EamonnMR

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by EamonnMR 5y ago
The term is 'gut' ask in 'I know it in my gut' or 'gut check.'
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
If you where sent into the year 2000 with a mission to prevent the adoption of social media and instead maintain Email's dominance, what would you do?
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I have a similar anecdote about my cat. He tried to twist the handle but couldn't get enough traction with his paw pads (it was a round handle.)
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
It got replaced by social media
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
A Palm Zaire 31 was the first mobile device I owned. I could type on it with an external keyboard, which was awesome. You could stick an SD card full of music in and use it as an MP3 player or stick a card full of Atari 2600 games in and pl
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
That may be true for Apple, but most Windows users prefer Steam to the MS Store, for example.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
It is an absurdity though. You would need a material that can encode more information than it takes to physically represent it.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Pick a project I want to work on where I can learn the skill, after doing background reading.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I like to think of the halting problem as similar to the inability to predict the future. In order to predict the future you'd need a model of the whole universe, including the model. Once you think of it like that you realize that you
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I'm about to take up Rocketry again.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Still worth it!
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
People are literally purchasing it at a feed and supply store with a picture of a horse on it and a label that indicates that it is meant for horse use. Regardless of the active ingredient, that is unusual behavior and rightly garnered atte
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Confusingly, "conscious" is also used as a synonym for "sentient"
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I'd love to see ML-GPL which specifically deals with using licensed property as a training set.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I used to do this before I had access to a computer 24/7
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Great book on the subject: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6286687-atomic-america
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
The "rod got stuck, they pulled too hard to free it" explanation fits very well with the known facts. The rush to blame the operators may have been due to a bias to protect the project.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
If it wasn't owned by a king and then a national museum and (for a while) a theif it's unlikely that it would be famous now.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
A model is no better than a image without animation. So at the minimum it needs to support animation. But of course an animation with no interactivity is no better than a video. So it needs to support interactivity. Now you're talking
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Of the bridge sims we tried to set up at work, this one was the most successful.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
What is it about SQL embedded languages that made them so hard to get right? I had to port a stored procedure from MySQL to Pl/PSQL once and it was nuts how much better the PSQL one was once it was finished.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
This is the exact kind of FuD that I'm talking about. There is a whole world of low-calorie sweeteners, Aspartame isn't the only one by a long shot. As you pointed out It's uncanny potency means that the amount of metabolites
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I personally do drink water instead of soda usually and definitely endorse that idea.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
There are many alternative sweeteners to aspartame fortunately. Sucralose is my go-to personally.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
I'm not super strict about it but when given the choice yeah I go for the substitutes.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
What baffles me is that artificial sweeteners exist and yet there is enough (imo) unfounded FUD about them that leads people to instead choose Sugar or Nothing (which inevitably translates to Sugar because of the pseudo-addictiveness you me
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
Naev used the assets from this back in the day.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
The wiki says it ran on IRIX
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
It's from the early 00s.
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by EamonnMR 5y ago
It's a parlor trick, but a cool one is my point.

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