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by leoc 3mo ago
There were also the 2,400 specially-designed upright pianos it bought from Steinway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_Vertical .
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by leoc 4mo ago
Radio Society of Great Britain reaction: https://rsgb.org/main/radio-sport/rsgb-contest-club/bbc-long... Rather defensive press release thing from the BBC: https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre&#x2F
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by leoc 4mo ago
IIRC pre-GFC FMIC has a generally good reputation among guitarists, and certainly in comparison to the preceding era of Fender, when it was owned by CBS.
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by leoc 4mo ago
“I delegated critical financial decisions to my OCR software, and you won’t believe what happened next.”
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by leoc 4mo ago
A simple adventure with a rudimentary VERB NOUN grammar can be done as a modest BASIC program, as for example in the Usborne Adventure Programs book https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books https:
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by leoc 4mo ago
Yes. As mentioned in https://github.com/maurymarkowitz/101-BASIC-Computer-Games the first, 1973 version targeting various minicomputer or large-system BASICs was entitled 101 BASIC Computer Games . The 1978 edition h
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by leoc 4mo ago
It does starts to sound a bit like chortling about what a weird asshole Semmelweis is. ISTR to recall that US students of linguistics were slow to adopt the International Phonetic Alphabet because it North America it had become associated w
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by leoc 4mo ago
It estimates 83,000 for 99/100. I wouldn't take the guess too seriously, obviously.
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by leoc 4mo ago
He made snooker a (relatively) big sport by putting it on TV https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_Black because he needed something which would advertise the benefits of colour TV. The matches needed literal-not-metaphori
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by leoc 4mo ago
He seems pretty unequivocal in the video: https://youtu.be/2HMPRXstSvQ . He even points out that it’s something which he’s claimed previously, ruling out the idea that it was some kind of spur-of-the-moment conclusion.
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by leoc 4mo ago
Additionally, a top-division European soccer team also typically plays something like 34 or 38 league games every season, and that doesn’t include things like domestic cups and European competition.
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by leoc 4mo ago
There's no clean separation between those things. The weakness and inadequacy of HTTP(S) and other protocols actively funnels people into the centralised services of big providers. It creates a world where storage is brittle and conten
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by leoc 4mo ago
It's not a panacea or a magic fix for human nature, but one of the root causes of this is that the underlying architecture of the HTTP(S) Web is just inadequate. The world needs (technically viable and widely-used systems of) content-a
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by leoc 4mo ago
A couple of alternatives are: 1) more reliance on systems to track reputation across projects. I'm sure Microsoft, in the form of GitHub, will love to sell you a partial fix to the same problems it so enthusiastically helped to creat
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by leoc 4mo ago
But that's a bit backwards. RMS would emphatically agree that Free Software doesn't mean being open to contributions; if you asked him about either "FOSS" or "Open Source" he'd probably command you to wa
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by leoc 4mo ago
CatB and Open Source aren't coaxial , but there wasn't a very clean separation between them either: https://www.free-soft.org/literature/papers/esr/cathedral-ba... https://web.archive.or
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by leoc 4mo ago
That's not really right, though the license is still Open Source compliant. Linux was practising an open, patches-welcome developement style before the forges existed, on its mailing list. This did indeed contrast with how eg. the FS
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by leoc 4mo ago
> Opensource doesn't mean open to contributions. That's not entirely true. It's certainly the case that Ladybird is still under an open-source license , but the whole idea of the "Open Source" label was to move
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by leoc 4mo ago
Something not completely dissimilar to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLSRing then?
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by leoc 4mo ago
> Shortly afterwards, in 1974, developers squeezed a reduced PDP-8/A logic board into a VT50 terminal and demonstrated it as one of two potential personal computer products to Olsen. To their disappointment (including a young David
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by leoc 4mo ago
That delay in shipping a memory-protected Mac was probably originally at least as much the result of upper-management politics as anything else. After Jobs left Apple Gassée cancelled Jobs’ pet project, the Big Mac which was intended to run
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by leoc 4mo ago
The big productivity gains of the Agricultural Revoution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolutio... started considerably before the Industrial Revolution, though naturally the Industrial Revolution
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by leoc 4mo ago
> If a creator doesn’t specify whether or not they used AI, but our systems detect significant photorealistic AI use, we will now automatically apply a label. It doesn't seem clear if this sweep will pick up AI-generated maths, phys
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by leoc 5mo ago
I am afraid that you have missed my point. DOOM is famous for many things, but encouraging a really-makes-ya-think response to the death of its NPCs is not one of them. If it were then it probably would cry out for a mention in an article
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by leoc 5mo ago
MGS (and MGS2) are prominent enough, and directly relevant enough, and predate Shadow of the Colossus enough, that not mentioning them is a conspicuous omission, and not just something it would have been nice to add. In fact not mentionin
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by leoc 5mo ago
Odd that it doesn’t mention Metal Gear Solid, which was casting doubt on the morality of the player character’s actions and painting boss fights as tragic affairs back in 1998, even though it does mention MGS love letter Spec Ops: The Line
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by leoc 5mo ago
> A lover of men is very nearly the opposite of a philanthropist; indeed the pedantry of the Greek word carries something like a satire on itself. A philanthropist may be said to love anthropoids. G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi
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by leoc 5mo ago
Hmm. What’s the general belief about Toby Ord’s “Are the Costs of AI Agents Also Rising Exponentially?” https://www.tobyord.com/writing/hourly-costs-for-ai-agents among those who are well-equipped to judge? Is it seen
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by leoc 5mo ago
> Purely AI written systems will scale to a point of complexity that no human can ever understand and the defect close rate will taper down and the token burn per defect rate scale up and eventually AI changes will cause on average more
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by leoc 5mo ago
My "presumably" is whether the book recognises the extent to which NeXT was founded basically as an attempt to complete/reboot Apple's "Big Mac" project. The usual story you get is "something something &#x

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