ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Presumably this was what inspired Burt Monroe who broke the record in 1967 and was the subject of the movie "The Worlds Fastest Indian". I have always admired the engineering ingenuity of folks who break these records and never qu
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I had the funny thought that this is exactly what a sentient AI would write "stop looking here, there is nothing to see, move along." :-) I (like vannevar apparently) didn't feel Cyc was going anywhere useful, there were idea
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Pretty standard stuff, a bit about my background, what I thought of Commodore and the people I had met so far, If I could change one thing at Commodore what would it be (I responded with my belief that the Amiga was the future of Commodore
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yup. If you had to point to the singular "bad guy" at Commodore, it was Irving. I interviewed with him when I was interviewing to be the CTO and recognized pretty quickly that he was the kind of executive that didn't like peo
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Fair enough. One of the things that has influenced my thinking on this topic was living through the laws on smoking being enforced. But perhaps a better analogy is noise laws. For me, it's preferable to use the power of the state to _p
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I wonder a bit if this point of view is an 'age' thing, which is to say if you're under 40 it rings true, if you're over 40 it sounds silly kind of thing. I don't know that it is, it just feels that way a bit to me.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I don't see that happening. I reason to it this way; In 2024, $15 BILLION dollars was invested in AI startups, and a record $250 BILLION dollars by established companies (nVidia/Microsoft/Google/Facebook/Apple) I do
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Generally the BOM cost of most hardware is much smaller than the labor cost of assembly. That's why company shipped their semiconductors to low labor cost countries and re-imported finished goods. That said, if the US does enter a
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Create a subsidiary in Toronto, Canada that owns a boat and rent a mailbox in Rochester NY? Lots of jokes flying around about how the new business opportunity is smuggling. Sure it was booze back in the day, but hey meeting market demand is
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I would say, "Looking forward to the github repo with this code in ASCII" but I realize Microsoft would likely not allow that.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Heh, I've got a T440 [T420i, see edit] I'm running FreeBSD on. Definitely tank status. It is even one of the 'rare' HD ones. EDIT: I just turned it over to check and its a T420i Type 4177-X07 pretty much solid as a rock.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That they are, energy is energy. I was part of a Battlebots team and that is where I learned the smell of various rechargeable battery chemistries when they burned :-). We also had an exothermic adventure with a battery pack we built, fortu
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It's all fun and games until one of those thousand batteries decides to go exothermic :-). This is a really amazing story and I'm impressed by the diligence and amount of effort they put into recovering and reusing all of these ba
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
So is there a book that I could read that would allow me to write applications with just HTML/CSS some js and rust? I don't want Nue so much as I want "The art of writing lightweight, feature complete, responsive applications
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This clearly elucidated a number of things I've tried to explain to people who are so excited about "conversations" with computers. The example I've used (with varying levels of effectiveness) was to get someone to think
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Heh, your more cynical than my former college roommate and that is a high bar :-). I choose to believe that both things can be true, if the rents evaporate then so will the 'juice' and they will offload those holdings. Also, the d
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It isn't a stupid question, it is a good one. The answer would depend on how the field is generated in the first place. Given a field generated by asymmetric rotation of the molten core at the center of the Earth, 'shorting it&#x2
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That was kind of Sarah's point :-). People who 'farm' because they want free money, not because they actually want to feed people, compose a large fraction of the entities holding arable land in the US. As a result, they won&
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I know, this doesn't necessarily seem like HN material, but hear me out. An industry that is ripe for disruption and efficiency restructuring is agriculture. Whether it is robotic farm equipment, indoor 'factory' farms, close
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The coming food crisis in the United States(mastodon.online)
14 points by ChuckMcM 2y ago|7 comments
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This was an interesting read, and reminded me how paleo-biology is the closest thing to exobiology we've got. Looking at the different biomes that emerged on planet earth over a billion years feels equivalent to looking at a thousand d
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
When Google bought Fitbit I moved to Garmin mostly because I could download my data from them. I still believe the ideal personal fitness analytics device would use a data repository at your own residence via something like Tailscale than h
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Google tells Fitbit owners to move to Google or else
10 points by ChuckMcM 2y ago|4 comments
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Entirely possible. Which is why Government services for 'chat' explicitly don't allow contacts to appear who aren't already in the government. You've also no doubt seen email as it appears in Government inboxes with
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I really enjoyed my Vectrex, I had every cartridge and every peripheral AFAICT. I ended up selling it to offset the cost of a fancy monitor for my Amiga :-). Related Steve Ciarcia did a vector display which was a lot of fun back in the day.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Fair warning, you are standing on the precipice of a very deep rabbit hole :-). My Dad was a 're-loader' (loaded his own ammunition) and molded his own bullets and had charts and graphs for an amazing set of things. I even built h
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I wondering if the authors were laid off from NOAA.
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At some point I saw some material that purportedly computed "Voting Power" as a function of population scaled by economic demographics. It defined someone with a full time job and the option to take some time off to vote on a Tues
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
FWIW I consider that a form of asking, "stop doing this" :-)
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It's interesting that Congress is talking about sunsetting section 230 which provides protection for web sites that display user generated content from being responsible for what that content says, and what Amazon wants here is apparen

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