300bps

Legal definition of both assault as well as battery is state dependent.

An assault charge is likely relevant for most positions.

If I hire a convicted felon with a track record of assault and they end up assaulting another employee or customer, I’d feel responsible.

The victim would probably hold me legally responsible.

I’d feel more comfortable hiring someone with a 100% track record of never having been convicted of assault.

If you disagree, is there any number of assault convictions that would change your mind? Or do you mentally wipe the slate clean no matter what?

I can't believe anyone would do a study about this for two reasons.

First, well, duh. Don't need a study to tell you this.

Second, was this done for someone to explain why they're not successful? A lot of people want to justify a lack of effort because the chips are stacked against them. All any of us are supposed to do though is be the best version of ourselves we can be.

There will always be someone smarter, taller, better looking. Who cares? Do your best.

I've programmed in 6502 Assembly for decades and your skepticism is right on.

These comparisons have so many variables that they are extremely hard to make accurately.

FTA - I would have guessed that the 8088 is much faster at about the same clock speed, because it has more 16-bit operations and does multiplication and division in hardware.

Does the compiler of the compiler make use of these extra 16-bit operations? How many layers of abstraction does it go through for each of the environments? Does it use DOS interrupts when running on DOS and optimized machine code on CP/M?

These comparisons are strange thought experiments.

OK imagine you have $500 million in revenue and $154 million in losses.

That means you've been selling $1.00 for 70 cents.

Not sustainable. If their customers don't like what they're doing, it's not surprising. Because anyone buying $1.00 for 70 cents is going to be angry when it ends.

If their developers don't like what they're doing, it's not surprising. Anyone benefiting from a company paying them more than they can afford is going to be angry when it ends.

Who will pay for Stack Overflow servers and maintenance if OpenAI is just going to scrape their content and stop people from going to Stack Overflow?

There is a voltage regulator in the standard Commodore 64 power supply that fails catastrophically. Specifically, it sends > 5 volts down the 5 volt line.

When this happens, depending on how long it's on it can fry every chip on that line.

That's why everyone advises not to use the original power supplies even for a quick test. Even if it tests 5 volts before you plug it into the computer it can fail at any moment.

I knew the embarrassment level was going to be turned up to 11 when your link was to archive.org.

One of the most rewarding things I have done in the past few years is learned component-level repair on Commodore 64s.

Take a dead 64 showing nothing but a black screen, try the dead test cartridge, follow its lead or start desoldering, socketing and replacing chips.

And suddenly you have a working forty year old Commodore 64.

Easily 90%+ of the faults on Commodore 64s, especially the early models.

My Christmas 1982 model died with a faulty PLA well within the warranty period.

I... gave an honest and reasonable assessment of the book. I think I gave it 3 stars.

He posted his review within a day or two of me posting my review.

How did Apple become so successful making high-end CPU chips on their own so quickly?

I reviewed a programming book on Amazon must've been 15+ years ago.

The author posted a review of me on his blog. Not a review of my review. Of me and everything he could find out about me on the public Internet.

I’ve been programming for 15 years now...There are no additional features. They are not faster or more optimized. They don’t look different. They just...grow?

I've been programming for over 40 years. OP's take is a classic underestimate of how many features new versions of software have added.

My first computers in order had:

64k of RAM

128k of RAM

640k of RAM

Those first two booted up literally instantly as they copied firmware into RAM. That last one booted up in about 10 seconds from an unbelievably slow C: drive.

What did all three have in common? Did not even have basic networking built-in. Yes, systems are bloated today but they do so much more than the systems you're comparing them to. Yes, they could re-write them from scratch to remove this bloat but we knew for 8 years before OP started coding that is not the right answer either.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...

Me too! Although I did web hosting and company ISDN lines and not dialup 1996-1998.

Used Windows NT for web hosting and Slackware Linux with qmail for mail hosting. Sold out at what I thought was the top - which was a year or two too early but that's OK.

ISP's router [...] Put it into modem mode and pass all the packets straight through to a third-party router.

Best thing I ever did. Put in a Linksys Deco X55 mesh system with WiFi 6 system.

Have four of them strategically placed throughout the 2,500 square foot house and have perfect coverage on a single SSID.

My iPhone 13 gets a bidirectional 360 Mbps just about anywhere in the house (the limit of my $39 per month FIOS line).

Blockchain technology has historically claimed several innovations:

1. Decentralized currency

2. Immutable ledger

3. Transparent transactions

4. Streamlined transactions (no T+2 or T+1 settlement)

5. Borderless transactions (between people in other countries)

6. Microtransactions (transactions a tiny fraction of a cent)

7. Smart contracts

These are innovations, the question is do they solve real world problems without creating more? For example, decentralization is great until you lose your keys or the government wants to shut down money laundering.

I have yet to see a real world benefit from blockchain / cryptocurrency technology. web3 is the closest to reality but I feel like it goes against human nature and the concept of decision fatigue. I don't want Netflix to prompt me, "Want to watch the next episode for 4 cents?"

Principle of Belief Conservation. For any proposition, P:

1. Taking a certain cognitive stance toward P (for example, believing it, rejecting it or withholding judgement) would require rejecting or doubting a vast number of your current beliefs,

2. You have no independent positive reason to reject or doubt all those other beliefs, and

3. You have no compelling reason to take up that cognitive stance toward P.

Then it is more rational for you Not to take that cognitive stance toward P.

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This is basic logic. If you're proposing a system of raising children that goes against the vast majority of cultures spanning thousands of years then it's on the proposer of the new system to come up with the evidence that it's just as good.

My first IBM compatible was a 10 MHz 8088.

Never had a compatibility problem but if I had I would’ve just needed to hit the ol’ Turbi button to bring it down to 4.77 MHz.

I called almost exclusively local BBSes with my 300 bps modem starting in 1985. There was no local Compuserve dial-in number for me. Between the long distance and the per minute charges, Compuserve was out of reach.

By the way, your 1200 bps modem was actually 600 baud! People often use baud and bps interchangeably but they're different. The most common 1200 bps standard was v.22 which used 600 baud.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ITU-T_V-series_recomme...

Same. In 1990 was a field service engineer at a PC shop. We used to use circuit cooler or "cold spray" as we used to call it.

We had three levels of hard drive data recovery that we did in order. Usually didn't have to get past #2.

1. Put it into another computer

2. Cold spray the heck out of it and see if it works for an hour

3. Remove the circuit board of the drive and replace it with the circuit board from a matching known working drive

If it didn't work after that and they 100% needed the data we sent it out to Ontrack. They'd put it in their clean room, remove the platters and read the data directly.

3.5% unemployment rate = nothing will get people back into office if they don't want to be in the office.

This all flips around at some point though. Maybe 10% unemployment?

For me, I'm looking incredulously at people making decisions on where to live assuming that "work from home" is locked in forever. I know someone who is in the process of settling on a house in the middle of nowhere working for a large publicly traded company remotely. The company just posted their first quarterly loss in forever.

If she ends up losing that job, she'll be 100% dependent on being able to find another remote position or be forced to sell her house.

It's really awesome how different people are able to engage in this hobby with different requirements.

For me, working on a real 64 is essential but I don't care about disk drives at all. So a Commodore 64 + Ultimate II+ (or pi1541) is a great combination. I love being able to use real 64 joysticks with no lag.

Keeping the hardware going is half the fun - I have replacement chips for everything on the board, diagnostic carts and have enjoyed picking up soldering again.

For Assembly language programming though, Visual Studio Code + Kick Assembler + Vice + C64 Debugger all the way!! Makes the development and debugging process completely seamless.

What are the clinically significant differences between long covid and things like fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome that have been around for quite a while?

I don't appear to be the only one asking these questions.

https://www.jwatch.org/na56219/2023/06/15/long-covid-and-chr...

https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/news/long-covid-really...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10117846/

I think using AI tools to generate derivative works could place the user (Not OpenAI, etc) in rightful legal jeopardy if they distribute or sell those works

I'm not sure I understand this. It is OpenAI that is scraping the copyrighted works, packaging them up into a derivative work and selling access to it.

If a user never enters a prompt asking ChatGPT to create a new ASOIAF book, pieces of those previous copyrighted books are still in OpenAI's model and available for sale by OpenAI.

Chat-GPT the LLM itself is the derivative work that OpenAI is selling access to.

When will they become a "digital god"?

I've literally heard people claim that things like ChatGPT will soon become "smart enough" to iteratively improve themselves so rapidly that they will become "digital gods".

I wish I were kidding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTYbMrAZgw

Are you willing to admit that training a model on the book is not the same thing as copying that book?

This type of interaction is not helpful. It's an argumentative strawman argument. Who said training a model is the same thing as copying a book? Of course it isn't. But who said it had to be?

Here's an idea... read the first five books in the series "A Song of Ice and Fire". Then sit down and write your own version of Book 6 to continue the story and sell it without a license. Guess what's going to happen? You will be sued into bankruptcy.

What OpenAI is doing is lot more similar to that than literally copying things. And it's still wrong and illegal.

It has been distorted beyond recognition by a few companies, who have state everything on a broad and permanent copyright

I agree with you, what Disney and others have done with copyright extensions is immoral and should be illegal. But it's not illegal.

pretending that training a model on some thing equals copying it isn’t based in reality

No, it isn't based in reality. Which is why nobody made the claim. They're packaging up a derivative work and selling it. Don't have to look hard to see examples that this is just as infringing as outright copying.

Sure. "Easier to say sorry than please".

Until you get sued into bankruptcy by millions of litigants.