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by _wire_ 25d ago
Steve Blank - The Secret History of Silicon Valley https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo&ra=m
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by _wire_ 25d ago
"Considered harmful" in the context of programming is idiomatic to Dijkstra. The source context was product safety pamphlets, which Dijkstra applied ironically to a matter of programming pedagogy to raise awareness about the need
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by _wire_ 27d ago
The story of a classifier that is unable to properly classify applied under the pretense that it can read meaningfully, but it can't, so it is patched with a "gate" which is built by conducting a postmortem to discover sample
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by _wire_ 29d ago
Did they "film" me? No.
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by _wire_ 1mo ago
This is not a paradox. More efficient means more cost-effective, more adoption.
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by _wire_ 1mo ago
Trump. A commander in chief who is utterly incompetent about policy, is pathologically unable to delegate, and who double deals his generals is a miracle worker for enemy morale.
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by _wire_ 1mo ago
> Ask HN: Will AI lead to complete human irrelevance? Only if you want it to.
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by _wire_ 1mo ago
A video by nobody with over 35 views has a secret to tell you. But first, the diabetes patent cure ads: Did you know that a space parasite is attached to 9/10 pancreases, causing Bread & Wine disease and doing the devil's work
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by _wire_ 1mo ago
You are going to die, and it's a painful ugly business. The right to die humanely is the single most under-regarded and under-valued aspect of life hygiene.
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by _wire_ 1mo ago
Wirth designed Pascal as a teaching language, per his book Algorithms + Data Struvtures = Programs. So it's to be expected that Pascal has serious limitations for engineering a whole computer system and that Kernighan was sensitive to
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by _wire_ 2mo ago
Monty Python's Life of Brian: — Reg: Romans have bled us white, the bastards! They've taken everything we ever had! And not just from us, but from our fathers, and from our father's fathers! Stan: And from our father's f
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by _wire_ 2mo ago
Prompt Gemini with: "does trump lie a lot in an official capacity?" Response: Yes! A lot! Egregiously! Well documented!
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by _wire_ 2mo ago
Want jibber-jabber? Here's some more: U.S. doesn't need to be dispensable or indispensable. U.S. can and will change politically as a reaction to Trump, and economically as reaction to over-financialization. War will continue to b
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by _wire_ 2mo ago
There's an overlooked aspect of AI performance: Due to the very diffuse statistical nature of the mapping of the input to the output, some will be experiencing extraordinary appropriate useful results while others will be experiencing
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by _wire_ 2mo ago
There's a latent agenda to this style of journalism that's about the business of business: //When she and her colleagues experimentally boosted mitochondrial output in the rats, the neurons recovered, and the animals sho
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by _wire_ 2mo ago
To summarize report, there's not anything you can do to avoid old age dementia because its causes are not understood. The biggest attendant factors are vision or hearing loss. Note that these factors are merely attendant, not stated as
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
> Show HN: Bookmarker is now a macOS app  The appearance of  in unicode is weird. The Googlez say that Steve Jobs rejected the use of  on Apple keyboards as a "overuse" of the brand, which led the use of ⌘ (place of interest
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
When the author of a programming how-to on using magic beans to create apps feels he must inform the student that prompting "fix my app" can work better with some situation context, then even the pretense "software engineerin
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
Light from panel is diffuse; it can't project rays, so will not look like daylight. Perspective of view always totally wrong. As screens age they'll drift or fail and not match each other, looking very fake. No actual window is a
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
" Something is something than you think", part 42
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
Today working class income is eaten by ever-increasing rent. Add UBI. What keeps it from also being eaten by increasing rent?
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
Beehive offered as any analogy for a new media paradigm of otherwise unspecified structure > A hexagon is the most efficient shape in nature because it maximizes area while minimizing perimeter. The hexagon is not the most efficient sh
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
The idea of a languages being separable to the brain is a misunderstanding: The root of language is a common biological trait that works irrespective of the cultural situation.
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
"Even if it works?" How do you verify that it works?
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
Invited the vampire in? Don't be surprised when he drinks your blood.
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
"Haven't been happier"? If I say "it's all downhill from here" does that mean things are getting better or worse?
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
"reduces friction..." What a turn of phrase. Every major AI service claims be-all end-all capability, yet cognoscenti run merry-go-rounds for burgeoning specialist offerings. Richard Dawkins is hoping for a Dating Game of AI GFs:
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
Why would one brain assume one brain handles only one language when the idea of separate languages is a pure manifestation of one brain?
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
Anyone who is familiar enough with archive.ph links to expect them to be posted knows enough to just use the archive themselves
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by _wire_ 3mo ago
Wish I could run my life like this: I'm adding value by blowing other people's money and acting like I'm rich. "Ok so here's the deal, you front my incredible lavish lifestyle and eventually I'm gonna run into

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