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4,416karma·3,765submissions·August 18, 2015
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That doesn't make UncleSlacky incorrect. Tramiel was obsessed with reducing COGS and thus retail price, and bulldozed down anything standing in his way. A more interesting possibility is the post…
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Is Schlitz the beer company that Laverne and Shirley work for before moving to LA?
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>and then marry that person. That can happen in 6 months, the length of a tourist visa As I said, this is inherently a violation of the commitment the visitor made when entering the US on a non-imm…
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>If you meet the love of your life and marry them on a tourist visa As others have said, someone entering the US on a tourist or other nonimmigrant visa, then marrying a US citizen, is inherently c…
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>But still, once they started taking foreign citizens with them, I would have thought that Britain would be among the first on that list. Between 1984 and 1985 there were a Canadian, a Saudi, someo…
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Because air conditioning in homes is so rare in Europe and so widespread in the US, the gap between the number of Europeans and (North) Americans that die each year from heat waves is already larger t…
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Edited from "Claude is telling users to go to sleep mid-session and nobody, including Anthropic, seems to fully understand why it keeps doing it"
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> The film was based on the first book of a trilogy. Although I think the film is even better than the book by D. F. Jones, only the latter mentions how, despite being created specifically for US n…
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>Definitely see this. The 1970s hardware is archaic, but the concept is still relevant. Indeed. There is nothing in the film that contradicts the notion of Colossus being a very, very large LLM. …
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.gov should never have been expanded to outside the US federal government. (.com should never have been expanded to outside US-headquartered companies, either.)
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UnRAID has released two point upgrades in the past two weeks because the previous AI-found vulnerabilities. Here we go again!
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What the article describes doesn't apply to those who migrated already to FoxPro (and/or Harbour), yes?
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Highly relevant:
Reading Doesn't Fill a Database, It Trains Your Internal LLM < https://tidbits.com/2026/02/28/reading-doesnt-fill-a-databas... >…
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What I have done to maintain the integrity of my Time Machine backups (to UnRAID, via SMB): For the "sparsebundles break" issue: * Back up to multiple targets. I use both mbentley's Tim…
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Conversely, the last time I checked a couple of weeks ago, it was impossible to find any USB4 external SSDs on Amazon; only USB 3.2.
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Yes. Thanks to the Earth's gravity well, it is significantly less energy-intensive to deliver 100kg of mass from the moon to low Earth orbit, than to launch the same amount from Earth. This is …
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> It _is_ performative (not sure it's nonsense) because it doesn't actually do or intend to do anything. It's cheap. Yes, that's my point. Once some risk—however small—came to b…