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by gumby 2y ago
> You have to wonder if Giannandrea is what's been holding Siri back all these years. I think it's more that Siri wasn't central to Apple (though consider homepod and watch, both of which pretty much need to be talked to).
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by gumby 2y ago
I like this article, but given the number of misreads (small, in the example given) it might have been easier to diff a couple of OCR'd versions and just look up the diffs manually.
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by gumby 2y ago
I found the images distracting, and in particular the tweet-sized chunks of text separated by picture or two made the text hard to follow. So I think it's a legitimate criticism as this is a site for technical folks. Sure, not the top
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by gumby 2y ago
I have been surprised at the acceptance of the phrase "deep state" (regardless of your opinion of the topic) because it simply sounds like a foreign phrase to the English-speaking ear. In the US, and in English in general, the use
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by gumby 2y ago
Not only do I not find the inverted ones more sound, some of them don’t even apply (e.g. the meaning of the word “happiness” was different in Jefferson’s day than today).
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by gumby 2y ago
> Dinosaurs only died out around 100 mya. They did? I need only step into my back yard to see birds and lizards. > remarkably common event Probably not normally distributed but depends on the age of a given galaxy. But indeed, it do
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by gumby 2y ago
> The seminal definition (must start with a letter) was from RFC 952. Then it was lifted in RFC 1123: “One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digi
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by gumby 2y ago
Why not? We tattoo all sorts of food animals, which is what they were originally bred for (and I can confirm from experience that they are yummy — they are street food in the Andes). Not that I have eaten the ones bred for medical research
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by gumby 2y ago
The Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture are well known for their work on biological models of computer security architecture. I am shocked that any HN reader could be ignorant of this fact. Their director is a (controversial) Turing Award w
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by gumby 2y ago
You could just have called objdump — that’s what it’s for.
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by gumby 2y ago
> even if compilers directly don't interact with them Essentially they do as they put directives into the asm files to put things in specific sections, to define certain symbol visibility etc all of which depend on the object file f
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by gumby 2y ago
We ended up using India ink, which (according to the encyclopedia of ink* ) is mainly soot. We were able to isolate it in the HPLC and through some histopath experiments show that it didn’t have any negative local effect between (IIRC) seve
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by gumby 2y ago
Congress only authorizes executive branch agencies to have responsibility for certain things, and tattoos are not within scope, not being a medical treatment of any sort. BTW FDA was explicitly barred by a corrupt law* from regulating anyth
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by gumby 2y ago
I’m not surprised — tattoo inks are not regulated and the colors are often formed with toxic compounds (e.g. copper). Then the needle avoids the protective barrier provided by the skin. Ironically, while working on a drug program that inv
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by gumby 2y ago
Yes, that is US doctrine, but Iraq and Russia are hardly comparable.
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by gumby 2y ago
You don't have to run them all on a single device! But you hardly need a bunch of microservices, or any, really, to do any one tranlation.
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by gumby 2y ago
In an urban environment is there enough updraft from "heat island" effects to harvest the energy? I kinda assume not else someone would have done it already, but maybe my assumption is wrong because it wasn't economic before
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by gumby 2y ago
You know: write a program like in the old days. I would perform each request in a single process: read in the metadata (mainly structure) and then either process each tab sequentially or more likely map the whole thing into memory and spawn
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by gumby 2y ago
This reminds me of the old joke at the florist’s shop: the business celebrating a re-opening got flowers spelling out “deep condolences” while they delivered one to the funeral that spelled out, “Best of luck in your new location!”
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by gumby 2y ago
> If you are using Google Docs, and you want to convert a file to Google Sheets, that likely requires several different microservices working in tandem to handle your request. This discussion is about UX, but your comment shocked me.
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by gumby 2y ago
> heck, Ukraine has received the newly-developed GLSDB And in real combat it turns out that the Russians have easily suppressed them with GPS jamming. Also the steerable artillery. It’s useful to the US to learn this before they try to
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by gumby 2y ago
There have been several such reports this year; here’s one I quickly found with a web search: https://www.businessinsider.com/us-drones-glitching-getting-... US is sending all sorts of gear, not just dusty stuff from the ba
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by gumby 2y ago
What a sad essay with a simple answer to its title: “Not everything need be monetized”. This essay could be easily transposed into other domains, for example “why are some good musicians not trying to get record contracts?” From the essay:
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by gumby 2y ago
The article asserts (plausibly, but does not justify it) that there is a correlation between land value and structure height, since a higher structure has more floor area to be used in that high value area, while in a low land-value area yo
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by gumby 2y ago
There are reports from Ukraine that US supplied drones (both civilian and military) have not been effective — and this from a country that has been able to put drones made of cardboard to good use!
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by gumby 2y ago
> Reminded me of the experience of keeping the faith in a startup after it's become clear that it's going nowhere Ouch. So on-point.
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by gumby 2y ago
> And apparently Apple is okay with procrastinating and cannibalizing current sales of M1, 2, 3 if it helps prevent some Snapdragon (or Ampere) sales. Not sure where “procrastinating” fits in (a typo?), but as Scott McNealy once said, “I
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by gumby 2y ago
Challenge accepted! Now just have to find a terminal that works with a 6 GHz serial line…
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First 'bilingual' brain-reading device decodes Spanish and English words(nature.com)
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by gumby 2y ago
I must confess I clicked on the article because I thought I would learn that there are terminal control codes that are security risks! (The author’s title is fine — just uses a different meaning of “safe”) I suspect that in a sufficiently f

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