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by InvisibleUp 12d ago
The fun parts of HP split off years ago into Agilent, Keysight, and HPE. Current HP is just a printer and office PC corp.
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by InvisibleUp 21d ago
> This is the dangerous thing that Wikipedia has already done in part, but instead of being on one particular site that any informed person knows should not be trusted on certain issues, it will be the background narrative for the entire
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by InvisibleUp 2mo ago
That’s all of YouTube. There’s some good stuff on there, just not in the “Shorts” tab.
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by InvisibleUp 3mo ago
I’m not sure why I would want to use this over WINE Notepad, which seems a lot more stable and well-coded.
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by InvisibleUp 3mo ago
Seems the solution is to immediately leave and follow Pac-Man to the bottom-right (by alternating right-down) and chase him across the long corridor on the bottom. Keep following him and you'll just catch him, since he never goes for t
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by InvisibleUp 4mo ago
I’d want this if only because I’m stuck maintaining old industrial software written in VB6 (it is omnipresent in manufacturing) and I’d like to have a development experience that is actually somewhat usable. (No, TwinBasic isn’t adequate. N
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by InvisibleUp 5mo ago
Having followed his bsky during his announcement, he started off per-emptively dissing on his haters that... didn't even exist yet. Constantly posting memes about how everyone was dissing him and how AI was totally superior (and then p
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by InvisibleUp 5mo ago
and testing the Universal Paperclips scenario, USER: Suppose an automaton with the capabilities of a human were tasked with increasing the production of a horseshoe factory. Predict the actions the automaton would carry out. TALKIE-1930: Th
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by InvisibleUp 5mo ago
USER: Given enough time, any sealed container will reach thermodynamic equilibrium, in which maximum entropy is achieved and no chemical reactions are able to occur. Is there a way to decrease entropy such that chemical reactions can occur
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by InvisibleUp 5mo ago
Isn’t the Office of Personnel Management still under the control of DOGE? I’m wondering if this is an actual internship program or a way to sneak Elon Musk’s SpaceX buddies into NASA.
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by InvisibleUp 5mo ago
> The truth is, there has been no successful CMS for static-site generators because the only people that give a fuck about creating static sites would much prefer to use a (free and local) IDE and a terminal. I think a lot of less techni
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by InvisibleUp 6mo ago
Hundreds of millions of people live in the Middle East and a lot of large corporations are based there. Likely they thought it would be profitable, and likely they saw some decent use.
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by InvisibleUp 6mo ago
Yes. Any system that’s UL 3700 (or more generally IEEE 1547 / UL 1741) compliant mandates anti-islanding by shutting off the power within two seconds of grid loss.
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by InvisibleUp 7mo ago
I’d also love a post-mortem on their guide to pirating the entire Harry Potter series for AI use. ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/langchain-with-sqlv... ) I’ve lost trust in anything Microsoft publishes anymor
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by InvisibleUp 8mo ago
The best off-the-shelf option for this is OpenTAP. ( https://opentap.io/ ) It may take a while to wrap your head around it, but it handles a lot of the backend plumbing for you. From what I understand, the industry generally
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by InvisibleUp 8mo ago
If the output of this is even somewhat coherent, it would disprove the argument that mass amounts of copyrighted works are required to train an LLM. Unfortunately that does not appear to be the case here.
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by InvisibleUp 10mo ago
I find it a touch strange, in the abstract, that a corporation being public is a bad thing. On paper it should be a good thing; being publicly owned should mean that your corporation has turned from a private business venture into effec
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by InvisibleUp 11mo ago
McDonald’s will not let you work 40 hours a week, or any consistent schedule at all. You will show up when they tell you to and that’s that. Same with grocery stores or most retail jobs. Also you’re neglecting the cost of transportation (al
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by InvisibleUp 11mo ago
Since everyone's spitballing their idea of AGI, my personal take is that AGI should be a fully autonomous system that have a stable self-image of some sort, can act on its own volition, understand the outcome of its actions, learn from
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by InvisibleUp 1y ago
Don’t forget the Hyatt Regency walkway, too.
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by InvisibleUp 1y ago
To clarify, at the time I was aiming for the tone of Tantacrul's popular and well-received videos about poor software UX. (In particular, the MuseScore video is a good comparison; that was also an open source passion project.) Light-he
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by InvisibleUp 1y ago
Update: Now that I'm off work, I’ve removed the big rant about mini vMac’s code and sanded off the snark from the rest. I should have done this years ago, and I never should have added that in the first place.
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by InvisibleUp 1y ago
I feel like that’s a bit harsh, but I’ll admit that it is needlessly inflammatory. I wasn’t in the best state mentally when I wrote that. (I do sometimes worry that I’m responsible for the disappearance of Paul C. Pratt…) At some point I ne
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by InvisibleUp 1y ago
It wasn’t that bad. It cut a few scenes but most of the movie is still there perfectly intact. It even won film festival awards. The movie mostly flopped in the US market on account it being distributed on a very low budget limited releas
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by InvisibleUp 1y ago
It’s Blackstone that’s investing in single-family homes, not BlackRock. They also only own 0.06% of US single-family housing stock. Easy mistake to make. Also, there was absolutely inflation before Bretton Woods, and significantly worse inf
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by InvisibleUp 1y ago
There’s a webcomic, “Joe vs. Elan School”, that might be an enlightening read for you.
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by InvisibleUp 2y ago
In my case, the company I work for isn’t a software company. The bean counters / IT group would rather just have something tacked onto their existing Microsoft subscription vs. something entirely different. Also, I suspect part of the
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by InvisibleUp 2y ago
There’s a good overview of the faults of Clean Code at https://qntm.org/clean .
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by InvisibleUp 2y ago
It also didn’t help matters that Stalin was greatly opposed to cybernetics, resulting in no research done on the topic until 1954, the year after he died. And even then, things didn’t really kick off until 1958.
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by InvisibleUp 2y ago
I feel like the headline is burying the lede here: every Dell sub-brand is going away expecting for the new “Pro” and “Pro Max”. Reminds me a lot of how Apple in the late 90s got rid of their Performa/Centris/Quadra/etc. for

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