JoeAltmaier

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by JoeAltmaier 6d ago
Human-readable? Why? Just sprinkle RFID tags in the roadway, and drive it and register the tags and GPS/Inertial frame with a database and now you know where you are with machine-readable 'signs'.
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by JoeAltmaier 6d ago
And what fraction of the traffic?
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by JoeAltmaier 7d ago
Pedantically true. By population density, NYC is essentially the whole state, or what matters anyway, to the huge majority of residents.
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by JoeAltmaier 7d ago
We'll have arrived at the automated transit network when they stop putting up road signs. The cars know where they are, and how to get there. Signs are for fallible ignorant humans.
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by JoeAltmaier 8d ago
Grotesqueries that would give me nightmares. With the exception of the communi-grater which is just cool.
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by JoeAltmaier 8d ago
Just numbers? Was there a link to the sources in there?
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by JoeAltmaier 12d ago
Not that uncommon. It's so easy to just put up the new thing and make the old thing the failure route. But the old thing nearly never had the bandwidth for today's traffic. A famous EBay outage some years ago was just such a scena
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by JoeAltmaier 13d ago
Cool! The pictures remind me of my business partner Tom's basement - full of every computer and device he ever owned since the 1970's. But his are more orderly, sorted and filed and often in the original packaging. It'll be a
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by JoeAltmaier 18d ago
Really? The man directly responsible for defeating all measures meant to protect the public? Sounds serious to me.
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by JoeAltmaier 23d ago
OP gives the whole chemical chain. But, short answer, oxygen in, CO2 out - it's that 'C' that holds the lost weight. We're breathing out carbon by the pound.
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by JoeAltmaier 23d ago
Thanks - I was using the wrong table, total coconut or something.
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by JoeAltmaier 24d ago
50 MTons of coconut oil are produced per year (approximately). Is this a significant amount, compared to oil derived from crude (where gas currently comes from).
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by JoeAltmaier 24d ago
All water under the bridge. Ethanol is now a paying proposition. And it uses corn we used to dump.
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by JoeAltmaier 24d ago
Very cool! The raw-metal boot part is impressive. BASIC requires more support than you'd expect. Here's an interpreter, with a similarly long list of features it has to support: https://www.moondew.com/basic/i
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by JoeAltmaier 25d ago
It's still active as a mask for a more complex system on a single die. Even the support chips are available. The Juno project, orbiting Jupiter, had a Z80 compatible core for the radar signal processing.
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by JoeAltmaier 25d ago
My first ambitious project was a Z80 assembler. The Z8000 (much later) was distinguished by being the last random-logic (not microcoded) microprocessor of it's day.
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by JoeAltmaier 27d ago
About the benches: seems like an oxymoron. New Yorkers love busy places! Of course; they live in New York. Plenty of people on the benches in my midwest city park. Because we by and large are uncomfortable with crowds and noise. Why we don&
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by JoeAltmaier 27d ago
Agreed
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by JoeAltmaier 27d ago
Read again? Negative is the enemy of good, and this project was a net negative. As PR it went well, if you didn't examine it too closely. It was a misnomer from the start - it was 'harbor cleanup' or 'river cleanup'
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Wait - if the 170 atoms are a Bose-Einstein Condensate, then they are really just one atom. That's the whole deal with Condensates.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Oh I remember SYSENTER/SYSEXIT, I think. I worked on CTOS, widely released by Burroughs/Unisys back then. CTOS used all the clever instructions. They performed badly. Later I learned from an Intel customer consultant on porting co
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Interesting find! I wonder if the massive damage could also be explained by the falling wall (documented in the article).
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
SOrry, I meant 'from the consumer point of view'. Once the billions are spent, I just update my version. Yes so far the AI takeover is overblown. I see that changing - at some point, the AI functionality will improve to the point
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Hell, let some inventive sergeant command the exercise 'insurgents' and they win every time. Such examples are remarked upon in nearly every branch of the US services.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Like this? https://dthain.github.io/distsys-fa24/syllabus.html
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
The argument balances on, AI Doesn't Care. Well, put that module in, then it does care. The advantage to AI (why it will never go away) is that it can be updated, universally, on a dime. With new techniques, skills, logic and ultimatel
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Science fiction investigated so much. Like, if AI can control our technology directly, why do we need to be in the equation? We've invented a superior intellect. In every way it exceeds our own.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
My bank AI support says it solved my problem, fixed my account and so on. And then precisely nothing happens. It's maddening. I just go into the bank now, and talk to a VP. How does that improve the situation?
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Non-voting shares? That you can't sell? How is that ownership? The rules for these shares seem to strip all ownership rights from them.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
A nice thought. But the early options/shares issued at a startup have been gamed to the point that only the principals can ever get a significant cash payout. THe rest of the employee shares are of a special class that may as well be c

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