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601.
by gumby 2y ago
I don’t know Hicky, but Guy, Gerry and Hal are great human beings as well.
602.
by gumby 2y ago
I still mask (and wear a flo mask to boot!) -- now I wonder if people think I'm a conspiracy theorist? I have a soft spot for conspiracy theorists: they have such a charitable view of humanity that they believe a large number of people
603.
by gumby 2y ago
> So Carmack ... started reading research papers. This in itself is a superpower, especially in computer science where history is considered a waste of time. This is commonly even true in actual research computer science, where you'
604.
by gumby 2y ago
Goddamnit I always describe that comment as being about “sandal-wearing vegetarians and Fabians” and you’ve just pointed out that my memory is wrong. TBF it’s at least 40 years since I read it, but still…
605.
by gumby 2y ago
A week ago I referenced this book in a HN discussion of Tolkien: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40573023
606.
by gumby 2y ago
Yes, passenger ships and ferries were more common than today. When my mum went to Australia for school in the 1950s she went by ship.
607.
by gumby 2y ago
I think a lot of companies forget that the interview is the applicant selling themselves to the interviewer and *the company selling itself to the applicant". That's a strong "reject" signal to me. But also some of thes
608.
by gumby 2y ago
My aunt and uncle took their honeymoon in 1967 by driving from Adelaide to London, where they lived for a few years and then drove home. While a crazy trip, quite a few people did this, including my mother's best friend for her hone
609.
by gumby 2y ago
> purposefully vague and mysterious/mystical terminology like 'embeddings' and 'attention' I agree, but this isn't the cartoonist's problem: that's the fancifu vocabulary of the paper's author
610.
by gumby 2y ago
Airport came out in the beginning of the year, maybe January, at Macworld. WECA renamed themselves the WiFi Alliance a few years later, but the name (and trademark) had to exist for it to be worth them doing so. WECA reminds me of other &q
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Diversity in security providers: SIM swap and Apple password manager(twitter.com)
4 points by gumby 2y ago|2 comments
612.
by gumby 2y ago
I was looking forward to switching to Apple's password manager (1password isn't doing it for me any more) but this cautionary tale is a good argument for not doing so. Basically a SIM swap can get around the protections Apple h
613.
by gumby 2y ago
> Could bad health outcomes, like the high prevalence of chronic illness or obesity, actually prop-up a nation’s gross domestic product by maintaining high levels of healthcare-related expenditure, and jobs? Classic Bastiat broken window
614.
by gumby 2y ago
That was also how lucent’s access points worked.
615.
by gumby 2y ago
> It wasn't Wi-Fi, it was AirPort. etc. etc. FWIW the term “airport” predated the name “wifi” — in those days you had to otherwise call it IEEE 802.11. And the name as great: people were buying them like crazy and hiding them in the
616.
by gumby 2y ago
Surprisingly good article, despite (or perhaps because of?) its conversational style. It won’t end up telling you much about neutrinos, but it does a good job IMHO explaining why they are puzzling, which for most of us is the interesting
617.
by gumby 2y ago
What are PUA and STAR? Hard to search for them.
618.
by gumby 2y ago
They aren’t preventing you from using 1password which requires their cloud service, or any other. I use third party calendar, address book (contacts), text editor, but use Apple mail and safari. And mostly use Dropbox for file storage.
619.
by gumby 2y ago
Why don’t you just install the windows app they announced?
620.
by gumby 2y ago
They have a windows app for it.
621.
by gumby 2y ago
Any book about the development of the iphone or articles in the business press from a few months after product introduction (if any are still online…try Fortune).
622.
by gumby 2y ago
The phenomenon is called “Conway’s Law”: a product reflects the organizational structure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
623.
by gumby 2y ago
> I think these new features sound great, but I'm not in any hurry to adopt them wholesale. And if you don’t like them you don’t have to use them. I don’t use Siri and it doesn’t bother me that Apple includes it on all their machin
624.
by gumby 2y ago
Since you were talking about choice of language I thought I’d seize the opportunity to make a jocular comment on your own choice of words. Hope you saw it in the spirit intended.
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Where did the idea of the tin foil hat come from?(gizmodo.com)
48 points by gumby 2y ago|59 comments
626.
by gumby 2y ago
My first computing experience was on the MIT-AI KA-10 (which was the first one ever installed). It was already semi-obsolete by then, with CADR lispms in use as well. Having the debugger always available (no need for the old fashioned idea
627.
by gumby 2y ago
My first passport (1970s, before that I traveled on my mum’s passport) was stamped “BRITISH SUBJECT”, though Australia was a supposedly sovereign nation. At least the UK had stopped nuking Australia by then.
628.
by gumby 2y ago
Two of the founders of my company are old school AIers (80s MIT and CMU/Stanford; PARC etc). When an investor asks us if we use “AI” we now say, “oh not at all, just some machine learning”. And it’s not core to the product, just some
629.
by gumby 2y ago
It matters to you if a robot discovers something and tells you rather than some person you don’t know discovering it and telling you? All the exploration of space is being done by robots anyway. Then computers crunch the data and screens d
630.
by gumby 2y ago
Leave spaceflight to the robots. They don’t need to drag around a planetary environment.

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