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by gumby 3mo ago
Why would a local facility like handoff need to talk to the mother ship?
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by gumby 3mo ago
Office apps no longer autosave unless you have OneDrive installed. So no autosave for me! Instead I save compulsively lie the days of floppy disk PCs. (Meanwhile Emacs has had autosave since at least 1977)
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by gumby 3mo ago
I’m not a criminal*, but I hope when I’m 76 I’ll still be sufficiently lithe and compos mentis to pull off a career in crime, should I so choose. * Though wouldn’t a criminal say that?
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by gumby 3mo ago
But that’s really the opposite of τέχνη, isn’t it? It’s an emergent phenomenon rather than one guided by teleology or at least by deliberation.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Science fiction, even more than historical fiction, is always about the present, which is why SF novels rarely age well. But good literature is good literature and she sure had the knack, which is why I believe her work will continue to be
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by gumby 3mo ago
A side point: when you say “Lewis” I assume you mean Charles Staple Lewis, not Sinclair Lewis. I find it hard to consider the former “foundational”. It was and is popular (much to the annoyance of his buddy Tolkien), but hardly influentia
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by gumby 3mo ago
For quite a long time the company has been oriented around product managers who are paid for shipping something new, not for any sort of maintenance (occasionally posts appear on HN from people who got a poor performance review because they
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by gumby 3mo ago
MANY years ago I hopped into a cab in Manhattan and the driver in one smooth gesture pushed the flag down and shoved a paper at me, saying “test me!” It was a US citizenship exam, I think 50 questions. We went through them a couple of time
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by gumby 3mo ago
Ever read a book by Yuval Noah Harari? He seems to have been writing like this since before LLMs. Perhaps that’s where they got it from.
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by gumby 3mo ago
We need a new term. To search for something is to believe you’ll probably find it. You’ll ignore anything that isn’t keys if you’re searching for your keys. Fuzzy search is really the opposite: it will try to return something — anything —
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by gumby 3mo ago
I don’t understand the idea that the Air is a way to test reduced capabilities for a folding phone. If you’ve used any of the Chinese folding phones they have plenty of room for cameras, memory etc. I’m not much of an Android fan but I do l
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by gumby 3mo ago
Even te business folks know this, at least those who read “The Innovator’s Dilemma”. All the very successful-yet-failing companies were unable to understand these compromises, and each was overturned by a newcomer that could (usually due to
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by gumby 3mo ago
Even this AI generated article hs a hard on for rust. If all references to switching to rust were eliminated the article would be the same.
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by gumby 3mo ago
The article explicitly says incremental parsing was not needed for this application (ingesting whole files for AI analysis).
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by gumby 3mo ago
LLMs use em- dashes because they appear in the training set. In other words, humans use them a lot. Such a weird issue to be adopted as an indicator of robot text.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Having lived through that time I find this article extremely accurate and focused on the important stuff. I didn’t pay much attention to the PC at that point (I was programming Lispms, Dorados and KL-20s) but it was impossible to ignore.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Having lived in France, Germany, and Australia I can report that there’s a lot less bureaucracy in those systems than in the US system. Like telecom, the participants in the medical system put up tollbooths because they can.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Because the titles don’t always reflect the insight of the pattern so if you just have that tiny entry you can misunderstand
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Could China and Russia Destroy Starlink?(arstechnica.com)
3 points by gumby 3mo ago|0 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
Why, really? Each pattern is barely a page or two long (well, with a picture it spills over). The point is already to be brief, but also provide some context. Just reading one lets you muse on the concept and see if it fits with gig. The
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by gumby 3mo ago
Always confident, occasionally correct.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Apple was a key developer of USB C and used its experience from developing lightning. They were also one of the first (if not the first) to sell USB C devices (2016 MacBook, then across the whole Mac line). I don’t know how much the EU aff
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by gumby 3mo ago
That’s quite unusual as the connection was specifically designed to sacrifice the cable rather than the port (unfortunately mini-A was the opposite which, when coupled with a small insertion lifetime, was pretty terrible). I’m sure you’ve t
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Malaysia Crushes Network School. Balaji Flees to Kazakhstan(thenerdreich.com)
5 points by gumby 3mo ago|2 comments
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by gumby 3mo ago
I don’t think the author meant it as an insult to Poland. Apple is unusually centralized (they don’t even have different business units; the company has a single balance sheet at P&L) and corporate level decision making is pretty much a
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by gumby 3mo ago
Looks like that episode was a building clearance for a developer.
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by gumby 3mo ago
Because xargs is faster. Exec will invoke the command once per matching file (which is sometimes what you want, of course)! While xargs will accumulate a bunch of file names, then when it as n names will invoke the command with those name
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by gumby 3mo ago
The hand tracking will be via your watch or a Rivin or passively from a down pointing camera on the glasses. The Apple Watch’s primitive recognition of a few gestures isn’t bad
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by gumby 3mo ago
I have to say I was distracted by the punctuation typo: (2022] means the range of 2022 including 2022. I never noticed before that when we write (2022) we are excluding the year 2022. I know this really apply to the topic but hopefully I’m
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by gumby 3mo ago
They should have chosen the domain goatse.ai

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