nathan_douglas

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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Classic John Von Neumann, inventing both the Von Neumann architecture and non-Von Neumann architectures.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I did a similar project as an independent study for my CS degree. It was a ton of fun! I haven't tried it but I think you can then write a Forth for it very simply too.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I really like this. I'm revisiting math after a couple of decades off, and my son is getting into pre-calculus-ish topics in school, and I'm going to share it with him. It definitely has a few rough edges, though. The equation in
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
My mother always put a really high emphasis on honesty. I wasn't the best kid, and certainly not the most honest (sorry, Mom), but I've always been absolutely forthright in résumés and cover letters. If I don't fully tick C,
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Yeah, I worked at a tiny company (<10 employees total) for five years, then was in a small company with a tiny dev team (3 engineers and 1 PM at peak) for almost five years. Now I've been at a government contractor for five years, s
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
You might really dislike the ESP32 cluster I'm planning right now :P
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I have a similar philosophy about home automation. Every few years I geek out and set up a bunch of crap and spend a bunch of money and waste a lot of time, and then it tends to fall apart fairly quickly and I repent of everything... ...exc
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
All watched over by machines of loving grace.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I did the same thing in college, in 2003 or so! I had a whole polyglot UNIX lab in my college dorm room; pizzaboxes, SGI Indigo 2's and an Indy, a NEXTStation, random PPC Apples, an Atari Mega ST 2... I remember my RA checked it out an
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
The "funny story" in the next article hit a little close to home for me.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Agile Six | Remote (US) | Full-time "At Agile Six, we use modern technology and user-friendly, inclusive design to build better government services for everyone." A6 is a pretty good company, pays very well for a fed contractor an
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Hahaha, yes. Very true. I meant each individual mini is small. Yeah, my Zenithal-primed Pile of Shame occupies several square feet of wall and shelf space.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Speak for yourself. I can make dumb mistakes with $5 equipment and all of the docs, schematics, and the spectral presences of the implementors there to counsel me.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Super cool. I really admire the diligence it takes to commit to a reverse-engineering project on obscure hardware like this, and see it through. It's tough enough just reverse-engineering software, but hardware with the constant threat
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I think it's a symptom of much larger ailments to our society and species that we appear (to me, for now, at least) to have abandoned trying to address through systemic approaches. My employer is a federal contractor, and our clients a
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
You're absolutely correct, of course. I was musing during down time in a meeting and turned it into a joke instead of engaging my faculties :)
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Sadly, and unfortunately, no. I think it's a huge moral and business and leadership failure, but my employer is a contractor and our clients will not accept junior engineers. I really wish they did.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I'm sure neural networks are a great tool here, but I don't know how the training would proceed effectively off "mere data"; too much of the data we have is incomplete, inaccurate, or outright fantasy or misinformation o
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Honest question: if you'd hired someone who wanted to be an AI Engineer and had plenty of experience with general software engineering, and was of roughly the median quality of the engineers you've hired for other positions, do yo
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
A rounding error, really.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
It'd be an interesting time for China to invade Taiwan.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Trivial, honestly. And I'm not a particularly disciplined or functional person. The overwhelming majority of hobbyists use acrylic, which has no meaningful smell and can be thinned with a drop of water. I haven't had any issues wi
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
actually yeah, let's give them some ideas
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Not OP, but I was also replying and had thoughts along a similar vein. I'm 44 and have had countless hobbies over my adolescent and adult lives. Some I've taken up multiple times, some I've visited multiple variations on a co
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
As I creak and grunt into my mid-forties, I find a major concern of mine is my mind growing stale and stiff like an old slice of bread, and a good random deep dive into cheesemaking or the different uses of tofu in traditional Chinese cooki
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
> The MP initiated a conference call with Lockheed Martin engineers through the on-duty supervisor of flying (SOF). The MA held for approximately 50 minutes while the team developed a plan of action. I read this as "The pilot initia
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I think you're leaving out a few "all things being equal" and other caveats. Compensation is not necessarily monetary (especially in the US), costs are more than just salary, etc.
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
Hmm, this is interesting. I have rheumatoid arthritis and recently saw news of trials for using vagus stimulation to treat that. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/03/nx... It lo
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
The Brothers Quay did a fantastic (and predictably nightmarish) stop-motion exposition of anamorphosis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEfwbnMf3jM
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by nathan_douglas 1y ago
I got to the end and was mildly surprised that Frank was a real person and not a hallucination. Maybe I've been reading too many psychological thrillers.

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