mikewarot

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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I don't want to get into the habit of thinking of an entity in conversation as unworthy of consideration, and "beneath me", so, yes... I extend courtesy to the LLMs, just as I try to do here and everywhere else a computer med
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
My usual response once I'm doing looking things up to write/build something, and look up to see more than 5 tabs, is to go "ARRRGGGHHHH" and declare tab bankruptcy, just closing the browser completely. There's alway
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I'm not crazy enough to try to short it, but getting out of the money put options a year or two out seems like a good idea. If you're going to short it, you better have a buffer big enough to cover it going up to $500 for a moment
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I strongly suspect it's tokenization that drives this. If we trained with ASCII or even UTF8, I think we'd have much better results.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I'll never forget the time a fellow member of PS1 in Chicago, a programmer, had his intuition broken by an Arduino and a set of LEDs. He built a project pretty much as described but as the Arduino turned on multiple outputs, each LED g
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
It's really sad that they did the research and figured all this stuff out after VietNam, and proceeded to forget all of it, and go with fundamentally insecure infrastructure because it's what consumers chose.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I'm hoping that because it's not in the US, Cambridge wouldn't leave you with crippling debt you can't discharge. If so, big plus. As everyone has already said, Amazon is fickle, and if you do work there, live on ramen a
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Programmers will spend most of their time turning LLM vibecoded prototypes into real programs with structural integrity. For a time this skill will be highly valued, until the snake oil takes over again.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Repairing switching power supplies for IFR-1200S service monitors with my friend who's been in the repair business since the 1950s.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I'm actually surprised. He was just in Ukraine, and looked quite happy posing with one of their interceptor drones.[1] My thoughts and prayers go out to his friends and family. [1] https://x.com/IAPonomarenko/statu
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
This sounds exactly like the way McDonnell Douglas ate Boeing from the inside out.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Sandalwood - it's nice and luxurious, just like paying full freight on tokens
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
It'll be interesting to see the eventual application of this to moon bounce. If they put it on a sufficiently stiff backplane, and calibrate things carefully, the 240 channel system they hint at looks like it might be able to pull it o
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Be sure to check your states registry. Like many professionals, Engineering requires extensive study, testing, on the job training, and eventually, licensure. The Computer Engineering test in Indiana had a 56% initial pass rate last year. A
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I've learned that I'm just not cynical enough. Here's the relevant Peter Girnus post[1], he tells the underlying truth through satire. 10 years. We report our compliance every 60 days, then once a year, which is to say w
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
The only authors who would sign such a deal would be near the end of their lives, and wishing to provide for their heirs. I don't think that it would be a widely accepted practice.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
During WW2 in the United States, you had all sorts of consumer goods companies reorganized to output a prodigious amount of military supplies. There were multiple companies making the same model of things, with fairly rigorous QA to ensure
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
How is it that I created $6.02 Trillion of shareholder value, but only got $15.11 million of it? Oh no... I just sympathized with Elon and the Epstein class. Let's walk that back... $15.11m for 14 years work, over a million per year, b
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Trying out AI is a fun and sometimes useful thing to do. But you should never trust it completely. A lot of people have already died because they trusted it with their lives. "Full self driving" isn't.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I've got 459,203 words posted here on HN alone, according to clickhouse I'm currently ranked #495 https://serjaimelannister.github.io/hn-words/ I'm out of the labor pool with nothing but time until I age
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Relevant Peter Girnus post, satire, sort of https://x.com/gothburz/status/2074902503599059357 I just know insurance companies are going to use this to try to weasel out of doing their job
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I feel like crimes over a certain threshold should include accessories in the punishment, like the Death Penalty here in Indiana does. It certainly helps motivate them to testify in court. Strong minority opinion: If someone steals more th
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Free Pascal, Assembly, STOIC, Metamine, Python 2
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Whenever the nostalgia kicks in hard, I fire up OpenVMS 7.2 on the virtual 11/780 in my cheap Motorola phone, then SSH in. I love OpenSimH and Termux.
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
>Personal wikis always died for the same reason. Mine (WikidPad) died when I switched to Linux, and learned that breaking changes to WxPython rendered it worthless, as none of the dialog boxes functioned after that point. Sure, the sourc
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
It really doesn't feel like a day for celebrating. I'll feel a little better if the mid-terms actually happen, and I'll feel even better if in about 931 days, there is a new president and a peaceful transition of power. If no
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I need nuclear for cheap power, I almost never actually rush to make rockets, I just want to avoid the grind for technology research. ;-)
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
Well, this is certainly an interesting point at which we all find ourselves. I'm personally going to have to learn what a KV cache is, how big they are, and the costs associated with storing this value, instead of merely caching it. T
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by mikewarot 3mo ago
I think it's a horrible idea. It's also impractical. What company is going to willingly face the inevitable wrongful death and injury lawsuits that result?
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by mikewarot 4mo ago
>Reduced centrifuge stack size to 10. Well, that'll make Rocket Rush a bit more fun to play. It was taking forever to get up to 40 U235s. [Edit] Nope.... it doesn't change the requirements from 40 U235, just makes it so a centr

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