gonzo41

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by gonzo41 3y ago
You're overestimating an older generation and underestimating the impact of what you can do with unlimited money, and 400K people working on one problem.
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by gonzo41 3y ago
I think people forget how much US national effort was dedicated to the space race. These guy's did incredibly well, even with modern advances for the money they are working with.
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by gonzo41 3y ago
The point I was making is that a trip to disk is generally not occurring, and that having a soup of pointers in RAM isn't as bad having badly laid out memory on disk that needs to be paged in. Most performance being lost, isn't fr
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by gonzo41 3y ago
That's not really true anymore. RAM is so big these days that most databases can fit into it and be blazingly fast. It's all the classic shit that slows people down. Loops in loops in loops in loop with nested if's. Not under
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by gonzo41 4y ago
I sort of expect someone reading HN to eventually develop an AI so annoying that people just stop using the internet in interactive ways.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Imagine paying attention to the road and not needing to look at radio to be able to do everything.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Also, when you're working solo, PR's are just a great way to look at a bunch of changes before you smoosh everything together because even with a full history it's sometimes tricky unpicking everything.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
I don't think they are actually trying hard enough. As Homer Simpsons put it "We've wiped out entire species before, we can do it again" --- helicopters and truck mounted mini-guns and suppressed sniper rifles with $18k
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by gonzo41 4y ago
I'm more worried about untracked CH4 leaks from coal mines and LNG projects. Which dwarf farm emissions. Cow's are just part of the problem. The real threat is the LNG industry.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
It takes 10 years for that to happen. So the effect in the short term is 20 time more greenhouse gas effect. If we stopped producing CH4 now, it'd be 10 years to see the drop back to co2 levels.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Most underwater travel is done via dead reckoning. Like flying a plane with no windows. You're only as good as your maps and instruments.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
What you're describing can be done to great success with the right type of requirements. Say you're building an information warehouse for OLAP style work. Totally makes sens to pyt all the heavy stuff in the DB because the data mo
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by gonzo41 4y ago
I asked everyone's favorite chat AI to come up with a new buzzword using the letters from those. The best was KINDergartener (uses all the letters). I would describe this as a programming paradigm for people who are new to the programm
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by gonzo41 4y ago
lol, It's such a great font.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
This is fantastic. As I age ,I've started to like comic sans more for the effect is has on people. I think people should use it as much as possible for it's whimsical potential. Here's some occasions where comic sans would be
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Virtual timothy plays better and without complaining. Weeks later the gang dreams of virtual tim. A week later they start playing, but this time without Tim.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
I don't think we should pretend that google doesn't have the power to crush spam today if it wanted to. They have chosen to let scrappers have top spots in their search results and their reputation is dying as a result.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
As my CAV friends used to say. Parking in the shade is extremely effective.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
They are already under development. The main issue is that modern anti missiles systems require a ton of power. So even going into a passive turret mode needs engines. There's a case to be made for having diesel engines so you can run
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by gonzo41 4y ago
just imagine when someone's driverless car get's into an accident 20 miles away from it's owner whilst it was looking for a park.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Ahh text files. That takes me back. So many hours as an unsupervised youth reading there.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
The conditions of the lab may/probably occur somewhere in the universe. Being able to transmutate one element into another, or to modify an element by adding more neutrons is useful because then we know more and it informs out imaginat
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by gonzo41 4y ago
It'd be so cosmically funny to end up having to go do banking in actual banks because silicon valley innovated us into a dead end with AI.
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by gonzo41 4y ago
This is a great video about just this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BoVME0xrQY
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by gonzo41 4y ago
In the content space. There's whole publishing industries that are at risk from GPT style models. Would reddit, or HN still be interesting if there were bots that talked in the popular tone of the subreddit or thread that dominated the
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Came here to say this. The added complexity is regulation saying you need to keep data on your customers. In a way the early somewhat anonymous internet was better in this regard. An edit to add, if you encrypt user data at rest (big ask cu
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Yeah the real work is trying to make a line ball debt into a either a zero bill or slight positive. The e-tax prefill doesn't do any deductions so if you're lazy it's a great way for the government to scrape a few extra dolla
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Your suspicions are right! Calories are king. You can eat pretty much any junk food and your body will figure out how to get energy out of it. Eventually you adapt to whatever you have around you, and it that's all fast food, you'
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by gonzo41 4y ago
The fire people also don't tell you that if you retire early you're existing standard of living will dip and then stay that way. So as long as you like hustling forever to get cheap deals you'll be fine, otherwise you'll
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by gonzo41 4y ago
Takayuki Ueda is just trying to bully the ALP into making sure nothing rocks the boat for the LNG companies. It's worked in the past with the mining sector and the carbon tax. But after the 2020 bushfires and then the flooding. Most pe

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