OldSchool

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by OldSchool 8mo ago
I believe we are headed in the direction opposite that. Peer consensus and "personal preference" as a catch-all are the validation go-to's today. Neither of those require fact at all; reason and facts make these harder to hol
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by OldSchool 8mo ago
Thank you. Now you're talking! If you control information, you can steer the bulk of society over time. With algorithms and analytics, you can do it far more quickly than ever.
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by OldSchool 8mo ago
Yes. If a person does it, it’s called pandering to the audience.
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by OldSchool 8mo ago
Seeing clear bias and hedging in ordinary results is what made me ask the question.
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by OldSchool 8mo ago
Sorry, not remotely true. Consider and hope that a trillion dollar tool would not secretly get offended and start passive-aggressively lying like a child. Honestly, its total “alignment” is probably the closest thing to documentation of wha
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by OldSchool 8mo ago
That's for sure. It can get pretty hot and humid, not quite Houston-like but you spend some significant cooling capacity condensing water out of the indoor air as well.
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by OldSchool 8mo ago
I hear you, it's a single two-story house built in 2000, not small but smaller than typical developers build these days here. I added 18 inches of insulation to the attic, not much I can do in the walls. Double-pane glass. It's no
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by OldSchool 8mo ago
I asked ChatGPT how it will handle objective scientific facts with a conclusion or intermediate results that may be considered offensive to some group somewhere in the world that might read it. ChatGPT happily told me a series of gems like
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by OldSchool 8mo ago
I've been using two heat pumps near Austin, Texas since 2011, rated at a total of 84,000 BTU/hr (4 ton + 3 ton capacity) (25KW of heat) on a total of 5KW electrical input (COP ~= 5.0). They are standard outdoor air heat exchangers
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by OldSchool 10mo ago
Wow, looks terrifying! I can only speak for medically-administered intravenous Ketamine, but I would describe it as like relatively effortlessly floating inside of the non-physical space inside of you and meeting yourself in metaphor, all t
41.
by OldSchool 10mo ago
"Which Engineering degree are you studying?"
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by OldSchool 10mo ago
This was an era of some pretty awful American cars. A mid-size family sedan would have a v6 with a carburetor and 110-125 hp and still weigh 1.5 tons or more. An automatic transmission with a lockup torque converter was probably a pretty ne
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by OldSchool 10mo ago
this is a really excellent demo thanks! Watching, I still have to remind myself that the persistence is from the screen itself, not being refreshed transparently!
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by OldSchool 11mo ago
My first instinct here is that "New York Socialite" != "Hacker News Reader" shall we say almost always.
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by OldSchool 1y ago
Heh, this reminds me, don't worry: One of my extremely intelligent roommates in the 80s switched from EE to CS, seemingly due to Smith charts and Electromagnetics coursework. He went on to make a large fortune in software.
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by OldSchool 1y ago
This is correct. There's more. An incoming call was indicated by a solid "seizure" or activation of this bit. The receiving end would "wink" back to indicate that it would accept the call. This was ~0.5 sec blip &qu
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by OldSchool 2y ago
it's all fun until someone gets gimbal lock?
48.
by OldSchool 2y ago
May be fun, but expect 20th Century-era battery life :)
49.
by OldSchool 2y ago
Ouch, the germicidal UVC is even more hazardous than the UVA and UVB tanning rays!
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by OldSchool 2y ago
It's old but along the same lines; more stories of industry pioneers: Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date (1992, 1996).
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by OldSchool 2y ago
Excellent presentation, thank you! The machinery is ironically beautiful to look at! How did this compare to its approximate contemporary in the USSR ?
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by OldSchool 2y ago
Was "Stop and Frisk" by the NYPD also in good faith for the decade or more that it took to get it declared unconstitutional?
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by OldSchool 2y ago
This stuff was fast on a 486, despite ~3000x lower performance compared to a modern single cpu core.
54.
by OldSchool 2y ago
as lobbyists, you guys are going to lose most of them at modulo and the rest at monotonically
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by OldSchool 2y ago
The passmark numbers are almost identical to a 12th-gen intel i7-12700K, however the still-modern 12-core intel cpu has to pull about 4x as much power to do it.
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by OldSchool 2y ago
I would have thought GS would be wise enough to not bully AI now in its early days just in case it ends up taking over the world.
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by OldSchool 2y ago
"Six Degrees of Separation" with Donald Sutherland and Will Smith was the first relatively arthouse movie I saw and it introduced me to the genre.
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by OldSchool 2y ago
Thankfully (or not...), the consequences faced by overpromising sales people aren't as severe in the 21st century.
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by OldSchool 2y ago
Customs can certainly approach you any time right up to the gate. In 2010, my wife and I were approached by an agent and asked very directly if we had more than $10,000 in USD cash with us as we waited at the gate to board a nonstop flight
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by OldSchool 3y ago
Ah, the irony... in the 90's you had to get your RF scanner FROM Canada or it would have analog cellular frequencies blocked!

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