jasonwatkinspdx

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by jasonwatkinspdx 5d ago
No, what I and the other commenter are saying is you don't understand why the article is misleading because you don't know the actual scholarly knowledge here. In your other comment you use wording along the lines of "still u
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by jasonwatkinspdx 5d ago
The problem is the story is wrong, and that leads to misunderstandings of what money is and how economic institutions arose in fact vs mythology. For starters, debt records came before money basically everywhere we have evidence for the inv
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by jasonwatkinspdx 5d ago
I'd suggest reading about David Graeber and the myth of bartering.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6d ago
It's a game. Everyone is aware it's a game and uses language like who was a good and bad player, was that a good or bad play, etc. Everyone understands that deception and betrayal are possibilities. Your objection is like saying p
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6d ago
You need to do some research on just how complex real neurons are vs ANN, and just how profound our ignorance on the topic is. We aren't resisting reality because of some theological belief, we just know the basics of neuroscience.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8d ago
Anyone that's into auto racing as a hobby will tell you the engine is the last thing you should modify unless your whole goal is to get into the guts of engine mechanics. But if you just want to improve lap times it's way less of
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8d ago
Heh, if you were in the PNW it's possible. In that era there definitely were killer deals that just spread like wildfire among people who knew. And ABit built their brand catering to overclockers/tweakers, much to the annoyance of
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by jasonwatkinspdx 10d ago
Those Celeron 300As were quite the deal. My whole LAN party crew had them in the dual slot abit motherboard.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 10d ago
He was planning to go into academia, but ended up abandoning his PhD ABD because he got exposed to the negative interpersonal politics that can happen in academia and realized that was not for him. So he went to go work a dozen years at a h
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by jasonwatkinspdx 12d ago
My brother was something of a prodigy. Whatever it is that people like Carmack have, he had it too (and Carmack was one of his personal heros). I would say with my brother it wasn't just that he was analytically extremely sharp, it&#x2
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by jasonwatkinspdx 17d ago
It really is amazing. DaVinci used to be something that required a dedicated workstation with proprietary hardware cards, and most used it via renting editing bay time in studios equipped with it. Like just buying one of the workstations an
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by jasonwatkinspdx 17d ago
I only kicked the tires on kdb ages ago, so this may be out of date. At the time k's speed came from holding time series data in memory as simple dense arrays. The language treats a vector operation like z[] = x[] + y[] as a single ope
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by jasonwatkinspdx 19d ago
I've always thought this paper was a bit of an overlooked gem: https://www.vldb.org/conf/2002/S07P01.pdf It views stream processing as a join between queries and data, where internally everything is just mate
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by jasonwatkinspdx 26d ago
I was just a teenager and enthusiastic LAN party participant back then, but also was learning the basics of 3d modeling, animation, and gamedev. The pre 3DFX era was kinda interesting. The first hardware accellerated game I saw was VQuake o
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by jasonwatkinspdx 2mo ago
It's a tablespoon per serving which isn't that crazy at all. Also Vietnamese fish stock is milder than Thai fish sauce if that's what you're thinking of.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 3mo ago
When my grandpa retired from Monsanto chemical back in the 90s, I helped him clean out his office and got a tour of a bunch of stuff. He showed me their Cray, which had its own dedicated computer room, and they set it up with the coolant pu
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by jasonwatkinspdx 3mo ago
Certainly sounds plausible. Most of the time the first thing I do after I log in to a terminal is "cd work." And if I blundered that on a french keyboard at some point it might pop into my head as a funny thing to name a project.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 3mo ago
A lot of people know the basic rule of thumb that a byte per element gives you a bit more than a 1% false positive rate. But even just thinking about it for half a second from a balls and bins perspective, 100k items into 100 binary bins is
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by jasonwatkinspdx 3mo ago
I can't give you exact numbers, but this is line with what I'm hearing through the grapevine. Lots of senior managers being converted back to ICs as well. A lot of people are going to leave as soon as they hit their next vest.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 4mo ago
Yeah, this difference occurred to me while traveling in rural Mexico. To play soccer all you need is a ball. So you can go into the poorest villages that have little in the way in infrastructure and all the kids are playing soccer in the di
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by jasonwatkinspdx 4mo ago
My friends had a first gen i3. They didn't like the styling but it was super practical for them as a car.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 4mo ago
Yes, Ive's style is very recognizable as Dieter Rams design principles and language with brighter colors.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 4mo ago
Yeah, if this was coming from say Honda at a sub $100k price I'd think something like "eh, not for me but it's neat Honda is willing to do something kinda fun and odd." But starting at $600k for that? It's clear the
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by jasonwatkinspdx 4mo ago
Nope, Raptor is full flow staged combustion, so both the fuel and oxidizer have dedicated preburners and turbopumps each.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 4mo ago
Yeah, I'm just barely old enough to remember flying when you could smoke on planes. It was everywhere. The smell of stale cigarette smoke was in nearly every public space. This was in the 80s in the US, so smoking was already in declin
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by jasonwatkinspdx 5mo ago
I would imagine they lied about having a felony conviction on their job applications, and that for whatever banal reason any background check service they used didn't flag it, or the contractor was so grossly incompetent they didn&#x27
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by jasonwatkinspdx 5mo ago
The people I know playing around with it are interested in something that offers very basic SMS style broadcast without any centralized authority or infrastructure. For example here on the west coast we have a non trivial probability of ear
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by jasonwatkinspdx 5mo ago
We have overwhelming evidence that corporal punishment is harmful in general, and very harmful for kids. As someone that was on the receiving end of that kind of violence due to growing up in a fundamentalist evangelical family, I will not
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by jasonwatkinspdx 5mo ago
Yes, and your comment makes clear you haven't actually read Graeber and mischaracterized his work. Anyhow, replying is clearly past the point of utility here.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 6mo ago
> Historically This is not the history, it is a mythology in opposition to the empirical evidence. Which is why you should read Graeber.

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