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by rapjr9 1y ago
Take off the headphones and close the laptop and go for a walk or drive. There is something about being in motion that helps thinking.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
They do need to train the agents first though, so that is the other purpose of agents, to gather the training data to replace the people.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I worked as a programmer for the D'Agents group at Dartmouth. The Tcl agent system was ported to Java and we did a variety of experiments with it, mostly centered around information retrieval. I built a Beowulf cluster which we popul
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by rapjr9 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silica_gel "Silica gel is irritating to the respiratory tract and may cause irritation of the digestive tract. Dust from the beads may cause irritation to the skin and eyes, so precau
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Another possible retaliation is countries stop exports of particular products to the US. China has already done this with rare earth based materials. Asian countries could decide not to allow the US to buy specific small popular microcon
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I think price uncertainty is already hitting eBay. A few days ago I looked at the price of cheap musical instruments (a student violin and a trumpet that each cost $25 several years ago) and the low price is now $129. Some things seem to
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by rapjr9 2y ago
If you are in the US and want to use European alternatives to avoid surveillance by US tech companies, then the NSA has free rein to intercept/decode/record everything you do that crosses US country borders. Also everything outsi
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Code reuse used to be thought of as the ultimate destiny for computer code. Eventually you would never have to write new code, it would all exist in some form and you would just reuse it. We may actually be getting something like that thr
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by rapjr9 2y ago
BLE might be useful above ground in some situations, e.g., a person who is unable to stand and is located in a large field of tall grass, or someone who is hiding from an attacker and wants to silently request help. For the specific case of
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Make your own: https://www.thespicehouse.com/products/cheese-powder-white-c...
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by rapjr9 2y ago
They don't mention that you could get the schematics, and extensive documentation on the internals. It was a very open system.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
If your boss is constantly pressuring you to take on more work, then burnout is not a career choice. Ever have a coworker leave and get all their work dumped on you? Do your deadlines no longer allow time to relax and explore new ideas in
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by rapjr9 2y ago
That seems an especially good reason to distrust DNA evidence using the technique from this paper. It relies on such a small amount of DNA, in dust, that if someone opened a window and a stranger walked by, the interior of a room might be
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I did professional purchasing for 20 years. It was getting harder and harder to find products up to when I retired 5 years ago. The problem was not only search engines, but companies stopped listing specs for their products. The informat
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Many pharmacies also do minor medical procedures like vaccinations. You can not get vaccinated by mail.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I've never understood why countries insist on trying to incorporate lands that do not want to be part of them. It's like willfully bringing a bunch of terrorists into your fold. If Russia succeeds in taking over Ukraine do they
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by rapjr9 2y ago
It took a few months to write, but about a year to fine tune and bring it all together. The guy who hired me did the digitization of the pro golfers swings using a Sun workstation, I did the Amiga graphics and tape deck control. He digiti
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I wrote software for the Amiga that did something like this for golf swings a few decades ago: http://zoom.interoscitor.com/PetersonEnterprises/resume/logo... http://zoom.interoscitor.com/PetersonE
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Stealth is losing its effectiveness with new VHF targeting radars that can track stealth aircraft. Maybe EU sensor fusion algorithms are not as advanced as in the F-35? They certainly must have some kind of sensor fusion algorithms, if ju
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by rapjr9 2y ago
>Europe stops buying F35s? Trump tells Europe that if they don't buy them he's going to sell them to Russia. Actually Europe would stop supplying components for the F-35's so the US would not be able to build any more or k
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by rapjr9 2y ago
It usually takes five to ten years to move a factory from one country to another, and it costs an enormous amount of money that mostly will not drive new profit. Costs in the US will be higher also. There is more to consider in moving a f
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Leaving NATO is not a one way street. If the US leaves NATO, then the NATO countries can also stop supporting the US. How many components of US weapon systems are made in the EU?
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by rapjr9 2y ago
That was done carefully with planning over six years through hiring freezes, retirement offers, and announced layoffs: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/21/clin... Not random
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by rapjr9 2y ago
On the other hand governments do some things that companies will not do, like deliver mail to very rural locations where the cost is much higher than the profit from postage. Or build space telescopes to do science that has no immediate re
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by rapjr9 2y ago
This is actually an increasing concern, that large multinational companies are so powerful that they don't have to obey governments any more, and can instead blackmail them by withdrawing products. Pornhub has done this in US states.
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by rapjr9 2y ago
So the cost of "162,770,988 poultry affected as of 2/20/2025" is less than the cost of loss of export of chickens or of developing a better test? https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/i
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by rapjr9 2y ago
Here's a rabbit hole to go down: https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/caring/index.html What is a "150-day fallow"?
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by rapjr9 2y ago
So models are trusted but algorithms are not? Just asking, I really don't know. In the case of debanking it seems that those who were debanked didn't consider their own counterparty risk, this is a two-way street. Businesses usi
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I was thinking the smart contract part would just be the periodic disbursement of funds, nothing complex. The hope was that using a cryptocurrency and smart contract would make periodic disbursement untamperable. If smart contracts can be
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by rapjr9 2y ago
I'm taking a Zero Trust approach to the movement of money. You have to assume there are insiders in banking and government with malicious intent. How do you protect against them? Could cryptocurrencies be worked into a solution?

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