EncomLab

8 ms·

61.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Hybrid 3/2 schedules seem to be the landing point for most companies. I personally prefer to work at my office 4-5 days because it's basically my dream job and I have a real office with a kitchen area on the floor and no distracti
62.
by EncomLab 2y ago
"So most content you consume isn't funded by advertising." You are conflating the content and the delivery method. It's like saying "most of the stuff you buy can be delivered by a bicycle, so interstate highways a
63.
by EncomLab 2y ago
All of that "free" and "cheap" stuff has not always been free or cheap - even a decade ago. In the mid-late 90's when these decisions were being made even hosting a minimal site was incredibly expensive and largely
64.
by EncomLab 2y ago
This really depends on the content you are seeking and consuming as the user. I am constantly pulling data sheets, reading papers, researching reference designs, interacting on official (and unofficial) product forums, and countless other
65.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Most of the arguments made are not about "advertising" per se, but the methods that SOME forms of advertising take and other methods (data mining, phishing, scams) that are either not advertising or are things that are already reg
66.
by EncomLab 2y ago
It would be great if the hardware issues were discussed more - too little is made of the distinction between silicon substrate, fixed threshold, voltage moderated brittle networks of solid-state switches and protein substrate, variable thre
67.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Too little is made of the distinction between silicon substrate, fixed threshold, voltage moderated brittle networks of solid-state switches and protein substrate, variable threshold, chemically moderated plastic networks of biological swit
68.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Haven't we seen real life examples of this occurring in AI for medical imaging? Models trained on images of tumors state that tumors circled in purple ink or images of tumors that also include a visual scale are over identified as can
69.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Film grain resolutions for high quality emulsions can result in nearly perfect image representations, even under pretty high magnifications. Digital imaging is limited to the pixels on the sensor and/or the display.
70.
by EncomLab 2y ago
My career in IT has taught me that everyone loves to blame the box - and if not the box the person responsible for the box :)
71.
by EncomLab 2y ago
I just went to archive.org home page and typed M.C. Kids in search - It has a timeline, magazines, videos, nes guides and a DOS box emulator that you can play the game on. All in about 10 seconds.
72.
by EncomLab 2y ago
"What people want from the automated calculator is not more accurate sums, but a box into which they may place their responsibility for acting on the results." - Norbert Wiener His book God & Golem Inc. is incredibly prescient
73.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Isn't most of this (plus terabytes more) available on archive.org? I'm not trying to diminish this effort - anything that is done to preserve digital history is to be applauded - just struggling to see what differentiates this.
74.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Concorde used supercruise for most of the flight - afterburners were only used for departure and for transonic acceleration.
75.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Depending on your level and how much of your life is built around your job - it's not always as easy to leave as you might think.
76.
by EncomLab 2y ago
So this is the second one - maybe her Dad matters?? Cripes man.
77.
by EncomLab 2y ago
This may be the most vinylphillic response to someone's expression of grief ever written. "I get that she lost her dad, but what she should really feel bad about is re-ordering his record collection!"
78.
by EncomLab 2y ago
I am reminded of the study that showed an AI trained on tumor identification was heavily biased toward indicating a tumor was cancerous if it was circled in purple ink or a visual scale was included in the image - as the cancerous tumors in
79.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Not to mention the fact that the last place you want to add a bunch of mass is the front wheel of a bicycle.
80.
by EncomLab 2y ago
As Carmack pointed out the problem with AR/VR right now - it's not the hardware, it's the software. Until the "visicalc" must have killer app shows up to move the hardware, there is little incentive for general use
81.
by EncomLab 2y ago
If we are living in a simulation, you can be sure it is programmed in Lisp - that's why using it feels so magical, it's a glimpse behind the veil.
82.
by EncomLab 2y ago
This pops up at least once a month and has been thoroughly debunked.
83.
by EncomLab 2y ago
There is less than zero commonality between the situation today and those Swedish peasants. "Ordinary people" in the US are nowhere near desperate enough to sacrifice themselves in a rebellion - and who exactly would they even reb
84.
by EncomLab 2y ago
There are two kinds of "fascination" at play here - those who believe he is a hero and someone to be emulated (as seen on Reddit and the like) and those who are fascinated by the fascination (mostly legacy media and whoever is sti
85.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Folding Ideas is one of the best channels on YouTube- glad to see it brought up here!
86.
by EncomLab 2y ago
My former house was built in 1927 - it had every modern convenience and was 100% better constructed than the terrible house we live in now that was built 2 years ago that was thrown together in the cheapest ways possible but still cost mult
87.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Well in theory one of those countries is "free" - it's why you could buy Pravda at news stands in NYC but could not buy the New York Times in Moscow.
88.
by EncomLab 2y ago
The command module fire had zero to do with the Saturn V. Apollo 13 again was the command and service module, and in that case the crew was "returned safely to the Earth".
89.
by EncomLab 2y ago
The Shuttle program only failed to recover 4 SRB's out of 270 launched - and 2 of those were on Challenger. Why should we care what you think if you can't get something that basic right?
90.
by EncomLab 2y ago
Yes- very impressive feat of engineering.

More ›