pmoriarty

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by pmoriarty 26d ago
Because of copyright issues, countless books between around the 1930s until about 2000 were never digitized. After around 2000 books started coming out in digital format, so at least there are digital copies of many of those, even if they a
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The Risky Movement to Make America Nuclear Again(nuclear-news.net)
3 points by pmoriarty 10mo ago|0 comments
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by pmoriarty 1y ago
More of his photos can be found at https://billatkinson.com/
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by pmoriarty 1y ago
The NYT credits him with inventing the double click.[1] [1] - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technology/bill-atkinson-...
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by pmoriarty 1y ago
> Shorter, faster, and fastest time to completion is best. What about correctness, robustness, readability, clarity, maintainability?
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by pmoriarty 1y ago
Here is a video of Bill showing and discussing those Polaroids: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0mHFcB510
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by pmoriarty 2y ago
"Am I the only one that is not worried at all about the camera and super concerned about microphones ? The camera may see me staring into the screen, woo hoo. The microphones will hear everything I discuss, incl. confidential informat
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by pmoriarty 2y ago
> Note he doesn't state whether the difference was positive or negative. But if taken (as it usually is) as a metaphor of life's choices, in this case his life choices made him Robert Frost, the famous, incredibly successful po
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by pmoriarty 2y ago
> my experience is that ChatGPT is dreadful at everything but the simplest anything. Have you tried Claude 3 Opus (or even just Claude 3 Sonnet)? https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family
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by pmoriarty 2y ago
> What I do is take several diverse short video segments, like 100, concatenate them into 4 segments (example 23+24+26+27 since they have diverse lengths) and then xstack them into a 2-by-2 mosaic video. Just out of curiosity.. what us
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Insects may feel pain, says growing evidence(qmul.ac.uk)
3 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|0 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
...in mice
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The false promise of pay-range listings(bbc.com)
2 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|0 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
> Citation needed? Brother HL-L8260CDW https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/B06XDS1XW7/R2MQHUVV9JX7N...
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Some Brother laser printers have three serious downsides: 1 - They count pages printed and will simply stop printing when they've determined you've printed enough even if you still have toner in your cartridge. 2 - They will not w
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Downside is you have to email the documents you want to print to Brother (the company). Think about that before you email anything you want to keep private.
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Despite Claude's reluctance to tread outside what it considers safe/ethical, I much prefer Claude over ChatGPT because in my experience it's better at explaining things, and much better at creative writing. I also find myself
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
> This looks like a terrible decision What did Sam Altman personally do that made firing him such a terrible decision? More to the point, what can't OpenAI do without Altman that they could do with him?
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
> They didn’t give any more shits about safety than OpenAI did Anthropic's chatbots are much more locked down, in my experience, than OpenAI's. It's a lot easier to jailbreak ChatGPT, for example, than to do the same on Cl
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For Hollywood, AI is a threat. For these indie filmmakers, it's a lifeline(latimes.com)
3 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|0 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Is there a point to getting a rice cooker over an instant pot?
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Psilocybin and LSD: What I learnt after experiencing 'psychedelic flashbacks'(bbc.com)
4 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|0 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
Isn't copyright about the final product, not how it was arrived at? If I independently come up with a song called "Let it Be" that has the same lyrics as the Beatles song and publish it without the permission of the copyright
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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong(scientificamerican.com)
25 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|20 comments
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California passes right-to-repair act(theverge.com)
12 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|0 comments
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
I tried to post this to r/Replika and r/ChatGPT but both posts were instantly deleted by the mods. Glad to see that at least HN isn't censoring important news. People really need to get to grips with the reality of the danger
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by pmoriarty 3y ago
"According to Pratt's account, as described by the sources, Pratt told Trump he believed Australia should start buying its submarines from the United States, to which an excited Trump -- "leaning" toward Pratt as if to
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Trump allegedly discussed US nuclear subs with foreign national(abcnews.go.com)
4 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|2 comments
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Decriminalizing Drugs Doesn't Increase Fatal Overdoses: Study(vice.com)
9 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|3 comments
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Researchers tried out AI preachers – and it didn’t go so well(zmescience.com)
1 points by pmoriarty 3y ago|0 comments

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