dwh452

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by dwh452 1mo ago
Isn't the internet a social network? Get a website. put vacation photos up. no ads. use AI to add chat, messaging, blogging, discussion forums, and a web ring. why do things like facebook/myspace exist at all?
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by dwh452 3mo ago
There are lots of positives that have resulted from using AI in software engineering. (1) No more long repetitive text editing sessions. I.e. changing namespaces or replacing deprecated APIs with the "correct" ones. AI will make n
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by dwh452 5mo ago
The mechanistic view gets weirder if you imagine all the states of the system being written down on a giant tape. Not just the "current" state but all the past and future states. What makes this tape not alive or conscious?
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by dwh452 5mo ago
in the old days the brand name was also the company name. now brand names mean nothing.
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by dwh452 8mo ago
https://etcutmp.com
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by dwh452 1y ago
looking left or right is a rotation not a pivot.
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by dwh452 1y ago
i wonder why planes are designed this way?
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by dwh452 1y ago
What's sad is how difficult it is to write software today. In the old days your dad could buy a C64 and cobble together an application. It should be vastly easier to do the same kind of thing with vastly better building blocks today. W
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by dwh452 2y ago
How were pinball machines built without a programmable computer? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg I think the arcade industry was already comfortable dealing with complexity to make the mechanical games. The Rube
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by dwh452 2y ago
This sounds like the advice to prefer the variable name 'ii' over 'i' because you can easily search for it. I loath such advice because it causes the code to become ugly. Similarly, there are 'YODA Conditions'
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by dwh452 2y ago
Here's a kick-starter kit that does what you're asking for: https://www.stgeotronics.com/open-dsky I built one and loved it, I wrote my own Arduino C code to drive the device: https://github.com/kj
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by dwh452 2y ago
Maybe we need 'programmable visuals' instead of 'visual programming'? Why can't I write a simple one hundred line text file and produce a nice architectural diagram?
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by dwh452 2y ago
I'm curious how the Turing machines can resemble problems which take input? BB(n) is defined as a n-state Turing machine that starts off with an empty tape. Collatz(n) is how many steps are taken before it terminates when starting with
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by dwh452 2y ago
Very sad for me, he was one of my favorite thinkers and his books were the few that made me feel smarter after having read them. His thinking tools remain a great aid to my thinking. The reason for this post though, is to mention that Darwi
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by dwh452 2y ago
The best thing I have done for making my notes usable is to have a simple grep script that runs anywhere and searches all the notes files I have. My script is case insensitive and matches lines that contains all the strings you searched on.
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by dwh452 3y ago
I haven't seen anything new in this space and I just finished a project using a markdown format I invented called Tagged{Text}. I'm happy to present it here for your consideration. In creating my blog and static site I started usi
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by dwh452 4y ago
I was the original author. Heh, heh -- I'm still alive. I just glanced at the code and it looks like a wonderful rewrite. I couldn't see any of my original gross code. Not only that, they massively added to the functionality. It&#
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by dwh452 6y ago
Next year autonomous consumers with No One at home