ChuckMcM

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Mary Lou Jepson's medical device(threadreaderapp.com)
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yeah, that would do it. Actually though it's important to remember that 'dollars' and 'currency' are two related but very different things. :-) I'm gonna guess you already know that too. The Trillion Dollar Coi
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I want you to think about, for a minute, the notion that you can have a number bigger than all of the atoms in the universe :-). From that, you can see that its possible to have more 'dollars' than there are atoms in the universe.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I understand this set of comments is a digression but there is an interesting subtlety here. There is a structural connection between economic activity (in particular 'innovation') and wealth inequality. Economies that are 's
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I wonder if this one bends in your pocket[1]. I'd much rather have the 'iphone thicc' which can be 10mm thick if it fits easily in my hand :-) [1] https://qz.com/1288272/bendgate-was-real-apple-knew-the-i
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
And then we have Japan, which has spent 30+ years in the economic doldrums. What I'm saying is that these types of systems have "inertia" and can be exceptionally long lived in their 'bad' state, regardless of the p
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Agree with most that this could have been way way worse. No doubt next time it will be. I keep expecting some new company to bring out this revolutionary idea of "On prem: your machine, your libraries, your business."
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yes, and ... restarting the fuel cycle under the current administration is, according to activity in the US uranium rich areas, kind of happening. I haven't seen anything "official" yet but driving around southern Utah shows
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Ignoring the frequencies for a moment, because physics, the phone does 'wi-fi' calling just fine, a 40 'channel' (or 'room') push to talk (or VOX) voice app is pretty trivial. You get close just running the dis
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
> Walkie talkies require a lot more power than smartphones have. Yes and no. "Real" handhelds could broadcast at 5W but the Walkie Talkies that Radio Shack sold[1] were in the unlicensed band and limited to 10000 uV/m whic
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Pretty neat. This would certainly make for an interesting Mars mission should SpaceX want to try it, land a lander, have the lander process regolith into iron chunks, create a pile of chunks. All good threshold goals. What ever happened the
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
"vibe designed"? I suspect that this sort of design wouldn't come up a lot, but do you think about the difference between this experience and the experience of designing something where you used a workflow that you were famil
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Interesting that you vibe coded the whole thing.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
There are really a lot of responses to this which explain it well. The summary though might be phrased as 'alignment'. Specifically, when everyone from the mainboard engineer to the product marketeer for the product have the same
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
I don’t know of any Co-lo types that did it, Microsoft had some creative ideas about things like that but I don’t know if they brought any to fruition. I suspect there are still opportunities there.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Puppet is currently closest to what I think I want.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Back in 2022 I bought a 'case' of discarded NUC machines that some business had scrapped for $100 (it was like 35 computers in there) Roughly 1/3 had WiFi, none had storage (it had been removed before scrapping). Mix of CPU r
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
That would be neat. But sadly thermodynamics gets in the way. I did see a minipc where the graphics card was being cooled by a liquid cooler that had the cooler unit under the desk but its not really a "mini" pc at that point, its
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Much of the Google use of liquid chillers was protected behind NDAs as part of its "hidden advantage" with respect to the rest of the world. It was the secret behind really low PUE numbers.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
When our mainframe in 1978 sprung a leak in its water cooling jacket it took down the main east/west node on IBMs internal network at the time. :-). But that was definitely a different chilling mechanism than the types Google uses.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
As a systems architecture dilettante I really like the Power architecture. It is old school super computer / mainframe architecture on a chip. Parallel processing architecture that makes cross domain inferences impossible etc etc. A cr
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
You’re not wrong. Just enough “legit” to create reasonable doubt.
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
This is a pretty cool project. (I backed it too :-)) The really interesting bit has been watching the development of the FPGA driver. That really de-mystified a lot of stuff about 'waveforms' and 'grey levels' for me wit
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
As long as LLMs aren't the 'Cold Fusion' of this cycle, sure. :-)
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Yes, there are companies that opt for broken organizations for a variety of reasons. The observation though is this; Does this lead to a world where the 'minimum' programmer is what we consider today to be a 'Senior Dev'
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
An observation. If we stipulate that this is true that a 'senior developer' benefits from Claude Code but a junior developer do not. Then I'm wondering if that creates this gap where you have a bunch of newly minted '10x
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
So funny that. Weirdly even if you build nothing but market rate housing, housing gets more affordable. :-)
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Looks basically like the TRIGA reactor design (without the water shielding). Seems to have similar challenges with rapid load changes. At one time I thought NASA was looking at something like this tied together with a battery pack that woul
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Interesting discussion here, I particularly like that people have recognized that the people who use phones to take pictures and the people who use cameras to take pictures often have different goals. There are lots of areas where there is
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by ChuckMcM 1y ago
Right? I hope that at some point the weights system will become clear enough that one could bias against wrong answers. Just “telling” it that is wrong biases for the current token cache and doesn’t back propagate to the model. Of course ba

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