cgcrob

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by cgcrob 2y ago
Yeah the 15CE is nice. I own, err, three. Use one, hedge the others on going up in value one day :)
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by cgcrob 2y ago
I don’t think I’ve upgraded a desktop machine for about 10 years. I usually buy a 1-3 year old corporate desktop and use it for 2-4 years, buy another one and throw the old one on eBay. I’m on a 10500 based Lenovo thing at the moment. My ne
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Still use my original 42S and 15C here all the time.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
You need the historical context of the desktop calculator to really understand the pocket calculator. Short summary: "I want that in my pocket"
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Yep. Investors are shifting capital out of the market. Always happens. The little guys end up paying for the losses.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Cynical take here, but I think realistic. There's a lot of noise I can see behind the scenes on investor confidence. Noise as in "everything is fucked" sort of level of noise. Thus I expect this is being said to try and stop
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by cgcrob 2y ago
I get locked out occasionally when travelling outside EU as well. I've got to the point I will just avoid using services with CloudFlare in front of them. Also the one time I reported abuse which was online banking phishing they just r
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Relying on nuances of the abstraction and undefined or variable characteristics sounds like a very very bad idea to me. The one thing you generally want for circuits is reproducibility.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
There are no UK residents involved in the organisation or operation of it now even though we came up with it.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
I am part of a small specialist online technical community. We just moved it over to a Hetzner box in Germany and someone there is paying for it instead of it being hosted in the UK. What are you going to do Ofcom?
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Elegantly put. The biggest lie that is told about crypto is that writing off a few thousand years of experience with money will make problems go away.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
I think the impact is going to be far greater than that. I have seen, at least here in the UK, some people speaking about moving entirely back to hardware that is controlled by the organisation. The case is there on a cost basis already but
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Looked after a 1000 seat Pegasus and Mercury installation on Netware in the 90s. Surprised to hear it is still going!
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by cgcrob 2y ago
They also forget the economic model that you have to pay $5000 for a real lawyer after the fact to undo the mess you got yourself in by trusting the output of the AI in the first place which made a nuanced mistake that the defending "m
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by cgcrob 2y ago
I’m not ragging on the whole field. If I narrow it down too much they’ll know who I am and you will know who they are. I’ll reduce it to a part of psychology.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Removed all my stuff from iCloud about a month ago in preparation for this.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Sorry but I exhibit far higher levels of clue than Musk.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Every time I talk to an MBA grad I hear stuff like this spoken about enthusiastically. I suspect that they moved the business ethics bit to the elective part of the course.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
That won't happen because they are late on delivering it. The mission was supposed to be Feb but has been pushed back to late March 2025. If SpaceX don't screw it up further that is. Musk is trying to talk over this.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
I think it was fairly clear. The real issue is somewhere else. Perhaps your perception of bad is wrong.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
You do realise they were supposed to return on the next crew rotation in Feb? Which was on a Crew Dragon that the delivery is late on. So that's on Musk's company. Now that looks bad. They can't even rescue them because Spa
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by cgcrob 2y ago
My father was a big Musk fan and a notorious abusive asshole. He blindly followed the loudest authority figure of the hour because there wasn't an ounce of rational thinking in his head. There are a lot of people like that in society.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
In a civil society he shouldn't have lasted past calling someone a pedo in public. Most CEOs would have been ejected from their companies pretty damn quickly. Why not Musk?
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Glad to know they quit. That's exactly what I observed, except it was probably worse if I think back at it. I'm a mathematician "by trade" so was sort of pulled into this by proxy because they were out of their depth in
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Yeah that's about right. I think in some fields you walk into them with some kind of noble ideology, possibly driven by marketing but then you find out it's all bullshit and you're n-years into your educational investment the
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by cgcrob 2y ago
If it’s any consolation I split up with an ex partner after she wanted to put me as a co-author on a pseudoscience bullshit paper that she was working on to try and hit her quota. Her entire field, in the social sciences, is inventing a wil
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by cgcrob 2y ago
Ah one click away from a $500 egress transfer bill. I only say that because I’ve done it. The NAS is no longer backed up to S3. (Testing the backups caused the bill)
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by cgcrob 2y ago
It doesn’t work in practice. So needs regulators or you end up with cartels. And for regulators you need a government. We got where we got because this already failed.
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by cgcrob 2y ago
The distinction between whether or not someone is formally registered as dead and whether or if they receive money are two completely different things and should not be confused. If you conflate the two issues then you can only be being dis
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by cgcrob 2y ago
I would expect it will be the market leader yes. But is there a market large enough to support the investment? That is debatable. If there isn’t then they will be in a deficit that is likely to do serious damage to the economy and investor

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