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I interviewed him a few times, when I was a tech journalist in the 90s - a very impressive man.

However I never forget my surprise, Idly flicking through TV one evening and coming across Earth Final Conflict - and there was Vint in a fairly substantial role

> i dont think there is any software on the planet that i would consider "truly life changing",

I think the combination of web server and web browser comes close.

Reading this made me hyperventilate

Not a physicist, but isn’t the issue here that these are experiments? Failure to find a potential particle at a predicted energy shouldn’t be seen as ‘nothing to show’ or a failure. I presume it tells us something really valuable- if perhaps disappointing

Let’s not conflate total App Store revenue and Ad revenue.

You have to be pretty spicy if you are getting banned from Reddit, as opposed to being modded. In the later case, you can set up your own subreddit, surely?

In the UK the majority of exams are in person and on paper. Doesn’t seem to be a particular problem

You obviously never read doctors notes in the 70s. Black humour was de rigeur

Marvin Minksky's AI lecture series FTW

In Our Time. Is always fascinating and always puts be to sleep - I have to consume it in 10 minute nightly chunks

You include it but with no mention of it. Allow recoding to be activated with an obscure undocumented button push.

Leave a subtle hong somewhere that someone clever can find out. Wait for news of the functionality to go viral and additional products to walk off the shelf bought by people who feel clever.

My LG one has had smomething like that - a coupkle of years old. Seems quite nifty though - it tumbles the load dry for a while and alledgely uses the patterm of weight shift to determine what kind of load it is - the materials etc - and adjusts the wash accordingly

I think AI has also become synonymous with slapdash, low effort, probably steals my data

You’re familiar with the walking competition?

Has worked very well for my wife who notably couldn’t look at her phone for even a few seconds without feeling ill

I hate this. It basically takes as axiomatic that anyone in an administrative position in an organisation has zero interest in the goals of the organisation -and that those at the coal-face have no interest in the organisation and that there is little or no overlap in interest. Its reductionist, divisive and stupid.

Or perhaps they know it has been owned by News Corp since 1981 - Murdoch owned

Lovely story, thank you for sharing

It sounds like you learned lots of things related to the tool, but not so much about the problem that you were using the tool to solve?

Is that fair? Not trying to snark? I see similar results myself

So... not e-mail then

Yes. I was being humorous. Apologies

Jokes on them. My bank will just truncate it to 10 characters.

So, a number station sending a message 'detonate the bomb' isn't a number station, because most people don't have the bomb?

If not money, what are the types of issue you face?

I can’t remember the last time I paid using anything else in the UK. Occasionally a credit card if I need additional protection

This tool is claimed to be able to find and fix bugs.

I mean, yes - if your biggest external source of energy declares war, and your hitherto trusted defence partner goes rogue - it's going to have a chilling effect and the measures needed to address that will hit both the economy and the populous

The odd thing is you certainly used to have book

Meanwhile 2016 is still working fine…. Until Rosetta support is dropped.

Perhaps the commenter would just like to lead a contented life without having to bother with all of that