremely basic understanding tests, as even the simplest conversati
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by ebruchez 4y ago
Absolutely.
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by ebruchez 4y ago
I don't know about the serialization issue but I don't doubt you had it. > def ++[B >: A, That](that: GenTraversableOnce[B])(implicit bf: CanBuildFrom[IndexedSeq[A], B, That]): That I should point out that this is the Scala
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by ebruchez 4y ago
The "super complex" and "introduces breaking changes all the time" comments are unsubstantiated FUD. Scala has evolved a lot in the last few years, particularly in the area of binary compatibility. It's a wonderful
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by ebruchez 4y ago
> Scala choices were directly dictated by JVM Initially, yes. But Scala has evolved beyond the JVM, with Scala.js [1] being rock-solid, and Scala Native [2] under development. Neither are truly hampered by the initial JVM roots of Scala.
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by ebruchez 4y ago
As a workaround, you could distribute the modified Foo.java as Foo2.java, and have your build system rename Foo2.java to Foo.java at build time. It might be all it takes (but IANAL).
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by ebruchez 4y ago
I recommend reading this article on this topic: "The node is nonsense". [1] It suggests several alternatives and is quite in depth. [1] https://read.nxtbook.com/ieee/spectrum/spectrum_na_august_20...

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