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You've probably seen it, but you'd definitely love the movie "Hidden Figures". They do seem to get the adding machines more or less correct.

One of the interesting things about the movie was how well they conveyed the mood and atmosphere on subs. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the sub force just has a diff…

It reads a bit like a verse from the song Time by Pink Floyd, which perfectly encapsulates the sense of existential dread that so many of us feel more and more often as we get olde…

I don't think it's overly philosophical to point out that these are large language models, not truth engines or AGI or knowledge directories. They're not using logic to reason thei…

If you define being a kid as "the ability to express emotions and enjoy playing", then yes. I feel like that's a terrible definition, though.

There aren't many Microsoft products that seem to be genuinely good without many complications or drawbacks. Most of those products have the words "Visual" and "Studio" in the name…

Being intelligent might correlate with a more liberal outlook, but I know a few highly intelligent people who are big fans of trump. My father was a nuclear reactor operator and el…

It can't stop him from running because prison doesn't disqualify a presidential candidate. IIRC, Eugene V. Debs ran from prison in 1920, and he got something like 5% of the vote...…

It also may be worth simply providing an outlet for people to make a comment so it doesn't intrude on usual business.

But not DRM content. The system will recognize and avoid screenshotting that. Banking details? Fine. Passwords? A-OK! Copyrighted content? STOP, YOU FOOLS, BEFORE YOU ANGER THE MOU…

I could see the US pulling back on Israel if it starts to cost them soft power elsewhere, but you're fundamentally correct. Israel is the primary instrument of US hegemony in the m…

There may be a potential for more localized grids that are interconnected by HVDC transmission lines. I'm not sure what the impetus for that would be, however. I agree that it woul…

I specifically said that because I DON'T want to discuss whether it's a good company or not.

I'll have to take your word on recent Lenovo laptops. It's been well over a decade since I got my Yoga 11. The hinge on that laptop was quite good. The keyboard sucked though. Perh…

IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, so your timeframe correlates with the laptop division no longer being part of IBM. Not that Lenovo is a bad company persay, but IBM was …

Aside from hardware prototyping, this seems to be the primary benefit of FPGAs. Much like if you assembled a system from glue logic, all of the operations in the pipeline and acros…

Among other things, critical current in bulk ceramic superconductors depends on cross-sectional area, so while it seems reasonable to make a ribbon-like structure, the 3rd dimensio…

I feel like we're just describing a narrow bus bar.

Here I was thinking "zombie star" was another term for ANY stellar remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star.

Reader view on firefox also works.

This content is paywalled. Web archives don't seem to bypass it. You have to delete the popup and move the content out of the scroll-locked body.

> Between the industry astroturfing and the splinterd advocacy, "net neutrality" is almost as meaningless as "fake news". I have to disagree with this. There's a very clear meaning…

> some kind of internet dystopia where data for each service is treated and billed differently I feel like this particular topic (while important) distracts from a much more distur…

Youtube is the worst with this behavior. Have you done a search on that website recently? There will be around 2-3 actual results, followed by shorts, followed by 2 more real resul…

> If “low level” means “runs on the CPU almost literally as written.” then no it’s not. But doesn't this still depend on what CPU you're talking about? Your C code will map much mo…