notanothereric

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by notanothereric 3y ago
Try googling the titke - the content is cross posted to other sites including a Youtube interview… That being said, free self help psychology is worth about what you pay for it ..
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by notanothereric 3y ago
I can attest to the roof mount solar panels both converting into electricity and as an air gap … huge win for me in the summer with the A/C on full blast and not paying a thing for it …
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by notanothereric 3y ago
And here I thought Perdue was the biggest threat to birds in the US …
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by notanothereric 3y ago
The NY Times had an article last week on the pervasive spread of eco-anxiety- the dread of the future and the doom no one can change the course of it … ironically they later had a guest opinion piece about ‘peak humanity’ driven only by rep
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by notanothereric 3y ago
Wow. Living it up in ugly apartments eating 2 year old microwave dinners made by robots while lounging in our inflatable chairs …
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by notanothereric 3y ago
Not knowing your geo, if in the US - one barrier is the engineering certification process which is above and beyond an engineering college degree. This applies to civil engineering at least if not other fields. As a software engineer by tra
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by notanothereric 3y ago
They should have subtitled this paper ‘Resistance is futile’.
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by notanothereric 3y ago
Whether you should quit your job versus working in an organization guilty of ‘moving the goalposts’ planning are orthogonal decisions IMO. You can theoretically still find your work meaningful even if your at-present leadership appears rudd
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by notanothereric 3y ago
If the author just proposed his new function neo_max() and quoted The Architect from The Matrix everyone here would be enjoying the April Fools Day joke for 2024… “ Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to t
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by notanothereric 3y ago
re: maps — I accumulated a lot if regional and national maps ( thank you AAA!!) but they do go out of date. Major challenge with prepping is uninterrupted vigilance maintaining your supplies… which likely is an Amazon marketplace business i
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by notanothereric 3y ago
I for one look forward to the post computational era … no monthly cloud storage fees, no data backup anxiety, no cookie tracking pop-ups to click ‘yes’ to … back to when I had to remember where I was driving and when the destination would c
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Ask HN: Does the AI training lag time always put it at a disadvantage?
2 points by notanothereric 3y ago|2 comments
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Elon Musk says ‘digital superintelligence’ could exist in 5–6 years(foxbusiness.com)
5 points by notanothereric 3y ago|10 comments
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by notanothereric 3y ago
You beat me to the observation so my follow up question is - what does kernel.org look like after the sun sets on Linus … does it devolve into a collection of maintainers driven by petty grievances? Or accepting vs rejecting PRs and merges
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by notanothereric 3y ago
okay my prior observation about coming out of an ice age so naturally it will likely be warmer fell flat with the downvote so how about some realism? The Earth doesn’t care, and the Earth always wins. Look around. How many insects do you se
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by notanothereric 3y ago
Considering we only exited the last ice age period some 11K years ago … this is sort of like weathermen crowing about the first 70 degree day in April … https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_glaciation
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by notanothereric 3y ago
Working for others generally causes burnout… working for yourself to set your own priorities and timelines is somewhat magical…
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by notanothereric 3y ago
Funny … I thought once you had a critical mass of lidar enabled vehicles illuminating the same area, the lidars would blind each other … ignoring any juvenile delinquent with a laser pointer could play havoc …
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by notanothereric 3y ago
Regarding taking the human out of the decision making loop, fully autonomous mode seems inevitable given the current Achilles heel of the most sophisticated UAVs - the requirement to maintain an uplink for command and control. Given our fri
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by notanothereric 4y ago
I find the reaction to Chatbot et al somewhat like a prism to the thought of the people who pose the questions and how they interpret the results. GPT-3 is amazing in its ability to generate coherent grammar based on petabytes of ‘screenscr
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by notanothereric 4y ago
Assuming the typical 4D metrics of career development won’t resonate with you - skill development, title advancement, monetary growth and “follow your passions - then consider either what excited you when you were 10-12 years old OR look fo