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by runlevel1 3y ago
I'd love a retro from someone involved in Itanium's development. What would they have done differently? I'm superficially familiar with the technical issues of the final product, but I'm interested in the decisions made
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by runlevel1 3y ago
That's one classy looking personal page.
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by runlevel1 3y ago
It's more difficult to hold elected judges accountable. An impeachment removing a judge put in place by a non-partisan vote is a bigger deal than impeachment of someone appointment by the governor. (Though, West Virginia did impeach th
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Make sure you put "Invented by a scuba diver!" on the package like the old Airborne boxes. Might get bought for $150M just like they did.[^1] [1]: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120402005634&#x2
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by runlevel1 3y ago
The conference where this was made official was quite a beautiful, upbeat demonstration of people from around the world coming together to agree upon a change: https://www.youtube.com/live/qA67T7FPBME?t=498
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Yep, that sounds like a wild ride! I'm glad you lived to tell the tale, stranger.
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by runlevel1 3y ago
That sounds like a hell of a story. How did you find yourself in that situation? And how did you get out of it?
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by runlevel1 3y ago
The Original Bondi Blue 233 MHz iMac Rev A (tray-loading CD-ROM) had: - 2x USB - 1x 10/100 Ethernet - 1x phone jack - Infrared port - 1x audio input - 1x audio output† - 2x headphone ports †I thought it had two front headphone ports so
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Until age 17 I thought of "a couple" as being an imprecise amount more than "one" but less than "a few". So around 2-3. Though when referring to people I always thought of it as =2. It wasn't until 17 that
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Homebrew built almost everything from source back when everyone was already migrating to it. Fink and MacPorts being frequently broken was really the big driver, IMO. As for why Homebrew packages seemed to be broken less often, I can only s
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by runlevel1 3y ago
CoffeeScript brought more to the table than just syntax changes. Some of the recent niceties we have in JavaScript today were influenced by it. Also, recall that the whole JavaScript ecosystem was kind of a mess when CoffeeScript was create
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Words naturally become overloaded. It helps lower the barrier to understanding a new concept because you have an existing concept to leap from and language to use. It comes at the cost of precision. The words `node`, `class`, and `tag` in p
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by runlevel1 3y ago
> Airbnb said its reservation-screening AI has been evaluated by the company’s anti-discrimination team and that the company often tests the system in areas such as precision and recall. This testing would be an interesting article of it
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Previously posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37606321
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Hourly Rate: $100.00 per on 1099 ... Higher Pay for those willing to stick it out until the job is done! ... Working Hours: Expect to work 10 hours per day 7 days a week I charged $150/hr in 2006 for basic
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by runlevel1 3y ago
How do you codify the effects of judicial review? What if the court's decision is not binding but is still persuasive -- such as when it's a decision from another jurisdiction? Common law has like 800 years of tech debt. It's
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by runlevel1 3y ago
When asked to do such a thing a reasonable person would know or should have known that the document would be used to commit fraud. I think the legal term is "constructive knowledge." (IANAL)
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by runlevel1 3y ago
The title would be less misleading if they simply changed s/radiation/electromagnetic radiation/. They don't just do this with Apple. News outlets have been sensationalizing dubious research into the link between mobile
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by runlevel1 3y ago
It's also a shamefully clickbait title. When the general public sees "radiation" they think ionizing radiation, and Bloomberg damn well knows it.
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by runlevel1 3y ago
> PS3 onwards By most accounts the PS3 was not fun to write software for due to its unusual specialized processing units.
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Google and Bing both changed their emphasis to finding things within an image rather than trying to find similar images. But one is not a substitute for the other. Google Lens and whatever Bing calls their equivalent almost never find what
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by runlevel1 3y ago
I know of a couple related SCOTUS cases on the topic -- both split 5-4: California v. Ciraolo (1985) [1]: > Question: Did the warrantless, aerial observation of Ciraolo's back yard from an altitude of 1,000 feet constitute an illeg
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by runlevel1 3y ago
I suspect QuickTime Player.app's trim (Edit menu > Trim) does this as well when you save the result (as opposed to exporting it). It's far too fast to be re-encoding the whole video and is too precise to be cutting at the neare
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by runlevel1 3y ago
glibc defaults to 5 sec, but the server wouldn't need to resolve the redirect domain -- that'd be the client's job. Unless it's doing so for some proprietary reason, of course. Or did you mean failing to resolve some int
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by runlevel1 3y ago
I figured the legislature prohibited considering greenhouse gas emissions in a roundabout way, but nope... From the law itself (emphasis mine): > (2) (a) Except as provided in subsection (2)(b), an environmental review conducted pursuant
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by runlevel1 3y ago
I worked at SIO for 5 years around the mid 2000s, but not on FLIP. Many of the folks there were remarkable people. One such person was one of the people who got FLIP started, Walter Munk.[^1] He was an interesting guy. He left Austria durin
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Feature Request: Allow users to specify the Cuil Level of ChatGPT's responses.
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Funnily, it sounds a lot like the person suffering from "search overload" in the 2009 Bing launch ads. https://vimeo.com/search?q=bing%20search%20overload
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by runlevel1 3y ago
Every time I encounter the first version I'm dumbfounded that it still exists. Its nerfed features make for such a frustrating user experience. I can't think of a reason for it to exist as its own thing. I'd love to know the
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by runlevel1 3y ago
It used to be taught that the singular "they" was ungrammatical. (Ironically, the singular usage predates the plural.) The rule faded in other parts of the Anglosphere a bit earlier than in the US. [1]: https://en.wikip

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