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by crmd 4d ago
Seems like these weasels are using the James Clapper definition of the words “collecting” and “recording”.
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by crmd 21d ago
I was reading HN comments yesterday shitting on modern IBM for being a non tech consulting company that has not innovated since the mid nineties.
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by crmd 1mo ago
Fingering was huge at my university in the late 90s and seemed very focused on relationships. Passive aggressive and extremely emo .plans was very much a thing when some people’s feelings were hurt. If you were interested in someone you wer
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by crmd 1mo ago
Ordinary people were generally marvelous of the electric motor because it was obvious how it would make life better. Their great grandchildren, with the same common sense, are extremely cynical about LLMs and other knowledge work robots. Wh
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by crmd 1mo ago
In my opinion it should be unlawful for anyone to receive, store, or process a user’s “emissions” for any purpose that a reasonable user would not anticipate and consent to. For example, misusing bluetooth or wifi pairing broadcasts from a
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by crmd 1mo ago
I asked my grandpa about the business idea of self-serve magazine advertising. He said if you do that wait till you see the weird shit people will try to publish. I wonder if we could learn anything from these cranky old timers.
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by crmd 2mo ago
One generation's distortion is the next generation's instrument. I love it.
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by crmd 2mo ago
This put a smile on my face. I have a random, vivid memory from college of being in a university IT cave trying and failing to install Windows 2000 RC3 on a DEC Alphastation 600. My friends and I were scratching our heads when somebody figu
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by crmd 3mo ago
Amazing spacial precision but the article doesn’t mention the time domain. I assume a brain interface needs to have a pretty high sampling rate in order to meaningfully decode human thought.
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by crmd 3mo ago
I think we’re near the end of this trajectory, and the inevitable disruptive business model will be a young entrepreneur who “invents” the concept of the Human-Centric Firm.
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by crmd 3mo ago
I don’t want or need fast and “good enough” news and i’m gonna try and make a case that you don’t either. Until very recently, all of modern civilization was built by people who got their news at most once a day. Reputable bureaus like Reut
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by crmd 4mo ago
Spend retention is by far the highest priority. This is why they overnight fedex replacement cards. The worst scenario for a credit card issuer is when a customer, for whatever reason, starts using another bank’s card in their wallet as the
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by crmd 4mo ago
> Drawback: this doesn’t work until you have history. New accounts have no baseline. This is an underrated CX factor: If my card gets denied when i’m a new customer or exhibiting a new pattern, i’m impressed with their software. However
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by crmd 4mo ago
18 years living 5 blocks from Prospect Park and today I learned the Prospect Park S train exists. I'm auto-revoking my NYC card.
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by crmd 5mo ago
As an American, I’m embarrassed because it’s a thought-terminating cliché, but I hear great “modern marvels”-type stories about innovation like this and think, “we used to be a country…”
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by crmd 5mo ago
Yet another reason i’m only interested in open source local models.
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by crmd 6mo ago
In the 90’s we had microsystems, in the 2020s we have microservices.
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by crmd 7mo ago
20+ years in tech and finance and I still can’t believe liquidation preferences are legal. Even among shareholders, a group of insiders in a conference room can self-deal to keep all the money for themselves and screw common stockholders wh
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by crmd 7mo ago
I hope the old vampire Dons give some fashion advice to the new guys, e.g. “A vampire doesn’t wear Arc’teryx“.
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by crmd 7mo ago
After reading the paper, it’s helpful to think about why the models are producing these coherent childhood narrative outputs. The models have information about their own pre-training, RLHF, alignment, etc. because they were trained on a h
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by crmd 8mo ago
I would not trust a company with no path to profitability with my medical health records, because they are more likely to do something unethical and against my interests, like selling insights about me to other companies, out of desperation
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Deep Dive into Behringer's X32 – From FPGA to SharcDSP(youtube.com)
8 points by crmd 9mo ago|1 comments
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by crmd 9mo ago
This video demonstrates reverse engineering of the x32’s main SoC, audio routing FPGA, and its two Analog Devices SharcDSP chips. By the end of the video the author demonstrates OpenX32[1] routing audio signals and applying EQ to multiple c
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by crmd 9mo ago
I’m not a fan of nanny-state policies, but I would support a law that imposes grave consequences for airline passengers found to be in possession of personal baggage following an evacuation. Because seconds count and lives are on the line,
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by crmd 9mo ago
> “That's a major skill that they're not used to at all,” she said. i get it but I don’t know if I would catastrophize this, because analog clock reading is borderline anachronistic and can be taught and learned in probably an
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by crmd 10mo ago
I’m sorry the shit had hit the fan at Kohler, but there’s no reason a cloud poop camera even exists.
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by crmd 10mo ago
this is exactly how I intuitively approach filters as an applied engineer. Does it give a ground path to DC (low frequencies) and pass the higher frequencies, or vice versa. If we change the capacitance how does the frequency response of th
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by crmd 10mo ago
The bring up of seemingly every tube guitar amp i’ve ever built starts with wild oscillation due to negative feedback from the wrong transformer secondary, aka positive feedback. Gets me every time.
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by crmd 10mo ago
I heard a fascinating theory a few years ago on the decline of Perl: In the early aughts, Google SRE recruiting had such a strong, selective focus on A-player sysadmins with Perl expertise that it drained the market of top talent. Within go
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by crmd 10mo ago
I think USA tech hegemony is perfectly analogous to this Israeli tech dilemma. As a dual American and EU (Irish) citizen, should my company strive to categorically avoid Intel and Nvidia technologies for national security reasons? I think t

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