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by theodpHN 11d ago
Los Angeles Public School System Bans Most AI for Students https://slashdot.org/submission/17350511/los-angeles-public-... The Los Angeles public school system will vastly restrict the use of AI at all grade level
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by theodpHN 1mo ago
Anyone see Google's intended use of the collected data spelled out in the "Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Data" in the Spirit Privacy Agreement? Asking for 1.2 billion Spirit passengers. https://content.
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by theodpHN 2mo ago
Tired: Gain-of-Function Lab Leaks. Wired: AI Lab Leaks. To test dangerous systems, you risk creating the very danger you're trying to prevent.
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by theodpHN 3mo ago
52+ years of progress... :-) July, 2026: Google copybara allows one to move code between two prod repositories March, 1974: IBM COPY allows one to move code between two prod partitioned data sets: OS/MVT and 0S/VS2 TSO Data Utilit
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by theodpHN 3mo ago
Tech documentation has been kind of a three-decade race to the bottom, with some ups and downs along the way. From vendor documentation in the 70's to Windows Help in the 90s to the rise of tech books incl. O'Reilly to fill the ga
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by theodpHN 3mo ago
“The Work Is Mysterious And Important.” - Mark S. To Helly (Severance, AppleTV) https://www.thegamer.com/severance-most-memorable-quotes/
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by theodpHN 4mo ago
List history (listory?) lesson, kids: As the link below to a 1985 IBM mainframe DCF/GML manual shows, DL-DT-DD have been a thing since before the web. In addition to Definition lists (DL), the 40+ year-old documentation describes Gloss
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by theodpHN 4mo ago
And even if the house represents negative wealth - same property taxes apply to a house regardless of whether the owner owns it outright with no mortgage (wealthy) or if they're paying 8% interest on an underwater mortgage (negative we
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by theodpHN 4mo ago
Self-driving divining rods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowsing
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by theodpHN 4mo ago
Maybe add the TV series "Scraper"? At Gawker, They Battled a Billionaire. 10 Years Later, the Scars Are Still Healing https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/inside-ga... Jefferson and Read ha
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Is "Outsourcing Our Thinking to AI" a Bug or a Feature?(slashdot.org)
2 points by theodpHN 5mo ago|1 comments
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by theodpHN 6mo ago
Very neat. What software is being used to construct/display the graph?
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by theodpHN 7mo ago
The Rise and Decline of CB Radio https://sjl.us/2023/11/12/the-rise-and-decline-of-cb-radio/
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by theodpHN 7mo ago
The IBM 3270 display family was amazing for its time - a character-oriented, block-mode terminal that supported light pens and APL keyboards in the '70s, as well as color graphics and a plasma display that supported four 80x24 logical
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by theodpHN 9mo ago
As noted above, 'Fully Open Access' does not mean completely free. So, while this change is welcome, there are still a lot of pricing/licensing options: Corporate https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access
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by theodpHN 9mo ago
RIP. Was a faithful CC viewer. Anyone aware of something like this show today that regularly reviews general software/apps/hardware/tech for a more mainstream audience - on PBS, cable, network, or even podcasts? With the role
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by theodpHN 9mo ago
Very neat. And if anyone from Plotly should happen to be reading this, a compact format like this might be an interesting option for Icicle Charts, akin to how the compact, indented version of Excel pivot tables saves horizontal space over
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by theodpHN 9mo ago
For a hierarchical view with expand/collapse capability, Icicle charts can be helpful: https://plotly.com/python/icicle-charts/
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by theodpHN 9mo ago
Just out of curiosity, how have you seen risk/compliance, regulatory, and audit departments at organizations deal with the disconnect between security and privacy for something like mainframe logging (e.g., JES2, JES3), which is typica
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by theodpHN 10mo ago
Very fun, simple, and clever! In the spirit of the Mix CDs my kids used to make & share with friends back in the day (without the frustration). Nice job! Shared Playlist 10 Quick YouTube Music Picks https://clipnotebook.com&#
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by theodpHN 10mo ago
So, why not a SORT BY ALL or a GROUPSORT BY ALL, too? Not always what you want (e.g., when you're ranking on a summarized column), but it often alphabetic order on the GROUP BY columns is just what the doctor ordered! :-)
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by theodpHN 11mo ago
Yep, Advent wreaths have 4 candles, so there's wiggle room to reduce the frequency further. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_wreath
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by theodpHN 1y ago
Ask Jules is the new Ask Jeeves! :-) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ask.com
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by theodpHN 1y ago
"Bublé Sort": Animated GIF explanation of bubble sort using tracks from Michael Bublé's 'Let It Snow!' album https://communities.sas.com/t5/Graphics-Programming/Fun-With...
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WSJ: Tech CEOs Take Turns Praising Trumps for AI Leadership at the White House(slashdot.org)
16 points by theodpHN 1y ago|2 comments
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by theodpHN 1y ago
Worked at a large insurance company in the late 90s where leadership touted a big benefit of converting to PeopleSoft Financials as part of their Y2K remediation was the elimination of their dependency on the archaic COBOL language, blissfu
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by theodpHN 1y ago
Cute things that programing managers say: "Problems? We don't have any. In fact, I haven't seen a bug report in more than six months!"
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The Information: Microsoft Engineers Forced to Dig Their Own AI Graves(slashdot.org)
3 points by theodpHN 1y ago|0 comments
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by theodpHN 2y ago
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." Well-said. Hard as it can be, try to temper the sadness with good memories - you may even find yourself smiling through the tears at times. Take care.
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Musk's Reports of Social Security Payments to the Dead Are Greatly Exaggerated(slashdot.org)
2 points by theodpHN 2y ago|0 comments

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