GarnetFloride

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by GarnetFloride 5mo ago
Just started working on a book to celebrate the 50th year of our symposium, which is coming up in 5 years. The initial idea is a how-to book, filled with essays from past contributors, but since we only started yesterday - that may change.
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by GarnetFloride 5mo ago
In general, I am talking about non-technical or technical in a different field. In my case right now, our users are civil engineers, they just want to be able to use our software to model the environment. They really don't want to beco
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by GarnetFloride 5mo ago
My manager just told me that after 12 years of trying to get one of the founders to understand the difference between dev docs and user docs, they tried getting Claude to do it and he finally got it that they are different. He'd been s
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by GarnetFloride 5mo ago
Location: Orem, Utah Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Technical Writing, Information Development, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering Résumé/CV: htt
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by GarnetFloride 6mo ago
A quote that stuck with me: "We are all crew on Spaceship Earth. There are no passengers." And anyone that thinks they are the captain, is wrong.
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by GarnetFloride 6mo ago
I've lived in a 100 year old house and and in a brand new house, they both had issues. That also both had advantages too. Oddly the older house had a better designed kitchen. Our lives change over time and our housing has to adjust t
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by GarnetFloride 6mo ago
Look up Roman concrete. There are 2000 year old bridges and aqueducts still in use. We only recently figured out how to reproduce Roman concrete. We’d have more but a lot were blown up during WWII.
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by GarnetFloride 7mo ago
Yes, QA should exist, and should be managed by Operations. I've been places where devs have no idea what the product-as a whole-does. They just work on the feature of the sprint and throw the code over the wall. Their testing consists
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by GarnetFloride 7mo ago
When I was young I took a tour of an air traffic control center near New York. By the end I knew it was not for me. Everyone looked stressed. Things have gotten so much worse. This guy was doing at least 3 people's jobs even before the
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by GarnetFloride 7mo ago
If I remember right in many of the outlying areas of England the post people would serve the same purpose, though recently there have been cutbacks so they can't spend time. I also saw an estimate that people are giving $7 Trillion in
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by GarnetFloride 7mo ago
US Extra license holder checking in. I'm also involved with a local ham group because we live in an earthquake zone.
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by GarnetFloride 7mo ago
I set up a computer for an engineering department. It was an IBM PS/2. They wanted to run AutoCAD and Ventura Publisher, one used extended memory and the other expanded. I ended up making batch files that swapped around autoexec.bat an
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by GarnetFloride 8mo ago
Had an amateur radio friend tell me about a time he found something transmitting interference that looked like a pole mounted transformer but it was upside down and not connected to anything. He reported it to the FCC and it vanished in a c
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by GarnetFloride 8mo ago
That effect was also used for the V'ger energy cloud in ST:TMP.
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by GarnetFloride 8mo ago
Location: Orem, Utah Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Technical Writing, Information Development, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering Résumé/CV:
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by GarnetFloride 9mo ago
Yeah, this subject is a bit of a rabbit hole. I've read about half of the so far. That's my list of sources from those that I have so far. I would say start with: * The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen (Thi
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by GarnetFloride 9mo ago
Warning: opening a can of worms. Ann Blair is a great source on general, but there are so many facets to this topic here's a list that I have read or am going to read. * The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen * T
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by GarnetFloride 9mo ago
Indeed. That's why I am doubtful about LLMs, they just aren't doing something particularly well or solving a basic problem. No one in their right mind would let an LLM do their accounting. Just today I was looking something up and
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by GarnetFloride 9mo ago
Reading up on the history of information management, and the real killer app for paper was double-entry bookkeeping, which made Venice rich and contributed to starting the Renaissance.
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by GarnetFloride 9mo ago
That does make a huge difference, though I have found you also need to divide by the audiences. There are usually two main audiences that need addressing: 1. The new user. They typically know nothing about the product, not even why it exist
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by GarnetFloride 9mo ago
Location: Orem, Utah Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Technical Writing, Information Development, User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI), Electronics Engineering, Computer Engineering Résumé/CV: htt
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by GarnetFloride 10mo ago
Something important to do is to let your audience know that you are only showing them a small piece of the whole, because of the media you are using. With hooks like, if you want to learn more go read this article or this book.
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by GarnetFloride 10mo ago
Merry Christmas, This has been a wild one. On the way to my sister's house we got a call from her sister saying their dad needs to go into an assisted living place because his pneumonia is not getting better and needs 24/7 care. B
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by GarnetFloride 10mo ago
One aspect of it might be glucose depletion. I know when I was taking lots of tests at uni I could give myself a boost by eating a honey stick which was recommended by a bio prof. In any case, this looks fairly complex and it will be inter
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by GarnetFloride 10mo ago
The one author that I think we have a good chance of recreating would be Barbara Cartwright. She wrote 700+ romance novels all pretty much the same. It should be possible to generate another of her novels given that large a corpus.
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by GarnetFloride 10mo ago
Gotta love how "market rate" is about 60% of what you need to qualify to rent an apartment these days.
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by GarnetFloride 10mo ago
The trouble is how many times can you try. I tired building 6 businesses; all failed. I just don't have the resources to try again. I've lost too much. I am lucky to have been able to try at all. Like that parable floating around
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by GarnetFloride 11mo ago
A lot of the special effects and model work was done by Gerry Anderson of thunderbird fame. There is a lot to be said for practical effects.
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by GarnetFloride 11mo ago
I remember reading Einstein's Relativity and having to translate the notation into what I was learning in Calculus class.
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by GarnetFloride 11mo ago
I remember that. One of the big factors was that GarageBand came out just before this happened and tons of people now had an audio workstation to play with, which certainly helped it go viral.

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