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by coldcode 2y ago
I actually owned a prototype Mac II that I got from Apple when it was pre-production. The case was ... mostly missing. I borrowed a pre production color monitor and got our app to show graphics in color (I think 6 colors was all it could do
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by coldcode 2y ago
When I was at Apple (before Steve returned, when it was going out of business), the employees got to pick their titles. Most were approved, but one woman wanted to be "Madonna of the File System", I think that was not. She did, ho
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by coldcode 2y ago
The video is impressive, but how does it learn? How long does it take before it can do something new? I realize this is still very much a research project, but I'd love to understand how it works.
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by coldcode 2y ago
From other LLMs of course. Which is the main issue I see with them, if no one publishes anything new, all you will get is whatever was there before, which may be incorrect or obsolete. If you want something new, an LLM can't discover i
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by coldcode 2y ago
Implementing Brainfuck in APL should require doing it in cuneiform.
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by coldcode 2y ago
Most people with T2D do not take insulin, it's only useful if your body cannot make a sufficient amount. In my case I have no need for it, the cells became resistant to the effects of insulin. 25% is probably a decent estimate.
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by coldcode 2y ago
Life is too short to work in such a toxic place. I've been in two of them; not having a job can be bad, but life goes on much more pleasantly when you get out.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I won't be excited until its live in an app, company demos are always exciting.
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by coldcode 2y ago
Also, cost. How many do you have to generate to get something you want? Does it take 1 or a 100 attempts to get something reasonable, and what does it cost for each attempt? Might not affect Hollywood, but someone has to pay for this to be
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by coldcode 2y ago
As an aside, having used C++ in the early 90s when it was first available in stand-alone compilers (rather than a preprocessor), it boggles my mind that we are seeing C++26.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I gave up on exercise for 30 years before retiring as a programmer (after 40 years), and discovered all sorts of health issues last year. This year I routinely work out twice a week no matter what, and I feel great, all my health issues are
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by coldcode 2y ago
Many of these are "Use AI For Something" startups. A few seemed meaningful but most seem destined to fail.
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by coldcode 2y ago
Yeah I wondered how that could be done, otherwise this would only be good for backgrounds.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I didn't see how fast it could go. Did I miss it?
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by coldcode 2y ago
My favorite story from the CB radio era: “I did that once when I was traveling cross-country. I used Darth as my handle on the CB radio. The truck drivers would really freak out — for them, it was Darth Vader. I had to stop doing that,” Jon
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by coldcode 2y ago
I started working out at 66 this year for the first time since I stopped playing basketball 30 years ago. Even after 6 months I see a difference (I was never overweight 6'5" at 212 but now 10 pounds less). But because I had no exp
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by coldcode 2y ago
As a person who had a hypertensive crisis late last year, nothing boils my blood (yes, a pun, I am fine now) more than how people measure blood pressure incorrectly in doctors offices and even hospitals. There are many different things than
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by coldcode 2y ago
People are working on it, but its a long way from being complete. See, for example, https://www.quantamagazine.org/with-digital-twins-the-doctor... on modeling the circulatory system.
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by coldcode 2y ago
In San Francisco it's common to not own a car, since parking is expensive and often not available and insurance is high also. At one point in the mid-90s I vaguely remember the ticket for parking illegally was less than the average par
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by coldcode 2y ago
Running Safari on MacOS (latest) I see in the console: [Error] Could not connect to the server. [Error] Fetch API cannot load https://xp-qa.apple.com/report/2/xp_amp_web_perf_log due to access control checks. [Err
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by coldcode 2y ago
It's a early beta. It's not surprising to limit testing to what you know first.
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by coldcode 2y ago
When I worked for an online travel agency a decade ago (now just a brand for you-know-who) we got lots of nasty emails about Spirit Airlines, as they were always the cheapest option in our flight booking, but after you booked you found out
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by coldcode 2y ago
There isn't a single slack instance, nor is there a single IT organization. Disney is a huge company with many mostly autonomous divisions. I highly doubt they took everything as it would not be all in one place. I presume given the me
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by coldcode 2y ago
It's a nice philosophy, but good luck doing this in a strict Scrum process.
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by coldcode 2y ago
The one comparison example is sort of poor, as the "improved" part is bright, and the "original" part is dark and rather limited. It's hard to tell much from this.
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by coldcode 2y ago
I believe there is an internet-enabled toothbrush, so why not? I refuse to buy a new TV as they are all internet-connected and ad-ready. There are a few offline ones or simple displays, but not so easy to find any more.
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by coldcode 2y ago
Leonhard Euler discovered or was associated with so many mathematical/physics/etc concepts that people stopped naming them after him to keep from everything being Eulers'. A 20th century mathematician with a similar problem w
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by coldcode 2y ago
How do you get to be a bank CEO and fall for such a scam? Also, how do you hide $47M worth disappearing from your small bank without anyone noticing?
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by coldcode 2y ago
Fixing greenhouse gases requires focusing on the largest % contributors, not tiny little amounts. It's like optimizing code only used on startup instead of runtime. See https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/global-green
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by coldcode 2y ago
Really, my art site has 1600 detail pages, and I wrote my own site generator (in Swift) for it. You think I would want to write all of them by hand? Sure, I could have a dynamic site (ROR, or Express or whatever) but static is easier to ser

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