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by aj7 2y ago
That’s all fixed.
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by aj7 2y ago
I don’t know. I just had to buy, and use, a Windows 11 pc. Remarkably, it shares a desk with a new M3 iMac, side by side. And equally remarkably, they’re set up so they behave almost identically, except that Windows 11 is a little snappier
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by aj7 2y ago
About two weeks ago, I had an epiphany that ‘Apple was dead’, since any cheap crappy device could act as a terminal to an AI infrastructure delivering a perfected and idiosyncratic user interface. Now, I’ve reconsidered.
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by aj7 2y ago
In day camp in Brooklyn, we always had woodworking. In successive summers, we had an instructor who wanted us to round the corners and edges of everything, and another instructor who insisted we keep everything as square and sharp as possi
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by aj7 2y ago
Yeah, but how?
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by aj7 2y ago
Founder risk is total myth. I was at a startup where, when it was apparent there would be no more funding, the vc’s permitted principal founder to essentially embezzle the remaining few $M. He and his cronies then lived off the proceeds fo
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by aj7 2y ago
What if an airliner or a spacecraft or a self- driving car or a surgical robot breaks?
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by aj7 2y ago
No parent can “train” a kid to be a math genius. There is a wide divide between a “math genius” and having a high SAT score for instance.
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by aj7 2y ago
Check reliability of current VW models before purchasing.
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by aj7 2y ago
Paul Graham felt all development should be in Lisp. Problem is readability by maintainers in the future. To facilitate that, the number of characters in the comments would have to exceed that in the code.
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by aj7 2y ago
Lisp is far and away the best of the nonreadable programming languages.
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by aj7 2y ago
No. You’re missing two arrows, each near its graph and pointing to the corresponding y-axis. This has more impact than color matching.
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by aj7 2y ago
Just leave physics out, and you’ll be OK. God doesn’t play the GoL.
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by aj7 2y ago
Imagine. And all that work trying to derive physics from TWO dimensional finite automata.
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by aj7 2y ago
While the considerations that this act addresses are real, strategically, the act looks so stupid, ineffective, and contrary to market forces, and the sponsors so obscure, that it is suspect.
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by aj7 2y ago
Inadvertently -> advertently
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by aj7 2y ago
Not by me.
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by aj7 2y ago
I’ve asked this before. I’ve noticed if my speed is slow, and I test it a few times, (I usually use the Netflix-owned site,) my speed rapidly improves. Do ISP’s throttle service, DETECT your visit to speed testing sites, and THEN speed thi
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by aj7 3y ago
The DFT has quite severe limitations that do not appear in the Fourier transform. In particular, the Nyquist criteria that there be zero signal energy for ALL frequencies above half the sampling frequency can only be approximated, and must
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by aj7 3y ago
Here’s the manual. I remember being in awe of this stuff when I was 19. http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/princOps/A22-...
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by aj7 3y ago
A while back, I asked a question here, roughly, why hasn’t someone written, say, a C to COBOL translator? Such a program might take a lot of work, but it seemed to me that with an impending dearth of COBOL programmers, there would be demand
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Textbook Regulatory Capture – FTC's Rules on Lab-Grown Diamonds(nationaljeweler.com)
4 points by aj7 3y ago|0 comments
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Senator tells NPR why he's leading a charge against TikTok(text.npr.org)
3 points by aj7 3y ago|2 comments
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Google and the Iron Triangle(tiktok.com)
1 points by aj7 3y ago|0 comments
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by aj7 3y ago
Experience has shown that a number of people win repeated lottery scratch-off jackpots with a statistically impossible frequency. My hypothesis: After-hours use of semi X-ray inspection equipment.
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by aj7 3y ago
But live cat ships with much better software. It’s not close.
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by aj7 3y ago
um is huge.
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by aj7 3y ago
The B-29. Nukes? Are you kidding me?
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by aj7 3y ago
Good point.
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by aj7 3y ago
I think the wavelength of light is a physical brick wall.

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