musicale

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by musicale 10mo ago
One way of scaling out interactive/oral assessment (and personalized instruction in general) is to hire a group of course assistants/tutors from the previous cohort.
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by musicale 10mo ago
Ah, just the thing for Multics PL/I programming!
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I would like to see the iPhone work as well as the iPad does with an external monitor, mouse, and keyboard.
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by musicale 10mo ago
> More than 3.9 million new files published > More than 130,000 new projects created Is there any way to prevent PyPI from becoming a morass of supply chain attacks like NPM etc.? The cited security measures (though some of them like
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by musicale 10mo ago
> What is wrong with you people? Unmitigated arrogance combined with scathing contempt for their user base, perhaps? I'd expect nothing less from the people that botched the Python 2.x to 3.x transition, burning billions of dollars
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by musicale 10mo ago
The iron laws of web encrapification: 1. Every new feature will be used to abuse the user, usually to push advertisements. 2. When browser features are added to protect the user, web designers will do their best to subvert them to abuse the
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by musicale 10mo ago
Well, RISC-V is likely easier to implement efficiently than SPARC (no register windows, etc.) and has many of the same RISC-derived advantages. Sun had some very smart people (what is Marc Tremblay doing at Microsoft btw?), and they could a
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by musicale 10mo ago
Perhaps Sears/Kmart could have filled the Target niche, and leveraged Sears' brand portfolio rather than selling them off to make crushing interest payments.
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by musicale 10mo ago
Apple: suffered from Windows PC competition in the 1990s but came roaring back under Steve Jobs. They doubled down on high-quality design, user experience, and vertical integration, and even switched from PowerPC to x86 and ARM, and from cl
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by musicale 10mo ago
Almost tells you that there is something wrong with the business incentives in the US; or perhaps sequences of activities like starting with a leveraged buyout, saddling the new company with debt, and subsequently gutting the company to mak
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by musicale 10mo ago
Per above, it seems like Sun had a core architectural, technical, and engineering failure with SPARC failing to keep pace with x86, and a business failure dealing with the fallout: > x86 boxes were starting to smoke the hell out of Ultra
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by musicale 10mo ago
It's mainly a joke about what things would be like if companies were more transparent about the reasons for unpopular changes. The follow-up is "we heard you loud and clear; you don't like (thing we did that makes things wors
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Not to mention breathing in all the microplastics from tire wear dust...
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> That was never proven “All phones have sensitive areas,” Jobs wrote. “Just avoid holding it in this way.” https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2010/06/jobs-on-iphone-4-ant... https://www.macrumors.
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by musicale 10mo ago
FAQ Q: Why is NVIDIA doing this? A: Because we like money, and we prefer that subscribers don't actually use the service, so we can rent those GPUs to other sucke... customers.
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by musicale 10mo ago
Steve Jobs loved the iMac's terrible hockey puck mouse. Jony Ive is probably to blame for the terrible (yet very thin) butterfly keyboard making it into Apple laptops. However, these missteps do not prove that Apple doesn't care a
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> The amount of violence in the stories we watch is astounding It's almost as if violence is a key component of human folklore, mythology, and storytelling passed down from antiquity.
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by musicale 10mo ago
Depends on where you live. In 2020, drug overdoses were worse than COVID-19 in San Francisco: https://www.phi.org/press/overdoses-have-killed-more-than-th...
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by musicale 10mo ago
> The web has developed in to a perverted Minitel, it's a place I go to order something, if I can't find it in local stored, I read a little news, I look up documentation, and then I check out again Minitel sounds interesting t
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by musicale 10mo ago
+1 for using SGI hardware to run the PDP-11 emulator. Retrocomputing all the way down (and emulating vintage CISC on vintage RISC).
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by musicale 10mo ago
Thanks for the response, but (per the omitted portion of my sentence before the semicolon) I was not talking about the M in LLM. I was talking about a conceptual or analytic model that a human might develop to try to predict the behavior of
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by musicale 10mo ago
I'm a bit surprised that the DMA etc. didn't end up applying to Xbox, and how Microsoft has tried to make implausible arguments about how iPhone should be open but Xbox should be closed. The killer app for jailbreaking game system
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by musicale 10mo ago
You don't seem to be disagreeing. I assume by hardware margins you are thinking of component and manufacturing cost. However, the largest cost that has to be amortized over the life of a hardware product is R&D cost, which is huge.
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> I agree that it can be difficult to make sense of a model containing billions of parameters. Certainly a human can't understand such a model by inspecting the values of each parameter individually. But one can gain insight by exam
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Perhaps I should have said something like intentional harm leading to death to make it clearer. But the person isn't any more alive even if they were somehow killed by some gentle, peaceful method.
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by musicale 10mo ago
This analysis is correct. Epic's business incentive has always been lowering platform fees paid to Apple and Google for Fortnite compared to what they are paying Nintendo and Sony for Fortnite.
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If Google allowed other App stores on Android then maybe Amazon could make one. Or maybe they could add a setting to allow users to install their own APKs somehow.
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It's really too bad that essential public services can't be hosted on the web so that you could use them on any platform - smartphone, laptop, tablet, whatever - and would have an alternative to Apple and Google's game stores
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The crapification pathway where Services can place ads in Product 1) neutralizes a historical Apple differentiating advantage and 2) is probably going to increase monotonically. :(
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> buy $500 Magic Wizard Keyboard to unlock VMs Somehow I think that would not satisfy OP, but don't tell Apple about it. Oh wait, I think it's called a MacBook Air. (And I wouldn't be surprised to see future models with OL

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