robviren

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by robviren 3y ago
Less idealistic maybe, but I do not feel that they are less innovative. It's harder to buy into hype and noise when you have seen decades of trends come and go. I personally tend towards more "boring" solutions to my problems
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by robviren 3y ago
I do not question the effectiveness of deterring with nuclear weapons. It would be great if Ukraine had nuclear weapons... for now. How long till a nation state becomes unstable. How long can any entity remain in control of itself. Hell, I
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by robviren 3y ago
Beyond the typical, I have the luxury of working at a nonprofit where my day to day effort does not simply go towards the increasing of someone else's yatch purchases. I am an extremely jaded person and find it difficult to apply mysel
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by robviren 3y ago
I am uncertain that more nuclear weapons in the hands of more groups will ultimately lead to more safety. While I understand the desire for self defense and MAD, it only takes the dissolving of one nation into a radical group with a truly u
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by robviren 3y ago
My take is that it is not entirely disimilar from some AI research I have seen where applying conditions to simulations that are not real actually trains the model better in some ways in addition to training with real data. I remember the
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by robviren 3y ago
Those that would watch old people riffing on even older films. IDK. Me and my dad used to watch them which always holds a special pla e in my heart. The creator is local to my state, Minnesota and it started as public TV which I find intere
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by robviren 3y ago
Wife's family in Minnesota still uses bagged milk. With Minnesota essentially being south Canada that makes some sense.
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by robviren 3y ago
I have a YouTube video I always consider underated for helping the engineering minded understand being correct is only on variable in an argument with your company. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY&pp=ygUXbWl0IH
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by robviren 3y ago
Depends on who your customers are. I have always found breaking up features into a "basic" user and a super user is a fairly good approach. Keep the advanced and complex things on a separate page that requires navigation and keep
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by robviren 3y ago
Death, the heavy metal solution to climate change.
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by robviren 3y ago
Completely agree those costs are insane. The US cranked out the currently functional reactors at a fraction of the cost. We have collectively offshored all knowledge and skill on massive building projects and have become weak at dedicating
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by robviren 3y ago
Worked in nuclear power for five years and wish people could divorce themselves of bias when considering power. When you plug things in it has a cost greater than the dollars you are paying. In raw deaths per megawatt nuclear wins above all
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by robviren 3y ago
Completely agree. The way I like to think about it is they designed the document to involve as much grand standing, yelling, horse trading, politicking, conniving, and debate as possible because that is what human beings will do with govern
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by robviren 3y ago
https://patents.justia.com/inventor/robert-w-viren This correctly listed the parents. Hard part was linking all the systems together and keeping sync. Did it all in C++ way back when I actually programmed for work. Now
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by robviren 3y ago
https://nuclear.gepower.com/service-and-optimize/solutions/a... They still have the link apparently. The system used traditional manual scanning system with a VGA capture card on the back. I synced that with an of
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by robviren 3y ago
This one is physical and digital. I personally patented, designed, built, and deployed a novel ultrasonic inspection device that encoded position/orientation using IR (Just like motion capture in movies). Actually used it in the field
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by robviren 3y ago
What always gets me is that they had some steam powered toys that would spin around and no one connected the dots that it could be used for something. I agree it is only a factor, but I cannot see how it didn't significantly reduce the
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by robviren 3y ago
I mean, you somewhat layout the context for me. If slave trade was abolished in England in 1807 I can only assume public sentiment started shifting well before then to cause law changes. Huge chunks of populations with capital and power wer
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by robviren 3y ago
Nor do I. I was mainly stating that I think the absence of slavery is needed. You need the motivation to get more efficient labor and the laborers themselves can earn money and innovative. A slave with innovative ideas probably had the idea
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by robviren 3y ago
Like anything else I am certain I am wrong in interesting ways. I can just personally understand the idea that if every need I had was catered to I probably wouldn't spend a lot of time wondering how I could go about innovating. A lot
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by robviren 3y ago
I liked Dan Carlin's take on this. The incentive to develop labor saving devices is massively impacted by having hoards of slaves and a culture built on slaving. Slaves were the original labor saving devices capable of doing nearly as
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by robviren 3y ago
I tell it to write something only someone with typoglycemia can read and remove random letters from words longer than three letters. This usually gets around word filters and semantic analysis which will give me more interesting results. I
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by robviren 3y ago
Everywhere I have been a PM usually has an engineering team thoroughly battered by poor management, constantly shifting requirements, and is so near burnout I can feel it. I place no blame on engineering giving me inflated timelines when cu
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by robviren 3y ago
I feel that you could replace "AI-Saturated Post-Truth World" with any number of technological changes over the last 100 years and find a similar article at that time. I am impressed by LLMs and these more powerful AI agents, but
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by robviren 3y ago
I used to work in nuclear power which had probably the best culture of not taking things personally I have ever been a part of. The workers were mostly aligned with the idea that our job was primarily to be safe and secondarily to perform w
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by robviren 3y ago
Built my own app for tracking my exercises using a phone arm band, the gyro, accelerometer, and the camera to create a model for rep counting and tempo. I got tired of the mental effort of counting reps. This graphs the strongest signal usi
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by robviren 4y ago
I spent 5 years in nuclear power before going into tech and I have sort of joked that the software engineering the goes into AI, IoT, Phones, Cars, etc, is the next Chernobyl waiting to happen. It's all fun and games till these things
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by robviren 4y ago
It matters to the business manufacturing the cameras a lot. I worked PM at a smallish PTZ camera manufacturer in Minnesota and we chased certification from MS, Zoom, and Google for YEARs. Constant moving of goal posts, straight up ignoring
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by robviren 4y ago
My two cents is that you are optimizing for engineering excellence. A more cynical person would optimize for making as much money in their career as humanly possible, which is made easier by pitching new tech that seemingly "Solves all
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by robviren 4y ago
I'm still curious about actual rep tempo and what role that plays in growth. If maximizing work is the measure of growth than all that really matters is how much acceleration I can put into a weight. Obviously proper form plays a role,

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