ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I meant both (or the combination depending on how one looks at these things). I read that site as a very 'tongue-in-cheek' to use the English phrasing, from the name 'Vcsubsidized' (which is a dig on VCs who think they a
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Agreed very cool. I had seen a previous process where sorting out conductive nanotubes from non-conductive ones by inducing a current in them and pull them into a different sluice with a magnetic field. Interesting stuff.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I think as social satire it's pretty funny.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I believe for the same reasons that Latin helps develop a foundation in language, the people who designed it were looking at the problem from many different levels all at the same time. The first language I encountered with split behavioral
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I was going to mention this as well. This is a link to Kaplan's paper : https://aclanthology.org/J94-3001.pdf which describes the work PARC did.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I mean "mr free speech absolutist" has already tweeted that anyone complaining about the government would have their account suspended. Kind of on brand for a nazi.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
High hopes, low expectations :-). That said, 'quantum thermal diode' sounds like something that breaks on your space ship and if you don't fix it you won't be able to get the engines online to outrun the aliens. Even aft
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Thanks for that, it's great that its 10x better than the previous best effort. It's notable that it needs to get 20x better again before it starts to have useful applications :-).
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I don't think so, but it doesn't apply to international waters apparently?
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It is in the venture capitol / startup world, not sure how much it is used outside of that which was why I took time to explain it. A VC looking at a pitch is trying to understand the risks (a VC investment is basically pricing that ri
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Oh cry me a river. Read the room Microsoft, you can't have it both ways.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I'm sure the aliens reading that are saying "Thank god! They aren't coming here." :-) But on a more serious note, this is some great science. I am super impressed by how sensitive the instruments need to be to chart the
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I don't disagree that it's proof they will succeed, it is however proof that they can build a supersonic aircraft. That is no small thing. Given that they can, they now need to build a larger one, which with more surface area will
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Basically if anyone receives it that wasn't expecting to it's illegal. That is at the core of the FCC rules in the US, you can't interfere with the lawful use of the band, nor can you cause "interference" on unused
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I agree, it is interesting and that is kind of my point. What you're labeling as "perception" (not a bad label, just different) I tend to label "belief." From your comment you clearly believe that Twitter had lost
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That is a great comment and everyone should read it. It also demonstrates a common truism that system goals dictate performance.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
As a systems I guy I completely agree with this. One of the things that was interesting about X11 is that it draws an API "wall" around the stuff involved in presentation. Many folks don't remember this but we had X "ter
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
There is an important difference between someone claiming on TV they can do something and seeing the effects of people believing something for which there is objective and easily obtained evidence that contradicts that belief.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I don't disagree, there is that Dutch saying that trust enters the town on foot and leaves on a horse. When the media's pursuit of financial incomes results in actions that actively destroy trust (the WaPo non-endorsement and unwi
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Sigh. This is an important topic, probably not an HN topic but still it is important, and the topic isn't "perceptions of the economy and crime" is "ability to discern discourse from propaganda" If you can make some
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is excellent. Too often people guess at things when they could be more empirical about them. Ever since I learned the scientific method (I think 3rd or 4th grade) I was all about the 'let's design an experiment' :-). Let
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That is quite the journey. I find I don't have the patience these days to go quite so far down the rabbit hole as the author does, but I resonate with that feeling of accomplishment in knowing something versus just thinking you know
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
It has been great hasn't it?!? The difference between running every 30 minutes on weekends vs ever 2 hours is the difference between hopping on the train up to Redwood City for lunch with a friend and then back again. Versus one of us
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
You are correct of course, I mangled the name. At least I got the web site link right :-).
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Joe Palrang (the guy who drew him) and the Java team called him 'Fang' (he looks like a tooth right?) Somebody didn't like that name (I don't recall if it was corporate or Kim Polese) and at some point the word went out
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Still waiting for the Feynman Lectures on Mario Physics to drop :-). I thought this was a great way to practice data analysis, I wonder if you could correlate it with registered trademarks from Nintendo. Specifically do they always trademar
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yeah, that was kind of my takeaway as well. Your car is not your car right? I mean ANYONE AT SUBARU can do this?
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
There is (a collector's market) of course, the provenance can be hard to come by though. There has always been a joke in the Bay Area about buying the product you helped design and ship at the "DeAnza Flea Market" (which is a
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
As a really old school UNIX guy I'd agree with this. Programmatic manipulation of the environment is an 'attractive nuisance' in that I feel anything you might be trying to achieve by using the environment as a string scratch
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Except they could not. You can't buy with money the experience of a good life partner, you cannot buy with money the experience of having kids and raising them. Those are things you buy with your time, your life clock if you will. You

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