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by PaulHoule 5d ago
Really? When I first met Sun machines they were selling 68k-based Sun machines that were better specced than Apple and Amiga and such but left them dependent on Motorola’s architecture that had indirect address and thus no future. Sure the
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Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade(arstechnica.com)
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by PaulHoule 5d ago
The iron law is that vendors want to become like the old Sun. The only reason they don't is if they are trying to compete their way up the hill. Take away the old Sun and SGI and IBM and now Dell is Sun.
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by PaulHoule 5d ago
I dunno. Let organizations set the rules here and I think they are going to be too greedy and strict on the average but… I did go to a pagan festival that had a very ordinary ritual and it bugged me that people were taking cellphone snaps o
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by PaulHoule 5d ago
Our Sun rep served us well at an academic library. I had no problems provisioning a server with a nice storage array. When things fell apart at Sun our sales engineer from Sun wound up working for us.
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by PaulHoule 5d ago
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by PaulHoule 5d ago
Somewhat. The funny thing is that efficient RETE engines only became widely available towards the end of "the golden age of AI" so that most of the seminal works of that period do not even use them. I think though the intuition th
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by PaulHoule 8d ago
A day in the jungle is easy to survive, a year less so. I don’t know a lot about dogs but cats have specialized scent communication mechanisms that are entirely outside the human range. I mean they tend to leave a streak of ‘cat oil’ aroun
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by PaulHoule 8d ago
It's funny. My usual "go kit" has my iPhone in my leg bag and then my iPad is either my main bag or one of those pouches that waitresses wear which has plenty of room to pack a tablet. I like using the hotspot (being parsimo
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by PaulHoule 8d ago
Almost everything has supported email-based password reset since 90's for all the problems it entails. I am looking at a new project that uses magic links sent by texts. I have been there and done that with authentication systems and
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by PaulHoule 8d ago
Depends. They make it pretty easy for people who don't think about the consequences of things. I worry I am going to get locked out of my Google account, muggles don't. Doesn't stop them from getting locked out. Apple has
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by PaulHoule 8d ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egregore doing sports photography as-a-fox [1] I am a bit scared of clusters of people screaming hard for their team, like I picture they'll attack me like a pack of wolves. I r
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by PaulHoule 8d ago
My friends and furs are on mastodon, tumblr, and Bluesky
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by PaulHoule 8d ago
This like the first post on crypto since January or something...
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by PaulHoule 9d ago
I would say I struggle with cables and USB chargers and such. Like after years of being involved with tech I have multiple VGA and DVI cables that I hardly ever use unless I am messing with some weird SBC. Sometimes I go through and throw
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by PaulHoule 9d ago
My mom kept most of my books but threw out a rare box of Creative Computing magazines that all the world’s libraries wrongly decided were ephemeral crap.
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by PaulHoule 9d ago
Also I think there are diminishing returns to larger models and the harness can make up for some weaknesses. Like maybe the huge model can hypothetically answer a question off the cuff but the small model can get some search results and th
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by PaulHoule 9d ago
"Chunking" has a bad history in IR going back through the history of the TREC conference. For instance you might index the whole document or index sections or paragraphs and somehow aggregate the paragraph hits up into document h
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by PaulHoule 9d ago
Some say pluggability is the root of all evils. The more cypher suites you support the more possibilities that one of them is bad.
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AI Doomsaying Is an Aggressive Sales Pitch(jacobin.com)
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by PaulHoule 10d ago
Of course! But from a quality standpoint there are three concerns: (1) Do you actually do the code review, do you actually enforce the style? I worked on a Scala project where the dev manager thought it was preferable to handle errors with
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by PaulHoule 10d ago
Hacking is not that hard, has never been that hard. You hear about high school hackers because they can do it without a lot of experience. Somebody older like myself might have a house and a family and situation that could be blown up spen
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by PaulHoule 10d ago
Well Java has a kind of xenophobia that really resists bringing in foreign code but Python is at it's best when it accesses wrappers around C and Fortran. I used conda back in that period, it had a correct solver, and it was easy to ma
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by PaulHoule 11d ago
In general relativity it is closer to quasiperiodic. Classical motion under an 1/r^2 field is really strange as a dynamical system because the periods of rotation, in-out and up-down motion are all the same which is why the motion clos
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by PaulHoule 11d ago
The way I remember it in the US was in the 3G age you had good cell service in cities like Rochester, NY which have moderate populations and gentle hills but it was spotty in dense cities with crazy geography and/or urban canyons. [1]
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by PaulHoule 11d ago
I am looking forward to it, and many other things planned for Java!
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by PaulHoule 11d ago
10 years ago I was working at a place that was building Python systems that had dependency graphs too complicated for pip to handle. I was able to solve the problem for my system with a "wheelhouse" system that could compute a li
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by PaulHoule 11d ago
One difference I think about is generics. Java and .NET bolted generics on to an existing system. Java used type erasure in such a way that a List<OfThat> is really just a List. Type erasure has a lot of limitations. If I am codin
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by PaulHoule 11d ago
Really? Unlike C it is trivial to catch a NullPointerException and confine the crash to the unit of work. And unlike C you are not talking about insanely dangerous pointers, you're just talking about an NPE. I'll admit it's
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by PaulHoule 11d ago
Mostly I think they are a mistake, like in ordinary application code instead of catching close to the throw you want to do a lot of try { ... } finally() { ... } to make sure things get torn down that have to be torn d

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