Today in 1911, 113 years ago: The destroyer USS Terry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy 16 kilometres (10 mi) from Havana, Cuba.
Today in 1595, 429 years ago: the tragedy Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is premiered in London.
We really, really don’t want to have to make a printer, but wow.
@mntmn The internet has created this idea where you have to google everything, but I know with the reform that whatever it is, it's almost certainly in the handbook.
Today in 1921, 103 years ago: in Paris, the Conference of Allied Countries establishes that Germany must pay as war compensation 226 billion marks in 42 annuities (until 1963) .1924: in Russia, Petrograd -formerly St. Petersburg- is baptized Leningrad.
Get Ready for the Great #AI #Disappointment
https://www.wired.com/story/get-ready-for-the-great-ai-disappointment/
“Some people will start recognizing that it was always a pipe #dream to reach anything resembling #complex #human #cognition on the basis of #predicting words.”
@mntmn Every time I have to use the reform manual (needed to look up some battery compatibility) I realize what a great job you all did with the documentation. It is some of the best I've seen and the renderings are superb.
"The Czech state administration will stop providing its services over IPv4 on 6 June 2032" 👍👍👍
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