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Ukrainian computer game-style drone(theguardian.com)
5 points by yzydserd 11mo ago|0 comments
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by yzydserd 1y ago
The display was in a booth replicating the 1984 Winter CES booth. Here is a Creative Computing article from the 1984 event. https://www.atarimagazines.com/creative/v10n4/150_Amiga_Lorr... Forbodingly, the article
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Perseverance, thy name is Bette(uspto.gov)
2 points by yzydserd 1y ago|0 comments
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by yzydserd 1y ago
Sadly, it isn't strictly true. maybe the article should have said "applied" not "created". Even the wikipedia page for "Usability" points to a 1982 BYTE article advocating "Usable" for software t
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by yzydserd 1y ago
No mention of the Amiga? Amiga Guide is a hypertext format, first released around 1992 with Workbench 2.1 I think, with Blue highlighting, again if memory serves, inherited from the OS theme.
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by yzydserd 1y ago
Is there data behind that or is it just anecdata? A year ago someone on HN said “I can confirm that iMessage is extremely common in Australia. WhatsApp is very uncommon, outside of people with European (and maybe South American?) friends or
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by yzydserd 1y ago
Personally, I think magic and miracle are terrible words to describe astounding technological achievements. The avoidance of the words in no way devalues the achievement. If anything, I feel their use devalues the achievement, assigning pro
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by yzydserd 1y ago
> appreciate the technological miracle What part of the solution is a technological miracle?
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by yzydserd 1y ago
> But who is going to question these decisions, then? Can we trust the elected leaders to do so? I don't think so (not being partisan here, this goes for Trump, Biden, Obama, Bush, whomever); That was exactly the point of the articl
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by yzydserd 1y ago
“he became known for launching a website seeking to document every reported Eucharistic miracle, which was launched days before his death.” This may be an archive of his miraculous website shortly before he died https://web.archi
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by yzydserd 1y ago
Agreed. I saw no flunk at all, let alone an interview flunk.
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by yzydserd 1y ago
Yes I have read the book and agree with the signatories to the letter. I respect that you have read the book and do not.
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by yzydserd 1y ago
I highly recommend that people who read the book also read criticism addressing the authors understanding of race and genetics in said book, such as https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/bfopinion/race-genetics...
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by yzydserd 1y ago
O5-pro is available through the ChatGPT UI with a “Pro” plan. I understand that like o3 pro it is a high compute large context invocation of underlying models.
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by yzydserd 1y ago
This week’s episode of the BBC podcast The Infinite Monkey Cage was 42 minutes of Science Comedy dedicated to the spud, featuring the same expert as the OP. Most interesting fact I learned was the effort going toward making potato seeds (no
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by yzydserd 1y ago
I’ve been using Orion as my daily driver on iOS for a year. I’ve never encountered these bugs. It’s possible I’m just not sensitive to them.
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by yzydserd 1y ago
> The only thing I’m missing is multi-account containers, or a way to isolate google or meta products for example into its own profile. But I can live with that for now. Hmm, “profiles” work fine for me in Orion. A bit different to how F
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Amiga turns 40 today: 1985 Amiga World Premiere video(youtube.com)
8 points by yzydserd 1y ago|0 comments
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by yzydserd 1y ago
They sound like an “Offy”.
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by yzydserd 1y ago
This claim, and study which underpins the claims, was covered on the BBC More or Less Podcast last year. One of the main problems with the stat is that in ultramarathons there are very few women, but those that do enter are typically profes
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by yzydserd 1y ago
TL;DR In the Women’s 3-set match, where there are 735 possibilities, these scores have never eventuated: 6-0 0-6 7-5, 6-0 0-6 6-0, 0-6 6-0 7-5 Meanwhile, in the 5-set format of Men’s matches, only 8.5% of the more than 100k result possibili
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by yzydserd 1y ago
The posted article isn’t as good as the better, longer web page by the actual researchers at https://www.mola.org.uk/discoveries/news/worlds-most-difficu... Anyway, let’s see them tackle Eternity II next. https:&
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by yzydserd 1y ago
A co-author of the study you refer to was recently on the UK BBC podcast More or Less, debunking much of the press coverage of his study, specifically the headline of vast global underestimation. Rather, the study found rural distribution e
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by yzydserd 1y ago
Explains the hallucinations.
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by yzydserd 1y ago
Who? The Beliebers or the non-Beliebers?
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by yzydserd 1y ago
I feel a semicolon is more appropriate; I would not declare misuse. Prescriptive grammar brings the drama; that’s why I love it. The second clause is more a continuation than an explanation. This works, though. There is one reason I love pr
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by yzydserd 1y ago
its 1 supernova per century per galaxy. there are many galaxies: more than 10 stars go supernova every second across the universe. tens of thousands have gone supernova since the article was posted to HN. tiny percentages in a large sample
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by yzydserd 1y ago
A star "lasts" about 10 billion years, so you'd expect about 1 in 10 billion stars to 'die' each year, but only a tiny proportion (the very largest) go supernova. Numbers are huge. Even tiny ratios mean something li
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Detective sacked for pretending to work from home(theguardian.com)
3 points by yzydserd 2y ago|0 comments
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by yzydserd 2y ago
Probably spends another $600 on takeout.

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