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Re:Segment Anything Demo by Meta AI
on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @05:59PM (#35460973)
That’s it for me
Re:Bing Newcomb, Whose E*Trade Transformed Stock Trading, Dies at 79
on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @01:44PM (#35457828)
This video, by Bill Clinton, prominently includes the etrade spokesdude. It gives an idea of how culturally prominent etrade was in the dotcom boom.
Re:MacUser 1996: How to Rig Up the Fastest Photoshop Machine
on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:49PM (#35433947)
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, but there was a period of ~1-3? years when PPC was faster. AFAIR :)
Re:If Parrots Can Talk, Why Can’t Monkeys?
on Monday April 03, 2023 @09:43PM (#35433895)
This was a good show, about the relationship between birdsong and human language:
Re:MacUser 1996: How to Rig Up the Fastest Photoshop Machine
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @11:28PM (#35418213)
To be fair, PowerPC was dramatically faster at the time. Akin to the jump with M1.
Re:Zuckerberg: Early-career eng tend to perform better when in person ...
on Friday March 31, 2023 @11:37PM (#35396870)
Branched from
Meta hires DJ to play in cafeteria to urge workers to return to the office (businessinsider.com) by randycupertino:
Zuckerberg: Early-career eng tend to perform better when in person '>=3 d/week'
Re:BloombergGPT: A Large Language Model for Finance
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:59PM (#35381940)
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 maybe even a /practical/ application.
Re:Chalk-manship: how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, MIT style
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @02:48AM (#35368978)
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 nice, I've always managed to get them very clean with just rubbing alcohol.
Is there any concern about chipping or even breaking with the glass whiteboards (if, for example, it somehow falls on the floor, eg during moving)?
Re:The F-15 Eagle: Origins and Development, 1964-1972 [pdf]
on Sunday March 26, 2023 @10:47AM (#35315011)
There's an HBO movie about development of the Bradley called 'Pentagon Wars'. It's a rare bureaucratic comedy movie.
Re:Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94
on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:07AM (#35299256)
RIP. Nothing more to add.
Re:Why Construction Projects Always Go over Budget
on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @05:28PM (#35252828)
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 new bridge being installed along Interstate 295 in Portland on Saturday afternoon and said she was pleased with the rapid progress of the project.
> “I’m thrilled with the technology, thrilled that it’s going on time and on budget,” Mills said. “Three days’ time, and this bridge will be done. It’s amazing. It’s like giant Legos going together.”
https://www.pressherald.com/2022/04/23/i-295-bridge-replacem...
which seems like enough to go on to presume it's at least close to being on budget.
Scratched EV battery? Your insurer may have to junk the whole car
Re:Costs of the U.S.-Led War in Iraq Since 2003
on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:27PM (#35205741)
Related, this is a worthwhile retrospective of the same war:
https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/iconic-images-from-the-...
Re:Retiring a Favourite C++ Joke
on Friday March 17, 2023 @03:19AM (#35194238)
Better phrasing (and good advice!):
Don't mock try all the time
Re:Retiring a Favourite C++ Joke
on Thursday March 16, 2023 @11:26PM (#35192628)
Maybe he can mock try next?
Re:Bank of England, 1914 war bonds cover-up
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @09:41PM (#35177123)
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 work on anaesthetics was seen as more important than his work on cholera. Given the (often overlooked) importance of modern anaesthetics, I can easily believe this.
Re:South Korea to build world’s largest chip center in Seoul with $230...
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @01:09PM (#35171434)
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Re:Lidar Reveals 650-Square-Mile Maya Site Hidden Beneath Guatemalan R...
on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @02:59AM (#35164829)
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 from the top of the canopy, some the middle, some the ground.
It’s important to realize that the laser pulse doesn’t remain at the same diameter the whole time; it’s path looks like a cone, albeit a very narrow cone. By the time it hits the ground it can be a couple of metres in diameter.
That two metre wide bunch of photons is what is travelling through the canopy. Some fraction hit the top of the canopy and are reflected; some fraction of the reflected photons travel back in a straight line to the detector, the rest are lost to the environment. The same process repeats until the pulse hits the ground, and whatever photons are left reflect back.
The energy returned to the detector is a tiny fraction of the energy sent out.
Re:Repairing a tiny ribbon cable inside a 28 year old IBM ThinkPad 701c
on Saturday March 11, 2023 @08:21PM (#35115195)
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.
Re:“Clean Code, Horrible Performance” Discussion
on Saturday March 11, 2023 @12:52AM (#35105853)
"constrained problem within a resource constrained environment" is a good phrasing
Re:The Vindication of Ask Jeeves
on Thursday March 09, 2023 @12:31AM (#35078565)
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 might be a viable solution to the problem of finding genuinely good information.
Re:My Hardest Bug Ever
on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @09:22PM (#35064394)
The collision between the words 'crash' and 'Crash' whilst developing Bandicoot must have been a conundrum.
Re:The dogs of Chernobyl: Canine populations inhabiting a nuclear excl...
on Saturday March 04, 2023 @08:58PM (#35026326)
> 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, low-dose ionizing radiation.
That comes across as an especially clear, or at least understandable, statement about why a paper represents preliminary research.
Re:The Italian City-States as a Distant Mirror
on Saturday March 04, 2023 @11:13AM (#35021861)
Are you sure that people from Europe who don't fall into that group also didn't see America as a symbol of freedom relative to what they knew at home? It's possible, but it also seems possible, even likely, that the opposite would be true, given the degree of entrenched social stratification in post-medieval Europe.
Re:How to Get Hold of a Research Paper
on Wednesday March 01, 2023 @08:39PM (#34990840)
5 & 7 (getting in touch with the researcher, via website or email) have been the most successful for me, for hard-to-get papers.
I'm not certain about this, but I believe that authors maintain personal redistribution rights in many cases, making the whole thing above-board.
Re:Online Lens/Optics Simulator
on Saturday February 25, 2023 @11:14PM (#34942974)
Is there a consensus on the standard optics 101 textbook?
Re:80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City
on Sunday February 19, 2023 @12:18AM (#34854731)
I was implying it would be good to have a zoom limit so the image is sharp at max zoom
Re:80k megapixel panorama photograph of New York City
on Saturday February 18, 2023 @09:47PM (#34853743)
Still looks kinda blurry when you zoom in all the way