ddingus

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by ddingus 4y ago
Luck plays a role. A significant one. But so do you! Here's an example from my own life: In the late 80's, heading into the early 90's I was working in manufacturing. Paid poorly, but man! I love that work. Had a great ti
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by ddingus 4y ago
It's a bit more subtle than that. Understanding others is important. Blanket "there is too much x" or similar kinds of observations leave out the actual person writing and the context. I read the stuff, and have read other
903.
by ddingus 4y ago
Lucky for me I just don't have that response. And I am not a frequent user. Coupla times per month usually. And that's when my mind is just running...
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by ddingus 4y ago
Usually, I put podcasts on a playlist. I drop off somewhere in that list. When that doesn't work? Benadryl. 10Mg and it's good night in roughly 40 minutes to an hour.
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by ddingus 4y ago
Team Blue had the complete authority to render the filibuster moot. We the people granted them more than enough power to do what we want done. Fact is they hid behind the parliamentarian, insisted on bipartisan legislation as a priority an
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by ddingus 4y ago
"illegal" Given the level of corruption we live with today, that term packs an increasingly weak punch as labor continues to see completely unacceptable work arrangements. What will eventually happen is they will strike anyway. I
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by ddingus 4y ago
Got it. Ty :)
908.
by ddingus 4y ago
These meta discussions can be illuminating. The intent I got was the idea of all the GPU instruction sets being different is notable, and perhaps unexpected and at the least challenging. The latter being an exclamation in the context of re
909.
by ddingus 4y ago
Too late for me to edit, but yes I did confuse the source of the bug. Please clarify the C64 drive scenario source of slowness. Was it VIC-20 backward compatibility, or? In any case, I maintain the engineering wasn't at fault, having
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by ddingus 4y ago
For profit primary care insurance should be illegal. Everyone is at some point a forced customer too. Pay up or die. Or maybe it is pay up or be crippled. How about, pay up or she dies. Terribly? Most importantly, walking away is not a me
911.
by ddingus 4y ago
Sometimes it's good to ask. One may get additional context that way. And if that happens, it's a good thing.
912.
by ddingus 4y ago
Would that not mean general excitement on the part of the author? I find it hard to analyze these things by numbers alone. It's context that really matters and if there truly is a baseline excitement, there really should be a high num
913.
by ddingus 4y ago
Well, it was slower due to a hardware problem. Basically, the hardware serial device had a bug which required a bit bang comms channel to the disk drive. Doing that amidst the sometimes aggressive video DMA is what caused all the slowdown
914.
by ddingus 4y ago
Yeah, the 1702 is a great display for the 8 and 16 bit eras of gaming and computing. It comes down to the CRT having a tight color mask and the monitor circuits doing a good job handling the signals. And having seperate color and intensity
915.
by ddingus 4y ago
Science is about basic understanding. Monkey see, monkey do. Input A yields outcome B. We get that understanding this way: https://youtu.be/EYPapE-3FRw I love that whole series of lectures. They are his Cornell introducti
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by ddingus 4y ago
Right. There are different cases, yes? Say we are zeroing memory. No advantage there. Coupla cycles right at the start, then a ton of writes. Say we are forming a bitmask. Could be an advantage there in that having a zero handy in a reg
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by ddingus 4y ago
Yes, that is true. However, moving a zero to a register does take time. Time that would otherwise be used operating with the zero value already present in the zero register. The second best is what moto did. As you point out, there is th
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by ddingus 4y ago
Where it's not optimized away, getting "an actual zero" requires a memory operation of some kind. Register ops are faster in that they are right there, no fetch needed.
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by ddingus 4y ago
Well, the ICE will be around quite some time yet. Electric cars are viable for many now, even superior for growing numbers, but inadequate for many too. I could potentially use one for my normal car drive. My truck uses are a different ma
920.
by ddingus 4y ago
Have heard the same recently. Seems crazy, but there really are large numbers of people unable to drive manual. Rented a car in the EU and it was manual! In the US it is always automatic, unless it is a sport or special rental...
921.
by ddingus 4y ago
I taught that in case of cable failure. Knowing what can happen and what one can do is important! Same goes for no brakes! What are the options? Downshift Turn engine off. (Deffo practice that one) Emergency brake. Take exit, side road, s
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by ddingus 4y ago
I was shown that way basically. Works well in my view. Just need some room.
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by ddingus 4y ago
You just expressed how I did car competency with my kids. The best was snow! Tip for parents who are teaching snow driving in a front wheel drive vehicle: get the car moving and set the emergency brake. The rear tires will lock and the re
924.
by ddingus 4y ago
I disagree. Consumption is important, but so is culture. Interaction is a big deal to many people. Look at the dynamics related to notifications, for example. People check in, desire the feedback, that interaction, and they seek more of
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by ddingus 4y ago
Exactly! Everyone loves the speaking part of being a "free speech absolutist", but having to learn to handle the speech of others who enjoy similar absolutism is a far different thing! Frankly, Elon does not appear to be very well
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by ddingus 4y ago
Very interesting observation! And yes, I strongly agree! Just hanging out was the thing people did. Kind of miss that. Time to maybe fix it some.
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by ddingus 4y ago
The thing I find most intriguing, aside from how the crow mind works and what it's limits may be, is THAT IT WORKS! Seriously. The crow brain is tiny, yet this animal is a high functioning consciousness. There is something fundemental
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by ddingus 4y ago
I will never, ever, ever use Uber. I recommend deep, expensive AD spends I can click on repeatedly.
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by ddingus 4y ago
I disagree, though not entirely. You are right about it not being a tech problem at the core. However, tech can easily enable and augment and make the human solutions possible. Technically, users could be using better tools to manage thei
930.
by ddingus 4y ago
Maybe! Perhaps they operate a combination of biological systems alongside their electro mechanical ones. Their ship may be locally intelligent everywhere, with that all rolling up to an i9 ish main control system. Purpose optimized hardware

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