FarmerPotato

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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
No, they don't. I'm close-reading Aristotle in a Meetup group where we compare many translations and indulge the controversies in translating the Greek. When I've tried to get LLMs to bear on a topic, they can't even rel
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Um... you'd think so... but the Perseus catalog is notoriously incomplete. They don't have all the key works of Aristotle in Greek.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
See Hana Goldin, MLIS: What Scrolling Did to Reading. Lots to think about there. https://open.substack.com/pub/cardcatalogforlife/p/what-scro...
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Even with books, stuff happens, you can skip ahead a chapter, consult the index, follow a footnote... or put another book on the table.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
You assert a pretty strong view, on what basis? but your hypothesis is directionally wrong, as found in these trials: Screen readers take longer. Feis A, Lallensack A, Pallante E, Nielsen M, Demarco N, Vasudevan B. Reading Eye Movements
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Um... there's always exceptions. I can keep enough digits in my working memory to do long division in the grocery aisle. I also compulsively factor numbers on license plates..
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
This reminds me of Harvey Cragon's intro to computer architecture textbook... When it introduces Harvard vs. Von Neumann architectures, it doesn't invent some dumb RISC computer to illustrate the difference... No... it makes you l
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
The frog failed the whiteboard test, but it could sing a hella Michigan Rag.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
You're probably talking about the same book I had then. I also remember it started off with a Mercury astronaut story, also had the story of Shackleton's Arctic voyage, and a two-page game board that was about trying to drive a c
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
For North America, you can read much about native bees (and more) at Xerces.org. They have many regional habitat-planting guides. Two books covering native bees: Managing Alternative Pollinators Attracting Native Pollinators C&#x
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
It was ten years ago I worked on an oscilloscope for CERN with FPGA trigger. You were able to update the trigger portion of the bitstream at any time, without a reset. Typically that was a FIR filter but it could be anything. Like anythin
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
I built the Matchbox for Hexapawn, detailed in National Geographic Kids! I didn't know what a Jujube was, but I got the idea.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
I have disproved this at home. Frog gets in idle hot tub. I turned up the heater. Soon, frog climbs out.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
I arrived in a small airport at midnight. Served only by Uber. Since I use Lyft elsewhere, my phone had deleted the Uber app. It took 15 minutes to download that: crappy Wifi and some kind of 5G dead zone. Sometimes you really need to d
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Code size would balloon if you try to format verbose error messages. I often look at the binaries of old EPROMs. I notice that 1) the amount of ASCII text is a big fraction of the binary 2) still just categories (“Illegal operation”). Fo
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
You seem to know Houston; alas yes Austin was formerly surrounded by open spaces. But let's not miss the point of the article. This is a right-ward shift of the supply curve. It means that the economics of building the next unit got
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
See the photo in the above East Side article. In the old neighborhood, people talked to the photographer because the front yards didn't have privacy fences.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Let's talk about the East Side. https://www.austinmonthly.com/in-photos-what-gentrification-... I don't think many home owners got a price for their land that allowed them to buy a similar house elsewhere. The wor
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
yes! See Rule 4 /* If we can cache this partial result, and guarantee that the cache stays coherent across updates, then average response time will converge on O(log N) instead of O(N). But first make the response pass all the unit t
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
So, in the past, your stories were warrant-eed? But no longer?
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
> from first principles I don't think that phrase means what you are trying to say here. What it doesn't mean: - learning by doing I believe it generally means: a formalization that comes after a subject is understood so well t
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Yeah, I had to lookup the names! Stryker the armored vehicle is made by General Dynamics. Striker the fire truck is made by Oshkosh Corporation.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Another detail: National Instruments declined to update the Mindstorms software. Just wasn't a profitable business case. (The LabView vi libraries, I dunno if they worked past 2015.. I stopped upgrading.)
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
The precision in tolerance over the years is truly breathtaking. It speaks to Ole Kirk Christiansen's impossible standards: "Even the best is not good enough" (Det Bedste Er Ikke For Godt.) (usually translated "Only the
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
That's a simplification of the Kiddicraft story. Yes, it was a shame. After Lego lost in court (to Hilary Page's heirs I think by then) I believe they finally atoned for that. Still, Lego didn't just sell the Kiddicraft brick
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Yeah, that's some brilliant mold engineering! >minimal mold lines I think this comes from higher tonnage (clamp force) molding machines. Injected plastic exerts force at the mold seam. Pressing the mold open by even a teeny tiny am
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
stickers > just looks cheap due to different surfaces and colors They are cheap! To print on a piece you must run the inkjet assembly line, do QC on it.. With early Collectable Minifig series, I heard they outsourced that. I imagine in
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Silverlight. 3.0 was built on Silverlight. And I guess other 3rd party proprietary stuff. I coached FLL 9+ and Junior FLL 6-8. FLL moved on to Boost and Java programming. These days I only do high-school FIRST.
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
Hmm, the comment I was replying to was deleted. I hate app obsolescence, and licenses that expire on your old hardware (Microsoft Word..) I exhibit 1980s video games. The hardware just continues to work. It's a disgrace what happens
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by FarmerPotato 7mo ago
>A 2x4 LEGO brick manufactured in 1958 will snap perfectly onto a brick molded this morning.. This is just manifestly NOT TRUE. The outward appearance may be the same. There were intentional improvements to the walls and tubes that mak

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