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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
That’s a bit harsh. 57 here and my forearms, elbows, and wrists are f…ouled up without an ergonomic split keyboard and some other accommodations. Bodies are different, and if this guy is a rock climber, that might have something to do with
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
My dad does this, but he’s also hard of hearing so he can’t understand what they’re pitching half the time. So mostly he just answers so that he can cuss them out. Unfortunately, he’s done that to friends, medical offices, and relatives who
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
It reminds me of the 501 Mechanical Movements type books, which are endlessly fascinating to me.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Interviewed with a defense contractor. I had three “ins” at the company and was basically interviewing to check them out because I was about 90% sure I’d get an offer. I was about to burn out at my current job at the time. Too much stress,
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
A universe is a computer that simulates a universe.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
That may be the best description of the show, ever. My fondest memories of it were how detailed the online analyses of each episode were as they aired. All of the speculation, references to previous clues - everything was dissected. And JMS
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
What we need are LLMs that can use the tools for mathematics (and other disciplines) that already exist and to write and execute new programs to hopefully solve novel problems, or at least to be able to glue the existing tools together with
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
There’s a story by Jorge Luis Borges called “Funes the Memorious” about a man who remembers everything, but can’t generalize. There’s a line about him not knowing if a dog on the square glimpsed at noon from the side is the same dog as the
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Campbell’s Cream of Chicken and Mushroom soup (that’s a type, although you can double the recipe with one can of Cream of Chicken and one of Cream of Mushroom) Can of water Add to saucepan Stir and bring to a boil Fill can with Minute Rice
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I have a physical HP-15C in my desk and I use the HP-15C emulator on my phone. As you can probably tell, I used that calc in college engineering classes until mine got stolen. I replaced it with an HP-28S that I used for quite a while. I bo
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Wow, more JetBrains complaints than I expected. I’ve been using Rider for C# development for a while now (moved from Visual Studio - I’ve never been a VSCode fan) and, for the most part, it’s been worth it and my code has been the better fo
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
The average person has no idea what 90% of the headlines on HN are even referring to, giving it a degree of self-moderation.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I did this for a while with my Quest 2. Floating in space on an asteroid while my main screen is bigger (virtually) than an IMAX screen and two other monitors float on either side plus tool windows I could grab and move around was awesome
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I’m probably in the smaller majority of people who are very excited about it, but still expect it to flop (or at least flounder for a while). I used a Quest 2 as virtual monitors for a week or so of real work and it was uncomfortable and sw
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
It sounds like a great idea to me. I’ve been trying to carve out time to do more electronic tinkering and learning and that sounds like a neat set of projects.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Does it work on a Raspberry Pi? I’ve got a broken antique table radio that I’ve been thinking of hacking into an Internet radio. I figured I’d put an encoder on the tuning knob and have it scroll through a set of presets.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Yes, I know it’s not modeling our neurons and connectivity directly, but it’s closer than traditional software or “expert systems” approach. And, lo and behold, we’re seeing emergent behavior that seems to resemble some of quirks of our mea
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
This has been the plaguing my thoughts recently as well. When I analyze (or attempt to analyze) what’s going on in the black box of gray matter in my head, I’m increasingly aware that it’s nothing magical. I’ve stated to others that the rea
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
One of the first things I tried (which I thought would be harder) was “Write a Python program that accepts a YouTube url and a start and stop time in the form MM:SS and a file name and it extracts the video between those times and converts
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
This one was using Bing AI chat: I had a bunch of PDF files with coded file names, like ABC-123-abc-999-001.pdf, where each section of the file name was meaningful. Inside the PDF were several form fields. I needed to insert records in a da
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I’ve been very happy with most questions and coding queries. The worst results I’ve got were ones related to external libraries. We use Telerik UI for Xamarin components and Telerik has similar libraries for ASP.net, WinUI, JavaScript, etc.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
It is poorly written. I assume it’s because Fantastic and Incredible are “unobstructed, free fall pits” and Smokey I is partially obstructed or not a clear vertical drop in some way.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Yeah, that seemed a little hand-wavy in its description. Thanks for reviewing, it’s been very interesting.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Surprisingly, I understood some of that (not a strong math background), but I asked Bing AI to explain it at the level a smart high schooler would get it. How did it do?: Let me try to restate this in a simpler way. A polynomial is a mathem
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
At this point, with the boom in AI, I would settle for very simple AR glasses. Not trying to make 3D objects meld with the the real world view, but just superimposed graphics, kinda like Google Glass, but better. Imagine if it could automat
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
Agreement from me. I have had no complaints about the Roku TV experience on my TCL.
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by cmpalmer52 3y ago
I write software for natural gas utility management and maintenance. Between this and coding AIs, I’m glad I’m approaching retirement age. Of course, new government regulations (not outright bans) are a lot of what drives the need for our s
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by cmpalmer52 4y ago
Same. I’ve been using it quite a bit for work, but I’ve also been just playing/experimenting with it and many of my questions have come from knowing a tiny bit of Japanese and watching anime. It’s great for explaining differences betwe
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by cmpalmer52 4y ago
A friend attacked a patch of undergrowth with a string trimmer (“weed eater”). She was wearing shorts and the pulped fragments of poison ivy splattered all over her legs and arms. Imagine putting poison ivy in a blender, then pouring it on
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by cmpalmer52 4y ago
I use a 60% keyboard that doesn’t even have dedicated arrow keys. My caps-lock is configured as the Fn key and, when it’s held down, the JKLI letters are the arrow keys. This (and other macros) are actually really convenient when you get us

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