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by nxobject 29d ago
As a side note, the name "MathKernel" is overloaded -- that's what Mathematica's own kernel executable is called, which is a little unfortunate when you have tooling that already refers to it.
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by nxobject 29d ago
(Just for (my) reference, the TC39 proposal is here: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-signals )
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by nxobject 1mo ago
I’m sad they’re retiring Snowball soon, though.
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Speaking of learning by practice, here's two things I got a lot from: - Take apart scrap hardware, and learn to both de-solder, re-solder, and test that you haven't pulled any pads in the process! - Get an SMD soldering practice
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by nxobject 1mo ago
As a taxpayer, the only silver lining here is that we won't be paying for the ballroom... /s
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by nxobject 1mo ago
As a fun addition, I think the atomic clock/time standards division went HP → Agilent → Symmetricom → Microsemi → Microchip. You could have bought a HP 5071A Cesium Frequency Standard under all of these badges! https://www.m
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Now that I think about it, I'm sure some AI lab would pay non-trivial $ for the entire wiki's full edit history.
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by nxobject 1mo ago
It looks like both do standard individual covariate checks for post-match balance, with SMDs. I'm surprised they haven't assessed balance for at least pairwise interactions, too -- we should be balancing out joint risk factors too
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Beyond safety concerns, it’d be sad for working users to lose some ability to understand and steer thinking, too. These are tools for us , after all.
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by nxobject 1mo ago
> One other way I have been thinking of is just delay the delivery of the pages, either limit bandwidth or just wait for a bit until you deliver the page. For one user a (lets say max)3s delay on some pages is not a huge deal, however at
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by nxobject 1mo ago
> But, this “vulnerability” is the thing everybody knows about docker since forever OP’s point exactly - it seemed somehow in their vibecoding workflow, they forgot to even do a human architectural sniff test for the stuff everyone knows
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Gotcha! No, I feel the same way as well... there's no way "release" should somehow denote something bigger than "ship".
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by nxobject 1mo ago
I think another classic reference: Jobs saying to the original Macintosh team - "real artists ship"!
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by nxobject 1mo ago
When was that? Just went there last year - they technically never stopped the Saturday night shows during the pandemic, so we’d both have watched the same uninterrupted theatrical run…
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Dick Van Dyke, dammit!
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by nxobject 1mo ago
I thought about that, too. I think they’re doing this for the same reason IBM has supported Linux LPARs: since a lot of customers who lease System/z currently probably get overprovisioned hardware that they’ll never fully use, why no
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by nxobject 1mo ago
OpenAI's been building bridges with quite a few math departments these days – I'm sure they first thing they said is "please, god, no analogies"!
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by nxobject 1mo ago
For one, the whole text would show up in Safari's Reader mode, so I can skip past the hilariously low UI density that AI-generated websites have these days. Before AI you'd have to go out of your way put that much CSS padding into
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by nxobject 1mo ago
There used to be – pre-LLM days – a "Summarize" service that "summarized" prose to a length of your choice by deleting sentences. I'm sure it was once someone's pride and joy.
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Ouch, that was indeed a typo...
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by nxobject 1mo ago
I was briefly excited that people were aware they lacked the understanding.
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by nxobject 1mo ago
As the article belatedly mentions, the ~40 GB automated tape library for HARVEST was the bee's knees... and possibly the inspiration for "harvest now, encrypt later". PS – Primary sources for the IBM 7950/HARVEST on Bits
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by nxobject 1mo ago
> She was beloved around the world, but she was an institution back home. And the rest of the world is envious!
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by nxobject 1mo ago
What a way to recognize her! I get the same feeling when she stormeed Glastonbury in 2014 - pure class. When you think about it, she had all of the virtues of a "national treasure" in the British sense.
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by nxobject 1mo ago
I’m surprised they’ve decided to do it on Z/Arch before POWER. The Visas of the world must have really wanted it! EDIT: d’oh, of course it’s so that they can sell more Linux LPARs.
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by nxobject 1mo ago
I’ve seen artists be the artist’s artist, not the artist’s artist but the people’s artist… but Dolly was the only one who was both.
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Ironically enough, I knew a polar opposite prof… swore off Intel after the FDIV bug (he did cosmological simulations on Beowulf clusters)… although he was a stickler for time management, when Opteron came out he threw out his summer schedul
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by nxobject 1mo ago
The black MacBook I remember especially for leaving me with denim burns. And then I read all of the eulogies from people who never had to run it as a daily driver…
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Hell hath no fury like Apple Global Security scorned...
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by nxobject 1mo ago
> It’s not obvious to me that a “nobody wants this” megaproject by a decades old multinational forced to succeed by government mandate wasting over a decade debating national workshare is a great example of a “startup in aerospace”. It l

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