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by schoen 2y ago
This might be different if you have 4 users on the system or 400 users. Also, traditional Unix makes it easy to find out who was active on the system at a certain time (for example with the "last" command, which reads the wtmp log
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by schoen 2y ago
Any connection to Finnish "kissa" 'cat'? (apparently from an onomatopoeia for calling a cat)
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by schoen 2y ago
However, if it states the facts in exactly the same way, that could be considered infringing because of the creativity presumably involved in deciding how to state each fact. "Elephants are enormous mammals, usually grey in color, with
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by schoen 2y ago
The human ATC system is very good at handling exceptions, including various kinds of emergencies, pilot errors, and reasons to prioritize one plane over another. The human controllers also typically have a good understanding of the details
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by schoen 2y ago
For those who weren't following it at the time, one thing that Aaron was famous for was helping organize a campaign against an earlier form of this legislation in 2011 and 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_
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by schoen 2y ago
There's a classic movie from the 1970s by Thomas Banchoff about these visualizations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90olwwLdEYg It was considered a very impressive use of computers for math communication and educatio
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by schoen 2y ago
Yes. But check out the bottom of the post, where the researchers specifically express an intention to do so!
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by schoen 2y ago
I was all set to say "I wish someone would also do this sort of experiment for chatbots trained in the U.S." ... when I saw that these researchers are planning to!
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by schoen 2y ago
See this previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657823 I posted a bunch of ideas there. https://exploreredwoods.savetheredwoods.org/ (a directory of redwood forests) https://secr
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by schoen 2y ago
I just looked in the Corpus Diacrónico del Español https://corpus.rae.es/cordenet.html and it found 33 hits for "phisica" and 99 for "phisico", mostly from the 1490s. Now some of these can be deceptive,
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by schoen 2y ago
"[...] you’re so tech-cliché, your browser’s “maxTouchPoints” is zero because even your devices fear human contact [...]"
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by schoen 2y ago
Do you know (or does anyone else reading this know) how the lock-stepping works? It seems like it would be an enormous challenge to keep modern CPUs exactly in lockstep. All of the same interrupts have to occur at exactly the same times and
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by schoen 2y ago
As a kid I got to visit the (very conscious) Tandem competitor Stratus ... I think a family friend was working there. They had a competitive line of highly redundant and fault tolerant computers. The person giving me the tour gave a demo by
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by schoen 2y ago
OK, now I have to ask if it's deliberate that you mention that both the unionized strip club and the IPO strip club "went bust"!
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by schoen 2y ago
I haven't usually been enthusiastic about GNU Taler's "senders should be anonymous but recipients shouldn't" approach, but I guess kidnapping for ransom is an example where that policy might be beneficial.
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by schoen 2y ago
How does the current system pay for bookings like this? And where does it get the customer's contact information to provide to the tour operator? Does the customer fill it all in when signing up for the Operator service? (That seems
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by schoen 2y ago
> a San Francisco strip club that did an IPO in the first dot-com boom and went bust There was a moderately famous documentary about unionization at a San Francisco strip club just a few years before that (called Live Nude Girls Unite )
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by schoen 2y ago
See also https://fakebuddhaquotes.com/ ("I Can't Believe It's Not Buddha!"). A huge genre!
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by schoen 2y ago
Endow a university or private high school somewhere? Pay for research on something you think is interesting or worthwhile? Create a park or a museum? (A bunch of billionaires-in-today's-terms from the 19th and early 20th centuries tend
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by schoen 2y ago
I worked at EFF for twenty years, and every iteration or incarnation of EFF would have said that it should be extraordinarily difficult for the government to prevent Americans from using foreign web sites or software. And that it should be
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by schoen 2y ago
It's a reference to the very last paragraph of the article.
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by schoen 2y ago
Qubes was created in 2012! It mostly runs Linux applications.
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by schoen 2y ago
I guess that's a descriptive name, but it doesn't exactly roll off the tongue!
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by schoen 2y ago
This thermal paper from Germany which another commenter mentioned upthread https://www.oekobon.de/ claims "no BPA/BPS" and "phenol-free". (Hopefully that doesn't turn out to mean that they foun
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by schoen 2y ago
Getting coffee in South Park, maybe, but not Blue Bottle itself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Bottle_Coffee#History
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by schoen 2y ago
It's funny to think how different the equivalent would have been when I came here. Probably a lot more about the web (and open source) than about AI and cryptocurrency. That was, I guess, a full generation ago now!
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by schoen 2y ago
> But this was non-determinism within predictable boundaries. Yes, you may need to deal with corrupted file, an incomplete transaction, etc. but you could fairly easily predict where it could happen and how it could affect the integrity
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by schoen 2y ago
My friend Nick, with whom I worked on Linux stuff in this era, actually quoted that speech in reference to the free software scene sometime around the year 2000! I think you're the first person since then I've seen mention it in t
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by schoen 2y ago
That's such a nice way to think about unit tests! (In this context and others.)
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by schoen 2y ago
There are some previous incidents of English Scrabble champions who didn't speak English (by the same approach of memorizing dictionaries without necessarily knowing the meaning of the words). Here's a documentary about Thai Scrab

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