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Thanks for the smile OP. How soon until the 1/25-scale cray C90 gets as many MIPS as the original? Seems like the one he built is within shouting distance.

On GPT-3.5 and now on GPT-4, I told it a line I could remember from a sonnet, and asked it to give me which sonnet it came from. It failed, and fabricated a sonnet that was a mashu…

Those of us that develop services with recurring billing on IOS are between a GDPR rock and an Apple IAP hard place. The EU mandates that, should a user request to be forgotten, co…

Apple announced it way back in about 2011 or 2012. Here is the sequence of events for our company: 2012-ish: apple requires IAP be an option if you have payment subscriptions. This…

I think this is wrong, and really the crux of the problem. The app store is not a platform, it is a marketplace. Apple has used control of that marketplace to impose a technology t…

Point taken. But I would suggest, for that point to really resonate, Apple would have to make some changes in how they enforce these rules, and other aspects of IAP: 1. Provide a g…

When people look at this issue they tend to fixate on the 30/15% 'tax'. Is it fair? Is it not? The commission is not nothing, obviously, but misses a larger point. Apple did to Hey…

Rather than repair it in space, would it be easier to bring it back to earth, refurbish it and relaunch? That would be $120M plus refurbish costs. Or am I underestimating how hard …

The ruby version looked a bit odd to me. It would be unusual to not use regex in this context. I'm not sure if this is in the spirit of the test, but using regex reduced the time f…

Sorry about that. Put it back in the post under the list.

From wsj.com: "...some site-selection experts to speculate Mr. Bezos may choose a location where an influx of workers could help promote political change..." Playing with that noti…

I've got an 80-year-old row house in Queens, NY. Family of 4, no pets. Our electricity usage is well below yours. We don't make a huge effort to conserve, and I don't believe our h…

This is fantastic. Feature request: drag a rectangle over a group of dots, and see them as a text list of websites. As is it's hard to see all the sites that are in a dense dot clu…

That would be the sixteenth amendment to The Constitution of the United States of America.

Beautifully done, I love this. I look forward to reading the code. Thanks.

The Rails backlash sometimes seems bigger then the hype ever was, and is cloying (so savvy, so de riguer). But this article is not one of those (you might think so from its title).…

Mu. The question is unasked.

> 'For fun, I placed a second large message > halfway through the newspaper: "Stop > counting. Tell the experimenter you have > seen this and win £250." Again, the unlucky > people…

While the article does not go into specifics about the "Science" involved, it is not hard to find hard science that show unequivocally that only lowering calories lowers weight, eg…

Exactly. California is, hands down, the innovation capital of the world, and has been for decades. Whatever lunacy the political winds are blowing these last few years doesn't undo…