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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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
My Christmas 1982 model died with a faulty PLA well within the warranty period.
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 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-...
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.
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).
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?"
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
I wish I were kidding.
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.
Until you get sued into bankruptcy by millions of litigants.