didgetmaster

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by didgetmaster 3d ago
Is this one of those cases where the TV is being subsidized by the data collection? In other words, if LG had to turn it off, would they have to charge more for the TVs? Kind of like so many ink jet printers where the manufacturers will sel
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by didgetmaster 20d ago
Why do people seem to think that optimization is something you only have to deal with once the software scales so much that 100s of TB of memory or disk space (or thousands of hours of processing time) are being wasted. It is almost like no
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by didgetmaster 23d ago
And yet people will put forth dire predictions (drought, flooding, hurricanes, tornadoes, heat waves, etc.) every chance they get. No wonder so many people think it is all a hoax.
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by didgetmaster 23d ago
I hope so! The area I live in has been experiencing drought and everyone seems to be predicting a wet period coming from this. Personally, I don't put much faith in weather predictions that are more than a week away.
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by didgetmaster 29d ago
That's like asking how do you keep up with online news, YouTube, TikTok, or your favorite social media platform. Answer: you don't! You browse it occasionally and read something interesting to you, then move on. Don't worry a
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by didgetmaster 29d ago
I was facing a similar situation when I upgraded my system about a year and a half ago. I wanted to upgrade from 32GB RAM to 64GB. The kit (DDR5 6000) was $179. I knew that I might want to add an additional 64GB later on, so I had to decide
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by didgetmaster 1mo ago
I think there are many companies that have not hopped on the AI bandwagon yet. This is why AI companies still see a huge potential for continued growth. Some are hesitant to chase after the latest fad (fearing it will soon fade); others wan
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by didgetmaster 1mo ago
Right. Almost every economy is circular in some fashion. Every producer is also a consumer. Sometimes the circle is quite big, but many of the dollars (or other currency) that you spend, come back to you in the money you earn.
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by didgetmaster 1mo ago
A distributed, object-based, general-purpose data management system. I was insane enough to try and tackle a project that needs at least a couple dozen programmers to implement all the planned features. It does some amazing things, but is f
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by didgetmaster 1mo ago
Writing some code that actually works for the problem at hand, can be fairly easy. Writing code that does this while being clean and efficient is a lot harder. How many slow, buggy programs have been written because the assigned programmer
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
Can you get one that displays ads on the exterior? That way you can be like the taxis and buses running around town! I'm sure the chick's will think that is cool.
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
But what if the AI told you that the pizza you are about to order sucks (or informs you that the people making it didn't wash their hands) and recommended you try a different place that was better (e.g. closer, cheaper)?
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
It is difficult to know when you 'have enough' money because like death, you never know what is around the corner. Most of us earn, save, and spend money during our working lives so that we can retire comfortably; but it seems lik
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
I don't think that anyone believes that some problems like crime and poverty can be solved such that it completely goes away. By 'solving', I meant take action such that the result is obvious in that the problem is greatly di
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
People often attribute the government's inability to solve a problem even after throwing billions of dollars at it; as a sign of incompetence. While there is plenty of incompetence within government; I think the 'Preserve the Prob
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
I didn't say only do air conditioning during the peak times. You can definitely adjust the AC so that it runs on full during the peak times and cools things down a few degrees below ideal, then back it off and allow the temperature to
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
Renewable power tends to be sporadic. When the wind is blowing or the sun is shining brightly, they produce a lot of cheap power. People think the solution is to build huge battery packs to store all that excess power during peak periods an
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
Call me a skeptic (which I probably am), but the bar seems incredibly low. I am glad they are finally doing something about worthless college degrees financed by the taxpayers; but this feels like too little. The colleges don't have to
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
OP is probably referring to many engineering managers who think it is irrational to spend an hour in order to speed up a computing task that only shaves a few milliseconds off. Even when that software is widely used so the few milliseconds
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by didgetmaster 2mo ago
I don't know if the term 'crash' has a formal definition (for me personally, I would define it as a 25% fall or more in less that 3 months); but I think we will experience a number of 'corrections' of about 10% with
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
The vast majority of the homeless in the US, are homeless by choice. They are addicted to drugs and/or refuse to get a job. You don't have to be able to afford to buy a nice house in order to escape living on the streets. You migh
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
I think we have all written some code that looks bulletproof to us. We run a set of tests with all the inputs we can think of, and it passes with flying colors (after several iterations of course). Then we give it to someone else and it fai
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
Those numbers for 2026 may be right, but they absolutely do not mean that anyone who finds themselves in one of those categories must stay there. While there are many people who are currently in the bottom 50% and will probably stay there;
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
Every discussion about the 'top 10%' seems to make the underlying assumption that the set of people who fall under that category are consistent. While there are certainly individuals who enter the top 10% (or top 1%) and stay ther
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
>..War of the Worlds, where Earth is invaded by benevolent Martians. I don't think I have heard the word benevolent used in that context before.
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
You equate 'consciousness' with the brain's ability to store long term memories. I'm not sure if that definition fits. Has anyone been able to determine at what age the brain gains this ability? I have a few vague memori
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
Every company, from the small business to mega-corps, needs to extract more value from their employees than the produce; otherwise it will likely go bankrupt. Even within successful companies, it is a challenging task to figure out just how
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
Your post implies that every employee of a successful company is entitled to a share of whatever wealth that company generates. As a career programmer, I worked for several companies. Each time I took a job, I negotiated what I thought was
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
Just because only 1 in 500 makes it to a billion, does not mean the other 499 are failures. Plenty of startup founders turn a few million into much more. If someone has an idea that 'only' makes them 20 million, I would call that
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by didgetmaster 3mo ago
We all learned this back in first grade. The kids that behaved in class and did their homework did not command most of the teacher's time and effort. It was the problem children who refused to follow the rules and needed constant prais

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