ChuckMcM

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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   Hmm, collective action, you might be on to something there :-). Personally I think if we could eliminate the who 'no warranty of any kind' disclaimer ability for software and organize around collectively fixing this sort of abuse
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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   Google's stance on this was fairly draconian when I was working there, basically Google's position was that they could be in ANY business at ANY time so that ANY thing you worked on was theirs. On the day I joined, one of the othe
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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   Nicely done.
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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   I believe that the outcome of the Ukraine-Russian will shape the world for decades just as WWII did. It is my hope that the Ukrainians succeed in throwing the Russians out of their country. In a post war Ukraine, I'd like to help it re
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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   I'd like to get a full QPSK based OFDM modulator/demodulator implemented in an FPGA. Means improving my Verilog skills, my FPGA tool familiarity, and really understand how to implement OFDM modulators. Create a blog and post at le
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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   And this is always my question: "... because the genie, used well, accelerates learning." Does it though? How are we defining "learning" here? The example I like to use is that a student who "learns" what a s
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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   I like this, back when the xterm CVE was common you could probably 0wn any botter who was looking at their logs in xterm.
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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   On social media I've been accused of being AI twice now :-). I suspect it is a vocabulary thing but still it is always amusing.
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   by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

   There is a lot to be said for that perspective. I wonder if any PMs have considered making the bed of the truck a FRU that you can swap out at home.
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    https://archive.ph/k2S9O for those who have read their last free article. Interesting that Rivian seems to be doing fine in this space.
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    Question, isn't this a bug? static enum hrtimer_restart perf_swevent_hrtimer(struct hrtimer *hrtimer) { - if (event->state != PERF_EVENT_STATE_ACTIVE) + if (event->state != PERF_EVENT_STATE_ACTIVE || + ev
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    Thanks, one of the things I bought on a campaign was a programmable USB hub from 'Capable Robotics Components' and when I thought, this thing is really useful I need another one, they became impossible to get. [1] https:/&#x
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    Interesting that this was flagged (I do wonder if that is reflexive or not). The main argument that context is essential to precision (in current architectures) is pretty solid.
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    Once again I am reminded that "knowing" which accounts are fake is a knowable thing and yet social media companies don't mitigate them "because money" or "because DAU" Etc. When I was running operations at
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    Excellent write up! This answered some of my questions that I wasn't really comfortable asking creators. A very (and I mean very) long time ago when people were complaining about the price of software I wrote up a Usenet post on why so
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    I backed this project: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor on Crowd Supply to see how close they can come to a "monitor" experience with an e-paper display.
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    While I think that's a bit harsh :-) the sentiment of "if you have these problems, perhaps you don't understand systems architecture" is kind of spot on. I have heard people scoff at a bunch of "dead legacy code&quo
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    I think you did a great job of bringing fairly nuanced problems into perspective for a lot of people who take their interactions with their phone/computer/tablet for granted. That is a great skill! I think an fertile area for inve
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    Same way I feel about 'Military Intelligence' :-). Both of those phrases use the 'information gathering and analysis' definition of intelligence rather than the 'thinking' definition.
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    Why do people call is "Artificial Intelligence" when it could be called "Statistical Model for Choosing Data"? "Intelligence" implies "thinking" for most people, just as "Learning" in machin
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    I miss Gassée's the Monday Note, it seems he hasn't published one since 2023.
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    by ChuckMcM 10mo ago

    I was just in a discussion on this very topic. It's the build vs buy equation applied to silicon. Early in the tech boom the entire silicon stack was proprietary and required a lot of time and investment to train up people who could de
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    by ChuckMcM 11mo ago

    This was perhaps my favorite part of Physics 390 ("modern physics") which was about quantum dynamics and relativity. The speed of light is defined in terms of a velocity (~300,000,000 m/s) but if you were traveling at the spe
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    by ChuckMcM 11mo ago

    It is absolutely a different company. I had the opportunity to intern there twice in the late 70's and then was acquired by them in 2015, the IBM of 1978 and the IBM of 2015 were very different businesses. Having "grown up" s
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    by ChuckMcM 11mo ago

    No. They are a multi-generational institution at this point and they are constantly evolving. If you work there it definitely FEELS like they are dying because the thing you spent the last 10 years of your career on is going away and was on
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    by ChuckMcM 11mo ago

    From the article -- But North Carolina law caps penalties at $5,000 per inspection, offering retailers little incentive to fix the problem. “Sometimes it is cheaper to pay the fines,” said Chad Parker, who runs the agency’s weights-and-mea
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    by ChuckMcM 11mo ago

    Definitely a place to visit if you can. I traveled there in 1983 just as it was starting to erupt and visited a lot of places that are now under lava rock! In a later visit we were walking out to see one of the "peep holes" where
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    by ChuckMcM 11mo ago

    Very well said.
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    by ChuckMcM 11mo ago

    I was one of the original developers of Java at Sun. Here's a picture of most of us at the time : http://mcmanis.com/chuck/original_java_team.html (this was originally in the HotJava distribution Sun gave out when
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    by ChuckMcM 11mo ago

    Random nerd note: The history is slightly wrong. Netscape had their own "interactive script" language at the time Sun started talking about Java and somehow got the front page of the Mercury news when they announced it in March of