chuckledog

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by chuckledog 2mo ago
Some of this is still visible: https://maps.app.goo.gl/de6StyBysTMH2Xon8?g_st=ic Nice website with Ames Unitary Plan Wind Tunnel history: https://www.nasa.gov/nasa-ames-unitary-plan-wind-tunnel/
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by chuckledog 6mo ago
Anyone play the Apple II video game by Telerium? Slow, but it did evoke that sense of wonder https://youtu.be/ITxhoiXiXRY?si=n21imKGMjqyjmQld
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by chuckledog 9mo ago
> “As an aside, I think there may be an increased reason to use dynamic interpreted languages for the intermediate product. I think it will likely become mainstream in future LLM programming systems to make live changes to a running inte
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by chuckledog 1y ago
What stack are you running? How do you guarantee sequential consistency of order numbers across your app server regions, cache layers and data lakehouse?
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by chuckledog 1y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sedna_(dwarf_planet)
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by chuckledog 1y ago
Great article, thanks for posting. Here’s a nice summary of automatic differentiation, mentioned in the article and core to how NN’s are implemented: https://medium.com/@rhome/automatic-differentiation-26d5a993...
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by chuckledog 2y ago
Compelling video!
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by chuckledog 2y ago
Great point. Erlang is still going strong, in fact WhatsApp is implemented in Erlang
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by chuckledog 2y ago
Yes StarCon2 / Masters of Urquan also hold up really well
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Ask HN: What are you running for .windsurfrules?
1 points by chuckledog 2y ago|0 comments
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by chuckledog 2y ago
This. My new Samsung T7 SSD overheated and took 4T of kinda priceless family photos with it. Thank you Backblaze for storing those backups for us! I missed the return window on the SSD so now have a little fan running to keep the thing
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by chuckledog 2y ago
You have to go into your inventory to use/consume the items. It’s very nicely done.
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by chuckledog 2y ago
Just another plus one for cast-iron pans and wooden spatulas. We’ve been using those for over a decade, 20 bucks each, never needs replacing, works for everything. We switched from gas stove to induction and now they work even better since
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by chuckledog 2y ago
Finally a game superior to Flappy Bird. Bravo!
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by chuckledog 2y ago
According to Alan Kays 1971 description of Smalltalk: “An object is a little computer that has its own memory, you send messages to it in order to tell it to do something. It can interact with other objects through messages in order to get
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by chuckledog 2y ago
GitHub, especially filtered by starred repos, is a pretty high quality dataset.
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by chuckledog 2y ago
Ada Lovelace is my grandma
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by chuckledog 2y ago
Interesting deck that shows moon caves are not a new concept at all. I’m surprised this hasn’t shown up in more sci-fi movies by now… slides 11 and 16 are quite compelling! Now how do we know there isn’t anyone there already… ;)
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by chuckledog 3y ago
We (the tech community) have spent 10+ years “growth hacking” entire populations, scaling up the web backends and personal devices capable of connecting that relentless growth into “users’ attention”. All that attention has to come from
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by chuckledog 3y ago
Does the compiler work on a Mac M2?
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JSON Relational Duality View (Oracle 23g)(thenewstack.io)
1 points by chuckledog 3y ago|1 comments
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by chuckledog 3y ago
Interesting idea from Oracle. See also https://github.com/oracle-samples/oracle-db-examples/tree/ma...
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by chuckledog 3y ago
I stopped using Perl 15 years ago, except for this exact use case. I still type “perl -pi -e” to wrangle source code or data files, at least monthly. The regex syntax is more consistent too.
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by chuckledog 3y ago
We created a cheap effective DIY positive pressure system and it’s been working well for about a year now. Intake: old Winix filter, HEPA ish, broken fan removed, nice filter changability. Fits in joist bay, faces down drawing air from a p
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Insightful Ramble on LLMs(the.scapegoat.dev)
2 points by chuckledog 3y ago|1 comments
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by chuckledog 3y ago
From a senior software engineer who has been using them productively for many months.
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by chuckledog 3y ago
(10000 years later) The age of the bot is over. The time of the elves has come.
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by chuckledog 3y ago
IF all this were to come to pass as described, on that ten year timeline, I wonder what would be the fate of programming languages? New dominant coding languages come along roughly every five years. Would generative AI stick with one lang
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by chuckledog 4y ago
It is not imaging your face like a normal camera would. It is using an infrared camera to pick out the location of two dots (the relative position and distance of the two dots in the camera”s field of view). That information stream could b
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Access Path Selection in a Relational Database Management System (1979) [pdf](courses.cs.duke.edu)
50 points by chuckledog 4y ago|2 comments

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