geenew
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Comment · 3 years ago
That’s it for me
Comment · 3 years ago
This video, by Bill Clinton, prominently includes the etrade spokesdude. It gives an idea of how culturally prominent etrade was in the dotcom boom.
Comment · 3 years ago
Speaking from my own impressions, the UI was noticeably faster. There were many applications - mp3 playing, for example - that only worked on PowerPC.
Over time Intel became faster, but there was a period of ~1-3? years when PPC was faster. AFAIR :)
Comment · 3 years ago
This was a good show, about the relationship between birdsong and human language:
Comment · 3 years ago
To be fair, PowerPC was dramatically faster at the time. Akin to the jump with M1.
Comment · 3 years ago
Branched from
Meta hires DJ to play in cafeteria to urge workers to return to the office (businessinsider.com) by randycupertino:
Comment · 3 years ago
This must be the 'big data' I heard so much about.
LLMs in general, I mean. They seem to be the first widespread application for large, unstructured datasets. Still hype-y, but maybe even a /practical/ application.
Comment · 3 years ago
Straying a bit from the topic, but those 'magic eraser' home cleaning products work on laminated plastic, like you find on day-planner erasable calendars.
Porcelain whiteboards are nice, I've always managed to get them very clean with just rubbing alcohol.
Is there any concern about chipping or even breaking with the glass whiteboards (if, for example, it somehow falls on the floor, eg during moving)?
Comment · 3 years ago
There's an HBO movie about development of the Bradley called 'Pentagon Wars'. It's a rare bureaucratic comedy movie.
Comment · 3 years ago
RIP. Nothing more to add.
Comment · 3 years ago
It has a bearing on the cost associated with road closures, which can't be insignificant.
Anyway, some quick looking found:
> Gov. Janet Mills toured the Veranda Street site of the new bridge being installed along Interstate 295 in Portland on Saturday afternoon and said she was pleased with the rapid progress of the project.
> “I’m thrilled with the technology, thrilled that it’s going on time and on budget,” Mills said. “Three days’ time, and this bridge will be done. It’s amazing. It’s like giant Legos going together.”
https://www.pressherald.com/2022/04/23/i-295-bridge-replacem...
which seems like enough to go on to presume it's at least close to being on budget.
Comment · 3 years ago
Related, this is a worthwhile retrospective of the same war:
https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/iconic-images-from-the-...