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by ndiddy 1y ago
Here's a complimentary article from Bill Yeager's perspective: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=1407787 > I asked Len why he wanted my source code, and he told me that facilities wanted
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by ndiddy 1y ago
In that case you're still subject to the companies who have billions of dollars to spend on training frontier models and server farms full of GPUs. They're free to change their pricing or the quality of the services offered at wil
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This article is about Cloudflare attempting to deny Perplexity access to their demo site by blocking Perplexity's declared user-agent and official IP range. Perplexity responded to this denial by impersonating Google Chrome on macOS an
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If the AI industry achieves its short-term goals, instead of paying a human $100,000/year to do some desk job, companies will pay Microsoft/Google/OpenAI/whoever $20,000/year in API tokens and keep the extra money f
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by ndiddy 1y ago
HP, DEC/Compaq, and SGI all made the decision to drop their various bespoke architectures for Itanium years before prototypes were available based solely on what Intel claimed performance would be on paper. Even Sun and IBM made noise
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Out of curiosity, where are you located where large companies are desperately trying to snap up every available Rust developer? Everywhere I've looked, the few Rust job postings I've seen have mainly been from cryptocurrency start
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If you're accusing them of lying on their report because it disagrees with the off-the-cuff remark you made about OTA TV being dead everywhere, then I'm not sure what I can do. I'm not a journalist. Personally I find it inspi
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The NM report says that there were 900,000 total Passport streams in 2024. Because there are 52 weeks in a year, that's an average of only about 17,300 streams per week.
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Sure! I'd love to provide you with evidence. In West Virginia, a state with a population of 1.8 million, West Virginia Public Broadcasting reported 193,687 weekly TV viewers and 85,933 weekly radio listeners in FY 2023. https:/&#
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PBS stations in major markets will likely be able to carry on due to donations and corporate underwriting, but stations in rural areas (the types of places where Internet streaming is less viable due to poor infrastructure) will be heavily
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Frankly it's bizarre that a Linux focused vendor thinks it's better to keep their device drivers outside of the kernel. Why would I buy a rebadged Clevo laptop from Tuxedo where I'm stuck either running their special Tuxedo d
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by ndiddy 1y ago
> The traditional way of achieving this is through installing ttf-mscorefonts-installer or msttcorefonts. The msttcorefonts package looks like some Shenzhen basement knockoff that renders poorly and doesn’t support Unicode. I suspect tha
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Meanwhile China has reached their 2030 goal of peak CO2 emissions 5 years early by rapidly deploying solar/wind/nuclear and manufacturing cheap EVs for personal transport. I wish the US was capable of working towards and achieving
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Sure, why not. Obviously if you mean "do you have an example of that exact class hierarchy being shown in an introductory Java textbook" no I don't, you win. However, the example of a program that uses a class inheritance hie
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There's a really good talk about the history of OOP going back to the early 60s that goes over this point. The whole "90s style OOP isn't OOP as it was originally intended" thing is largely a myth. When Kay and other OOP
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BTW I screwed up the formatting since I was tired when I wrote this, pretend the first paragraph I wrote is smushed together with the second paragraph.
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I think the "move applications onto the network" idea basically killed Java on the desktop and relegated it to a backend only language. It wasn't a bad idea, but it was too early. Because of the focus on network distribution,
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> Of course if you're looking at things purely from a logical, calculating, "lesser-evil" perspective Harris is the better candidate, but a lot of people can plainly see that their quality of life has gotten worse compared
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According to the oral history of Tom Rolander (VP of engineering at DRI, he was in the famous IBM meeting), IBM wanted to call CP/M-86 "PC-DOS" and pay a one-time licensing fee, but DRI said they had to keep it as CP/M-8
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by ndiddy 1y ago
The problem is that over time, traditional economic measures have ceased to accurately model the average person's quality of life. What use is a growing GDP when most people can't afford to buy a house until their mid-thirties? Wh
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I agree that permissively licensed projects are more successful if you define "successful" as "having the most number of users possible". Of course, this "success" often results in the unpaid volunteer maintain
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by ndiddy 1y ago
If they can't distinguish between the pirate and the victim, they shouldn't be punishing either. Banning people for playing legitimately purchased software on an unmodified console is draconian IMO.
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I have an Asus Vivobook S14 laptop with an Intel Core Ultra 258v processor. In Linux, it gets 12-15 hours of real usage (i.e. not manufacturer "playing videos off local storage with wifi off and the screen all the way down" batter
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by ndiddy 1y ago
Unfortunately, the topics I'm interested in writing about often require images, sound, and video to do a good page covering them.
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It's easier to keep employees when you adjust their compensation to remain at the market rate.
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> I wonder how to reconcile those stats with the stories I hear about the CS job market. Most of the stories you hear about difficulties getting hired are from new grads. Anecdotally, companies have become far less willing to train junio
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Looks like when you set the graph to annual average (which you have to do to avoid spikes each year when everyone graduates), the new college grad unemployment rate is in fact the highest it's been since 2014 when you take out 2020 and
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> Even if we consider just the minimalist and well designed websites, this means hoards of content when compared to all gemini capsules. I missed a broader set of topics when I used gemini and ultimately that was what killed my interest.
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> And where the heck can you get a movie ticket for $11? Places where real estate is cheaper than wherever you live.
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I have never heard of sound bars falling apart after a couple years, is that common? Every piece of sound equipment I've ever bought has lasted at least 15 years, my sound bar is 5 years old. In general I think the sound bar audience i

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