JoeAltmaier

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by JoeAltmaier 9d ago
A 5% reduction in fuel is significant, especially as cargo ships are responsible for a disproportionate share of petro-pollution. They burn the cheapest petro gunk, emitting tremendous volumes of soot and such.
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by JoeAltmaier 9d ago
Oh some few. No right triangle with rational sides has area equal to a perfect square depends on N=4 for instance. And it can be used to form other theorems that are terribly actionable. Every elliptical curve over Q is modular, which has c
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by JoeAltmaier 9d ago
We mock ancient medicine. But they were modelling health in ways that made sense to them, and which gave them some sense of control. Humors, Chakras, even Freud's Ego, Id and SuperEgo were simple models that could be taught and gave so
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by JoeAltmaier 9d ago
I meant, each supposed 'fix' is flawed in ways that have been thought about and written about for decades. Folks here post their first hasty thought and may think it's new and original and worth a dialog. They are not.
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by JoeAltmaier 10d ago
Science Fiction has covered the AI panic in perhaps hundreds of stories. Yet we blindly recapitulate the plots as if we don't know how this will turn out.
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by JoeAltmaier 11d ago
You know, where most of the universities are. And, who said anything about Japan? Confused.
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by JoeAltmaier 12d ago
<pedant>28% of adult Americans</pedant>
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by JoeAltmaier 13d ago
Makes sense - surface reflections are a thing they normally have to navigate?
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by JoeAltmaier 16d ago
Human-readable? Why? Just sprinkle RFID tags in the roadway, and drive it and register the tags and GPS/Inertial frame with a database and now you know where you are with machine-readable 'signs'.
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by JoeAltmaier 16d ago
And what fraction of the traffic?
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by JoeAltmaier 17d ago
Pedantically true. By population density, NYC is essentially the whole state, or what matters anyway, to the huge majority of residents.
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by JoeAltmaier 17d ago
We'll have arrived at the automated transit network when they stop putting up road signs. The cars know where they are, and how to get there. Signs are for fallible ignorant humans.
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by JoeAltmaier 18d ago
Grotesqueries that would give me nightmares. With the exception of the communi-grater which is just cool.
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by JoeAltmaier 18d ago
Just numbers? Was there a link to the sources in there?
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by JoeAltmaier 22d ago
Not that uncommon. It's so easy to just put up the new thing and make the old thing the failure route. But the old thing nearly never had the bandwidth for today's traffic. A famous EBay outage some years ago was just such a scena
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by JoeAltmaier 23d ago
Cool! The pictures remind me of my business partner Tom's basement - full of every computer and device he ever owned since the 1970's. But his are more orderly, sorted and filed and often in the original packaging. It'll be a
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by JoeAltmaier 28d ago
Really? The man directly responsible for defeating all measures meant to protect the public? Sounds serious to me.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
OP gives the whole chemical chain. But, short answer, oxygen in, CO2 out - it's that 'C' that holds the lost weight. We're breathing out carbon by the pound.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Thanks - I was using the wrong table, total coconut or something.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
50 MTons of coconut oil are produced per year (approximately). Is this a significant amount, compared to oil derived from crude (where gas currently comes from).
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
All water under the bridge. Ethanol is now a paying proposition. And it uses corn we used to dump.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Very cool! The raw-metal boot part is impressive. BASIC requires more support than you'd expect. Here's an interpreter, with a similarly long list of features it has to support: https://www.moondew.com/basic/i
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
It's still active as a mask for a more complex system on a single die. Even the support chips are available. The Juno project, orbiting Jupiter, had a Z80 compatible core for the radar signal processing.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
My first ambitious project was a Z80 assembler. The Z8000 (much later) was distinguished by being the last random-logic (not microcoded) microprocessor of it's day.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
About the benches: seems like an oxymoron. New Yorkers love busy places! Of course; they live in New York. Plenty of people on the benches in my midwest city park. Because we by and large are uncomfortable with crowds and noise. Why we don&
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Agreed
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Read again? Negative is the enemy of good, and this project was a net negative. As PR it went well, if you didn't examine it too closely. It was a misnomer from the start - it was 'harbor cleanup' or 'river cleanup'
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Wait - if the 170 atoms are a Bose-Einstein Condensate, then they are really just one atom. That's the whole deal with Condensates.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Oh I remember SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, I think. I worked on CTOS, widely released by Burroughs/Unisys back then. CTOS used all the clever instructions. They performed badly. Later I learned from an Intel customer consultant on porting co
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Interesting find! I wonder if the massive damage could also be explained by the falling wall (documented in the article).

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