FarmerPotato

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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
referring to John Woolridge's recent talk? "the car wash is only 200 feet away, should I drive or walk?" His slide showed Opus 4.6 saying "walk". I couldn't get 4.6 to do that.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
This was the way of the first TMS34010 cards for Autocad (circa 1988). You'd have a EGA/VGA card for the host, and the graphics processor would drive the high-resolution graphics display. There were 50+ vendors with a 340 solution
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Whoa. In my grade school years, I made many maps of my imaginary world. By high school, I was putting them into my computer, one 16x16 grid at a time. Had to make sure the edges matched up. Then I wrote code to print them on the Epson MX
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Well, this is sad.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
So the author is doing a self-learning exercise about profiling pre-production code, and you're disagreeing with them by comparing it to a commercial contract. I'm sure you've never, ever made a dumb mistake while getting pa
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Cool! My first downvote!
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Sure, it logically makes no sense. But while learning a new subject, have you never made a silly mistake like: bool getSchemaSizes(size_t * expectedBatchSize, size_t * expectedEntriesPerBlock) { ... } size_t expectedEntriesPerBlock, expe
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Do you think the author is somehow capable of writing the entire codebase, but not able to reason about code??? I'm sure you've never made a silly mistake where you passed the wrong integer parameter to a function, stared at your
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
I guess you've never made a silly mistake, found it, and admitted it. The author wrote this as a learning exercise. And is sharing the process.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
read the whole article. WAL is the transaction log and the author tested correctness after a crash.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
> at least it would be some measure of justice. It’s sad that it will hurt the other franchisees the most.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
It’s not just science reporting. It’s visceral.
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Also, there’s the stimulus causing nymphs to not be solitarious slow green grass-nibbles, but instead transform into armored, black and yellow, upright marching machines that mature into stronger-winged battle bugs. With soft tasty abdomen
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Monarchs are threatened during migration. It’s about how many individuals survive the round trip to breed more. Drought and fire are two natural factors that destroy their migration routes’ food supply. Another is agriculture. Folks like M
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by FarmerPotato 5mo ago
Gotta give credit, the gimmick is not superfluous. I don’t enjoy horror movies. But the locust was a horror!
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
They’re letting us test drive the Ferrari while they extract our data. Then they’ll raise the price.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
>Does a motor vehicle get "sleep" when it is serviced? When I reboot a computer, is that equivalent to a nap? Do androids dream of electric sheep?
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Merged PR #1337 Squashing commit history to get rid of vi call-outs. This commit was created in emacs, the best text editor ever!
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
but what does that even mean?
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I tried giving a dictionary of "preferred recognitions" to the OCR but got no improvement. I might do what you said, column sensitive. A first-pass assembler which does spell checking and makes the corrections. M0V is a single r
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
A more realistic scenario that surely must have been considered is this: They make a strategic investment in the DRAM maker. It's the same idea as buying an equity stake or entering a JV with a flat-panel maker. Or deploying cash to
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Yup. "I wonder how long the codebot will be combobulating over that prompt?" I'll just rest my hands for a sec..."
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Hmm, doesn't say anything about what OCR tools they used. I've got a 4" stack of wide-carriage COBOL. I guess it's two revisions of the same system so I only need to scan the newer half. Its probably from a TI Omni 810
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I remember a cartoon of college kids opening beer cans. “Beers that say their own name:” Schlitz! Pabst! Busch! Blatz!
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I’m not certain, though I have been to the Laverne and Shirley temple in Sprecher Brewery, but: Hassenpfeffer sounds like a play on Harnischfegger, a maker of heavy construction equipment in Milwaukee. Trivia: One of Henry Harnischfeger’s c
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I think it was a joke. Like great jokes, it has a point.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I just realized I like how the ads in my paperbacks have been there for decades.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Though zippers are still welcomed by many folks.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
Somewhere in reverse-engineering-land is the desire to figure out undocumented hardware blocks. I’m not disagreeing about PNR here.
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by FarmerPotato 6mo ago
I'd like to hear more about what works in OCR of dot-matrix fonts. I've been able to OCR letter-quality printer output to 97% (mostly Os and Xs problems). But it seems that machine-learning text-recognition is also now biased to r

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