phaedrus

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by phaedrus 2y ago
I have almost exactly the inverse situation. We are at the end of a cul de sac that is capable of efficiently draining water away and out of the neighborhood. But in roughly the spot where your drainage creek is, there's a large stri
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I have IBS. During my last visit, my GI doctor apropos of nothing blurted out, "you've got to get your anxiety under control!" "What are you talking about?" I asked. "You said the stress of getting ready to le
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by phaedrus 2y ago
My electronics mentor worked at 3M in the 80s. One of his coworkers thought it would be funny to prank him by asking him to look into a piece of equipment with something like a binocular microscope that the prankster had rigged to flash la
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by phaedrus 2y ago
In my opinion packet switching is an idea that would have been inevitable once the technology to support it is in place. The real important idea of the Internet is the insight that the envelope should be independent of the data it contains
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by phaedrus 2y ago
C++ already has (named) return value optimization; I think the behavior you describe would happen when passing the result of a function to push_back/emplace_back. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language&#x2
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by phaedrus 2y ago
It seems like C++ would be simpler if were either just all immutable (like Haskell) or embraced using the full, mutable language for metaprogramming (Jonathan Blow's Jai). Of course that's a horse that left the barn before most o
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I chose my username from the narrator's alter ego in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. In reference to the analytical knife: "Phædrus was a master with this knife, and used it with dexterity and a sense of power. With a
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Even computer security itself is a metaphor (at least in its inception). I often wonder what if instead of using terms like access, key, illegal operation, firewall, etc. we'd instead chosen metaphors from a different domain, for exam
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Ada code resembles this.
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I work for the government supporting critical equipment - not in medical, in transportation sector - and the systems my team supports not only are not connected to the internet, they aren't even capable of being so connected. Unfortun
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I like to draw the comparison that in an alternate universe where the ASCII .txt file format had simply included a color byte with every letter byte, we'd now be having coding format guidelines that also go into great detail prescribin
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by phaedrus 2y ago
This rigamarole is why I stopped taking ADHD medicine. I waited too long to make an appointment once (because, you know, ADHD), and then ran into a problem that my doctor's office had reorganized duties to give the renewing prescriptio
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I wrote program to solve the cutting stock problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutting_stock_problem ) for a personal project. I couldn't (or didn't want to) use any existing program for it because my stoc
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I work on a team that supports some equipment related to airplanes. An acronym for one piece of equipment that is decades old is "RCSU". When I got a support call talking about "RSCU", I assumed the person meant "
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Thanks for reminding me of that. Honestly the battery life on the Boox Tab is great. I've never had it run out on me.
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I bought a Boox color e-ink tablet last year. I wanted something different enough from phone and laptop that I could read books without feeling like I am staring at screens every waking hour. I also liked that it ran full Android so I can
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I'm sure at NASA as at all government agencies there are teams who work very efficiently and do more with less, and other teams whose mission does not have that characteristic and constraint.
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by phaedrus 2y ago
"Instead of a measurable, quantifiable thing that exists independently out in the world, we suggest that intelligence is a label." Thought experiments lead me to the conclusion that the same is true of consciousness. I make the
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Dwarf Fortress is perhaps a stronger exploration of your thesis, because it is unapologetically simulation-first.
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by phaedrus 2y ago
As an amateur game engine developer, I morosely reflect my hobby seems to actually consist of endlessly chasing things that were broken by environment updates (OS, libraries, compiler, etc.) That is, most of the time I sit down to code I a
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I once screen-shotted an intranet application at my work asking the unintentional koan, "One does not exist", next to a button that said, "Create".
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by phaedrus 2y ago
One of my first professional software projects, as an intern, was I wrote a tool for simulating this type of latency. I modeled it as a set of pipe objects that you could chain together with command line arguments. There was one that woul
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I wonder if a galaxy like this could be so bright as to support life on rogue planets i.e. those not orbiting a star? (If there would be any elements to create a rocky planet from. However the article states they were surprised to detect s
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Philosophically, why should it be the case that aggregations of statistical calculations (one way of viewing the matrix multiplications of ANNs) can approximate intelligence? I think it's because our ability to know reality is inheren
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I wonder if anyone has tried to approach the problem from the other end: start with the hand-tuned network and randomize just some of the weights (or all of the weights a small amount), and see at what point the learning algorithm can no lo
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Besides taxes, there is another sense in which outside circumstances can break your "rent control" model of home ownership with 30 year mortgage. Here in Oklahoma, insurance rates have skyrocketed in the last couple years. I now
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I am also 40. Maybe it's time to stop judging myself by the baseline of the focus I could once muster as a teenaged or 20-year-old hacker.
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by phaedrus 2y ago
I wonder if a similar thing can happen with non-physical pursuits (specifically, coding) if relentlessly forced to over-do one thing over a long period of time. Overwork/over-stress early in my software development career led to a per
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by phaedrus 2y ago
Except some communication protocols have a 32 bit timestamp baked into the format.
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I don't show as colorblind on any of the tests, but on some monitors I can't distinguish this shade of green ( https://htmlcolorcodes.com/colors/nyanza/ ) - or any paler green - from white. I worked at a

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