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by analog31 1y ago
I live in Madison WI. Move-out weekend is called Hippie Christmas. Townspeople furnish their own apartments with stuff thrown out by the students. I visited a friend's apartment, and he described the decor as "a mixture of TarJay
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by analog31 1y ago
A lot of those old machines had clock speeds and video pixel rates that meshed together. On some color machines the system clock was an integer multiple of the standard colorburst frequency. The Timex Sinclair did all of its computation dur
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> Here's what the "AI will replace developers" crowd fundamentally misunderstands: code is not an asset—it's a liability. Every line must be maintained, debugged, secured, and eventually replaced. The real ass
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by analog31 1y ago
>>> Of course, LLMs in the current educational landscape (homework-heavy) only benefit the students who are truly curious I think you hit on a major issue: Homework-heavy . What I think would benefit the truly curious is spare ti
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by analog31 1y ago
Good point. It strikes me that Unicode is already analogous to recognition of multi byte characters. Maybe something along similar lines would work.
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by analog31 1y ago
Even 2x would be an improvement. It would mean that a project goes from being 3 years late, to only 1.5 years late.
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by analog31 1y ago
My only source is having read Russian novels in English. I wonder if the "little" water is like someone's diminutive name, i.e., meant to show familiarity or affection. Like, Mishka is the diminutive of Mikhail.
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by analog31 1y ago
Here's a weird idea that has occurred me from time to time. What if your editor could recognize a binary float, display it in a readable format, and allow you to edit it, but leave it as binary when the file is saved. Maybe it's d
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by analog31 1y ago
An amusing anecdote is that Alan Turing taught himself to read numbers in the internal representation used by the computer, rather than allowing the waste of equipment, time, or labor to translate them.
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by analog31 1y ago
Something I've always puzzled over is whether the means of production are our laptops, or our knowledge and expertise. I still work for a wage, but expect to be paid above subsistence. I don't own the laptop that I use at work, bu
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by analog31 1y ago
This is a complex topic, as alluded by others here as well. My dad's employer sent him to take an economics course at Hillsdale in the 1980s. I attended college at a Christian liberal arts school around the same time. Reaganomics and t
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by analog31 1y ago
It would also involve support for science research and reasonable immigration, plus widespread acceptance for moderately higher consumer prices. People should have a real conversation about what it means to make clothing in the US instead o
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by analog31 1y ago
Not just like photons. For one thing, they can travel slower than light. But many experiments on photons can also be done on electrons, such as diffraction. You can perform a double-slit experiment with electrons. Also, they're fermion
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by analog31 1y ago
Yes I agree with that too, or civil charges, since (as a shareholder), I might imagine that they willfully risked the value of my investment.
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by analog31 1y ago
Perhaps a simple approach would be to fine each share by X dollars per share. The bigger the shareholder, the more their liability. With that said, and as I mentioned in a neighboring post, I don't take this matter lightly because I th
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by analog31 1y ago
To clarify, I agree with the post above yours. There should be a corporate veil, but it should be pierce-able in extreme cases. Maybe it's already that way, but doesn't seem to be employed all that often. My reason for the corpora
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by analog31 1y ago
Even on the mainland, vehicles and equipment are abandoned. At least in the US, if you drive through the countryside, every vehicle and truck that was ever used by someone is parked somewhere. If you go on a hike, and go through land that w
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by analog31 1y ago
One way of holding corporations accountable is by lifting the limitation of liability as a penalty for extreme misconduct. Liability limitation is kind of the mother of all entitlements.
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by analog31 1y ago
How did you measure your mitochondrial health, short of extracting fresh breast muscle cells and putting them in a manometer?
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by analog31 1y ago
The curve suggests that there would also be periods of inflation and deflation, for instance of a market basket of goods and services, under a gold standard.
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by analog31 1y ago
The cynical question that I ask is: Will AI tools make it possible to finish projects? Show me a project that goes from being 3 years late to only 2 years late, thanks to AI tools.
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by analog31 1y ago
Thats the inflation adjusted curve, meaning it's what gold can buy relative to what a dollar can buy.
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by analog31 1y ago
I don't know enough about chess, and will take your word for it. What it suggests to me is a deeper question: How do you get 143000 people to all fall in line behind a single machine, or person, making the best decision for them?
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by analog31 1y ago
Yes, it'll buy you an oz of gold. https://www.macrotrends.net/1333/historical-gold-prices-100-... What does equal value?
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by analog31 1y ago
Its value goes up and down, and is as speculative as anything else.
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by analog31 1y ago
My advice to the novice is to learn architecture at the level of something like an 8-bit PC, and to think of more advanced features as solutions to problems inherent in the systems of that era. Alternatively, an 8-bit microcontroller such a
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by analog31 1y ago
But they can spend it on stocks, with the hope of maintaining or increasing value. Thats savings, right?
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Unemployment is roughly 4%.
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Any idea of an instantaneous, sweeping change, is utopian. But more gradual actions are possible. For instance the government could decide to let the dollar serve as a medium of exchange while discouraging its use as a long term store of va
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by analog31 1y ago
My viewpoint is that money is a technology, and people will choose whatever technology works for their use. A technology can be designed so that some favored uses are much more likely than others. For our government money, those uses are as

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