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by phaedrus 3y ago
I grew up in two hoarder houses (parents and grandparents). I disagree with many of the things said in this article. First of all the thing about hoarding being triggered by loss: I think this has more to do with psychoanalysts looking fo
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by phaedrus 3y ago
My introduction to PC Engines was finding a strange embedded PC board in a pile of electronics scrap. (I think it would turn out to be an ALIX board.) Connecting to its serial port brought up a Linux prompt, but I didn't know the pass
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by phaedrus 3y ago
To summarize my other top-level comment: I read a paper which pointed out we have no reason to believe the Chomsky hierarchy is the only formal hierarchy of languages that could exist, and the author asked why aren't we looking for
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by phaedrus 3y ago
The article quotes a paper by, "Hao et. al." which concludes: "Finally, given the success that Transformers have had as models of natural language, it is perhaps surprising that these models’ expressive power seems to be best
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by phaedrus 3y ago
I worked with someone who had previously been a senior engineer at one or maybe more than one hard drive manufacturers. He told me about a project he had worked on where they collaborated with Microsoft to make something that would make the
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by phaedrus 3y ago
Sounds like how Windows COM (Component Object Model) works.
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I'm not an expert on economics, but I think it's obvious on first principles. The constraint on the ability to print money is its devaluation. If the Fed is in a position it would want to both tighten the money supply and print
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Your insistence on using the word "nobody" there is an absolute without evidence. You underestimate the visualization capabilities of savants. For my 3D game prototype, I created all of the meshes programmatically and wrote *a
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by phaedrus 4y ago
There are some places that still work the old way, such as where I work - and we're finding we're increasingly out-of-touch with younger developers who grew up in a connected world. We had a recent college grad engineer (develope
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by phaedrus 4y ago
As a serious DIYer with engineering knowledge and a bit of HVAC understanding, I find the sleek/modern design in the pictures of this product to be the opposite of reassuring. (Maybe I'm not the target customer.) It's for t
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by phaedrus 4y ago
One way to do so would be to make it so wireless companies can lose access to spectrum as a consequence of customer data breaches. Let someone else who can keep customer data secure have it instead.
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Epic thread on getting the Ada compiler bootstrapped in UCRT64 MSys2 (2021)(github.com)
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I wonder if there's a step-change where single-celled animals with complex behavior are actually smarter than the simplest multiple-celled animals with a nervous system.
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I've always hated the idea promoted by some AI researchers that "intelligence is just prediction." Specifically in the context of your challenge, since a brain must decide the next word before uttering it, is it not vacuousl
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I have a suspicion an engineer/developer I worked with was secretly working two or more full time jobs. I didn't mention it to our boss as I had no evidence - only a gut feeling. He was eventually let go anyway after being given
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by phaedrus 4y ago
The thought experiment of "AI simulating Napoleon becomes dangerous because of traits of the character (even if the AI itself doesn't inherently espouse those traits)" reminds me of the ST:TNG episode where a holodeck simulat
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Perhaps they should have called it a "tandem" system or hot-standby.
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by phaedrus 4y ago
It's very much like the advice that mirror RAID is not a backup solution. That seems to be almost literally what went wrong here.
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by phaedrus 4y ago
One common problem is building new things with tech that is already obsolete. Given the choice between new and old, the old is perceived as more tried and tested. Granted it's sometimes difficult to distinguish "new and going to
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by phaedrus 4y ago
This reminds me of a particular hardware system I'm familiar with whose design specified "dual power supplies". However late in the acceptance process it was discovered that the condition of one power supply up and one power
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by phaedrus 4y ago
So thick client applications get the last laugh in the end? It reminds me of an old concept, that has a catchy name I can't recall, positing an endless cycle in systems evolution where local peripherals grow processing capability until
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I work on legacy software for an embedded system that supports transportation infrastructure. I'm pretty sure it has a year 2038 problem (based on first-principles; I haven't confirmed that with a test). The 32-bit time is baked
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I like to tell the story of one time I tried the ternary expression, "return (cond)? result : throw;" and it crashed the compiler . (It was an older version of MSVC.)
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Ironically I had a covered device that failed prematurely but not for the recall reason. I was suspicious of the keyboard redesign so I bought and used a keyboard cover from day one, and I never had a problem with any of the keys. Instead
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by phaedrus 4y ago
SMS has hung on for three reasons: 1. Reading a message is low-obligation compared to answering a phone or taking physical mail out of a box. 2. A shorter message has less room to both contain a scam and a cover story. Necessarily, either
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I just accept the collateral damage of never answering calls. Traditional telephone service is dead to anyone under 40.
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I have a set of "spade" drill bits for wood that once belonged to someone's grandfather. The operation of this style of wood drill bit is sometimes jokingly referred to as "slapping chunks of wood off" until a hole
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Regarding the short cords on appliances, my mother (retired) has actually taken the time to call up at least one appliance manufacturer and give them an earful about kitchen appliances whose cords don't reach. The manufacturer had the
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I worked with a brilliant engineer who had previously worked at one of the major hard drive manufacturers. He told me about a project he'd worked where the disk manufacturer had their firmware writers collaborate with low-level OS pro
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by phaedrus 4y ago
My life's work since I was a kid in the 90s was to make a computer game. Then in the mid-2000s I started working with someone I'd met at college to make an ambitious online multiplayer game, but the effort fizzled out. I continu

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