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by nxobject 4mo ago
"Breaking Through" (~22:00) is, truly, an artifact from a lost era. They don't write power ballads like that any more.
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by nxobject 4mo ago
Making life better and better! Apple II forever! Bringing the rainbow to you! (Join us.)
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by nxobject 4mo ago
> “Sorry :( Did my best!” said a pithy message the group left on a whiteboard on his scuffed-up dining table. Well, no wonder people don't have faith in the people selling AI.
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Gas prices drive Georgia man to create a "mini car" costing $3 to fill up [video](youtube.com)
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by nxobject 5mo ago
So many characters worthy of an epic story. The last one would be the Good Samaritan, or some sort of elderly sage... > Before leaving, I asked him whether he even knew what was inside the package. > He answered very casually that he
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Oh wow – were you working under Larry Tesler? I've yet to grasp just the sheer diversity of projects that lived under him in his Apple tenure.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Hi there – someone who's worked on NIH (NIMH) funded projects. Our primary interest is in being transparent and reproducible. NIH has supported this for a long time – e.g. pushing people to post deidentified datasets online in central
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by nxobject 5mo ago
This is amazing. And it's all done in 8 KLOC – half of it Java, half of it Rust. Link to source: https://github.com/EVV1E/waylandcraft
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by nxobject 5mo ago
> Using SBCL as a macro-assembler is extremely cool, and then allowing CL code to call into the VM is where it really blows my mind. Absolutely. I think TFA is hooking into the actual code emitter used by SBCL's evaluator-compiler,
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by nxobject 5mo ago
It's either games or pornography – pick your poison.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I guess homological algebra must be worth at least a million theorems, then?
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I really do love the American "but the veterans!" script, despite only them being a minority of the people involved: > Of [the 32], 14 no longer work for, or with, us, some of whom stopped as long as five years ago. Six are ex-
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by nxobject 5mo ago
For that matter, AppKit was first released on a NeXT with a 25 MHz 68030 and 8MB of RAM.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I'm surprised Docker is the recommended way to run the application – it seems like a lot of hidden magic relative the ~800 actual lines of Go, and given that the resulting keypair is saved outside the container.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
My bad, thanks for pointing that out! That's me misinterpreting the tone of a comment on the internet.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
A heads up that this is one of those recipe sites that go "I'll tell you a long story, but there's actually a recipe at the end". But it's worth the scroll: who knew Gatorade was sold in a flat top can that needed a
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Have you read the article? Its point is that anyone who has to coordinate with Hezbollah is being called a "terrorist".
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Design of Experiments? Boring? I'm glad she's showing her passion – I've reviewed applications for people with just "data science" experience, versus people with additional research design experience, and their &quo
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by nxobject 5mo ago
The HPC Integral PC has a fascinatingly compact design... by necessity.
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Sony's Metamorphosis: HDTV Demo Laserdisc (1990) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by nxobject 5mo ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Value prediction's where the most gains are to be had. Of course, the irony of using an LLM to execute an LLM is delicious.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Honestly? A political interview show with gags like that would lighten things up. A few "crime is everywhere!!!" politicians would do very well with a whoopie cushion.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I do think about what I would have done – maybe I would quietly leaned into the ear of the presenter and mentioned something. But, also, I wouldn't take any chances if I was trying to get hired there...
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by nxobject 5mo ago
It’s a reasonable when you frame it like this: the consequences of one AI-assisted addition are small… but maintainers are responsible for the codebase’s long-term quality after years of additions. The bar's higher. (Similarly, my frie
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by nxobject 5mo ago
Similar for me, but regarding the Classic Macintosh APIs. The difference is that there are plenty of books, and some source code available… just not enough to stop Codex from writing subtly wrong gibberish. I get the impression that the “10
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I think that’s worthy of at least sour grapes, too.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I imagine the civilian equivalent in size and structure would be a PDP-8/S (bit-serial, still discrete logic?) But DEC material from that time simply calls it a "small-scale computer".
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by nxobject 5mo ago
In an alternate universe where HTML was the native input-output format of LLMs, we'd be talking about the unreasonable effectiveness of Markdown in sparing tokens for reasoning.
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I wonder as well whether large-but-finite contexts can handle algebraic questions that require traversing up and down levels of abstraction, at least not without "thrashing".
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by nxobject 5mo ago
I imagine that there might still be a way to swing by with RF equipment and tip the scales in your favor. And if you're important enough, I'm sure there'll be someone motivatd enough to do this. After all, Polymarket was moti

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