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by garyrob 10mo ago
> POTS = Plain Old Telephony System I worked for NY Telephone for years in the '80s, and it was referred to there as "Plain Old Telephone Service" not System. Not that it's a big deal at this point!
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by garyrob 10mo ago
If you try 2N times to succeed in ventures which each have a 1/N chance of success, as N increases the probability of such as success quickly converges on about 86.5%. (The limit is 1-e^(-2).) So, if you have a LOT of chances to try th
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by garyrob 10mo ago
As someone born in 1956, I and everyone I knew were great enjoyers of Peanuts, and I still appreciate those strips when I see them. There's a combination of solace in the face of cruelty, humor, gentleness and truthfulness there that u
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by garyrob 1y ago
Machine language generated by compilers is compiler slop.
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by garyrob 1y ago
> There is no hint that Apple intends to do anything with the Vision Pro, and they've already been scooped by Meta. I expect that's exactly what they have in mind. If they're successful, Meta's project will be to App
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by garyrob 1y ago
Works for me in Firefox; fails in Safari.
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by garyrob 1y ago
The editor, JOE, has a WordStar mode that you bring up with jstar. I programmed in WordStar in the 80's, and it's fun to bring it back to life that way!
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by garyrob 1y ago
It appears that Cal Newport has decided to be the one to most publicly initiate the inevitable Trough Of Disillusionment stage of the Hype Cycle. I'm not sure it'll last very long, though, considering (for starters) Google DeepMin
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by garyrob 1y ago
I don't know. What if there happened to me some unimaginable pathogen that Earth animal life had no way of resisting, and that multiplied rapidly in the presence of our kind of life? Extremely improbable. Astronomically improbable. Vir
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by garyrob 1y ago
I am implementing a single Rust process to which you can connect a zero-knowledge proof of identity, such as can be created with ZKPassword from a physical passport. Each user ends up with a keypair which is: 1) Highly Sybil resistant. Neit
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by garyrob 1y ago
I find transparency annoying enough that if it becomes more prevalent on MacOS in a way I can't turn off, I may switch to Linux for that reason alone.
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by garyrob 1y ago
"In an alternate timeline, HyperCard was not allowed to wither and die, but instead continued to mature, embraced the web..." In yet another alternate timeline, someone thought to add something like URLs with something like GET, P
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Another Suspect Is Arrested in Bitcoin Kidnapping and Torture Case(nytimes.com)
3 points by garyrob 1y ago|0 comments
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by garyrob 1y ago
I wouldn't be grinding at 69 either! It has to be a matter of feeling like it's a form of self-expression. If you feel your mode of expressing yourself is to travel, etc., then that's fantastic too.
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by garyrob 1y ago
I'm 69, starting a cofounder search for a new venture in the blockchain space. I don't feel any less capable than I was. I suppose I may have a bit of acquired "wisdom". I'm wondering how much ageism will be in my w
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Major Advances in E.V. Batteries Announced by Chinese Company(nytimes.com)
8 points by garyrob 1y ago|1 comments
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by garyrob 1y ago
IANAL, so I am just guessing. But I wonder if an argument can be made that by flagrantly violating the license, Microsoft is devaluing the whole concept of the relevant license and similar ones. The entire body of source code that was creat
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by garyrob 1y ago
Is it possible that there could be enough damages for Microsoft's violation of the license that a talented law firm would take up a lawsuit on a contingency basis?
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by garyrob 1y ago
As someone said above, "America's arrested rather a large number of people in recent weeks—university students, mostly—for expressing viewpoints on the I/P conflict. The current Administration is claiming, and no one's y
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My MacBook Pro repair on hold "because we need more information."
2 points by garyrob 1y ago|0 comments
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Isitaprilfoolsday.com(isitaprilfoolsday.com)
26 points by garyrob 2y ago|3 comments
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by garyrob 2y ago
I propose that it should use a Baysian prior where the background knowledge is assumed to be an A. While it may be true that most ToS are onerous, suppose we look at a ToS document as a collection of terms of service. It's only the ter
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by garyrob 2y ago
> The penultimate “smartcar” drives itself. Er... the second-to-last one?
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by garyrob 2y ago
> It won’t be OpenAI or Claude. They have other priorities. The real opportunity is for small teams who move fast, stay close to users, and keep ahead of the pack. It could be small teams within those companies, however, who have specia
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macOS Calendar: Two March 15, 2025s. Sat and Sun
2 points by garyrob 2y ago|1 comments
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by garyrob 2y ago
> I think most of the other gains we've seen since are related to fine-tuning on intentional application-specific tasks. IMO the only real "significant" improvement is the native multi-modal models. Let me say, as someone
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by garyrob 2y ago
In the current MacOS release, if I type Time Machine in the System Settings search box, it shows what I was looking for: "Show Time Machine status in the menu bar". But if I click that, it shows the switch for the Keyboard Brightn
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by garyrob 2y ago
It pauses for me when I hit the mute switch though. I pretty much never power it off.
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by garyrob 2y ago
". At this time, it appears the attackers compromised multiple signers’ devices, manipulated what signers saw in their wallet interface, and collected the required signatures while the signers believed they were conducting routine tran
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by garyrob 2y ago
"I am waiting..." was unnecessary.

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