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by ridgeguy 5mo ago
We turn off the AI note taker for the legal liabilities discussed in the NYT article. But we've also found its accuracy bad enough to warrant kicking it out, independent of legal issues. We have simultaneous participants from USA, Indi
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by ridgeguy 5mo ago
Arthur C. Clarke beat them to it - the thought, at least. Watch This Space - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_to_the_Moon
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by ridgeguy 5mo ago
Also, fine motor coordination often declines with age. Can make it hard to do a swipe or hit a key reliably in the first try.
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by ridgeguy 7mo ago
Analyze staffing, not budget. That gets more directly at workload.
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by ridgeguy 7mo ago
No expert here, low-time GA decades ago. I regard these incidents as aspects of the universal race to the economic bottom. The workloads are too high. Nobody running life-critical operations should be working 60+ hour weeks and overnight sh
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by ridgeguy 8mo ago
Perhaps to some degree, kids recapitulate in their childhoods the weapons evolution of their homo sapiens forebears. Around age 4, I learned how to flake spear points from a local flint deposit. That, string and Elmer's glue from mom &
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by ridgeguy 8mo ago
Caught my eye due to family events. One of my uncles was killed in the Pine Creek mine in California. He was repairing an ore crusher when somebody switched it on. Pre-OSHA and tagout days. I doubt we'll be pinched by tungsten shortage
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by ridgeguy 8mo ago
A distinction without a difference...
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by ridgeguy 8mo ago
Scroll down a bit. Interactive elements were below "Definitions" on the page I tried.
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by ridgeguy 9mo ago
Interesting. This is exactly the problem I've begun to have on my 14" M2 MB Air. I'm on 15.7.3. The issue started with 15.7.1. Here I've been thinking it's a hardware problem, like some sort of mechanical intermitte
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by ridgeguy 9mo ago
Still happens. I drive every other week from Sonora my office in San Jose. Hwys 108/120->205->580->84->880 and back. People are surprisingly (to me, anyway) aware and accommodating of lane-splitters. Gives me a little happy
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by ridgeguy 9mo ago
Dry lake beds abound in the US West. See Edwards AFB (big dry lake bed on which nearly everything, including the Space Shuttle, has landed). See also Groom Lake. These are enormous and couldn't be wrecked by conventional runway denial
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by ridgeguy 9mo ago
Can you suggest a review article or two? Interested in this as my dad passed from hemorrhagic stroke, my mom from occlusive stroke. Thanks.
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by ridgeguy 9mo ago
A bunch of devices (laser diodes, microprocessors, high power RF GaN amplifiers) that'll run lots cooler on diamond heat spreaders; diamond Raman lasers (high efficiency & power); large single crystal diamond wafers - nothing most
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by ridgeguy 9mo ago
Happy New Year from the Sierra Nevada foothills. 2025: - set up new facility for mfg of CVD diamond tech products - replaced awful old carpets at home with bamboo wood floors - lost 42 lbs (thanks, tirzepatide) - secured $ for a new
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by ridgeguy 9mo ago
Hubel & Wiesel's work is fascinating, but may not map well to more complex systems (not dissing cats, they're plenty complicated!). For example, humans clearly have a window for learning their native language. It just happens,
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by ridgeguy 9mo ago
It seems you substantially discount neural plasticity: "...cannot be cured". IMHO, our understanding of autism, specifically, and neural development of the brain, in general, is rudimentary at best. It's too soon to conclude
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
The risk of this happening seems low, but the impact on my life as an Apple ecosystem resident would be catastrophic. It's an easy decision for me - I won't buy or redeem an Apple gift card again. Not an expert in the issues prese
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
Self checkouts are something I avoid unless I'm genuinely pressed for time and there's a self station open. It's a small thing, but I'd rather keep the human checkers employed.
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
Fiction is modeling going by a different name.
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
My go-to for thinking about the past is dentistry.
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
At that time, we had no kids & no pets, nobody directly dependent on us. That figured in our conversation on the drive to Hilo. Nowdays, we might come to a different conclusion, but I'm glad for the path we chose then.
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
Decades ago, my wife and I visited the Big Island during a fairly sedate eruption. We drove down Chain of Craters Road, got to see a tiny lava flow (talking like a couple feet of glowing honey), but were wanting more. In the distance, we co
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
You might consider acquiring a used model that meets your needs, then spend $ to zero-time the important stuff. In 2023, I decided not to buy a new car, but to re-engine (and other stuff) my 1999 4Runner. Really happy I did. I would like a
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
My commute is every other week, so it's not terrible. I drive to SJ Sunday night, stay in a hotel that's 5 minutes from my office, then drive home Friday afternoon. It averages 3.25hrs one way, or about 13 hrs/month, given my
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
I have (rather, had) a paid subscription to ChatGPT. I work at my home in the Sierra foothills, and on alternate weeks in my office in San Jose. Last month, I used ChatGPT while in SJ. I needed a function that's only available to payin
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
Caring so much about a stochastic parrot's opinion of you that you just have to tune it is such a tiny temptation to avoid - and yet he couldn't. How could anyone trust him when there's something really important at stake?
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by ridgeguy 10mo ago
I've started including a prompt for my AIs instructing them to completely avoid Grokipedia and any results derived therefrom unless otherwise instructed by me.
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by ridgeguy 11mo ago
Short-term economic forces, probably. Centralization is often cheaper in the near term. The cost of designing in single-point failure modes gets paid later.
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by ridgeguy 11mo ago
Nope, cosmic Zeno's Paradox. Collapse never quite happens.

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