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by retrocryptid 2y ago
Also... do you have the whole post somewhere. I didn't get past Microsoft's registration wall. It only let me see the first couple of lines.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I manage university relations for our corporation and give money (though not very much) to have our corporate logo next to the Udub logo. I'm not sure this kind of misbehaviour reflects well on our brand. Do you have a contact at the u
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
sweet! thx!
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I think each of the ideas listed: dsls, control loops, being clever, etc. They all have their place, and I wouldn't say they never work. I've had each of these work well in specific situations. But the OP does have a point, they
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
a paragraph about what it is and how it's intended to be used and documentation on it's API, assuming it has an API, would be useful.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
and they had a "geek port" -- what nerd wouldn't love a machine with a GEEK port?
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
At the time apple looked at beos, the print subsystem was... far from complete. There were probably many deal killers with Be, but this was the one I remember people kept repeating.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
When did we decide that AI == LLM? Oh don't answer. I know, The VC world noticed CNNs and LLMs about 10 years ago and it's the only thing anyone's talked about ever since. Seems to me the answer to 'Can AI do maths yet
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
Is this "a new generation discovers DSLs"? I had 15 minutes of fame inside IBM in the 80s by saying "The good news about FORTH is you can extend the parser to create your own Domain Specific Language. The bad news is the gu
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
yeah. she does seem like she's on the edge of throwing down f-bombs, flipping tables and screaming "i'm out of here." guess it's to her credit she hasn't done that.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
if you want to do applications, engineering will get you a 10% higher salary for the same job.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
i love sabine. she's speaking the lived experience of quite a few of us who lost faith in the academy.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
i'm confused. what does Hidankyo have to do with large language models?
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Scientists race to test vaccines in marburg virus outbreak(nature.com)
2 points by retrocryptid 2y ago|0 comments
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
They optimize themselves for a market that no longer exists while borrowing against a future that is not profitable.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
+1 Should we have dropped the bomb? That's the last decision in a series of policy questions on both sides, each a complex response to complex questions going back at least a decade.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
It is not unthinkable. That is the problem.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
That would have been the fourth atomic bomb. The first was the Trinity detonation. Second was Hiroshima. Third was Nagasaki. FWIW. You can see the fourth gadget at the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History in Albuquerque.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
"ai, smartphones, blockchain, searching the web and beyond" If your assertion is people get a STEM degree and then don't want to work for a scammy startup that has no plans for profitability and funds operations by repeatedly
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
the USPTO doesn't evaluate the utility of patents. that's what the courts are for.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I'm sure they believe they're doing that, but as other posts have mentioned, it is extremely difficult to give google feedback. I happen to know a few googlers socially from my days in SFLUG and BayLUG, so I can sometimes get a no
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
Average or median? There's a difference.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
Maybe they know someone who will pay $1.9M on the domain name?
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I was worried Boeing was going to hire a money-guy with no understanding of engineering or why corporate culture is inmportant. But Ortberg apparently has a reputation as being a good engineer (a MechE at that!) leading a company with a go
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
a comment about VT100s not supporting graphics like sixel graphics or 4016 or REGIS is downvoted? I don't understand Hacker News sometimes.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
I think the CoC says ixnay on the arkisness-ay. I also get downvoted for similar reasons sometime. No point complaining. It's not your circus, you don't get to pick the monkeys. [note, however, as a conniseur of fine s*rk, I di
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
no. us rednecks like real firearms.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
Is it me or does that emoji look a little more like a Ruger SR9 than a Colt M1911? I mean... it's not exactly a SR9 either, but it's definitely not a 1911 as the twitterrer implied.
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
maybe you could just delete the messaging app that receives text messages? though if you're not pon an unlimited plan, maybe you'll still get charged for them?
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by retrocryptid 2y ago
doesn't work for me: mobile firefox on android. just gives me an error.

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