I think there has already been people on this board admittedly using LLMs to generate comments. This theory predated this current AI explosion, but that potentially makes it harder to tell if you are arguing with a person or a bot.
This is the same line that made me scratch my head. I'm a non-network guy who has been stuck migrating our phone system from PRI to SIP, and every time I think I get it done, I have to buy another license from Cisco--that our resellers didn't tell us about at the beginning of the project. The latest issues is our voice gateways need a special security license to handle TLS. Outside that, cost per usage is one of the most common cost metrics I've seen--sure if its SaaS it seems directly related, but this is for on-prem licensing--I get the exact same application, only I'm licensed by how much I use it, like the authors font licensing complaint.
that is pretty amazing. I love complex mechanical technology, and this seems to deal with spacing and constructing a note from the different parts of the glyph (I think thats what you'd call it.) I'd love to own one, though today software is more useful. I'd still try to make it work.
color has gotten more expensive, but its not that bad. Kodak recently released Gold 200 in 120 format (the type of film that the camera in the brochure uses.) A 5 pack costs USD$45,so $9 a roll. This camera shoot 15 shots per roll so 60 cents a shot. Sure, if you're snapshotting, but usually you get a big camera like this because you're being careful and deliberate composing your photos instead of machine-gunning. You can develop color at home, but scanning is harder without software to specifically remove the oeange mask.
I really only shoot B&W so its still pretty cheap. There are also relatively inexpensive C41 color negative films. Slide/Chrome films on the other hand are all expensive. As for convenience, sure, there are no more drive through 1hr photomats, but the entire reason I went back to film is to immerse myself in the process, so I develop everything at home. I print B&W at home, and I scan at home (with a Pentax K-1ii mounted on a copy rig made froma Sinar P2). If you want snapshot, digital is certainly better in most ways, but if you want to understand and participate in a fascinating optical and chemical process, film is quite amazing.
gotek is fine if your device uses FAT formatted floppies. If your device has a custom format, you need an HxC drive or HxC firmware fr a Gotek drive. Also, I have some devices that don't use standard 34 pin floppy connectors so I had to learn Kicad to build 26 to 34 pin adapters.
All of my floppy using devices are synthesizers or samplers, and keeping them around is not a matter of not being able to afford to upgrade, but rather than many of these devices have very unique sounds that aren't replicated by newer equipment.
my $10 Harbor Freight calipers are still on their original battery after 8 years. So I'm not sure about these claims about being constantly on and draining the battery. I think instead that you have to have them fully closed when you power it on so it can zero out. It also has a button to zero.
I have no idea, but I would assume the Dodos are just a good PR stunt.* There are many many many extinct animals, why Dodo? because they seem to be almost universally known. So i they are successful, it will help them move on to the next stage of profitibility, but along the way they will gain knowledge, skill, etc. I don't know how they intend to make that knowledge/skill the basis for a business though.
* To be clear, I don't think the idea of a "PR stunt" is a bad thing, just that they are unlikely to consider the Dodo the profitability endpoint. Maybe they intend to build a park of extinct animals on an island somewhere and charge people huge fees to visit....
I tried having jobs that I was interested in when I was young, but making it my job made me hate it. So I've spent the last 20 years working in IT because I dislike computers, and always have, except a few years when I was 13-15. There is no loss if working makes me hate something I already dislike--but if it was something I love, and work made me hate it, then it would be tragic.
The point (for me) is its the moment you make it a job, it becomes drudgery. so the "job" part is what I would need to avoid.
How accurate are depth gauges? (I see them in submarine movies all the time, but I don’t really know anything about them.). But if your depth gauge says 100 ft, and the sonar says the ice is 80 ft above you, then you should be able to estimate 20 ft. Also does the presence of ice affect the depth gauge? I’d think not, but I don’t know.
not a internet thing, but some Jenn Air ovens had (and maybe still have) a "sabbath mode". Observant Jews would prepare their Saturday dinner, place it in the oven before sundown on Friday, then the oven would turn iself on sometime on Saturday afternoon to begin to cook the food so it would be ready at sundown on Saturday.
A similar use could be used for internet connectivity. not for people skirting sabbath rules, but someone that has the turkey in the oven but doesn't know when exactly they'll get home to eat, but want to start baking it while you're away. Not saying that is a likely of common need, but it could happen.
I haven't encountered anything that egregious but in the last year or so, a number of local resaurants have started charing the CC fee back to you, and in some cases, way more than the CC fee is likely to be (i.e. 5% or 7%). It seem to be associated with some of the fancy new payment processors--evey place I go with an old fashioned CC machine doesn't do this, but the fancy touch screen one seem to have that feature and some of the local restaurants are abusing it. As I learn about them, I try to avoid the restaurants that do that.
hmm, I get a splash screen then a mostly empty screen with a few icons around the edge, but nothing else. What is supposed to happen? If I click "Random" it just spins, and nothing else changes. (firefox, ublock origin)
Camera size was great--I just wish they had old cameras, now that I don't shoot digital anymore.
One of the most useful for me is https://cycle-ergo.com . The fit and riding position of a motocycle is very personal--sport bikes lean you forward, adventure you stay upright, cruisers lean you back. But beyond that, can you reach the gound (and do you care), how much of a stretch are the pedals. The site is not perfect, but gives you an idea how you will fit before you have a chance to throw your leg over.
my first "real" job was managing the public computer lab at college, and doing misc IT type tasks. Also part of my job was managing the workstudies that attended the lab and helped students. It was a pretty lightweight job and the workstudy positions had a fair amount of turn over as students moved on.
One day I got a call that one of my workstudies had applied for an internship with the NSA and put me down as a reference. They wanted to schedule a meeting with me to talk about the applicant. Up to that point I had received a few reference check calls from companies that were hiring former workstudies, and they never lasted more than 5 minutes, and they never wanted in-person meetings.
The meeting ended up lasting over an hour, and not once did they ask me about technical capabilities or job duties. All the questions were about his social connections, personality, narcissism. I realized that this wasn't a reference call but a security clearance screening. A lot of times they asked the same question in multiple ways, trying to trip me up or see if I had inconsistant answers. They also asked questions about me, presumably to determine if I was a trustworthy source.
A few years later I applied for security clearance since I had moved jobs to the US Navy, and I had to maintain PC with classified data on them. My clearance level was probably the lowest level because their interview of me was not as probing as what I went through for the workstudy that applied to the NSA (I never heard whether he got the internship.)
well, to be fair, the article didn't say how you should interpret early life experiences. You state that looking at early experiences are "biased towards those people who got off the blocks quickly and easily" but when I ready #3, my first thought (as a manager that interviews and hires frequently) was looking for people who had to solve problems when young, as opposed to people who got everything handed to them. Now that shows my biases which may be negative biases towards sons of wealthy parents who are talented and motivated, but the point is that your comment assumes a specific type of bias. I suspect that whether you're hiring or just meeting people socially, having a sense of how someone got to the point they're at tells you more about that person than just knowing where they're at now.
I have lots of stuff that I have ripped from vinyl to digital because they never made the just to digital. I am not a purist, so keeping the vinyl and playing it from vinyl isn't my preference, just saving some of my favorite albums so I can keep listening to them.
i had a copy back in the early 80s. Made the mistake of lending it to somone and never got it back. It was notorious as a book that once borrowed, was never returned. I've hear from many other people who lent it then lost it. I wonder if your brother ever returned it?
I actually prefer my pizza with less sauce, or preferably white pizza (I know, sacrilege) either the garlic butter variant or the ricotta variant. I've never had pizza in NYC, but favorites have always been Rizzo's and Roman Delight in the northern Philly suburbs. Both great places that I've eaten at hundreds of times. I'm sure NYC has good pizza, but Philadelphia is no slouch.
For me I think the issue is trust. Its not much different from what I feel sitting in the passenger seat of a car when anyone else is driving. I don't trust their driving so if it gets slightly trafficed, I start freaking out because I don't trust the driver. I also don't trust the ACC on my Subaru in more dense conditions so when it get busy and I start approaching the rear of another vehicle, I go into a mode where I start paying close attention to the approach thinking "at what point do I cut it off, and hit the brake?"
Not interstellar, but I leave near Sunspot, New Mexico. Since lots of schools visit the sunspot observatory there they have a series of signs starting with Neptune at the beginning of the road (Highway 6563 for those interested) and ending with the sun at the observatory. The signs are spaced proportionally over the 15 mile road and it amazing how close mars -> sun all are compared to the rest, and that doesn't even deal with the rest proxima centauri (I'm curious where that would actually be, Colorado?)
I use exactly two approaches. First is I buy movies (and sometimes TV shows) on iTunes. Second, I do pirate. But for me, I only pirate when the movie I'm looking for is not available. The moment I can buy it on iTunes, I do, and ditch the pirated copy that I have. So for me it is entirely about availability. And before anyone says that if I subscribed to a half dozen steaming services I'd have that availability, I'll say that most, if not all the movies that I have pirated are very obscure things that I have never seen on any service--Baby of Macon, Meet the Feebles, Underground, and (surprisingly) most recently Spider.
I don't know who actually believed it, or if it had any real impact on investors, but it seemed to be a common comment on self driving threads on HN ~5 years ago that instead of ownership, there would just be idle fleets of cars that you would summon from, and you'd simply subscribe to a vehicle service as a monthly cost.
I read it as like a “police procedural”, which is a film that prioritizes the actual procedure of police work over big themes, character development, and action. In this case—-it delves into processes, artistic and bureaucratic. There are “big themes” but there are also odd scenes where bureaucrats discuss the need for cataloging organs, and artists discuss the viability of doing an autopsy as art.
In this quote I read “pedantic” as simply meaning focused on the details, really just a reinforcement of the “process” assertion.
well, if you want to get pedantic, the image referenced by the html in the background window is a png file--png's I belive came out in the late 90's. And the image name clearly references "weyland" the linux windowing system that came out way later than that.
I also remember the dicsussion in the movie at the time going on about georeferencing. Not saying that concept wasn't out there at the time, but it would have been miles from a 15 year old's fingertips.
the photo of the top is chimp haven, which doens't look like that nice a place--but I suspect that the other options are picturaesque either. And that chimp in the photo--has a cigarette in his mouth. Obviously I don't think its lit up and he's smoking, but is he copying humans?
I was genuinely surprised that he allowed it (I definitely enjoyed it, so this is not a dig at the movie.) Apparently Laurie Anderson wanted to do and opera of Gravity's Rainbow, and Pynchon replied that he would only give permission if it was done solely with Banjos--which I take as a roundabout way of saying no way.