ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is spot on. There is a market for small SBCs that spans from weapons to washing machines. When the RPi was introduced it threw a huge wrench into that market because it came in, with an operating system and storage , at under the pric
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Interesting genealogy; Stellar Elements was a non descript B2B consulting firm with no real footprint (like one of many) then gets bought by Amdocs[1], an Israeli company HQ in St Louis? in 2017, at which point SE goes on an acquisition spr
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is truely awesome! Hat's off. If you're experience in college is anything like mine you will find that 90% of the incoming freshman class is looking at "electronics" for the first time (assuming you're going EE
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
They key bit here is there is no known way (as yet) to encode "reasoning". I was a big fan of genetic programming, wrote a lot of code, did lots of research. And unlike LLMs it could end up on code that had never been written befo
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
A better question is "Can LLMs invent anything ?" Don't misunderstand, building systems models using existing system response as a way of analyzing those systems is a useful methodology and it makes some things otherwise ted
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
The bits on the bus go round and round! There is a lot of interesting yet unpublished work on 'data center' scale compute complexes. It was a rabbit hole I fell into several times while at Google.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
And there will always be a customer that writes to support asking what size hammer should be used to test that parameter.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Exactly, the takeaway here is that Meg Whitman had no business running HP. That said I admit I am biased against her because of the really really ill informed way she decided important technical issues.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This one hits particularly hard for me as my early career at Sun involved so much networking. While Van Jacobsen got a lot of coverage for his work on TCP/IP Mike was the guy that was doing the work of getting all integrated and runnin
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Mike Karels Has Died(freebsdfoundation.org)
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For me the crazy part is that SpaceX has done 12 crewed flights before Boeing even got their first set of test pilots of the ground. I recall back when NASA was justifying giving nearly twice as much money to Boeing that "because they
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Pretty sad. They are so lucky it's impossible to run something else on Windows that can record what is on a screen into a file. If such a capability existed, what would they do? /s
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Nice article, which is putatively about the question posed, but really is about how fun number theory can be. This trick and the "reverse the order of bits with XOR" kinds of things are gateways into the properties of numbers and
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That's fair. Everyone comes to these sorts of positions with a stack of values[1]. How that stack is ordered often determines one's choices. One of the interesting things for me from a technological perspective is whether or not w
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I can't say I've ever really thought about using electricity to generate high heats because it's often way less efficient (convert x -> electricity -> heat, vs just chemical(combustion) -> heat) But sure, if you had
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Which is why I don't use Meet.
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It means that to an expert on the item in question the appearance of the item is completely consistent with its age. Sort of like people who can make a painting recreating the brush strokes, paints, etc. such that it is difficult, if not im
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I was really sad to hear he had passed. Since the first computer I ever programmed was a PDP-8/e I thought the guy who designed it must be a genius. When the Computer History Museum was being formed I gave them "1K" ($1024) a
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I think the issue here is that it's really clear who owns the liability so if your employees are coding "with AI" then you need to understand that they don't know enough to know when they are putting you at risk.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Always interesting to see people who grift like this. My Dad used to engrave and restore guns. He was quite good at it, and so good that at one point the manufacturer's representative from Colt told him at a gun show that had my Dad no
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
As others have pointed out, no, not without access to the Airtag. That said you can make it beep which will cause the owner some surprise/confusion.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
This is great and it came up at dinner last night which is kind of weird. Had the odd experience of going to a retreat where everyone sat listening to speakers, and then all went to lunch, and then back to the speakers, then all to dinner,
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Kind of this. That was one of the themes of the movie Westworld where the AI in the robots seemed magical until it was creepy. I worry about the 'cheery intern' response becoming something of a punch line. "Hey siri, launch t
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I expect the really solid use case here will be voice interfaces to applications that don't suck. Something I am still surprised at is that vendors like Apple have yet to allow me to train the voice to text model so that it only resp
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
So here is the thing, if you have a 'safety net' you really don't have 'scarcity'. These effects manifest in the presence of the stress that you can't "undo" or may not survive the decision you make.
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
I found this to be kind of funny. It's clear that the people providing content to Stack Overflow (SO) were always at least tacitly agreeing to allow SO to monetize their content. So SO decides to sell access to OpenAI to train their mo
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Stack Overflow suspension for "improving" a question(scholar.social)
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
That is exactly correct. So a money example; Winter's coming and you need a coat, you don't have much money and so you buy the cheap coat that costs $40 instead of the expensive coat that costs $60, 2/3rds through winter your
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by ChuckMcM 2y ago
Interesting times indeed. I think the early history of medicines takes away from your observation though. In the 19th and early 20th century people didn't know why medicines worked, they just did. The whole "try a bunch of thing
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I found the book "Scarcity: While having too little means so much" very informative in that regard. The fundamental principle is that when something is scarce, one doesn't always make rational choices. And while the conversat

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