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by Tistel 6y ago
Sorry if this has been asked already. Out of curiosity, what did they replace oracle with? Postgres, MySQL, both? Or did the roll their own?
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by Tistel 6y ago
I realize that trump is odious, but, what is next? Be inspired by China and filter wrongthink from the internet itself? What’s after that? Search for the wrong thing and the police kick down your door and disappear you? WTF is wrong with
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by Tistel 6y ago
Prolog is great and kind of weird in a good way. One other benefit is that you can pick up erlang really quickly if you know prolog. Erlang was first prototyped in prolog and that prototype’s host language heavily influenced erlang’s synt
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by Tistel 6y ago
I just got an invite to join my company’s Google chat.
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by Tistel 6y ago
I have never worked with cobol. The coolest thing about mainframes I heard was that you could pull out a broken cpu (without stopping it) and plug in a new one. No idea if it’s true. There are projects like: https://en.m.wikip
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by Tistel 6y ago
I will get threw them eventually!
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by Tistel 6y ago
They say it’s for large scale cloud management, but, think of worst case scenario: https://www.zdnet.com/article/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-op... It seems like a massive waste of chip transistors and R&D with limi
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by Tistel 6y ago
Same here. Still pretty slick though.
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by Tistel 6y ago
Old code is everywhere. I once worked at a health tech startup that was integrating with a very successful existing company. All their code was in Turbo Pascal. We were shocked. The funny thing is that their code worked great and even h
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by Tistel 6y ago
I bought a blank das keyboard with this same idea years ago. It mostly collects dust. I used complex passwords because of work habits. Getting stuck on password entry and the fear of too many failures, account locked. Stressed me out. I
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by Tistel 6y ago
emacs is nice too in that if you are using tramp mode (/ssh:blah) to open a remote file you can create a remote eshell too. you can do diffs and merges between remote machines also. in the pre container/k8s days i worked at a pl
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by Tistel 7y ago
hopefully they can do something like: https://www.sawstop.ca/ to be safer. or maybe the moisture in the grass might send false positives making it not possible. i just fear an old blind/deaf dog getting hurt (or pass
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by Tistel 7y ago
It might be the one upside to the cpc commies stealing (or were they fed it? ( evil moustache twirl )) US tech. The US will know how “their” best tech works and might be able to cause ghost images to appear the pilots/AI.
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by Tistel 7y ago
I have heard a couple of podcasts that had some very credible US pilots talking about this. I think detecting life on other planets or aliens here would be great (so long as they are not trying to kill me yada yada). But, the most down to
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by Tistel 7y ago
I feel the same way when I watch Doug Engelbart‘s “mother of all demos” video: https://www.dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/448/ It does seem like we found all the low hanging fruit very early and if w
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by Tistel 7y ago
I am familiar with prolog and know what it takes (ish) to make an old school expert system. I have heard about this project. Are there any demos of this system? Like a video sales pitch. I have always wanted to see it in action.
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by Tistel 7y ago
i waste too much time on YouTube. But there is another video of a snorkel diver lady who swears a whale (forget which species) protected her from a shark. It would be nice to think there is some mammal bro behaviour (flipper <-> Han
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by Tistel 7y ago
Orcas working in teams to knock seals off an iceberg with waves: https://youtu.be/g1VEwsI4SlY So what can we conclude? Super smart, organized and no love for other mammals. I am amazed they only seem to go after humans in
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by Tistel 7y ago
all fair points. I have have used it to do amazing things. It’s not going away. Just that AGI seems very far away. I think CS is like biology before the discovery of the microscope (why are we getting sick? Microorganisms etc). Or DNA.
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by Tistel 7y ago
I worked at a place that was selling ML powered science instrument output analysis. It did not work at all (fake it till you make it is normal, was told). So there was a person in the loop (machine output -> internet -> person doing
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by Tistel 7y ago
now try simulating spending 2 hours a day commuting and see if their stress level is affected.
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by Tistel 7y ago
Researchers should consider making their papers runnable. Jupyter notebooks being a great tool for it. Also, check out Knuth’s literate programming.
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by Tistel 7y ago
This analog computer reminds me of a great book: https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Play-Shannon-Invented-Information... that talks about a similar computer at MIT. I find all the pre transistor computation really interesting. Sh
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by Tistel 7y ago
I live in Toronto. I wish companies would choose cities other than Vancouver and Toronto. The housing/family costs in those two cites are pretty crazy. Pro-tip to any people looking to expand north: try Halifax on the east coast. N
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by Tistel 7y ago
I have not been in a Tesla with Full Self Drive (FSD) and I was hoping someone here can confirm/deny my theory. The theory is that there will be this dangerous trough with the FSD feature. So at the no FSD end of the speactrum the dr
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by Tistel 7y ago
I bought a Philips 4k tv which works ok. But, when I plug it into my ethernet and hit the software update button it says it can't find the host. So I am guessing they hard coded the wrong IP/URL into the firmware. I am sure are
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by Tistel 7y ago
When I did CS ~20 years ago in Canada this was part of the curriculum (SE class IIRC). I still reference it when I see reckless decisions being made.
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by Tistel 7y ago
I just started at a large international firm. ~1 week in I found that a collection of beefy AWS machines had been sitting around doing nothing for a least 5 years (potentially 7 years). The base cost? ~100k USD (we are based in Canada, so
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by Tistel 7y ago
Robert Virding (of helped implement Erlang with Joe Armstrong (rip) fame) has developed a logic programming language that runs on the BEAM: https://github.com/rvirding/erlog I have not tried it yet. I have an idea th
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by Tistel 8y ago
tramp is amazing. it even works with docker containers now!

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