raldi

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My name's Mike Schiraldi. My Gmail account is my first name followed by my last name.
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Comment · 7 hours ago
Comment · 2 days ago
The NFL and MLB seem to have similar numbers of recent dynasties and of different teams that have won a championship.
Comment · 20 days ago
I went to New York’s Museum of Holography in the 1980’s. It was on Mercer Street but it closed in the 90’s. I remember it was incredible, though, and I saw some techniques on display that I haven’t seen matched since.
Comment · 28 days ago
And what might that look like in a hypothetical future where the successors of today's LLMs really do reach that bar and convince you?
Comment · 28 days ago
If you lived in the world of Star Trek, could Data convince you he was conscious? How?
Comment · 1 month ago
I was working there when they switched to that font. A lot of people were furious that their cheese had been moved.
Comment · 1 month ago
Well there's a name I haven't seen since 2007
Comment · 1 month ago
These are the original illustrations with just the text changed.
Comment · 1 month ago
Not sure; I didn't go to law school.
Comment · 1 month ago
Out of curiosity, why do you think you know that?
Comment · 1 month ago
"Oh, I wonder which subroutine he came up with"

(Googles it)

"Ah"

Comment · 1 month ago
This was probably what people used to say about petrol stations.
Comment · 1 month ago
The floppies got A and B because hard drives were expensive and for a time a lot of people got by without them, though everybody had at least one floppy.

Even if you only had one floppy, it was both A and B, so you could say "copy a:DOC.TXT b:" and it would read the doc and then ask you to insert the floppy you're considering B (and depending on file size and available memory, sometimes switch back and forth a few more times)

Comment · 2 months ago
“Burning Man is supposed to be about anarchy!”

“Cool, I’m going to fly in on a private plane”

“No not like that”

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