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by geenew 3y ago
That’s it for me
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by geenew 3y ago
This video, by Bill Clinton, prominently includes the etrade spokesdude. It gives an idea of how culturally prominent etrade was in the dotcom boom. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hi39UO57LHw
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by geenew 3y ago
Speaking from my own impressions, the UI was noticeably faster. There were many applications - mp3 playing, for example - that only worked on PowerPC. Over time Intel became faster, but there was a period of ~1-3? years when PPC was faster.
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by geenew 3y ago
This was a good show, about the relationship between birdsong and human language: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tz9jr
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by geenew 3y ago
To be fair, PowerPC was dramatically faster at the time. Akin to the jump with M1.
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Jeweler's Rouge (Iron(III) Oxide)(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by geenew 3y ago|1 comments
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by geenew 3y ago
Branched from Meta hires DJ to play in cafeteria to urge workers to return to the office (businessinsider.com) by randycupertino: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35396701
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Zuckerberg: Early-career eng tend to perform better when in person '>=3 d/week'(businessinsider.com)
3 points by geenew 3y ago|4 comments
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by geenew 3y ago
This must be the 'big data' I heard so much about. LLMs in general, I mean. They seem to be the first widespread application for large, unstructured datasets. Still hype-y, but maybe even a /practical/ application.
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by geenew 3y ago
Straying a bit from the topic, but those 'magic eraser' home cleaning products work on laminated plastic, like you find on day-planner erasable calendars. Porcelain whiteboards are nice, I've always managed to get them very c
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by geenew 3y ago
There's an HBO movie about development of the Bradley called 'Pentagon Wars'. It's a rare bureaucratic comedy movie.
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by geenew 3y ago
RIP. Nothing more to add.
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by geenew 3y ago
It has a bearing on the cost associated with road closures, which can't be insignificant. Anyway, some quick looking found: > Gov. Janet Mills toured the Veranda Street site of the new bridge being installed along Interstate 295 in
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Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car(reuters.com)
1 points by geenew 3y ago|0 comments
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by geenew 4y ago
Related, this is a worthwhile retrospective of the same war: https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/iconic-images-from-the-...
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by geenew 4y ago
Better phrasing (and good advice!): Don't mock try all the time
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by geenew 4y ago
Maybe he can mock try next?
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by geenew 4y ago
It's pedantic to say, but, based on what they said, their original was not incorrect, simply less exhaustive than it could have been. It could (and, seems to) be that the fellow's work on anaesthetics was seen as more important th
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by geenew 4y ago
s/$\w*$$[ ->]*$$\w*$$/s\/\1\/\3/
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by geenew 4y ago
It’s a bit trickier than that; some of the photons from the pulse pass through the canopy to hit the ground. In other words, a single pulse can have multiple detected returns, some from the top of the canopy, some the middle, some the groun
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by geenew 4y ago
I fixed an old model M with a bit of telephone wire and tape; a connection had shorted out, and I just bridged it. The fix worked reliably for years.
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by geenew 4y ago
"constrained problem within a resource constrained environment" is a good phrasing
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by geenew 4y ago
Yahoo's directory was created by humans, too, afair, which might be one solution to the current problem. It costs a lot to create and maintain, but in a sea of gamed websites, it might be a viable solution to the problem of finding gen
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by geenew 4y ago
The collision between the words 'crash' and 'Crash' whilst developing Bandicoot must have been a conundrum.
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by geenew 4y ago
> This study presents the first characterization of a domestic species in Chernobyl, establishing their importance for genetic studies into the effects of exposure to long-term, low-dose ionizing radiation. That comes across as an especi
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by geenew 4y ago
Are you sure that people from Europe who don't fall into that group also didn't see America as a symbol of freedom relative to what they knew at home? It's possible, but it also seems possible, even likely, that the opposite
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by geenew 4y ago
5 & 7 (getting in touch with the researcher, via website or email) have been the most successful for me, for hard-to-get papers. I'm not certain about this, but I believe that authors maintain personal redistribution rights in many
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by geenew 4y ago
Is there a consensus on the standard optics 101 textbook?
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by geenew 4y ago
I was implying it would be good to have a zoom limit so the image is sharp at max zoom
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by geenew 4y ago
Still looks kinda blurry when you zoom in all the way

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