BubbleRings

8 ms·

91.
by BubbleRings 1y ago
Great read! Yeah, these days if I get asked for technical advice, I’m always glad to put good effort into suggestions. But as soon as you tell me “well I want to follow some of your advice, but I want to do this other stuff the wrong way”,
92.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
> In job interviews, I pushed candidates hard to at least say “I don’t know” once. Yes yes! Although, in an interview, there is not always an easy way to separate out people that can’t say “I don’t know” during day to day work, from thos
93.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I was disappointed that the article only once mentioned “from our perspective” in relation to the spin of galaxies. One of the most fascinating things that you first learn about when you try to understand relativity, is the fact that there
94.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I’d suggest adjusting your demo, I also couldn’t figure out if “3D” meant a technique or a product here.
95.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I think a lot of people get in trouble with pain from pull-ups. I love the exercise, but I no longer just walk up to the bar when I am in the mood. I first do a set or two on some resistance bands I attached to a ceiling, to warm up. They g
96.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I was hoping to see this here. Quitting caffeine can be really hard. But if you are like a lot of us, going completely caffeine free can be life changing, including making a lot of these types of pains go away. Be aware it can take months t
97.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
WCPGW?
98.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I totally agree. Want to keep a distractable 14 year old busy for an hour? Give him or her some wire, a cheap meter, a battery, some switches and LEDs. Want to possibly change that kid’s life? Give him the above, plus a scope, and hook it u
99.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Heh, the video is a little deceptive. The arm had no vision capability, so I faked it. The dominos only look like they are sitting in a random pile. Actually, they are sitting in very precise positions, so the arm would find them correctly
100.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
If you ever wonder what you could actually do with a nice arm… well, I had one for a while, and the following is the best I could come up with at the time. A fun little video: https://youtu.be/-UzOfwHeV5k?si=0eK8H3_3aO3yzs44
101.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
How many music files can it handle? I’ve got a very large collection of mp3s and flac and many of the similar programs I have tried have choked trying to handle the size of the collection.
102.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I clicked the link at the beginning of your article, that led to the Google sheet with the list of apps. That list had 12,373 lines, not “over 2,000”, fyi. And while most of the apps looked like small time games that I have never downloaded
103.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Well, if you aren’t that great with Docker but you want to try out a variety of LLMs under Docker, how much would this help you? How much trouble is it to enable an LLM to reach outside of a container to make use of your GPU? How much does
104.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I think I’ve taken some considerable career hits for that kind of attitude, but mostly no regrets here either. But I think I was affected by how, once you leave that company, your contribution to the effort can seem kind of gone, gone gone.
105.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
You should write a book on this stuff.
106.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
It is so good to see someone say that. I don’t code anymore, but as a systems engineer on different (often troubled) projects, I started developing a bit of a specialty in deleting crufty old collections of files. Sometimes multiple terabyt
107.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Ha. My friend and I had the FCC van roving our neighborhood looking for us once, back in the late 70s. A guy with a CB base station dropped a dime on us, cause we were playing with our 0.1 watt walkie talkies near his house. The guy that s
108.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Ha. Math geek.
109.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Care to elaborate?
110.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I have to agree with cootsnuck here. If you are one of the people that found it necessary to raise red flags in these comments about this web site, here’s why I think you got your level of paranoia wrong in this case: 1. The site was never
111.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I went looking for my copy of Computing Across America when I saw OP’s post, so I could post about it here, then I saw you beat me to it. A really nice guy, who I met when he stopped at the company I was working at, Chips and Technologies,
112.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
If you really want to have a solid overview understanding of World War 2, and you are just not the type to read two long books no matter how good they are, then here is probably your best option by far: 1. Pay for an Audible account. (Or fi
113.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Very slow burn. I just kept “almost figuring out” the engineering problems and suddenly over 2 decades went by. Not the “fail big and fail fast” approach that the youngsters talk about these days huh?
114.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Agree with you fully. If I was a teacher, I think I'd be constantly in trouble for failing students. I work in a field where I _think_ that clarity of communication is critically important. But then I see people that can't read or
115.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Ha, "burn the ships", I love it. Congrats, great blog and amazing running! I'm facing a huge moment soon where I will see whether I have made a big mistake that will result in the biggest fail of my life. But I'm still o
116.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Let's talk about the actual one page extract of her essay, which can be seen in the article, it is the second image. My take is, if she used AI to generate that, she didn't use a very good one. I don't think ChatGPT would mak
117.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
A hundred dollar bill crawling with Ebola virus is still worth a hundred dollars, yes. But I would really prefer if nobody tried to hand it to me.
118.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
If you happen to click the link at the bottom of the page "HOME PAGE OF applet-magic" like I did, you get one of the fake virus web sites. Just do Ctrl-Alt-Del (on Windows), select Task Manager, sort on Name if you have to, right
119.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
I don’t understand, what about this says they don’t have their fundamentals together?
120.
by BubbleRings 2y ago
Yeah, you are right, the “TV noise” sub plot is not part of Contact.

More ›