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by rhelz 3y ago
"Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things." --Gandalf the White
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by rhelz 3y ago
> Why then didn't we lower the speed limit to 45? Great question. Why didn't we? How many people are you willing to kill to be able to drive at 65mph instead of 45 mph??
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by rhelz 3y ago
> If this is proven to be a criminal act So who committed the crime? The exec who wanted to save money? Saving money is the prime directive. Why is it his fault that he was given bad advice by his engineers about it? Did the engineers c
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by rhelz 3y ago
Curious how we assign moral blame. Sure, Boeing put Wall Street first ahead of safety. But why isn't the headline "Wall Street put profits ahead of safety". Or "The electorate chooses capitalism over safety." Durin
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by rhelz 3y ago
Nvidia didn't get where it is by following some magic set of rules. Success came from: 1. FAILURE: After Silicon Graphics went tits-up, as part of the linux-tsunami which killed all unix workstation companies, some of the refugees fo
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by rhelz 3y ago
Its from the guy who made the animations for the original "Cosmos" series by Carl Sagan!!! Also the shots of the Library of Alexandra in its full glory. Amazing stuff for the 80's. In fact you often see worse today. I alwa
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by rhelz 3y ago
Let’s not forget the enfenistration of Bag End, when Gandalf discovered Sam spying on him and Frodo, and then reached out the window and pulled him in.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Classic warning sign of impending layoffs. Word to the wise.
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by rhelz 3y ago
My kid had kidney failure and had to have a transplant, so I'm not just opining. I think we should let people sell kidneys under the same conditions as we, say, legalize prostitution. Which is, when we have a guaranteed minimum income
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by rhelz 3y ago
> Are you serious? yes :-) Think about it: why did Saturn V use hydrogen and oxygen? Because burning hydrogen produces more energy by weight than any other chemical reaction. If putting hydrogen and oxygen together releases the most
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by rhelz 3y ago
> Their claim is that this method is still yet cheaper than drilling/fracking. They claim the green way to go is converting hydrogen into methane....check out the link for a company claiming the green way to go is converting methane
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by rhelz 3y ago
100% of anything doesn't really go away. We still use horse-drawn vehicles for some purposes. But we didn't have to get rid of 100% of the horse-drawn vehicles to get rid of the mountains of horse shit which used to accumulate on
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by rhelz 3y ago
Fraking has made natural gas so cheap, I can't see these being used for anything but virtue signaling. They claim a breakthrough in converting hydrogen to natural gas, but natural gas is by far the cheapest source of H2. And, given th
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by rhelz 3y ago
If you were wondering what Nietzsche meant when he said "God is dead", look no further than $60 Bibles sold by the world's most famous violator of that "don't commit adultery" commandment. The $60 Bible doesn&#
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by rhelz 3y ago
AI is a threat to Billie Eilish and Pearl Jam's livelihood? Well, given that Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, etc, have been more than a threat to MY livelihood as famous rock-star :-) I can sympathize, but frankly, that's just the wa
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by rhelz 3y ago
I don't know about you, but when I took freshman calculus, it was a big disappointment. Do you find a nice, crystalline, ultra-elegant framework, like the 5 axioms of Euclid? No, you learn about this random grab-bag of methods for fin
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by rhelz 3y ago
Thanks. I've had a lot of luck losing weight on ketogenic diets, but it didn't get me off the rollercoaster. Everybody's different, and I'm real glad you found something which works for you. > girlfriend... what cou
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by rhelz 3y ago
I can't even imagine wiring that thing up. I get confused just wiring up a breadboard-sized circuit. And debugging it once it was wired up.....
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by rhelz 3y ago
chuckle I got a chance to tour a CDC Cyber 205--one of the last in active use. And "tour" is the right word--we toured it like you'd tour a house. First and last computer I was ever...inside of. You'd go down this &q
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by rhelz 3y ago
Thx. That's a good answer.
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by rhelz 3y ago
“there’s nothing more we can do for you. It’s never gonna get any better.” Man that hits hard. I've struggled with bipolar (I actually like the non-P.C. word for it: manic-depressive) for decades. Its cost me relationships, and jobs,
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by rhelz 3y ago
I was kinda hoping there would be a link to where I could actually learn some cool stuff about mainframes…
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by rhelz 3y ago
Let’s do a concrete example. B is a Turing machine which has 2 symbols, and uses base 2 to encode numbers. N is a Turing machine with n symbols and uses base n to encode numbers. Suppose that machine N can print out string s with a progra
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by rhelz 3y ago
Well, here's why it's not that simple....I can make any number N have a kolmogorov complexity number equal to 1--if the Turing machine has N+1 symbols :-) I just express the number in base N. (which will bet "10" for a
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by rhelz 3y ago
This might sound a bit...but hang with me please... Are the symbols "0" and "1" also definable as pixel values on a large screen? If so, what is a pixel? It it further composed of smaller micro pixels? Or is it pixels
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by rhelz 3y ago
chuckle Ok, give me the benefit of the doubt for 10 more minutes, and follow my argument like a leopard stalking its prey... Sure, you could use a binary turing machine, and have it simulate, say, a ternary or a decimal turing machine. Y
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by rhelz 3y ago
> where you are confusing yourself is that you're thinking of the differing states of a given n-ary system as having explicit symbols. Its best to think of it as simply numeric. But what is "simply numeric"? How do we exp
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by rhelz 3y ago
> When you write a program in any modern programming language Think about it this way. Say you have 1 bit of memory. Can you store any of the three numbers -1, 0, 1 with that a bit?? No. The only thing a bit can store is 0 or 1. The
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by rhelz 3y ago
> the turing machine doesn't care about that. It's also just writing 1's and 0's as per a turing machine. But a Turing machine does not have to be restricted to just printing out zeros and ones. It can be any finite
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by rhelz 3y ago
> any sort of conversion you can explicitly specify can be turned into a program. If your Turing machine can only print out zeros and ones, there's no program which can get it to print out "ABC". So it cannot specify a

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