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by leoc 7mo ago
Yes, as long as (for example) you have a huge number of people desperate to claim one or more of a very small number of slots for papers in a few prestige journals then inevitably there must be either a cattle-call selection process, or bla
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by leoc 7mo ago
And to think that sometimes people doubt the wisdom of Google’s product-lifecycle decisions!
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by leoc 7mo ago
At this point the blip of free media coverage possibly makes this a net positive for XBox.
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by leoc 7mo ago
> There’s probably some non-AI code in there to explicitly prevent it from playing an album end to end. Google’s Nest speakers have or had similar issues: they’d start any requested piece of (at least multi-movement) classical music some
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by leoc 7mo ago
He has a number of opinions: https://youtu.be/ypyAg3Zbs_8 .
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by leoc 7mo ago
Right, we do seem to have hit diminishing returns on dueling "I have seen the light" and "I haven't fallen for it" blogposts based on personal experience and the author's hunches about where things are going, a
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by leoc 7mo ago
Ooh, that's nice. But I'm really hoping for the Encarta/Collier's material to be free to legally distribute and adapt.
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by leoc 7mo ago
I'm not sure that the system was ever that near to perfection: for example, John Maddox of Nature didn't like the advent of pre-publication peer review, but that presumably had something to do with it limiting his discretion to
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by leoc 7mo ago
Right, it seems that many of the weaknesses in the system exist because they serve the interests of journal publishers or of normal, legitimate-ish researchers, but in the process open the door to full-time system-hackers and pure fraudster
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by leoc 7mo ago
In what way was it was democratised? We're not talking about Substacks and YouTube channels here, we're not even talking about arXiv preprints and the like, we're talking about peer-reviewed journal publications, and that sys
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by leoc 7mo ago
Has anyone tried asking Microsoft if they’re willing to put Encarta (or at least Collier’s Encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier's_Encyclopedia which it was developed from) under a Creative Commons li
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by leoc 7mo ago
Another 1990s go at a commercially-released electronic book was Scott Meyer's Effective C++ CD-ROM https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/520985 https://www.aristeia.com/books.html from 1998.
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by leoc 7mo ago
Right: no-one cares about the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucasian_Professor_of_Mathemat... because of Henry Lucas, it's the other way around.
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by leoc 7mo ago
That's https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/214448.214454 https://guenchi.github.io/Scheme/doc/CONS%20Should%20Not%20C... right?
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by leoc 7mo ago
Windows has had a pretty usable stacking clipboard for a while! You just have to activate it. Since you can pin thing into it it’s also quite useful as a rough and ready way to type special characters you use frequently.
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by leoc 7mo ago
You may be thinking of some recent round of publicity for BEAM, but BEAM is a bit older than JavaScript.
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by leoc 7mo ago
But what's your basis for assuming that everyone has your habits in this respect?
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by leoc 7mo ago
> I think it was actually more related to aesthetic "icks" by the designers, because people would have disconnected the cable if it was in the way. A lot of people really will just anxiously leave the cable in the whole time if
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by leoc 8mo ago
The old SemiAccurate article https://semiaccurate.com/2013/02/13/euv-moves-forward-two-st... was very funny.
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by leoc 8mo ago
If you want to improve your score, the blog author (Dr. Colin Gorrie) has just the thing: a book which will teach you Old English by means of a story about a talking bear . Here's how it works: https://www.youtube.com/
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by leoc 8mo ago
And here's the Simon Roper videos acknowledged in the article: "From Old English to Modern American English in One Monologue" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=842OX2_vCic (short version: https://www
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by leoc 8mo ago
And NeXT was the spiritual successor to Apple's internal "Big Mac" project which never even made it to market before it was killed. (The project leader Rich Page and others started phoning the already-fired Jobs, begghing him
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by leoc 8mo ago
No-one's going to mind in the slightest if you lift Gaelic type or script for a D&D setting. (If you start larding in corny or inaccurate Irish stereotypes as well then people might start to be offended and/or amused.) If it m
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by leoc 8mo ago
Hopefully it mean that you can finally run a network simulator like GNS3 https://www.gns3.com/ in an AWS instance.
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by leoc 8mo ago
To further explain: it comes from 'RTFA' https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/RTFA which was developed on Slashdot as a variation on 'RTFM'.
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by leoc 8mo ago
Obligatory Bruce Scneier: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/03/the_security_...
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by leoc 8mo ago
> The article presents wishful thinking. The wish is for "kilobyte" to have one meaning. For the majority of its existence, it had only one meaning - 1024 bytes. Now it has an ambiguous meaning. People wish for an unambiguous t
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by leoc 8mo ago
As an old lag there is a fairly large number of names which I recognise on sight, quite a few of them from the old days of /r/programming and even the main reddit. I'd have trouble listing many of them completely unprompted t
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by leoc 8mo ago
That's basically what happened with Feynman's involvement in the Challenger enquiry, as he himself freely admitted in his memoir.
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by leoc 8mo ago
The old "ELIZA talking to PARRY" vibe is still very much there, no?

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