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by hermitShell 1y ago
Wouldn’t it be great to enable electric cars to go long distances with platoons? Like a bus system for electric cars to go between cities and charge while you drive. The ‘bus’ is basically a big efficient generator that can charge up the c
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Regarding growth, there are different career phases. For a new entrant to the industry (new grad) or to the company, just executing on any project is growth. How do you do things around here? What technology do you use? Years later the gai
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by hermitShell 1y ago
That’s a very cool abstract, thanks. I suppose it’s the plasticity that poses a pretty serious challenge. Anyway, if this kind of computer was so great maybe we should just encourage people to employ the human reproduction system to make mo
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I have wondered this and occasionally seen some related news. Transistors can do more than on and off, there is also the linear region of operation where the gate voltage allows a proportional current to flow. So you would be constructing a
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I had an incident where an older couple were stopped at a green light, angled down hill, in a snowstorm, with parking brake instead of foot pedal, in a borrowed vehicle. When they asked me for insurance I just dragged it out and made friend
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by hermitShell 1y ago
JVM I think I can understand, but do you happen to know more about LISP machines and whether they use an ISA specifically optimized for the language, or if the compilers for x86 end up just doing the same thing? In general I think the pract
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by hermitShell 1y ago
fantastic project. Do you envision this as living on FPGA's forever, or getting into silicon directly? Maybe an extension of RISC-V?
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by hermitShell 1y ago
100% agree ‘chat bots’ will not be a revolutionary technology, but other uses of the underlying technology will be. General robotics, pharmaceuticals, new matter… and eventually 1st line medicines and law sure, but I sure don’t want doctors
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I enjoyed your thoughts about non linear success and I think there is a sense in which the principle holds. but in both life and Balatro experientially, most win conditions are reached linearly, and the really crazy combos just let you expl
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Agreed, our whole computing paradigm needs to shift at a fundamental level in order to let AI be 'magic', not just token prediction. Chatbots will provide some linear improvements, but ultimately I very much agree with you and the
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I was thinking about this very thing recently, because I like to be able to tell my computer to do exactly what I want. Little annoying things, usually Microsoft products. Maybe the next 20 years will bring more improvement in software than
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Check out this Geiko ad: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ Buffett is a rare gem
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by hermitShell 1y ago
That’s an awesome point, and honestly I hope lawmakers start to dig into advertising as an industry in general. Hate being exposed to ads and the only alternative is to pay to avoid them. Should be considered predatory and limited in scope
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Do you steer them away from ‘bad ideas’? Trying to recall pg’s essay, which was admitted sw focused, but the core idea is both worthless on the open market and essential to the ultimate success. Is this coaching ‘don’t become a statistic’ o
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I was like this(having a lack of self regulation when young), in NA our philosophy leads us to think we have lots of ‘free will’ but our will is not arbitrarily strong and this should be our model of self. Celebrating individualism is good
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Agree on both. As things like the PIO on the rp line of micros gets more common, micros will have IO that can match FPGAs. For low end, micros are generally good enough or gain NPU compute cores. It’s the IO that differentiates FPGAs.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
There aren’t enough trees in Britain, that’s for sure! In places with lots of trees and not a lot of people, wildfires burn off a considerable amount of energy stored in dead wood. Canada, for example.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
In N Stephensons “Anathem” there are “fuel trees” and a couple paragraphs describing how they are ‘cooked’ for hydrocarbon fuels. I like trees and his vision of a future where genetically modified trees are the best way to collect solar ene
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by hermitShell 1y ago
I would like to think they just let other companies have the first mover advantage on chatbots because it only disrupts Google in their search business, which was already pretty far gone and on the way out. Where is AI actually going to cha
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by hermitShell 1y ago
True, and now I believe China has kept their industrial might while also pursuing higher technology. So they have the mine and the steel plant and the car factory. I recall Musk commenting that through human history, it’s more normal for Ch
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Perhaps the simplest explanation of all is that it is an easy position to defend against criticism in general.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
If you can believe Jeffry Sachs and RFK Jr., the expansion of NATO was a way to start the war, not a result. And the objective was to pillage the country of Ukraine to the benefit of those in power, Europe gets to loan them money to rebuild
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by hermitShell 1y ago
This is why I routinely wean myself from coffee by drinking tea on most holiday weekends. I feel it helps me to dissociate less while I should be present with family, plus when I return to work I have much less residual caffeine and can hit
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by hermitShell 1y ago
If you would enjoy loosely related fiction, Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon is an option I would personally recommend. You must have some tolerance for his particular style and content…
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by hermitShell 1y ago
Technology has changed for sure. Is our usage of human capital any better as a whole? Probably not. So many BS jobs out there.
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by hermitShell 1y ago
The problem is likely cost effectiveness compared to just replacing a whole group of cells, compared to one single cell. The unit economics of getting the remaining life from single used laptop battery are not very good. There's certai
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by hermitShell 2y ago
I agree with this sentiment! One way to set up teams is with a squad leader who acts as shit shield first, and developer if the company is running smoothly. That way if the boss manager is a full time shit shield with little time to underst
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Belief State Transformers(microsoft.com)
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by hermitShell 2y ago
With ‘dog mode’ access to government IT systems
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by hermitShell 2y ago
Love it. The Geico ad is simultaneously hilarious and intriguing. I want to believe that BH collects ad revenue for it, single handedly bypassing all of ad tech with the simplest trick on the planet. More likely Geico is owned by BH to some

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