cdumler

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by cdumler 1y ago
It's not useful, nor is it open source. It's a leaked copy of the Windows source code from a long time ago that has been hacked on. You can look up the "history" of it and how it has symbol names for companies with who
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by cdumler 1y ago
Not hard to figure this one out: An untraceable connection to any other party anywhere in the world; notably, his handler and anyone willing wanting to know how much a favor will cost.
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by cdumler 2y ago
> So you're saying Chernobyl wasn't caused by hurried and ill-prepared testing of a safety feature they failed to verify during initial startup and instead had to do years later during regular operation? I'll say it wasn&#
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by cdumler 2y ago
It's supposed to go wrong. Government isn't worth anything. Once they "prove" had bad it is, they will bring in corporations that will do it, and they will be able to do it for a profit without having to deal with all
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by cdumler 2y ago
> C was created to rewrite UNIX from its original Assembly implementation I don't think I can go with that one. C was created in the same period as people were trying to find a way to create a common platform, but C was more about
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by cdumler 2y ago
All the other continents are saying so.
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by cdumler 2y ago
> It is like witchcraft seeing someone produce VGA out with some raw/more tangible chips. I think what you're missing is: VGA was designed in the era when this was A Thing™. Monochrome/NTSC/CGA/EGA/VGA disp
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by cdumler 2y ago
I have no specific knowledge, but another approach would be to integrate more unusual very-long-instruction-word micro-instructions, like large scale matrix functions, algorithm encode/decode functions, and very long vector operations.
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by cdumler 2y ago
> It is not clear what the FBI was seeking when numerous agents entered Coplan's apartment at around 6am, or if Coplan and/or Polymarket are the targets of an investigation. We have no information about why they are there, so y
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by cdumler 2y ago
Having looked at your project, what would you say is difference in ability or philosophy compared to Open Web UI or FlowiseAI? Or, is this "I want to build this because I want to?" To which there is nothing wrong with that.
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by cdumler 2y ago
Being an old, grey beard, it's been interesting to see language change in my lifetime. Things I learned: * Third-person singular indefinite ("he or she") can be replaced with third-person plural ("they"). Of c
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by cdumler 2y ago
0C is cold 10C is cool 20C is nice 30C is warm 40C is hot
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by cdumler 2y ago
I think way he meant a hashed chain: one where the history is tamper proof. The important part is that the data and logic used to process claim is digitally documented and sealed by hash. You get a copy of the hash in your claims. The has
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by cdumler 2y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke I thought the same thing when using PAR files. They're still useful today if you save things on media that can be damaged (CD, DVD
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by cdumler 2y ago
There is already one in place. It's called.. librarians. They do a lot more than just stand around a look pretty. There are degrees you can earn which includes things like how to manage tracking books and operate exchanges, managing
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by cdumler 2y ago
My wife likes astrology. I just put it as one of those quirks in people. This is especially curious because of just how intelligent she is. She has several degrees, including a PHD. Then, she pointed out something to me: something doesn
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by cdumler 2y ago
It would appear they use the title is a bit misleading: > Pacific Legal Foundation is primarily funded by donations from individuals, foundations, associations, and small businesses. Except for court-awarded attorney fees for case victor
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by cdumler 2y ago
That is a solution, but not the cause. The cause is not having a culture that evaluates failure scenarios. From what I have read: * Updates are not vetted or sanity checked. * Updates are not slow-rolled to production. * Updates a
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by cdumler 2y ago
Google funds Firefox and Mozilla knows its purpose is to prevent regulators to looking at Chrome the same way they did at Internet Explorer.
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by cdumler 2y ago
My cohorts and I chat regularly in Slack about things software developer related as well as the occasional joke, gripe about work, etc. We put a bot in place scripted to give some responses to certain keyword, as well as a Marcov chain for
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by cdumler 2y ago
The reason why it can't be abused the same way is because of the nature of the paired-one-way-encryption system. A normal password is one-way encrypted. The algorithm makes it easy to turn an input string into encrypted gibberish, but
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by cdumler 3y ago
I would argue reasonable to believe it will be notably better until it is catastrophically wrong. The issue with neural nets is that they can be really well trained within the bounds of training set; however, when faced with novel, there i
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by cdumler 3y ago
They don't. American's general education is so poor that just chanting certain phrases garners support. They want _their_ advertising to be considered "free speech" because it invokes a strong response of support in
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by cdumler 3y ago
Roughly speaking, CPU wants smaller space and RAM wants bigger space. At a high-level take: * CPU design is the most expensive space due to it having the greatest quality and capability requirements. RAM is mostly just a very, very la
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by cdumler 3y ago
Welcome to the Era of [Poe's Law]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law) .
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by cdumler 3y ago
_"Today is the first day you have make changes."_ Unless your team's business model is to _be a Unity team_, it is a matter of determine your goals, evaluate options, get buy-in then start making changes every day to generate
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by cdumler 3y ago
Correct. The reason why microwaves can cook food isn't the fact that it is a microwave frequency. Microwaves ovens cook by flipping the polarity back and forth. The frequency emitted is the same resonant frequency as water molecule
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by cdumler 3y ago
If you have ever had to deal with an air conditioner isn't cooling because of low freon, you'd know that the problem is because the coils get.. too.. cold. They get so cold that water in the air freezes around the coils to be the
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by cdumler 3y ago
For all the people saying that this is dead on arrival or will never gain traction because it's too expensive, too bulky, too whatever: this is going succeed. The first watch serious sucked, but now it has all kinds of sensors and an
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by cdumler 3y ago
Overall, I think the article is pretty good. ORMs fall under the same category as garbage collection or try/catch exceptions: it is a tool. Tools solve a lot of common cases, but that doesn't relieve the developer from understan

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