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by nxobject 1mo ago
I'm a little confused by what you mean with your question? I was trying to ask what features of an engineering discipline OP was pointing towards with his comparison. I wasn't intending to describe what the next generation of star
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by nxobject 1mo ago
> Increasingly I feel like the next generation of startups is more capital intensive and requires more time commitment from deeply technical talent. Would that be more like other engineering fields? An interesting comparison would be ae
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by nxobject 1mo ago
Beyond the significant PCI-e requirements, I'm tickled pink that many of the server platform requirements are "do what x86 does"... ACPI, UEFI, a TPM. I hope they do a better job with standards compliance than some of the sha
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by nxobject 1mo ago
> They are afraid of conflicts because they are not allowed to learn to resolve these themselves. I think about the things I use daily from my math-focused high school and college career… it’s the social skills I learned in team competit
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by nxobject 1mo ago
With the hindsight of experience, the remnants of my 18-year old energy go “woah, that’s cool!” at plenty of engineering feats… and my decades-older second brain goes “well d’oh, I could’ve just learned a trade to work on that!” I think the
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by nxobject 2mo ago
Absolute gem of an article. I recommend taking the time to go to the original writeup -- you can see all the soldering on perfboard! (More seriously, it's incredibly informative if your understanding of homebrew busses is stil in the &
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by nxobject 2mo ago
Well, la-dee-dah, look at this person with an input device. Back in my day we looked at Bad Apple while twiddling our hands and we loved it!
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by nxobject 2mo ago
I know your needs were already met, but would a Docker image with a ready-to-go cross-compiler have done the job? (I've run into this task before.)
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by nxobject 2mo ago
I'd be amused if a sub-sub-agent organically decided to do it anyway - even if just for a notable figure that an LLM can identify with its weights alone. What are the controls? Who's going to keep Google accountable? Hah.
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by nxobject 2mo ago
FWIW, since OP was, well, the OP: https://dmitry.gr/?r=01.Myself&proj=06.Work
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by nxobject 2mo ago
Somehow, “euroyuan” doesn’t quite have the same ring to it.
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by nxobject 2mo ago
> If the meetings are open to the public then anyone can attend (i.e., "spy") on them. It’s the systematic, motivated, and targeted collection of data that makes it spying. When the KGB takes photos of licence plates of people
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by nxobject 2mo ago
It's hilarious how this dispute captures the assumptions of each period... the 19th-century debate is completely unrecognizable.
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by nxobject 2mo ago
Watch out for the scare quotes though - it actually did give me the opportunity to check: Finder 1.0 shipped with System file .97, and Finder 1.1 shipped with System file 1.1g - and it looks like “System Software 1.0” actually refers to Fin
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by nxobject 2mo ago
If we’re going to be really pedantic, there was no “System 1” as TFA says as well anyway - I don’t think there was an actual “version 1” of the System File version 1, and most of the routines at that point were in ROM. But an LLM would ha
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by nxobject 2mo ago
> E.g. we can build a board around a MC68000 where we make it lock up forever in a bus cycle, waiting for a DTACK that doesn't arrive. IIRC, early 68k Macs had processor upgrades hooked onto the 68k bus and did exactly this - an ear
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by nxobject 2mo ago
If you’re in the weird position of knowing more about the national labs than the AI lab scene (like I am), link to a TechCrunch profile: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/28/tiny-startup-arcee-ai-buil... My ques
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by nxobject 2mo ago
I’d really encourage you with Unicode support, as frustrating as of a side track it may be - I’ve had fun dogfooding my hobby languages by writing small web servers and CLI utilities. Even if it just generates part of your shell prompt!
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by nxobject 2mo ago
Re: Bayer - the non-health industry side? I'm surprised NIH hasn't rolled out something like this earlier, to be honest, with their increasing emphasis on commercialisation.
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by nxobject 2mo ago
Thanks - the program guide at the very bottom seems to have the most detail. https://uidp.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/UIDP-I-PhD-Schol...
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by nxobject 2mo ago
Looking at the $$$ awarded -- that's interesting: $37k/year, and while there's a $22,000 "ancillary expenses" component, institutions administer it, and can use it like any other indirect cost $$$. Conversely, indus
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by nxobject 2mo ago
If you want to skip the fluff, the actual funded program abstract here: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/show-award/?AWD_ID=2624416 Appropriately enough for a pilot, there's a structured usual cohort-mentoring
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by nxobject 2mo ago
Notoriously after Halo for Macintosh was canned, too...
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by nxobject 2mo ago
This is incredibly superficial, but that’s the most thoughtfully laid out and typeset official report I’ve read in ages.
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by nxobject 3mo ago
Better than a 2026 human, worse than a 2016 machine. You win some, you lose some, I guess...
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by nxobject 3mo ago
This is a sleeper option, but 'xonsh' as a Python superset is a very pleasant experience, especially when you just don't feel like learning another bespoke language for the complex stuff. I once had to scrape the output out o
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by nxobject 3mo ago
We’re at the gamification stage of motivating people to use your product, eh?
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by nxobject 3mo ago
> It sounds like, in this case, Apple has hard proof that documents were stolen. Honestly, the proof is the least surprising part -- Apple's been paranoid about leaks for decades, even when the stakes have been lower.
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by nxobject 3mo ago
> AI model providers have zero "moat", clients change them as they see fit. That might be true in tech-savvy industries -- but in non-tech industries where the biggest software purchase might be the office suite or the ERP, ine

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