IvyMike

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by IvyMike 7d ago
The book Redshift Rendezvous from 1990 explores this idea. (TBH the story is a little clunky, but if you like to see someone look at the physics in depth, it's pretty interesting.) https://www.goodreads.com/en/book
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by IvyMike 5mo ago
This but for government: https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/z4meh0/game_design...
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by IvyMike 5mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20021203075817/https://cr.yp.to/...
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by IvyMike 5mo ago
Maybe this from 8 months ago? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44728369
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by IvyMike 6mo ago
Once upon a time in the 90's I was at work at 2am and I needed to implement a search over a data set. This function was going to be eventually called for every item, thus if I implemented it as a linear search, it would be n^2 behavior
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by IvyMike 8mo ago
From the linked article: > By directly harnessing near-constant solar power Implies they would not spend half of their time in the dark.
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by IvyMike 8mo ago
I don't pretend to understand the thermodynamics of all of this to do an actual calculation, but note that the ISS spends half its time in the shadow of the earth, which these satellites would not do.
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by IvyMike 8mo ago
To me, this is the only real football game: https://www.sbnation.com/a/17776-football . (No spoilers please!)
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by IvyMike 8mo ago
The Dash Cart was pretty close.
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by IvyMike 8mo ago
The "just walk out" surveillance system sucked, but the Dash Cart shopping was actually pretty nice/
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by IvyMike 8mo ago
This is very forthright (misleading)
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by IvyMike 9mo ago
"If you're thinking without writing, you only think you're thinking." - Leslie Lamport Writing a blog entry to simply clarify your own thinking makes it worth it.
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by IvyMike 9mo ago
> GNU Unifont is part of the GNU Project. This page contains the latest release of GNU Unifont, with glyphs for every printable code point in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP) I mean that's pretty close no?
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by IvyMike 10mo ago
I would need a device with a physical switch rather than a touch control. Sadly many devices, mine included, have "power was cycled = device is off" logic.
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by IvyMike 10mo ago
Holy shit, perfect!
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by IvyMike 10mo ago
I've been toying with a variant of this project for my Honeywell home air filters. I have one in all my "big" rooms, and I like to keep them running at a low speed most of the day. But I also have time-of-day energy pricing,
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by IvyMike 10mo ago
I'm so happy that you get to discover Greg Egan. If you can find a copy of Axiomatic, start there.
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by IvyMike 11mo ago
Sounds like the type of mistake I always make: Notice someone being off by two days, and in haste, post a correction that is off by ten years.
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by IvyMike 11mo ago
Personally, I feel like human intelligence is "unknown black box" + an LLM. And the LLM part of our intelligence isn't really thinking. And some people out there have a very, very small "unknown black box".
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by IvyMike 11mo ago
> what does this do that an app like AnyDesk doesn't Work when the network config on that particular computer is down/borked.
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by IvyMike 1y ago
More context, from an earlier HN comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3033446
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by IvyMike 1y ago
Always gonna have to side with Peter Norvig on this one: https://pindancing.blogspot.com/2009/09/sudoku-in-coders-at-... > They said, “Look at the contrast—here’s Norvig’s Sudoku thing and then there’s this oth
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by IvyMike 1y ago
I have a BirdNET-Pi in my backyard constantly listening to and identifying bird songs. It's pretty neat. They also sell a purpose built device if you don't want to build a pi. The data is sent to https://app.birdweather
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by IvyMike 1y ago
Seizing the means of production!
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by IvyMike 1y ago
> When I was an undergraduate at MIT I loved it. I thought it was a great place, and I wanted to go to graduate school there too, of course. But when I went to Professor Slater and told him of my intentions, he said, "We won’t let y
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by IvyMike 1y ago
Certainly it's not going to compete with real time systems, but much like computing the speed of light using your microwave and a chocolate bar, it's just kind of neat to see how accurate such a system can be.
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by IvyMike 1y ago
I'm still hoping someone makes an earthquake detection system where the data is just derived from people posting "Earthquake?" on Twitter/Threads/Facebook/Etc. Plot the geotagged tweets and it seems easy to ge
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by IvyMike 1y ago
From the classic tweet[0]: > Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale > Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus [0]
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by IvyMike 1y ago
From the site: > All researchers must apply and present a researcher card, which may be obtained in Room 1000. This ensures that proper identification is on file for all individuals accessing the building to establish a legitimate busine
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by IvyMike 1y ago
> People who assume that everyone is an idiot but themselves are rarely correct. This is an off-by-one error.

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