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The space shuttle ran on a bunch of 8086's; about 15 years ago they were forced to buy a bunch of old hardware from bulk electronic scrap dealers on fleabay. They only bought them in bulk though, your 30+ year old relic would've been of no interest to them at the time.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Reading the comments, I like Ars Technica's voting system.. some posts went negative!
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Don't worry; apple will soon be making cheap knock-offs.
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I ordered one of them, but when I opened the box... it was dead.
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I can offer you a quantum of solace..
(I'll fetch my coat)
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Three years-worth of findings, based on data from 15,000 employees in 15+ countries through Know Your Company Do they really want to know what their employees think?
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Most probably don't. I had to go thru what is called "Lean Training" for Construction several years ago. I then became a Instructor for a short time. The first meeting that we had with the guy that was in charge of the training (who was second in command on site), I told him of a problem where they scheduled 2 groups of workers (or more ) at the same location at the same time and who ever got there first got to work on their part of the project.
(Leaving the rest to stand and wait for a different direction to work)
His reply was "That's Construction"
What ?
Thinking to my self, No that is bad management.
As I said it was a short tour as instructor.
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#4: “Is there any part of the company you wish you were able to interact with more?”
I'm thinking to myself "huh?". Maybe I live in an alternative universe, but the people I work with and myself are so slammed with projects, are heads are so far down in the project hole we don't know the weather.
These questions suggest there is another life out there with other employees, getting together, chatting, discussing strategy. I don't know if I am thinking marketing or the alternate universe.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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But where's "How stupid are they for not putting you in charge of everything?", with answers ranging from 100% upward.
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Quote: The power of modern programming languages is that they are expressive, readable, concise, precise, and executable. That means we can eliminate middleman languages and use one language to explore, learn, teach, and think.
Python is expressive and readable ?Quote: Students can use the algorithms first and learn how they work later. They can see the most important ideas, like spectral decomposition, without being blinded by details. They can work on real applications, on the first day, that provide the motivation to go deeper. And they can have a lot more fun.
And, it is so important that the little snowflakes not be "triggered" by anything that might make them feel a little less than tranquil ?
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«When I consider my brief span of life, swallowed up in an eternity before and after, the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces of which I am ignorant, and which know me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there; for there is no reason why here rather than there, now rather than then.» Blaise Pascal
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I would say that Python is no less expressive than many other languages out there. It takes some getting used to, but that is true of every new language. My major problem with Python's syntax is that it uses indentation to delimit blocks, which is error-prone (especially when refactoring).
That being said, I would not use Python for anything other than small, in-house programs. Given that there is no deterministic memory management, and (AFAIK) there is no Python compiler, it is unsuitable for large or for commercial programs.
I agree with you about the snowflakes. The entrance to the campus reads "University", no "Kindergarten"; if you can't handle that, you have no business being here.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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With 50 million metric tons of electronic waste projected for 2018, scientists at Stanford University created a biodegradable wearable that wouldn’t sit in the junk drawer or junkyard for the rest of eternity, once the next generation of Fitbit came along. Do not use device while eating French fries or making salad dressing
Eating fries in civilized countries, anyway.
Ketchup is Red for a reason!
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They obviously designed it while their brains were dissolved in alcohol.
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Computers are able to learn to explain the behavior of individuals by tracking their glances and movements. "I am not a number! I am a free man!"
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "I am not a number! I am a free man!"
OK Gordon, whatever you say, how's episode 3 coming on?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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AIs are getting really humanlike if they just want to look at models, all the time.
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Apps are using ad-tracking audio signals that your phone can hear, but you can't. "CONSUME“
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So, who's up for making an app that disables the microphone unless a whitelisted app is opened?
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And the apps that pay them enough to automatically whitelist them, of course 
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Good point.
So just don't get the whitelisting app that had the flashiest graphics and the biggest claims.
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While AFAIK it still requires the app to opt in  a few Android versions ago Google required apps to start allowing users to decline individual permissions instead of having to agree to everything to run. If/when they make this mandatory it'd limit a lot of potential elephantery; OTOH I suspect most of the scumware would just bake in a legit reason to need the mic so even those who're savvy enough to read the permissions will have to bend over.
What we really need is a way to cut off frequency responses above a certain level. Set it at the 4 or 5 khz that IIRC landline phone systems used and you're still perfectly fine for voice chat; but have cut off the too high pitched for most people to hear part entirely.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: What we really need is a way to cut off frequency responses above a certain level. Set it at the 4 or 5 khz that IIRC landline phone systems use
The perfect answer.
It should be baked into the OS.
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Technical Foundations of Informatics, the online course guide for the University of Washington course of the same name, also provides an excellent resource for learning those skills using R. In case you want to get started with "the pirate's programming language'
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For the first time in recent memory, people all over the internet appear to have just gotten the same phishing email at the same time, and it didn’t go directly into their spam folders. You had me at 'don't click that link'
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