falcrist

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by falcrist 1y ago
You've probably seen it, but you'd definitely love the movie "Hidden Figures". They do seem to get the adding machines more or less correct.
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by falcrist 1y ago
One of the interesting things about the movie was how well they conveyed the mood and atmosphere on subs. I don't know exactly how to describe it, but the sub force just has a different temperament than the surface fleet. Of course, al
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by falcrist 2y ago
It reads a bit like a verse from the song Time by Pink Floyd, which perfectly encapsulates the sense of existential dread that so many of us feel more and more often as we get older.
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by falcrist 2y ago
I don't think it's overly philosophical to point out that these are large language models, not truth engines or AGI or knowledge directories. They're not using logic to reason their way to an answer. They're just predict
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by falcrist 2y ago
If you define being a kid as "the ability to express emotions and enjoy playing", then yes. I feel like that's a terrible definition, though.
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by falcrist 2y ago
There aren't many Microsoft products that seem to be genuinely good without many complications or drawbacks. Most of those products have the words "Visual" and "Studio" in the name. Atmel Studio can come too.
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by falcrist 2y ago
Being intelligent might correlate with a more liberal outlook, but I know a few highly intelligent people who are big fans of trump. My father was a nuclear reactor operator and electrician for a big chunk of his 22 years in the Navy (EM-N,
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by falcrist 2y ago
It can't stop him from running because prison doesn't disqualify a presidential candidate. IIRC, Eugene V. Debs ran from prison in 1920, and he got something like 5% of the vote... As a third party candidate. He was with the socia
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by falcrist 2y ago
It also may be worth simply providing an outlet for people to make a comment so it doesn't intrude on usual business.
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by falcrist 2y ago
But not DRM content. The system will recognize and avoid screenshotting that. Banking details? Fine. Passwords? A-OK! Copyrighted content? STOP, YOU FOOLS, BEFORE YOU ANGER THE MOUSE! This whole thing is dystopian, but making it a priority
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by falcrist 2y ago
I could see the US pulling back on Israel if it starts to cost them soft power elsewhere, but you're fundamentally correct. Israel is the primary instrument of US hegemony in the middle east, and they aren't going to risk losing t
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by falcrist 2y ago
There may be a potential for more localized grids that are interconnected by HVDC transmission lines. I'm not sure what the impetus for that would be, however. I agree that it would be unlikely. Interestingly, HVDC actually becomes a m
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by falcrist 3y ago
I specifically said that because I DON'T want to discuss whether it's a good company or not.
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by falcrist 3y ago
I'll have to take your word on recent Lenovo laptops. It's been well over a decade since I got my Yoga 11. The hinge on that laptop was quite good. The keyboard sucked though. Perhaps they retained enough of the original employees
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by falcrist 3y ago
IBM sold its PC division to Lenovo in 2005, so your timeframe correlates with the laptop division no longer being part of IBM. Not that Lenovo is a bad company persay, but IBM was historically a company that focused on corporate sales and L
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by falcrist 3y ago
Aside from hardware prototyping, this seems to be the primary benefit of FPGAs. Much like if you assembled a system from glue logic, all of the operations in the pipeline and across the entire subsystem can happen simultaneously and often a
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by falcrist 3y ago
Among other things, critical current in bulk ceramic superconductors depends on cross-sectional area, so while it seems reasonable to make a ribbon-like structure, the 3rd dimension does matter. You can't make it effectively 2D.
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by falcrist 3y ago
I feel like we're just describing a narrow bus bar.
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by falcrist 3y ago
Here I was thinking "zombie star" was another term for ANY stellar remnant like a white dwarf or neutron star.
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by falcrist 3y ago
Reader view on firefox also works.
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by falcrist 3y ago
This content is paywalled. Web archives don't seem to bypass it. You have to delete the popup and move the content out of the scroll-locked body.
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by falcrist 3y ago
> Between the industry astroturfing and the splinterd advocacy, "net neutrality" is almost as meaningless as "fake news". I have to disagree with this. There's a very clear meaning, and the 2015 FCC rules for wir
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by falcrist 3y ago
> some kind of internet dystopia where data for each service is treated and billed differently I feel like this particular topic (while important) distracts from a much more disturbing possibility: blocking or throttling legal content fo
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by falcrist 3y ago
Youtube is the worst with this behavior. Have you done a search on that website recently? There will be around 2-3 actual results, followed by shorts, followed by 2 more real results, then a "People also watched" sections, then a
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by falcrist 3y ago
> If “low level” means “runs on the CPU almost literally as written.” then no it’s not. But doesn't this still depend on what CPU you're talking about? Your C code will map much more closely to the instructions of the machine c
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by falcrist 3y ago
To make an article about how C maps to the processor and fail to make any distinction between application programming and embedded programming seems strange to me. After all, C is by far the most common language for programs running on micr
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by falcrist 3y ago
I hear there are concerns about plug-in hybrid's that don't use their engines often developing issues because those engines never get used. Does the CX-90 have any features to help with that?
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by falcrist 3y ago
AFAIK, Gravitational waves are out first method of "seeing" the universe that isn't just capturing incoming photons from the object under observation. The only exception is neutrino detectors, which have hilariously bad resol
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by falcrist 3y ago
Turns out it's less. Cooler bulbs seem to generate a larger fraction of their energy in the infrared. Hotter bulbs generate not only more light, but a greater fraction of that light is visible.
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by falcrist 3y ago
That's not unsolicited advice from GPT so much as it's a mandated CYA disclaimer from OpenAI.

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