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by nirav72 3y ago
I got the Ti-99/4A as a bday gift in '83.Then within a few months Texas Instruments discontinued it. I still have it in a box somewhere. Been kicking around some ideas. Maybe remove the mainboard and put in a RaspberryPi 4 or some
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by nirav72 3y ago
> Enterprise/Professionals that is more or less "Classic". Yes - I’ve been wondering since win10 why Microsoft thinks the enterprise edition needs an xbox app preinstalled.
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by nirav72 3y ago
Yeah, I remember those single game machines as well. But like most kids , including me the time , the first exposure to a home console was when the Atari 2600 was released. It seemed liked everyone had one. Of course there were few kids th
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by nirav72 3y ago
This isn’t surprising, considering 50+ gamers came of age at the start of home gaming boom. They grew up on video games. Either on Atari, Calico , Intellivision , Commodore or later NES. Also arcades. 50+ year olds are probably at a poin
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by nirav72 3y ago
Are two millions apps really needed?
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by nirav72 3y ago
This is probably true for almost any other phenotype attribute. Not just blue eyes. From epicanthic folds to the structure of the nose or lactose sensitivity. It all originated from a single mutation on any one individual.
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by nirav72 3y ago
Google may indeed have the research knowledge that surpasses everyone one in the industry - but they have very little to show in terms of using that knowledge to build actual products. For example - Google home, which does a far better job
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by nirav72 3y ago
Herman Miller made good chairs in the 2000s. Now I’m not sure if there is anything unique about them.
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by nirav72 3y ago
Dont think she needs to hit any target. If the board fires her tomorrow, its almost certain she’ll still walk away with a hefty amount of money.
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by nirav72 3y ago
I just tried this out with 4 and 3.5 - in both tests, it came back with the ‘third’ as the 3rd word and ‘i’ as the 3rd letter. It completely ignored ‘the’ as the 3rd word.
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by nirav72 4y ago
What's the point of living a longer life if there aren't enough working age people to pay into a safety net for the elderly? - The U.S has largely avoided that problem due to maintaining the middle part of the population age pyram
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by nirav72 4y ago
Yikes. That David Attenborough narrating Warhammer 40K was pretty damn convincing. If I wasn't aware of the context - I would probably thought it was indeed him narrating.
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by nirav72 4y ago
>without massive safeguards How do you even set safeguards for this?
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by nirav72 4y ago
I'm more concerned about the noise all the AI generated content will create online. We've already seen clickbait articles become the norm in the past decade or so. But now, we're just going to see AI created text , images an
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by nirav72 4y ago
Maybe some people can pretend they're interacting with a real person. But for me, knowing that I'm interacting with a bot would break the experience for me.
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by nirav72 4y ago
Chatgpt plus subscription includes gpt4 access. At least via chat.
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by nirav72 4y ago
Don’t forget the dangerous snails. https://www.jcu.edu.au/this-is-uni/natural-and-built-environ...
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by nirav72 4y ago
> I wonder what 20 years will bring? Probably not much. At least advancements wont be like the difference between going from 1.5 mbps to 1 gbps. It's the same reason why 10gbe ethernet has not become a common thing for consumer lev
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by nirav72 4y ago
Ahh..one of the most dowloaded text files on every BBS I joined in the early 1990s.
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by nirav72 4y ago
Might want to read the above comment again. :)
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by nirav72 4y ago
Yeah, it's entirely possible the U.S and Taiwan have plans in place to initiate a process to cripple the foundries if an invasion is imminent or underway.
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by nirav72 4y ago
Big difference between Russia and China at the moment. Russia can weather it because they have the energy resources. China does not and has to rely on imports for its energy needs.
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by nirav72 4y ago
> It has know-how and capital (means of production) of things that are important to China It has the capital. Not the Know-how or expertise. If it did, it wouldn't be stuck manufacturing lower end semi-conductors. In a hypothetical
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by nirav72 4y ago
>Nobody believed Russia would actually invade Ukraine Who is 'Nobody' in this context? Because most analysis on this since Russia took Crimea in 2014 have predicated that Russia would make further attempts at capturing Ukraini
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by nirav72 4y ago
Sure people will people for convenience and automakers will charge a subscription for providing that remote connectivity. But that wasn't the point in context of this article - the specific exploit detailed in the article can be appli
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by nirav72 4y ago
One day used cars with the least amount of tech are going to be worth a lot of money in secondary markets. Especially because of the recent move to subscription based feature options some auto makers are trying out.
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by nirav72 4y ago
Why is AGI , a fantasy concept always brought into every discussion or debate about AI. Nothing we have at this stage is intelligent. Let alone a path to AGI. We’re probably closer to cracking fusion energy at really small scale than we are
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by nirav72 4y ago
In Yugoslavia , there was literally a civil war happening along ethnic lines on the European continent. Not to mention genocide.
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by nirav72 4y ago
To become a cop in the U.S in most places , there is already a low bar for entry. All one needs is a high school diploma (or ged) , no felony conviction and about 3 months training.
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by nirav72 4y ago
NATO in Afghanistan was because of article 5 after 9/11. Also NATO was not in Iraq. There were some NATO member countries in Iraq as part of a coalition the Bush administration put together. But Iraq was not a NATO operation.

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