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jmdeschamps | 1 year ago | on: SpaceX's unmatched streak of perfection with the Falcon 9 rocket is over

Still unmatched, even if imperfect...

jmdeschamps | 1 year ago | on: 'I'm the new Oppenheimer ': Palantir's first-ever AI warfare conference

Civis pacem, para bellum

jmdeschamps | 2 years ago | on: Python 3.13 Gets a JIT

Maybe the article should be dated "January 9, 2024" ??? (or is it really a year old article?)

jmdeschamps | 3 years ago | on: No level of alcohol consumption is safe for our health

It's the polyphenols associated with grapes in red wine that might be "healthy", not the alcohol... But then again... https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-red-wine-good-actuall...

jmdeschamps | 3 years ago | on: Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992) [video]

Well for PowerPoint, Mac users were already using MORE 3.0 (sigh)

jmdeschamps | 3 years ago | on: Introduction to Microsoft Excel (1992) [video]

Have had the chance of working 18 month with NeXT computer - best (spirit) of machine ever... Improv was outstanding, but too much so... people couldn't easily adapt their spreadsheet work to the new tools (and on NeXT, in a time when green screen PCs here trying to adopt Windows 3.11 ;-) ) - seen quite a few applications never used to their potential benefits (and just wither away, replaced by less capable partial imitations)