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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> I solve that in a hilarious way: by uninstalling the app when I’m not using it. Ha, I do the same thing!
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> but that was not a replacement of understanding what multiplication was You're conflating an algorithm in N or Z with inherent meaning. Let's shift over to R: Expand e*pi to repeated addition. Think exponentiation is "re
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> our countries identity has basically become "we're all immigrants" but that's not a new phenomena This is a very "New World" perspective which won't cut it for the "Old World" until their co
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> laundry [is] already automated Partially. Ironing/steaming is only partially automated. Folding/hanging is not.
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> How do you view HTML/Code/JSONs in other applications? Not GP, but I'll be forever thankful to have been able to make my career focused on embedded software. In my line of work there's nothing to view because there&
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> very specific edge cases Mathematics is hardly an edge case, but SOTA models differ wildly in their ability to write proofs for unsolved problems. Models also differ wildly in tasks like decompilation for reverse engineering. Also, so
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> I don’t really get the nostalgia angle as it seems as many of those who are into this kind of thing are too young to have ever been in such a space, let alone worked in one. I developed a fondness for 1970s interior decor/styling
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
Boundaries are a privilege available only to those able to deal with the consequences of enforcing them.
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> But I still do not understand how one can consider writing to memory the OS owns to be ok. Go to Vogons and look at all of the memory tricks people will use to get various games running on MS-DOS. This kind of juggling exactly which dr
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
> After a few years of pain, people would've gotten with the program, so to speak. Not necessarily. This was still very much the time in which choosing to stick with an old version which worked (e.g. Windows 3.1) wasn't uncommo
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
But what about The Jevons Paradox?
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
My parents were great, but if we were forced by circumstance to live in the worst parts of the US (e.g., Appalachia), then no amount of having a "good upbringing" would shield me from having a peer group which would routinely put
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by acuozzo 6mo ago
You think so? Peers, in my experience, have an even greater impact, especially between the ages of 10 and 25.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
They suddenly act as if Claude has awarded them with a second PhD in CS. Now they know everything and everything you tell them gets filtered through Claude. It's like "software dude thinks he can do hardware", but on steroids
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
I was obsessed with both history and computers when I was young. I've stayed a little close to history by building my career around problems domains in which C is the language of choice. It's not quite Software Archaeology, but I&
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> Software people tend to overestimate their knowledge of other disciplines, writing it off as "easy" or work beneath them You should see what happens when someone involved in the sciences, e.g. Chemistry, gets their hands on C
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> I'm all for AI and it's great for things like copywriting, brainstorming and code generation That's funny. I would have said the same thing about your field prior to reading your comment.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
20 watts ignores the startup cost: Tens of millions of calories. Hundreds of thousands of gallons of water. Substantial resources from at least one other human for several years.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> Why do you need amphetamines to do this? That's a question for a specialist and/or a medical researcher in the field. It's well above our "pay grade" here. Anecdotally, I have tried the majority of legal stimul
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> How do amphetamines treat the source of ADHD? By giving a patient the ability & skills to establish a less dopamine-seeking lifestyle while temporarily relieving them of the deficit. Its use is supposed to be coupled with therapy a
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Father of three here as well: 11/9/6. I love them and I spend a lot of time with them, but I have no idea what you're talking about. My 11 year old has Level 2 Autism, ADHD, and crippling anxiety. The pediatric psychologist &
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
How would this work for multiuser accounts? Mu kids all share the same account on the family computer.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Did they though? Boeing.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
I can't reply to your "Isn’t that just fiction?" reply to my comment. To answer your question: No, it's not. Consider e.g. Historical Fiction or fiction set in the present.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
It's speculative fiction.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
How would this work for e.g. RTOS or even TempleOS?! Does the hidden Minix installation on every Intel CPU with the Intel Management Engine count?
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
How much did you wind up walking away with?
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
Capitalizing it is sufficient in this context.
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
You'd have a point if the BBC hadn't capitalized the Who, but they did, so your pedantry is not only needless, but wrong. Would you expect them to throw quotation marks around Anton Whom in a headline including his name?
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by acuozzo 7mo ago
> because computers and the internet became available Because of Bell Labs (inventors of the transistor & Unix & UUCP & so much more) which was so well-funded by the post-WW2 US economic situation. The Internet? DARPA! DARPA?

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