PaulHoule

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by PaulHoule 11d ago
Sometimes the thing built into the .NET platform is great, sometime it is just crap but developers will use it anyway and it sets back the ecosystem. There is this division of labor between systems programmers and application programmers a
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by PaulHoule 12d ago
I love the Steam Deck because it is almost entirely a consumer electronics experience. I mean, maybe for 10% of the games I have to edit an .INI file to have a perfect experience, but for the most part I can pick it up and play and not f
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by PaulHoule 12d ago
I have an "image sorter" web application that works great on desktop, tablets, phones and... my meta quest 3. I can bum around the spare room on the couch and have three big windows hanging in the air. If your "click"
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by PaulHoule 12d ago
Big picture the center of mass momentum is concerned and it does not matter if the system as a whole is moving up or down or to the right or the left. Like the Earth is basically orbiting the sun in an ellipse [1] so far as the sun is conc
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by PaulHoule 12d ago
Well there are simpler chaotic Hamiltonians like Henon–Heiles. There are a lot of things wrong with how we teach classical mechanics and one of them is that the two index problems that are used in the undergraduate course are the harmonic o
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by PaulHoule 12d ago
In the case of a planet going around the sun we know that the planet travels in an ellipse, more generally a conic section including interstellar comets. Orbital periods and everything else can be computed straightforwardly with formulas.
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by PaulHoule 12d ago
I think it is the same with cleaning up a code base for human programmers. For instance I picked up a typescript code base that was a real mess and if I tired to change anything I would get all these crazy error messages that made no sense
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by PaulHoule 14d ago
4G used clever ideas to get much better practical spectrum efficiency than people thought was possible... At the cost of very expensive infrastructure. The biggest selling point to carriers was standalone 5G networks that were cheaper t
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by PaulHoule 15d ago
From A.I. I’d say 10^-3 in terms of flashy stuff like what happens in The Terminator , The Matrix or Twelve Monkeys . Somewhat higher if you mean “broken civilization”, “lost purpose” or the like but A.I. is probably just a stop on the
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by PaulHoule 15d ago
The SSRI is not unusual, in fact it is supposed to be the first line for anxiety. Propranolol is normal for performance anxiety that manifests physically. Myself I had terrible anxiety when I was younger that came out of my schizotypy. I
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by PaulHoule 15d ago
That’s a really strange case. Getting one benzodiazepine for anxiety is pretty normal but to be getting more than one seems like malpractice since the side effects are serious.
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by PaulHoule 16d ago
A similar disease comes out of an industry being overly concentrated in a single geography. For instance Firefox could keep failing and losing market share for decades because Google knows politicians will be stupid enough to believe that
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by PaulHoule 16d ago
Not everything from China is crap. I'm a big fan of Chinese lenses. I reach for Japanese and German lenses when I want to take the highest quality photographs that look like the photographs all the other photographers take. When I wa
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by PaulHoule 17d ago
(1) Shop Pay is one of the services that I’ve seen grow fastest in market share ever. Like in the last six months it seems like almost every independent online store sees my phone number and offers me a text to pay via shop. (2) Tailwind i
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by PaulHoule 17d ago
I have a biofeedback hobby and have done experiments with HRV. R-R intervals per pulse are quite useful. 5s reporting intervals are too long. Of course I use a EKG Polar Monitor although the literature seems to think a quality PPG or eve
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by PaulHoule 17d ago
It’s hard to name a more pathological market than office suites. You have Microsoft which is lackadaisical about the subject, like maybe they think Office is a place to stuff with thoroughly unwanted AI features. The rest of the market is
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by PaulHoule 17d ago
There are concerns about kid's growth so its is important to do these trials but big picture Novo is in trouble. For thing Zepbound is the better drug and Lilly has kept up production. Lilly's new small-molecule drug https:&#x2F
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by PaulHoule 17d ago
I dunno, I was trying to develop something 10 years ahead of its time 10 years ago and either facing the problems that people are facing now with AI or anticipating that I would face those problems. I had endless arguments with people over
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by PaulHoule 17d ago
I can't complain. I live near a small city that was showing this film at a small and intimate cinema downtown and and at a multiplex at the mall. So there's competition and at the downtown cinema I showed up at the start time
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by PaulHoule 19d ago
10 years ago I heard “you’d better read all the floppy disks you’ve got now because you won’t be able to do it later.” You might do better with better hardware, you might not. This thing can get at the raw data https://en.wikip
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by PaulHoule 22d ago
I'm amazed I could see anything at all on that page but what I saw was an integer, an empty comment, and two bits of uncontexted brainrot
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by PaulHoule 22d ago
I went down a rabbit hole circa 2015 sketching out a system which was going to solve the language + world model problem which of course only needed to be partially implemented to solve a specific family of problems. In a broad sense think
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by PaulHoule 23d ago
Guitars don't seem to be like that. Like sometimes my son is talking with my son about his latest guitar with my wife and that guitar is newer than the guitar that my wife thinks is his latest guitar. If he hasn't bought a new g
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by PaulHoule 23d ago
I'd say you put the cart before the horse. Commercially viable technology is "superhuman" in some sense. That is, tractors and combine harvesters changed everything in agriculture because... they are superhuman. Bulldozers
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by PaulHoule 23d ago
I can't picture people being "shocked" by this. Kiyosaki always said you should be aggressive about using leverage.
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by PaulHoule 23d ago
I had a phase when we bought several rugs at the price point you're talking about and also found some "subprime" sources of rugs that were authentic but not so go good and much more affordable. Then I had a house full of orie
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by PaulHoule 23d ago
...and stigma could be overcome for a price the lesson of history (Heian Japan, Wilhelmine Germany) is that people with status can control the definition of status and make it apply exclusively to themselves. It doesn't end w
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by PaulHoule 23d ago
It's been more than a decade since I've done sales or BD, and I'd say many people today report an experience different from I've had but... I had a lot of luck talking to prospects on LinkedIn. I had a really good prof
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by PaulHoule 24d ago
Reminds me of the poorly coached American football team I saw that gave up 150 yards in penalties and got “offsides” so many times I thought it was the other kind of football.
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by PaulHoule 24d ago
One of the ways post-humanism manifests in The Terminator franchise: a biological man can never measure up to a mechanical man.

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