Craiggybear

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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Sigh. Define "smart people". A lot of people I've seen described as smart are either a) actually good at making money (not necessarily legally) or b) good at manipulating people to get what they want. I describe this as cunning, rather than
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I do use DDG and I like it. Oddly, and unlike most of the comments thus far, it does seem to actually find results which I'm actually more interested in than either Google or Bing (although DDG uses both). I do use them too.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Aaaahhhhh ... rails developers. I take your point. As to CHAR vs VARCHAR -- well, is it fixed length or constantly changing? The clue is in the name. And CHAR is usually up to 50% faster on overhead and VARCHAR uses padding which can be a
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Repair Permissions -- seldom does anything. http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/repair_permissions_voodoo
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Seriously. Data types -- surely anyone who has used any SQL database knows their internal data types? Although, true, I have seen a few odd table schemas in my time. Mainly in SQL Server databases it has to be said.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Interesting. I am using OS X 10.5.8 with only 2G memory and when programming with Python, PHP, gcc and Apache this is actually OK. Not brilliant, but not slow either. The machine tends to be on all day. I have noticed that Linux does seem
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Yes, I knew about that. It is cheaper and more productive (almost certainly for their needs) to just keep doing this. $700,000 a year that would otherwise be spent on mainframe upkeep buys a lot of hardware.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
"Mainframe computing is not the same in comparison of clock cycles." That's the thing everyone has forgotten.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Well, they could just build supercomputers from off-the-shelf parts and Linux. Like everyone else seems to be doing these days. Mainframes have magnificent reliability, uptime and throughput, though, and I'm not sure how a commodity stack c
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Honesty is seen as a liability in modern life. We never see it from politicians, bankers or public figures and people lie constantly about their CVs, jobs, income and so forth. Why even bother asking if someone's ever done drugs? The chan
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
No, whales are intelligent alright. There's no doubt about that. Bats almost certainly are as well. At least I believe they are self-aware and have an inner life as an individual as well as being part of a group. I also am a great believer
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
It would be great if it were possible ... I have reasons for not wanting OS X 10.6 or upwards.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Won't run on OS X 10.5.8. Pity. Just what I was looking for.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Bill by the day. Makes no difference. My rates don't vary. A day of my time (7.5 hrs) no matter what I do always costs the client the same.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
It does indeed apply to humans. If you could be bothered to read the rest of this thread you'd see that this is precisely the point I am trying to make. Humans are machines. But we (and other living things) appear to exhibit defined pro
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
" with a large enough lookup table you could simulate every action an individual could take " Oh dear. That's Artificial Intelligence Day 1. It also doesn't work. That isn't an AI. There's also the slight dual problems of Nyquist and Shanno
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
It used to be the job of a Systems Analyst to come up with the algorithm and the programmer to implement it without deviation. That job no longer exists and programmers make up their own algorithms, which are perhaps less than robust. Not a
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
"True autonomy is going to require the answering of plenty of technical and ethical questions." Precisely my point. Thanks. We all know flight autonomy is already here. Has been for ages. The aerial refuelling is a neat trick which I'm not
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
No, I'd settle for an AI that exhibited even the self-determination and learning ability of a common ant or honey bee. Especially if all you are going to do with it is stick it in a missile and blow people up. We have nothing like this, not
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I can see you don't have any background on this otherwise you would already know the answers. This has been well researched by biologists, linguists and cyberneticians for well over half a century both at the academic and applied level. "In
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Did it? That's what they would like to believe. Anyhow, that's an expert system, not really an AI.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Any aircraft can fly itself. Automation in flight systems is not new nor does it even require a computer. Negative feedback systems in both machines and in biology can do it very well -- in insects and birds it happens beautifully. Early au
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
AI research has been going now for 60 years and we have pitifully little (apart from a few expert systems) to show for it. It is on-going and billions are still being spent on it but its a barren dry field. The most important thing it has g
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Yes, indeed cruise missiles are robots (they have a sophisticated automated guidance and auto pilot for a start). My understanding is that most drones are remotely controlled by human pilots/personnel. I saw a documentary about this and the
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
It isn"t robotic warfare unless they are totally autonomous and goal seeking. These are not AI's - strong or otherwise.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
" Um, Grindr is for casual homosexual encounters " ... which can turn into incredibly helpful proper friendships, especially in new cities.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
Have to agree -- the only one I can think of (not used by myself) is Grindr -- and that has a narrow, specific audience. The rest can't beat actually going out and meeting people. Easier than many might imagine.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I've been looking forward to this excitedly for some time now. But now, maybe, I'm not so sure.
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
The resistor provides loading for the detector. The crystal earpiece has such a high internal impedance that it is more a capacitive than a resistive load. The high value resistor in parallel with the earpiece provides a working load for th
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by Craiggybear 15y ago
I too have friends in this category. I know really tall guys who are solid muscle and weigh a LOT. They're not fat at all but they are approaching the weight of two average people, easy. What really astounds me, though, are skinny girls goi

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