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With the small reservation that this is not how Eliza works. Eliza sits on top of MAD/SLIP which does all the heavy work and provides lists and integer indexes, which is what is processed by Eliz…

Hum, note that this was not an argument about or against GPT, but about the "unreasonable" success of a, by all standards, primitive algorithm that manages to get (somewhat) away by crafting…

To me, Turing's argument had always been that the attribution of intelligence (or not) doesn't make much sense: rather than being a question of any substance, it merely diffuses into a matte…

Maybe worth noting in the context of HN: There are two types of electron emissions in a CRT. The primary emission, which produces the visible image, and the secondary emission, which causes an electro…

MS had licensed JavaScript – and, of course, their implementation was incompatible (at least in certain parts).

Regarding implicit type conversion: Arguably, this is the way all scripting language went about that time, and, notably, shell scripting, as well. (Meaning, it was pretty much the expected behavior fo…

Speaking of the Alps and related regions, this was also considered a condition typical for Styrians (inhabitants of the country of Styria) in Austria.

> so there was no possibility of loading the OS from volatile storage. There are exceptions to this rule: Sharp was known for their concept of "clean computers" (MZ series and X1), which …

See the button "Prg Liberary" for some games and more…

Yes. Anyway, what is more important to preserve: artistic choices made according to the medium (which importantly includes the kind of film stock for any movie) or bandwidth? And, if it's all abo…

A Merry 8-bit Christmas! This is a recreation of one of the scenes from the Commodore 64 demo disk, for any Commodore PET. Download at: https://www.masswerk.at/pet/prgs/#seas…

So, here ist your comment with the grain removed (quote -> GTP summary -> GTP re-expanded to original length): > Removing film grain significantly improves compression efficiency, resulting i…

True Lies is a 1994 release. On what assumptions do you base the idea that the theatrical release cut has been already lost and that there is only "raw film plate footage, without any of the post…

The real and dramatic issue with True Lies is that the original high-resolution negative is available and that there's also a recent 4K-scan. In other words, why should I run your comment through…

> The anecdotal evidence of the single case of the wheel falling off I don't find particularly damning. Well, similar stories pretty much killed the British car industry.

I noticed this, as well. AI-generated code? (It's hard to imagine a human setting up that code and forgetting about the very thing they are attempting to demonstrate.)

Only, if you can provide a proof for the train not being a printer or that it cant be used as such. /s

Given that ELIZA doesn't really work outside its supposed social setup, which makes some of its behavior acceptable and/or intelligible, it would be hard to believe that anyone would have be…

Regarding the closing statement: I think, a major, now mostly forgotten influence were CD-ROMs and an ambition to match those.

Maybe, the GIF contains a text comment and Grammarly not only accesses this, but also alters it (for whatever reason), thus overwriting the file in a way in memory that offsets in the GIF file or its …

I can confirm that – as of writing – Safari/Mac supports this feature and that Firefox does not.

My problem here is, rather, what does "Sweep" even mean? (I'm not an an Outlook user.) I can imagine some housekeeping or clean-up task, but there must be a more precise concept and wor…

I can second this: While I do know that kind of box as depicted, I've never owned one and I have never used one. (However, plenty of rectangular cardboard boxes.) It's a very cultural thing …

I think, MS Office products provide superb usability for those who make and/or influence these decisions: those who are installing the software. The enduser isn't really in that loop.

I guess, you cant substitute experience by technical description (quite obviously).

Mind that CRTs had a viewing distance, much like the subject point in classic painting. E.g., at this distance, dithering tended to blend into a solid tint on common consumer CRTs. (The granularity of…

So, where are the common social (minimum) standards? Regarding Greece, mind that Greece debt was totally covered by German restitution obligations, which is also why banks (among them prominently Germ…

Regarding the Maastricht Treaty: Mind that there had been also a plan for a social union as a flanking policy to appease the left, which has never become a reality. Maastricht had been perceived as a …

Came to say the same. Another example: While H. was (at least at times) wearing glasses, I don't think there's a single photo or film recording showing him with glasses.