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by kurthr 1y ago
Yeah, how to you thing that schematic is represented internally? How do you think the netlist is modeled? It's SPICE and HDL all the way down! There are good reasons not to vibecode Verilog, but a lot of test cases are already being wr
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by kurthr 1y ago
Trying to learn Newtonian Mechanics from Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is kinda dumb though. I certainly noticed that it was ineffective in discussing implications with the students. I found Boyle's observations far more
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by kurthr 1y ago
They don't even acknowledge how Unifying, Lovely, and Respectful the Declaration of Independence which started the Revolutionary War was! Where is their discussion of the Continental Army's take over airports during the War? It wa
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by kurthr 1y ago
Exactly, corruption is legal. Only your competitors will be fined.
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by kurthr 1y ago
No I'm blaming the decline of American Civilization on Obama, because he didn't run for a 3rd term. Easily, the best Republican candidate since Nixon.
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by kurthr 1y ago
Yeah, they have "BPA Free" polycarbonate now, since that's what was regulated. I still wouldn't use it, there's many better cheaper alternatives, unless you're just importing it without testing? At least they&#
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by kurthr 1y ago
The industry started with carbontet (CTC), they replaced it in the 70s with the perchlor stuff you're describing (PCE) in the 80s, then with Trichlorethylene (TCE) in the early 90s, which in turn was replaced with (TCA) Trichlorethane
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by kurthr 1y ago
Yeah, most of the comments here are crap. The regulation for this stuff (and there are so many it's stupid) started in "the west" around 1999 and is pretty complete post 2022. Remember when polycarbonate water bottles were a
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by kurthr 1y ago
Do you remember when they condemned all the houses along SR85 so high school kids could play loud music, drink, and party without bothering their parents?
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by kurthr 1y ago
Well, actually when you're hash based doing 100 different matches is the easy part. I'm not sure you know how steep FAR/FRR curves are for >99%/95% singe word accuracy, but having seen wake word development it's
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by kurthr 1y ago
The typical fraud "accident" is a vehicle with 4-5 people (including a child) who slam on their brakes in heavy traffic on the freeway. If that doesn't work, they reverse into you, and then claim whiplash for all the people i
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by kurthr 1y ago
I agree it's a different algorithm, but not a higher powered one. You don't need to know context to get HELOC, Bariatric, or DUI. You also don't need 95%+ accuracy for 95% of the population. You're just doing advertising
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by kurthr 1y ago
You expect 95% accuracy matching activation phrases. You don't need that for ads. It only needs to work some of the time for some of the people, especially if it makes $/click.
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by kurthr 1y ago
I can just say that I knew an entrepreneur in early post Y2K who developed apps to track music played in clubs in SF for folks like ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC. They gave out "free" phones (these were the small expensive candybars and n
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by kurthr 1y ago
Well, you don't need to tax the ethanol from corn or methane from waste dumps or wood pellets, or ammonia itself. You would tax the oil/gas/coal that came out of the ground that was used to fertilize the corn, process the cor
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by kurthr 1y ago
I think the supply demand curve shifts. It will still be expensive in education/time and status will only slowly degrade, but the number which can be supported at even moderate academic pay will fall dramatically. I don't know any
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yes, the quote "a million earthlings will be living on Mars in 20 years", is hilarious. It would require us to start launching hundreds of SpaceX Starship rockets a day every day, now. It's just dumb. I know that there can be
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by kurthr 2y ago
I like that he sees that we haven't made progress (in 10 years or now 20) and likely won't. He doesn't delve into the silliness that a lot of pop-sci particle physicists have. It's all well beyond me, but I've alway
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by kurthr 2y ago
Similar but different old-time story about a scroll wheel on a smartphone not working. I had unfortunately been flown to a foreign country to solve a FW issue where scrolling had been made unreliable with a development team I could barely c
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by kurthr 2y ago
It is sad to me that much of Asia went straight to the "publish or perish" phase of science. There once was an era when science was about pushing the edge of our understanding of nature rather than just pushing the edge of what is
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'd think it would be able to at least suggest which model to use rather than just having 6 for you to choose from.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Exactly, it's the "they're the same anyway", "both sides" equivalency that allows the buildup of antidemocratic de-politicization and apathy. This is one of the goals of the _there_is_no_truth_ radicalization t
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'll accept that you could get an IfThisThenThat implementation that might let you get some home automation done. Of course, if you can't build an ITTT to start with, you'll have a horrible time debugging it, or even remember
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by kurthr 2y ago
In this case, "democratized" means "enshittified". https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys I don't doubt that LLMs can make programmers more productive. It'
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by kurthr 2y ago
Oh, it's fine. They can hire help from Russia to secure our infrastructure for a very low price. With the tariffs it doesn't really make sense for China to bid, or they'd be paying US! Eventual costs, well that's not rea
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by kurthr 2y ago
If you're ever in LA (Culver City), see if you can get into The Museum of Jurassic Technology. Some things are well documented, if not believable. https://www.mjt.org/themainpage/main2.html
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by kurthr 2y ago
There are opposing trends in this. First, that like many tools the capable individual can be made much more effective (eg 2x->10x), which simply replaces some workers, and last occurred during the great depression. Second, that the tools
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by kurthr 2y ago
He'd love to call in the National Guard and gun down a few hundred "terrorists". Send a few thousand more of them to El Salvador and MAGA will celebrate.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Don't forget Monday futures are limit down. NASDAQ Fri Close Mon Open Change 18,656.47 16,746.00 -1,910.47 https://www.cnbc.com/pre-markets/ You can hope for a relief rally Tuesday after they
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by kurthr 2y ago
Oh, little Bobby Tables. Such a trickster.

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