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by nxobject 1y ago
If you want something free, available right now, and dependent on only an IME, have you considered learning a stenotyping/chording keyboard layout? https://www.openstenoproject.org/plover/
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by nxobject 1y ago
Arguably, it’s why investors go in for Apple in the first place: Apple’s revenue fundamentally comes from consumer spending, whose prospects are relatively well understood by the average investor. (I think it’s why big shareholders don’t ge
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by nxobject 1y ago
> They have hardware designers who can design GPUs from scratch, write proprietary graphics APIs and fine-tune for power efficiency. The only organizational roadblock that I can see is the executive vision, which has been pretty wishy-wa
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by nxobject 1y ago
I think that would spread Apple’s chip team too thinly between competing priorities - and require them to do E2E stuff they’d never be interested in doing. What’s always happened, even during Jobs, is that Apple would do something nice and
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by nxobject 1y ago
Interesting that they’re investing in standard _AI_ toolchains, rather than standard HPC toolchains, even though I imagine Japanese supercomputing has more demand for the latter.
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by nxobject 1y ago
The discussion about vaccines has been toxified in blue states - may as well throw out another reason to keep the crunchy skeptics on board.
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by nxobject 1y ago
As someone who’s done work with the whole spectrum of ASD: it’ll be fascinating to see if the diagnosis gets weaponized eventually. Right now, MAGA seems to still like “Hi-IQ nerd disrupters”; but the administration would be perfectly happy
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by nxobject 1y ago
At this stage, the entirety of the US is a sample of less-than-willing volunteers…
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by nxobject 1y ago
My wife is already disproportionately denied pain management compared to me - I’d be very, very concerned about how this result gets implemented. But at least they figured out autism by September, right?
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by nxobject 1y ago
I remember having to get composite cables!
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by nxobject 1y ago
> I also don't understand what it means to "interpret" Swift to Swift. Do they mean they compile Swift to Swift (or the more modern "transpile" which means the same thing)? But it sounds like they're doing s
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Why DOGE's Luke Farritor Followed Elon Musk to DC(bloomberg.com)
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by nxobject 1y ago
> There's just too much stuff you have to codify, and basing such a system on tokens is inherently limiting. As a complete amateur who works in embedded: I imagine the restriction to a linear, ordered input stream is fundamentally l
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by nxobject 1y ago
It's a not-so-ideal situation: how is the marketplace of libraries and languages going to evolve when you're competing against whatever version of Python and $FRAMEWORK that was crawled a long time ago?
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by nxobject 1y ago
Edit: per MereInterest's reply below, OP edited their comment. That's blatantly false: even when civil cases are involved (which is where immigration law lives, not criminal law), non-citizens have recourse to habeas corpus petiti
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Doesn't the US have a way for immigrants to easily and unambiguously identify themselves as legal immigrants? Re: ways to easily identify yourself with documents on you: this isn't always true, especially if you're stuck
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by nxobject 1y ago
There is significant evidence for (1), although the two aren't mutually inconsistent: – There is evidence that there is a quota on arrests , [1], rather than deportations, although the administration has inconsistently denied that quo
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by nxobject 1y ago
Sadly, it seems to (as of 6 hours after parent post) intermittently produce "max connections exceeded" messages :( Poor old hug of death!
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by nxobject 1y ago
I imagine for the same reason some still use two spaces after full stops - typewriter conventions.
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by nxobject 1y ago
Finally, a handy reference to more matrix decompositions and normal/canonical forms than I ever realized I wanted to know!
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by nxobject 1y ago
Three things come to mind: - bold-face item headers (eg “Practical Significance:”) - lists of complex descriptors non-technical parts of the writing (“ With theoretical explanations, practical implementations, and visualizations”) - the ch
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by nxobject 1y ago
> Mpox isn't endemic in the USA, and children under 18 were never a risk group > The Dengue vaccine is...not very good, and has serious interactions with the virus itself. Getting the Dengue vaccine before you get Dengue can put
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by nxobject 1y ago
> In fact, the AAP recommendations include some extremely questionable vaccines for children in the USA, such as Mpox and Dengue. Filtering for duplicates, I count 19 recommended vaccines for children in the AAP document, vs. 10 for the
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by nxobject 1y ago
Equally (arguably) importantly, Johny Srouji joined Apple the same year as PA Semi's acquisition - '08 – and led Apple A4. (He previously worked at IBM on POWER7, which is a fascinating switch in market segment.)
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by nxobject 1y ago
Fascinating to see how much of his personal information was computerized – bank account status, personal diary, stocks. How did internetworking with his bank work? Was his stuff securely stored?
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by nxobject 1y ago
NB: Sutherland is co-directs a lab on asynchronous logic with a colleague at Portland State. As the site says: "Please visit us when you are in the neighborhood!" The lab takes summer students, too, although Portland State is brok
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by nxobject 1y ago
(NB: dang unflagged the post)
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by nxobject 1y ago
A culture of "we did something we shouldn't have done, but nothing happened this time" is how disasters happen.
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by nxobject 1y ago
SSA's CIO "accepts all risks" - but what does that actually mean in practice? Is he going to be held accountable? > The agency’s chief information officer Aram Moghaddassi approved the move to copy the database to the agen
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by nxobject 1y ago
Exhibit B: whistleblower evidence that NLRB data was exfiltrated, and that CISA quashed any investigation. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/workforce-rightsgovernance/20...

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