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by tpmx 3y ago
Listening to the May 4th ep: The (amount of) dead air between segments feels a bit off. Feels related to the timing of the muzak. Maybe get some experienced podcast producer/audio engineer/whatever to design the transitions for yo
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by tpmx 3y ago
Related: It's a crime that the mechanical Charles Babbage Analytical Engine (1837) hasn't been built. Just found this recent progress report on an effort to do just that (written by Doron Swade [ https://en.wikipedia.org
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by tpmx 3y ago
(from the actual paper) the cross-sectional and case-control designs limit conclusions about causation and directionality Busy people spend more time on the phone?
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by tpmx 3y ago
(Thanks for those links.) > at least free for personal/educational/research use That's closer to gatekept than open, IMO.
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by tpmx 3y ago
That makes so much sense. I wish the EU (and/or European countries in general) would enact something similar but I think may be too late to do the same here now. Way too many stupid little fiefdoms "owned" by socially powerfu
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by tpmx 3y ago
> [...] until late 2023, when the images will be produced every 10 minutes and released operationally for use in weather forecasts. Will they gatekeep that image feed? I'm assuming they will, but I would be delighted to read that my
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by tpmx 3y ago
Is that a relevant comparison? The moat in maps is primarily capital-intensive real-world data collection/licensing. The (supposedly) leaked article attempts to show that this aspect isn't that relevant in the AI/LLM context
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by tpmx 3y ago
https://raganwald.com/assets/snobol-green-book.pdf "4.6.4 Example - Tower of Hanoi" on pages 109-111 (the scanned page numbers)
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by tpmx 3y ago
This appears to be a bad rehash of the March 20 incident. https://openai.com/blog/march-20-chatgpt-outage (Ironically it reads a bit like ChatGPT-generated blogspam.)
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by tpmx 3y ago
Sixth Tone is a state-owned English-language online magazine published by Shanghai United Media Group. ... Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian of Foreign Policy stated that Sixth Tone has a less staid and "saccharine" tone compared to m
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by tpmx 3y ago
"25 fires that caused 36 injuries and two deaths" during jan/feb 2023 alone.
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by tpmx 3y ago
CERN httpd (1990) and NCSA httpd (1993) came before Netscape Netsite (dec 1994) and were both free and open source. When Netscape did launch their server it was relatively expensive starting at $1495. For $5000 you got SSL support: https:&
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by tpmx 3y ago
I think; for many of us: It's quite fascinating to see a debate between the benefits of electricity and gas in 2023 . Energy technology is so weirdly unevenly distributed. This debate could have taken place in 1940 - with the exact sa
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by tpmx 3y ago
Electronic frequency counters are pretty accurate and cheap these days; I don't think we necessarily need to use human children for this task.
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by tpmx 3y ago
> It's not nearly as much as it sounds. "Just" $1.7M/year? In e.g. Russia, I could expect something like that to be standard for larger companies. In the west, it would be an extreme exception. I think you may have to
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by tpmx 3y ago
For reference: This is what it looks like now: [For you] | [Following] Following is not strictly chronological, but mostly. I think this is fair. > and actually enjoy not being tricked into the algorithmic feed anymore Same. I also notic
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by tpmx 3y ago
This guy stole $17 million from Apple. "maybe on a smaller scale" I guess the scale matters.
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by tpmx 3y ago
https://istwitterdownyet.com/ Personally I don't really see much of a difference tbh.
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by tpmx 3y ago
> As of a few hours ago they changed the status to report just on us-west9-a. The headline is 1h20m old and says a region is currently down.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Apple TV (the hardware, not the streaming service) is so underappreciated. The smooth task switching alone makes it worth a buy. I think it's severely undermarketed. And the old touch remote that so many people hated.. I like it so muc
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by tpmx 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Security_Counci... The resolution formed the legal basis for military intervention in the Libyan Civil War, demanding "an immediate ceasefire" and authorizing the
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Randall Munroe (xkcd) in Conversation with Conan O'Brien at Live Talks LA(youtube.com)
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by tpmx 3y ago
> It would be enough to say "hey, did you know that most phones send tracking data to the manufacturer when you download AGPS information? Someone credible: please write and submit such a blog post to HN so that we can have the disc
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by tpmx 3y ago
> 2. or they're signaling to investors that they're going to boost profitability and/or margins. They don't have any investors. They have literally been building and growing this organically for 80 years.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Yeah, amongst us old people over the age of, say, 35 :)
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by tpmx 3y ago
I so miss the cheap 150x75 cm Linnmon honeycomb tabletop. Their default desk depth is now a mere 60 cm because everyone aparently use laptops on desks, nowadays. Ugh. Anything with more depth than that -> so much costlier.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Sona (Conan) is going to miss them. Sorry in advance for the niche reference.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Yeah, but do they index those URLs and include them in search results? (My experience over 20+ years: no, they don't.)
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by tpmx 3y ago
I'm primarily criticizing Norway for hypocrisy. I don't think you missed that.
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by tpmx 3y ago
Brilliant, thanks! (For future readers: The product name was Blaze Web Performance Pack, offered by Datalytics Inc, Dayton, Ohio. They used the domain speeditup.com in some ads.)

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