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> I was waiting for someone to chime in with "HP is better cuz RPN."

Well, it is ;) The Swiss Micros clones are pretty awesome:

https://www.swissmicros.com/product/dm41x


I have 2 Swiss Micros and a pile of sapphire-chip designed-in-Corvallis USA-made HPs. The DM41x is pure joy in the hand. But I still texted the pink TI-84 EVO to my 16-year-old daughter because she doesn't like my stodgy TI-84 CE Plus (which I love).

Same story here. I still have the HP15C I learned assembly language on ;) None worse for the wear. They'll all come handy after the acopalypse.

Hmm, can one fake-install extensions that randomly return yes/no to those queries ? It's pretty clear which files linkedin (and other sites doing the fingerprinting) is testing, one can observe it as the OP author points out.

It should also be interesting to see which other sites test those very same files, has anybody looked yet ?


Locked and loaded, as it were ;)

Hey, I was one of those -- get off my lawn!

;)


Props to Martin Galway to make this available to the public. I wish this were more common. I.e. writers could insist on a contractual shorter copyright period when negotiating with publishers.

Then again, I don't know how much authors earn on books after 10, 20, 30 years. It probably varies, the JRR Tolkien estate and K.K Rowling probably see still very significant income streams. It could still be a good strategy for lesser known authors.


JRR Tolkien still makes money from copyright but sadly can't write books anymore. The whole absurdity of copyright law.

I mean, both in English and in german, that's how you would talk to a dog. "Er hat in die Ecke gepinkelt"/"He peed in the corner" (or "she", if it's a female dog).

I don't know what is jarring talking about the chatbot like that.

It may be creepier if you said "she wrote that program for me" as you now assign a specific gender to the chatbot.


It's how you'd talk about a dog that you know the sex of, but if you didn't know you'd probably use "it". An LLM doesn't have a sex or gender, so I think the natural way to refer to them is "it".

in English, maybe. In German, not really. "Der Bot", "der Robot", "der Computer".

Also, "Es hat in die Ecke gepinkelt". Which pronoun you use is just as dependent on the context as in english.

I have not met a single German that has ever uttered this sentence. (Relating to a dog, that is)

Neither have I, but mostly because either the person knows the gender of the animal or the situation just never came up. The closest that I would say is "Es scheißt gerne aufs Auto" when talking about pidgens (die Taube), but even then you generally talk about multiple, resulting in "Sie scheißen gerne aufs Auto"

Really ? "Es kackt auf's Auto" ? I guess, it might make sense when the person speaking has no specific bird on mind, but only thinks of "das Tier" (the animal). One could also say "er hat .. geckack (der Vogel)", but usually, people wouldn't say "er/sie/es", but use the fully specified noun ("die Taube ... hat..", "der Vogel ht ...", "ein Tier hat ...")

"Es kackt auf's Auto" feels slightly weird to me, if I didn't know whodunnit, I'd probably say something like "irgendwer hat mir aufs Auto gekackt" ("someone pooped on the car"), although there is a also "irgendwas hat mir aufs Auto gekackt" ("something pooped on the car"). My guess is the majority of German would choose the first sentence and anthropomorphize, but maybe I'm projecting.

It's an interesting question, after all. Thanks for bringing it up, haven't talked about pooping on cars for a while ;)


However, "die AI", "Kuenstliche Intelligenz".

It's very insightful to look up fission, fusion, atom and find yourself ... definitely before the great war.

As a time travel machine for the mind, this is great!

It would also be an invaluable resource for any Dungeon Master aspiring to lead a campaign at the end of the 19th century (Sherlock Holmes, or PG Wodehouse style, as it were), as doubtless many here are ...


That's true even today for HAM radio handhelds. There is a cottage industry of ever larger snap on batteries for Baofengs and others. Very handy.

Random thought: Maybe Apple should use radioisotope batteries to never have to change them, ever. I jest.


> Maybe Apple should use radioisotope batteries to never have to change them, ever. I jest.

They could make an RTG battery out of Promethium-147, a beta-emitter with half-life of 2.6 years and history of use in nuclear batteries, or Iron-55, an x-ray source with similar half-life. That would be perfect and totally on-brand for Apple, as the battery would naturally force the phone to be replaced in 3 years, and they'd have a solid safety/security justification for why any repair or replacement must be done in authorized Apple stores, by authorized personnel, with authorized parts and equipment. In a store where you could, oh so conveniently, just buy a new iPhone.


Hmmm. Someone tell the mynoise people. Having a sound ambience of a typing room might be awesome ? Or not ?

The Selectric sounds pretty nice. I should really modify one of mine to be used as a terminal one day.


On the old[0] MyNoise app, there's "Calm Office" which has generators for "Keyboards & Mouse"[1] and "Keyboards"[2].

There's also "Vintage Office" which has "Mechanical Keyboard"[3].

Both have a variety of other ambiences that could fill out "typing room" (especially if you made a multi-generator.)

But yeah, it could do with a bit more variety of "office" and "keyboard" generators.

[0] I dislike the new app's UI/UX, it doesn't support multi-generators, and there's no easy way to download all the generators you have access to. (You also have to pay again for lifetime access but that I'm fine with.)

[1] "thock"

[2] "clatter"

[3] kind of a watery thock?


[0] Yeah, I'm not super happy, but I get that he needs to pay the bills. I think it's worth it, on the whole.

I'm definitely do not have the right personality to obsess over the precise sounds like Stéphane. It's good he's doing the Lord's work for us.

But yeah, having an app for a multi-generator, possibly programmable via Google home or so would be nice.


Tons of ten-hour-long typing sound videos on YouTube.

Yeah, but generating it in mynoise would be way cooler. Could have one of the sounds be the guy in Simon's cat muttering to himself :)

huh, always wondered where Pratchett got the Octavio idea from.

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