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A man built a house. That man years later became Prime Minister. I like the idea of a Prime Minister being able to build a house.

Another man, a man I know, builds boats. He builds boats like Beethoven, say, wrote symphonies or Henry Moore cut so deep to the heart of a stone one day he discovered, he said, the sky on the other side.

This man builds boats in his garden. They’re launched from there – his garden that floats a step above full tide. And when the tide is full in Tory Channel the moon comes to watch.

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Comment · 1 month ago
Correct - this isn't new, it's how it works there. Single new grads in the 80's & 90's were being offered government funded beach holidays on graduation where they were paired with selected dating partners.
Comment · 1 month ago
In the 80's in business non-verbal communication was by physically moving printed pieces of paper from desk to desk. Producing these was noisy and laborious. Laser printers in were an absolute breakthrough technology and together with print focussed word processors optimized that paradigm to its peak.

In today's world, does word perfect give you anything that markdown in obsidian doesn't? (other than weird key bindings and file format)

Maybe it does - distraction-free writing is a thing. Something vibed off wordstar but made more relevant could be pretty cool.

Comment · 1 month ago
to clarify for those of a nautical bent - that's about half a blue whale for about 4/5ths of a dozen nautical miles
Comment · 1 month ago
MCP client for `codex_apps` failed to start: error: unexpected server response: HTTP 451: {"message":"no_biscuit_no_service"}

Quick! Someone call a caterer, This AI needs a biscuit NOW!!!

Comment · 1 month ago
The obvious question: is there a single point of failure / common piece of infrastructure involved with failures across all these providers?

Its interesting that codex/gpt-app are screwed because their APIs (including auth) fail, but gpt web still appears to be working.

Comment · 9 years ago
exactly the same thing happened to me with Litecoin on GDAX.

They sold off my entire holdings for $0.01 - $0 after fees. At the time LTC was trading for something like $25/LTC.

It took about 3 weeks to get anything but an automated response from their support team.

This was the response:

"After further review, this sell was due to a margin call of your margin position on the LTC/BTC order book. A series of large sell orders were placed on the LTC/BTC order book on May 21, 2017 around 1am UTC causing a large price decline which triggered a margin call of your position when your maintenance margin ratio was exceeded.

The trading engine and margin call functioned as designed. The large price decline was due to the relatively low liquidity on the order book at that time."

They eventually refunded the coins.... but a couple of days later removed half of the refund with no explanation. I'm out of pocket by about $1200. I'm still waiting for a response from them on that one.

Comment · 9 years ago
TLDR; Northern hemisphere:definitely, Southern:Maybe.

It's in cygnus, which is always visible in the northern hemisphere, and visible in a lot of the southern hemisphere low on the horizon in the winter months.

The event is not certain, but is highly likely to occur. The date is "2022 give or take a year", so if it occurs in Southern winter then it will likely be visible to the Southern hemisphere.

Comment · 9 years ago
yeah, nice to see PMD still getting some love. A very well implemented tool that just does what it does awesomely well.
Comment · 10 years ago
Because the orbital ship is structurally unable to cope with higher atmospheric density so must be assembled and maintained at altitude and never go below the height of the station. There's a few challenges there...
Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
I honestly couldn't finish this. Who exactly is comparing today's startups to the manhattan project? Yes many projects are aiming for more ad clicks, but so what? In the 30's movies and radio were doing the same thing and what? Why are they being compared to the manhattan project, or to apollo, or to the search for the Higgs boson, or world peace, or whatever?. Is there anything to this beyond the obvious strawmab cllckbait?
Comment · 10 years ago
Depends on context. In the early days many s100 users assembled the boards themselves and doubtless wouldn't have blinked any eyelid at hacking 8080/z80 bios code if they needed to (I remember the first kid at school to get a computer around that time, programmable with physical switches, binary LED display). By the time the commercial software market for CP/M became established with killer apps like word star, the users would have been rightly horrified by bios hacking.
Comment · 10 years ago
From the history page: 2007-06-12 – Project start

It's pretty cool seeing these long lived projects going from strength to strength

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