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Should be made into a motion picture I think. I remember being there and chatting to the engineer who was trying to keep the machine running. As I talked to him, Colossus crashed. …

A cigarette to doing nothing, is like a dog to walking pointlessly.

> But AI grew up in universities until it transpired that sufficient capital could only be found in the private sector. One way of looking at it. Another is that AI research progre…

Could have an office Minecraft world with a seminar room instead of Teams?

> decent build materials (ive got a thinpad and the platic build is just terrible. The screen bends when pulling it to open the laptop). Thinkpads don't show off their build materi…

Unless I'm reading the numbers wrong, we're having a bigger issues here in the UK[1], with 2091 cases in 2024, though that dropped to more than half last year. We have already lost…

Loved my N900 also, it was peak phone for me. But more importantly, we need an alternative to two big tech companies who are cranking the enshittification dial right up while also …

We need this, an alternative to Apple and Google. I guess this is a descendent of my 16 year old Nokia N900, and probably the best phone I had. It ran the Maemo operating system, a…

I understand that people are fed up of it running on their operating system (and perceived poor performance of Windows 11 ), but yes, google/duckduckgo are all running LLM queries …

That seems unfair to me.

Given how well windows games now run on linux through proton, it just made me think - surely, Outlook/Word etc should run easily? That would be strange firing up Word from Steam th…

Here, you can enjoy them here: https://youtu.be/u98oi4qThbQ?si=2MQB8dFQ2PXI10Az

Yes, there was such a thing called Vodafone SureSignal and similar devices: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vodafone-075375-Sure-Signal-V3/dp/B...

Dplyr is quite happy with data.frame. R is built around tabular data. Other statistical languages are too, such as Stata.

> This isn’t about Python, it’s about the tidyverse. > it’s non-standard-evaluation allows packages to extend the syntax in a way Python does not expose Well this is a fundamental …

The release day is meant to be today, the out-of-stock just means they haven't opened yet. They've asked people to purchase a voucher on the C47/R47 site for an early-bird discount…

This is a project to imagine what HP would have made today had they still been making calculators. It is unusual for a newly designed RPN calculator to be released, although there …

You've not had instructional videos on how to throw a party[1]? Odd! [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXRkgtnBmzs&pp

The bible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXRkgtnBmzs&pp=ygUubWljcm9zb...

Another alternative - may depend on the period being measured. I haven't looked at the article or their methodology, but if they were measuring over a certain period of time, a few…

Goodness the file save dialog(s) on Windows - it makes it so hard to save a file into my personal space. It's unintuitive and you need to click through, I think a couple of dialog …

> Laboratory Management (Occhiolino) Laboratory Management Systems, or LMS, is laboratory software which handles laboratory orders, retrieving results from the laboratory equipment…