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by nxobject 8mo ago
At least there was this... > Note that the NT OS/2 system does not use the Hungarian naming convention used in some of the other Microsoft products.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
> I just use a box full of old harddrives now, i basically use those like tape cassettes. Re: hard drives – I gave up entirely on the idea of storing backups "at rest" indefinitely, and use two NASes at different sites. I only
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by nxobject 8mo ago
The tapes? Yes. The hardware, though? I'm not sure I would bet on having compatible hardware to read a particular LTO generation tape, decades from now, given how specialty the hardware already is. I don't think there's any f
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Oh my, it has three-operand instructions now. VAX vindicated...
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by nxobject 8mo ago
It’s more subtle to me: I’ll never say no to retrocomputing (especially what you need to open yourself to the public internet without getting pwned), but “use a low end VPN and save $$$$!” is a bit old now.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
I imagine a turning point will be if/when the large HPC centers will significantly benefit from this. I need to see whether DOE facilities compile their software with these new features on a regular basis. (Well, for the average scient
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by nxobject 8mo ago
In particular, habeas petitions against DHS, and SSA appeals aren’t available online for public inspection: you have to go to a clerk’s office and pay for physical copies. (I think this may have been reasonable given the circumstances in pa
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Brewster’s concerns about the historical record are real and will eventually affect news orgs: their journalism may as well be ephemeral now without separate archiving. If a Wikipedia contributor, for example has to jump through extra hoo
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by nxobject 8mo ago
As an aside, the author's original project webpage is a delightful example of semantic HTML, cleanly and aesthetically rendered. https://ajk.me/building-an-ibm-3270-terminal-controller
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Man, I'd be more worried about the impact of this on Mathematica than actual humans.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
I'll need to look this up, but IIRC HN is one of the sources included in a fairly popular LEO market "online media presence" aggregation tool.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Why would you assume that this was astro-turfed? I'd argue that, like other domestic surveillance that require FISA judicial approval, justifications for acts like these require a very high level of proof.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
At this point, it really just is a show of impunity! There were so many ways she could have done this discreetly: As Yin was speaking to the reporter, Bextel approached the lawmaker to tell him she planned to sue him for defamation.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
As someone who grades and works with college students in writing classes, it's (for better or for worse) not a big change... in the old days I'd give critical feedback on "SAT English" in essays, and now I give critical
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by nxobject 8mo ago
It's such a pity that the bot doesn't respond regularly to issues – there's something unhinged about taking a task-specific bot and abusing it by turning it into a public chatbot. At the expense of the bot's sponsor, of
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Another reason this is interesting beyond "Lispiness" instead: implementing a (compliant) Scheme takes on some interesting problems that other languages punt - proper tail recursion, delimited continuations (off the top of my head
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by nxobject 8mo ago
What I do – and I know this isn't conventional style – is use ex dashes. (Or, you could use spaces between em dashes, as incorrect as it is.)
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by nxobject 8mo ago
What’s the relevance on that quote here?
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by nxobject 8mo ago
> "The Little Book of Deep Learning" I wouldn't recommend it. My copy is dogeared - but for me as a concise mini-reference for a working statistician who has to work with data science people, but not actually implement any
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Wowee, a dedicated machine! I built my own lying press with wooden cutting boards, and neatened out the edges of my text blocks with the blade of a chisel/single bevel utility knife that could be laid flat. I used an old application ca
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Interesting – I have some old British academic press books with "advanced" typographical features; I'll see how it does with them. (The type you have to break out advanced typography features in Adobe apps to set – old style
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by nxobject 8mo ago
For portability, hopefully C89 as well?
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Hey, when Apple transitioned from m68k to PowerPC, it took them a hell of a long time to rewrite massive parts of their OS. It's a low bar, though...
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by nxobject 8mo ago
If stevefan1999's referring to a nasty frontend issue, it might be due to the fact that a name introduced by a typedef and an identical identifier can mingle in the same scope, which makes parsing pretty nasty – e.g. (example from sour
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by nxobject 8mo ago
And touchbars too, strangely enough.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
I think that’s more of a reflection on what employers are willing to pay for…
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by nxobject 8mo ago
> The current non-learning model is unintentionally right up there with the “immutable system” and “infrastructure as code” philosophy. As long as training material remains the proprietary secret sauce, the average user doesn’t already s
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by nxobject 8mo ago
I wish that agents could “sleep and consolidate” like humans do.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Trust, but verify, no? No one benefits from refusing to experiment and test.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Found a problem? Slap another agent on top to fix it. It’s hilarious to see how the pendulum’s swung away from “thinking from first principles as a buzzword”. Just engineer, dammit…

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