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by rob74 5mo ago
I think the Amiga is the most well-known example of what OP means. Older home computers which could be connected to TVs generally had resolutions up to 320x200 (or x240 for PAL) and square pixels. The Amiga could double that on both axes
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by rob74 5mo ago
In day-to-day usage, the (fast) compilation speed matters much more than the (slow) implementation of new features.
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Actually I didn't call them stupid, I called them lazy (and also inconsiderate, but mostly lazy).
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Well, I think I couldn't distinguish AI music from the good (or bad) old human-made "elevator music", but maybe I'm mistaken and it would stand out to me when I hear it...
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by rob74 5mo ago
Well, it's subtly different than a kid calling mum - kids generally do that because they're insecure, an adult using ChatGPT to answer simply can't be bothered to turn on their brain...
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by rob74 5mo ago
Yeah, most Mercedes cars from that era have a steering wheel that looked just like that. But the whole paragraph is pretty senseless. Of course it looked like a car cockpit - because you couldn't fit a truck cockpit into the available
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by rob74 5mo ago
Yeah, for those it makes sense to have the driver's cabin so low to the ground. Also for heavy-duty auto cranes ( https://www.gelbe-seiten-svd.de/Anzeigen/bga_grafiken/80i353... ). But for trailer trucks, the d
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by rob74 5mo ago
According to https://www.npr.org/2025/10/29/nx-s1-5588695/wikipedia-groki... > Musk is positioning Grokipedia as an alternative to Wikipedia, which he called "Wokepedia" in an X post last D
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by rob74 5mo ago
I wonder how they arrived at the name "Ebrietas"? Does it have something to do with being inebriated? EDIT: it does, I just had to google "Ebrietas latin" (and got https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ebri
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> I have a friend who told me Wikipedia is biased, so he refuses to use it. When I asked him what he uses instead, he said, completely seriously, “X is my main source of information.” I guess that was a few years ago? Because now he als
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by rob74 5mo ago
Do you mean the animal in general, or what specific image? For Go specifically, it would be very surprising if it was not a gopher! Ok, Python is obviously even more closely associated with the snake, but a gopher has been the Go mascot fro
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by rob74 5mo ago
Yes, it's exactly these (not necessarily wrong, but exaggerated) preconceptions about big cities that drive people to not let their kids outside. Thanks for providing a sample that supports the article's point!
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by rob74 5mo ago
In Germany (maybe also Austria?), that font is probably best known from the logo of major computer magazine/site CHIP ( https://www.chip.de/ ). Although, for some unfathomable reason, the C in the "dead test font&qu
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by rob74 5mo ago
Well, Musk for one is promising not universal basic income, but universal high income. In a country where a lot of people don't even have health insurance. Let's see how that will work out, I'll believe it when I see it...
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by rob74 5mo ago
I agree with more or less everything in the article. "Agentic coding" is great, but you still need to have a good grasp of the overall architecture of your application, and actually check what the agent does, to get the best resul
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by rob74 5mo ago
TBF, that pun was to good to pass up. Although (after looking up the CND) "Foot heads no-arms body" would have been more correct (and maybe even funnier, depending on your sense of humour)... EDIT: looks like this is one of the
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by rob74 5mo ago
Cool! One question: what do the planes represent? I thought it was the galactic plane and planes parallel to it, but then I saw that the "band" of the galaxy is (almost?) perpendicular to it, which doesn't fit somehow? EDIT:
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by rob74 5mo ago
To me it looks like it's a problem with the "default attitude" (can't think of a better name) of the Waymo driving software. When a human sees that the road surface ahead is in some unknown condition (flooded, covered in
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by rob74 5mo ago
I wasn't aware of it until now, and I was surprised to find out that it took until 1991 for a Briton to fly to space - and with the Russians/Soviets no less, not with the Americans. But, if you look at https://en.wikipe
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by rob74 5mo ago
It does vary, but as long as the sources stay the same, the composition will also stay within certain limits. For instance, Munich publishes its water composition. The list combines items that you might find on a mineral water label, like c
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by rob74 5mo ago
Yeah... especially since the source isn't really cheap either. Also, I have never understood how it can possibly make sense to ship water from Fiji to the US, or even from France or Italy to Germany. Local mineral waters may not have
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by rob74 5mo ago
Interestingly enough, stagecoaches are called "Postkutsche" in German-speaking countries (because they also carried mail), and Switzerland's regional buses ("PostBus") are still operated by a subsidiary of the Swiss
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by rob74 5mo ago
Maybe I'm too nitpicky, but I wish that, out of the 8 times that they write "the oldest printing presses", they would at least once mention that these are the oldest (known) surviving printing presses, just to avoid anyone
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They did a bit of everything: attacking head-on, lobbying, providing alternatives. And eventually, it worked.
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I don't have a problem with Gemini being charming/witty, I was referring to stuff that people might find rude or offensive - yeah, I know, that's a fine line sometimes, but I think most of us would agree that making jokes abo
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by rob74 5mo ago
Yes... and still, it thinks it's funny to play "Timber" after mentioning a natural disaster that killed thousands of people. So there is still some finetuning needed, I'd say. Reminds me of the song "Die perfekte We
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by rob74 5mo ago
Actually I'm surprised that it focuses only on UFOs, I would have expected more varied conspiracy theory content...
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The real reason is "make number go up". A few years ago, you showed the stock market (or your investors if you weren't listed yet) how amazing a company you were by hiring people like crazy, even if you didn't need them,
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by rob74 5mo ago
> The succession problem matters most in the next decade. After that, the question becomes academic. There will be no Voyagers left to maintain. Well, the Voyagers will still be there, there will be just no way to contact them anymore
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I think that plane is the Lockheed Starfighter ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter#Eje... ). Fortunately they were eventually replaced with upward-firing ejection seats. And the "lawn dart&quo

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