mikewarot

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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   Wedge issues tend to elicit emotional replies. The algorithms that are used to maximize profit tend toward showing the most emotional replies first. This positive feedback loop rapidly leads to a bifurcation of the audience into opposing ca
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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   Why are we still emulating text on dead trees? We have word wrap, just write paragraphs and let the reader decide how they want things to wrap. Doing anything less is to force them to deal with your bad assumptions based on peer pressure fr
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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   This looks quirky and thus interesting. It's good to see a popular way of appreciating the skill of Tram drivers. Skip the first 16:33 - https://youtu.be/PWX0CJN7UNA?t=993
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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   This seems to be to say that they've found a way to make a single quanta of magnet that works at room temperature. Without a subscription, I can't tell if the direction of the field is somehow locked to the substrate, as I would e
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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   Any sufficiently complete explanation of RPN contains half of a poorly written Forth implementation. ;-) Seriously, this is MUCH simpler than recursive descent compilers or lex/yacc/bison. Add a good typing system to it, and you&#
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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   You're probably thinking of stents[1], used to hold open clogged arteries. 1 - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12955452/
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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   I'm working on GlosSurly - a strongly opinionated take on text markup / aka Annotation. The basic idea is to toss out HTML, and actually have layers of content that aren't interleaved with their markup. Markup will be layers
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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   Progress is not dependent on CPU speed any more. The Von Neumann model of serial computation has peaked, true enough. We've only reached a local maxima. Distributed processing is still in it's infancy. There will still be enormous
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   by mikewarot 4y ago

   I learned to program on a 1 Mhz CPU with 64K of RAM, and no storage. It's really hard for me to not continue to be amazed at this laptop with a 2 GHz, 4 Core CPU, 8 Gigabytes of RAM, 250 Gigabytes of effectively 0 mSec seek disk, and 1
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    by mikewarot 4y ago

    >entire business will choke on Excel Why do you blame Excel? Is it personal bias against declarative programming? Is it an anti-Microsoft bias? How do you know it's not a business process issue bottlenecking things? We need more inf
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    by mikewarot 4y ago

    So they are short staffed due to Covid and thus drive through only. Things should get back to normal in a decade or so, when the plague finally abates.
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    by mikewarot 4y ago

    Article goes on about the downsides of un-curated feeds... HN ignores it because it offers nothing worth curating they didn't already know.
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    by mikewarot 4y ago

    Mostly, I start them up in Youtube, then listen to them. I've also been listening to a lot of talks at NDC and GOTO
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    When it got to 35 C in Chicago in 1995, 739 souls were lost. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    I'm opposed to anything that creates a second class citizen pool in the US. Obviously our immigration system is due for reform. In the end, it should be an all or nothing thing. You're either a guest on holiday, or you have a path
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    I really like the count prefixed strings, and will be adding it to my grow set of C stuff I'm gathering. My ultimate goal is to have something that does reference counted, count prefixed, null terminated strings, like Free Pascal. I th
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    The single novel (to me) idea I pulled out of that is the idea that distance is the inverse of entanglement. So the hamming distance between states would also be the real world distance (in effect) That's a very interesting theory, th
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    So this experiment seems to create a virtual atom (the box with the mirrors), yet unlike a real atom, this system isn't quantized internally, so it's possible that you could get quanta of any energy up to the sum of all photons in
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    I can repair anything given sufficient time and budget. I've fixed old undocumented industrial controls, atomic clocks, all sorts of things. I'd be happy to help fix/reverse engineer any captured UFOs. ;-)
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    When the package changes, I always assume the quality went down, if I even recognize it after the change. Young people with 20/20 vision must be behind these stupid changes.
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    Saifedean Ammous on his recent Lex Fridman appearance talked quite a bit about "Time Preference", and how it shifted once we got off a gold standard. I agree with the basic premise that since we can't reliably save for the fu
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    Where's the YouTube recording?
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    Headphones with BlueTooth, Amazon Show, Amazon Echo, Optical Wireless Mouse, Smartphone, Raspberry Pi Zero W, Raspberry Pi Pico (x5), Tablet, Laptop, Desktop, File Server Oh, cnc router, 3d printer. Smart TV. That's just me, not my who
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    In the short term, I expect the highly leveraged offshore Bitcoin exchanges to make a series of increasingly deep margin calls. These will place more stress on the "stable" coins. I expect them to collapse, or take losses of 90%+
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    I'm sorry for the ambiguity... I was talking about Bitcoin dropping 90%+, Tether obviously could hit zero.
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    There's no need for action, just wait it out. The "stable" coins used to route around US laws are starting to lose their peg. When Tether goes, it'll all drop at least 90%, if not 99.95%, as all the margins on the offsho
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    This is an interesting approach. I find myself being sucked into the space between Forth and Lisp. Thanks for showing a working example of a system that uses Case as a color (in the ColorForth sense) for text. The more of these types of s
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    Clustering things conceptually near each other seems like an obvious thing to do. If my understanding of embedding is correct, it should be possible to take those embeddings at possibly pull things apart along other dimensions as you discov
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    It's now possible to make a 6502 out of plastic?!? WOW Yes, they are making transistors out of plastic[1]. ”We coat everything on that, then peel it off and reuse the glass a carriers which means we can use silicon equipment.” That th
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    by mikewarot 5y ago

    TLDR Agile was a response to management practices that didn't respect the profession of software development. Management didn't get the joke when the Waterfall model was used to show exactly what was wrong with those management pr