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by zephen 7mo ago
Not creating gatekeepers is good advice. The sort of meeting described in the article seems custom-made for gatekeeper creation. If a meeting is about something else, don't raise your irrelevant idea. If a meeting is about your idea,
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by zephen 7mo ago
> does this actually save me time at all? Soooooo.... As one who hasn't taken the plunge yet -- I'm basically retired, but have a couple of projects I might want to use AI for -- "time" is not always fungible with, or
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by zephen 7mo ago
> For all their faults, Amazon don't seem to have leaked anything of mine. Selling email lists is business. Not selling email lists is, in some cases, much smarter, much more hard-nosed business, and is exactly what you would exp
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by zephen 7mo ago
Where, of course, 'bofa' is merely short for 'bofetada.'
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by zephen 7mo ago
If an idea is dead because it couldn't survive its first public outing, that's probably a good thing. If you really believe in an idea, even if you first put it forward to the wrong hostile audience, you will have other opportun
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by zephen 7mo ago
The problem with this is, that the article literally says: > The person proposing has been thinking about this for weeks or months. They've tested pieces of it in their head or even built proofs of concept. They understand things ab
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by zephen 7mo ago
> Someone proposes an idea in a meeting. Soooo, either this is a low-effort initial spitball, or it's something bigger that probably should have been broached separately. > The person proposing has been thinking about this for
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by zephen 7mo ago
Yes, the author assumes that the idea was carefully vetted and cultivated. If, in fact, that was the case, then, as other commenters have pointed out, the idea's champion should have ready answers to most obvious critiques.
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by zephen 7mo ago
Interesting! How do you know which alternative is being used?
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by zephen 7mo ago
I know this particular pain intimately. I was in charge of the firmware for a modem. I had written the V.42 error correction, and we contracted out the addition of the MNP correction protocol. They used the same CRC. The Indian (only impo
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by zephen 7mo ago
The primary benefit touted for big-endian is "When I do a memory dump, the data looks right." But if you really believe the left side is bigger, why do you put the smaller memory address on the left side of your dump?
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by zephen 7mo ago
> Lesson learned was Never Ignore Endian issues. This is an excellent lesson for data transport protocols and file formats. > I had to tweak the network protocols to start packets with a BOM (byte order mark) (as the various switches
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by zephen 7mo ago
> IBM System/360 and its successors ... at least has consistent notational conventions Yes, if I hadn't known about that, I probably wouldn't have written "most." > While I have a strong personal preference fo
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by zephen 7mo ago
> it was Arabs who kept left-to-right numbers within right-to-left script Do they do this? I thought they swapped this as well.
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by zephen 7mo ago
> offending the kind of person that seems to always be complaining about other people being offended. I sort of resemble this remark, but to be fair, I'm only mildly offended by people who claim they're scandalously offended on
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by zephen 7mo ago
Well, blogging about how it's important can certainly give insight to others about the age of your credentials, just in case repeatedly shouting "Get off my lawn!" didn't suffice.
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by zephen 7mo ago
> It's time for big endian to be consigned to the dustbin of history. And, especially what most people call big-endian, which is a bastardized mixed-endian mess of most significant byte is zero, while least significant bi
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by zephen 7mo ago
You're probably right.
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by zephen 7mo ago
> I bet you could interfere with their wifi Seems unlikely. Even at perigee, a long boom YAGI 20 degree spread would be ca. 40 km wide. Mind you, the signal would still be 5 million times stronger than when Artemis II is close to the m
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by zephen 7mo ago
Of course, you can do your own due diligence at the supermarket before you part with the cash.
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by zephen 7mo ago
I'm pretty sure that the infotainment hack was completely orthogonal to whether it was Beethoven, Iron Maiden, or blissful silence. Having said that, a successful car infotainment system attack on android auto or apple carplay could, o
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by zephen 7mo ago
I forget. What are the security implications of having your car play your music again?
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by zephen 7mo ago
> Someone with a 100 IQ is perfectly capable of being a competent, well behaved police officer. Sure. But, depending on which source you use, 104 or 98.4 is average , and the standard deviation is between 11 and 14. If we use the most
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by zephen 7mo ago
The article makes zero sense to me. It compares and contrasts open source and free software, and then gives an example of how free software is better than closed software. But if the premise of the article, that the agent will take the pack
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by zephen 7mo ago
> The only prudent approach is to assume all results are bad until proven otherwise. As is true with results from people. > But this approach negates much of the incentive to pay for questionable results. I'm not sure that follow
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by zephen 7mo ago
> Sounds fine. Really? Maybe your perception of the "average" person is colored by where you live and who you interact with. In any case, the dumber they are, the more lethal they are. https://www.sciencedirect.com&
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by zephen 7mo ago
> I don’t think they’re as stupid as you suggest. I'll just leave this here: https://abcnews.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story...
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by zephen 7mo ago
Look, I'm generally considered AI's most vociferous detractor. But... > there is no way to tell if you are using it "correctly". This simply isn't true, at least in cases like this. I know common sense isn't
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by zephen 7mo ago
> At least they're easy to identify For better or worse, I found this one different . Usually I see a solid wall of black, but this one was actually readable with scripts disabled.
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by zephen 7mo ago
> One way to deal with this in DevOps/Lean/TPS is the Andon cord. Many years ago, I started working for chip companies. It was like a breath of fresh air. Successful chip companies know the costs (both direct money and oppo

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