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This video, by Bill Clinton, prominently includes the etrade spokesdude. It gives an idea of how culturally prominent etrade was in the dotcom boom. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h…

Speaking from my own impressions, the UI was noticeably faster. There were many applications - mp3 playing, for example - that only worked on PowerPC. Over time Intel became faster…

This was a good show, about the relationship between birdsong and human language: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05tz9jr

To be fair, PowerPC was dramatically faster at the time. Akin to the jump with M1.

Branched from Meta hires DJ to play in cafeteria to urge workers to return to the office (businessinsider.com) by randycupertino: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35396701

This must be the 'big data' I heard so much about. LLMs in general, I mean. They seem to be the first widespread application for large, unstructured datasets. Still hype-y, but may…

Straying a bit from the topic, but those 'magic eraser' home cleaning products work on laminated plastic, like you find on day-planner erasable calendars. Porcelain whiteboards are…

There's an HBO movie about development of the Bradley called 'Pentagon Wars'. It's a rare bureaucratic comedy movie.

RIP. Nothing more to add.

It has a bearing on the cost associated with road closures, which can't be insignificant. Anyway, some quick looking found: > Gov. Janet Mills toured the Veranda Street site of the…

Related, this is a worthwhile retrospective of the same war: https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/iconic-images-from-the-...

Better phrasing (and good advice!): Don't mock try all the time

Maybe he can mock try next?

It's pedantic to say, but, based on what they said, their original was not incorrect, simply less exhaustive than it could have been. It could (and, seems to) be that the fellow's …

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It’s a bit trickier than that; some of the photons from the pulse pass through the canopy to hit the ground. In other words, a single pulse can have multiple detected returns, some…

I fixed an old model M with a bit of telephone wire and tape; a connection had shorted out, and I just bridged it. The fix worked reliably for years.

"constrained problem within a resource constrained environment" is a good phrasing

Yahoo's directory was created by humans, too, afair, which might be one solution to the current problem. It costs a lot to create and maintain, but in a sea of gamed websites, it m…

The collision between the words 'crash' and 'Crash' whilst developing Bandicoot must have been a conundrum.

> This study presents the first characterization of a domestic species in Chernobyl, establishing their importance for genetic studies into the effects of exposure to long-term, lo…