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by 2sk21 4y ago
Thank you - this could solve a problem in my house. We had CO2 build up in our bedrooms and the only way I have found to ameliorate the problem is to have our HVAC fan running continuously at night to circulate the air in our house.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Like you I was sick of software engineering but still really enjoy programming. I was fortunate enough to be able to retire early and I now enjoy programming a few hours a day on various personal projects and open source.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
When I worked at IBM, we were given generous cash incentives for filing patents. I am named as an inventor on about 40 patents. To be honest, only one of them was a genuine invention in my opinion.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Pretty underwhelming set of predictions. However, his fascination with the deconstruction of Twitter was pretty jarring.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Same here, I started out 2022 with a neutral opinion of him. It could not be any lower now.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
I agree - this hate for the Boglehead philosophy is weird. Back in the 90s, I watched an interview with Jack Bogle. I then started regular automated index fund investing in addition to maxing out my 401k. I was well paid but never earned a
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by 2sk21 4y ago
The crypto "industry" is a set of people selling Pet Rocks to each other
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by 2sk21 4y ago
The only thing missing is "I am humbled to accept this honor" :-)
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by 2sk21 4y ago
I read the book The Soul of a New Machine in 1982 when I was an undergraduate in India. I was so impressed that I became determined to get into software development as a career. Then I came to America for grad school and got a programming j
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Despite the tremendous amount of effort that's gone into creating large language models, there is still no way to hold a goal-directed conversation with voice assistants. There is a lot of implicit context in normal human speech that n
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Yes - as an outsider, it feels as if the entire crypto space consists of people selling tulip bulbs to each other.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Also, this assumes that there is plentiful electricity in this post apocalyptic future to mine bitcoins!
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by 2sk21 4y ago
How does one buy Bitcoin or Ethereum outside of exchanges?
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by 2sk21 4y ago
> The regular public won't hear about this. From what I am reading, quite a few people had money in FTX so this may not be entirely true. The word will spread about people who lost it all in the FTX bankruptcy.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Good point. I think it will get even worse as automation improves. Consider that problems beyond thew ability of the automated driving system are delegated to the human driver. As automation improves, the human driver will have to be even m
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by 2sk21 4y ago
What's not clear is this: I thought being in the Metaverse is supposed to be leisure time activity. So what would you do with it at work?
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by 2sk21 4y ago
I saw these in use in the Boeing factory north of Seattle during the factory tour.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
I wrote my first program in 1980 (in Fortran). After I finished my PhD, I was employed in various programming jobs for about thirty years until I retired in 2020. I still spend a lot of time programming, which I still enjoy, but no longer f
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by 2sk21 4y ago
from the manufacturer's viewpoint the main problem with EVs is that there is much less scope for differentiation in the power train. Most manufacturers are going to be using similar battery technology. I think that motor technology wil
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Exactly - tt has no memory except the narrow window. When these models develop a hippocampus analog and can push things into long term memory, it might become interesting.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
"Machine Learning: The High Interest Credit Card of Technical Debt" https://research.google/pubs/pub43146/
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by 2sk21 4y ago
This is absolutely on the mark. When I worked at IBM, we would do community outreach in area schools. None of the kids we were mentoring had even a clue about IBM. Only the older teachers even remembered IBM. This was a bracing experience.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Not just electrical engineering - I was recently talking to my daughter who goes to a big tech university in the US. Very few students are enrolling in many engineering disciplines including civil engineering.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
This is funny - back in 2015, the Spotify model became the organizational model for our product team at IBM Watson. It did not work for much the same reasons described by the author. All that it resulted in was an inscrutable organizational
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Love this!
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Reminds me of the old IBM mainframes (until the 1990s) that were liquid cooled. They had an ingenious approach called TCM (Thermal Conduction Module) with the silicon chips directly attached to a cooled substrate.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
This article definitely strokes a chord in me, although in my case for for Swift, not Rust. After I retired a couple of years ago, I decided to develop a Mac and iOS app in Swift using SwiftUI. In most of my career, I used Java, C or Python
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by 2sk21 4y ago
This is a very promising tool - I can see many uses for it. My one fear nowadays is that this data could be valuable to the likes of Google etc for training ML models. Hope you can keep this away from the crawlers.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
HN mostly reminds me of the Usenet of the late 1980s - which was in a way the social media of its time.
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by 2sk21 4y ago
Looks like someone has resurrected F*cked Company :-) Brings back interesting memories of the period from 2000 to 2002.

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