schmidtleonard

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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Suits gonna get Blendered, but that's a good thing :-)
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Agreed. The UI is painful, but the project priorities are correct: fixing TNP and fillet/chamfer needs to come before the polish. First make it minimum viable for the non-zealous, then we can talk about drawing attention with a sexy da
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Of course not, but the real objection is "it doesn't put money in my pocket" and they can't say that. The point of saying this instead is to make it just a little bit harder to debunk. Attention is a scarce resource, s
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Just buy low and sell high, it's easy!
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
I still don't see the reason why glutamate or 5-HT2A receptor excitation (in the chemical sense) couldn't be involved with inhibition reduction (in the psychological sense).
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Huh, I always wondered about that. So what's the mechanism, was there an executive with a .NET mandate or something?
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Does excitatory/inhibitory map cleanly on to the higher level abstractions? I'm no neuroscientist, so maybe it does, but that seems like a bad assumption to me because in digital logic "active when low" is extremely comm
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Deep Dream is wild: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DaVnriHhPc
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
The Wright Brothers are infamous for failing to industrialize their invention -- something that notoriously requires investors and hype. Perhaps they wouldn't have squandered their lead if they had been a bit more public with their hop
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Sure, but blanket pessimism isn't very insightful either. I'll use the same example you did: self-driving. The public (or "median nerd") consensus has shifted from "right around the corner" (when it struggled t
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Realists are incapable of pushing frontiers. If you are doing something that has been done before, hire a realist. Your project will ship on time and within budget. If you are doing something that hasn't been done before, you need an o
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
The rockets are reusable, the people are expendable.
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Holy shit I thought he was just good at networking, but it sounds like we have a psychopath in charge of the AI revolution. Fantastic.
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
People keep saying that thunderbolt/usb4 networking Just Works, so I went and tried. I plugged my PC (ubuntu 23.10, Maple Ridge) into my NAS (ubuntu 23.10, Maple Ridge) with my good USB4 cable which I just tested to have full connectiv
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
No, but the USB-IF will make you roll a D20 to determine if the USBC-USBC cable you are holding supports the feature you are trying to use.
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
It's branded as a thumb drive killer, but thumb drives can force vendors separated by walls of apathy and decades of time to be compatible with each other. Does this have enough standardization / cross-manufacturer buy-in to make
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
> compared to actually competitive markets, not local monopolies ...and I want a pony! Last-mile infrastructure tends towards monopoly unless you provide it through the government or regulate it so heavily you might as well have. There i
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
If you don't want me to charitably interpret your words, I don't have to, but now you have to defend them. Explain why the US will be different from the last 500 years of reserve currencies to find themselves in this situation. Ex
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
Last time the US soft-defaulted on its debt, it was twice as large as a fraction of the world economy.
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
If currency devaluation is so devastating, why do so many countries try so hard to do it? In moderation, of course: everything is obviously bad in the extreme. However, it's a constant source of international tension for a country to p
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
This problem has happened many times before and will happen many times again. You should familiarize yourself with the playbook. https://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res2/pdf/c
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by schmidtleonard 2y ago
It's not an app, it's the golf club. This is what golf clubs are for.
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by schmidtleonard 3y ago
> Modern, high end FPGAs have a feature known as Raw SerDes That's like saying "did you know that advanced microprocessors have the capability to bypass I2C and output voltages directly on the pins?!?!?!?" First of all, it
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by schmidtleonard 3y ago
"At SpaceX the rockets may be reusable, but the people who build them are treated as expendable" -Paige Holland-Thielen
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by schmidtleonard 3y ago
> I'm not going to allow any chilling effect to prevent me from speaking up Please pick your battles. In any case, good luck.
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by schmidtleonard 7y ago
> First, realize that simply pointing out to people how they are mistaken won't change much. That lesson took me embarrassingly long to learn, but it's a good one. I haven't given much thought to pattern-matching a loophol