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I think the disc release GP is talking about had files in DjVu format.
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The document includes musings about a PC version of Sega Channel. So, kind of like Steam, but in 1996.
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> This, along with the fact that salaries are absurdly low, shows a lack of interest by the Brazilian government, people, and industry, in the development of science in this country. No, it shows t…
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Thanks for fixing imaginary memory safety issues in /bin/cat...
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$1B, how many hours of runway does that buy.
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I use Unifi Policy Based Routing to watch a streaming service from my home country. It is so easy to setup and works so well.
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You can create the concept of a legal VPN (tracking inside the tunnel) and keep that legal, though. Businesses will not mind.
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It still creates a class of haves and have-nots which prevents forming a community. Plus you buy a version of it, and then someone else is on another version, and you don't have the same features…
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Cisco did not go bust.
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This industry has a history of forming cartels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing_scandal …
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Dotcom companies were basically stuff like pets.com, not things considered strategic with de-facto government backing.
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This isn't even a great argument at a literal level. Nowadays nobody cares about Xerox and their business is selling printers, DEC was bought by Compaq which was bought by HP. Apple is important …
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How is it open if you have to pay for the unbranded version? I'm confused.
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Never heard about the brown suit. But I heard about the drone strikes.
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You will forget the bad movies, remember the good movies, and describe the 2010s as a great era.
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The Bourbaki group was reponsible for the Mathématiques modernes movement which intended to reform basic education on rigorous math. This may be the world's best documented educational failure in…
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No, Linux is made of legends that never die.
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It's a more stable unit than US dollars.
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You are arguing for rigor, not for its didactics. Those are different. > had you, you would have instantly known how to do numerical differentiation and understand the limits, pitfalls, and other s…
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Rigorous = a pain in the ass to learn from, but you gain imaginary points for the pain.
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Typically in Microsoft redistributables there are terms in the license that says they can only be licensed for use with a Windows license.
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I think people don't realize how inadequate the Unix security model is.
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Perhaps the LLM was smart enough to understand that no humans were actually at risk in your convoluted scenario and it chose not be a dick.
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In which situation did a LLM save one million lives? Or worse, was able to but failed to do so?