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by blippage 4y ago
In the early 80's I was doing my computing 'A' levels at a technical college. I used to type my programs on one of those old-fashioned teletypes, which I think were a cast-off from a regional polytechnic. I think the computer
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by blippage 4y ago
Well, as the saying goes: great doubts, great wisdom; small doubts, small wisdom. (That's supposed to be a compliment, BTW). There's a great deal of uncertainty in investing, but that doesn't mean it's not something wort
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by blippage 4y ago
According to Yahoo Finance, TSLA is on a PE of 38 and a market cap of nearly $400b. High PEs are only warranted by high growth, which is difficult for a large company to achieve. The narrative over the last few years is that tech stock will
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by blippage 4y ago
Not exactly "everyday", but you can solve differential equations using pulleys and gears.
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by blippage 4y ago
I also found out that in the UK there were bankers on the bank regulation committee. Hmmm, conflict of interest much?
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by blippage 4y ago
My other suggestion is that to practise banking, one needs a license, which can be revoked. Now that I think of it, Taleb's suggested that banking should be a civil servant job. So, no financial engineering or bonuses, just boring pape
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by blippage 4y ago
As Nassim Taleb observed, the problem here is no skin in the game. Bankers keep the upside, but shareholders have to carry the can. It's an agency problem. The fix to all this is dispensing some good solid jail time.
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by blippage 4y ago
To my mind, Juicero is iconic of the problem. It was a solution to a problem that didn't exist, but bunging on "With the Internet" somehow made it a darling. It's a pretty old trick; sprinkling some talismanic phrase ove
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by blippage 4y ago
Let me see if I have this straight ... it's a device that can run a general OS like Linux, but say, have a core that could be run real-time, with all the goodies like timers and stuff that we expect from microcontrollers? If so, then t
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by blippage 4y ago
> Spin "the other bets" out as a separate company. Aha, glad somebody is seeing the same thing I'm seeing. The problem with Google is that it is too large, and too successful. Their idea of having experimental projects is
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by blippage 4y ago
Brit here, so it's always interesting to see how things operate across the pond. We have an AIM market in the UK, which is a junior market. There are some good quality companies on there, mixed-in with a hell of a lot of the worst drec
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by blippage 4y ago
For microcontrollers, tinyusb seems to be the place to be. It supports a lot of architectures. The Pico RP2040 has tinyusb as part of its SDK. I've actually got something working, and I was toying with the idea of making the Pico cont
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by blippage 4y ago
One thing I just remembered: a couple of weeks ago I went to join a Zoom meeting, only to discover that it wouldn't work until I upgraded it. So I had to faff around trying to sort that out rather than doing what I wanted to do, which
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by blippage 4y ago
We have lost the art of keeping things simple, both on the hardware and software front. We have made everything more complicated. The gains are dubious. For example, I saw a tear-down of an old game controller. It used a parallel-to-serial
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by blippage 4y ago
I've used Picol a couple of times in some of my microcontroller projects as a command language. Its advantage is that it is easy to compile and link to without a lot of rigmarole.
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by blippage 4y ago
Debian Stable user here. I had Windows 7, and it was a toss-up between using it and sticking with Win 7. There was always this feeling that using Linux was just a bunch of faffing around. I can't quite remember why I finally decided to
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by blippage 4y ago
I run MATE on Debian. MATE has the right trade-offs for me. Not too heavy, not too light. GNOME seems to take more and more resources to do less and less. Icewm requires too much customisation. Icewm is an interesting wm. At first it has an
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by blippage 4y ago
> I now routinely get involved with projects developed by one or two people burdened with so much process and “best practices” that almost nothing of real value is produced. The problem is that nobody really knows what practices are best
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by blippage 4y ago
"Your cutting blade is not compatible with this device. The guillotine has been disabled for safety reasons."
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by blippage 4y ago
Well that didn't long, did it? It was introduced in 1972. In years to come historians will be having a good old chortle about how we managed to come up with two times that were 37 seconds apart. In retrospect, fiddling with computer cl
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by blippage 4y ago
3. Sell more hardware through the upgrade treadmill. > compared to 2GB [of RAM] for Android Crikey, I didn't know that. I have a Nexus from 2012. It seems to have slowed down since I first bought it. Android has been upgraded since
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by blippage 4y ago
Nassim Taleb has something to say on this. The wealth is in the long tails, the Jobs, Gates, etc. If you take the mean income of all people running businesses, then it's probably less than the average worker.
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by blippage 4y ago
"The SEC published a video urging the public to think twice before taking investment advice from celebrities and influencers. " So what we're saying is that Kim Kardashian is not necessarily the best source of financial wisdo
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by blippage 4y ago
Kim Kardashian was talking about NFTs before I even heard of them, which tells you all you need to know.
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by blippage 4y ago
C-x M-c M-land-aircraft
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by blippage 4y ago
Pheasants are as dumb as boxes of rocks. Their road sense is awful, and generally do exactly the wrong thing at exactly the wrong time. In the dim and distant past I worked as a programmer at a company that bought an old country estate for
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by blippage 4y ago
> In the new study, two crows were trained to create embedded sequences ... The idea that the ability to grok recursive structures I have this vision that in a year's time we'll walk into Twitter's HQ to find it being sta
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by blippage 4y ago
I'm trying to befriend crows. When I go out for a walk, I started to get into the habit of putting a biscuit on a post. Crows fly off when you get anywhere near them. So I kinda hope that the crows spot me putting the biscuit down. It&
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by blippage 4y ago
I checked out Twitter again after a few months absence. There is good content, for sure, but by crikey, most of what passes for political discourse amounts to a stream of non sequiturs and ipse dixit (assertion without proof).
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by blippage 4y ago
I played around with Guile scheme for awhile. Also a bit of Perl. I wanted to write a simple utility, and chose Python. I am familiar with Python, but hadn't used it for some time. Getting back into it again, my conclusion was: Python,

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