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Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson, too. "Deadwing" is one of their best work.


From Feynman`s biography, on trying to separate the isotopes of uranium:

> It was such a shock to me to see that a committee of men (Oppenheimer, Compton, Tolman, Smyth, Urey, and Rabi) could present a whole lot of ideas, each one thinking of a new facet, while remembering what the other fella said, so that, at the end, the decision is made as to which idea was the best - summing it all up - without having to say it three times. These were very great men indeed.


I think this has a lot to do in interest in the topic. It's a lot easier to be engaged when changing the fate of the world than when sitting through another "who is doing what part of the data migration" meeting. Just something to keep in mind.


the power of many ego-less minds functioning as one is fascinating


Are there any more sites like these?

I saw one for Hieronymus Bosch`s painting: The Garden of Earthly Delights

https://archief.ntr.nl/tuinderlusten/en.html


The one difference I can see is how chatGPT optimises the code based on the instruction you provide, while Copilot could only complete the code in one way.

For instance I asked chatGPT to write a code for square root which it did using inbuilt Math.sqrt function. I instructed it to write without using inbuilt function which it did. However, no matter how many times I instructed it to avoid using Math.floor or Math.ceil, it was not taking any heed.


in most copilot editor extentions there is a window you can open that gives 10 different completions. You can also easily shape what it gives you with a single comment ("# function for a qsquare root, don't use math.sqrt or math.floor" etc)


The Strangest man by Graham Farmelo.

It`s a biography of Paul Dirac, considered one of the best physicists of the 20th century. The book elucidates his obscure life and his contribution to quantum physics while not being overly jargonistic.


Sometimes you don`t have to trade. I`m using Samsung S10e with headphone jack and IP68 rating. Best compact phone ever.


> his colleagues at cambridge, created a unit called 'dirac', which was 1 word/hour to describe his taciturn nature :o)

There are always more people who'd rather speak than listen. :)


Imho, this type of abstraction should be allowed in case of code repetition. So the reviewer/debugger will have to go non linear only one time.

In any other case the whole code should be in one file.


There was an article on techdirt which outlined the aftermath of killing NN in Portugal. The ISP started splitting net into several packages.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DNGlrABUIAAr9RO.jpg:large


In Europe it’s pretty common for phone providers to offer a package that includes access to a popular service that won’t count towards your data limit. Here’s another example from O2 UK:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/how-phones-changed-the...



That guy is getting too worked up over a small misattribution. Does he think the world works in a vacuum and other companies aren't taking note? Doesn't matter if it's phone or residential service, the fact that it's been enacted is absolutely egregious.


It's a pretty big misattribution. Throttling traffic makes a lot more sense on a cellular network.


Yeah. I didn't get what the big deal was about it until I read the 30 second and turns he mentioned in his explanation.


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