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by jdblair 3y ago
13 and 17 year cycles would mean these broods emerge at the same time only every 221 years! Thomas Jefferson was president the last time this happened.
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by jdblair 3y ago
no, it doesn't behave like aquefaba.
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by jdblair 3y ago
My similar cooking hack: bean broth (sometimes called bean liquor). Save the water from cooking beans to use as stock. When I cook white beans, I freeze the broth in ice cube trays and use it in place of water when cooking. When I cook dark
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by jdblair 3y ago
I have no idea if the fund is actively managed. I assume the president is mostly fundraising, deciding how to spend the proceeds, and dealing with administration. That's a job, right? Or should we just have robo-foundations?
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by jdblair 3y ago
That salary for managing $1B in assets doesn't seem high to me. Am I missing something?
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by jdblair 3y ago
The linked press release is a better source, anandtech didn't add much. https://investors.micron.com/news-releases/news-release-deta...
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by jdblair 3y ago
When I encounter free shipping outside of Amazon, it is usually connected with a minimum purchase amount. Spend €50 or over and shipping is free.
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by jdblair 3y ago
My favorite term from the book at the time was "hive mind."
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by jdblair 3y ago
This book was seriously influential to me in 1994 when a friend leant me his hard cover copy. Arguably, Out of Control, Snowcrash, (and a less well known book called Goatwalking) defined my whole early 20s aesthetic and outlook.
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Fans preserve and emulate Sega's rare '80s "AI computer"(arstechnica.com)
2 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
Thank you for posting this. I can confirm, and there are new forms of stimulant medication (like lisdexamfetamine) that work better (at least for me) than Adderal (dexamphetamine + amphetamine) and Ritalin (methylphenidate). The hard part:
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by jdblair 3y ago
Understanding the point of DATA was also a big breakthrough for me, but that happened earlier.
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by jdblair 3y ago
I remember when I finally figured out the point of GOSUB (I was maybe 13, so 1986), and why it was more powerful than GOTO. Still no stack, and the only calling convention was that RETURN would take you back to the line after where you call
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Teardown of FGM 148 Javelin Missile Guidance Computer(hackaday.com)
2 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
Maybe everyone's white collar job is this way? There are plenty of jobs, like assembly line work, where an 8 hours day is not likely to be less than 7 hours of work (30 minutes for lunch, two 15 minute breaks). Source: I worked factory
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by jdblair 3y ago
As soon as I get the feeling that an article was written by a LLM, I stop reading. Usually it's repetitive phrasing, or grade school essay style summaries that turn me off. In short, a poor ratio of text to actual information. Even bad
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by jdblair 3y ago
I can't tell if this is circular because of the shape, or circular as in "circular economics."
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by jdblair 3y ago
I don't want the problem to get worse, for cruelty to be further industrialized. I also find all the talk about AI "safety" to avoid a fictional singularity event to be a giant distraction from what is a new consolidation of
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by jdblair 3y ago
OpenAI are asking to be regulated, but it is regulation to their conception of safety, not human responsibility.
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by jdblair 3y ago
I feel like the real danger of AI is that models will be used by humans to make decisions about about other humans without human accountability. This will enable new kinds of systematic abuse without people in the loop, and mostly underpriv
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by jdblair 3y ago
I have a side project that I work on in bursts of activity roughly every 10-14 months. I'm currently in a phase of significant forward progress. The reasons it falls by the wayside are varied. The first big gap happened during a whole
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The Pontiac Aztek Was Not a Design Tragedy, It Was a Corporate Tragedy(theautopian.com)
38 points by jdblair 3y ago|36 comments
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The world of Japan's PC-98 computer(strangecomforts.com)
86 points by jdblair 3y ago|30 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
For years I thought the line was "those who were enforcers were the same...". Almost the same meaning, but it has an extra syllable.
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by jdblair 3y ago
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn less fuel with hybrid technology Kudos for the slightly awkward Rage Against the Machine reference.
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by jdblair 3y ago
I encountered NAND ECC about 10 years ago. We wanted to increase the size of the NAND flash on our embedded device (a data logger and gateway used to monitor and control solar power systems). The larger NAND parts didn't have built in
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Binance chief Changpeng Zhao to plead guilty to money laundering(washingtonpost.com)
4 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
The narrator explained in the video. Damp ceramic powder was used, and was placed under tons of force while in the mold. The ceramic powder then stayed in-tact when removed from the mold for firing.
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Integrated Tech Solutions(aesoprock.com)
1 points by jdblair 3y ago|0 comments
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by jdblair 3y ago
My compliments for a very good 10 minute talk! I don’t think I would have clicked play on an hour-long presentation. Also, I particularly like how they hacked the LLVM workflow to deal with the registers. I don’t know LLVM at all, its just

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