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by leoc 2y ago
Edit: ugh, I missed dalant979's comment which already covers this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42662830
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by leoc 2y ago
Old IBM mainframe scripting in JCL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Control_Language (so "OS JCL" now, I suppose) used to have a terrible reputation for this, but I've never actually touched the stuff m
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by leoc 2y ago
> I found somebody who taught me how to do really complex modelling in OWL DL Is there any resource you could recommend for that?
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by leoc 2y ago
I too would prefer that the funding come from a relatively hands-off source, like some EU pot, if possible. But I think that nearly any (reasonably likely) funding source would be preferable to letting Servo development fail.
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by leoc 2y ago
Latin does give a significant advantage to Romance-language speakers, and anyway trying to make everyone equally bad at the common language is a bit procrustean. The big disadvantage to the decline of Latin (which is probably mostly somethi
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by leoc 2y ago
Warning: I'm not an expert on this or on anything. W. Sidney Allen's old Vox Latina https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/vox-latina/0D460CEF06E5... is apparently still the standard starting refere
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by leoc 2y ago
I assume that they're hoping that the EU or an EU member-state steps up; or failing that, maybe a (probably-US) nonprofit or billionaire donor, perhaps a Laurene Powell Jobs or MacKenzie Scott type. To be clear, something like this ver
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by leoc 2y ago
“Four hundred years ago, Galileo started piecing together the basic principles …” oh no https://aeon.co/ideas/galileo-s-reputation-is-more-hyperbole...
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by leoc 2y ago
That's not too dissimilar to the folder tabs which appeared at some point in classic MacOS, though I don't remember when: quite possibly after '95.
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One wrinkle here is that Jobs himself was by all accounts the person most responsible for Apple opening a Cork facility in 1980, and for whatever Apple and the Irish government promised each other as part of that deal. There's some ind
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by leoc 2y ago
Jobs is on the whole probably better than the modern "tech right", yes, if only because supposedly he turned down opportunities to get seriously into politics. OTOH, who knows what kind of strange political or personal journey he
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> Fiche bliain ag fás, > Fiche bliain faoi bhláth, > Fiche bliain ag meath > Agus fiche bliain gur cuma ann no as. "Twenty years growing, Twenty years in bloom, Twenty years in decline, And twenty years when it makes no dif
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by leoc 2y ago
Well, that seems to be a significant new insight into the mystery of what does or does not happen in Apple Cork https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42255412 .
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by leoc 2y ago
This old article from 2013 was funny: https://web.archive.org/web/20240416175801/https://semiaccur...
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by leoc 2y ago
Let me linkbot those books and authors: Ratio: The Simple Codes Behind the Craft of Everyday Cooking by Michael Ruhlman, 2010, ISBN 978-1416571728 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Ratio/Michael-Ruhlman...
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by leoc 2y ago
Italians also got into cymbal-making during the 20th century, the upshot of which was apparently that some of the post-WWII British cymbals branded as "Zyn" were made by Italian POWs (or maybe ex-POWs?)
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by leoc 2y ago
The catch, though, is that ambiguity between 'cymbal-maker' and 'bell-maker'. 'Zil's certainly existed before the surname existed, but what was a zil/zill? In English 'zill' still usually refers
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by leoc 2y ago
IIRC the terms of the argeement under which the intra-family dispute was settled required Sabian to avoid advertising the Zildjian connection, so I assume they're being careful about that.
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by leoc 2y ago
The best article on the subject in English is maybe still Ernest Blum's "The New Old Way of Learning Languages" https://theamericanscholar.org/the-new-old-way-of-learning-l... but note that it's quite im
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by leoc 2y ago
They did play probably one of the most successful long games in the recent history of business. It does seem that now they’ve decided that it’s time to take profits, though.
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by leoc 2y ago
Also (as you know), twisted-pair Ethernet with a hub (let alone that STARNET daisy-chain thingy!) just isn't that different from coax Ethernet. Electrically it's largely shared-medium, half-duplex bus Ethernet wearing a mechanical
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by leoc 2y ago
In the US. The UK or EU will do you 3000W out of a standard domestic socket.
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by leoc 2y ago
But they don't have to target individual musical acts or individual songs for replication to drain their purses. Time spent listening to Spotify's own-brand lo-fi is time not spent listening to playlists full of expensive third-pa
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by leoc 2y ago
The reporting suggests that the "Perfect Fit Content" scheme began in 2017 and had been rolled out on a large scale by 2023, so it's unlikely that it has been reliant on AI music. (It does seem very likely that Spotify is now
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by leoc 2y ago
This summary of the book excerpt/ Harper's article https://futurism.com/spotify-accused-promoting-ghost-artists provides a short, punchy summary: > Spotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Red
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by leoc 2y ago
Eh, it’s charming but honestly, for someone who doesn’t already know the maths it’s still just edutainment, as it leaps from trivial to incomprehensible in the blink of an eye.
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by leoc 2y ago
Are there or may there be similar “attacks” on the LLM chatbots?
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Manhattan-Project styled Big Science megaproject to fully simulate a rat brain by 2050 so that it can be trained to trade the cable ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_(foreign_exchange) ).
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by leoc 2y ago
The Fifth Generation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Syst... was another notable failure. OTOH MITI did also organise the Japanese VLSI project https://www.asianometry.com/p&#x2F
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by leoc 2y ago
Certainly Gerry Sussman's frustrations with ambiguous notation were a big reason for his decision to create SICM! https://youtu.be/arMH5GjBwUQ?t=236

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