JoeAltmaier

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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
SOrry, I meant 'from the consumer point of view'. Once the billions are spent, I just update my version. Yes so far the AI takeover is overblown. I see that changing - at some point, the AI functionality will improve to the point
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Hell, let some inventive sergeant command the exercise 'insurgents' and they win every time. Such examples are remarked upon in nearly every branch of the US services.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Like this? https://dthain.github.io/distsys-fa24/syllabus.html
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
The argument balances on, AI Doesn't Care. Well, put that module in, then it does care. The advantage to AI (why it will never go away) is that it can be updated, universally, on a dime. With new techniques, skills, logic and ultimatel
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Science fiction investigated so much. Like, if AI can control our technology directly, why do we need to be in the equation? We've invented a superior intellect. In every way it exceeds our own.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
My bank AI support says it solved my problem, fixed my account and so on. And then precisely nothing happens. It's maddening. I just go into the bank now, and talk to a VP. How does that improve the situation?
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Non-voting shares? That you can't sell? How is that ownership? The rules for these shares seem to strip all ownership rights from them.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
A nice thought. But the early options/shares issued at a startup have been gamed to the point that only the principals can ever get a significant cash payout. THe rest of the employee shares are of a special class that may as well be c
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
In my personal history, no self-made backup tool has ever produced any good result in a failure. It's a case of, if you haven't tried it, it doesn't work. And who tests their backup?
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Was I thinking of 0x86?
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
It takes a billion dollars and years to produce a new chip fab line. So no, it cannot just be produced for you on a dime.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
There were several NOPs - XCHG BX,BX and so on. Those were taken later to be prefixes for new classes of opcodes.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
In the US, it's estimated the average kid's bike goes less than 10 miles in it's lifetime.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
ICE Sprint https://www.icetrikes.co/products/sprint-x-tour-recumbent-tr...
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
What if you end up with unmaintainable junk? What if it almost works, and you have to fix it, and you have no idea how? None of this is new ground. I admit at first, I thought the title meant, what if I can fix the issue faster than you can
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
I ride a recumbent trike, and the chain path is even more grotesque. I think I could draw it.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Reminds me of the copper statue-of-liberty program at a similar time. Local youth groups (largely the Scouts) would do a fundraiser for the pedestal, then a foundry in Kansas City would ship you a six-foot (or so) replica in metal. Still ca
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Another view of that is, hedging their bets. Which businesses do all the time.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
"The Bronx" was "The Bronks", a farm owned by a Dutch family and a popular picnic destination before it was subdivided and built over.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Of course, do it with vats of plant cells in floating oceanic CO2 factories. Not in your living room. Or, just let the oceans recover, let the mollusks return to the bays and shores, let them do their efficient thing.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
In mice
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Contractors same deal. Work on some big company moonshot style thing and just as it's all in the can, you're let go.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Ballsy
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
All of us prioritize our lives over cybersecurity. This whole security theatre game was thrust upon us. It has no bearing on our real lives; it's just a task we've been given with a dozen different rules and dire consequences.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Swiftly followed by an Orange County Harley-Davidson shop that sold parts and shipped around the world. Was much talked about at the time.
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
capability has been advancing faster than raw FLOPS
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
A bold prediction. Phones have gigabytes today. There are famous laws of growth that put terabytes at just a few years away - perhaps 10 isn't too bad an estimate?
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
Shelves are fairly spotty in my town. Never saw that before, not in 50 years.
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
My son programmed a Z80-based instruction set into a Juno probe sensor. Still kicking.
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by JoeAltmaier 3mo ago
Contrary to that old headline about questions always answerable by no, curiously this one is Yes. Despite 'explanations' that reframe the loss and temporizing that maybe it will probably come back, without evidence.

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