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by wiz21c 2y ago
I share my desktop PC with my kids and wife (although, TBH, I use the PC 90% of the time and the rest of the family uses the remaining 10%). Although we use the PC one at a time, being able to each have his own environment does help. So mul
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by wiz21c 3y ago
"within stabbing distance" dunno if english is your mother tongue, but this sounds really good (although a tad aggressive :-) )) !
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by wiz21c 3y ago
ahhh didn't see that one. Perfectly makes sense ! Thx for explaining.
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by wiz21c 3y ago
I'm really surprised that you consider it a "sacrifice" to help others. Because when "others" are doing well, I'm doing better too. Give a job or a good life to anybody and you'll see, they'll just be
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by wiz21c 3y ago
why not low pass filter / decimate the wave form to remove aliasing ?
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Public money very well spent...
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Does one know if mathematica uses that too ? I rememebr an HN post where one could see that sympy, maxima and the likes where way behind for a lot of more peculiar integrals.. ah the comparison is here : https://www.12000.org&#x2
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by wiz21c 3y ago
doesn't trust anymore
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by wiz21c 3y ago
don't get used to that
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Owning the music is the thing.
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by wiz21c 3y ago
ah my bad, too short attention span :-)
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by wiz21c 3y ago
is that monthly, after taxes ?
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by wiz21c 3y ago
FTA: "I have watched kids testifying before Congress. It is clear that they are completely unaware of the serious- ness of their acts. There is obViously a cultural gap. The act of breaking into a computer system has to have the same s
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by wiz21c 3y ago
> Xerox Sigma IX Time Sharing computer The thing appears to have 128KB RAM and it can do time sharing... Impressive!
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by wiz21c 3y ago
I read this as a good news: more pressure towards free software !
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Great Job !
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by wiz21c 3y ago
I was referring to the dark and light side of the force :-)
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Yeah, I can complain about LO in many ways, but the way it opens CSV is much better than Excel. It was developed by a dev, that's for sure.
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Not B&W, just dark and light.
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by wiz21c 3y ago
which makes you an opportunist.
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by wiz21c 3y ago
I remember this; didn't last long :-( https://www.npr.org/2022/03/09/1085420836/pig-heart-transpla...
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Given the size of the universe and its age, I'd say we have waited long enough for probabilities to line up and produce such a complicated design.
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by wiz21c 3y ago
If Nintendo sued Yuzu because they were indirectly causing damage, then I can sue car makers for making air polution.
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by wiz21c 3y ago
What about doing the opposite: get an image and stimulate the brain to perceive it ?
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by wiz21c 3y ago
So maybe that's why magicians are so good at illusion: as we think about what we expect to see, we don't process information of our eyes correctly...
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by wiz21c 3y ago
> So it seems to me inevitable that we're going to need to do geoengineering. Nobody knows how to do that at scale and for a time frame long enough and safely (although there are experiments all over the place). Stopping fossil fuel
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Yes IF-style for sure but that's not Zork either. Cool work though, but having those solving Zork or Mystery House or whatever would be sooo cool !
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by wiz21c 3y ago
fta: "Our best hope in the face of inevitable rises in heat? Cooperation. “We’ve built forecasting systems that will warn us when disasters are incoming by working together at enormous scale. We must continue to do the same.” This sent
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Interestingly the page mentions that the jump was possible because of better landing sites (made of foam). Really surprising !
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by wiz21c 3y ago
Figure 3 is intriguing to me: I thought GPU's where order of magnitude faster than CPU (because of parallelism) and although the chart is log-scale, I don't see that. I wonder why...

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