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by gnerd00 9mo ago
this is an important question. I am not a specialist in this area. I believe what you say was true before the invention of the Transformer ML architecture around 2015. I believe that among practitioners close to the Transformer effort, they
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by gnerd00 9mo ago
these books are social in nature.. it takes agreement to make revisions. The agreement process is part of a spiritual path, in multiple ways. One translation by a machine is new but newness is exactly not the point of these works. Stability
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by gnerd00 9mo ago
also death penalty for touching oil rigs, via Bush I.. "stay in your lane" plus license plate readers
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by gnerd00 9mo ago
fortunately people making shrill comments from the armchair are in charge of nothing
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by gnerd00 9mo ago
How many armies in the world, have ever had a person in uniform demand that "the other army must be crushed" ? ok, is there any army that did not say that, to each other, or to an audience? Get a grip on the invective and do not
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by gnerd00 9mo ago
How are "mammoth pirates" newsworthy compared to a 20 year concerted campaign to reopen the US Arctic Oil drilling ? that is now reopening? look - over there!
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by gnerd00 9mo ago
> like more mature resource extraction industries I have zero confidence that mature natural resource extraction companies are operating within sustainable bounds today, and a lot of evidence to back that up... a large enough collection
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by gnerd00 10mo ago
The first and only time I met Richard Stallman was at a small private talk in Palo Alto at MacAurthur Park. About 20 people at most I would say. His rigor and attentiveness to detail stood out brightly, even amongst a room full of PhDs and
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by gnerd00 10mo ago
check out Sasha Luccioni
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by gnerd00 10mo ago
calling Leonard Rosenthol ...
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by gnerd00 10mo ago
certainly no -- not "all software" of anything. Where is the word "enterprise" in the post you have replied to ? "enterprise" means the very largest companies and institutions.. I did not write "all softwa
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by gnerd00 10mo ago
first response from me "let me mention how the real business world actually works" .. let's add a more nuanced slice to that however Since desktop computers became popular, there have been thousands of small to mid-size compa
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by gnerd00 10mo ago
yes, multiple Macs within arms reach right now! ++ BBEdit
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by gnerd00 11mo ago
this is blatantly biased -- most idiots here are not girls at all ! /s
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by gnerd00 11mo ago
cash everyday .. sometimes strike up a conversation with clerk or local business about it, too. Society learned the hard way, many times.
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by gnerd00 11mo ago
Coding on an Osbourne Executive.. portable yes, but the screen was so small, the external monitor was essential. Pick green or orange monitor phospher (very different looking). Big floppy disks and CP/M, Wordstar and .. Visi-Calc? Bas
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by gnerd00 11mo ago
> There’s quite a lot of arrogance that covers more bases
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by gnerd00 11mo ago
TIFF indeed -- I recall the floppy disk for Mac mailed from Seattle with the TIFF spec printed on paper. A few weeks later, another graphics editor with TIFF support. I never, ever heard the name Carlsen until today. Thank you for this arti
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by gnerd00 11mo ago
google internally started working on "indexing" patent applications, materials science publications, and new computer science applications, more than 10 years ago. You the consumer / casual are starting to see the services n
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by gnerd00 1y ago
wait until you see the party footage
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by gnerd00 1y ago
the word is "soil" :-D
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by gnerd00 1y ago
maybe your VC overlords need a reality check?
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by gnerd00 1y ago
NeXT was incredible engineering but not a drop-in replacement for Mac OS. The sociology of the use of the machine is very different. The careful and kind attention to the non-technical computer owners in Mac OS was replaced by corporate-con
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by gnerd00 1y ago
can someone closer to the action speak about actual issues in that office? As an outsider, it seems like there was some fishy news about the International Space Station, for example...
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by gnerd00 1y ago
no, 2023 and 2024 both passed above 1.5c .. details: https://berkeleyearth.org/august-2025-temperature-update/
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by gnerd00 1y ago
jenkins did not exist though
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by gnerd00 1y ago
that is absolutely false - the capital and resources used to create these things are societal scale. An individual consumer is not paying that cost at this time.
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by gnerd00 1y ago
few here recall the "mainframe versus PC" era, as it was.. Basically, there has always been an Oracle
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by gnerd00 1y ago
San Francisco public schools -- it was in the national news. Details of the theory associated with it include Stanford.. endless numbers of heavily slanted retellings, few primary sources. lots of obfuscated Board votes
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by gnerd00 1y ago
"In theory, theory is ninety percent of practice; in practice, theory is ten percent of practice"

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