doubloon

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by doubloon 3y ago
then Microsoft Power Automate, basically the same thing as Scratch but we can get a support contract.
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by doubloon 3y ago
over the years i have come to feel the best preservation of information is not actually technology, it is culture. instilling the cultural value of respect for knowledge and history is the only actual way that knowledge gets preserved. we g
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by doubloon 3y ago
can you please ask it if algebraic numbers are closed under addition? chatgpt4 just told me no, and then i asked it again and it said yes, and then it apologized profusely for saying no.
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by doubloon 3y ago
i built a robot with two processes. one process is the brain, and all the brain does it wait for SIGUSR1. when it stops getting SIGUSR1 for like 2 tenths of a second in a row, it "ceases all motor function". the other process, whi
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by doubloon 3y ago
Some locations of Target (US supermarket) have started disabling self-checkout at 8pm, and also limiting self checkout to 10 items or less. So they are literally de-automating their process. Not sure but it seems to do with theft - they hav
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by doubloon 3y ago
yeah i think... things are better now. people are still pushing those boundaries by poking at the unknown, and learning by exploring. like those people porting Linux to the Apple M chips. they have so many more resources so their exploratio
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by doubloon 3y ago
i dont understand why i as a user would want a program to assert (i.e. crash) in an interactive program. i would lose all my in-progress work and have to start the program over from scratch. and chances are very low i will be able to report
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by doubloon 3y ago
yeah like. people dont even understand. as a kid i would look at the content of .com files and .exe files in DOS and wonder why they didnt look like BASIC source code. wondering how the heck people made these wacky characters everywhere. h
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by doubloon 3y ago
shouldn't have to. it should just work.
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by doubloon 3y ago
i think when you are trying to prove a company is lying about having a zillion dollars of insurance, it helps if you can kind of pull the curtain down and show everyone the number 'zillion' was made up by someone throwing a pair o
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by doubloon 3y ago
and The Blind Side, in which he missed the fact that a couple put an athlete into a conservatorship so they could profit from his royalties.
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by doubloon 3y ago
everybody asks whether exo civilizations are, but nobody asks how exo civilizations are.
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by doubloon 3y ago
only the first three render properly in firefox / linux
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by doubloon 3y ago
the issue i found is that you have to basically rebuild your basic unix network tools from the ground up, including ssl and curl and so forth, because the TLS version used by the builtins on 10.old.whatever, not to mention the certificates,
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by doubloon 3y ago
This explains all those "division by n" errors I've been getting on my ZF cpu.
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by doubloon 3y ago
i have put MacKay on my to do list, thank you i was quite struck when i learned the original Lempel Ziv compression (which gzip is partly based on) came out of their study of the "complexity of finite sequences" not necessarily tr
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by doubloon 3y ago
dude i could listen to you talk for hours.. do you have a book? i really feel like alot of this same stuff could apply to jobs inside service / data processing industry. It reminds me of "Gladys the L6", the person six leve
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by doubloon 3y ago
I would like to apologize on behalf of other ycombo users for your top comment being downvoted, and also for people calling workers "oxen". I feel I seldom hear in tech circles (on the internet at least) the empirical evidence aro