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by russellbeattie 1y ago
Earlier in the year I was watching yet another series about a British mob. There were so many murders on the show, I wondered how many actual homicides there are in the UK every year. Looking it up, there are around 500 homicides each yea
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
I was thinking more about how he was banging his partner's adopted daughter who was 25 years younger than him while she was still in school (though over 18), then later marrying her. It screwed up the entire family. All the rancor and
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
> ...he makes a million promises and keeps like 10. Depends on who he's making the promises to. Everything he promised during the election in terms of vengeance, hatred, ignorance, bigotry, etc. as enumerated in Project 2025 has
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
Since when has Microsoft had a hit product before version 3? It's simply not in their corporate DNA. Besides, I just recently saw a review of the newest Copilot for Excel by a serious spreadsheet jockey, and he was truly blown away. Ba
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
No problem on Android/Chrome. Are you using an iPhone? If so, the annoyance should be aimed at Apple not the creator of this demo.
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Correct. That's how Silicon Valley has worked for years.
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
You have to admire the full-circle of history about this. Arguably, the first stored programs were created in the 1820s to automate Jacquard looms. The looms used a series of punch cards to automate the weaving of complex patterns. The syst
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
First, programming language fads have been a thing since about 10 minutes after the immortal Adm. Grace Hopper came up with COBOL. Thompson and Ritchie could have used ALGOL, Lisp, FORTRAN, BCPL or PL/I to write Unix, but instead they
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
No one else is stuck at 37?? I have no idea which images are AI generated, what's the sign that I'm missing?
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
Absolutely! I listened to it just a couple weeks ago - I was amazed at how good his narration was! He had various voices, accents, great pacing, etc. Tchaikovsky is as good of a voice actor as he is an author. (Actually, maybe a bit bette
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
I'm nearsighted with simple myopia and most of my life I've used contacts for distance vision. I never had any problems reading close up with my contacts in. Then I turned 50, and within a year, I suddenly needed to use either rea
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
You can take a wild guess at the street names if you're reading them out loud, of course. But what do you do when someone tells you an address on a street like Passatge di'Alió ("pasa je dia lio??"). You're not rem
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
I learned Spanish in Madrid - there's definitely no Catalan dialect of Spanish - it's either/or. And the northeastern Spanish accent is perfectly understandable (unlike, say, Galicia or Andalusia). So it's surprising tha
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
New word for me today: "apiarist"/"apiary". Never knew bee keepers had a more formal name, though it makes sense. Dad joke: It would be more apt if instead of a-piary, it was "b-piary".
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
Those were my thoughts exactly. There was no presidential message expressing sympathy and outrage then and complete radio silence from Republicans in general. And the amount of misinformation from the right was incredible. Even in this thre
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If Apple had an insanely great AI feature that truly differentiated itself from their competition, we all know they'd take a lot of time focusing on how their hardware enabled or enhanced that functionality. The expectation is that App
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No, I worked at Nokia 2008-2012 and it was definitely not in decline. It had a near monopoly on high end phones when the iPhone launched. It took several years for its impact to be felt.
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
Someone should convert all the examples into C code so it's more intelligible to programmers who are, let's admit, the main audience for something like this. To the best of my knowledge: Scalars are variables. Vectors are arrays.
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
The development of CP/M is pretty fun: In 1972 Gary Kildall was working as a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, when he received funds to create a new computer lab. He soon used a contact at Intel to ge
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
Fun bit of trivia: Byte was edited and published in Peterborough, New Hampshire. If you've ever been to that area of the world, you'd know how totally absurd it is that such an influential, world-renowned tech magazine was based t
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
How are all the features of an architecture like this utilized? Does the hardware automatically take advantage of all the cache, RAM, threads, etc., or are mainframe applications specifically written with chunks of low-level assembly to opt
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
That was really interesting! All that proprietary hardware is mind blowing. The cost of those mainframes must be mind boggling, let alone the maintenance costs. It answers the question, "What does IBM do nowadays?" But one thing
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
> "About $7.8 billion had been been pledged to Intel under the incentives program, but only $2.2 billion had been funded so far. Another $3.2 billion of the government investment is coming through the funds from another program cal
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We haven't invested any public dollars into Intel, we just took 10% of it.
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> "The United States paid nothing for these Shares, and the Shares are now valued at approximately $11 Billion Dollars,” President Trump wrote" This wasn't any sort of investment, it was blackmail. No corporation in the
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
There's a thing in China where younger generations have to write out the pinyin for certain words when writing notes by hand. (I'm not sure if it's because they've forgotten the characters, or just how to write them. May
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> "However, if AI avoids plateauing long enough to become significantly more useful..." As William Gibson said, "The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed." Even if LLMs, reasoning algorithms
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Again, you're creating a new session with special environmental variables. It's nice that it uses pyproject.toml (well, except for the toml part), but it still needs uv. I was suggesting that the Python executable have this sort o
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
I am absolutely astounded by the pirate streaming sites for a bunch of reasons. First, I'm amazed that they exist at all. I don't understand how they do it for both legal and monetary reasons. Serving thousands of gigabytes of vid
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by russellbeattie 1y ago
What are the reasons that Python can't implement the same sort of module/packaging system as NodeJS? That seems to work well enough. Executing a Python script in the same directory as some sort of project.json file that contains a

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