ant512

7 ms·

1.
by ant512 9mo ago
Meta spends enormous amounts of money hiring AI experts instead of just using AI to improve its AI. AI just isn't there yet. But when AI can be used to improve itself, that's when things get interesting.
2.
by ant512 5y ago
Flipping the fretboard has weird effects. The E strings are ok (the notes are E, F, Gb, etc). But the other strings are broken (A string is A, C, Db; D string is D, Ab, A; B string is B, Bb, B, C); etc.
3.
by ant512 7y ago
I can’t think of any state actors that would want to get their hands on easily-decrypted messages sent by government officials of your country.
4.
by ant512 8y ago
I've got a British driving license and an American driving license. The British driving license was hard work. The American driving license involved little more than proving I could make the car go forwards and that I had a pulse. Th
5.
by ant512 8y ago
Amiga emulation on OSX is awesome. Try FS-UAE: https://fs-uae.net It's kept up to date and tracks WinUAE.
6.
by ant512 8y ago
This is the same Sony that was famously hacked in 2014: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack From the Wikipedia page: “The hackers involved claim to have taken more than 100 terabytes of data from Sony” “
7.
by ant512 8y ago
Like the rumored Tetris movie?
8.
by ant512 9y ago
That's called out at the end of the article: "But before the end of the first month of daylight saving that January, eight children died in traffic accidents in Florida, and a spokesperson for Florida’s education department attrib
9.
by ant512 9y ago
Before I bought my first iPod I got a Sony Network Walkman NW-E3. It was about the size of a packet of gum, had 64MB of flash memory, and was so unrelentingly awful that I swore I would never buy another piece of Sony hardware. I don&#x27
10.
by ant512 9y ago
Last I heard MS were having reliability problems with the Surface: "The breakage rate for Microsoft Corp’s Surface devices is significantly worse than for other manufacturers’ laptops and tablets, Consumer Reports said, adding that it
11.
by ant512 9y ago
The jerky scrolling on that page isn't pleasant.
12.
by ant512 9y ago
A bunch of these were also Spectrum hits: Heartland, the Monty Mole series, and Everyone's A Wally are some stand-outs. California Games got converted to pretty much every platform around.
13.
by ant512 9y ago
From the "About" page: > PLUS – Full sized, fully working version also coming in 2018 as well!
14.
by ant512 9y ago
Hmm, maybe it's just the Enterprise version that's using Electron.
15.
by ant512 9y ago
It's worth pointing out that CrashPlan's business client app uses Electron (because the Java client app for home users wasn't bloated enough). That's reason enough for me to look elsewhere.
16.
by ant512 10y ago
No sane company is still using Windows XP, given that support ended 3 years ago and development ended a decade ago.
17.
by ant512 10y ago
The Atari Lynx wasn't massive because it needed to be; the creators listened to their customers: "In all the focus group testing, and we did a lot of it with consumers, we had a bunch of different models that we showed them,"
18.
by ant512 10y ago
This was very interesting back when the initial concept was shown. Turns out it was killed by MS because it didn't fit in with their Windows/Office strategy: https://www.cnet.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-
19.
by ant512 10y ago
Does your Rolex show you your email?
20.
by ant512 10y ago
Kids who spend 8 hours doing any one activity - screen or otherwise - will find little time to do much of anything else...
21.
by ant512 10y ago
On the other hand, if you had true AI first, you'd just say "here's an input device; figure out how to parse the data."
22.
by ant512 10y ago
Why is it possible to cancel an order?
23.
by ant512 10y ago
> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that demo
24.
by ant512 10y ago
The Amiga disk format held 880K. The original version of Lemmings was a 2 disk release with an animated intro, but later (cheaper or pack-in) versions shipped on 1 disk with the intro removed.
25.
by ant512 11y ago
Microsoft spent years telling people that OSS == communism and that OSS was stealing their IP. I imagine that the MS developers who believed the FUD have a hard time accepting that going open-source won't cause Ghost Stalin to appear a
26.
by ant512 11y ago
I worked at a company that wanted to use these as cheap and disposable PDAs. At the time the Cybiko company was collapsing but they kept promising that new hardware was on the way, presumably to keep us buying their existing stock. IIRC th
27.
by ant512 11y ago
/s/police/people
28.
by ant512 12y ago
The Everdrive GB takes micro SD cards, so it has more space: http://krikzz.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id...
29.
by ant512 12y ago
Try CrashPlan: http://www.code42.com/crashplan/ It's free for peer-to-peer backup and is designed to do exactly what you want.
30.
by ant512 12y ago
Tell me what the number represents rather than what the value of the number is. How about this? #define BUFFER_LENGTH 2048 new int[BUFFER_LENGTH];

More ›