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by ripe 2y ago
Can we take a moment to appreciate the engaging, conversational tone of the writing? The article was a pleasure to read, even when it gets into some weeds explaining the frequency charts, etc. (I read the English-language version). Whoever
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Apollo Domain DN420 Workstation(ricomputermuseum.org)
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The best feature of Wikipedia is that it contains references. The second best feature is that it has no ads and loads quickly. If all these "AI" companies gave a couple of million to support Wikipedia, they would do the world a lo
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by ripe 2y ago
In practice, starting with Stalin the party mostly let the church continue unmolested. "The Great Patriotic War changed Joseph Stalin’s position on the Orthodox Church. In 1943, after Stalin met with loyal Metropolitans, the government
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by ripe 2y ago
> because Qt committed the carnal sin of adopting C++20 I do believe you meant to write "cardinal sin," good sir. Unless Qt has not only become sentient but also corporeal when I wasn't looking and gotten close and persona
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by ripe 2y ago
Ha, ha, ha! I love it. I believe the author is serious, and I think he's on to something. OP clearly says that most things in fact don't break if you just don't comply with the CRLF requirement in the standard and send only L
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by ripe 2y ago
You're making a "no true Scotsman" argument. This is, in fact, how capitalism works whenever you fail to regulate it. Rent-seeking and regulatory capture is a feature, not a bug.
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Our healthcare is horribly wasteful and inefficient. But since the US government isn't in charge of it for most people, you can't blame them here. Our ultra-capitalist healthcare "system" achieved this spectacular waste
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Aka YAGNI (you ain't gonna need it). Developers have a tendency to over-build infrastructure before they've fully understood the problem domain. Plus, devs love to learn new tools, and then they've gotta use 'em to build
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by ripe 2y ago
I know this article is about people who wash dishes (plongeur), but the machines are equally critical. A few days ago we were in line at the cafeteria in the IKEA in Stoughton, Mass., and they had paper cups and plates and bendy plastic for
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by ripe 2y ago
Yes, and yet... Guzman says he's a better chef for having cleaned pots and pans and worked his way up in the kitchen. “Cooking school doesn’t prepare you for a broken dishwasher,” he says.
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by ripe 2y ago
For people like me who might be wondering: MRR = monthly recurring revenue This is a metric relevant to subscription businesses.
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And then there were smartphones(increment.com)
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U.S. presses the 'reset button' on technology that lets cars talk to each other(npr.org)
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Forget Uber and Airbnb: Some people are going old-fashioned to save money(businessinsider.com)
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I like the talk, and I think it explains the technology very well. I learned the term "slop". Minor disagreement about the author's optimism regarding code generation: > You shouldn’t need a computer science degree to auto
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What are electronic voting machines?(reuters.com)
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U.S. Accuses Norfolk Southern of Delaying Amtrak Trains(nytimes.com)
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Rent Going Up? One Company's Algorithm Could Be Why (2022)(propublica.org)
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The Edward Gorey House: Saving the world since 2002 one little drawing at a time(edwardgoreyhouse.org)
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How Microsoft's Satya Nadella Became Tech's Steely Eyed A.I. Gambler(nytimes.com)
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One Million Checkboxes Is What It Sounds Like(nytimes.com)
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The Makeheaders Program(fossil-scm.org)
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The Scourge of Self-Checkout(thewalrus.ca)
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Why AI Search Blew Up in Google's Face(nymag.com)
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It's not because of a religious opposition to JS, but because usually Javascript-laden sites take a long time to load, require the latest hardware and browsers, and come with pop-up banners, third-party ads, and bloatware.
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by ripe 2y ago
How many humans are involved in this so-called driverless service? Waymo won’t say, but Cruise admitted [1] that about 1.5 people were actively monitoring and ready to take over control for every Cruise car. That’s not a sustainable busines
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Robotaxis are "a real business"? Maybe in the future, but not yet. From the article: > But even the most bullish believers in autonomous transportation acknowledge the tech still has a ways to go before it’s reliable enough for
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So, you want to install Caddy(robot-cottage.bearblog.dev)
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> Johansson's foolishness Explain why you call a famous actress foolish if she refuses to give a corporation permission to use her voice. Your entire argument is built on this opinion.

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