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by rhelz 2y ago
I bought a copy of this book used. There was a stamp in the frontispiece, saying that it was from the library of Bell Labs. I nearly cried---this is how a great institution crumbles---this is how great libraries are destroyed. Future gener
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by rhelz 2y ago
Question: why is, saying having 100 different lenses simultaneously take images, rather than just a single one taking 100 sequential images, and then using something like registax to combine them?
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by rhelz 2y ago
Old Latin Proverb: The strong do what they will, the weak suffer what they must.
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by rhelz 2y ago
The predictions of that book didn't come true because the book was wrong---they didn't come true because the book was right, and the human race did things to prevent them from coming true. We owe China an enormous debt of gratitu
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by rhelz 2y ago
Yet one more amazing thing that Dr. Vaughan Pratt invented. Its depressing how big of a gap there is between the top computer scientists and everybody else.
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by rhelz 2y ago
chuckle looks like Baidu hired exactly the right person for the job.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Have you heard the expression "Hire a teenager while they still know everything" :-)
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by rhelz 2y ago
Treat it like the best educated, most well-informed intern in the world. Usually gives good answers, but still, not a seasoned professional yet, so check the work accordingly.
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by rhelz 2y ago
pfft --- if Palantir, America, and the world --- are so flimsy that 'woke' is a threat, they deserve to fall.
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by rhelz 2y ago
cf. with the observation that "leadership teams like accountability a lot more when its other people being held accountable."
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by rhelz 2y ago
I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a colleague from Georgia, who had a beautiful southern drawl. He said, "The way Ah measure Ahr Oh Ah is Ahr over Ah." Assigning productivity numbers to individual engineers is enorm
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by rhelz 2y ago
Asianometry is the one media outlet which has passed the Gell-Man amnesia test. They did a story on EDA tools--a very small industry, doing very esoteric things and they were spot-on.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Hmmm....I'm waking up from Gell-Mann amnesia... Moving to Germany for cheaper labor? Is Munich known as a mecca for cut-rate python programmers? Does google have a "the python team?" Whatever is going on, its not this, thi
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by rhelz 3y ago
Raghavan's story is an inspiration. He learned the hard way that you are either growing or you are dying, and if revenue declines, you need to turn it around prontissimo, or hope you find the next profit center in time. It's the
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by rhelz 3y ago
> World War I unrealistic. We're not talking about the first world war, we're talking about what would be the final world war. We can't be sanguine about it not happening, sure--we need to ensure it doesn't happen.
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by rhelz 3y ago
> I'd be calibrated like we're seeing in Ukraine This isn't the 1950's, and a proxy war with China now would be nothing like the Korean war. It would be nothing like a proxy war with Russia either. China has an order
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by rhelz 3y ago
If there ever were a war between China and Taiwan, I think how cheap our chips are would be one of the least of our worries. If the U.S. got dragged into it, nobody would be worried about chip prices for the next ten thousand years. Divers
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by rhelz 3y ago
Yeah, I did that, and you sure do lose weight that way. But after a while you REALLY start wanting to eat some carbs. I don't know about you, but for me, anything which requires extreme self-control, 24/7, eventually fails. If it
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by rhelz 3y ago
For anybody who is affected by this, here is a solution which worked for me and might work for you. I was on Ozempic for a few months, and I absolutely did lose 10 lbs a month while I was on it. It is a miraculous drug. Of course, after a
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by rhelz 3y ago
Now that marijuana is legal, can we at least smoke that?
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by rhelz 3y ago
Prohibiting smoking indoors or in common areas, I can understand. But vaping? “The results are not super clear, but certainly hint towards vaping causing damage to the lungs and other organs,” says Carolyn Baglole, who studies lung disease
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by rhelz 3y ago
These days you need absolutely every edge. But do taylor it to the specific job application, and keep it short: nobody likes wasting time reading about irrelevant stuff. Yeah I know, these days you are sending out about 100 applications
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by rhelz 3y ago
Here is a vernier gauge for degrees--a non-metric unit, expressed in base 360 :-) https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Stainless-Protractor-Precis...
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by rhelz 3y ago
But....even with inflation, my neither my 401k nor my salary are up 40%. But somebody is up 40%. More than 40%, because the rest of us didn't get anything.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Yes. Iran had to do something after Israel attacked their embassy, but they didn't want escalate the situation. The blog post is seriously mistaken to interpret this as "hooray we are all safe from drone attacks!!!"
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by rhelz 3y ago
> Why is 1/3 so critical to represent but not 1/10? TLDR reason: Every second number is divisible by 2. Every third number is divisible by 3. So if you want to divide something (like donuts or cans of beer, or the length of a
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by rhelz 3y ago
US economy up 40% since 2020? What has got all of the big tech companies so spooked? Why all these layoffs? My 401k isn't up 40%. My salary isn't up 40%. How is it even possible that the very people who are hoovering-up all t
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by rhelz 3y ago
> more often than others in practical work Here is a thumbnail sketch of a reason for why they do: 1. Large structures tend to be build from smaller substructures. (E.g., a train is typically built of a number of cars, a 6-pack is buil
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by rhelz 3y ago
> now you can't represent 1/10 This is why 12-inch rulers commonly have the inches divided into 10 inches. There is a line on that ruler for 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5, 1/6, 1/8, and 1/10 of a foot.
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by rhelz 3y ago
That's a good question, actually. Surely, they can. But if you look at countries which really embrace the metric system, like Japan, or Germany, and look at the products they design, you'll find that the dimensions are not giv

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