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by nxobject 7mo ago
> Several years later I learned that Dell computers had larger-than-reasonable analog component problems because Dell sourced the absolute cheapest stuff for their computers; I expect that was also a cause Oh god yes… Dell OptiPlexes and
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by nxobject 7mo ago
I mean, LyX has met my needs since 2019 - I don't particularly need to be optimistic about it. I was even able to bring in parts of my old LaTeX preamble with me, especially some utility macros. It was a pretty painless switch with imm
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Inside SKALA: How Chornobyl's reactor was actually controlled [video](youtube.com)
3 points by nxobject 7mo ago|0 comments
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by nxobject 7mo ago
Huh - R has a concept of “mode” that overlaps and complements “type”… but then again R also a very funhouse mix of terminology. https://rstudio.github.io/r-manuals/r-lang/Objects.html#inde...
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by nxobject 7mo ago
Good luck enforcing that. "Glad" to hear that Gemini's excluded.
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by nxobject 7mo ago
Well, I will admit that I find the first part jarring: "we trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System Administrator." I'm like: I'm running this on OpenWRT, so should I go to a local university to ta
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by nxobject 7mo ago
> not to force Anthropic to work with them but to drop all work with them and move to providers who will meet the military’s needs while at war. Conversely, I’m glad that we’re looking a little further than that, and are worried about wh
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by nxobject 7mo ago
> We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should How surprised should I be that a government who’s consistently railed against “woke AI” isn’t caring about that?
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by nxobject 7mo ago
Good grief - we happen to have a free market with multiple suppliers. But a defense contractor in deep with the current administration’s ideology might have a hard time remembering that.
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by nxobject 7mo ago
In the past, Valve has hired some of their most longest-tenured employees from modding, although not necessarily on GoldSrc - Counter-Strike and QuakeWorld Team Fortress come to mind. (But of course never Richochet.) The Narbacular Drop tea
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Hey, if retail Doom gets to throw up a splash saying "DOOM Operating System", so does Emacs.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
On the other hand, you do get the full (La)TeX ecosystem to draw on. If I want to draw a commutative diagram, I can add tikzcd to the preamble, and insert inline TeX to do so.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
That article's even better: the bet was a bipartisan one! > The WSJ report noted that Cole sought advice from other fiscal policy wonks, including Brookings Institution fellow Jessica Riedl, who said the outcome of the bet “should h
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Not to be obtuse, but for what definition of putting money, and what definition of gambling? I think it's reasonable to distinguish between, say, holding Berkshire Hathaway and day trading. And I'm not sure that you can lump the t
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Step 5: reintroduce a plain-text editor [1] Step 6: GOTO 1. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/edit
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by nxobject 8mo ago
I've used LyX for a very long time. It has the best graphical equation editor I've ever used: it natively supports all of the complex structures you'd want, can be used incredibly efficiently via the keyboard (e.g. tab-comple
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by nxobject 8mo ago
I think they're using it in a technical sense that's idiosyncratic to America: "career" members of the Foreign Service Corps, versus "political" appointees that can be directly appointed at higher ranks, but at
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Similar to OP – I appreciate you hanging around and answering regardless of how hostile it feels. We may or may not be convinced by the details you're able to give us, but regardless of that you've made the discussion more informe
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by nxobject 8mo ago
The two are linked, sadly – data brokers are a good way to conduct mass profiling.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
It's not clear on my end what scenario you're talking about here. Are you talking about a potential situation where a Drugs-R-Us are using (for example) an American service, but directing them to store it on EU servers? Or are you
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Yup - I was reminded that it was the two-year anniversary of this. AI content creation, for better or for worse, has improved leaps and bounds since then. Nano Banana would have nailed the art, your LLM of choice would have nailed down the
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by nxobject 8mo ago
The OpenLDK is very interesting - it looks like it “compiles” to the vintage procedural dialect within CL (eg TAGBODY etc.) I wonder if someone’s ever bypassed the “procedural Lisp” level and just used a CL implementation’s internal assembl
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"Willy's Chocolate Experience" (2024)(web.archive.org)
1 points by nxobject 8mo ago|2 comments
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by nxobject 8mo ago
This probably doesn't cover what OP said, but after reading the CEO's intro post, I left a little more depressed. Make money off surveillance, and then make money off selling a privacy product. > At Palantir, where I started in
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by nxobject 8mo ago
I guess the question is: would I trust this with a ~35-year old hard drive that I have to baby lest it finally die? Well, I'd rather wait for the (slightly more) inevitable kinks to be ironed out.
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The quixotic team trying to build a world in a 20-year-old game(arstechnica.com)
124 points by nxobject 8mo ago|23 comments
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Which legislator were you working with? (I'm not going to look the bill up up on OLIS, if that's going to dox you.) Funnily enough, Portland (apart from big box parking lots) seems to be empty of those. I remember them trying to p
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Do you think it could also be due to an ACPI table?
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by nxobject 8mo ago
Honestly, I'd rather just read the bullet points, especially if it gives people more opportunities to lay out hierarchical structure.
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by nxobject 8mo ago
That’s exactly the question OP is asking.

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