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To be fair, many of the machines at the event were built before HTTP/HTML. Many were built before Gopher.
Re:Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I on Tuesday November 03, 2026 @11:14AM (#50353872)
The students can just log in with a generic Gmail account using a incognito tab.
The article talks about advertising the change on billboards, TV and whatnot.

They really should track usage of calls going into and out of the old switch for the copper line. That will tell you who is still using the old copper lines.

Re:The future in old computer magazines (1984โ€“2004) on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:13AM (#50338968)
And BYTE, Creative Computing and .....
This isn't exactly true because some others participate indirectly. The most obvious winners are the people who bought housing or other real estate. There are also non-programmers who invested, the most famous may be the Persian carpet dealers in Palo Alto who've been investing in startups on the side.

Yes, there are many who don't own their house, but some of those can also benefit. California has some of the most generous social benefits in the nation, all because they can tax the tech companies.

Re:Drupal is now light-years ahead of its reputation on Friday October 23, 2026 @12:58PM (#50212049)
Was this IDG?
Re:The Lucrative World of Literary Scams on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @05:16PM (#50187740)
I know a few publicists who every one here would agree are 100% legit. They've been America for a long time. They've worked in publishing. Etc. And what do they do? Charge the author, send out some press releases and get the author in front of some book clubs. And what is a book club? A bunch of faces on Zoom.

I'm not sure what's so different between the legit publicists and the scammers.

How many people complaining about this were cheering when FB deplatformed Donald Trump?
Re:Tesla Roadster on Saturday October 17, 2026 @11:13AM (#50131847)
While I respect the public transit system, it has many disadvantages over private cars. The NYC subway, for instance, is amazing in many ways, but if you're just slightly old or infirm, you can't navigate it. DC's subway, built at a yuge price, does have elevators but they are often broken. And if you're traveling at non-rush hours, you'll have to wait 5-20 minutes and then pause your trip for every stop along the way.

I can see how a young, fit and childless 20 something would be much happier with a good public transport system, but once you stop fitting that narrow model, your affection for urban dreams dies slowly.

And don't get me started on the price for construction and maintenance.

Reminds me of that Ray Bradbury short story, "The Illustrated Man."
Re:Margaret Hamilton has died on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:37AM (#50007141)
Can you explain what is false?

The NYT obituary, for instance, notes that she married her boss. That lines up with many of the complaints in the twitter feed.

Re:Beauty in DVD Menus on Thursday October 08, 2026 @11:17AM (#50006855)
My DVD player provides it. Must be a special feature.
Re:Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:13AM (#49979735)
If it's so fun for you, why don't you come over and be my coding slave then?
Re:Bob Cringely Has Died on Sunday October 04, 2026 @11:05AM (#49954520)
He traded early Apple stock for cash? Oh, there aren't many acts so foolish in hindsight.
Perhaps they suspected and they deliberately said things that they knew their new overlords would want to hear?
It was invented before Islam began. I believe the creator was Persian.
Re:"The only intuitive interface is the nipple" (2012) on Friday October 02, 2026 @05:56PM (#49939107)
Many mothers and their children don't find it so intuitive at first. There are lactation consultants who teach mothers (and indirectly the children) what to do.
No. It's about pushing decisions out to the edges and empowering parents (and students) to help run the school system. To frame it this way is to deny the powerful evolution brought about by real choice.
This happened a few years ago before flock. Some idiot drove down the street with a pellet gun shooting at car windows. About five of us needed to pay several hundred dollars a piece to replace the glass.

My street is not "horrible", but everyone on my street would have loved to have a camera that recorded what happened. Even if we didn't get a working license plate number, it would have been useful to see what happened.

It doesn't have to be a "monster crime gap" to get people to vote for these things. It just takes some selfish idiots.

Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:29AM (#49867530)
And how much did it cost for the authors to produce the books in the first place? Everyone wants to believe that piracy is okay because the creators costs don't matter.
Re:OpenAI Feared "Optics" of what might appear on Hacker News on Sunday September 27, 2026 @11:28AM (#49867507)
The old model was designed to split the development costs among all of the readers. Just who is going to write books? Only people with government grants and the rich folks who can self-fund?
It's worth noting that the he's not afraid to us LLMs when it cuts the teacher's workload. The Slack bots are all automated.

I generally think this is okay because the students are getting more feedback, but some students are starting to call this out as hypocrisy. At Dartmouth, there's a debate running because the Provost was using LLMs to improve his writing. He's not in a class. He's not breaking any official rules. But somehow people are feeling like he's cheating.

Re:Advice to a Beginning Graduate Student (2001) on Saturday September 26, 2026 @08:50PM (#49862160)
Best advice: they may call you a "student", but you're more of an employee. You should treat it more like an apprenticeship for a job than some nurturing rebirth. It's not about you. It's about bringing in more money to the enterprise.
This is even a problem in neighborhoods where the townhouses are pretty close to each other. I was in one and there were fifty hot spots that were visible.
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:35AM (#49846052)
Higher valued assets? Can we just assume that assets will go up in value?
Re:An SR-71 Blackbird Has Vanished (Updated) on Friday September 25, 2026 @11:33AM (#49846032)
Modern warfare? NASA is not a war fighting agency. I suppose it does coordinate with the DOD. And there are certainly overlaps. Maybe this is just about making humans go really fast?

That being said, I wonder whether some drones would just be much cheaper and simpler. Do humans need to go so fast??

I agree with you and not the OP.

I find it very easy to engage in a Socratic dialog with the AI. If I ask it, it will actually quiz me and carry on a tutoring session. And it doesn't mind if I ask dumb questions.

Re:Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker's death on Monday September 21, 2026 @11:28AM (#49788547)
The bad guy here is the driver. Could Uber have done more? That's what the arbitrators concluded.

But the reality is that this is a victory for the driverless cars (Waymo, Tesla, etc.). If you want to force Uber to take responsibility for the driver, the simplest thing is to get rid of the driver.

Re:The Data-Center Debate Is Divorced from the Facts on Sunday September 20, 2026 @11:05AM (#49776578)
Perhaps you've heard of radiant cooling?

SpaceX has already deployed thousands of functioning computers in space. I think if the vacuum were an issue, we would have heard about it.

Re:The Data-Center Debate Is Divorced from the Facts on Saturday September 19, 2026 @11:20AM (#49767271)
Far cheaper? There's free cooling in space. No need to overpay for water or recycle it. There's also free electricity -- once you pay for the solar panels. And there are no property taxes or corporate taxes.

Given that folks like you think there's infinite money and they can make outrageous demands for taxes, I think it's not obvious that terrestrial centers are "far cheaper".

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