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4,416karma·3,765submissions·August 18, 2015
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The article says that the fraud was so systematic and widespread that the state of Minnesota had to shut the entire program down . That's how bad it was.
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As mfro said, Alpha. DEC never manufactured MIPS processors; it bought them from (amazingly enough) MIPS Inc, and used them from 1989 in DECstation RISC boxes. DEC launched its own RISC architecture, …
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There was a similar visit by the prime minister when Costco arrived a few years ago. < https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/costco-prime-minister-tours-we... >…
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Are there a lot of people still running legacy FileMaker setups?
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> This is a bit offtopic (but im genuinely curious since i dont use iPhones) but is there any advantage to using faceid over touchid in iphones? Touch ID is far, far, far superior to Face ID. I jus…
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I just want Touch ID to return on iPhones. Oh how I hate, hate, hate Face ID and its inability to read my face without my glasses when I get up in the morning. How is it that Moto figured out how to p…
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> My customers have included a lot of real businesses running legacy software who want the fastest, least intrusive, and least energy intensive Mac OS 9 desktop machine they can buy. I've sold…
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Title edited by me from "The hottest Stanford computer science class isn't banning AI tools — it's embracing them"
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Title edited by me from "OpenAI won’t make money by 2030 and still needs to come up with another $207 billion to power its growth plans, HSBC estimates"
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Hah, so it is! Sorry about that. < https://web.archive.org/web/20231114211656/http://www.gareth... >…
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Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky depicts a human society thousands of years in the future, in which pretty much all software has already been written; it's just a matter of finding it.…
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Edited by me from original title "To help their kids ‘climb the ivy,’ Chinese mothers uproot their families for Silicon Valley schools"
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This is consistent with IBM's history of putting computers doing customers' work on display. I am aware of the company doing so in New York and Toronto.