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by peter303 4y ago
PBS has an interesting way of decluttering in the Legacy List series. The service asks for 5-10 mementos to (find and) keep. Everything else goes to resellers, charity, or garbage. They often choose large estates that have been in the famil
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by peter303 4y ago
We had an amazing technical secretary in our Stanford research group (spouse of a Nobel Prize winner). She quickly visualize the order of symbols on the IBM Selectric math ball and typed the equations flawlessly. Then laser printers became
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by peter303 4y ago
Happened to Pixar Toy Story 2 too. https://thenextweb.com/news/how-pixars-toy-story-2-was-delet...
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by peter303 4y ago
As C approaches its 50th anniversary in 2023, people are still trying to improve it. First it was data abstraction C++, ObjectiveC, Java. You could sort of hack that in original C with structures and virtuals. Now is back to improving basic
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by peter303 4y ago
Get the printed receipt when you return the vehicle. Take time-stamped phots and beginning and end of rental.
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by peter303 4y ago
A number of these proximity apps you can locate a target by basic triangulation: (1) Draw a circle of distance-radius around your location. (2) Go north that distance and repeat the process. (3) Return to origin, go east and repeat. If you
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by peter303 4y ago
I second this trilogy, particularly the second book. Particularly the hypothesis that sex was a Faustian bargain that was accompanied by programmed death.
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by peter303 4y ago
I cant wait for Apple Glass. I wonder if Ive has contributed to that product.
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by peter303 4y ago
"Island" offshore Long Beach. Some are disguised oil wells.
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by peter303 4y ago
A number of MIT courses were like that. You had to pass six calculus tests per course. If you were exposed to the material before, you could do this in a couple days.
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by peter303 4y ago
MSFT stock mostly stagnant during Balmer, growth during Gates and Nadella. Balmer had bad luck expanding into new areas.
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by peter303 4y ago
5% - 8% of human genome appears to be from [retro]virus inserts. Thats outside the tree of descent.
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by peter303 4y ago
I suspect the metaverse will be a bandwith hog. This matters where you centralize or distribute the world model; ditto for the rendering.
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by peter303 4y ago
Call that technototalinarism then. An east Asian country is pioneering that.
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by peter303 4y ago
They did so until 1967. Postal banking is common in other countries.
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by peter303 4y ago
Eric has more money than he ever imagined or his family could spend in many lifetimes. He is genuinely interested in improved the application of S&T in everyday life and the government. He comes from a background of an industry executiv
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by peter303 4y ago
Amodern variant would be "microservice"
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by peter303 4y ago
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Older than Stanford Computer Science department
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by peter303 4y ago
The legal pot industry will have good profit boost once its economic model is legalized. People in Congress have been trying for over a decade and momentum is building.
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by peter303 4y ago
My first computer in BASIC in 1970. I/O on a teletype, since CDTs were still vector and scarce. In 1975 I implemented in TTL and oscilloscope output for MIT digital electronics class. Blazing fast.
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by peter303 4y ago
I see a Nobel Prize around the corner. They arent often given for techniques or computation. But the results are outstanding.
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by peter303 4y ago
The Arachnids are bombing Earth. (Starship Troopers)
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by peter303 5y ago
The is a similar problem with the moment of the muon: theory and measurement differ greater than error limits of either. That hints that theory is missing some additional physics or particle interactions. The muon was the first particle dis
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by peter303 5y ago
The NVIDA came along and crushed SGI with an add-on board for PCs instead of a custom workstation. Order of magnitude cheaper.
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by peter303 5y ago
Its possible to miss a form or worksheet with FFFF. A good guess uses the previous years forms.
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by peter303 5y ago
Note quite all. The IRS wont accept a downloaded 1096.
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by peter303 5y ago
Some tax preparers offer "immediate refund" for a hefty fee, instead waiting three weeks for the IRS to deposit it.
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by peter303 5y ago
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" is supposed based on the plays of Plautus from 2200 years ago.
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by peter303 5y ago
Curiously, MIT does not have an university-wide computer requirement, though some departments do. They have been debating this requirement for decades.
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by peter303 5y ago
MIT grad here. The achievement tests are more of a counter-indicator If you score under 700 on either test, you probably cant handle the coursework. The tests only test a 10th grade level. I likely would not get into MIT this decade this de

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