ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Brutal but true. When I first started managing people I thought "I'm going to hate writing performance reviews" but the reality was if my reports and I talked about what was expected of them and how I was measuring it, we did
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Not to mention Apple's challenge with 30% AppStore tax for subscription revenue. My guess was that Apple is okay with Apps from third parties that tithe 1/3 of their subscription revenue but aren't willing to make a place for
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I could certainly see that. Now I'm wondering what someone would have bought with these pennies when they were actually coin of the realm. Edit: per an up level comment, 15 chickens or half a knife? Hmm, chickens are easy the knife isn
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Have you done any comparative economics? That is where you take what it "cost" in terms of money for goods or services at a given time and compare that to the cost of the same (or equivalent) goods and services in the present time
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
One wonders if they are worth face value given inflation. It would be a fun exercise to figure out their value in pounds sterling and then calculate what that number would be in the present. That said, my kids and I buried 50 copper coins i
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I appreciate what you're saying. That said, not everyone learns the same way and for me, his explanations have always been clear and insightful. My theory is that different brain architectures ingest information in different ways (this
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Interesting that the Scribe looks a lot like my ReMarkable 2 :-). I wonder if there has been some cross pollination with Lab126. If it weren't for the way Amazon has this option to yank back things you bought I would probably be a much
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Does the screen stay in one place or does it move when you move your head? That turned out to be the thing that made viture glasses unusable for me. I get that slam can be hard but I would be okay with sticking a target sticker up somewhere
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Yes.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Feels like one of the signs of the apocalypse :-) And it is a pretty stunning "conclusion" to a war that started 20 years ago with the introduction of Sledgehammer and the AMD64 instruction set. For me though it really emphasizes
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
In many ways (no pun intended :-)) I would relate to having an iPad mini and a much much dumber phone which was just text/chat and voice. I have gotten there because I'm constantly in this weird tension between wanting a bigger sc
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
No, my advice to people is always that you are not defined by your job. I had a very memorable experience at Intel when I came to the Bay Area just as the "semiconductor recession" hit. A friend of mine there was a process enginee
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I am happy for you, I really am. It is important to recognize that your experience may not be the experience of others right? While I too had no issue making a good salary through the various tech "crashes" I also know many many
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
There is this joke that goes: "A surgeon calls a plumber to unclog his toilet, the plumber arrives and 30 minutes later it's all back up and running. He tells the surgeon 'That will be $500'. And the surgeon replies, &#x
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
My thought (admittedly not well developed) is that smashing into a landing pad of concrete can damage that pad but it can be quickly repaired without affecting the ability to launch future rockets. If you damage the launch tower significant
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That isn't exactly true though. For example, the neural net models that are used today in various GenAI startups were invented in the 1980s. But we couldn't have LLMs "all along" because we couldn't store the models
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Pretty impressive. The engineering team at SpaceX is really something. Some thoughts; The 'chopsticks catch' was amazing to watch. Seems like it adds a lot of risk and clearly the booster needs additional fire suppression systems
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This might be informative: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20150003049/downloads/20... It's a NASA study on glove-induced hand trauma by spacesuit gloves.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This reminds me again of the tremendous opportunity of making a spacesuit with a five finger articulated 'hand' at the end of the sleeve. Imagine an astronaut who puts their hand into a controller at the end of the sleeve that wra
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
The other doesn't discuss the 'prices' vs 'currency' question which would relate to your sentiment. Recently visited Japan where they have a lot of different coins, 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 yen. We don't ta
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
The value is that a two instruction pipeline can do a blit at cache speed.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is an instruction I would like to implement in RISC-V if it isn't already, (which yeah, I know, isn't very RISC like) movei (%r1),(%r2),(%r3),value Move the contents of memory pointed to by r1, to the contents of memo
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I love thinking about problems like that. Yes it is impractical and unlikely to result in any change but it also helps illuminate relationships (like # of coins in your change) that you might not otherwise see. Of course, as an economist Pa
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
For a long time I had subscriptions to Popular Science, Popular Mechanics, and Scientific American. Scientific American slid down into the space Popular Science was by really lightening up the content of their analysis. (An interview with t
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I tried a pair of those and returned them because the whole screen flying around was really disorienting.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
The summary seems to be; That you can't obfuscate with words like you used to and normal bureaucratic hurdles are less effective with LLM generators? Depending on how badly these things get the summaries wrong it could certainly help w
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I look forward to wind powered stamping mills. I heard his comments on smooth sand differently; As I heard it he was saying "People say smooth sand is worse but I can't find any research that would back that up, and even the paper
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Did you watch the entire video? I ask because Grady discusses EXACTLY this point. He explains that the whole 'more expensive' thing is really just noting the actual cost of sand versus ignoring the externalized costs of mining i
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I love his book too. I ended up buying a copy for my sister who kept asking me how I knew all their weird details about things like sewer systems :-)
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
My wife had someone do sign up for a bank account with my wife's gmail address. She told the bank they got it wrong, and they went away for a bit and then they re-signed up AGAIN. So she told the bank to close the account. It didn&#x27

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