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Meta spends enormous amounts of money hiring AI experts instead of just using AI to improve its AI. AI just isn't there yet. But when AI can be used to improve itself, that's when …

Flipping the fretboard has weird effects. The E strings are ok (the notes are E, F, Gb, etc). But the other strings are broken (A string is A, C, Db; D string is D, Ab, A; B string…

I can’t think of any state actors that would want to get their hands on easily-decrypted messages sent by government officials of your country.

I've got a British driving license and an American driving license. The British driving license was hard work. The American driving license involved little more than proving I coul…

Amiga emulation on OSX is awesome. Try FS-UAE: https://fs-uae.net It's kept up to date and tracks WinUAE.

This is the same Sony that was famously hacked in 2014: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Pictures_hack From the Wikipedia page: “The hackers involved claim to have taken more t…

Like the rumored Tetris movie?

That's called out at the end of the article: "But before the end of the first month of daylight saving that January, eight children died in traffic accidents in Florida, and a spok…

Before I bought my first iPod I got a Sony Network Walkman NW-E3. It was about the size of a packet of gum, had 64MB of flash memory, and was so unrelentingly awful that I swore I …

Last I heard MS were having reliability problems with the Surface: "The breakage rate for Microsoft Corp’s Surface devices is significantly worse than for other manufacturers’ lapt…

The jerky scrolling on that page isn't pleasant.

A bunch of these were also Spectrum hits: Heartland, the Monty Mole series, and Everyone's A Wally are some stand-outs. California Games got converted to pretty much every platform…

From the "About" page: > PLUS – Full sized, fully working version also coming in 2018 as well!

Hmm, maybe it's just the Enterprise version that's using Electron.

It's worth pointing out that CrashPlan's business client app uses Electron (because the Java client app for home users wasn't bloated enough). That's reason enough for me to look e…

No sane company is still using Windows XP, given that support ended 3 years ago and development ended a decade ago.

The Atari Lynx wasn't massive because it needed to be; the creators listened to their customers: "In all the focus group testing, and we did a lot of it with consumers, we had a bu…

This was very interesting back when the initial concept was shown. Turns out it was killed by MS because it didn't fit in with their Windows/Office strategy: https://www.cnet.com/n…

Does your Rolex show you your email?

Kids who spend 8 hours doing any one activity - screen or otherwise - will find little time to do much of anything else...

On the other hand, if you had true AI first, you'd just say "here's an input device; figure out how to parse the data."

Why is it possible to cancel an order?

> There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political …

The Amiga disk format held 880K. The original version of Lemmings was a 2 disk release with an animated intro, but later (cheaper or pack-in) versions shipped on 1 disk with the in…