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by gumby 1mo ago
I like the idea (we’ll see about the execs). It seems to record what I would remember anyway (“yesterday you and Joe and Anupam talked about going fishing a chose a date”) unless I was distracted. It’s like the cameras in the glasses. If a
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by gumby 1mo ago
Funny this was downvoted: I was thinking the same as I was reading this thread. True mass market means optimizing your product for the fat part of the population bell curve. This is some point or region in a space of { cost, features, use
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by gumby 1mo ago
“Robinson projection” makes me think of Canadian fasteners.
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by gumby 1mo ago
For a while, France had its own prime meridian with 0 degrees passing of course through Paris: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_meridian
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by gumby 1mo ago
Very nice!
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by gumby 1mo ago
The problem is that 0 is a valid UID in POSIX systems like Linux. If you automatically initialize variables with a garbage value, use-before-initialization (the program’s initialization) them the use of that variable will likely fail due to
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by gumby 1mo ago
> Ironically, if we do get "investment in mothers" and "universal childcare", it will be for the profit and benefit of the ruling class that will want to make sure your child is indoctrinated in the regime's prop
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by gumby 1mo ago
Just my memories of being at the AI lab back then.
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by gumby 1mo ago
This is the general consensus in DE (I watched the election during the day on TV). AfD is a cancer on the electorate.
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by gumby 1mo ago
There was a lot of swapping of what was in other peoples’ inits (there was no security on ITS at all). I discovered that others just linked to my (compiled) init file due to people complaining when I changed it. Since Wikipedia didn’t even
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by gumby 1mo ago
Have you been to the UAE? Sure t the beach there re women in burkinis and more, but also women in two piece bikinis.
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by gumby 1mo ago
Hah, is this a troll? It’s a lot older than those editors. EMACS started as Eugene Ciccareli’ init file for the TECO editor (which was also a programming language) around 1976. Hence the name (Eugene‘s Macros). It was later rewritten in
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by gumby 1mo ago
They are smarter than that: Siegmund says he doesn’t want to form a government. After all then people could see how they function in office, and that might hurt the AfD in upcoming national elections. Better to wait until the AfD is in p
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by gumby 1mo ago
No, and I would be surprised if it did (but medicine is still so poorly understood that surprises do happen, though rarely). The article was more about the social dynamics which are interesting. Despite being poorly understood, the medical
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by gumby 1mo ago
BIPV* has always failed for difficult-to-address reasons and the “Tesla” version was no different from the others in the market so had no differentiation that would allow it to survive. I know why Tesla bought the company (bail out musk’s
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Billionaire tries untested longevity therapy to restore daughter's vision(science.slashdot.org)
3 points by gumby 1mo ago|2 comments
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The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice(nytimes.com)
2 points by gumby 1mo ago|0 comments
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by gumby 1mo ago
Census bureau works pretty hard to get as accurate a count as possible, and hires mathematicians specifically to work on privacy. This is about the administration trying to put its finger on the pans
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by gumby 1mo ago
GOP Voters don’t care when the ones they vote for are in power. Meanwhile the Dems reduce the debt and are pilloried for it
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by gumby 1mo ago
Then the reader can use an LLM to compress it back, and you can then interrogate it for details. I used to say this was the future of advertising (cr sales person prompts “we have some new EV SUVs on the lot”; GPT generates an ad email wit
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The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay(a.wholelottanothing.org)
112 points by gumby 1mo ago|124 comments
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by gumby 1mo ago
On Friday I had a hamburger in the cafeteria of $BIG_COMPANY … in Belgium, the home of the “French fry”. It was served with boiled potatoes.
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First Responders May Have to Push Tesla's Cybercabs, Turn Front Wheels by Hand(gizmodo.com)
2 points by gumby 1mo ago|3 comments
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"We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"(trendingtopics.eu)
47 points by gumby 1mo ago|82 comments
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by gumby 1mo ago
Our PR firm asked us what web sites we like as an idea of what we want to do and I sent them “Computers are bad” (computer.rip) and they thought I was joking. They should have asked me what sites I thought our prospective customers read.
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by gumby 1mo ago
Ronald Coase got the Nobel prize for answering your question, most famously in his essay "The Nature of the Firm", considering it to be transaction cost. So there is no real benefit to couple the decisions of the catering staff wi
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$15M effort to get to Alpha Centuri in 80K years(arstechnica.com)
2 points by gumby 1mo ago|0 comments
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Donut Labs Solid State Battery Looks Like It May Be Real After All(cleantechnica.com)
4 points by gumby 1mo ago|1 comments
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Is Russia's rival to Starlink failing? Here's what we know(arstechnica.com)
3 points by gumby 1mo ago|0 comments
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Without new landers or rovers, it's helicopters or bust for NASA's Mars program(arstechnica.com)
28 points by gumby 1mo ago|0 comments

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