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by inetsee 4y ago
The computer I worked with in my first job was a PDP-8 with core memory. We upgraded it from 4K words to 8K words for ONLY $5000.
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by inetsee 4y ago
I have the Freestyle Libre system. The probe that "pokes through your skin" only happens once every two weeks, and my experience is that inserting a new Freestyle sensor hurts less than the average finger stick blood test. Before
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Ben Recht – Recommended Reading List for AI(twitter.com)
4 points by inetsee 4y ago|0 comments
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by inetsee 4y ago
I'm 72 years old and diabetic. There are significant limits on what I can do. My wife and I will do 30 minute walks 5 to 7 days a week. We go fast enough to get my heart rate up to the lower end of the aerobic zone. I also do strength
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by inetsee 4y ago
I have no problem imagining a security camera application needing to monitor quite a few video channels.
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by inetsee 4y ago
"They should be ... opening more warehouses." Opening more warehouses would require hiring more people. I remember reading that turnover among Amazon warehouse workers is exceptionally high. Sooner or later Amazon will have to rai
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by inetsee 4y ago
My cat is quite insistent. You really don't want to cross her!
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by inetsee 4y ago
I used to have a FitBit that I wasn't entirely happy with. After some health issues, I recently upgraded to a FitBit Charge 5 that I'm mostly satisfied with. It was quite inexpensive; I got mine for $99. It does continuous heart r
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by inetsee 4y ago
This is not something from 2022. I read it decades ago and it has stuck with me all this time. "Wishing without work, is like fishing without bait."
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by inetsee 4y ago
I used CDE professionally back in the day (a long time ago). It was very good in its day, but I use KDE now, and I would never go back to using CDE. If I were feeling nostalgic for old software I'd rather go play with TOPS-20.
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by inetsee 4y ago
I got to the end of the paper before I noticed that it was published in the April issue of Communications of the ACM. I have a hard time believing that this is not an April Fool's Day joke. I provide as evidence this line from near the
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by inetsee 4y ago
An archive of "The Little Smalltalk" code is still available here https://github.com/crcx/littlesmalltalk The last update was six years ago.
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by inetsee 4y ago
I was actually just thinking about a Tamagotchi-like program that required regular productive activities in order to keep a virtual pet alive, healthy and happy. A computer program would not need to deal with all that messy real world hardw
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Knuth's Art of Computer Programming, V 4B, has gone into print(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
940 points by inetsee 4y ago|342 comments
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by inetsee 4y ago
It might help if the title was more informative. E.g. Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming, Vol 4B is going into press.
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by inetsee 4y ago
A backup from months ago is (somewhat) better than a backup from years ago or no backup at all.
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by inetsee 4y ago
I found this part particularly interesting: "If you are a California resident, you waive California Civil Code Section 1542," Can they actually say that they are immune from the California Civil Code?
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by inetsee 4y ago
I interviewed at a defense contractor once and the project sounded interesting. They were under a serious schedule crunch and the interviewer told me I could expect to work 60 hours a week for the next 18 months without any overtime. I tol
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Charlie Munger Predicts Horrible Economic Crisis Where Everything Will Collapse(youtube.com)
16 points by inetsee 4y ago|8 comments
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by inetsee 4y ago
I wonder whether it would be possible to avoid all this bullsh*t by using Geo-Location to deny access to anyone trying to access a website from a location in California? I am not the least bit dependent on income from my private website, an
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by inetsee 4y ago
"the computer went really slow after I installed it" This version also appears to be using a lot of system resources. Firefox on Linux is idling at about 6% CPU while reading HN. Go to that web site and the usage goes up to 80% to
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by inetsee 4y ago
Yes, but what's the shipping charge?
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by inetsee 4y ago
That's exactly what I was thinking about, but I didn't know it by that name.
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by inetsee 4y ago
I remember reading quite a few years ago about an auction process that turned things upside down. Each buyer had a push button, and there was a display at the front that showed a price going from high to low (the opposite of the usual aucti
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by inetsee 4y ago
It's the "Natural Stupidity" that terrifies me. Just look at the (non-technology) news.
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by inetsee 4y ago
Somewhat unrelated to the article: I am a LADA diabetic (Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults, sometimes referred to as Type 1.5). I am insulin dependent, but I didn't become symptomatic until my early 40s. Lately, I have been experime
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by inetsee 4y ago
Have you read the Hacker News Guidelines, particularly the section labeled "In Comments"? If you haven't, I suggest that you should.
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by inetsee 4y ago
Adderall doesn't make you smarter; it just makes you more alert. It helps you focus longer on whatever intellectual task you're working on, be it problem solving or studying. (Not /s)
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by inetsee 4y ago
In my opinion, nothing can make you smarter. Learning rationalist techniques may make you better at thinking through problems, learning memory techniques like Memory Palace may improve your memory, using learning techniques like Spaced Repe
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by inetsee 4y ago
The tweet seems to have been deleted.

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