ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Y'all would really like https://www.gathering4gardner.org/ :-) I tend to like lcamtuf's Electronics entries a bit better (I'm an EE after all) but I find he has a great way of explaining things.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Click stream is useful, without a doubt. It isn't essential. We had already started the process at Blekko of moving to alternate ways for ranking the index. That said, if you run the frontend as proposed, you get to collect the click
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Every AI chatbot to date suffers from the "Film expert" effect. That is when a script writer presents data from an "expert" in a movie or show to the audience in response to some information need on the part of the other
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I would be you $1 that in five to ten years there will be zero "AI" players replacing search. But that's a different topic than this one.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
At Blekko we advocated for this as well. Google has two interlocked monopolies, one is the search index and the other is their advertising service. We often joked that if Google reasonable and non-discriminatory priced access to their index
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yay? I'm not sure what I'm missing here. In startup parlance this feels more like a feature than a product (like maybe a division of Lockheed or Boeing).
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Congrats John. Of all the roles in a company for a technical person I find member of the board to be the most complex.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This will be fun to watch. Thermal vision gear that is 'cheap' is in high demand, so there is a ready market for that if they can get it in production quantities.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
End the end I gave up :-) The problem I was trying to solve was a physics based deformable environment. Something like minecraft but without the blockyness. Basically allowing one to dig as deep as one wanted into the planet, build as high
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yes! There was a great Graphics Gems article on implementing quad trees. The things that change are the sheer number of things you might have in your environment.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
That is a great technique.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Exactly correct. In reading some highly regarded works two things occurred to me, first that the author had captured into words some fundamental aspect of the human condition. Second was that it's easier to think about something presen
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I thought Mark Twain said that. /ducks
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
"Many of the best things in life are hard. And you wouldn't necessarily recommend them to a friend." Yup.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is perhaps what amazes me the most. We're each a Borg, we are a collective that has adapted the biological distinctiveness of bacteria that we've assimilated into a collective that "thinks." Pretty wild. That we gat
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
That's pretty clever. In my 3D experiments I always struggled with minimizing the number of objects in the world I had to consider for rendering on each frame based on the view/fog(range). This seems like it would help with that.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This article and the comments here are kind of scary. It feels like Google's only supporting apps that "drive engagement". That sounds like they want to force developers into producing stuff they can show ads in because they
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This and the Cult of Mac book completely describe it. Leaders are people who can have emotional damage that they compensate for in their business decisions. It is "easy" to understand why parents would lie to home invasion robbers
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
> This might be too deep for this thread, but... does it ever get better? If I had to point to a single thing that is most indicative to the change-over from 'child' to 'adult' it would be the thought behind this ques
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is an update from the folks doing Thunderscope (a high frequency "soft" oscilloscope) but this really stands out: Teaching KiCad a New Trick - Matching Delays At time of writing, KiCad only understands the length of traces a
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Thunderscope update: My take: Why open source is better(crowdsupply.com)
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
You're leading edge in this regard, the fall off is, in my experience, somewhat exponential. It never quite reaches zero though. Which is why we have people who still have AOL mail addresses.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This response captures it perfectly. I started at Google in 2006 and the "mini kitchens" (essentially a convenience mart) were just getting "re-organized" The new CFO was out to "cut unnecessary costs."[1] Whil
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This feels symptomatic of Google getting more and more desperate to have Youtube generate net revenue. All of the changes pointed out (and all of the 'shorts' that litter the site) are explained as 'additional monetization.&#
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Oh that is great.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
true, but you can make the link text 'do not click this' or 'not a real link' to let them know. I'm not sure if crawlers have started using LLMs to check pages or not which would be a problem.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I sort of did this with ssh where I figured out how to crash an ssh client that was trying to guess the root password. What I got for my trouble was a number of script kiddies ddosing my poor little server. I switched to just identifying &#
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Had an interesting discussion this past weekend on whether or not Silkroad was a criminal enterprise or a very successful startup. It was an interesting look at the question of 'business first' versus 'lawful first' soci
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https://xkcd.com/2618 right?
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There should probably be an entire chapter written on "Okay, but what if the product was desirable but not 'technically' legal, hmmm?" :-)

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