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by thijson 1y ago
I remember there being a bunch of Anthropologists that were hired before that, under Genevieve Bell. It wasn't clear to me why they were hired. It felt to me like the people at the top were clueless, and so were hoping these hires wou
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by thijson 1y ago
I saw it mentioned once that there's less crime today due to birth control. Supposedly there's fewer unwanted children.
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by thijson 1y ago
I remember watching my friend play A10 Tank Killer on his Tandy 1000SX, it was almost unplayable, something like 1 frame per second. We used that Tandy 1000 SX to measure the speed of a bullet, using a tight assembly loop written in DOS deb
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by thijson 1y ago
Boats have been doing this for ages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmbH-TAM2Wk&list=PLQp8FoQ4t-...
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by thijson 1y ago
Here in the USA, education at some schools is kind of a luxury good. When the price goes up, the demand increases.
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by thijson 1y ago
I liked the idea of Screamers, how the robots started self replicating and took over. Also liked Total Recall, I was never sure if the whole second part of the movie was real or in his head.
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by thijson 1y ago
I just bought an ecoflow for around $350 for 1 kWh. It uses LFP, I guess there's a lot of room for it to fall in price. I wonder if there will be a tipping point where people start defecting from the grid, making it more expensive for
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by thijson 1y ago
Nuclear comes from the supernova that created all the heavy elements in our solar system. Fission is releasing energy trapped during that event. So from that standpoint, even Nuclear is solar in origin.
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by thijson 1y ago
I was aware of GHDL. NVC looks like it's potentially more performant.
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by thijson 1y ago
It would be nice to have a simulator like Verilator for VHDL.
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by thijson 1y ago
I think I saw an article recently where someone used the http protocol to serve gzipped content that was specially crafted to explode in size on the receiver side. This could be a good preventative to crawlers as they don't typically
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by thijson 1y ago
Youtube is one of the best resources. Almost every time something goes wrong, I was able to find a video of someone fixing that part, usually on the same model of vehicle. Scanning for codes is useful too, every manufacturer has their own
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by thijson 1y ago
It might be useful to study the techniques that modems used to transmit data over phone lines. I seem to recall trellis coded modulation being used: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trellis_coded_modulation The acoustic
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by thijson 1y ago
In theory that would be ideal, I feel like FPGA's haven't kept up compared to GPU's. The latest GPU's will be at 4nm, while FPGA's will be still at 28nm. The pipelines are huge, it would take many FPGA's to f
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by thijson 1y ago
RTL simulation is for digital logic, ie. state machines and memories. An open source example that runs on CPU is Verilator. The author of that has talked about the difficulty of making it multithreaded.
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by thijson 1y ago
My Dad got an old Mac in an auction. As a non-apple person, I just assumed I'd be able to upgrade the OS, however discovered it's unsupported. I ended up installing Debian on it.
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by thijson 1y ago
I've been buying them off ebay, $80 for a pretty good PC. It's better in many ways than a Raspberry Pi.
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by thijson 1y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic. The cost of compute is perpetually going lower, it is getting harder to scale though. I feel like LLM's will become ubiquitous. When I went to University in the 90's, only the wealthy cou
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by thijson 1y ago
It is interesting how human psychology works. When my Dad was a kid, there was a park that normally cost money to be admitted into. Him and his brothers would sneak in though, and the owner did nothing about it. My Dad realized it'
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by thijson 1y ago
That reminds me of a professor that would play various forms of music compressed in different ways. The class actually preferred the distortion produced by mp3 over uncompressed.
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by thijson 1y ago
A lot of my engineering exams didn't allow certain calculators, so I guess that's what will happen for humanities, supervised and timed essay writing. I remember going to museums and seeing all the modern art, and wondering why ar
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by thijson 1y ago
I think a lot of what middle management does may be replaced by AI, leading to flatter organizations. You probably have better insight into this than me, but I feel that the initial briefing with a patient may be done by an AI as well, sav
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by thijson 1y ago
I always thought that moderation is a little high handed. Instead, individuals should choose what they see or don't see via a local filter that they've trained over time. I used to filter spam out of my email inbox that way, it
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by thijson 1y ago
This move sort of parallels what Germany did in the last decade or so, and we can already see how that worked out for them. I remember seeing research in Japan about extracting Uranium from sea water. It's not very economically feasi
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by thijson 1y ago
I think it's a tool that can be used for great good. But also can be used for eugenics. That's why I pasted the link. It's a slippery slope. What a parent will do for their kids knows no bound.
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by thijson 1y ago
Luxury items however seem to buck this trend, but this is all about conspicuous consumption.
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by thijson 1y ago
I kind of see this in action when I'm comparing products on Amazon. When comparing two products on Amazon that are substantially the same, the cheaper one will have way more reviews. I guess this implies that it has captured the majo
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by thijson 1y ago
Their vehicles remind me of the Datsun trucks I saw as a kid in the 80's. I believe back then their value proposition was that they were cheap too.
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by thijson 1y ago
What you're describing is a 1990's car, except for the bluetooth part. I would buy one like this too, assuming it's half the price that is. I've never used the mapping software on any of my vehicles, google maps on my
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by thijson 1y ago
Someone I knew that worked there said that the CPU business was like a giant tree, no other business could grow because of its shade. I remember Mike Bell was leading the x86 phone project, and later wearables. I thought an interesting da

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