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the harris end

I guess that's the rear (or arse) end, if anyone else is puzzled and doesn't have a couple of spare minutes to chase it down ...

> top floors were the least desirable. Poorer residents occupied the upper story.

Some writers placed Julius Caesar's aristocratic but down at the heel family in the lower floors of a Subura tenement, but apparently it really was a house.

Somehow this story isn't as fun today as it was when first printed ...

To be fair, he was pointing out that the invisible "credentials in cookies" issue was much harder to get fixed:

The turnstiles were visible. They were expensive. They disrupted everyone's day and made headlines in company-wide emails. Management could point to them and say that we're taking security seriously. Meanwhile, thousands of employees had their Jira credentials stored in cookies. A vulnerability that could expose our entire project management system. But that fix required documentation, vendor approval, a month of convincing people it mattered. A whole lot of begging.

Thank you for the several decades of smiles over human foibles.

There was some math joke that zero, one and infinity were OK, but the rest of the natural numbers were weird and hard to justify ...

Company also promotes "Community air monitoring"

The reasoning, I think, was that humans can drive using sight and a little bit of sound, so an AI should be able to do this too.

If memory serves, a few years ago the official position, on a Karpathy presentation, was that if radar contradicted vision they would have to discard one, so they would stick to vision only.

I could never swallow that argument - seems obvious that a radar failsafe would keep you from making bad vision errors ...

> we need more fiction examples of positive AI superintelligence

Neal Asher did pretty well with his Polity universe. Besides AIs with some capacity for playful violence (Agent Cormac thread, but always there), we also get crablike aliens (the Prador war) and very weird biology (in particular the Spatterjay water world).

I got curious what Trey Harris (the original 500 mile story teller) was up to these days, but Google mostly finds me a football player born around that time (2002).

Why would a network operator allow caller ID to be so easily spoofed?

Our protocols are descended from the postal system - the sender is a bit of text written on the wrapper.

Certifying that is out of the scope of delivering to the addressee. It would involve back and forth with an authority - e.g. showing someone your id before being allowed to post a letter.

Spy Magazine in its time (mid 80s to mid 90s) had an amusing section titled "Logrolling in our time". Usually featuring mutually favorable blurbs by pairs of writers.

There's a huge variety of tastes

And a lot of those are not "tea" (with theine/caffeine), they're herb infusions such as mint, hibiscus, chamomile, etc. You can drink as much as you want without getting the typical caffeine buzz.

I particularly like the Morocco Mint & Spices that Lipton sells.

(Not OP)

I've used LibraryThing for book boxes. Using smallish boxes (30-40 paperbacks each) so that carrying them is not a backbreaker. Scan the ISBN barcodes with phone app, fix old ones/whatever on web app, tag with box number written on at least two sides. No problems found so far.

Only 1/4 [0] of the general public believes that, but marketers get hurt at any loss of customers ...

[0] https://mises.org/mises-wire/87-statistics-are-made

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-crime

You need a PLL somewhere, because the audio signal is encoded in the frequency shift of the carrier (e.g. 98 MHz +/- 150 kHz).

Or maybe you were getting a leak from the audio signal before modulation, e.g. via power lines or something.

Dylan Patel comes to essentially the same conclusions (and this is a better post I think): https://semianalysis.com/2024/12/09/intel-on-the-brink-of-de...

Thanks, good reading. Sharp retrospective and analysis, hopeful blueprint for the future:

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Intel Foundry won’t be laden with Intel’s lagging product team, Mobileye, or Altera. Intel Foundry will have one clear function, and it’s vital to national security and the future of America and the West.

Who should lead the charge here? Maybe a “Chip Czar” charged with restoring American logic prowess. We know someone with a great CV who has just become freed up for new opportunities…

"""

In case anyone else is curious about the photo not shown in the article, the paperback edition mentioned is probably this: https://www.amazon.com/Portable-Dorothy-Parker/dp/0140150749

Try this: https://send.djazz.se/

Minimal work if you configure the site as the homepage in the Kobo web browser.

Way back someone observed that the problem was not computers thinking like people, but people thinking like computers.

I believe we've been getting a bit of the latter.

someone just reinvented tar

Or "shell archives", .shar files - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar - they used to be kicked around in comp.sources.

had tons of reviews with OK crystaldisk performance screenshots

Select the 1-star reviews. Usually someone helpfully posts proof of the scam.

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Peru & Bolivia went to war with Chile for that region, but they lost in the War of the Pacific.

Why fight? Natural resources: guano and saltpeter.

Back then, guano was the world’s main fertilizer (and this area had most of the world's guano, thanks to the climate).

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That fertilizer produced iconic advertising in mid XX Century Portugal and Spain: https://c8.alamy.com/comp/AR22G9/nitrato-de-chile-advertisin...

Don't miss collecting the coupons for a free Butlerian Jihad (e.g. https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad )

I'd make two notes on this.

First, I've taken to looking at the economics as shared infrastructure costs - companies look at the volunteer built pot and make a self-interested decision on participating.

Second, this observation - "commoditize your complements" - seems still as apposite as when it was published in 2002: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/

"If we lived in the world of cyberpunk, we'd just plug into the system, scan the manual and think the information into the computer. Come on, Amstrad, there's a whole new market waiting here."

Summary: developed by Edward Altman in 1967, Z-score, a variation of the traditional z-score in statistics, is based on five financial ratios that can be calculated from data found on a company's annual 10-K report. It uses profitability, leverage, liquidity, solvency, and activity to predict whether a company has a high probability of becoming insolvent.

There is a page with the title used: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-windo...

Or close enough: "Installing Windows 11 on devices that don't meet minimum system requirements", it is linked in submitted page, it also contains the caution.

Hey, can't a blind pig find an acorn? Is it less of an acorn because it was found by a pig?

Myself, I appreciate Schopenhauer a lot more, and we know what he thought of Hegel, but I'm not fanatical about it. If a hack hits on a good line, I'll nab it.

Because sufficient amounts of quantity always beats quality

Hegel (as echoed by Marx): "merely quantitative differences beyond a certain point pass into qualitative changes" ( https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.240462397 )

I always found that an interesting observation, whatever you think of the rest of their works.