DougN7

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by DougN7 2y ago
I’ve never heard of such a thing. Thank you!
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Ask HN: Jobs for a Language Savant?
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by DougN7 2y ago
I know almost nothing about all the smart home tech, but my son-in-law is a tech fanboi that has smart lights everywhere in his home, and some small Alexas in rooms that they are hooked up to. His lights are all voice controlled so they ne
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by DougN7 2y ago
The problem is distribution. Some folks skew the average a lot.
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Yep, and many of us said this years ago when we saw the Boston Scientific robot dogs.
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Eradicating poverty could be done today, IF we could change everyone’s mindset. In my opinion that is harder to do than immortality. Heck, we could end war with a much smaller change in mindset and we can’t even do that.
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by DougN7 2y ago
I use CoPilot and agree that 50% is a very good day, and also only for fairly simple code.
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by DougN7 2y ago
Not exactly law texts, but if you’re interested in original texts from that era, from roughly the same people, read the Icelandic Sagas. Really good reading.
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by DougN7 2y ago
It’s that last 5% that always gets you in the end.
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Has any company struck at a crowd as well as them? Their name is perfect.
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by DougN7 2y ago
Isn’t this essentially what people have been complaining has happened to Google search results?
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by DougN7 2y ago
It’s sad that “don’t be evil” is now a joke.
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It astounds me that CPUs can be patched. Can anyone comment on how that works?
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by DougN7 2y ago
Got my answer from the (currently top) answer here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41030352 eBPF can cause Linux kernel panic
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That’s a pretty big claim. If they have software that can guarantee a program will never crash it would be revolutionary, and could probably solve the halting problem.
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I’m wondering if a bar DTrace or eBPF expression/filter could cause a blue screen. I’ll bet it could be done.
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by DougN7 2y ago
30 years ago I knew a very old Swiss woman who told me they used the ‘letter’ ij (“yotee” if I remember correctly) instead of just a j (j in Swiss/German makes a y sound, like in jawohl). Hoping a Swiss person can fill in the details
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I imagine something keeps monitors how many times the lift has gone up and down for maintenance reasons. Maybe a nice model monitors fluid pressure in the hydraulics to watch for leaks. Perhaps a model watches strain, or balance, to preve
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by DougN7 2y ago
You’re right. It bugs me that pain teaches but fun doesn’t. Not much to do about it though.
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As a parent, I’ve recognized advice I’ve given as advice I received when younger. I always tried to take good advice, but so often the words can only truly be understood, to their depth, by having compatible experience. The same words hav
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by DougN7 2y ago
I don’t doubt any of what you say. I have this opinions because I worked at IBM MANY years ago and saw a product list and it was almost all two or three letters / number. AND there was a _committee_ created with coming up with these
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by DougN7 2y ago
Man I wish I could get a job at IBM naming things - what a sweet gig that would be. “Need a name for an operating system? OS/1! Oh, there’s already one of those? OS/2! Database? DB/1! Oh… OK then, DB/2!”
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by DougN7 2y ago
You might want to check the CDC website about excess WEEKLY deaths during COVID. That was WITH all of the extra precautions, lock downs, etc. I haven’t seen a flu season that looked like that. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs&#x2F
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by DougN7 2y ago
In case it helps anyone else, my wife gets migraines immediately from eating anything with milk, onions, corn, green beans, bananas and a few others. However, she can eat all of the above if it is organic. We’re from the US and visited Eu
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by DougN7 2y ago
I’ve been impressed with my iPhone and/or carrier (AT&T in the US) for tagging incoming calls as spam or telemarketing. The phone does still ring but I know not to answer it.
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I’m not sure. I’m an older developer that has never used Docker until this weekend. I was going through the beginning tutorials and something didn’t work and I was stuck. There is so much magic going on I wasn’t even sure where to look.
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by DougN7 2y ago
Wow I’m glad you said that. I was thinking of doing some hobby welding and I’m the exact kind of fool that would think I can jump in and do this without knowing enough.
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And what about the myriad of cancers? Birth defects? Blindness? Parkinsons? ALS? Add to that poverty, malnutrition, starvation, wars… The problem is there is a limited amount of money, lab space, and researchers. Some pragmatism and
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Don’t know if you are an American, but it’s not unusual to see a scrotum decoration hanging from the tow hitch of a pickup. It’s absolutely an identity thing with some people.
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If it can’t hallucinate, can it “believe”? I think all the pedantry is silly.

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