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by fernly 3y ago
You can see BEHEMOTH at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. It's just past the Lisa and opposite the Palm Pilot display. The pictures in the catalog entry were taken in a warehouse. The bike is displayed much more nicely
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by fernly 4y ago
It appears not: "vaguely grammatical and has some of the right words" according to someone who actually knows: https://www.reddit.com/r/lojban/comments/12i0d0i/chatgpt_app... Not surprising, gi
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by fernly 4y ago
Oh I wish I had time to train it on one of my old hobbies, Lojban! https://lojban.io/ https://mw.lojban.org/papri/Lojban
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by fernly 4y ago
Thanks, but the link has "expired".
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by fernly 4y ago
Coverage from the San Jose Mercury News, 3/29: https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/29/san-jose-poa-office-m... > SJPOA spokesperson Tom Saggau ... was shocked to learn about the allegations swirling a
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by fernly 4y ago
In the full paper[1] read the examples of GPT-4's actual responses, e.g. Figs 3.1 and 7.1 and forward. Very, very impressive. [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.13375.pdf
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by fernly 4y ago
Puts pack mules out to pasture. (Non-trivial application.)
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by fernly 4y ago
Regarding the remarkable points about AL-26, "Meanwhile they were heating up, mainly from the radioactive element Aluminum-26. ... this hot stuff’s radioactivity is short-lived: With a half-life of 700,000 years, it was basically all u
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by fernly 4y ago
Geez, 25 years ago I was being boggled by how sophisticated was the code generated by the C compiler we shipped at SGI. For the MIPS architecture, as for most contemporary architectures, re-ordering memory accesses to minimize cache misses
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by fernly 4y ago
Thank you. I too wasted a good five minutes trying to find out what any tier would cost, and failed. I wonder if the USD prices are different from the CAD ones?
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by fernly 4y ago
Um, excuse me, but there existed a Tiny-C in 1979. Whatever you are talking about creating in 2000 is in no way an original idea. References: Dr. Dobb's Journal #32 (Feb 1979) page 41, review of Tiny-C User Manual by Ted Shapin [0] Dr.
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by fernly 4y ago
Actually turning 80 caused a mental shift. I'd be doing something and think, wait, should an 80-year-old be doing this? Something about the number made my mental age repeatedly try to re-align with the physical. The effect lasted a few
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by fernly 4y ago
I took a look at the sample issue (see link in another response) and my first response was -- this will be wiped out so fast by generative AI image makers.
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by fernly 4y ago
See the more recent comment here by @skissane about using chatGPT to write fiction. Process sounds quite similar.
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by fernly 4y ago
Parallel case with a standardized solution: override controls in elevators for emergency responders.
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by fernly 4y ago
> even choosing to download the audio in Apple Podcasts makes it available for offline listening, but doesn’t produce an MP3 or M4A file that you can move around or archive—it retains its DRM. Can this be solved by use of, e.g. Audio Hij
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by fernly 4y ago
While this is not one of the 7200 scanners claimed by VueScan[1], it might be worth talking to those folks. With their experience they might be able to reverse-engineer the protocol. If not (and I'm sure this is not an acceptable idea
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by fernly 4y ago
Freezes after a few shots for me -- both Brave and Firefox. Possibly hug of death from HN readers?
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by fernly 4y ago
The site says nothing about itself. Is it only a Chrome extension? In what platforms can it record the screen (win? mac? linux? only in a browser?). What other features does it have, eg select a portion of the screen, visual indication of m
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by fernly 4y ago
A major type-incompatibility not mentioned in the linked blog post is this, from[1], * Strings: Codon currently uses ASCII strings unlike Python's unicode strings. Judas priest, after all the effin' grief we went through to learn
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by fernly 4y ago
See https://docs.exaloop.io/codon/general/faq "While Codon does offer a JIT decorator similar to Numba's, Codon is in general an ahead-of-time compiler that compiles end-to-end programs to native code. I
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by fernly 4y ago
The wording is a little ambiguous but I read the abstract as talking about the _stellar_ rotation period being ~170d. Not the planet. The star rotating adds a low-frequency signal that interfered with the effect of the planet.
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by fernly 4y ago
> Both Galvani and SecondWave expect to announce first-in-human data within the next year. In other words, this is vaporware as yet.
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by fernly 4y ago
502 bad gateway. Followed a link to the wayback machine but that page didn't do anything.
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by fernly 4y ago
I'm skimming the source code, noting a few things that might help others do so. The "ADD NAME=" lines separate what would have originated as separate decks of punched cards. Each card is an assembler statement; each has an 8-
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by fernly 4y ago
If you grant moss and bacteria, then more complex life forms become inevitable. There are _advantages_ to be being multicellular, or multicellular life wouldn't exist. It's energetically advantageous for a plant to acquire a woody
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by fernly 4y ago
Company press release: https://mailchi.mp/boomsupersonic.com/supersonic-takes-shape... Company description of "Symphony" engine: https://boomsupersonic.com/symphony Claims 10% lower operating
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by fernly 4y ago
Oh, thank you! I always wondered if it had a name.
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by fernly 4y ago
The basic technique, a gouging or scooping away of the material to leave a remnant outlined by negative spherical spaces, produces a result that to my brain is not merely ugly, as another commentor wrote, but actively, strongly unpleasant,
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by fernly 4y ago
The experience of being a seller of old books is available to amateurs, in the form of volunteering at your local "Friends of the XXX Library". These organizations receive donations of books, sort and price them, and resell the bo

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