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by rhelz 2y ago
Ah, the good old days :-) See "the 8-bit guy's" video on just how many pages and pages full of products have been replaced by smartphones, which came in like a wrecking ball to to Radio Shack's business model, alas.
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by rhelz 2y ago
I'm a big fan of Eric Lengyel, and I never would have ever gotten my arms around Geometric Algebra if it hadn't been for his books and articles. How many people can do theoretical math AND code a state-of-the-art game engine? Th
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by rhelz 2y ago
"More human than human" was the motto of the Tyrell corporation in "Blade Runner."
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by rhelz 2y ago
You could use an image. But you could use text as well. E.g. you could agree on a code phrase to be said when some "dirty deed done dirt cheap" has been completed. Or you could encode a binary string by alternating British Engl
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by rhelz 2y ago
Fascinating. I might have missed it, but I don't think the author mentioned the possibility of steganography. Just code the encrypted text such that it resembles a normal conversation.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Where do I begin......Put the TI-84 (which looks like it came out in 1984) next to an iPhone. That's all that needs to be said. It is deliberately neutered in so many ways. No querty keyboard, so typing on it is a non-stop horror.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Great points about economic inequality killing people. But is framing it as a Sam Altman-vs-everybody story the correct way to analyze what's going on? Not everybody has to work on every problem. Sam Altman can do his thing to improv
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by rhelz 2y ago
I wish the author would have spelled out one, concrete, specific abstraction which he knew, which helped him understand Dijkstra's algorithm. I propose an alternate explanation: The author found it easier to understand Dijkstra's
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by rhelz 2y ago
I'm currently transitioning to math teaching after a 30-year career as a computer programmer. My take is two-fold: 1. The math curriculum is much better today than it was when I was a high-school student. My whole career would hav
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I wish they would come out with the credit card-sized versions of their calculators again!
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chuckle lIt's actually not as frivolous as it looks, especially if you think about it in reverse, in the light of Kolmogorov Complexity. The fact that there are way, way fewer small integers has many pleasant implications. E.g. for
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by rhelz 2y ago
I mean, there are a lot of things it could depend on. I'd like to say that it should depend upon the value that the programmers are creating--that more productive programmers should make more. Unfortunately, if the article in the OP
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by rhelz 2y ago
If you take the article at face value--if its claims are true that $9-an-hour programmers cost Boeing billions of dollars--it is indeed a shame that, in this particular instance, Boeing was not willing to pay more for better programmers. Ar
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by rhelz 2y ago
// Why do you think $9 an hour is shameful? Doesn’t that entirely depend on the cost of living? // No. It does not depend at all on cost of living. It depends upon supply and demand, like anything else.
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Reading this is kind of like reading Peracles's Funeral Oration. You wonder if there was ever a place like that. You wonder if there ever could be another place like that. You salute as heros those who had the audacity to even try t
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by rhelz 2y ago
$9 an hour is shameful. But what's really scary is that my software has bugs in it too.
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Anybody who has actually looked into the abyss would not speak of it like this.
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It's only a core life skill if you are in a society/class which puts you continually on the brink of the abyss. e.g. starting a company requires looking into the abyss? Is dropping out of Harvard really staring into the abyss? I
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by rhelz 2y ago
This article is all kinds of wrong. "Left" is a relational word, in both its spatial and metaphorical senses. Left of what? Left of whom? Claiming that LLMs are "left leaning" is like claiming that Tide gets clothes 20
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by rhelz 2y ago
Words cannot even describe how much I loved my TRS-80 pocket computers. As far as having something in your pocket which you can program on, even today there's nothing quite like it. Even touchscreen phones are not a replacement. The
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by rhelz 2y ago
I can't think of anything more depressing than bringing war to outer space. The international space station was supposed to be a way the U.S. and Russia, and other countries, could grow closer through cooperation and a shared spirit of
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by rhelz 2y ago
What would it mean for open source to "win?" I mean, in 1990, there were dozens of unix workstation vendors, and dozens of flavors of unix...but they were just exterminated by linux.
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by rhelz 2y ago
I guess when you run out of real stuff to pander with, you have to make up fake problems to pander with.
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Wow....over 4,400% increase in children's wages, over 11k children working to make typewriters...
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by rhelz 2y ago
chuckle love the handle, and its an interesting point. Let's think about this. When you say "the entire block after your colon", you are reifying a new object, and then observing that that object is self-referential. Fo
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by rhelz 2y ago
// there is no essential self, it is an illusion, // Who is is being fooled by this illusion?
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The paradox doesn't depend on self reference at all, e.g.: Alen: What Bob is about to say is true. Bob: What Allen just said is false.
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by rhelz 2y ago
sigh hello downvoters... There is no coherent, constant theory of truth for any language which has the word "truth." This was proven by Tarki ages ago. The reason is the Liar's paradox. It blows up any such theory of tru
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by rhelz 2y ago
Bunches sound like what George Boolos used to give a semantics to 2nd-order monadic predicates. Which is to say, they are just plurals, like the plurals of English. (see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plural-quant&
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by rhelz 2y ago
Exactly why I think American employees should agree with executives that it is important to not work remote. If there really is no discernible advantages to on-site working, the jobs are going to go to the countries where employees are paid

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