terryf

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by terryf 5y ago
Wonder if some rules and ... oh, regulations? would create a situation where the renter would not have to worry about issues like this. Perhaps similar to rules and regulations that ... hotels have?
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The Truth About Nuclear Fusion Q Factors(backreaction.blogspot.com)
90 points by terryf 5y ago|116 comments
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by terryf 5y ago
Really, what you are saying is 100% spot on, but seems to be misunderstood for some reason. If presented with a difficult problem, there are people that go "nah, that can't be done, here's a long list of reasons why". Th
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by terryf 5y ago
How does this work exactly? People have different skill levels. It's not a step function either, it's a pretty smooth distribution in terms of ability to create systems that are robust. I'd need 20 different names for an eng
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by terryf 5y ago
Authentic images do not exist. They always include a viewpoint. Example here: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rHeyzklapsE/W5-yUBVnbxI/AAAAAAAAA...
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by terryf 5y ago
As an owner of a Volvo V90 that has pilot assist or whatever they call it - it's great for highway driving! It has it's quirks but they are easy to get used to and after a few years, I know pretty much exactly where it is extremel
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by terryf 5y ago
Wow, looking at the code in the example, this looks almost nothing like the C++ I used to write 15 years ago. The language really has evolved massively and it seems in a good direction.
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by terryf 6y ago
I guess kind of a similar expecation was in place for light as well - if you dim your light source then it emits less light waves. Well, turns out if you go small enough then you see it's actually individual packets of light with certa
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by terryf 6y ago
Definitely it will never die. You know you've won when there's a special interest group (with a yearly conference!) focused on risks the software is creating http://www.eusprig.org/
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F****n' user interface design, I swear(blog.plover.com)
8 points by terryf 6y ago|0 comments
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by terryf 6y ago
I am a son of a single mother, who was a teacher at the time. In a country that was just recently liberated from the soviet union. Trust me, I was not rich. Started my first company at 20, after dropping out from university. (mom wasn&#x2
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by terryf 6y ago
Yes, the license allows it. So, technically they can. But you have to admit that it's a bit of a dick move. The reality is, ElasticSearch with all of it's capabilities would not exist if the company would not exist. How many other
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by terryf 6y ago
Please don't - too many times have I loaded a number of tabs containing medium posts before stepping on a flight with no wifi and only then discovering that images a page down are not visible. It's fine to not load everything imme
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by terryf 6y ago
This is an excellent idea! Someone should create a company that buys all the data that is available about people, structures and correlates it and then sells it back to the people The ironic beauty in that would be awesome. Also, I'd
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by terryf 6y ago
The article starts off well, but then goes wildly wrong in the end. "Giving a shit" is orthogonal to working long hours. As a part of my job, I hire people and one thing I tell all candidates is: "I expect you to care about y
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by terryf 6y ago
The way I've been thinking about thing is that - yes, life is (relatively) short and meaningless and there is no point or purpose to the universe, from an outside viewpoint (this is important). However, a deep understanding of that giv
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by terryf 6y ago
Of course, unmitigated climate change will be catastrophic. No argument there. I do however think that we would be better off funding and building massive amounts of solar that gives us enough energy surplus to do large-scale carbon capture
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by terryf 6y ago
As someone that works on software that includes functions to try to figure out where you can place electric car chargers - it absolutely is very hard. The grid just isn't ready for it. It can be done, but will require massive investmen
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by terryf 6y ago
The only thing that has a chance of working is thinking about it a bit differently - governments should heavily subsidize building solar energy plants. On the scale of "much more than we need". Then they should also heavily subsid
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Visualisation of warming trends in ECMWF climate data(planetos.com)
1 points by terryf 6y ago|0 comments
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by terryf 6y ago
The open source stuff is mostly really fidgety and works correctly with a rather narrow set of inputs. To make most libraries be actually easily usable for a wide range of inputs is a tremendous amount of work. The core of them mostly do th
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by terryf 6y ago
You would not have been able to make these points without knowing what the article states and the point of it is that a lot of people do not. It is true that we could do better and should do better - the pendulum of progress has swung too f
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by terryf 6y ago
Exactly - but if you take it from a simulated world to the real world without re-training (and it's real hard to train in the real world) it's going to behave according to the rules learned in the simulated world. Which will be di
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by terryf 6y ago
Exactly. Intelligence does not exist "by itself", it only exists in the context of the world. It cannot be emulated in an environment that's secluded from the world or even in an environment that is exposed to a carefully sel
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by terryf 7y ago
Indeed, but this is completely baffling to anyone in Europe. Simple example: In the US, if I have $5 in my pocket, I can't go to a store and buy a thing that's listed as costing $5.00, because at the cash register some more money
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by terryf 7y ago
The more bad news like this is coming out, makes me wonder what did they show to the initial investors - it MUST have been something incredible, that was probably too bulky to wear and that they didn't manage to miniaturise. I really
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by terryf 7y ago
"For example, it was O.K. to think that Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos a fraud and express this opinion well before the court decided that." That's the part I don't agree with. I don't think it's fair. It's
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by terryf 7y ago
My point is - is it possible that he is directly responsible for the airplane guy going to prison? Possibly, but we don't know. Presumption of innocence is important. Example: there's a locally well known actor where I live that w
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by terryf 7y ago
Him leaving Japan is undoubtedly illegal and not excusable. However if I understand the allegations correctly, he stole a bunch of money from a company he was running. Putting him to jail for 10 years for stealing $5m from a company that he
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by terryf 7y ago
Depends on what the order was. If he said "threaten and kill anyone that gets in the way" then yes Ghosn is guilty. If the order was "get me out of the country without harming anyone" then the security guy was guilty. A

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