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Black Holes or Black Hole Stars? Astronomers Spar over 'Little Red Dots'(quantamagazine.org)
1 points by vintagedave 7h ago|0 comments
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by vintagedave 5d ago
Remember VC 6? That was fast!
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by vintagedave 6d ago
You're right, though I'm not sure about all modern software quite to that extent. VS does have a reputation for being bloated. Even startup is not super fast IMO. I checked just now. A recent Delphi with a project open: 175-200MB.
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by vintagedave 7d ago
Assuming you have a tile cutter for when you hit the walls, why is this diabolical? It sounds enormous fun.
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by vintagedave 7d ago
In Anathem, which Penrose tiling was the Teglon? I have, a bit too late, realized there are more tilings than I thought.
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by vintagedave 7d ago
Is Simon Tatham’s site still online? It would not respond when I clicked the link. The day Paul Bourke’s site goes offline is the day the internet dies. Only slightly kidding: I read it as a teenager and yet it’s still there providing solid
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by vintagedave 7d ago
Yes. You are right.
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by vintagedave 8d ago
I've published and sold my own software. I'm a writer (unpublished as yet, but I hope to use CC4 like Cory Doctorow - ethical copyright.) I've seen my software pirated; I've benefited financially from selling it. I kno
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by vintagedave 8d ago
Good points :) I think you and I likely largely agree, I just expressed myself poorly. > I hate to break it to you, "humans hurting each other over tribal distinctions" is not new. I know! But I have a hope in society, in our
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by vintagedave 8d ago
My point (I'm the one you originally replied to) is that the effects of negative social media are on par with these things. Political violence, violence against minorities and specific genders, and worse. "Even" hurting the w
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by vintagedave 8d ago
> Just as we have basic safety standards for cars, toys or food, the duty of care applies basic standards for the online products we use every day. Aussie here. Great to see this. I don't think this goes far enough: I'd like
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by vintagedave 8d ago
It can take a lot of time to migrate. People who've known about Broadcom's behaviour for some time may still be working towards solving it. Or, they may have been naive. Small companies especially tend to have people with a more,
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by vintagedave 9d ago
That's kinda damning with faint praise, but I agree, I am glad to see something . I've been disappointed in their coding ability -- it's where I'm most focused, I've built and we are selling a (specialised) coding
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by vintagedave 9d ago
Other than investment, such as this news? I know AI has more regulations here in the EU, but what I don't see clearly explained is what impact that has on pure research: creating new comparable models. So I'm suspicious that it&#x
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Tesla's Cybercab has been deployed, and it's already under investigation(wired.com)
4 points by vintagedave 9d ago|2 comments
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by vintagedave 9d ago
For those who are experts on body language, non-verbal communication, psychological communication tricks, etc -- what on earth are we seeing in that trailer?
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by vintagedave 10d ago
> In my experience the kinds of people who run this exact combination of circumstances also tend to be the kind of people that have a wide variance in the level of kindness they display to the authors of open source programs that happen
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Experiment: How easy is it to buy a research paper on the black market?(news.err.ee)
1 points by vintagedave 10d ago|0 comments
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by vintagedave 13d ago
Maybe Z as in 'zed'? It reminds me of yan tan tethera [0], leading to such glorious encodings as 'Yan-a-bub' (eleven, County Durham), 'Tetherabum' (eighteen, Swaledale and Tong in Yorkshire) and 'Fotherydi
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by vintagedave 13d ago
I think you're dropping off the 'new' list without any responses. Try: * Look for the Who's Hiring threads (every 3 months) * Two years is not long, so be prepared to accept a junior position. (I don't know what oth
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by vintagedave 13d ago
Not quite sure what you're asking with 'thoughts?' I had not seen a sensor like this before, are you asking if people think it's reliable, and useful for (eg) health monitoring?
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Your Racist Linux Distro Is Very Nice (Scott Jennings)(brokentoys.org)
69 points by vintagedave 13d ago|37 comments
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by vintagedave 13d ago
I think caution re cultural integration, vs talking about shooting wolves and calling for deportations using a word regarded as a slur, are two different things. (Both these are within the same paragraph, adjacent sentences.) It does not re
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by vintagedave 14d ago
There's a bit of a jump here from something appearing good to rapidly becoming very very bad. Here's what I read: > 1Password has pledged $300,000 over three years in support of David Heinemeier Hansson's Linux distributi
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by vintagedave 14d ago
So this is something like a $10,000 machine before RAM prices rose? I see Apple is currently selling a 256GB M5 for about $10K, so buying October's 512GB one could be, what, $13-14K? A $0 per-token bill is great but this is clearly not
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by vintagedave 17d ago
I’ve heard their kitchens are far higher quality than the rest of their products. Why - not sure.
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by vintagedave 17d ago
I do the same. I don’t plan to take it apart but wood glue is part of any woodworking shop and I don’t see why assembling Ikea should be qualitatively different. I want my assemblies to stay together, not vibrate, to feel sound. Gluing join
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by vintagedave 17d ago
> the same way as that one other scientist who argued… As prescient? Because I don’t remember him arguing ‘alive’, but conscious. And that is something even AI engineers don’t claim to know either way. Skepticism is fine. [0] But we do
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by vintagedave 20d ago
I love 'anomalies' in space because they trigger my scifi, space opera instincts. This one is more about planets being geologically messy, but it's still fascinating. Also, > On the surface, Mars is a geologically asymmet
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Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring(theregister.com)
3 points by vintagedave 20d ago|1 comments

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