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A pharmacy chain in Vermont implemented AI for efficiency(vtdigger.org)
40 points by omerhj 2mo ago|52 comments
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by omerhj 3mo ago
Edward Ashton's "After the Fall" explores this alien-human relationship. Good summer read!
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Not the 'Star Wars' you thought you knew(npr.org)
5 points by omerhj 1y ago|1 comments
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by omerhj 2y ago
K&R C
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End User, by Alastair Reynolds(auki.medium.com)
1 points by omerhj 3y ago|0 comments
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by omerhj 3y ago
Absolutely! This was a very educational experience.
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by omerhj 3y ago
Nearly twenty years ago I had a little server farm of old PCs. Two or three Pentium-133s, one dual Pentium Pro 200 machine, and my pride and joy, a Pentium 3 running at 600 MHz. I was trying to get familiar with Gentoo and to make recompili
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The Nord Stream Explosions: New Revelations About Motive, Means, and Opportunity(thenation.com)
1 points by omerhj 3y ago|0 comments
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Peter Watts – The Big Interview(youtube.com)
1 points by omerhj 4y ago|1 comments
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by omerhj 4y ago
This is Moid Moidelhoff's fascinating two hour interview with science fiction author and marine biologist Peter Watts, covering consciousness, intelligence, SF books and authors that influenced him, and many other subjects.
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Fortress of Logic(thenation.com)
1 points by omerhj 4y ago|0 comments
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by omerhj 4y ago
One of my cats loved snoozing on my big 19" CRT as well. When I replaced the CRT with my first LCD monitor, he tried to hop onto the non-existent top of the screen. In a mad scramble to not fall he put all of his front claws in the pla
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by omerhj 5y ago
I bought the PDF last year for $7 (a very steep discount) during Apress/Springer's Black Friday sale. If you don't need the book right now or are on a budget, it may be worth waiting until next week in case they repeat the of
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by omerhj 5y ago
Here's a list of all the bumblebee species that are or have been present in Vermont: https://val.vtecostudies.org/projects/bumble-bee-atlas/speci...
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by omerhj 5y ago
They figured it out on the DC to Orlando route: https://www.amtrak.com/auto-train
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by omerhj 5y ago
Right, the TIFF creators were obviously inspired by the Hitchhikers Guide.
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by omerhj 5y ago
Also off-topic, TIFF files use 42 as a magic number in bytes 2 and 3 of the file header: "The number 42 was chosen for its deep philosophical significance."
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by omerhj 6y ago
I believe AT&T was trying to build a "videotex" system based on the NAPLPS protocol which was developed by Telidon in Canada. BYTE Magazine's July 1983 issue was dedicated to videotex: https://archive.org/
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by omerhj 6y ago
I installed Debian Jessie on my 320CDT just a week or two ago. That's the last version of Debian that supports the Pentium MMX CPU. The battery doesn't hold a charge anymore and the screen is pretty dim. The 320CDT came with Windo
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by omerhj 6y ago
The ACLU has been affected as well. From the email they sent out yesterday: In all candor, we are frustrated with the lack of information we've received from Blackbaud about this incident thus far. The ACLU is doing everything in our
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by omerhj 8y ago
I've been getting what sounds like the same emails. They used an email address and password that I used only on monster.com back in the early 2000s.
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A massive shift is coming(twitter.com)
2 points by omerhj 8y ago|0 comments
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Panorama-If the Bomb Drops (1980 Nuclear War Episode, Precursor to 'Threads')(youtube.com)
1 points by omerhj 8y ago|0 comments
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A Company Announces Its Intent to Create World’s Newest Privacy Nightmare(aclu.org)
1 points by omerhj 8y ago|0 comments
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by omerhj 8y ago
The NYT now has an option to cancel using a chat window -- and I'm pretty sure the operator that you're chatting with is a bot.
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by omerhj 9y ago
This probably doesn't qualify as a modern version, but I occasionally play Civ2 (the original Win32s version, in a 32-bit Windows 7 VM) and the empire splitting happens there as well.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Preventing Extermination of Humanity by Nukes(shadowproof.com)
3 points by omerhj 9y ago|0 comments
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A Dramatic Increase in Annual Average Temperatures for U.S. Cities This Decade(wunderground.com)
3 points by omerhj 9y ago|2 comments
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Artificial Intelligence at Any Cost Is a Recipe for Tyranny(aclu.org)
2 points by omerhj 9y ago|0 comments
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An Uncensored Look Behind the Iron Curtain: Long-Lost Images of Stalinist Russia(news.nationalpost.com)
4 points by omerhj 10y ago|0 comments

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