AtomicOrbital

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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
back then I had a commodore vic 20 which ran out of ram simply coding up the creation of a backgammon game in basic so I borrowed a friends TRS80 ... wow what a dream machine ... I was able to finish writing the program and its graphics was
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Sure some NN tool can ape anything however that approach sheds zero intuition on understanding the hidden structure of what it's mimicking... current wave of NN masks asking the important questions like how does a cell grow ... I fear
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
wildlife in general with the exception of insects has flourished over the past 20 years here in upstate New York ( Norwich area ) probably due to massive depopulation ( globalization forced shutdown of most local factories ) and fewer hunte
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
I get same error on ff 105.0a1 (2022-08-01) (64-bit) running on Ubuntu 22.04 ... however I know WebGL runs fine on this setup on same laptop using chrome Version 106.0.5249.21 (Official Build) dev (64-bit) get error [.WebGL-0x1b80018ed800
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The Manual for the Mass Surveillance Tool Cops Use to Track Phones(vice.com)
263 points by AtomicOrbital 4y ago|95 comments
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Dell Precision 7530 i7-8750H 32gb ram ... on ebay for less than $950 tax and shipping included ... its super fast ... been running Ubuntu ... very happy
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Exactly ... agile fails on any project which requires pure research or exploratory hard problems which are above and beyond just grunt work ... Agile shops typically assume the work is predictable and just a function of redoing a known rec
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
A country where the people who by necessity must work to survive, draws from a much wider percentage of the populace those who have the ability to engender an entrepreneur culture... It's very easy in the USA to live off free governmen
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
I'm only an occasional reddit user so have not looked for such clients yet my guess is most heavy users are already using such tricks as it's unbearable to put up with the magnitude of advertising on reddit Note to reddit: rethink
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Sounds like it's high time fundamental aspects of a given game morph slightly during gameplay... fabric of reality remains unknowable so this should be reflected in games
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Michael is in it for the long haul ... as long as he can stay afloat until the inevitable upswing
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
NYC back in early 2000's had a West Nile Virus scare so gov did extensive aerial spraying of pesticides for many months ... that was the end of mosquitoes... gov publicized the nighttime spraying back then, not today yet the city cont
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
It is no coincidence that once china brutally overtook power over Tibet it soon afterward deverted tibetian rivers to flow into china and away from their normal southernly trajectory
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
its well worth the effort to learn about the life of experimental chemist Alexander (Sasha) Shulgin who famously would design then create in his backyard lab hundreds of permutations of various molecules ... Sasha would take the creation an
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
good side of current supply chain issues is this encourages hardware manufacturers to make the transition away from using domain specific computer chips and to instead rewrite that logic purely in software to get executed in today's su
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Why the Soviet Computer Failed(youtube.com)
3 points by AtomicOrbital 4y ago|2 comments
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
to me its obvious amazon managers intentionally avoid giving us such a delete all resources button simply to maximize profits
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
I decided to become a server developer as opposed to front end to avoid the js ecosystem meltdown... however I see server side tools like kubernetes have also become so ladened with exposing complexity we too find little time for actual cre
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Researchers from Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) successfully sent data down a custom multi-core fiber optic cable at a speed of 1.02 petabits per second over a distance of 51.7 km. That’s the
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First Successful Transmission of 1 Petabit per Second(nict.go.jp)
2 points by AtomicOrbital 4y ago|1 comments
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Physics, Math, and Astronomy Podcasts – A List Compiled by TrueSciPhi(truesciphi.org)
2 points by AtomicOrbital 4y ago|0 comments
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Credit must also go to mass purely for max profit agribusiness who just don't care and are too big to fight so responsibility to stuart falls to the enlightened citizens knowing government is toothless
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Ah the wonders of teaching myself how to code on a commodore... I had the smaller one a generation prior to the c64 ... Yes peek N poke... as I remember it had 8 kilobytes of ram so creating a four page program with little storage allocatio
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
here is the underlying Nature article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29568-y
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
Needed is a suite of open source applications/processes ported to each cloud provider to directly compare on cost ... kicker is to exhibit best practices
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by AtomicOrbital 4y ago
I used Intuit online for about 10 years... at the beginning it was fantastic however year over year it just became worse until I had to abandon them and use a different online tax service... My returns are very straightforward and I did my
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by AtomicOrbital 5y ago
My first comp sci job was a unix/Linux shop so I got an early start ... from time to time I use osx or windows only to maintain a grip as to their ease of use from a server side developer perspective and I must say getting over the hu
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by AtomicOrbital 5y ago
This is the book which enabled me to code up a solution to parse an image to synthesize it's audio equivalent ... then to listen to the audio to synthesize it's equivalent output image ... job done when output image matched input
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by AtomicOrbital 5y ago
my approach is the opposite ... attack the most difficult aspect of the challenge first ... get this working using the normal divide and conquer approach ... this often requires totally different inputs and outputs since its the inner core
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by AtomicOrbital 5y ago
why stop with crustaceans ? trees have sentience too just look into how they respond to predation ... when under attack from say insects they launch a synthesis of molecules which attracts yet other species which feed on those insects ... d

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