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by j_m_b 2y ago
Software has gotten so bad over the past couple of decades. It's not as responsive as it was even in the 80-90s, yet we have orders of magnitude more powerful machines. Even simple website forms are often broken, due to everything from
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by j_m_b 2y ago
We could do with a lot less grass lawns and a lot more gardens. Even just growing flowers adds tremendously to the local ecosystem of insects, while adding beauty to your life. If this gets more people thinking about gardening, I'm all
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by j_m_b 2y ago
> We need to protect our data. This is a very important concern in Health Care because of HIPAA compliance. You can't just send your data over the wire to someone's proprietary API. You would at least need to de-identify your d
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by j_m_b 2y ago
SSH port forwarding is one amazing aspect of this software. For one example, you can develop on a remote system by forwarding your local port 3000 to the remote 3000, using something like `ssh -nFL 3000:localhost:3000 user@remote`, all whil
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by j_m_b 2y ago
I started a strict Keton diet back in April. I started by doing a 48 hour fast to completely eliminate stored glycogen stores. I also began with intermittent fasting by skipping breakfast. It was hard at first, but thankfully I never experi
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by j_m_b 2y ago
Up until the 80s and early 90s, small consoles were programmed in assembly code due to performance optimizations. It never made sense to me that a space probe from the 70s would use anything but machine assembly code.
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by j_m_b 2y ago
Transit likely wouldn't exist without heavy government subsidies. Even with them, it's a pretty terrible way to get around, at least in the US. The vehicles are dirty, even dangerous. There are frequent delays and rerouting. Trans
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by j_m_b 2y ago
I jumped on the code generation bandwagon pretty soon after ChatGPT was released. I like to think of similar to a catalyst in a chemical reaction, it lowers the activation barrier to writing code, especially in new contexts (to you). It mak
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by j_m_b 2y ago
Thanks for the comment. I looked more into this and it seems like not only are we in the era of diminished returns for computational abilities, costs have also now started matching the increased compute. i.e 2x performance leads to 2x cost.
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by j_m_b 2y ago
> Computing power should get there around 2048 We may not get there. Doing some more back of the envelope calculations, let's see how much further we can take silicon. Currently, TSMC has a 3nm chip. Let's halve it until we get
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by j_m_b 2y ago
Yah I am not following the parent comment, either. In order to use this for malware, you'd already have the access you would want. Otherwise this would need to make it into the main branch of Linux. That isn't going to happen. Rus
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by j_m_b 2y ago
Came to the comment section in search of this.. I want to see a 3D projection of this manifold!
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by j_m_b 2y ago
The author is very technologically sophisticated. Imagine how difficult it would be to enroll if this was not the case, just finding trials alone is an arduous task. Streamlining clinical trials, particularly in recruitment and enrollment,
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by j_m_b 2y ago
What is the support for CUDA on any of the *BSD OS like these days?
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by j_m_b 2y ago
> and started writing more code. The code did not compile. I was shocked. It’s quite an amazing feat, that, to have a recommended learning material that can make your very first program not compile. Yah I had similar problems and `cargo`
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by j_m_b 2y ago
Strong enough for a space elevator?
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by j_m_b 3y ago
They're soaring now, they'll be crashing next. Live by the algorithm, die by the algorithm.
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by j_m_b 3y ago
We're just beginning to experience a shuffling of the top companies. Remember FAANG? Just look at how bad the products are these companies churn out. Google search is a degraded experience, Apple released vision pro, and the N for Netf
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by j_m_b 3y ago
Anecdotally, my family has significantly cut back on going out. We used to have a weekly habit of going out to eat with a family of four. We rarely go out now, and usually just as a couple. It's just too expensive. In the long term, it
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by j_m_b 3y ago
This bring back memories of AfterDark. They had other screen savers in the software package, but this was definitely the most whimsical.
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by j_m_b 3y ago
I guess I spoke too soon. I found a resource here: https://open.fda.gov/apis/downloads/
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by j_m_b 3y ago
It's ridiculous that a public-facing agency like the FDA does not make every piece of data available in a database that is easy to access and downloadable. You can download all of PubMed in compressed files, ClinicalTrials.gov gives y
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by j_m_b 3y ago
Why would this work from a token generation point of view?
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by j_m_b 3y ago
I loved and completed this course, just wish I could actually be working on this in my day job!
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by j_m_b 3y ago
Great to see Forge making the front page! It runs on mobile too and the UI is frankly better than the desktop version. Definitely install a snapshot version so that your client stays up to date. The bots can play surprisingly well with agro
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by j_m_b 3y ago
Is the overhead of Kubernetes worth it enough to make it smaller, presumably to run in less resource intensive environments? Docker compose fits this bill nicely and is much more simple.
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by j_m_b 3y ago
I've been looking into a private IPFS network as a way to share photos. It doesn't seem ready for that. Is there something out there that allows clients to update a mounted drive and keep in sync? Something that is transparent eno
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by j_m_b 3y ago
Evolution can happen rapidly[1]. All the needed changes could have occurred over just a few generations. It likely starts with chemical mimicry. I can't imagine that it didn't start this way as insects live in an umwelt dominated
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by j_m_b 3y ago
I had the great fortune of growing up near beavers in the creek near my house. They would build dams in areas where rocks had gathered in the creek, utilizing the natural advantage instead of starting from scratch. I remember watching them
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by j_m_b 3y ago
My best guess was 9 miles away!

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