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classichasclass··on Seattle City Council votes to ban surveillance pricing in sale of groceries
> nor correlate it with their other patients' data.

Halting that would pretty much be the end of public health analysis or real-world work on medication effectiveness/adverse reactions. We do a lot of work with deidenitifed data to find health patterns in populations.

classichasclass··on Amiga Unix, Again
Probably the same things you do with NetBSD on a Macintosh IIci. In my case, it handles internal print services, AppleShare, DHCP and DNS.
classichasclass··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
And one of the rare incidences of the MPAA ratings banner appearing in the middle of a film.
classichasclass··on Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
Click on the drop down at the top of the Open window (where the name of the current folder is displayed) and you get the whole path to choose from.
classichasclass··on Doctors are finally learning to manage antidepressant withdrawal
Though this article concentrates on the SSRIs, other meds like the SNRIs can have a similar or even worse withdrawal effect. We didn't call it "Side Effexor" for nothing.

People legitimately need these drugs, including in the short term. The problem for acute stressors once they resolve is how to get them back off.

classichasclass··on IBM Unveils Next Generation Dual-Architecture Processor for IBM Z and LinuxONE
This feels like a baby step towards Arm being able to emulate z/Arch workloads, maybe with a bit of secret sauce for certain specific operations, which doesn't seem very much like IBM.
classichasclass··on Hot Chips 2026: CUDA Targets RISC-V – By Chester Lam
And Nvidia is big enough that they could impose some order on the ecosystem that the ecosystem so far has either been unable or unwilling to impose on itself. The wild west of one-offs can continue to make their application-specific designs while everyone else will presumably benefit from a reasonably standardized platform.
classichasclass··on Vintage Artificial Intelligence: Before It Got Awkward
The book is a better measure of what allegedly existed, though it was heavily curated, and the editorial choices in it say more about William Chamberlain than they do about the putative Racter itself.

I did try feeding the book into a small LLM to generate more text but it either doesn't follow its unusually stilted prose, which is clearly templated, or it just vomits back the entire corpus which is not very large.

classichasclass··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
Man, those CompUSA and Computer City pictures take me back. Spent too much time there (when the 7300 was my regular Mac, the CompUSA "Apple store" was my primary source of software). Probably still have some of those free Computer City floppies in a drawer somewhere.
classichasclass··on Introducing Toast 1
I'm disappointed it doesn't burn CDs.
classichasclass··on Ban the Throbber
Yes, it tells you nothing. It has no relationship to what's going on at the other end, which may well also be nothing.
classichasclass··on NetBSD 11.0
I use NetBSD on several systems as a small server platform. I find it easier to understand and customize, and it keeps a lot of this stuff out of the landfill.
classichasclass··on The first watch featuring computer functions
I have a radio around here I bought in Malaysia from "Panesnic."
classichasclass··on Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick
My wife derides my Home Despot special plug-in mower as a Tonka toy, but it's basically just a motor, a blade and a bag, and I don't have a lot of lawn to mow.
classichasclass··on The Birth of Prolog (1996)
I actually asked Dr Colmerauer once if the original program code had survived, but sadly he did not believe any of it was still around.
classichasclass··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
No. I do use the term.
classichasclass··on How Doctors die. It’s not like the rest of us (2016)
"Early" is load-bearing. Even brief delays, just mere minutes, significantly decrease survival or positive outcomes.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.123.010...

It's important to get people to realize the benefits of early CPR and more people should be trained on how to do it, or else it won't be prompt and the outcomes will be worse. That's what the Red Cross and AHA promulgate to the public, in so many words.

classichasclass··on BLISS
An important language in my younger years, since many Atari System 2 games (using the T-11 "PDP-on-a-chip") were written in it.
classichasclass··on Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s
That's exactly the reason. NetBSD uses its own booter for the same purpose, for example.
classichasclass··on Installing A/UX 1.1 like it's the 90s
A/UX 1.0 came on a pre-written 80MB disk, which indeed would have been a lot easier.
classichasclass··on Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
No, that's pretty accurate as I recall. Windows 2000 took a bit, but when it was up, it was up. Windows XP would pop you into what appeared to be a functional desktop quickly, but it was still loading in the background, and some things just sort of sat there for awhile. Win2K was much more predictable. When I wasn't on a Mac during my consultant days, it was on Windows 2000, because it was much more stable than the 98 clients.
classichasclass··on Run Windows 2000 on a DEC Alpha with a new es40 fork
es40 is an emulator that emulates an AlphaServer ES40 series system.
classichasclass··on How do wombats poop cubes?
If someone hasn't submitted this for an Ig Nobel, it would be a calamity.
classichasclass··on Chip Off The Old Block
Okay, legal nerds: would the consumption of a cup of Gatorade count as usufruct? That sounds like abusus instead.
classichasclass··on Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
(author) My understanding is that they're wired into the AMD southbridge which provides them over memory mapped I/O.
classichasclass··on Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
Thanks, I'll try that.
classichasclass··on Working around dragons with the Lemote Yeeloong laptop and OpenBSD
(author) Is there a way to specifically build the framebuffer version from the ports tree? I didn't see one.
classichasclass··on OS9Map
Currently my "big" native 9.2.2 system is a MDD G4 with a Sonnet 1.8GHz dual 7447A upgrade, 2GB RAM (1.5GB useable in OS 9) and an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro. I'm sure there's a config more extreme than that out there. It is a pleasure to use even though it's one of the windtunnel systems.
classichasclass··on PowerFox Browser
Thanks! I wish modern JavaScript were a little kinder to it, but I still use it myself for basic tasks.
classichasclass··on PowerFox Browser
Yes, my poor 1.33GHz iBook G4 really drags in it now, but it suffices for simple things and grabbing files for the tasks it still does.
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