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by rhelz 2y ago
I'm surprised that it never occurred to me that Saudi Arabia is going to be one of the first places on earth that will be uninhabitable. It is impossible to exaggerate the magnitude of the tragedy--the damage to world culture--it will
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by rhelz 2y ago
// At what point does "dystopia" become "utopia"? So you think you can tell....Heaven from Hell :-) That is a very deep, and interesting question. For the general case, I don't know. Best I can do is p
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by rhelz 2y ago
// What "other things" is this wc2.c doing... AFAICT, wc2.c isn't written to be an asynchronous state machine. It doesn't ever seem to transfer the control to any other place. // So I find it hard to
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by rhelz 2y ago
// 6809 The good old days :-)
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by rhelz 2y ago
Interesting. Every society has its way of encouraging its citizens to adhere to norms. The implicit vs explicit axis might be a good framework to think about these kinds of issues. Something deep inside of me screams in terror at China&#x
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by rhelz 2y ago
Not a bad argument!
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by rhelz 2y ago
Its just obviously designed to be in-your-face. It signals that the overlords aren't merely indifferent to your happiness---they actively work to make your life as miserable as possible. Its not just run-of-the-mill, pointy-headed b
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by rhelz 2y ago
Compare two dystopian novels: "1984" and "This perfect day." In 1984, survalance is everywhere, and everybody is miserable. In "This perfect day" has just as much surveillance, but the people love it. Think
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by rhelz 2y ago
// I don't mean to take away from Intel's underwhelming management chuckle lets give full credit where credit is due :-) Athlon was an epochal chip. Here's the thing though---if you are a market leader, one who
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by rhelz 2y ago
"Asynchronous" isn't part of the name of some really cool state machine :-) Its just an adjective and means the same as when you put it in front of any other noun. A synchronous state machine is one where the incoming str
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by rhelz 2y ago
How many tens of thousands of computer architects... how many millions of creative ideas.... ..and how Few people actually came up with anything which really moved the needle.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Surely having one less programming language in the stack is a benefit.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Thanks for making me feel old :-) There was a palpable change when Andy Grove retired. It was like the elves leaving Middle earth.
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by rhelz 2y ago
AI is generating content so fast that our only hope of keeping up is to use AI to consume it. Soon the amount of memory which is produced and processed by machine will be exponentially bigger than that produced and consumed by humans.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Is there anything which isn't an oligopoly today?
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by rhelz 2y ago
Zonk. This is a very astute observation. Its awesome behavior, but its good by accident and luck. Therefore... Programming languages should directly support a data structure which is guaranteed to have this behavior. Not just that it
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by rhelz 2y ago
chuckle they fact that they can solve their problems with TCL and verilog should be all the proof it takes to conclude that their jobs are easier. But the guys who really have it hard are guys writing the EDA software. You have to be e
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by rhelz 2y ago
I have endless admiration for Lisa Su, but lets be honest, the reason AMD and Nvidia are so big today is that Intel has had amazingly bad management since about 2003. They massively botched the 32-bit to 64-bit transition....I did some work
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by rhelz 2y ago
I had several 911's in the early 2000's. Wonderful cars. When I moved to NYC and sold my last one, after driving it every day for 15 years, it looked and ran absolutely as well as it did the day bought it new and drove it off t
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by rhelz 2y ago
Heck, Cellphone distraction is a major problem for me, and I haven't been in a classroom since the Clinton era.
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by rhelz 2y ago
I had logo on my Atari 800 back in '82. After having learned BASIC, it took a while for me to wrap my head around list-oriented programing. After a few weeks of beating my head against the manual, however, I got halfway good at it.
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by rhelz 2y ago
From the article: "So convinced was I that this was why scientists wrote in LaTeX that I even had a go at writing a LaTeX paper of my own (it never got finished; there was a lesson there)" Yup. There is a lesson there, but it sa
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by rhelz 2y ago
Fascinating. Search engines are so bad, that we are going back to the pre-search engine era of pages of hand-curated links.
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by rhelz 2y ago
I built a replica of Chebyshev's calculating machine, using parts from the Actobotix robot building system. Exceedingly simple mechanism, which ingeniously removes the need for any carry mechanism. The only problem is that the digits
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by rhelz 2y ago
Right before the internet destroyed the business model of journalism.....it's just PAINFUL how much better writing was back then. A real person. With an individual voice, distinct from any other voice which came before and all the wi
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by rhelz 2y ago
Interesting. I wonder if it had anything to do with this little tidbit: >All analyses in experiment 1 include a “Week” factor to account for variation across research assistants; this factor does not interact with Phone Location in any
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by rhelz 2y ago
sigh I wish I understood the math he talks about in this paper; I'm sure he's saying something cool but I'm also sure I'm not getting it. Reminds me of trying to read Russian-language math papers back in grad school.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Of course. It can even vastly benefit both countries and both of their workers, e.g. Canada is better off outsourcing the growing of coffee. If each country is playing to their natural advantages, like climate, or abundance of hydroelect
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by rhelz 2y ago
Productivity is not just work over time--its how much value you produce per unit of time. Mothers produce all value. Without them, nothing would have any value at all.
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by rhelz 2y ago
But SSN's are artificial, automatically generated keys. They are not natural keys, they cannot be natural keys for persons, because not every person has one. A natural key is a set of attributes which an entity has even if it is no

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