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by boznz 2y ago
Good luck getting planning permission anywhere
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by boznz 2y ago
When your voting choices are to elect the least bad candidate, then it is hard to be excited
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by boznz 2y ago
nothing about power consumption
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by boznz 2y ago
Maybe the car makers should gamify it the otherway with high scores for most MPG or KM/KWH for each model, it would be interesting to see even if not competing
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by boznz 2y ago
Those are the ones most people who started reading fantasy in the last century remember. I started reading in 1979 and there are quite a few other good unfinished series out there. There are also quite a few modern ones which start awesome,
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by boznz 2y ago
I doubt the first two or three chapters will do it justice. I have put a free to download link on the bottom of that page for the complete book as an ePub, I will keep the link valid for a few days. Enjoy.
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by boznz 2y ago
Humans simply cannot keep the whole stack for a complex system in memory, that is why we abstract layers with APIs etc and generally specialize on one layer only. My (Sci-Fi) book postulated that an AGI (a real AGI, after all it was Sci-Fi)
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by boznz 2y ago
Send a Sample from amazon and other eBook suppliers is usually 10% of the book. Another unfortunate metric for modern authors as they now have to make something interesting happen in the first 10% rather than a slow character and plot build
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by boznz 2y ago
It could be almost any $0.50 microprocessor from 2024 and still have more vastly horsepower than any PDP8 ever had.
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by boznz 2y ago
DEC Number #2 in computing during the 80's, bought by Compaq, bought by HP and now almost unknown. How the mighty fall.
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by boznz 2y ago
Availability is the star of the show for me. One IC, long product lifetime, always in stock, after the shitshow that was 2021/2022 I'm not going to bother trying to shave a few cents to compromise this again.
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by boznz 2y ago
I am lucky enough to have a good programming gig which pays the bills so writing is and will always be a side gig. None of my friends or family are aware I am an author (though I occasionally drop a hint) and I have no interest in the marke
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by boznz 2y ago
My comment was because my last three submissions were blocked. I emailed the moderator the first time it happened, and he said the algorithm probably thought it was self-promotion as I cross posted it to medium.com which I now know everybod
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by boznz 2y ago
Spent several years writing and editing my first book before thinking the job was finished when I hit the publish now button. But it is literally only half the job done. The hell now is unless you get friends and family or an agency involve
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by boznz 2y ago
I am one of those people who wrote a production system controlling a million-dollar business fifteen years ago that is now controlling almost a billion-dollar production system today. The auditors are the main reason it is being changed, &q
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by boznz 2y ago
unmaintainable is a weird word used far too much. There are genuine ways it can become unmaintainable of course but the main use I have seen people use it for is "I don't want to understand it and would rather rewrite it"
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by boznz 2y ago
A Lot like development then, there is a lot of work before you write your first line of code, however like the original post you can do a simple sand down, no undercoat and have something that lasts a dozen years if you keep on top of it.
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by boznz 2y ago
On the bright-side, comedians have so much more material to work with these days.
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by boznz 2y ago
welcome to the club. post some random shit from ars technica and you're fine, post anything that may look like self promotion, even if its not, and the kill-bots strike.
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by boznz 2y ago
Did the American people really expect any other outcome from such a project ?
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by boznz 2y ago
There will never unfortunately be an open-source car. The nearest you will get is by getting a well-documented one with good OEM parts availability and converting it to an EV which eliminates a lot of the proprietary computers that seem to
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by boznz 2y ago
Shorter men need to be richer or funnier I guess if they want a taller wife.
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by boznz 2y ago
The ongoing expenses of owning a house are still there, taxes, insurance, maintenance, electricity, garbage disposal, water, gas etc. if you can't cover these, you're not debt free. As you get over retirement age medical expenses
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by boznz 2y ago
Having a TLDR updated in real time at the top of every complex discussion would be ideal, I hate going in to a thread where there are 30+ pages I have to wade through that can be summarized in a paragraph or two and closed once it gets off
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by boznz 2y ago
Lots of vectors don't even require JTAG. Coffee maker type devices are likely to be just a $1 a microcontroller with inbuilt flash which you can fuse when programming to prevent reading but is rarely done in small production runs. flas
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by boznz 2y ago
Gorillas ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) )
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by boznz 2y ago
Surely the uniqueness is only required at the bottom end of the stack before the first 'router' ie the cell tower
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by boznz 3y ago
I published my first book last year at 60 years old. It was kind of nice working on carbon-nanotube 2048 bit computer systems and flying saucers for a while before I got back to 8-bit micro-controllers and C.
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by boznz 3y ago
Ouch! holocracy is never going to work in an already toxic culture or one where the beauracracy (paperwork) stays the same.
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by boznz 3y ago
or "best friends with the big boss" gets his way, this is an organization problem and the start of the slippery slide for a good company to become a bad company and is the point where most CEO's fail to do their duty.

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