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by crinkly 1y ago
As a former PhD candidate, yes that. Honestly in my case I discovered I like being paid actual money and despise academic politics. Got a job offer so I phoned in sick on a catch up with my adviser and never went back. No one even checked o
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by crinkly 1y ago
There's more than just me. We keep each other honest.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Quality is the value here. Because low quality has a financial risk. And good luck finding anyone these days who can do quality. It's a nice niche.
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by crinkly 1y ago
People pay me to do quality work not look busy. Thinking happens before you start.
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by crinkly 1y ago
For communication and processing information quickly with determinism? They aren't the best solution for everything. Thinking is one of those things.
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by crinkly 1y ago
I did most of my programming and thinking on paper before I committed to the machine. I still do today.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Anything that is realistically a force multiplier is a person divider. At that point I would expect people to resist it. That is assuming that it is really a force multiplier which is not totally evident at this point.
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by crinkly 1y ago
When you say progress, I wonder at what cost. The apparatus for original thought isn't used and pushing through a problem and deriving the satisfaction of doing that doesn't happen. That leads to the wrong motivational cues. The b
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by crinkly 1y ago
This is the paradox. It's often harder correcting someone else's work than it is doing it in the first place. So you end up having spent more effort.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Literally works fine here. "volume needs to be the lowest possible. A minimisation problem needs two variables only and we have four in this case. However the volume and area formulas can be substituted into each other to give volume
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After Firing 9000 Employees for AI, Xbox Shares Cringe Job Post with AI Graphics(clawsomegamer.com)
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by crinkly 1y ago
I go for a walk and have a coffee. It feels less intellectually dishonest. Best to solve human problems with human solutions.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Among non-technical friends, after the initial wow factor, even limited expectations were not met. Then it was tainted by the fact that everyone is promoting it as a human replacement technology which is then a tangible threat to their exis
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yep. Also the problem that the AI vendor reinforces bias into their product’s training which services the vendor. Literally every shitty corporate behaviour is amplified by this technology fad.
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by crinkly 1y ago
So is it a possibility that a grub update breaks an existing bootable node? That worries me as I have a couple of Linux desktops in the field which I can’t remember if secure boot is enabled on.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Apart from the device size issue this is untrue.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Working out how to capitalise on their failures is the only winning proposition. My brother did pretty well out of selling Aerons.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yes and you allude to the problem: you can make a turd look good with the right numbers.
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by crinkly 1y ago
If you have an iPhone, just use reader view, then print it but don’t select a printer and then share it. A PDF pops out. Then shove that in iCloud Drive or on your phone and read it later. No services or set up involved, works reliably and
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by crinkly 1y ago
The consultancies are successful. The customers aren’t usually quite as fortunate from experience. A great example is the current Tata disaster in the UK with M&S.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yes. Execs love AI because it’s the sycophant they need to massage their narcissism. I’d really love to be replaced by AI. At that point I can take a few months off paid gardening leave before they are forced to rehire me.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yes I know this. I’m a qualified EE. Go do the numbers on a supercap with quoted leakage and a decent error margin.
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by crinkly 1y ago
No. The heart is relatively high impedance. You need a low impedance source to drive it even on a trivial basis.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Pacemakers need a hell of a lot of power for a short amount of time occasionally. To do that you need to store it in something which can be discharged quickly and is low impedance. Which is a capacitor. This thing generates so little power
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by crinkly 1y ago
Haven’t been to NYC for about 1 10 years but basically about the same. I don’t know NYC as well so felt a little uneasy which was my own bias.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Lived in London for over 40 years. Never let your stuff out of sight for a minute. My foot always goes through a loop on my bag. Had at least two attempts to grab it which was stopped dead by this. I use a knackered looking Osprey daylite p
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by crinkly 1y ago
In the late-90s I worked for a manufacturing company in a firmware dev capacity. They did everything on paper still. They migrated successfully to an in-house built ERP system sitting on top of Oracle. Big celebration, everyone happy. Six m
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by crinkly 1y ago
It's a terrible film but enjoyable. I'd rather someone did the Iliad in the style of Flash Gordon.
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by crinkly 1y ago
The bit where we hand everything over and then take the consequences for doing so.
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by crinkly 1y ago
Yes centralising power was such a good idea. Well done big tech. Another footgun.

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