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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
That headline really resonates as I spent many years in Las Vegas. LLMs in general have very slot machine like qualities. WHen they “pay off” they are great.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Awesome thanks. Added to my libraary. Interesting that the Coloradan study was asking a slightly different question regarding wolves in Colorado vs the magnitude of the wolf impact in Yellowstone. I felt the experimental setup was also good
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Both links are paywalled so I can't comment on what they say (positive or negative). That said, I did attend an interesting lecture about systems that looks a bit at the Yellowstone as a cautionary tale about extrapolating how a system
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
The economics aren't a mystery, people build concrete plants on site for large buildings for the same reason. That said, it makes me wonder if there are things you could do with this sort of approach that would be even more daring. You
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So am I just missing something or could you create a network connection to the "outside" world (clearly by finding your way around the local network? Start fuzzing the router endpoint, Etc. Or is Microsoft able to provide these co
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is a fun, and I enjoyed the "CRT Dude" video because I resonate with that need to understand :-). One of the things I learned during that era was that there were a lot of computer makers but relatively few factories in China
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I did not mean to imply I invented it, that was just the first time I had seen that form of shorthand. Presumably whomever at Sun who called it that was no doubt aware of other efforts, I was but a lowly entry level programmer in the system
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Well that certainly helps the economics.
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This is not a problem for finance bros, they would sell a discounted note that gave you "ownership" of the gold in 17 years at some discount on the current spot price of gold. So you'd get these things that 'mature'
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
EDIT Note: Sharp eyed commentators pointed out I misread the table, which makes the economics better. I had originally 3% but updated it to 10% Hmmm, mercury-198 is 10%[1] of mercury, of which in 2022, China was the top supplier at 2000 ton
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I can confirm that IBM has always been cheap in their dealings with suppliers. (and in their acquisitions)
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Ah, I see. I wasn't clear. Let me try this: I don't think Ms Gates knew anything about computers and I don't think IBM would have picked MS-DOS over a technically superior OS. I think 3 things happened: 1) Mary mentions to Jo
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Nice writeup. I suspect you're measuring the cost of abstraction. Specifically, routines that can handle lots of things (like locale based strings and utf8 character) have more things to do before they can produce results. This was som
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
The original comment said they were both on the board of United Way. Those are the votes he'd be curating. United Way, at the time, was the largest non-profit in the United States and it's mission was to funnel donations to &quo
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
One way to look at it is that if IBM considered licensing MS-DOS and CP/M to be equivalent, which is to say either one would serve there purposes. Then I can easily see the Chairman of IBM putting a finger on the scale to swing it towa
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
There is a lot of fraud on Craigslist. The fraudsters are very creative. There is this fallacy, the 'Sunk Cost' fallacy, where people accept a substandard result because they feel they have already invested in the result and don
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Reading this I can see these tools as training tools for software engineering managers.
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This is gonna kill Craigslist :-). You see these pictures of a really nice car and get there and find it has a crushed left fender, rust holes in the hood and a broken headlight. We had a realtor list a property in our area and they had use
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Okay, I love this paper a lot. Mostly because it does an excellent job of teaching while being cheeky, but it also points out the many ways that people who choose to create perceptions that aren't particularly accurate. The pressure to
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Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records; a Home Computer, Abacus, and a Dog(eprint.iacr.org)
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Thanks for the extended explanation. "... a single developer simply gets a ticket, implements the functionality, and moves onto the next ticket." In your first bullet there, you describe what I think of as CRUD jobs, and I agree w
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I appreciate your insight, it did make me wonder. > I feel like the rise of big tech showed us that it's corporate cogwheels that are most successful career-wise. I would be interested to hear how you reason to that. What is your de
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
If you're young and reading this and having feelings of fear and dread, I can sympathize. When I graduated with an engineering degree the industry was saying that there would be no jobs for us because all of the engineering was either
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I could see this really accelerating strip mining or deforestation in places where there either isn't a lot of local opposition or there is a favorable regulatory environment. It makes me wonder if Tinto is an investor.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Fun stuff Ben! Nicely done. I'm building a simple terminal that talks over a SPI port or IIC port and this looks like it would be a fun demo to run on it.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yeah, it's alot alot :-). Over on Mastodon I asked Phil Plait (@badastro) if the "missing mass" in the universe might be a result of black holes converging[1]. He wrote up this event in his newsletter[2] and points out that w
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I don't disagree with this. When running the infrastructure for the Blekko search engine we did the math and after 115 servers worth of cluster it was always cheaper to do it ourselves than with AWS or elsewhere, than after around 1300
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Nice. I wish you success in this.
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Excellent discussion in this thread, captures a lot of the challenges. I don't think we're a peak vibe coding yet, nor have companies experienced the level of pain that is possible here. The biggest 'rug pull' here is th
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Agreed, I am wondering if you could extract food truck data from the various licensing databases. That question arises because in some places food trucks have replaced the statistically improbable 'hole-in-the-wall' restaurant for

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