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by beachy 5mo ago
Also - move the tech forwards! Buttons can be cool. Software controlled detents for rotary encoder knobs, back lit stream deck style buttons, cool knobs that combine twisting and pulling in/out.
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by beachy 5mo ago
Anyone exec wanting to move away from touchscreens and back to buttons would have flashbacks to Steve Balmer mocking the new iPhone and stabbing his fingers at the touch panel and making a fool of himself for eternity.
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by beachy 5mo ago
Artillery is just one piece in the puzzle and it has its place, with drone spotting. You can't jam a shell. But once your artillery positions can't be protected from drones then its game over for sure.
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by beachy 6mo ago
I think the opposite. Hardware is hard, as they say. Building such complex electromechanical designs to military specs without modern CAD tools must have been the equivalent of writing code in binary, without high level languages or even as
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by beachy 6mo ago
I've been writing code for 50 years and it looks now that we have seen sunrise and are about to see sunset on humans writing code by hand. Is that bad? Not to anyone who has managed dev teams and is familiar with the incredibly tortuou
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by beachy 6mo ago
Sting famously learned to play bass using this sort of technique with music on LPs, lifting the needle and dropping it back a bit in the track over and over again as he gradually worked out the notes and fingering. Probably almost any metho
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by beachy 6mo ago
The Apple II was so simple (by today's standards) that it came with a complete printed circuit diagram. Visicalc was so simple it was written by two guys in a year. AI is so many orders of magnitude more complex that the comparison is
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by beachy 7mo ago
Or the young person who needs a job and doesn't yet have OP's fully formed understanding of exactly where the line is - apparently gambling bad/ ad tech OK.
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by beachy 7mo ago
Software and bridges are entirely different. If I need a bridge, and there's a perfectly beautiful bridge one town over that spans the same distance - that's useless to me. Because I need my own bridge. Bridges are partly a design
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by beachy 7mo ago
The same scenario played out in Vietnam. The US could never succeed because: - the enemy was intermingled with the "friendly" civilians, and they couldn't be told apart, leading to everyone being treated brutally and potentia
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by beachy 7mo ago
> I don’t see an older language advantage that is widening from LLM use A classic one is C++. Microcontrollers like esp32 cost about $10 these days, for a machine more capable than an early PC. One downside though is that you typically n
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by beachy 7mo ago
I think you are referring to: "Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The My
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by beachy 7mo ago
I wonder if at we are standing looking at the smoking field of programming languages created over the last 50 years and gazing at the final survivors, of which Java is definitely one. Why would anyone create a new language now? The existing
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by beachy 7mo ago
Only if they leave a door open, which they did here. If your argument is that you can't hope to close every door, then AI will make it easier to close all the doors in the future.
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by beachy 7mo ago
It does when your phone number is used for 2fa in a session running on tcp/ip
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by beachy 7mo ago
This seems self-correcting. Every lawyer, and maybe court, will use AI to review the other party's filings for such things. AI overseeing what is true and what is not - nothing disturbing about that distopian future.
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by beachy 7mo ago
This sounds innately wrong. When we think of celebrity clients traveling but skipping any identity checks because their entourage can vouch for them and don't want to hassle them - then who's to say later whether that person did o
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by beachy 7mo ago
They stand out as great examples of commoditising your complement. When your business is pushing ads to people while they watch cat videos, then video processing software is your complement, and you want it to be as cheap as possible. [0]
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by beachy 7mo ago
For some reason UI taste influencers have outsized influence within companies. IMO it's because they have the ear of execs who react viscerally to eye candy - as we all do - but lack understanding of basic usability principles. As an e
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by beachy 7mo ago
OpenAI didn't fall for anything, they knew exactly what they were signing and went ahead anyway, then started gaslighting people about what they had signed. For a lot of people (me included) the lack of integrity and the gaslighting is
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by beachy 7mo ago
I held off migrating from ChatGPT to Claude Code due to being a laggard that lived in the Eclipse world. I didn't believe what I was told that I wouldn't be writing code any more. Pushed into action by recent PR gaslighting from O
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by beachy 7mo ago
Oops my bad formatting - instead of "high volume/consumer electronics/computer technology" I meant to say "high volume consumer electronics/computer technology" which would have ruled out those examples. B
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by beachy 7mo ago
I can't think of any high volume/consumer electronics/computer technology that has not been driven down in price over time. So based on historical precedent, I think your "greater than zero probability" might be onl
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by beachy 7mo ago
That's right. From outside the US Anthropic looks every bit as threatening as any other AI company.
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by beachy 7mo ago
The US (like any country) struggles in asymmetrical/guerilla warfare. It always devolves to the famous statement by a US officer during the Vietnam war that “We had to destroy Ben Tre in order to save it.” If the gloves were off then t
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by beachy 8mo ago
This is the future, good luck to you
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by beachy 8mo ago
Openscad models are a bit like complex regexps, write only artifacts that do the job at the time but are regarded with trepidation afterwards.
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by beachy 8mo ago
Fusion 360 and my golf sim software are the only two reasons I have windows dual boot.
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by beachy 8mo ago
A little bit like a country's leader calling for the death penalty for a decorated pilot and astronaut who reminded service members of their duty to reject unlawful orders.
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by beachy 8mo ago
I feel CAD is one area where open source does not shine. The problem space is too complex, and the UIs demand continuous, thoughtful development driven from customer demands rather than developers scratching their own itches. Not least ther

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