JoeAltmaier

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by JoeAltmaier 4mo ago
The 'dust problem' will be the big issue pretty much everywhere in the universe outside a wet atmosphere.
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Or an inspector's hard hat in a construction zone. Nobody wants to confront the inspector.
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Considering movable type was in China in 1040 (Bi Sheng, inventor) I wonder if there are any extant presses there.
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Maybe AI should be the teacher, not the student. That is, used to tutor and educate, not to supply students with neatly packaged answers, but to challenge them to learn and judge when they have grasped a topic and move on to the next. You k
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
AI today may be able to streamline that process. Have it read and compare the code with what it knows about open source. Many AI engines can also google that and give a comprehensive list of similarities. Reduces the list of things to check
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Yes, exactly. We used a set of INT instructions in well-known low memory addresses that all jumped to the same place. We had an ASM file that you linked with, that had sixteen different address combinations for each. The common entry point
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
It was popular with govt because it came with an HDLC network build-in, server/client depended on the OS you booted. This saved you a network administrator. The kernel was in Intel ASM86 but the rest of the OS was written in PLM86. Whe
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Used to be a staff member working on an x86 OS called CTOS. I realized if I implemented a couple of traps, we could run command-line DOS programs. So I did. And it worked. Dev tools, text processing, piped commands all worked. It helped tha
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Fairly thin. No reason to mention Pyramids, but that always gets clicks for an archaeology article I guess. tl;dr: give it a miss
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Spending a year dead, for tax purposes?
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Again, the insistence with cherry-picking results. Shame. Conclusions: Common vaccines were not associated with a decreased risk of dementia. Unmeasured confounding and detection bias likely accounted for the observed increased risk.
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
And the very next line: Conclusions: Common vaccines were not associated with a decreased risk of dementia. Unmeasured confounding and detection bias likely accounted for the observed increased risk.
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
"Not associated with a decreased risk" is completely different in meaning than this clickbait lying title.
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
A lovely niche application! I admire folks who put such effort into very particular solution spaces. My son is considering switching to a different startup. So of course he built an app to evaluate startups for viability by several metrics.
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
Hell, people reading this post may do that just out of curiosity. It's bad timing, to be sure - somebody was just murdered. But many people may be interested out of morbid curiosity, intellectual interest or because say they are a writ
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by JoeAltmaier 5mo ago
So, doubling every two years?
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
Special sauce? Yes. It could do floating point on a chip. CPU's didn't have that, not the microprocessor kind. They were 'micro' which meant, barely any room for the registers, instruction decode and execution units. Th
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
No, the normal software noticed all the missing or misbehaving systems and began to throw warning and exception. That title sounds like he was targeted. Clickbait.
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
I saved every issue. Boxed them up when I moved out of my childhood home. Moved them 13 times and they ended up in a shed in field on my farm (some success in Silicon Valley) where they mouldered into rot over 20 years. Hard to express what
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
I asked for a monitor stand at work, back in the day. No money! So I went to the loading dock, found a wooden pallet for the little AC units we installed in racks, put that on my desk. Voila - monitor stand.
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
We guess how AI will be used by trying to adapt it to workflows. But in a more perfect world, AI would take on the jobs we DON'T want to do, and we'd continue doing the pleasurable ones. For instance, dont use AI to run a wrecking
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
Again, that's total renewables, not solar. I believe a large part of that is hydro, decades old.
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
Used to be this was almost entirely explained by hydro. Not a lot of new dams going in, and they take a long time. The solar component is usually with caveats: the majority of growth. Because growth is slow otherwise. Solar is what part of
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
An axe to grind. Better to talk about what's got more nutrition, than to use loaded words like 'unhealthy'. Else you resort to unsubstantiated claims and FUD.
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
In a free market the company that makes every cent they can has a survival advantage. Enough time and transactions and the market will be made entirely of survivors. The rest will have been out-competed. One counter-pressure is regulation.
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
From 7% population to 5%. Sounds like a little or a lot, depending how you present the statistic.
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
Lots of cool factor. But that giant mono-foot? Gonna be trouble in a house with stairs, thresholds, cats. Legos. power cords. Potted ivy plants dangling over the side of the pot. Real places. Places with kids making messes, where you might
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
I wrote a programming language, some time back. You need a good reason to add to the tumult in the marketplace, and I thought I had one. My language was for discrete control systems. You could declare samplers for data values (interval, se
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
Diagnosis helps put them into the data set. Even increased diagnosis would skew the statistics. Those that died of Alzheimer's and didn't know it, aren't in the study.
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by JoeAltmaier 6mo ago
Agreed. But in the suburbs, there's no lack of good locations to place dedicated solar farms without obstructing traffic.

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