crispyambulance

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by crispyambulance 9mo ago
OK, but isn’t the key take-away from the Challenger disaster all about the consequence of organizational dysfunction and fear of speaking up? It wasn’t really a “design flaw” or “weak link” as much as it was management disregarding the warn
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by crispyambulance 11mo ago
I didn't understand what is meant by "pinpoint nearly every detail". The article is titled with that but then firehoses a bunch of technical details. The github spells it out much better: https://github.com/Qw
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
> ...it’s a tool for him and his cronies to make dodgy money? It's a vehicle to sell "access". The greed is only half of it. The worst part is that they're selling access to foreign interests who pay them off. These p
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
It is ironic that the essay comes from UPenn in Philadelphia. Many of you may find it shocking or unbelievable, but literacy is slipping in many parts of the US (like Philadelphia). The number of functionally illiterate people is increasing
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
They mention a "quantum noise limit", that must be the ultimate precision that is physically possible, right? What is this ultimate precision? I imagine that at some point, even the most modest relative motion at ordinary velociti
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
> But for probably 90% of users, they just want a UI they can click through... 90% of HN users. More like 99.99% in the real world!
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
... and in the cases where one does manage to put in the effort to understand what EW is actually saying, the ROI has been trite and uninteresting and could have been said with simpler words and gotten to the point in far fewer words. Examp
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
> Nothing he says sounds obscure or hard to decipher in my reading, My dude, the guy shows up on Joe Rogan and Lex (multiple times) and talks a fire-hose of jargon to a general public audience. Indecipherable even to physicists. And what
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
There are other motivations besides money for cranks. In the case of Weinstein, I think his motivation has been getting attention and grievances he has with other people and institutions. I think it's OK to recognize grifting for atten
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
> The answer seems obvious to me: [1, 2, 3] Yeah, that would be nice, but it is SO RARE, I've not even heard of that being possible, let alone how to get at the metadata with godforsaken readers like Acrobat. I mean, I'
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
I am sure there exist people who live and breath media/codecs and they're reasonably fluent at getting ffmpeg to do what they want because of a tremendous amount of practice. But for the vast majority of folks who only occasionall
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
Well, what would be a more “accurate” word, then? Varoufakis uses the word “techno-feudal” because it reflects the fundamental character of where things are headed. Moreover, even the author pointed out why the case is strong for the analog
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
I certainly would like to see more American made products and manufacturing, unfortunately, making that happen is not just a matter of shuffling money around, capricious tariffs, and the president posturing for "deals" like a real
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
People have vastly different needs when learning a second language. Many folks never need to progress beyond "perpetual beginner" and that's perfectly fine. If you're traveling for work or pleasure, it's nice to lea
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
I can't understand how someone like that got into such a position. It was deliberate. President Stable Genius wants a loyal "yes man" in that critical position. The Fox new host was it. Competence and continuity are
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
I frequently experience "diminished memory" and failure of retention especially when coming up to speed on something that I am unfamiliar with or revisiting stuff I rarely do. It's often possible if the AI has been trained en
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by crispyambulance 1y ago
> The ECDLP involves finding the integer k such that P=k⋅G, where P is a point on the curve, G is a known point (the generator point), and k is the ephemeral key. The difficulty of this problem is what makes ECC secure. I am t
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
He should have taken the significant and generous 10% bounty the first time around. He now has to face law suits by well-funded finance firms.
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
Yeah, the knob and the lack of automated pop-out made me think that they at least deeply evaluated dualit models. I have 2 dualits. Both inherited, both well over 20 years old. There really is not much to repair with these things. I will sa
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
I had used ublock-origin on youtube to disable the right-hand sidebar of "recommended" videos so that I could just view the stuff in my subscriptions. A couple of years ago, they started detecting and blocking ublock-origin, so I
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
This is true. You can get "industrial" versions of these cards that are intended to be used as BOM items for products. This means you get a stable supply and they won't change the part number out from under you (which happens
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
...the full version needs over 700GB of disk space. THAT is rather shocking. Vastly smaller than I would expect.
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
Kind of embarrassed to ask, I use AI a lot, I haven't really understood how the nuts and bolts work (other than at a 5th-grader 30000ft level)... So, when I use a "full" AI like chatGPT4o, I ask it questions and it has a firm
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
Elephant Man is perhaps the most approachable. Anthony Hopkins and John Hurt are at the apex of their acting careers in this film. After that Mullholland Drive is absolutely brilliant and has that unforgettable masterpiece diner scene: htt
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
Yeah, perhaps. But the heavy-hitters in this field all seem to have very old-timey UI's and out-of-this-world pricing. Meanwhile, raytracing for computer graphics on GPU's is soooo performant-- it makes me wonder how much work nee
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
Every time I see stuff like this it makes me think about optical design software. There are applications (Zemax, for example) that are used to design optical systems (lens arrangements for cameras, etc). These applications are eye-wateringl
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
If the work is interesting and well-compensated, sure, I would sign that contract. I will also keep the source I write and, if I feel like it, take a look at it years later and no one will know except me. BFD!
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
Well I guess I am not smart enough to dump multiple dependencies + python, densely, on one line to spin everything up so I can do “ad-hoc” computing without just spelling them out in a file. Sorry, but that just isn’t a killer feature for m
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
If you do some work for someone one and decide to keep the source you wrote, so you can review it later in the privacy of your own thoughts, the only way you can get "caught" is if you release it some way that's recognizable.
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by crispyambulance 2y ago
I do like uv and hope to try it soon but I don't get the point of the article. Pyenv + poetry already gives you ability to "pull in local dependencies". Yes, you have to create a virtual environment and it's not "ad

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