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by mchahn 11y ago
Yes, when that plugin is Flash. Actually I understand what you are saying. Showing the list that way is kind of unfair.
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by mchahn 11y ago
To me the big surprise was osX doing worse than flash. Ouch.
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by mchahn 11y ago
When I moved to Southern California I had GPS nav in my car. Being new to the area I used it on every trip. After a year or so I realized I still had no idea how to get to anywhere.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> offers online ordering on a modern, well-designed website. Excuse my ignorance, but doesn't this violate the ban on modern technology?
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by mchahn 11y ago
I understand now why a GO feature list I saw recently included "no inheritance". I thought it odd that a lack of something was listed as a feature.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> you want it to have a fun name. reply It would be really cool if they did. It would garner some publicity.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> One company proclaims it has found the “minimum effective dose” of meditation that will change your life. In the movie Something About Mary a moron, Chris Elliott, was talking about his new product idea to compete with 7-Minute Abs. H
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by mchahn 11y ago
Wouldn't these things be privacy problems if they drive around with IP cameras? Also the cameras would seem easy to get around (wear a hoodie). People wouldn't steal pizzas, but the robots may be disliked enough to be destroyed w
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by mchahn 11y ago
Wasn't IR phone transfer and then later bluetooth supposed to allow two people who just met to interchange electronic business cards that filled in a contacts entry? I saw this many times in marketing blurbs. I wonder if they ever be
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by mchahn 11y ago
If you want to see first hand the image Londoners have of techies, watch the hilarious sitcom The IT Crowd.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Wouldn't living life with "no goals" be a goal? It has got to be hard to live without goals so achieving that would be a goal.
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by mchahn 11y ago
There are two reasons for home batteries that I can think of. One is battery backup for power outages. How much market is there for that? It can't be large enough to justify Musk's humongous investment. So that leaves the purpos
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by mchahn 11y ago
Shouldn't this be integrated into compilers? Why would you ever not want this kind of info?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Regarding abbreviations like LOL. I heard a fascinating commentary on public radio that such abbreviations can be found in 100-yr-old literature. I wish I could quote the reference. I know it was the Stanford linguistics guy who does 5-mi
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by mchahn 11y ago
> The main problem the company had solved was getting its machines to move in a realistic manner Why? Who cares about the aesthetics? The only thing that matters is if they can get the job done while being safe.
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by mchahn 11y ago
When they finally can factor large numbers enough time will have passed for security algorithms to migrate to schemes that are immune to quantum computers. Work on this is already progressing faster than practical quantum computers are.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Every company I've worked at has one or more test "engineers" who do nothing but install and run software on every release. I have always pitied them for their grueling repetitive jobs. Having said that, many are very good a
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by mchahn 11y ago
Yes, use more modularized components. This has always been good advice. Rolling all your own code is obviously a waste of effort and bug-prone.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I wonder if booths at trade shows still have curvy women dressed like hookers. In the "old days" (80's?) they were a fixture.
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by mchahn 11y ago
This is great. I find debugging a large system to be easiest when I clean out a related area instead of going bug by bug down a prioritized list. Switching around the code causes a waste of time relearning each area.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> These threat actors appear to be financially motivated, Duh.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I can't find the reference but I find the circular way of thinking about dataflow to be a good model. The human triggers inputs, which go through logic which goes through the view and then ends up back at the human. While this may be
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by mchahn 11y ago
I wonder if AI could turn into a race like the space race in the 60's.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I think the situation may be different now that AI is actually working.
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by mchahn 11y ago
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by mchahn 11y ago
> I know the E6B is pretty common for pilots still. I've used that before. It is not a standard logarithm stick but a vector addition tool. Does one thing very quickly.
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by mchahn 11y ago
We must be about the same age. I went through college with a leather holster for my slide rule. I saw the first TI calculator after graduating from college in '71. I lusted after it and later I went to work at HP and got an HP. I was
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by mchahn 11y ago
> at an elevation of 5,000 feet That is not a hobby drone. I could never get mine to that height.
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by mchahn 11y ago
BTW, the computers in the ship were also made by HP. There is a great story about an incident where a waste recycling problem caused a mission to be aborted. There was urine all over the inside of the capsule. NASA publicly reported that i
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by mchahn 11y ago
15 digits is about the precision hand-held calculators provide, right? Many early NASA missions took HP calculators along in missions with trajectory routines in case the computer failed.

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