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by rob74 3mo ago
The times when companies only restructured when they were actually making losses are long gone. Today, if they "underperform" (i.e. they're not as profitable as the stock market thinks they should be), investors want to see b
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by rob74 3mo ago
Yeah, I also have a lot of nostalgia for the good ol' 68000. But "little" is not quite the correct word to describe it, especially not when using DIP packaging as shown in the image in the article. Actually, the 68000 was rig
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by rob74 3mo ago
> Biggest contenders are the original Macintosh (And Apple Lisa), the Commodore Amiga series of computers (With varying generations of the 68000), the Sega Genesis/Megadrive, the Neo-Geo AES, Plexus workstations... and the Jaguar.
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by rob74 3mo ago
Ah, ok, thanks for the clarification!
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Wasn't that Kool-Aid? (yeah, I know that's not sold in cans, and actually it was Flavor-Aid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid#Backgrou... )
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by rob74 3mo ago
That's a bit exaggerated - monkeys can't fly, but both dolphins and octopuses can swim. I'm aware octopuses prefer to stay at the bottom, while dolphins have to come to the surface regularly to breathe, but for me it's s
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by rob74 3mo ago
It's also a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem: if they were raised by their parents like all other more intelligent animals, they wouldn't need to be as intelligent as they are in order to be able to relearn "octopus behaviour
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by rob74 3mo ago
Also, last time I checked, the environment where octopuses live is actually the exact same environment where dolphins live?
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by rob74 3mo ago
Yes, an agent does feel like a very eager and very knowledgeable but also very clueless junior developer sometimes. But no, working with agents is not like leading a team of developers. You don't have to make sure an agent stays motiva
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by rob74 3mo ago
I find it funny that "échec" also has the meaning of "failure" in French, so FIDE could be read as the "International Failure Federation"...
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by rob74 3mo ago
Be that as it may, the highest peak in Russia (and in all of Europe) is Mt. Elbrus, which is 5,642 m. Guess it sucks to be a peak in the 7000-8000 m range in Asia, which would be the highest peak on any other continent, but in Asia, it&#x27
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by rob74 3mo ago
From what I read, the 1996 Everest disaster involved two completely separate groups: Adventure Consultants/Mountain Madness, who ascended via the South Route (from Nepal), and the Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition, who came via the
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by rob74 3mo ago
If the politicians said they wanted to buy up water rights and not use them. and actually bought them up so they can used by their cronies, that would certainly be grift, but OP seems to be against "hold[ing] water rights without devel
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by rob74 3mo ago
To raise awareness?
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by rob74 3mo ago
> Any direct human contact with a bat is an indication for rabies postexposure prophylaxi - medical treatment given immediately after potential exposure to a rabid animal. This phrase is unnecessarily complicated, I expect something ea
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by rob74 3mo ago
> Distinctive intestines mold feces into sharp-cornered poop ...written directly above a photo of the subject matter that clearly does not have sharp corners (which is all for the best, I guess, poor wombats!), not even sharp edges,
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by rob74 3mo ago
I guess this is probably inspired by the character this 1960s song is about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinn_the_Eskimo_(Mighty_Quinn... , which would explain the outdated-sounding name. ...maybe "The Wisdom of
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by rob74 3mo ago
To add to that, the only way to reliably measure speedup would be to give the same developer the same task twice, first without AI, then with AI, and the developer should have no previous knowledge (or the same level of previous knowledge)
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by rob74 3mo ago
I'm 52, and over my lifetime I felt that there is actually an ever-increasing number of things that used to have an absolute right (scientifically proven) answer that become controversial. Climate change. Vaccines. Whether the earth is
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by rob74 3mo ago
For many, that fallback mechanism is simply called Cursor - soon to be owned by Elon Musk. Which opens up a similar but slightly different can of worms...
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by rob74 3mo ago
Wow, that's a really sneaky "false friend" in Italian! Especially since it even has the meaning of "forest-related" in other Latinic languages, e.g. in French route forestière = forest road.
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by rob74 3mo ago
Well, you could get it up to higher speeds by holding the car in your hand and repeating the "pushing" action several times...
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by rob74 3mo ago
One place this reminded me of (which isn't in the "see also" section): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jameos_del_Agua on Lanzarote (Canary Islands). Both are underground structures inspired by traditional
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by rob74 3mo ago
> Combining the immensity of an ocean liner and the elegance of a swan, the 747 is the only commercial jet that deserves to be called beautiful. If this article is going to be so poetic, I'm not sure I can continue reading it. Let
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by rob74 3mo ago
Yes... I wonder if this is also prone to hallucination? A while (more than a year) ago I told Copilot to sort a list of integers. First, it gave me the code to sort it. I told it "no, sort the list yourself and give me the result"
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The composers who didn't have neat handwriting are forgotten today because nobody could read their (musical) notes...
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Note-book, as in "book containing musical notes". I expected a regular notebook (for the other kind of notes, that people like you and me might write)...
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by rob74 4mo ago
Well, apparently those companies believe memory prices will continue to rise, so they'd better lock in supply at the current (high) prices. We'll see if they're right...
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by rob74 4mo ago
Of course the manhole covers aren't ancient, but they're a sign that Rome still sees itself in the tradition of the Roman Empire.
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by rob74 4mo ago
I'm a bit surprised that the "people from modern Rome" only got an honorable mention. After all, Rome still sees itself as the successor of the Roman Empire. When first visiting it, I was surprised to see the famous SPQR ( ht

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