ChuckMcM

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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
I chuckled at 10G wired ethernet on a laptop. I mean in a docking station? Sure that seems reasonable. But fun none the less. I appreciate the USB-C nature of the Framework's expansion ports, it does make real the entire reason that US
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
Its a reasonable extension. At some point if you discover that you are aiding or abetting the harm of others you have to ask yourself what kind of person you are. That said, I get that "but I need a job!" is a powerful thing and i
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
As someone who 'grew up' my career in Silicon Valley my first exposure to this sort of shenanigans was during the dot com bubble, where general partners at newish VC firms were fleecing limited partners (GP's got a salary to
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
Thanks. For me, I was in debate club in High School and that included basic rhetoric. In college I took an argumentation class as a non-engineering elective. The most useful thing this class taught (for me) is how to 'see' the arg
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
Yes, yes it is. (going to be painful) If the IPO gets fully subscribed. For a long time I've pointed out that after the dot com crash the 'unicorns' were mostly on private markets and when they washed out only the 'qua
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
I realize this is drifting off topic, and happy to talk more in email (address in profile), in the interest of sharing a bit more, consider this statement you paraphrase: "a FOSS author did something wrong and was found to be liable&qu
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
I don't disagree, that pattern exists, but it is essentially true. Just not in the way the folks saying it is true understand it. If the "VC/ad/tech dark patterns, enshitification, privacy violations, dishonest marketing
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
This is not how liability works, anywhere. So I write a piece of code that "makes your screen do cool things" and it causes the power supply to fail on those screens. Someone reports that bug to me and I check it out and say &quot
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
Exactly this. (and it is a false dichotomy to argue infinite liability). To Terr_'s point, if you were publishing open source you would also publish exactly the things you intended it to be used for and anything else would violate yo
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
Read that as "worked as written" and "we disclaim any consequential or incidental damages and do not warrant this software." I continue to believe we could fix a lot of things in the US if we updated the UCC[1] to disall
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by ChuckMcM 4mo ago
Matt raises an interesting point that I haven't seen addressed elsewhere, which is while you may be bullish or bearish on the future of AI, the new twist of "forcing" SpaceX into the NASDAQ 100 is not something the market is
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Matt Levine on why no opting out of the AI Boom?(bloomberg.com)
4 points by ChuckMcM 4mo ago|1 comments
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
I know it feels snarky but I didn't ever expect to read that Microsoft was pairing with MediaTek to make an ARM cpu to run Windows. So many years of the WinTel hegemony I guess :-). I've had several Surface devices over the years,
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
I fear that all the 'leet jobs in tech are gonna be QA. "Top dollar paid to person who can write a test suite that keeps our AI in check!"
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Interesting that you are hearing "dismissal" in the antecedent response. I read it as the poster "studying more" the data, and finding a lot of flaws in both the experimental design and the data analysis.Typically things
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
I worked in Systems Validation at Intel when the 8087 was current. Intel had an engineer dedicated to validating customer bug reports and reproducing them. Day in, day out, that's pretty much all he did. Sooooo many corner cases, and s
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
The AI stuff got my wife to switch. So there's that. I've been using DDG for a while.
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Not really, she does fine. She really does think I am over conservative in my risk tolerance. Sadly you don't get to re-run the experiment if you don't like the outcome (that being my risk intolerance speaking).
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Reminds me of the Dilbert, "I'm gonna code me up a minivan!" comment.
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Oh absolutely. When asked by executives how I think they should adopt AI I've always been upfront about its strengths and weaknesses, and unlike a lot of technologies you can try out a lot of different things on much cheaper techno
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
This is going to be an interesting development to watch for a number of reasons. First, the selection of using the Blue Origin lander is a pretty broad condemnation from NASA with respect to SpaceX's CEO's promises about when they
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Ruh-Roh. Chuckling aside, this is a really good thing. This is, btw, EXACTLY how enterprises figured out they weren't ready for "The Internet" in the dot com boom. They were spending millions on servers and kit and the ROI wa
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Uber blows through its AI budget in 1 quarter(fortune.com)
28 points by ChuckMcM 5mo ago|34 comments
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Yeah this. But some additional flavor to emphasize the 'don't do it for financial reasons' aspect. In the late 90's I, like a number of my married friends, 'owned' a house in the Bay Area. Dot coms were going c
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Hmm, I've seen data that landing the booster on 2 engines was the plan, but hadn't seem similar things about Starship. The difference is the chamber pressure you need in the individual engines. Lower chamber pressure has, in the p
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
This is a really interesting system. I find that I end up using an iPad with all my PDFs as reference materials when I'm writing, it would be nice to attach an external monitor in 'portrait' mode which exclusively hosted a si
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Not that I have been able to find, the 1400 km/h number comes from the telemetry on the video just before it contacted the water. Presumably one could estimate the return point if you had access to the telemetry and perhaps a platform
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
We really should build an open source ALPR system of cameras that gives real time information on the position of every law enforcement vehicle. Including the cars driven by the officers to and from work. That would have been helpful in find
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Nice work by SpaceX engineering. Good summary. The booster appeared to hit the water at 1400 km/h (a bit under 900 mph) so not really survivable :-). Engine out on ship seems to left them with just enough fuel to land but not enough to
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by ChuckMcM 5mo ago
Sigh. Kids don't realize that before "the internet" there was Usenet, dial up modems, and store and forward nodes. But the same kids want all the things that the surveillance economy pays for, but they don't want to pay.

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