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by vajrabum 2y ago
If you worked in a cubicle farm you'd know. The cubicles were generally divided by low portable walls. There were different setups but generally you don't see people when you're seated but if you stand you can see your neighb
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by vajrabum 2y ago
And he says on his about page "This art is primarily non-objective and abstract, focusing on complex shapes and colors. I use my math, programming, and digital manipulation knowledge to produce highly unique art." It's not AI
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by vajrabum 2y ago
AT&T was heavily regulated (common carrier) through much of it's history and was a big part of the reason that BellLabs was so influential. Not true of SpaceX and Starlink.
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Solar Gravitational Lens(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vajrabum 2y ago
This post doesn't seem to be about influenza at all except to diss flu vaccine. As for the effectiveness there's this from 2009 which has pointers to quite a bit of evidence. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles&#
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by vajrabum 2y ago
tldr; skip the diet drinks. Coming from the Framingham Heart Study Offspring cohort of 2888 people over age 48 "the hazard ratios were 2.96 (95% confidence interval, 1.26–6.97) for ischemic stroke and 2.89 (95% confidence interval, 1.1
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by vajrabum 2y ago
That seems pretty unlikely.
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by vajrabum 2y ago
The feds allege the musician put AI generated music on streaming platforms and then used bots to stream it. So it's like click fraud for streaming or laundering money with AI generated books on Amazon. Not good for the economy or the s
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by vajrabum 2y ago
This fits with most of Warren Buffet's acquisition practice in the last 40 or so years. He switched (mostly) from buying stocks and securities to buying highly profitable, privately held companies with good management in place and doin
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by vajrabum 2y ago
So in your view it's perfectly ok to run an internet service where you don't check for CSAM? You're entitled to that view I suppose but it's a minority view and allowing CSAM on your platform is illegal in most places (i
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by vajrabum 2y ago
I spent nearly 20 years fixing computers and other electronics. Repair techs are my original work tribe and it was a fun if sometimes stressful way to make a living. I got away from it because the money went away. That said, I never wanted
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by vajrabum 2y ago
The point is somebody is pushing the narrative that it's better to get a blue collar job than to get a college degree and a professional or technical job. That might be true but it's a trope in certain circles and its a debatable
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by vajrabum 2y ago
I love this sort of stuff. Here's some advice that the famous jazz pianist and composer Thelonius Monk gave his musicians as written down by the Saxophonist Steve Lacy in 1960. It's not quite as off the wall as Captain Beefhart.
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by vajrabum 2y ago
The Phoebus cartel lowered the average life of bulbs from 2500hrs to 1000hrs. In 1949 a US court found that GE violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in part due to it's actions as part of that cartel. And from the article on the topic on
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by vajrabum 2y ago
It's still sci-fi I think but we're getting a bit closer. This came out the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40400591
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by vajrabum 2y ago
That was wonderful. That equipment is 2 or 3 generations older than my first experiences, but I remember some of the same fiddly nature when doing bare metal (well cross assembler) programming in the late 1970s on a TI-980B that had a card
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by vajrabum 2y ago
His books are filled with assembly code. He created a machine and an assembly language to be vendor independent for his famous book series The Art Of Computer Programming. I first saw this in 1978 when I took data structures and I remember
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by vajrabum 2y ago
That is most likely part of the reason why US multi-story buildings are less safe than European ones. I know that Europeans find the idea of wood frame buildings to be a little scary. Like wny do you do that?
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by vajrabum 2y ago
Makes perfect sense, and important ideas tend to occur in multiple places over a shortish period of time.
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by vajrabum 2y ago
Got it. But he did get a patent for the invention.
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by vajrabum 2y ago
Christopher Strachey the designer of CPL deserves a shout out. He also wrote a very early checkers program, invented time sharing, created denotational semantics with Dana Scott, came up with the idea of L values and R values, and coined th
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by vajrabum 2y ago
No, desertification is still an ongoing issue around the world. This is planting trees, building structures to hold water and adding clay or cellulose to the soil. So definitely no evidence of any benefit from CO2 slowing the expansion or c
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by vajrabum 2y ago
@dang looks like we have a troll who's creating multiple accounts.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Looks like von Neumann was the first Open Source computing guy. And I had no clue that Goldstine was the designer of the IBM 701 and the public domain IAS was it's engineering ancestor. So an early example of monetizing open source too
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by vajrabum 3y ago
'At scale' numpy is often faster and safer than your other choices because CUDA is pretty much a magic sauce for your numerical programming needs.
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Not going to be easy to change. The other thing is that it takes a 2/3s vote of the Senate to ratify a treaty. Article VI US Constitution ... This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Actually its shown how a dependence on people whose identities have not been confirmed and who can merge code without review can cause major problems. If you restrict it to people who get paid then the nation state or other bad actor will s
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by vajrabum 3y ago
If smalltalk is late binding and message passing, I think it's interesting that modern large scale webapps (say Netflix or Google) do just that just not inside process and server boundaries. I'd guess that Alan Kay would think tha
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by vajrabum 3y ago
I worked on airplanes in the long ago. You have to trust that people document every bit of their work and get an inspector to sign off on it where required and get in process inspections sometimes too depending on the work. Nobody who does
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by vajrabum 3y ago
Scott Manley in the X thread said "So, is the turbine section driving a generator to make electricity to power the compressor" and Ian Brooke replied "Exactly that. ... The key insight is to use electric motors to drive a com

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