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by poobear22 2y ago
I'd like to know who is buried at a national cemetery who was both at a Japanese internment camp and later a Korean or Vietnam POW. Would the help desk blow my request off?
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by poobear22 2y ago
I was very weakly involved in the optical computing area and watched not much happen over 40 yrs. My observations were existing CPUs just improved enough to render many of the optical computing promises unnecessary. So, I have always had
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by poobear22 2y ago
I am always amazed how people will look the other way when there is a paycheck involved. In many cases, they have constraints (families, mortgages, etc), and sometimes it is just greed. I'd want to think it's the former with mos
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by poobear22 2y ago
I did not view the data as indicating a new product was needed. the charts showed a boost due to the M1 chips. I'm happy with my 2015 vintage Mac. But I do have a high end Studio which should last a long time.
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by poobear22 2y ago
Kinda fun. Low chess expert player here. The square color one was harder, but I don't really think about square colors like that, maybe I should. It may be nice to introduce another level of sophistication, but that would introduce
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by poobear22 2y ago
I remember those metal bars placed over asphalt or cement. But, I also remember as a 4-yr old, performing the risk analysis in my head. I think I did less stupid things later in life due to the adventures I faced on the playground.
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by poobear22 2y ago
Also, its a great place for bicycle rides on quiet roads. Great air (when there are no fires). Nearby horseback riding on Salinas Sunset Beach. Don't forget to have artichokes!
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by poobear22 2y ago
They held a great Matrix-themed party at a bar in San Francisco about 1999. I wanted a chance to win the offered Ducati and took my friend. Somehow, my friend, with way too many free drinks, was called onstage by magician who gave him a qu
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by poobear22 2y ago
I remember in the mid/late 1980s, optical computing was going to take off. I was in a more conservative optics group performing conventional work, while this flash-bang optical computing group was sucking up all the project funding fo
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by poobear22 2y ago
Is this book still a thing? I remember buying it for someone as an early 1990's gift. But reading the errata comments at the link, it reminds me of a book of mathematical integrals I had purchased and the very first integral I looked
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by poobear22 2y ago
This sounds like an effort to drive up the price of a given crypto product similar to how concert tickets or sporting event tickets are price manipulated. Filling all the seats (promoting a crypto coin) would create an artificial scarcity
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by poobear22 2y ago
I really worry for the ones who bought inflated real estate and are looking at a 50-pct salary reduction. That will hurt hard. Not to mention the work from home people with long commutes being asked to RTO at a lower pay. In managing con
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by poobear22 2y ago
After WWII, a lot of talent came from Europe to the US, and the US benefited greatly. With the current trend, I could see a lot of unemployed government scientists, and I wouldn't see them going to work for some of these large US compa
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by poobear22 2y ago
Sometimes you can call 1-800-dev-null to get this fixed.
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by poobear22 2y ago
thank you
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by poobear22 2y ago
The 1976 celebration was exciting. I am looking forward to celebrating this in 2026, if our country still exists.
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by poobear22 2y ago
Here are my thoughts, I am a little removed from some of these fields so you will not hurt my feelings if you want to be blunt. Ok, “What I wrote was true before Deepseek and their non-human reinforcement learning Breakthrough”. Right, I di
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by poobear22 2y ago
I re-read the thread topic and it is in response to NVIDIA stock. My response was in response to LLM generators and their moat (not NVIDIA's moat). So, my point was the moat for LLM generators had diminished. Additional competition
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by poobear22 2y ago
As I see it: I'm waiting to see improvements in LLM performance. What I see is an improvement in computational efficiency (less hardware needed) If general LLMs do not show continued performance improvement, then there is a lot of exce
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by poobear22 2y ago
Yep, that is my point. If the large scale LLMs are not sufficiently better than the new crop of startups, I suspect the large firms will need to acquire the startups (that would be their response due to a lack of a moat). Its hard to buy
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Ask HN: What moats can be developed in response to DeepSeek?
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by poobear22 2y ago
I loved this stuff. I used SPC to monitor individual job crashes in terms as mean time between failures. My position did not allow me to directly influence the many stakeholders who seemed unable or lazy to fix their code, but I had nice a
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by poobear22 2y ago
That is a long time. Sorry. This will take some work reprogramming yourself. It is time for some new habits. Suggest documenting your steps so you do not drift back into those old habits. Exercise. Get a little better definition on you.
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by poobear22 2y ago
Some ideas for you: a) The CNA program sounds great and several of my friends went that route and it worked well for them. Also, there is something similar, the Radiological program for X-rays etc also offered at local colleges. b) I know
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by poobear22 2y ago
I agree with your comment on the licensing exam. But, I do not think any one role is better than another. But if a highly skilled person capable of performing engineering takes a non-engineering job, they are not doing engineering (or are
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by poobear22 2y ago
Not exactly fire/smoke-related, but I did this one year for a remote house that I leave idle 6-months a year and wanted to prevent stagnate air. It did work. The fan energy costs can get excessive, and there are some websites that su
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by poobear22 2y ago
I was way productive at home, but often times I felt work from home was actually too intense and it was easier to go into work. But here was always my problem, it is really hard to differentiate between the smart slackers at home and the ha
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by poobear22 2y ago
I read the first six or seven. I found them pretty powerful, even the admitted guilty ones. I'll read more. Thank you for posting. BTW, great book: "The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row" Mr. Hinton
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by poobear22 2y ago
My observations are that BN has been rocking really well the last year. I noticed the uptick last year. I still miss the volume of books from the 1990 and 2000's but is is a nice place to visit.
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by poobear22 2y ago
i think about $600 a year and the comments are much higher quality.

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