VLM

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by VLM 11d ago
Not a similar comparison in that one project was to produce a plan to extend the limits and goals of mathematics in general while in the process of answering "Is it true, circle yes or no". The other project circled "yes&quo
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by VLM 11d ago
One person complaining on Wired about "... says she ... had seen too many colleagues decline to speak up during internal meetings out of fear of retaliation for raising issues or proposing far-out ideas." that is evidence of at le
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by VLM 11d ago
Your specific question is for resources to improve, but there's no royal road to soldering, or geometry, or going to the gym. The fastest way to make progress is to practice, there is no pill or wiki or video that makes progress faster
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by VLM 22d ago
Dollywood can hold more people than a football stadium. Probably will. Its a nice theme park. She bought it because she thought it would be cool to have a really awesome theme park in TN. She was both correct and successful. It's p
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by VLM 22d ago
See also Britney Spears, who's mom ran a small daycare. Taylor Swift's an in between story, middle class financial services parents, hard to say if they were paycheck to paycheck or not... Its not necessarily the best thing that
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by VLM 22d ago
No, and this policy goes back to publication in for-profit newspapers. Not an issue in the USA in general. With a disclaimer that there's one zillion governmental entities on the planet overall, so its plausible that one requires no f
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by VLM 22d ago
"management" is the key word. Early diagnosis might help a lot not just with T1 but also T2. Early diagnosis would save a lot of pain and suffering... and money. I worked with an older T1 and apparently a bit less than half of ki
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by VLM 1mo ago
Its an exciting time to be alive because as of recently we certainly can detect planetary atmosphere major components out to at least 700 or so light years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASP-39b There are astronomers
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by VLM 1mo ago
"proto-cells that grew on these vents and needed those metallic surfaces to survive didn’t count as “life”" What makes that argument extremely weak is analogies with contemporary obviously living animals. For example, humans are n
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by VLM 2mo ago
I read the author's entire post and find it interesting that the author attributes success to having a good story to tell based upon some wild youth experiences while sailing. Not being able to type real fast, not some magic sauce fro
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by VLM 2mo ago
OP is correct, the people making fun of OP don't have an engineering background. The pressure of a condenser at 90F (hot summer day) is about 1/20th of an atmosphere and ... pretty obviously the pressure of a condenser at 212F is
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by VLM 2mo ago
I find it interesting the discussion here is entirely about water temperature whereas the shutdown is entirely about NPSH. True there is a small different in NPSH pump limit of hot summer water vs cold winter water, but not as much as you&#
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by VLM 2mo ago
The problem with rational decisionmaking is there are vast areas where only irrational opinions are acceptable. Try the same line of logical reasoning for vaccines, low fat high carb diets, statins, uncontrolled immigration, various econom
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by VLM 2mo ago
A strong indication of addiction is mental backflips to avoid discussing the problem. The story seems to be grain alcohol is as healthy for the human body as rainwater or mother's milk, its only the evil mixer that is causing ALL the p
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by VLM 2mo ago
Its interesting to read post WWII accounts of the early amateur telescope making hobby. There was a fear there would be a second glass famine in WWII so a somewhat massive cottage industry sprung up to make optics which indirectly led to e
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by VLM 2mo ago
Two comments about this being fake news, based upon my wife having two nurse friends: MDs are nationally organized and have a fixed career path. Nurses are more "you do you" career path and if a news story about shortages doesn&#
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by VLM 4mo ago
None of this is an "AI" problem its SaaS BAU. You don't like the new agreement? Pray I don't alter it further.
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by VLM 4mo ago
"This way your passwords are truly yours" They were never yours, and zillions of people you don't know have access to them.
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by VLM 4mo ago
As a concrete example, some advertising supported topics place search as an unwanted middleman, may as well ask a LLM directly. Consider "chocolate chip cookie recipe". Using google search, will return roughly infinite recipe sit
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by VLM 4mo ago
I can't figure out how to find a list and I believe that's intentional to avoid simplistic copyright search and takedown type of problems. It is aggravating how little information is available on the website. 1) I run my own syst
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by VLM 4mo ago
This is a classic outside the field vs inside the field conceptual disagreement. From the outside, the hard part of designing a chair is making a blueprint. At least making a blueprint looks hard to people who've never made one. Acco
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by VLM 4mo ago
Make it anonymous and the problem will go away. The problem is people trying to get individual credit for merely running a script that spams a mailing list. Many of those people are likely not even C programmers or programmers at all. With
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by VLM 4mo ago
For those who don't "get it", it's output is not dismal, far from it LOL. About 5M people, a fifth the population of Malawi, none the less are one of the top producers in the entire world for oats and barley. Not per ca
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by VLM 4mo ago
It's very strange what they don't discuss, especially when it seems to answer supposedly unanswerable questions. I rooted around in wikipedia and Malawi has FAR more people than the land can support. They have a top down demand t
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by VLM 4mo ago
We're going to have two phones, the big brother phone you usually leave at home for banking apps and tax filing and boring stuff like that, locked down and nanny up, and the "real phone" from aliexpress or whatever that is pu
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by VLM 4mo ago
Ironically the Z80 is a nibble ALU. That's why its so slow compared to the competition, an 8 bit add on a "2 MHz" Z80 takes as much clock time as a 8 bit add on a "1 MHz" 6809.
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by VLM 4mo ago
Click "Start" admire the CP/M startup, you have an "A>" prompt go for it. Start with https://archive.org/details/cpm-primer-second-edition/mode/1... Or this if you dare: https:&#x
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by VLM 4mo ago
The thing you missed to search for Nyquist limit as applies to the triad of battery power use vs data speed vs range. There's also error rate in the equation... You can more or less only communicate with people agreeing with one speci
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by VLM 4mo ago
"Setup a bunch of nodes across a significant area of land, run ... sensors" This is my use case. There are no other options that don't demand something like cell phone coverage (LOL no) and cost $1K/node and maybe $50&#
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by VLM 4mo ago
Unlike ham radio, it allows encryption and doesn't forbid commercial use, so it'll get taken over by commercial interests if it works, or ignored if it remains small or fails. If it works the pioneers will get wiped out and remov

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