ChainOfFools

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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
The middle of the bell curve, which dominates the market, has a need for drool-proof interfaces that many of the sort who frequent HN and similar interest communities do not.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I have a family acquaintance who works at a fairly prominent hft shop in nyc. He's rather circumspect when I ask him about details of his job, which doesn't directly relate to trading but I get the impression he has to know quite
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I hope I didn't make it sound like it was easy, at least I don't think I said that anywhere. It doesn't really matter how hard something is to do (short of it being trivially proven impossible), it matters whether there'
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
edit: I should have just checked their website instead of guessing. Apparently WSE has significant fabrication challenges, which makes what Cerebras has accomplished all the more impressive. But it is still surprising that no one else has a
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
"What kinds of people operate tor exit nodes and why do they do it" is one of those questions that I know I'm not even supposed to admit being curious about, let alone ask, in the company of people who are most capable of acc
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
From a certain distance LessWrong looks like the kind of place that would appeal to someone like me, so in spite of some of the negative characterizations I heard I tried browsing it through the strongest steelman goggles I could find. The
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Exactly the sort of take I hope to find every time I browse HN. A thoughtful "what if" that prompts reflection on a topic in a fundamentally unique way, even if it doesn't readily suggest a resolution.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I've never heard anything to confirm this, but I've always assumed that this was a reference to the history of Ball Aerospace, with its improbable origin and evolution from a company that made glass jars and lids for grandma'
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I too confused art with craft for quite a long time. it's another framing of the difference between being interested in why versus being interested in how.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Sorry if I'm coming across as presumptuous or something, it's just surprising to find that modern hard drives are still using the same basic mechanism that I saw inside the washing machine-size drives my dad worked on 40 something
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I would never have guessed how much thermal expansion had to be compensated for in modern hard drives, I would have assumed they were built such that no degree of precision that required accomodating changes in physical parameters was attem
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I don't know I keep getting answers to different proposals than the one that I have made, all with a significant detail changed so that the answer makes sense and the proposal sounds absurd. In this case, I don't know how the impr
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
What would be the advantage of having different sector and track layouts for different platters on the same spindle, with the same servo addressing all of them? Are platters binned the same way that processors are?
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Back when I lived in Portland 20+ years ago, just as it was starting to turn into the version of itself that would be sent up in Portlandia, I used to tell relatives back east that culturally Oregon is to California what California is to t
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I remember someone explaining this to me years ago when IOmega released those removable Bernoulli drive cartridges. The (for the time) high densities were possible because even though the recording medium was a flexible bit of plastic, the
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
The article does mention that this is a complication particular to SMR drives, but I was thinking about this not necessarily as a means of reaching higher density storage, but more reliable and perhaps higher performance solutions that woul
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
What if the bar were able to travel linerarly via a voice coil, and had hundreds of heads, but the bar was able to shift in a linear fashion only about a micron back and forth in increments of thousandths of a micron. Wouldn't that ge
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I wonder why drives still use mechanical actuators to fling a single read write head back and forth across the surface, rather than a bar fixed in place that spans entire radius of the writable surface, with an addressable strip of r/w
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
C.S. Lewis condensed this even further, as the "sudden perception of incongruity."
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
It was a good time to be buying Intel when they were naming their chips after Oregon cities.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
The studio I worked at during that time actually did have a CPU slot based memory extension that can handle I believe up to 256 Mb, this would have been around 92 or 93, but I'm not sure how early it was offered on the market that&#x27
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
Listed in that wiki, along with the much older Picojava
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
What is the source of this? Many years ago I wrote an honors essay for some undergrad class that built on the same observation, although I needed to run with it for a dozen pages or so to satisfy page count expectations.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I looked at the Alice camera, and immediately had to suppress the urge to sign up for the kickstarter while I took a step back to consider that this will end up in the tech junk drawer after a few novelty outings. It fails the same 'on
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
While we're on the subject, how about how the position of the headlights on these vehicles that aims squarely at the side and rear view mirrors of passenger cars, distracting and dazzling the drivers for no reason other than to intim
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
But sticking to the familiar crowd-pleasing members of that sequence to make the joke stick, knowing that even on this site working in poor neglected uracil would be trying too hard
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
tax writeoffs
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
so much human potential, natural resources, and anxiety wasted on obsessive pursuit of diddling a few special nerve endings, heaped in a mountain of self-serving social pecking order mythology and ritualistic mystery.
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
I'm not sure I was clear, or if the manner in which I was attempting to frame my response using the context of the parent post worked the way I thought it would. But what I mean is that 10 minutes would be perhaps the approximate bound
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by ChainOfFools 2y ago
> about my ability to speak for 10 minutes about something without notes. I'm not sure how common this sentiment is, but I would feel extraordinarily uncomfortable -to the point of feeling a bit like a fraud - if I were to speak abo

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