JoeAltmaier

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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
In my personal history, no self-made backup tool has ever produced any good result in a failure. It's a case of, if you haven't tried it, it doesn't work. And who tests their backup?
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
Was I thinking of 0x86?
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
It takes a billion dollars and years to produce a new chip fab line. So no, it cannot just be produced for you on a dime.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
There were several NOPs - XCHG BX,BX and so on. Those were taken later to be prefixes for new classes of opcodes.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
In the US, it's estimated the average kid's bike goes less than 10 miles in it's lifetime.
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by JoeAltmaier 1mo ago
ICE Sprint https://www.icetrikes.co/products/sprint-x-tour-recumbent-tr...
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
What if you end up with unmaintainable junk? What if it almost works, and you have to fix it, and you have no idea how? None of this is new ground. I admit at first, I thought the title meant, what if I can fix the issue faster than you can
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
I ride a recumbent trike, and the chain path is even more grotesque. I think I could draw it.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Reminds me of the copper statue-of-liberty program at a similar time. Local youth groups (largely the Scouts) would do a fundraiser for the pedestal, then a foundry in Kansas City would ship you a six-foot (or so) replica in metal. Still ca
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Another view of that is, hedging their bets. Which businesses do all the time.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
"The Bronx" was "The Bronks", a farm owned by a Dutch family and a popular picnic destination before it was subdivided and built over.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Of course, do it with vats of plant cells in floating oceanic CO2 factories. Not in your living room. Or, just let the oceans recover, let the mollusks return to the bays and shores, let them do their efficient thing.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
In mice
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Contractors same deal. Work on some big company moonshot style thing and just as it's all in the can, you're let go.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Ballsy
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
All of us prioritize our lives over cybersecurity. This whole security theatre game was thrust upon us. It has no bearing on our real lives; it's just a task we've been given with a dozen different rules and dire consequences.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Swiftly followed by an Orange County Harley-Davidson shop that sold parts and shipped around the world. Was much talked about at the time.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
capability has been advancing faster than raw FLOPS
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
A bold prediction. Phones have gigabytes today. There are famous laws of growth that put terabytes at just a few years away - perhaps 10 isn't too bad an estimate?
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Shelves are fairly spotty in my town. Never saw that before, not in 50 years.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
My son programmed a Z80-based instruction set into a Juno probe sensor. Still kicking.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Contrary to that old headline about questions always answerable by no, curiously this one is Yes. Despite 'explanations' that reframe the loss and temporizing that maybe it will probably come back, without evidence.
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
We didn't need a guide in the 1980's. My first job out of Stanford was a startup called Convergent. Somebody put a wall map of the US up, with pins, Where are you from? Two from LA, one actually from San Jose and so on. And six fr
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Confused: they are 'waiting' if they are in the queue when the queue is polled. What else could 'waiting' mean? How is time involved at all?
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
I wonder if a microsat could do the elliptical orbit and small nudge technique to leave Earth and enter Mars orbit too? A microsat has very little reaction mass. But it has very little mass altogether - under 100 kilo by definition. It migh
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Who do we alert when Washington is accused of misconduct?
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
I'd guess the training data would be a combination of baseline personality behaviors (turn-taking conversation, basic social skills, education level) with data specific to an individual. Recordings, letters, perhaps online posts but th
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Pockets of frozen technology persist from time to time. As a kid (60 years ago) we had a wooden telephone with a cone on a hook and a speaking horn out the front. A large D battery inside the wooden box. You took down the cone and rattled t
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Ask HN: Are we there yet? Can I create a human analogue using AI?
2 points by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago|4 comments
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by JoeAltmaier 2mo ago
Curious idea. How about, use an atomic rocket engine and get there in a couple of weeks? Binge on Netflix the whole way.

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