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by herodotus 2y ago
Now that's a browser extension I would pay for!
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Vancouver strip club marquee cited as hate speech on X(cbc.ca)
14 points by herodotus 2y ago|0 comments
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by herodotus 2y ago
Thanks for providing that link. What an amazing artist!
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by herodotus 2y ago
When I was a prof (many years ago), I was working on a database for a political campaign. The code was a mess. I asked a couple of my colleagues (successful comp. sci. profs) to help out. It became clear very quickly that there are two kind
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by herodotus 2y ago
Delta is in Canada (in the province of British Columbia). There is a border crossing between Delta and Point Roberts. This credit union is close to Point Roberts, but it is not in Point Roberts. I asked the question because I wanted to go t
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by herodotus 2y ago
I am seriously worried about AI being merged into search. Below you will see a very simple query I made to ChatGPT. Spoiler alert: the answer is wrong. There is a branch of Umpqua bank in Point Roberts. And there is no credit union. So inst
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by herodotus 2y ago
Dorothy Parker died in 1967. In 1972, my university presented its first ever computer science course: a second year course, teaching both IBM 360 assembly language and Fortran. The driving force behind this was Derek Henderson, one of the f
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by herodotus 2y ago
This might be too weird to be true, but when I heard that Geoff Hinton got the Nobel prize for Physics, I wondered if the prize committee was having trouble finding "real" physicists who had made fundamental advances.... This is n
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by herodotus 2y ago
Lovely. In about 1974 I was paid to write a function, in IBM 360 assembly language, to compute square roots. I was asked to make it as efficient as possible. I was in my last year as an undergraduate student. I used a Chebyshev approximatio
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by herodotus 2y ago
Not a topic that I am particularly interested in, but I watched it all because the presenter is really good at explaining things. If I was still in the game of giving talks (I am retired now), I would gain some good presentation thoughts fr
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by herodotus 2y ago
I went to a talk once from a man who collected antique magic props. He said when he moved he needed a 1 ton container for his stuff. At the end of the talk, someone asked if his wife objected to his collection. He said "She doesn'
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by herodotus 2y ago
This article was written in 2014
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by herodotus 2y ago
I had a raccoon pooping under my deck. I installed a motion detecting sprinkler to keep it away. In just a few days, the raccoon figured out that it could safely go behind the sprinkler to do its business. Now my deck is completely enclosed
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Metal from space junk polluting the upper atmosphere(cbc.ca)
3 points by herodotus 2y ago|1 comments
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by herodotus 2y ago
Thanks!
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by herodotus 2y ago
Looks interesting. I have tried it out. Cannot see how to do this step: > Import your statements from your broker or bank.
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by herodotus 2y ago
The novel referred to in this article is "The Maniac" by Benjamin Labatut. (Article is paywalled)
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by herodotus 2y ago
If you have an online way for people to cancel membership or subscription, and if you ask the reasons for cancelling, at least have an "Other" option.
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by herodotus 2y ago
When my wife died over four years ago, I had to deal with her various online accounts. The most egregious was an organization where we had a family membership. I called them and told them she died. They expressed condolences, and said they
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PyFL, a Prgmr-Frdly Funcl Language Based on Conventional Mathematical Notation(billwadge.com)
2 points by herodotus 2y ago|0 comments
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The Root of all Evil- more sayings(billwadge.com)
5 points by herodotus 2y ago|0 comments
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"Computers Are Useless" and Other Sayings(billwadge.com)
8 points by herodotus 2y ago|3 comments
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by herodotus 2y ago
Be warned: the title is completely misleading. There is nothing new in this article.
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by herodotus 2y ago
This is a very badly written and highly inaccurate article. I think it is AI generated, and, if so, I sincerely hope that AI improves before the internet gets flooded by more nonsense like this. If you really are interested in Pythagorus, p
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by herodotus 2y ago
This is so strange: a few days ago I commented on an HN post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40582712 ) about when "programmer" became an acknowledged job title, and, in my comment, mentioned how I used a Che
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by herodotus 2y ago
Maybe. At CDC I my job title was Systems Analyst.
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by herodotus 2y ago
> programming wasn’t even a “real job” (early 1980s) This made me laugh. You young-uns! I earned my first money for programming in 1970. I wrote, in IBM 360 assembly language, a "subroutine" to compute square-root, using a Cheb
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by herodotus 2y ago
When I use regular Safari on my MacBook Pro with an M2 chip, I get many "problem loading the page" messages. Completely repeatable on ebay. But on the "Technology Preview" I never see the message. I don't usually us
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by herodotus 2y ago
Ok, I read the article. But I still don't know what the big lie is.
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by herodotus 2y ago
Waterloo press release: https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/cosmic-glitch-gravity

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