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by doubloon 3y ago
should Apple be forced to produce batteries for 2001 clamshell ibooks?
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by doubloon 3y ago
i went to a 'candle light concert' where they had a little asterisk at the bottom pointing out the candles were "flameless", they probably had several hundred LED candles lined up on each edge of the room as the main lig
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by doubloon 3y ago
production is only hell if management is incompetent
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by doubloon 3y ago
What about the homeless tent city right outside my window
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by doubloon 3y ago
I will always remember this HN thread.
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by doubloon 3y ago
yet another misogynist corrupt weirdo at the heart of open source, computing, and film. and he gets praised for drawing "a version" of something that someone else created. ohhh the irony.
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by doubloon 3y ago
they are private. thats the whole point. they dont have to tell anyone anything.
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by doubloon 3y ago
Reminds me of OpenDoc
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by doubloon 3y ago
"They only support static layouts - not fluid/dynamic layouts that change when you resize the page. Don't have support for features like video, animated images, interactive charts." these things are features in a lot of
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by doubloon 3y ago
yup but ... right now things are in a bit of a primitive state. i have tried a lot of stuff with the ChatGPT Wolfram integration and it just fails all kinds of ways. its really cool when it works, but a lot of time it just gets really confu
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by doubloon 3y ago
so if you have an entity that fakes all the inputs and outputs that would indicate that it has a concept of self, how can you tell the difference between that and a entity that actually does have a sense of self?
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by doubloon 3y ago
i was working on internationalization for a big C++ / QT project and I basically just copied the technique + strategy that Stellarium used. worked great.
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by doubloon 3y ago
i found it weird how LLMs will say "i" and "my", i tried to ask it about whether this implied it had some concept of self, and then does it also have its own opinions, beliefs, thoughts, etc, and it would argue back that
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by doubloon 3y ago
It would not be tricky it would just cost a little money and annoy someone who is incompetent because you would force competency on them. Open source projects by volunteers have better testing than systems like this.
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by doubloon 3y ago
here is the time the company that is licensing/developing OS/2 in 2023 did a takedown copyright notice to a guy on youtube who just made a video showing it working https://www.os2world.com/forum/index.php?top
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by doubloon 3y ago
this is wrong. China cracked down on milk whistleblowers and severely repressed and harassed them, they stopped anyone from discussing the problem on the internet. Parents of the children who were harmed basically were told to shut up by th
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by doubloon 3y ago
End. in peace
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by doubloon 3y ago
The points are a sequence of integer coordinates. The points in the outside contour of the letter are stored in clockwise order, the inner holes in counter clockwise order. There is some kind of marker to indicate where each countiur starts
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by doubloon 3y ago
yeah there should be an old-timey telephone where she has to call the charging company and give them her name and password, then ask them to begin the charge cycle.
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by doubloon 3y ago
i put Alexis De Tocqueville through this and the results were legible but hard to read. Then I put a demagogue politician speech through this and the results were almost like a speech that politician would have given. It was hard to tell th
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by doubloon 3y ago
Eh the thing is that Worse is Better and "Actually available to people in Operations without having to beg for permission" is the best of all. VBA (Visual Basic available in Excel and Outlook) had a lot of the same issues as low c
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by doubloon 3y ago
Power Automate Cloud already has an AI builder, you type in "At 4pm every day check my Outlook inbox for an email from Suzie Snowflake, and if it says Critical, then check Sharepoint for a file from Integration Services and if its cont
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by doubloon 3y ago
VBA is still used all the time. As long as you have Excel or Outlook you can use it.
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by doubloon 3y ago
yes, yes they do. they have entire videos about how to solder.
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by doubloon 3y ago
"machine screws and futures contracts come in standard sizes, without which manufacturing and finance would be as inefficient as health care." oh lord. the finance industry does not even have a standardized way to transmit prices
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by doubloon 3y ago
honestly in the post-internet age i would just get on Adafruit, they have so many tutorials and projects that are perfect for a beginner. as far as a book, i do agree with @nhatcher , i loved Practical Electronics for Inventors but that was
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by doubloon 3y ago
There is an really impressive recent site here https://polyhedra.tessera.li/ with a 3d viewer, it even has interactive animation where you can see how they transform into each other, for example an icosahedron gets changed
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by doubloon 3y ago
having a kid work basically 14 hour days for years and years so they can get into the best school based on the criteria of the ivy league, it becomes very easy to downplay the importance of communication and social skills, like empathy, pla
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by doubloon 3y ago
tldr you cannot gradient descend to find the optimal human being. this reminds me a lot of the recent book The Fund about Bridgewater Capital, where they tried to come up with hundreds of metrics to rate each employee on, and then they made
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by doubloon 3y ago
What is the Architectual equivalent of a hand with twelve fingers and nonsense lettering

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