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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
There was also an implicit saving back then that an error message could be looked up in some other system (typically, a printed manual). You didn't need to write 200 chars to the screen if you could display something much shorter, like
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
Puts me in mind of this scathing report from CISA on how a state-sponsored group broke into Microsoft and then into the State Department and a bunch of other agencies. Reads like a heist movie. https://www.cisa.gov/sites&#x2
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
The opening of the gospel of John: It all started with the Word. The Word was perfectly aligned with God, and honestly? The Word was God. Total game-changer from day one. #Leadership #Vision #InTheBeginning #Alignment #Purpose
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
Britain used to have this too. Sadly it was strangled to death by the UK class system, but the replacement didnt help. Once upon a time the white collar track was to go to University. One of the old ones if your class situation was pushing
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by kjellsbells 7mo ago
you're giving me flashbacks to my time at Microsoft where a one night trip to another state meant hours wrestling with EY's filing system to record the trip and quizzical questions from my accountant about why Microsoft paid $0.23
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Windows: Microsoft broke the only thing that mattered(yankodesign.com)
130 points by kjellsbells 7mo ago|126 comments
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
I see statistics like "inbound international tourism is down 8%" but I can't tell without context if that is just a typical drop or a cataclysmic decline. That said, I do see a lot of ads for domestic tourism to places that o
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
There's an excellent In Our Time episode on Owen available from the BBC ([1], [2]) where Melvin Bragg gives an gentle yet chilling reading of the climax of the poem (about 29 minutes in). And like many IOT episodes, provides great co
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
Frequency lists are very useful but learners need context in order to use them, because little word atoms like prepositions, pronouns etc are heavily over represented in the core set. So make sure to study how to use those, and master the c
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
My point is that even if H-1B were eliminated and all the people that hold them today returned to their home countries, employers' response is less likely to be "we need to hire and train more Americans, asap" but more like &
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
I have a simple lagging indicator for the US economy, and it's this: when the ads you see focus on price not features, and especially of food, the economy is in a hole and no amount of government sunshine (from either party) persuades
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
Correctness like this doesn't really matter, if you are some EVP at BigCorp: you don´t really need AI to be genuinely superior to your human workers. You need AI to appear to be useful enough for two or three quarters, max. It gives yo
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
Not disputing this, but working thru this, lets say H-1Bs suddenly become really hard for companies to get. I dont think it follows that a ton of IT jobs suddenly open up for Americans. Isnt it more likely that all those H-1B jobs are repla
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
I suspect BYD would do a lot better in Europe if the political class wasn´t afraid of the fallout from the European manufacturers (VW, Stellantis, and all their child brands) being seriously damaged or even wiped out by the competition. Tha
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
Maybe experienced people are the L2 cache? And the challenge is to keep the cache fresh and not too deep. You want institutional memory available quickly (cache hit) to help with whatever your CPU people need at that instant. If you don´t h
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
I guess HN leans strongly towards the pro-anonymity viewpoint, and sure, the "think of the children!" claim has worn very thin. But: what methods could that reduce the harm that anonymous internet discourse so often produces? Peop
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
The same sorts of customers that SGI used to sell to in the pre-cloud era. DoD. Oil and gas. Finance. People with deep pockets and good reasons to want to keep certain parts of their infra very close to home. Also the kind of people that ex
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by kjellsbells 8mo ago
I wonder what the speed/weight tradeoff is on a Ferrari though. Eg on a Bugatti they can put in a beast of an engine (heavy) because their buyers care only about power output and if it gets 8 miles to a gallon who cares. On an electric
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
I'm struck by how oblivious the European manufacturers are, that they would pull such a user-hostile move. Autos are such a big part of the political machine in Europe they probably think they are immune from the winds of change. But w
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
James Burke's series Connections has a great episode on computation that covers the loom. https://youtu.be/z6yL0_sDnX0?si=-xdIgEj_kk9QIDPq
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
I didn't have defending Word on my todo list today,... but Word would totally be the wrong tool for this,so it isnt fair to compare. The tragedy is that serious large document authoring systems died with the invention of hypertext and
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
I've picked it back up as an intentional way of slowing myself down during calculations. Typically to do a calc I fire up Excel or the calc on my phone, bang in the numbers and accept the result without thinking. It's that "w
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
Sure, but you'd think that after 30 years, someone would have completed a migration. ie use Arca as a transition step while you figure out how to get onto something else. I guess software lifetimes are longer than a generation now, eve
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
No. I think it's easy to underestimate what an incredible superpower native English fluency is, and the lengths that immigrants will go to ensure that their children are fluent in it. That alone stops monolingual enclaves persisting. T
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
Since this is commercial and has been rolling along for a few years now I infer that there are still customers out there, who in some incredible fashion, cannot get off of OS/2. And, based on what features ArcaOS concentrates on, they
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
Is this really surprising? London picks up all the advantages of the UK (legal system is sound, eg in contract law, native speakers of English, the lingua franca of business, strong university tradition) and adds in its special sauce: acces
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Can AI Predict Stories? Learning to Reason for Long-Form Story Generation(arxiv.org)
3 points by kjellsbells 9mo ago|0 comments
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
FWIW, people here illegally are already not eligible for Medicaid, [0] so it's hard to see why ICE having access to a roster of Medicaid enrollees would help them with their stated mission of enforcing removal orders. Then again, we ha
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
also recommended: After Babel by George Steiner. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Babel
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by kjellsbells 9mo ago
This is very elegant, but is treading some ground that for various reasons never got commercial traction. - Cisco tried distributed BNG about ten years ago, their "cnBNG" running on their x86 UCS server line. See [0] - A UK compan

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