mjevans

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by mjevans 8mo ago
The want to be E but really armchair engineer in me for this context says there's far too little Engineering safety of the situation. That school should not be on a busy roadway at all, it should also not have a child dropoff area anyw
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by mjevans 8mo ago
10. is /8 (24 payload bits), 172.16 is /12 (so 22) and 192.168 is /16. Very little need to spend more than 18 bits of space to map every 'usable' private IPv4 address once per customer. Probably also less than 14 b
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by mjevans 8mo ago
Or Office Space (warning, Rated R for some language and crude distractions / conversations.) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804 Still, it documents the typical work culture of the US in the late 1990s / ear
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by mjevans 8mo ago
It was VERY common in the spinning rust era to already open (office, etc) applications in the background. I think the launch operation only allocated window resources and finished the job; all the hit the disk work was already precached in
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by mjevans 9mo ago
So they'll still make me toss out my dang sunscreen.
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by mjevans 9mo ago
Education, real education, can be made entertaining. Mythbusters and Connections (I believe it was called) both qualify. As do some historic documentaries.
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by mjevans 9mo ago
Think of the LLM as a slightly lossy compression algorithm fed by various pattern classifiers that weight and bin inputs and outputs. The user of the LLM provides a new input, which might or might not closely match the existing smudged toge
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by mjevans 9mo ago
It's roughly the same price (or even more expensive) and doesn't include Outlook... which is THE crack application for all those windows addicts. You could absolutely nail the document compatibility aspect and it still wouldn&#x27
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by mjevans 9mo ago
I got it backwards because I expected the counterfeit part to use a newer process IC (less silicon area) than a possibly more reliable and perfectly suitable for serial connection speeds 'vintage' process on some long stable spin
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by mjevans 9mo ago
I wonder what sort of training data the AI was fed with. It's possible that such if whatever was utilized most was put together into a reference cookbook a human could do most of the work almost as fast based on more normal searches o
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by mjevans 9mo ago
While this is true, why even bother turning on encryption and making it harder on disk data recovery services in that case? Inform, and Empower with real choices. Make it easy for end users to select an alternate key backup method. Some p
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by mjevans 9mo ago
Not that it typically matters in a practical sense* (Unless you're writing to a register for a device)... However I've always viewed Little Endian as 'bit 0' being on the left most / lowest part of the string of bit
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by mjevans 9mo ago
What's that military adage? Something along the lines of 'planned to win the (prior) war'? There's also the needs of the moment. Wasn't the 8086 a 'drop in' replacement for the 8080, and also (offhand re
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by mjevans 9mo ago
It doesn't confer much since it COULD be only NAT and no firewall. It's INCREDIBLY unlikely to find a case of that in the wild, but possible. A common example of a host that might have such an address but lacks that sort of securi
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by mjevans 9mo ago
awk can do some heavy lifting too if the environment is too locked down to import a kitchen sink of python modules.
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by mjevans 9mo ago
I would prefer a world that returned to the older '30 second blip (for the only) sponsor of the program' ad, which also seemed to be of the limited form: Here's Product X, it does Y, which makes your life better because Z. I
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by mjevans 9mo ago
Or (real) SQLite for reasonably scaled work. I also like (old) .ini / TOML for small (bootstrap) config files / data exchange blobs a human might touch. + Re: PostgreSQL 'unfit' conversations. I'd like some clearer
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by mjevans 9mo ago
When do we get the Star Trek / Orville dream of every job is a good job?
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by mjevans 9mo ago
I consider it a small win that those are _only_ 'resource exhaustion' attacks. Denial of service potential to be sure. Something nice to avoid / have limits on also for sure. However I'd rather have that than a more di
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by mjevans 9mo ago
It shouldn't be one thing, or 'only eco thing'. It should be _every_ thing that isn't a bad idea. Solar Wind Geothermal Tidal power? Got a way of using that tasty oil cleanly? Maybe we want to reserve those complex hydr
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by mjevans 9mo ago
What I think it illustrates more is how much classic languages could gain by having a serious overhaul of their standard library and maybe even a rebrand if that's the expected baseline of a conformant implementation.
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by mjevans 9mo ago
I'm kind of in favor of non-persecution OTC at a pharmacy nicotine patches. I hate anything added to the air. Even perfumes irritate and make me sneeze in high quantity.
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by mjevans 9mo ago
Can I have the 5th element padded roller beds that are disinfected between every use?
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by mjevans 9mo ago
There needs to be a difference between an Instant, an Instant at an Observed Location, and a 'Specification for constructing a date that might or might not have already passed or pass in the future'. E.G. in a conversation "L
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by mjevans 9mo ago
This. In the same way that Pre 2000s Boeing was an Engineering company, driven by making a good product 'the right way'. Rather than a business company that happens to rely on engineering.
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by mjevans 9mo ago
What is a Transistor but a smaller, more efficient, much cheaper to make Vacuum tube (in a more limited way, it's only a simple amplifier). That path of development lead through the 'Moores Law' era to a point where with pres
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by mjevans 9mo ago
The fact that Toy Story or Incredibles stand up even today, as much as we notice the limitations of the time, speaks to the art and effort applied to what was possible at the time. For as simple as they can be in places, they still used th
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by mjevans 9mo ago
Analog on the order of 480i60 is a good bit different from even digital 640x480p60. However it's a lossy compression of sorts, and the transform is of a different nature than we're now used to estimating for digital codecs.
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by mjevans 9mo ago
Like the best special effects ever - if it's done right the audience doesn't even really realize it happened.
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by mjevans 9mo ago
Bulk rates and flatter surfaces win. However at some point branching is required, and the bulk rates also add latency.

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